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...is works were, fully or in part, translated into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, some of them having a third edition in the U.S.A. The poet has ... ... has collaborated in literary reviews in Romania, France, Belgium, Turkey, India, Japan, Germany, Canada, Australia, Morocco, and the United States. ... ...ernational Eminent Poet by the International Academy of Poets from Madras (India, 1991), and obtained the "Honorary Diploma in Fanciful Poetry" at the...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Ind...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book ... ...itual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some ... ...y wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with the abo... ...tant humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all govern... ... his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in science and ma... ...Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her... ...herself aloud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her ... ...des Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective countries’ ho...

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...nd paradoxismul: ap ărute în România, Maroc, Belgia, Fran ţa, SUA, Canada, India şi Coreea de Sud. În Antologia paradoxist ă 5 sunt inserate destule... ...hi); Chia (Victor Changnone – cu poeme paradoxiste şi în limba chinez ă!); India (A.S. Francis, B. Venkateswara Rao, Anurag Gumashta, Achal Sinha, A... ...enzii şi cronici, ap ărute prin diverse ţări, din România în Brazilia, din India în Corea, ca s ă nu mai vorbesc de Europa, dar m ă opresc. Un prove... ...sc - destule personalit ăţi str ăine, din Europa pân ă-n America, în Asia (India, Corea) şi Africa, to ţi men ţionând acela şi lucru. A se citi şi u... ...sure to read for you the BRAZILIAN PARADOXIST MANIFESTO (please, excuse my Portuguese – this is my first attempt to learn your language!!): Bello H... ...ible to fix it broken. Champagne yes, philosophic no. And now hear this Indian tale, more than 25 years old joke, that ends in a … mathematical f...

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...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...distances were relatively moder- ate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond m... ...ro on the great ca- nal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half. The other w... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ...ingapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers. The weather, which had hitherto... ... mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast. Hong Kong has beaten Macao...

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... he knew she had a brother on the medical staff of one of the regiments in India: she asked 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks we... ... were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our general of... ... frontier cavalry. He served in the Peninsula, served in Canada, served in India, volunteered for any chance of distinction. No need to say much of hi... ...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ..., French, English, Ameri- cans, Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too,...

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...y was old enough to take her place, and that Frank should then return from India and claim his bride. Well did she discharge the duties which she had ... ...ey were to return to Beechcroft, merely for a farewell, before sailing for India. It was half-past nine in the evening, and the wedding over— Mr. and ... ...‘Two whole years,’ said Lily. ‘Oh! and aunt, Robert too, and Frank went to India the beginning of that year; yes, there was enough to depress her, but... ...u, Phyllis, I thought I had washed it off: now do find me some sealing-wax—India-rub her—stick- ing-plaster, I mean.’ ‘Oh! Rotherwood,’ said Emily, ‘w... ...w.’ ‘Yes, with the French, who killed their king. Lily told me.’ ‘ And the Portuguese were helping us. Just after we had taken the town of Ciudad Rodr... ...elping us. Just after we had taken the town of Ciudad Rodrigo, some of the Portuguese sol- diers went to find lodgings for themselves, and, entering a... ...ll? where could they have gone? No, he raised no alarm, but he ordered the Portuguese out of the building, and with the help of an English sergeant, h... ...kindness of a deceased nobleman, received the promise of an appointment in India, of which he was unable to avail himself for want of the funds needfu...

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.... He says nothing could be more exemplary than Kendal’s whole con- duct in India, he only regretted that he kept so much aloof from others, that his p... ...he hap to live with sensible women.’ ‘When their children grew too old for India, she came into some little property at Bayford Bridge, which enabled ... ...t be endured. Albinia’a heart is gone, he is a very good man, and spite of India, first wife, and melancholy, he does not look amiss!’ Mr. Ferrars smi... ...nerous pity in the en- gagement of their favourite niece to a retired East India Company’s servant—a widower with three children. 9 The Young Step-Mo... ..., show- ing off the room, the chiffonieres, the ornaments, and some pretty Indian ivory carvings. There was a great ottoman of Aunt Maria’s work, and ... ...rsuaded me into half consenting to have some wine with him from a cheating Portuguese—then ordered more than ever I knew of, and the man went and beca...

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...rsist in going to see; whereas a man would have a much better insight into Portuguese manners, by planting himself at a corner, like yon- der beggar, ... ...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...pictures of the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much... ...le vessel, with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, j... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ... a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo grin, from the dusky mother to the india-rubber child sprawl- ing upon her back, and the venerable jetty senio... ...France. As a hundred Christian people, or more, come from England and from India every fortnight, this inn has been built to accommodate a large pro- ... ...ir loads:the court is full of bustling dragomans, ayahs, and children from India; and poor old venerable he-nurses, 132 Notes on a Journey from Cornh...

