India & South Asia

Sommer 1939: Der junge Lehrer Fritz Kolb und sein Freund Ludwig Krenek erfüllen sich einen Traum. Die begeisterten Bergsteiger organisieren eine kleine Expedition ins Himalaya-Gebirge. Doch schon bald wird das unbeschwerte Abenteuer zu einer unglaublichen Odyssee: Nach dem Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs werden sie als 'feindliche Ausländer' verhaftet und dürfen Britisch-Indien für viele Jahre nicht verlassen ...In 'Einzelgänger im Himalaya' erzählt Fritz Kolb von dieser außergewöhnlichen Zeit in Indien: von der Natur und den Menschen, den Internierungslagern, in denen er während des Krieges festgehalten wurde, den politischen Entwicklungen, Hoffnungen und Sorgen, vor allem um die Daheimgebliebenen. Und natürlich von den Bergen, in denen sich Kolb und Krenek bei jeder Möglichkeit aufhielten. Ein lebendiges und mitreißendes Erinnerungsbuch und der Bericht einer außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft.

Wie findest du zurück zu dir selbst, wenn deine Welt sich über Nacht ändert?Nach dem Attentat der Taliban auf ihr Leben wurde Malala unvermittelt auf die öffentliche Bühne gestoßen und schnell zur international bekannten Symbolfigur für Mut und Resilienz. Doch fern der Kameras und Menschenmengen brauchte sie Jahre, um ihren Platz in einer ihr nicht vertrauten Welt zu finden. Nun nimmt Malala in Finding My Way ihre Leserinnen und Leser erstmals mit in die Welt hinter den Schlagzeilen - in einem zutiefst verletzlichen und überraschenden Memoir voller Authentizität, Humor und Zärtlichkeit.Finding My Way ist eine Geschichte von Freundschaft und erster Liebe, von Angst und Selbstfindung. Eine Geschichte, die zeigt, wie man sich selbst treu bleibt, wenn alle Welt dir sagen will, wer du bist. Malala zeichnet ihren Weg nach von der einsamen Schülerin in der Highschool über die unbekümmerte Studentin bis hin zu der jungen Frau, die mit ihrer Vergangenheit Frieden geschlossen hat. Sie lässt uns spontan teilhaben an den manchmal chaotischen Momenten ihres Lebens - als sie ihre Prüfungen fast nicht schafft, geghostet wird und die Liebe ihres Lebens kennenlernt. Malala erinnert uns, dass wahre Role Models im Leben niemals vollkommen sind - sondern in erster Linie menschlich.In diesem bewundernswerten Memoir stellt sich Malala der Welt ganz neu vor und zeigt uns, wie sie ihr Leben meisterte als Mensch, dessen finsterste Stunden ihr Leben beinahe für immer geprägt hätten - und wie sie trotzdem für die Freiheit kämpfte, herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist. Finding My Way gibt uns einen intimen Einblick in das Leben einer jungen Frau, die ihr Schicksal selbst bestimmt. Das Buch ist ein zutiefst persönliches Zeugnis der Kraft, die Malala brauchte, um ohne Zugeständnisse ganz sie selbst zu werden.'Bemerkenswert persönlich.' The New York Times'Ihre Sprache ist einfach und doch so fesselnd, dass man das Buch nicht weglegen kann. Am Ende wünscht man sich, Malala noch länger auf ihrem Weg begleiten zu können.' Edda Nieber, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

Amidst the quiet, deserted streets of pandemic Paris, a refugee from Bangladesh finds himself alone in his apartment with a tiny rat. He names her Fulkumari and forms an imaginary pact with her, reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. Telling her a story each day, the refugee unravels the layers of his past. Tales of revolution, famine, and civil war intertwine with the poetry, philosophy, and myths of an entire culture; precious moments of family intimacy come alive in flavours, smells, and sounds. As the bond between the two strengthens, each story becomes a thread in a tapestry of meaning, bravely reaffirming a world on the verge of falling apart.

