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Myth and Punishment
Myth and Punishment
Myth and Punishment
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Twelve-year-old, US born, East Indian Adina is searching for a lost family jewel. Her nani, maternal grandmother, claims to have offered the jewel to one of the Hindu gods in return for a grandchild, resulting in Adina’s birth. The family jewels are an Indian girl’s birthright, and should have come to Adina, but her mother secretly sold off the jewels, in defiance of Hindu tradition, after she divorced Adina’s father when Adina was two. So the lost “crown” jewel is the only one left…if Adina can only find it. Her quest for this piece of jewelry takes her on a virtual trip through Hindu cosmology and mythology and Indian history. She uses her laptop to find images of a given god, goddess, or historical figure then mediates on that image while remembering all she knows about the being, thanks to her paternal grandparents’ tutelage in her Indian heritage. Adina’s meditations are extraordinary, however, in that the figure comes alive, and she can interact with that being—sometimes at her own peril…
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Release dateJul 15, 2017
ISBN9781626947047
Myth and Punishment
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Anoop Chandola

Anoop Chandola is an Indian American linguist-anthropologist (a U.S. citizen). He was born in an Uttarakhand Himalayan Brahmin family of India and inherited priestly profession. Though his father broke his ancestral polygamous tradition the family suffered the aftereffects of polygamy. He was educated at the universities of Allahabad and Lucknow. His last two degrees in linguistics include an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught Indian literature, culture, and religion at several universities in India and the U.S.A., including Sardar Patel University, the M.S. University of Baroda, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He retired from the University of Arizona as Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies. He has been a member of numerous professional associations, including the American Anthropological Association, the Association for Asian Studies, the Linguistic Society of America, and the Linguistic Society of India. Chandola has published numerous papers and sixteen books including four novels. His scholarly research covers linguistics, music, religion, and literature, including extensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis. He lives with his wife Sudha in Tucson and Kent, near Seattle. More details about him are available on Wikipedia. He can be contacted by his email: anoopchandola@gmail.com

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