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...s my feeling.’ ‘My father was certainly not an English gentleman. He was a Portuguese.’ In admitting this, and subjecting himself at once to one clear... ...r- tain advantage. He could not get over the fact that he was the son of a Portuguese parent, but by admitting that openly he thought he might avoid p... ...d not wish to welcome him as a son-in-law. He thought it possible that the Portuguese father might be a Portuguese nobleman, and therefore one whom he... ...ns, one of the oldest families in England, should be given to a friendless Portuguese, a probable Jew,—about whom nobody knew nothing. Then he remembe... ...hat by doing so he would abandon his right to object to the man as being a Portuguese stranger, and he did not wish to have Ferdinand Lopez as son-in-... ...ountry would be invaded by the combined forces of Germany and France, that India would be sold by those powers to Russia, that Canada would be annexed... ...e Prime Minister her husband had fixed the day for her departure. The next Indian mail-packet by which they would leave England would start from South... ...ispute there would have been no such interest felt. Had the welfare of the Indian Empire occupied the House, the House would have been empty. But the ... ...f anyone,’ said Arthur Fletcher, ‘that she should immolate herself like an Indian widow,—and for the sake of such a man as that! Of course I have no r...

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...d varnished leather caps are as distinct from one another as the castes of India, and still recognize the distance that parts them from the bourgeoisi... ...t officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence of de Suffren in the Indian Ocean, and the friend- ship of the Comte de Portenduere. His splendi... ...e in the sun. His 33 Beatrix skin retained the tawny color it received in India, whence, however, he did not bring back either facts or ideas. He had... ...se family is not as old as yours), after marrying his eldest daughter to a Portuguese grandee, was anxious to find an alliance among the higher nobili... ... des Touches, who read a book of theological mysticism while Calyste read “Indiana,”—the first work of Camille’ s celebrated rival, in which is the ca... ... his mind led me too far. But how could I help it? I love, and I am half a Portuguese,—for I am much more like you, mamma, than like my father. Calyst... ...hood. She is a Grandlieu, to be sure, but she’s as brown as her mother the Portuguese, not to say yellow, and as dry and stiff as her father. To tell ... ... duchess, an excellent mother, though her piety was becoming more and more Portuguese, recognized a moral cause in the physically weak condition in wh... ...uld do one great good by another almost as great—” The vicar looked at the Portuguese lady, and was pensive. “That is evidently an idea that came to y...

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...e to this? As for me, nothing can surprise me in these days, when asphalt, India- rubber, railroads, and steam have changed the ground we tread on, an... ...ebrated decree. The reaction produced in France by the introduction of the Portuguese cotton caused the death of Pigoult, Achille’s father, and began ... .... This color, the same as that of his abundant hair, he now obtained by an Indian cosmetic, very costly and used in Persia, the secret of which he kep...

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...nd paradoxismul: ap ărute în România, Maroc, Belgia, Fran ţa, SUA, Canada, India şi Coreea de Sud. În Antologia paradoxist ă 5 sunt inserate destule... ...hi); Chia (Victor Changnone – cu poeme paradoxiste şi în limba chinez ă!); India (A.S. Francis, B. Venkateswara Rao, Anurag Gumashta, Achal Sinha, A... ...enzii şi cronici, ap ărute prin diverse ţări, din România în Brazilia, din India în Corea, ca s ă nu mai vorbesc de Europa, dar m ă opresc. Un prove... ...sc - destule personalit ăţi str ăine, din Europa pân ă-n America, în Asia (India, Corea) şi Africa, to ţi men ţionând acela şi lucru. A se citi şi u... ...sure to read for you the BRAZILIAN PARADOXIST MANIFESTO (please, excuse my Portuguese – this is my first attempt to learn your language!!): Bello H... ...ible to fix it broken. Champagne yes, philosophic no. And now hear this Indian tale, more than 25 years old joke, that ends in a … mathematical f...

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...n from the mine to the coast on the backs of mules, at- tended by friendly Indians and guarded by white men; from thence it was conveyed over to Silve... ... fellows—they call those natives Sambos, when they are half-negro and half-Indian—had come off outside the reef, to pilot us in, and remained on board... ...hey were both young men of about my age, who had been delicate in the West India climate. I even took that in bad part. I thought I was much fitter fo... ...re troublesome, she turned us over to a young woman, English born but West India bred, who served her as her maid. This young woman was the widow of a... ... last, him with the one eye and the patch across the nose. There were some Portuguese, too, and a few Span- iards. The captain was a Portuguese; a lit... ...e in his head. But, no Christian George King was visible. A sort of a wild Portuguese demon, who seemed either fierce- mad or fierce-drunk—but, they a... ...me forward with the black flag, and gave it a wave or two. After that, the Portuguese captain called out in shrill English, “I say you! English fools!... ...was put up against the wall, the one-eyed English convict came up with the Portuguese Captain, to have a look at me. “See!” says he. “Here’s the deter... ... night, you’d have slept your soundest last night, my determined man.” The Portuguese Captain laughed in a cool way, and with the flat of his cutlass,...