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal ... One can't help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation' SADIQ KHANAn extraordinary family memoir from acclaimed newsreader and journalist, Mishal Husain, uncovering the story of her grandparents' lives amidst empire, political upheaval and partition.¿'I witnessed the dwindling glow of the British Empire. I saw small men entrusted with great jobs, playing with the destiny of millions'¿The lives of Mishal Husain's grandparents changed forever in 1947, as the new nation states of India and Pakistan were born. For years she had a partial story, a patchwork of memories and anecdotes: hurried departures, lucky escapes from violence and homes never seen again.Decades later, the fragment of an old sari sent Mishal on a journey through time, using letters, diaries, memoirs and audio tapes to trace four lives shaped by the Raj, a world war, independence and partition.Mumtaz rejects the marriage arranged for him as he forges a life with Mary, a devout Catholic from an Anglo-Indian family, while Tahirah and Shahid watch the politics of pre-partition Delhi unfold at close quarters. As freedom comes, bonds fray and communities are divided, leaving two couples to forge new identities, while never forgetting the shared heritage of the past.'Husain has written an arresting family memoir ... her explanation of partition is more level-headed than that of many professional historians' THE TIMES'A spectacular achievement. It is an incisive and carefully researched historical account, and as moving and true a personal narrative' GUARDIAN¿'[Husain] has managed to make such a complex story so accessible' OBSERVER'I was so moved by this stirring and deeply moving account that is at once a love story as well as a chronicle of one of the most cataclysmic events in South Asia' BARKHA DUTT'Like silks in the precious fragment of the heirloom sari of its title, Broken Threads is woven from rich sources. It is a beautiful book, informed and informative, cool and factual, poetic and elegiac' FINANCIAL TIMES'A deeply engrossing book ... I was completely gripped by it' INDIA KNIGHT

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year<BR><BR>The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss-Chairman Mao.<BR><BR>Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People's Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country's administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, as well as its legendary spymaster. Richard Nixon proclaimed him "the greatest statesman of our era." Yet Zhou has always been overshadowed by Chairman Mao. Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and aspirations who did much to make China, as well as the larger world, what it is today.<BR><BR>Born to a declining mandarin family in 1898, Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China's development, Zhou embraced the communist revolution as a vehicle of China's salvation. He helped Mao govern through a series of transformations, including the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Yet, as Chen shows, Zhou was never a committed Maoist. His extraordinary political and bureaucratic skill, combined with his centrist approaches, enabled him to mitigate the enormous damage caused by Mao's radicalism.<BR><BR>When Zhou died in 1976, the PRC that we know of was not yet visible on the horizon; he never saw glistening twenty-first-century Shanghai or the broader emergence of Chinese capitalism. But it was Zhou's work that shaped the nation whose influence and power are today felt in every corner of the globe.

In a newly designed edition, this stunning illustrated tribute to the life of Gandhi features the words and images of the man, his people, and his country.Written by a veteran New York Times correspondent and editor in consultation with Richard Attenborough soon after he completed the groundbreaking film Gandhi, this richly illustrated volume offers an astounding variety of photographs of one of the great figures of the twentieth century.Gandhi: A Pictorial Biography includes more than 150 historical photos from official Indian archives, text by Gerald Gold discussing Gandhi's life from boyhood through his last days, and a special section of comparison photos from the movie, plus an afterword by Sir Richard Attenborough.

So bunt, lebendig und beeindruckend ist Indien!Indien ist ein Land, oder besser gesagt ein Subkontinent, von dem eine faszinierende Intensität ausgeht. Die größte Demokratie der Welt mit über einer Milliarde Einwohner:innen birgt eine beeindruckende kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und spirituelle Vielfalt, die mehr als Yoga, Curry und Bollywood zu bieten hat. Dieser illustrierte Guide erkundet alle Aspekte des Lebens in Indien auf informative und leicht zugängliche Weise, von den jahrhundertealten Traditionen und farbenfrohen Festen über Reisetipps zu den beliebtesten Destinationen bis hin zu Einblicken in das digitale und hypermoderne Indien. Anhand bezaubernder Illustrationen und anschaulicher Kurzinfos erfahren Indien-Fans etwa, wie man einen Sari anlegt, sich in einem indischen Haus verhält oder welches Streetfood man unbedingt probieren sollte. Unverzichtbar für alle, die eine Reise planen oder sich von der Faszination Indiens in den Bann ziehen lassen wollen.

In 1975, author Elizabeth Jacks Scott was a young matron from New York with a husband and two small children and the new owner of an old sail loft building in Tenants Harbor, Maine. It had been in her family for years, and it was filled with memories and history, six generations of them, a jumble of contradictory, conflictual, tragic, and happy memories.JOURNEY TO SAFE HARBOR covers three generations of a family where the personal and emotional sacrifices made in the name of mission, commitment and duty, aiming 'to do good in the world', ended with unintended tragic consequences for their children. It is about a professional family, educated, religious and idealistic, but did they understand love? Scott shares a narrative of her collected records, her experiences, and her journey. It narrates the saga of the origins of her family's trauma in Tenants Harbor, how it played out in India and on the south side of Chicago. She toggles between Tenants Harbor, India and Chicago to show the interweaving of three eras and how they resulted in the family's fragmentation and great tragedy. The memoir chronicles the journey of healing through the ups and down of life resulting in Scott, family and the community reconnecting. Elizabeth Jacks Scott taught American and World history for five years, practiced psychotherapy and family therapy in New York City for more than two decades, ran grief groups at St. Bartholomew's Church for seven years, and cofounded Hudson Valley Weddings at The Hill. She is an ordained interfaith minister and a clinical social worker. Scott lives with her husband in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and the coast of Maine. Combined with her husband, they have four children and eight grandchildren.

