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1969. Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education, and leaves to apprentice at the Facilities Office of the Jaipur Royal Palace. He finds that not much has changed as he navigates the Pink City of his childhood. Power and money still move seamlessly among the wealthy class, and favors flow from Jaipur's Royal Palace, but only if certain secrets remain buried. When the...
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers—a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence...
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"Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation...
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A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world.
The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece
'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may be vast but I was convinced by this version right from the start. Magnificent
9) Halfway to freedom: a report on the new India in the words and photographs of Margaret Bourke-White
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1949.
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xi, 245 pages : illustrations, portraits, map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm
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English
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English
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Paris, 1974. Radha is living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, but has finally found her passion: the treasure trove of scents. When a friend's grandfather offered her a job at his parfumerie, Radha discovers she can find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walks in the door. Now she is helping to design new fragrances for clients. Her first major project takes...
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
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2 DVDs (approximately 306 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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History comes alive in the classic story of Britain's difficult withdrawal from India, which was accomplished through the skill and determination of the thoroughly blue-blooded Lord Louis Mountbatten.
14) Staying on
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Retired Indian army colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife, Lucy, made the decision to stay on in India after the British withdrew in 1947. They have since resided peacefully in a bungalow annex of the run-down Smith Hotel. But their peace is about to be disturbed by the hotel owner whose plans for the hotel - and their bungalow - will permanently change one corner of India that has remained forever England.
15) Monsoon summer
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
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First Touchstone hardcover edition.
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451 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, an epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor...
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Cohen Media Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume : illustrations ; 15 cm).
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English
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The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Limited-edition 6-film collection.
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8 Blu-rays + 8 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays + 1 DVD (approximately 905 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (80 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 28 cm)
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English
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Mr. Smith goes to Washington: An idealistic, small-town American senator heads to Washington, DC and suddenly finds himself battling ruthless politicians who are out to destroy him.
Lawrence of Arabia: The story of T.E. Lawrence, the audacious World War I British army officer who heroically united rival Arab desert tribes and led them to war against the mighty Turkish Empire.
Dr. Strangelove: The saga of two psychotic generals: Joint Chief of Staff...
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