Chitra: 44 books

Book cover of One Amazing Thing
by Chitra Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010

An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room." Late afternoon sun sneaks through the...
Book cover of Grandma and the Great Gourd

Grandma and the Great Gourd

A Bengali Folktale

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Once upon a time, in a little village in India, there lived an old woman. Everyone in the village called her Grandma. One day, Grandma received a letter from her daughter, who lived on the other side of the jungle. "Please come and visit me," said the letter. "I haven't seen you in...
Book cover of Shadowland

Shadowland

Book III of the Brotherhood of the Conch

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

The hero of the Brotherhood of the Conch series, now fifteen, is settling back into his life as an apprentice in the lush Silver Valley, nestled high in the Himalayas. There he continues to learn the secret arts of the Brotherhood. But suddenly his adopted home is reduced to a barren wasteland when...
Book cover of Ripples…of the soul
by Chitra Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

Ripples… of the soul is a collection of poetry by Chitra Srinivasan. What makes it really interesting, is its simplicity and its ability to relate to the booklover. Be it her depiction of children“As you lay in the crib on a soft bed with tiny cushions I saw your small hands” A butterfly“In early...
Book cover of An Introduction to Traditional Hand Embroideries of India
by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

This Book has details of 20 well known embroideries from India. Though it contains a lot of information, I call it an introduction because there is so much to each type of embroidery, that this is a small brief. The embroidery documented are: the six needle embroidery from Kashmir - sozni, kani, watchikan,...
Book cover of Organic Products Shopping in Delhi
by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

This is a little guide giving details of the retailers, sellers, manufacturers, self help groups, NGOs who stock organic and natural products in Delhi. The directory has 50 listing of such entities. Many of them are lesser known but do excellent work and not in the mainstream count of stores. There...
Book cover of Scroll Paintings of India
by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Scroll paintings were once considered visual aids which accompanied story telling by wandering mendicants or bards. Today, the story telling has come down considerably, what remains are the paintings. These are collector's pieces which grace many a wall or home or gallery. The paintings are beautiful,...
Book cover of Manju's Magic Wishes: A Bloomsbury Young Reader
by Chitra Soundar
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019

Manju wants to get a present for her Mum's birthday but Cumin her cat isn't sure about the toy elephant or robot. So when they find Grandma's magic lamp, Manju is granted seven wishes to find the best present. But each wish starts to go wrong and soon the house is filled with a rock band, aliens and...
Book cover of Manju's Magic Wishes: A Bloomsbury Young Reader
by Chitra Soundar
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019

Manju wants to get a present for her Mum's birthday but Cumin her cat isn't sure about the toy elephant or robot. So when they find Grandma's magic lamp, Manju is granted seven wishes to find the best present. But each wish starts to go wrong and soon the house is filled with a rock band, aliens and...
Book cover of Sister of My Heart
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha...
Book cover of Queen of Dreams
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother,...
Book cover of Business Process Transformation

Business Process Transformation

The Process Tangram Framework

by Chitra Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

This book presents a framework through transformation and explains  how business goals can be translated into realistic plans that are tangible and yield real results in terms of the top line and the bottom line. Process Transformation is like a tangram puzzle, which has multiple solutions yet is...
Book cover of Before We Visit the Goddess
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A beautiful, “deeply affecting” (Kirkus Reviews) novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another. Sweeping across the twentieth...
Book cover of Madras on My Mind: A City in Stories
by Chitra Viraraghavan, Krishna Shastri
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017

Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story - and another and another - and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught...
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