The Milk Lady of Bangalore

The Milk Lady of Bangalore
Author :
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781616207618
ISBN-13 : 1616207612
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Milk Lady of Bangalore by : Shoba Narayan

The elevator door opens. A cow stands inside, angled diagonally to fit. It doesn’t look uncomfortable, merely impatient. “It is for the housewarming ceremony on the third floor,” explains the woman who stands behind the cow, holding it loosely with a rope. She has the sheepish look of a person caught in a strange situation who is trying to act as normal as possible. She introduces herself as Sarala and smiles reassuringly. The door closes. I shake my head and suppress a grin. It is good to be back. When Shoba Narayan—who has just returned to India with her husband and two daughters after years in the United States—asks whether said cow might bless her apartment next, it is the beginning of a beautiful friendship between our author and Sarala, who also sells fresh milk right across the street from that thoroughly modern apartment building. The two women connect over not only cows but also family, food, and life. When Shoba agrees to buy Sarala a new cow, they set off looking for just the right heifer, and what was at first a simple economic transaction becomes something much deeper, though never without a hint of slapstick. The Milk Lady of Bangalore immerses us in the culture, customs, myths, religion, sights, and sounds of a city in which the twenty-first century and the ancient past coexist like nowhere else in the world. It’s a true story of bridging divides, of understanding other ways of looking at the world, and of human connections and animal connections, and it’s an irresistible adventure of two strong women and the animals they love.

The Cows of Bangalore

The Cows of Bangalore
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 186
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9788193355275
ISBN-13 : 819335527X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cows of Bangalore by : Shoba Narayan

When the author Shoba moves back to Bangalore from Manhattan with her family, she befriends the woman she buys fresh milk from every day. Over time the two—from vastly different backgrounds—bond over not only cows but also family, food, and life. When Shoba agrees to buy the woman a new cow (why not, she needs one and Shoba can afford it), they set out looking for just the right candidate. What was at first a simple economic transaction becomes much more complicated—though never without a hint of slapstick. When Shoba starts dreaming of cows, a little ayurvedic medicine is in order (cow urine tablets, anyone?). When Shoba offers her neighbours fresh cow’s milk, we learn about the uses of milk in our culture. When Shoba wants a cow to bless her house, the spiritual and historical role the animal plays in India is explored. And when the newly purchased cow has a male calf, Shoba must find it shelter. In this delightful true story, readers are treated to an insider’s of view of India and the special place cows hold here. Equally, The Cows of Bangalore offers a window into our universal connection with food and its sources, the intricacies of female friendship, and our relationship with all creatures great and small.

The Cow in the Elevator

The Cow in the Elevator
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Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0822370646
ISBN-13 : 9780822370642
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cow in the Elevator by : Tulasi Srinivas

In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder—apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples—into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.

The Cows of Bangalore

The Cows of Bangalore
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 8193355261
ISBN-13 : 9788193355268
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cows of Bangalore by : Shoba Narayan

The Milkman's Cow

The Milkman's Cow
Author :
Publisher : Children's Book Trust
Total Pages : 28
Release :
ISBN-10 : 8170119731
ISBN-13 : 9788170119739
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Milkman's Cow by : Vidya Pradhan

Children's stories.

Monsoon Diary

Monsoon Diary
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307431486
ISBN-13 : 0307431487
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Monsoon Diary by : Shoba Narayan

Shoba Narayan’s Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture. Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America, her arranged marriage, and visits from her parents and in-laws to her home in New York City. Monsoon Diary is populated with characters like Raju, the milkman who named his cows after his wives; the iron-man who daily set up shop in Narayan’s front yard, picking up red-hot coals with his bare hands; her mercurial grandparents and inventive parents. Narayan illumines Indian customs while commenting on American culture from the vantage point of the sympathetic outsider. Her characters, like Narayan herself, have a thing or two to say about cooking and about life. In this creative and intimate work, Narayan’s considerable vegetarian cooking talents are matched by stories as varied as Indian spices—at times pungent, mellow, piquant, and sweet. Tantalizing recipes for potato masala, dosa, and coconut chutney, among others, emerge from Narayan’s absorbing tales about food and the solemn and quirky customs that surround it.

The Myth of the Holy Cow

The Myth of the Holy Cow
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 191
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781789609332
ISBN-13 : 178960933X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Myth of the Holy Cow by : D. N. Jha

Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, this book has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author's life has been threatened. Jha argues against the historical sanctity of the cow in India, in an illuminating response to the prevailing attitudes about beef that have been fiercely supported by the current Hindu right-wing government and the fundamentalist groups backing it.

Return to India

Return to India
Author :
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
Total Pages : 269
Release :
ISBN-10 : 8129119285
ISBN-13 : 9788129119285
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Return to India by : Shoba Narayan

Memoirs of an East Indian immigrant.

Holy Cow

Holy Cow
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780767918145
ISBN-13 : 0767918142
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Holy Cow by : Sarah Macdonald

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.

Food and Faith

Food and Faith
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9353579031
ISBN-13 : 9789353579036
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Food and Faith by : Shoba Narayan