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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
Country. India. Language. Hindi. Aasra ( lit. 'Shelter') is a 1966 Hindi movie produced by Madan Mohla and directed by Satyen Bose. [1] [2] The film stars Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy and Jagdeep. [1] [3] The film's music is by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. [1] The movie is loosely based on the 1961 Bengali movie Madhyarater Tara.
Violence against women. Bride burning is a form of domestic violence practiced in countries located on or around the Indian subcontinent. A form of dowry death, bride-burning occurs when a woman is murdered by her husband or his family for her family's refusal to pay additional dowry. The wife is typically doused with kerosene, gasoline, or ...
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [3]
ISBN. 978-0-8021-6217-5. The Covenant of Water is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book was published by Grove Atlantic. The novel tells the story of an Indian Malayali family living in southwest India, in the Kerala state, with the narrative spanning three generations, from 1900 to the 1970s.
The usual story happens, but, when the false bride pushed the fruit maiden into the water, she turned into a fish. The false bride then insisted she must eat the fish; when the fish was gutted, three drops of blood fell to the floor and from them sprouted a cypress. The false bride then realized the cypress was the true bride and asked the ...
A Bride's Story ( Japanese: 乙嫁語り, Hepburn: Otoyomegatari) is a Japanese historical romance manga series written and illustrated by Kaoru Mori. It was first serialized in Enterbrain 's Harta (formerly known as Fellows!) magazine from October 2008 to November 2020, after which it transferred to Kadokawa 's Aokishi [ ja] magazine in June 2021.
Choosing a Bride; Brides on Their Trial. Aarne–Thompson grouping. ATU 1452. Country. Germany. Published in. Grimms' Fairy Tales. " Looking for a Bride " or " Choosing a Bride " or " Brides on Their Trial " is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, number 155. [1] It was first added in the second edition.