... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ... to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be rep... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ...f slavery, child marriage, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Histor... ...oking, of burning dung cakes used for fuel Audrey Blankenhagen 34 and the unpleasant odours of human excrement and rotting garbage, their odifero... ... shouting at and shooing away stray cows and pariah dogs, which seemed to roam at will amidst the human throng. A fair-skinned Parsi came on board w... ...w that it was a ruse to keep Isabel by Gavin’s side. Had she, by refusing her husband his marital rights, made Isabel even more indispensable to Gav... ...ue, she had been the first to raise a barrier between them when she had refused him his conjugal rights but in the days and months that followed, Ga...

...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 ho...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...ature aborted and mutilated: still-death, genetic defects, and miscarriages. Human beings were rifted apart from each other by circumstances of separa... ...No, he thought, maybe that was just his own life. The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but wh... ...continual suffering. Reflexively jumping into pleasure like a lifebuoy, as a human did, what could one expect? One thing was sure: he had experienced... ...any enlightenment one might hope to get on this planet. It's not the animal rights perspective but my own." "Good for you. I admire that," he lied. ... ...en windows of her car, she was half tempted to drive all the way into arctic Canada instead of returning to the odious smells of her paintﾁNchemicals ... ... should go somewhere else, Rita. I could go away into the northern parts of Canada." "Newfoundland?" "Oh yes, Newfoundland! It sounds so beautiful."...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...