{"product_id":"8588-black-white-and-various-shades-of-brown","title":"Black White and Various Shades of Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: A Selection\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0143027956\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis eclectic collection contains irreverent takes on just about everything, from arranged marriage to Vedanta, as well as tales told with heartfelt sincerity on being adopted, being female or being Muslim in today's India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Black, White and Various Shades of Brown' is the print debut of Sulekha.com, the largest online community for Indians worldwide.  Selected by the Sulekha community from nearly 1200 writings published on the site since 1999, these essays depict what it is to be the international Indian : as comfortable eating bagels in Boston as bhelpuri in Bandra.  This eclectic collection contains irreverent takes on just about everything, from arranged marriage to Vedanta, as well as tales told with heartfelt sincerity on being adopted, being female or being Muslim in today's India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the delicately subversive humor of a Kolkata based industrialist to the sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious angst of engineers in California, from the anarchic world of dotcom entrepreneurs to the forgotten world of Anglo-Indians, Black, White and Various Shades of Brown takes you on the global cultural ride of a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges in all these writings is that elusive but all-pervading quality of \"Indian-ness\" which goes beyond ethnicity, religion, language, behavior, lifestyles…\u003cbr\u003e                                                                            - Shyam Benegal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis impressive new publication may well serve as a springboard for a new generation of writers from South Asia\u003cbr\u003e                                                                             - Amitav Ghosh, author of 'The Glass Palace'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn uplifting read.\u003cbr\u003e                              - Dileep Padgaonkar, Managing Executive Editor, The Times of India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarriage Are Made in Heaven\u003cbr\u003eSo who Speaks Hindi?\u003cbr\u003eOn a Wing and a Prayer\u003cbr\u003eInheritance\u003cbr\u003eBlack, White and Various Shades of Brown\u003cbr\u003eHappiness, Just a Battle Away\u003cbr\u003eMadana’s Call\u003cbr\u003eThe Witness\u003cbr\u003eDance, Mathematics, Happiness, Vedanta\u003cbr\u003eForced Choices\u003cbr\u003eThe Moon\u003cbr\u003eDolphin’s Day\u003cbr\u003eThe Desi Professor and the Italian Mafia\u003cbr\u003eMirrors\u003cbr\u003eMine\u003cbr\u003eChandra\u003cbr\u003eThe Roma and the Persistence of Memory\u003cbr\u003eFathima and the Alchemists\u003cbr\u003eAn Insurgent Day\u003cbr\u003eWomen in India Want to Be Men\u003cbr\u003eDamn\u003cbr\u003ee-illusions\u003cbr\u003eA Sigh to Remembers\u003cbr\u003eNeruda’s Head\u003cbr\u003eTrain Window Bars\u003cbr\u003eTaxi Wallah\u003cbr\u003eSubbian Govindaraj, Where Are You?\u003cbr\u003eListen to the Background Music\u003cbr\u003eUnwanted\u003cbr\u003eOn Turning 40\u003cbr\u003eReal Words from Unreal People \u003cbr\u003eHow Do You Say It in ‘Indian’?\u003cbr\u003eOf One Night and Its Day\u003cbr\u003eAgnus Dei\u003cbr\u003eDesi Bonsai\u003cbr\u003ePillow Talk\u003cbr\u003eLong-Distance Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe Zamindar’s Wife\u003cbr\u003eWinter Garden\u003cbr\u003eMist Once Upon a Flight\u003cbr\u003eOn Your Wedding Day, Sincerely\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"A Selection \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":40785434443945,"sku":"8588","price":20.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/8588.jpg?v=1625521740","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/8588-black-white-and-various-shades-of-brown","provider":"India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}