Winner- 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction Members of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it. Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view.

Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: What is a Hoosier? The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character. It was African American pilots taking a stand for equal rights. It was a speech by a presidential candidate that helped keep peace on a tragic night. It was the triumph and near tragedy involving a Mercury Seven astronaut. And it was a sacrifice that ensured a crucial American victory in the Pacific during World War II. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, I don't know what it is about Hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there. Award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells us why.

Two young children, newcomers to Australia in the 1950s, are left in a children's home by their father. The story begins with this drama of separation and leans back into the past to uncover the circumstances of this unfortunate event and its unexpected outcome.Emerging from the early 20th century, the narrative follows the threads of two families as they weave through four generations in South Asia, culminating in immigration to Australia. These two strands of history traverse important historical events that changed colonial empires as well as individual lives.We meet the first family in India in the 1920s where the early death of a violent husband causes a young Irish/French woman to raise her family alone in the highlands of southern India, rather than return to her homeland. As her family grows, the magic of their childhood, spent in the jungles of the Western Ghats with monkeys, tigers and the Indian people that surround them, colours their lives. As the children reach adulthood, life takes over and Indian Independence, Partition and the 2nd World War create untenable conditions.The life of the second family depicts the childhood of children born to a Scottish tea-planter and his beautiful Indian wife in the highlands of Ceylon at the turn of the 20th century. Their idyllic life is similarly shattered by tragedy which causes them to leave Ceylon for Singapore. Whilst family life in Singapore initially is full of happiness, the Japanese invasion and subsequent Fall of Singapore as well as forced evacuation finds the separated family in Ceylon once again, but now as refugees.Three generations later, four present-day daughters set out on a personal quest to travel into the landscapes of the stories they were told as children in order to reconnect and trace family footsteps. Through their travels in India and Ceylon they discover steep-forested mountains, manicured tea plantations, fragrant spice forests, burning bodies and the warmth and richness of cultures, as they interact with the people of South Asia.Family stories told over generations, form the basis of this narrative that weaves together family saga, memoir and travelogue. These reveal love and loss, tragedy and joy, despair and hope. The strength of women, dealing with raising a family, battling adversity and racism, is woven throughout this narrative as the world changes around them.A number of historical and contemporary travel photos enrich the text.<BR>

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Der Name Gandhi ist zum Synonym für gewaltlosen Widerstand und zivilen Ungehorsam geworden. In seiner berühmten Autobiografie legt Gandhi sich und der Welt Rechenschaft ab über sein Leben in Südafrika und Indien und den langen Kampf für die Unabhängigkeit Indiens, der ihn weit über das Land hinaus zur 'Großen Seele' - Mahatma - machte. Eines der bedeutendsten politischen und spirituellen Manifeste des 20. Jahrhunderts ist für unsere Zeit neu zu entdecken. <BR>In britischer Haft, nachdem er 1922 zivilen Ungehorsam organisiert und lange gefastet hatte, begann Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948), die Geschichte seines Kampfes gegen Gewalt, Rassismus und Kolonialismus aufzuschreiben. Das berühmte Buch erscheint hier ungekürzt und neu übersetzt in einer unmittelbaren, frischen Sprache.

Die Idee des gewaltlosen Widerstands ist seit dem indischen Unabhängigkeitskampf mit dem Namen Gandhis verbunden. Durch seine gewaltfreien Aktionen gegen die britische Herrschaft erwarb sich Mahatma Gandhi weit über Indien hinaus Glaubwürdigkeit und Autorität. "Mein Leben ist meine Botschaft", sagte Gandhi. Diese kompakte Biographie will zum Verständnis seiner Botschaft beitragen.

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Mohandas Gandhi, icon of Indian liberation, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British Empire.This biography examines his campaigns from South Africa to India to evaluate the successes and failures of non-violent resistance. Seventy years after his death, his legacy remains contested: was he a saint, revolutionary, class conciliator, or self-obsessed spiritual zealot? The contradictions of Gandhi's politics are unpicked through an analysis of the social forces at play in the mass movement around him. Entrusted to liberate the oppressed of India, his key support base were industrialists, landlords and the rich peasantry. Gandhi's moral imperatives often clashed with these vested material interests, as well as with more radical currents to his left. Today, our world is scarred by permanent wars, racism and violence, environmental destruction and economic crisis. Can non-violent resistance win against state and corporate power? This book explores Gandhi's experiments in civil disobedience to assess their relevance for struggles today.