ம. இராசேந்திரன் தஞ்சை தமிழ்ப்பல்கலைக் கழகத்தின் துணைவேந்தராகப் பொறுப்பு வகித்தவர். தமிழ்ப் பேராசிரியர். எழுத்தாளர். கணையாழி இதழின் வெளியீட்டாளர். கோயம்புத்தூரில் 2010 ஆம் ஆண்டில் நடந்த உலகத் தமிழ்ச் செம்மொழி மாநாட்டின் ஆய்வரங்க ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர்.இவர் மெக்கன்சியின் சுவடிகளில் ஆய்வுசெய்து முனைவர் பட்டம் பெற்றார்.ம. இராசேந்திரன் தமிழ்நாடு அரசில் பல பொறுப்புகளை வகித்துள்ளார் - குறள் பீடம் பொறுப்பாளர், மொழிபெயர்ப்புத் துறையின் துணை இயக்குநர், அரசினர் கீழ்த்திசைச் சுவடிகள் ஆய்வு ...

Originally published in 1922, Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha tells the story of a young Indian man’s spiritual journey. After meeting the Buddha, young Siddhartha searches for the ultimate reality and meaning of life. His journey takes him from the arms of a beautiful courtesan to monastic simplicity, from being a son to having his own son, and finally to the true beginning of his life beside a river where he ultimately finds wisdom.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works ...

**In British-occupied India, a young girl’s dream defies the limitations of her society.“This novel vivifies a unique era and culture as it movingly expresses how love and hope can blossom even under the most dismal of circumstances.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Venkatraman paints an intricate and convincing backdrop of a conservative Brahmin home in a time of change.”—Booklist, starred review**What if your only dream was forbidden?Fi...

Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by snow for six months each year. Buddhists have meditated in the mountains of Ladakh since three centuries before Christ, and it is there that the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is still practice...

A pioneering collection describing and dramatizing the Nepalese diaspora - the displacement and exile of the Nepali-speaking world*SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE*A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha's daughter tries to comprehend her father'...

This is a delightful collection of twenty-five crisp and intriguing short stories that will enliven and charm your leisure hours. The writer employs the 'Today-technology' of story telling: An economy of words; a simplicity of style; and a tempo and cadence that match the brisk life-style of today.All the stories have an Indian aroma and diaspora

Daksha lives in a hamlet in the Himalayas. An orphan, she learns native medicine by assisting a vaidya. A chance encounter brings her to the notice of people who move her to town and admit her to a school.Daksha is unhappy there and wants to return to her hamlet – until a resourceful doctor helps her adjust to her new life.Daksha the Medicine Girl and The Missing Girl (also by the author) are used as supplementary readers in some schools in India.

An anthology of short stories that master film-maker Satyajit Ray adapted into films.A rich zamindar has a dream that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of Kali; a clerk's life turns upside down when he stumbles upon a magical stone which can turn any base metal into gold; a housewife steps out of her lowermiddle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl,and is awestruck by its labyrinthine ways; blessed with three magical boons from the king of ghosts, Goopy and Bagha fi...

The Sunrays books are compendiums of 52 stories each. They enunciate and elucidate upon the value of values in day to day life. They seek to invoke the goodness latent in each one of us by stirring the finer instincts latent within. They make great bed-time reading for kids and big-kids too.With each successive book released, the standard is set at a higher rung of the ladder. The style of writing is simple and the language appeals to the soul.... The authors aim to complete seven b...

The Sunrays books are compendiums of 52 stories each. They enunciate and elucidate upon the value of values in day to day life. They seek to invoke the goodness latent in each one of us by stirring the finer instincts latent within. They make great bed-time reading for kids and big-kids too.With each successive book released, the standard is set at a higher rung of the ladder. The style of writing is simple and the language appeals to the soul.... The authors aim to complete seven b...

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and ...

They are solitary-they live all by themselves. They have met at a juncture in their lives where special friendships like theirs are unheard of in a city like Delhi. Aranya and Ishan are neighbours. She is impulsive, anarchic and fiercely feminist while he is gentle, Asensitive, orderly and believes in the institution of family, even though he has no one to call his own. In the course of her thoughts, Aranya moves from one Delhi to another, to finally settle in a trans-Yamuna residential co...