Indian Takeaway: One Man's Attempt to Cook His Way Home
Hardeep Singh Kohli loves many things in life - but none more than food. He loves to eat it, he loves to cook it. So when he decided to travel round India, searching for his roots, what seemed the obvious thing to take with him? Not a "Lonely Planet". Not a BBC camera team. Shepherds pie and Yorkshire pudding. But of course! "Indian Takeaway" is the hilarious story of Hardeep's attempts to cook his way round India, dishing up very British meals for the people he meets. How will Goan fishermen, Bollywood film crews and Bangalore call centres cope with treacle pudding and cock-a-leekie soup? Will they survive to tell the tale?
This book provides a new perspective to the theories of stress and coping. A holistic treatment related to stress and coping through Indian case reports and analyses makes this book unique. This volume provides useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping under varying internal and external conditions. Analysis of Indian cases with contrasts from western culture explains the role culture plays in the coping strategy. The interactive exercises included could be used as tools for diagnosis along with practical suggestions for stress management and coping for the readers
Pocahontas is the touching story of an Indian princess, whose courage saved a white man’s life. No one could have imagined that Pocahontas would be the first Indian to marry a white man!
Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states.
Indian Bead-Weaving Patterns is written for beginning and advanced beaders. It contains over 200 instructional illustrations and photographs of 47 beadwork pieces. Emphasis is on the use of traditional Native American beading techniques. The major portion of this book covers chain-weaving patterns, examples of which include multiple strands, 6-bead and 8-bead daisy chains, "Ogalala Butterfly," ladder weaves, "Peyote Stitch," fancy tubes, "spider" designs, "Apache Leaf," "Zig-zag" variations, 5- and 8-bead diagonals, "Potawatomi Weave," "Wide Net," "Lakota Chain," beaded braids, and beaded dolls.
