The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her...
East Indians
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Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary: -
Author:Buttrose, Larry, Brierley, SarooSummary:At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Eventually adopted by a couple in Australia, he always wondered about his origins. The advent of Google Earth finally gave him the opportunity to look for his former...
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Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.
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Author:Gilmore, RachinaSummary:Learning from her grandmother that her family was active in the Quit India movement of 1942, a rebellion against nearly two centuries of British occupation, gives fifteen-year-old Tara new pride in her heritage, but she still objects...
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Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to...
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