How Do I
Celebrate India!
A spotlight on the Indian resources available at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Thanks, in part, to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, we have a wide variety of items related to India, plus hundreds of items in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. Here is a small sampling:
Fiction
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Arranged Marriage: Stories
This collection of short stories written by an accomplished poet traces the journey of eleven Indian women. As they embark upon major life changes, the prospect of transformation fills them with fear, sadness, and hope in ways they can only begin to understand.
Arranged Marriage: Stories
This collection of short stories written by an accomplished poet traces the journey of eleven Indian women. As they embark upon major life changes, the prospect of transformation fills them with fear, sadness, and hope in ways they can only begin to understand.
Ghosh, Amitav
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
This intriguing novel is part medical mystery, science fiction, and history of malaria. The author takes readers on a journey that crosses time as well as continents, while uncovering a complex conspiracy.
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
This intriguing novel is part medical mystery, science fiction, and history of malaria. The author takes readers on a journey that crosses time as well as continents, while uncovering a complex conspiracy.
Sekaran, Shanthi
The Prayer Room
An English scholar visiting India marries a young Indian woman he barely knows. After he takes a job in Sacramento, she feels completely estranged from everything she's ever known. Her only solace is her prayer room, in which she seeks comfort through communing with photographs of her dead relatives. She returns to India with her children on a visit and is unsure if she'll ever return to the US.
The Prayer Room
An English scholar visiting India marries a young Indian woman he barely knows. After he takes a job in Sacramento, she feels completely estranged from everything she's ever known. Her only solace is her prayer room, in which she seeks comfort through communing with photographs of her dead relatives. She returns to India with her children on a visit and is unsure if she'll ever return to the US.
Chandra, Vikram
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
This remarkable book of storytelling has two narrators, an Indian college student home from America and a typewriting monkey who is a reincarnation of an 18th century warrior-poet. The stories they tell are compelling and introspective.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
This remarkable book of storytelling has two narrators, an Indian college student home from America and a typewriting monkey who is a reincarnation of an 18th century warrior-poet. The stories they tell are compelling and introspective.
Non-fiction
Begum-Hossain, Momtaz
Bollywood Crafts: 20 Projects Inspired by Popular Indian Cinema
Crafts in the spirit of Bollywood movies. Find instructions on how to make embellished mirrors, glittering sandals, bindi greeting cards, and other craft projects.
Bollywood Crafts: 20 Projects Inspired by Popular Indian Cinema
Crafts in the spirit of Bollywood movies. Find instructions on how to make embellished mirrors, glittering sandals, bindi greeting cards, and other craft projects.
Raymer, Steve
Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora
This book of photographs documents the lives of Indians now living in other countries throughout the world.
Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora
This book of photographs documents the lives of Indians now living in other countries throughout the world.
Travel & Memoirs
Rich, Katherine Russell
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
After suffering the loss of a job and with no prospects for the future, the author decided to enroll in a Hindi immersion program in northwestern India. In this chronicle of her education and eventual mastery of the language, the author writes of the stumbling points along the way with humor and grace.
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
After suffering the loss of a job and with no prospects for the future, the author decided to enroll in a Hindi immersion program in northwestern India. In this chronicle of her education and eventual mastery of the language, the author writes of the stumbling points along the way with humor and grace.
Snyder, Gary
Passage through India
This book is in the form of a letter that the author wrote to his sister during a long trip to India. It's peppered with his observations and photographs.
Passage through India
This book is in the form of a letter that the author wrote to his sister during a long trip to India. It's peppered with his observations and photographs.
Cookbooks
Wickramasinghe, Priya
The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers
This lovely book is a nice introduction to the cooking of India in its many forms. It covers regional cuisines, with both traditional and exotic dishes.
The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers
This lovely book is a nice introduction to the cooking of India in its many forms. It covers regional cuisines, with both traditional and exotic dishes.
Mahammad, Reza
Rice, Spice and All Things Nice
"Cooking is the new rock 'n' roll" is this first line of the introduction to this spicy collection. Recipes rock with zesty flavors, and sing with the wide range of spices used in Indian cuisine. A feast for the eyes with pages of full color photographs.
Rice, Spice and All Things Nice
"Cooking is the new rock 'n' roll" is this first line of the introduction to this spicy collection. Recipes rock with zesty flavors, and sing with the wide range of spices used in Indian cuisine. A feast for the eyes with pages of full color photographs.
Film, Music & Dance
Bandini
Tells the tale of prisoner Kalyani and the choice she had to make between two men.
The
Music Room
A declining nobleman sits in his once-great, now decaying house, and reminisces about his past life, his great parties, and the loss of his son and wife.
Venkataramna, Leela
Indian Classical Dance: Tradition in Transition
Learn more about the evolution and technique of the major dance forms of India.
Indian Classical Dance: Tradition in Transition
Learn more about the evolution and technique of the major dance forms of India.
Children's Books
Jeyaveeran, Ruth
The Road to Mumbai
The language of the imagination is the same the world over as this fantastic journey shows clearly and cleverly.
The Road to Mumbai
The language of the imagination is the same the world over as this fantastic journey shows clearly and cleverly.
Makhijani, Pooja
Illustrated by Elena Gomez
Mama's Saris
Like young girls the world over, an Indian-American child yearns to wear grown-up clothes.
Illustrated by Elena Gomez
Mama's Saris
Like young girls the world over, an Indian-American child yearns to wear grown-up clothes.
Updated: 12/2/2009
