INDIA RELATED BOOKS, MUSIC & VIDEO (for adults)

This is a list of links to India and Adoption related books, music and video suggested by ICHILD'ers. And we hope they'll be of interest to you. Also, by using the link directly from ICHILD to AMAZON, you can help to support ICHILD, as we will receive a small percentage of the cost of the purchase! Thanks!

BOOKS ABOUT INDIA:1410796949 
 

NEW  My Gifts from India  by Fran Abbott (written by ICHILD'er!)
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Living in Chaos is Living in Stability by Samira Rao (written by ICHILD'er!)
NEW After Sorrow Comes Joy by Cherie Clark! 
Culture Shock!: India by Gitanjal Kolanad, Gitanjali Kolanad 
Colours Of South India by Barbara Lloyd
India Style: Quintessential Indian Style by Monisha Bharadwaj, Bharath Ramamrutham
Sadhana: The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore
Shower of Gold: Women & Girls in the Stories of India by Uma Krishnaswami
Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora by Women of South Asian Descent Collective
Lonely Planet India (8th Ed) by Christine Niven, Sar Singh Must Read for Families who will travel
A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipal

The Heart of India by Mark Tully
Village Indian: Studies in the Little Community by McKim Marriott
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahadev Desai (Translator), Mahatma Ghandi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Arts & Crafts of India Ilay Cooper
India Unveiled Robert Arnett
India: Questions of Culture by Shuby, Dewan Ph.D. Must Read for Families who will travel
The Last Wanderers : Nomads and Gypsies of India by T. S. Randhawa Beautiful coffee table book with stunning photos
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons : A Journey Among the Women of Indiaby Elisabeth Bumiller
Slate of Life : More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson
A Day in the Life of India (Day in the Life) by Michael Tobias, Raghu Rai (Editor), David Cohen (Editor) A photographic celebration of the people and ancient landscape of India depicts such diverse subjects as chilly Ladakh, slum-dwellers in Bombay, and the Dalai Lama. 20,000 first printing
I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket : The Story of an Indian Village by Wendy Ewald
Empire of the Soul : Some Journeys in India by Paul William Roberts


INDIAN COOKBOOKS:
 

NEW The Indian Grocery Store; Demystified
Dakshin : Vegetarian Cuisine from South India : An Earthly Delight Cookbook by Chandra Padmanabhan
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey's Quick and Easy Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
The Bombay Cafe by Neela Pania


INDIAN LITERATURE BOOKS: 

NEW Difficult Daughters  by Manju Kapur
NEW Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 
NEW Sharmila's Book  by Bharti Kirchner
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Shiva Dancing  by Bharti Kirchner
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Interpreter of Maladies : Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Gitanjali: A Collection of Prose by Rabindranath Tagore
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
Monkfish Moon by Romesh Gunesekera
Swimming Lessons: And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Travelers by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Mr Dimock  by Edward Cameron Dimock
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Sadhana: The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Stars and All That by Kirin Narayan
The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
The Hulabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
The Ramayan by R.K. Narayan
A Suitable Boy by Vikarm Seth
The City of Joy Dominique Lapierrie
Where the Oceans Meet by Bhargavi C. Mandava
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade
It Does Not Die : A Romance by Maitreyi Devi
Inheritance by Indira Ganesan
Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
A Fault Lines : A Memoir (Cross-Cultural Memoir) by Meena Alexander
The Dancing Girl by Hasan Shah, Qurratulain Hyder (Translator)
The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh
Arranged Marriage : Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Siddhartha  by Hermann Hesse
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy


MUSIC:

 

NEW  Rag Bhimpalasi Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Dola Maru  by Musafir
Gypsies of Rajasthan  by Musafir
Passages  Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Chants of India Ravi Shankar
Dream U. Srinivas, Michael Brook
Vande Mataram Ar Rahman
Dances and Chants of India
Qareeb Najma
Bandit Queen  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Night Song Michael Brook, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Passing On The Tradition Ali Akbar Khan
Sarangi: The Music Of India Ustad Sultan Khan, The World (Rykodisc/Mickey Hart Series)
Alisha With popular tune: 'Made In India'
Tana Mana Ravi Shankar
Flute & Sitar Music Of India: Meditational Ragas Various Artists - International - South Asia


VIDEO:
 

NEW Fire (1997) Controversial film starring: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, et al. Director: Deepa Mehta 
NEW Pather Panchali
NEW The Bandit Queen
Kama Sutra
Tiger
The Apu Trilogy
Charulata
Jalsaghar
Two Daughters
Devi
The Stranger
The Middleman
In Custody
Spices
City of Joy  (1992)
In the Wild - The Elephants of India With Goldie Hawn
India and the Infinite: The Soul of a People
India: Land of Spirit and Mystique
Music of India
Passage To India
South India
Windows to the World: India
Householder
Gandhi
Courtesans of Bombay
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