--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/18/05 12:47 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> If I am > >> missing relevant info on Chandol, plese provide it. > >> > > > > Done. > > > "Discovering Brides by Anoop Chandola" > > That settles it. He's the ultimate authority on the Shankaracharya > controversy.
Discovering Brides by Anoop Chandola Category: Memoir Publisher: iUniverse Type: Fiction Pages: 338 ISBN: 0595099009 Copyright: Aug 1 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- "Discovering Brides" is a controversial but entertaining novel about an anthropologist's struggle. With a family history of polygamy, and himself a product of a prearranged marriage, he sets out to perpetuate Indian tradition and find the perfect bride for his U.S.- born lawyer son, and in doing so revives in himself bittersweet memories. "Discovering Brides" is a bold, fearless story about the controversial cultural and ethical differences that exist in India's male dominated society. A father, and anthropologist, with a family history of polygamy, and himself a product of a prearranged marriage, sets out to perpetuate Indian tradition and find the perfect bride for his U.S. born lawyer son, and in so doing revives in himself memories, both pleasurable and painful. Vivid depictions of abuse, greed, beating, rape, and unbridled cruelty, amid counter-cultural traditions, penetrate the pages of Chandola's novel. Accepted behavior inherent in one religion, can sometimes seem abhorrent to those of another religious group. Cruelty and inhumaness in others are often disguised in faith and tradition. A woman consumes cow urine because of her encounter with a lower- caste man; a birde groom is beaten by relatives shortly before he is about to be wed. Policemen shoot at unarmed women and rape them during a protest march. "Discovering Brides" depicts a social and political structure that is impossible to ignore. History meshes with modern day politics, religion with myth, as readers are made aware ancient India's philosophy and the struggle to maintain the old traditions, while embracing today's way of life. Chandola a created a dynamic, thought- provoking, novel, that is educational as well as entertaining. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