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...ng Plain T ales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling To the Wittiest Woman in India I Dedicate This Book PREFACE EIGHT-AND-TWENTY of these tales appeared... ...rs were children, and all the seniors old women; and lastly he came out to India, where he was cut off from the support of his parents, and had no one... ...nts, and had no one to fall back on in time of trouble except himself. Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too serio... ...not matter, because other men do worse, and incompetents hang on longer in India than anywhere else. Amusements do not matter, because you must repeat... ...omen not worth saddling a pony to call upon. He found his new free life in India very good. It does look attractive in the beginning, from a Subaltern... ...abused them in the language of the Borderline— which is part English, part Portuguese, and part Native. She was not attractive; but she had her pride,...

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...llus, March to the Etruscan vases perhaps; anyhow he had done good work in India, and there was nothing to regret in his life except the fundamental d... ...e English. One thinks of all we’ve done, and our navies, and the people in India 44 The Voyage Out and Africa, and how we’ve gone on century after ce... ...seems!—settling the basis of a future state with the present Secretary for India. We thought ourselves very wise. I’m not sure we weren’t. We were hap... ...an remember arguing until five in the morning with Duffy—now Secretary for India—pacing round and round those cloisters until we decided it was too la... ...spark died that should have been a conflagra- tion. From the interior came Indians with subtle poisons, naked bodies, and painted idols; from the sea ... ...s, and painted idols; from the sea came venge- ful Spaniards and rapacious Portuguese; exposed to all these enemies (though the climate proved wonderf... ...was three hundred years ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with t... ...epper, asleep too. Thirty-six, thirty- seven, thirty-eight—here were three Portuguese men of business, asleep presumably, since a snore came with the ... ...s. Paley was wheeled past. Susan followed. Mr. Venning strolled after her. Portuguese military families, their clothes suggesting late rising in untid...

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...ith what result if any. I have heard vaguely, it was “to open the trade to India.” Of course they intended to stir up the public mind into co-operatio... ...rling’s life, taken place at all. A certain Lieutenant Robert Boyd, of the Indian Army, an Ulster Irishman, a cousin of Sterling’s, had received some ... ...ife. Having only, for outfit, these im- patient ardors, some experience in Indian drill exercise, and five thousand pounds of inheritance, he found th... ... immense hurricane; with new and indeed quite perilous experiences of West-Indian life. This hasty Letter, addressed to his Mother, is not intrinsi- c... ...d in it being so much the greatest, we will quote it in preference. A West-Indian tornado, as John Sterling witnesses it, and with vivid authenticity ... ...nomy does of Space. I do not think I shall take your advice as to learning Portuguese. It is said to be very ill spoken here; and assuredly it is the ... ... solidity. The shops are very poor. The English do not mix at all with the Portuguese. The Bay is a very bad anchorage; but is wide, bright and cheerf...

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... Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast Negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this... ...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat... ... fall behind the move- ment of the sky, and then suddenly, as it hung over India, its light had been veiled. All the plain of India from the mouth of ...

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...selves, and are taxed by others, with many an imaginary neglect as regards India; but assuredly we cannot be taxed with that neglect. No part of our I... ...ad gone to await his arrival at the port (whatever port) to which the West India packet should bring him; and amongst the deepest recollec- tions whic... ...rgeous- ness which, by description, so well I knew of sunset in those West Indian islands from which my father was returning— the knowledge that he re... ...-presence of malice in the agent; but others, as appeared from my father’s Portuguese recollections, ascribing the same horrid power to the eye of cer... ...e school, that I, who had no male relatives but military men, and those in India, could not have benefited by any clandestine aid. But, un- happily, D... ...le: and, more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor Sea; From India and the Golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, —Du...

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...a man whose whole scope of ideas was limited to Lloyd’s, the Exchange, the India House, and the Bank. A few successful speculations had raised him fro... ...ling to make himself generally useful. ’ If any old lady, whose son was in India, gave a ball, Mr. Percy Noakes was master of the ceremonies; if any y... ...ckets, waistcoats, and trousers, looked something between waiters and West India planters. Nine o’clock struck, and the company arrived in shoals. Mr.... ...ass of which Mr. Hardy had fixed a large black wafer. ‘Did you ever hear a Portuguese tambourine?’ inquired that jocular individual. ‘Did you ever hea... ...ntil now had been lost in utter amazement, ‘I don’t know what it may be in India, but in England I think a gum-gum has very much the same meaning as a...

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...n the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” —Holland’ s Plutarch’ s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which t... ...Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and ... ...ittle tinkling tags something like the stained porcu- pine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you... ...m to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say ... ...llages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...y belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ...and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh vi...