Books with author Amrita Chatterjee

A Backbreaking Misadventure in the HimalayasA psychedelic odyssey like no other, spanning the exotic foothills of the eastern Himalayas.In the summer of 2011, two bleary-eyed kids, teetering on the cusp of adulthood, decide to drop out of the daily grind and just travel. But once they hit the road, their plans go out the window. Soon, they are barreling over potholes the size of lunar craters in Nepal, bungee jumping in Rishikesh, waking up to Buddhist chants in Sikkim and cycling down the world's highest motorable pass in Ladakh. On the way is a constant stream of oddballs, like the five-second-tea lady, the flute-playing hotel manager, flying Sonam, reggae junkies and many more - this journey is all about rolling with the punches.Special Lassi is one part funny, two parts crazy and a whisper of wistful - for the best things are ephemeral and a lust for life is a dangerous thing.

Max Thorse believes that he is an ordinary ten-year-old boy living an ordinary life…until he finds a mysterious key. Only four people know about it: Max; a shadowy man; and a team of two others who have been searching for the key for years. In the wrong hands the key will lead to a world of chaos. It’s up to Max to discover his true self in time to prevent a descent into darkness!

About the BookMax Thorse believes that he is an ordinary ten-year-old boy living an ordinary life...until he finds a mysterious key. Only four people know about it: Max; a shadowy man; and a team of two others who have been searching for the key for years. In the wrong hands the key will lead to a world of chaos. It's up to Max to discover his true self in time to prevent a descent into darkness! About the Author Ankita Chatterjee is a 10 year old seventh-grader living in Ankeny, Iowa with her little sister Riya, her parents, and her German shepherd, Bindi. Ankita is a passionate and voracious reader with an appetite for books that her parents find hard to keep up with. This book started as a fun hobby with her classmates in fourth grade when she was 8, and quickly became her passion; she completed the manuscript when she turned 9. This is her first book and she is working on her next one. In addition to writing stories and poems, Ankita enjoys playing violin at the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra's Academy, and is active in competitive swimming and tennis. She loves math and science, and now her favorite subjects are geometry and physics. Ankita is a Davidson scholar and is also a 2011 SCAT award recipient of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth Program.

Excerpt from Tales of BengalHE two sisters from whose work a selection is-now translated and offered to the English-reading public are daughters of Babu Ramananda Chatterjee, the well-known publicist. He edits Pmbasi, a Bengali monthly, and, The Modern Review, an English one. Both are very influential, the latter being the most widely read of all Indian month lies. This influence has come to him after a long struggle, in which he has shown uncompromising independence. Sprung from a family of Sanskrit professors and priests, his own generation, his cousins and brothers, first broke through their tradition of aloofness, and learned English. Ramananda Babu himself discarded the brahminical thread more than thirty years ago, when he joined the Brahmo Samaj. For many years he was a College professor, first in Calcutta, then in Allahabad. But he was restive under the educational system of Indian universities and his rela tions with governing bodies were often strained. He has continued to have strained relations with all governing bodies. Calcutta University has found in him a sleepless critic, who has been largely responsible for the public's loss of confidence in that learned body. Nor can Government have faced any more watchful foe. Without any of the elaborate machinery for collecting news which our great Western journals have at their disposal, he has managed, year after year, to gather in, month by month, often from the most inaccessible sources, items which have served him in his warfare. One never knows what is going to find its way next into the pages of The Modern Review. Yet he cannot be dismissed as an extremist. He has the cross-bench type of mind; and, if the political party that is in the ascendency today in India should win their aims, it is hard to see how they could use Ramananda Chatterjee. But whether they used him or not, he would remain a force to be reckoned with - the most resourceful, the most unresting of critics. Englishmen must have often found him bitter and unfair, but I for one have been compelled.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tales of BengalHE two sisters from whose work a selection is-now translated and offered to the English-reading public are daughters of Babu Ramananda Chatterjee, the well-known publicist. He edits Pmbasi, a Bengali monthly, and, The Modern Review, an English one. Both are very influential, the latter being the most widely read of all Indian month lies. This influence has come to him after a long struggle, in which he has shown uncompromising independence. Sprung from a family of Sanskrit professors and priests, his own generation, his cousins and brothers, first broke through their tradition of aloofness, and learned English. Ramananda Babu himself discarded the brahminical thread more than thirty years ago, when he joined the Brahmo Samaj. For many years he was a College professor, first in Calcutta, then in Allahabad. But he was restive under the educational system of Indian universities and his rela tions with governing bodies were often strained. He has continued to have strained relations with all governing bodies. Calcutta University has found in him a sleepless critic, who has been largely responsible for the public's loss of confidence in that learned body. Nor can Government have faced any more watchful foe. Without any of the elaborate machinery for collecting news which our great Western journals have at their disposal, he has managed, year after year, to gather in, month by month, often from the most inaccessible sources, items which have served him in his warfare. One never knows what is going to find its way next into the pages of The Modern Review. Yet he cannot be dismissed as an extremist. He has the cross-bench type of mind; and, if the political party that is in the ascendency today in India should win their aims, it is hard to see how they could use Ramananda Chatterjee. But whether they used him or not, he would remain a force to be reckoned with - the most resourceful, the most unresting of critics. Englishmen must have often found him bitter and unfair, but I for one have been compelled.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A psychedelic odyssey like no other, spanning the exotic foothills of the eastern Himalayas. In the summer of 2011, two bleary-eyed kids, teetering on the cusp of adulthood, decide to drop out of the daily grind and just travel. But once they hit the road, their plans go out the window. Soon, they are barreling over potholes the size of lunar craters in Nepal, bungee jumping in Rishikesh, waking up to Buddhist chants in Sikkim and cycling down the world s highest motorable pass in Ladakh. On the way is a constant stream of oddballs, like the five-second-tea lady, the flute-playing hotel manager, flying Sonam, reggae junkies and many more this journey is all about rolling with the punches. Special Lassi is one part funny, two parts crazy and a whisper of wistful for the best things are ephemeral and a lust for life is a dangerous thing.