{"product_id":"dont-stand-in-front-of-tonse-raju-9781965687888","title":"Don't Stand in Front of a Palace or Behind a Horse Sub Title: An Illustrated Book of South Indian Proverbs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of 251 proverbs (91 illustrated) from Kannada, a South Indian language with a 2000-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyear literary history and cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTonse Narayana Krishna Raju, a pediatrician and a neonatologist, who was Professor of Pediatrics at the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Illinois in Chicago, has published five books of fiction and two translations in Kannada, a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclassical Dravidian language from Karnataka, South India. In addition to his passion to study and teach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory of medicine, Dr. Raju is extremely fond of proverbs. He has studied and published articles about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish, Arabic, Irish, and African proverbs. This is his first translation of South Indian proverbs into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish. He is currently working on another volume on the same topic. His published books in English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einclude: The Nobel Chronicles: A Handbook of Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine 1901-2024 (Second\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eedition) and The Importance of Having a Brain and Other Stories from the History of Medicine (Expanded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition), both published by Auctorem House, 2025; and Poems and a Novella by A.K. Ramanuja, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTonse N.K. Raju (Translator) and Shouri Daniels-Ramanujan (Translator), published by Oxford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePress, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tonse Raju\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1965687881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965687888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Auctorem House LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Tonse Raju","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066818146559,"sku":"9781965687888","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d15779b-43c1-4de8-8ff1-7fc5af14459e.jpg?v=1768680724","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dont-stand-in-front-of-tonse-raju-9781965687888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}