A very Indian Christmas the greatest Indian holiday stories of all time
"Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, pray...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Vessel Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Very Christmas ;
book 7 |
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| Summary: | "Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, prayer, family gatherings, charity, and other age-old traditions. This anthology captures the distinctive magic of Christmas in India and in the Indian diaspora with a splendid collection of essays, stories, poems, and hymns, both in English and translated from India's other languages."--Back cover. "It includes works by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Aravind Adiga, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, Khushwant Singh, Jerry Pinto, Damodar Mauzo, Vivek Menezes, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and others writing about Christmas in Goa, Kerala, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, as well as in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts."--From Amazon. |
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| Physical Description: | 127 pages ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781954404250 1954404255 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
