Download or read book La Venus de Dandakarany written by Svetlana R. Dinges and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LA VENUS de DANDAKARANYA written by Svetlana R. Dinges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Venus Du Nouveau Millenium written by Svetlana R. Dinges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avec La Vénus de nouveau Millénium s'achève la Trilogie des Trois Vénus. Après avoir consacré le premier volume à la femme libre à la manière d'une démone et le second à la femme « normale » (mot d'ordre actuellement !), l'auteure s'interroge dans le troisième et dernier volume sur la place de la femme dans le nouveau Millénium Le livre est divisé en trois parties distinctes : dans la première le lecteur est sur l'île du Sri Lanka, dans la deuxième du côté des Comptoirs français de Pondichéry et de la « Ville de l'Aurore » et la troisième nous ramène en France. Du Sud de l'Inde on se retrouve dans le Sud de la France où l'auteure donnera une conférence sur la femme parfaite (idéale) face à un gouvernement parfait (normal) sur un fond de légende du Ramayana.
Download or read book B nar s Au Cr puscule Du Gange written by Svetlana Radlovic Dinges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Beaucoup d’ouvrage ont été écrit sur la ville la plus vieille au monde. Beaucoup trop peu-être, mais si je consens à écrire ce livre comme m’avait demandé tant de fois le grand homme qu’il fut Vîr Bhadra Mishra, d’une plume d’ « alien » et d’un regard d’« »outsider », c’est au prix de laisser s’échapper de moi cette lumière, qui accueille chacune de mes arrivées dans la ville sainte, à travers les mots dont on ne soupçonne jamais suffisamment le potentiel... » C’est ainsi que l’auteure - diplômée de l’EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) de Paris (France), avec un « Advanced Hindi Diploma de la BHU (Banaras Hindu University) et le « Sanskrit Prâmana Patriya » de la SSU (Sampurnanand Sanskrit University) de Varanasi (Inde) et membre d’un cercle de Spécialistes en Ramayana (grande épopée et un des textes fondamentaux de la mythologie hindoue) - commence son ouvrage sur la « miniature indienne » blottie au pied du Gange où chaque jour des milliers de pèlerins et simples croyants viennent de partout pour se purifier dans les eaux sacrées d’un fleuve « immensément mais mal aimé ». Cet ouvrage, qui émane d’une longue expérience de l’auteure sur le sol indien, est composé de trois parties (plus des photos prises par l’auteure elle-même). La première partie donne quelques indications sur la ville sainte de Bénarès ; la seconde s’adresse au fleuve sacré, le Gange, et ses problématiques ; tandis que la troisième laisse libre cours aux ghats. La description des ghats tout en gardant une note plutôt intimiste dévoile le caractère de chaque ghat sur lequel elle s’arrête dans le but de souligner l’importance vitale du fleuve dans le quotidien des habitants de Bénarès. Il a l’ambition d’une « amoureuse » de la ville sainte et la vocation d’un plaidoyer pour le fleuve. --- ‘A lot of work has been written about the oldest city in the world, too much perhaps, but if I consent to write this book—as had asked me many times the great man Veer Bhadra Mishra, with an “alien” pen and a look of “outsider”—it is at the cost of letting it escape from me the light that welcomes each of my arrivals in the Holy City through words whose potential is never sufficiently suspected . . .’ This is how the author—who graduated from the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, with an advanced diploma in Hindi from the BHU (Banaras Hindu University) and the ‘Sanskrit Prâmana Patriya’ from the SSU (Sampurnanand Sanskrit University) in Varanasi (India) and who is a member of a circle of specialists in Ramayana (great epic and one of the fundamental texts of Hindu mythology)—begins her work on the Indian miniature nestled at the foot of the Ganges where every day thousands of pilgrims and simple believers come from everywhere to purify themselves in the sacred waters of an immense but unloved river. This book, which emanates from the author’s long experience on Indian soil, is composed of three parts (plus the photographs taken by the author herself). The first part gives some indications on the Holy City of Banaras. The second addresses the sacred river, the Ganges, and its problem, while the third gives free rein to the ghats. The description of the ghats, while keeping a rather intimate note, reveals the character of each ghat on which it stops with the intention to emphasize the vital importance of the river in the daily life of the inhabitants of Banaras. It has the ambition of a ‘lover’ of the sacred city and the vocation of a plea for the river.
Download or read book Imagining Extinction written by Ursula K. Heise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the extinction of species accelerates and more species become endangered, activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists have responded to bring this global crisis to the attention of the public. Until now, there has been no study of the frameworks that shape these narratives and images, or of the symbolic meanings that the death of species carries in different cultural communities. Ursula Heise makes the case that understanding how and why endangered species come to matter culturally is indispensable for any effective advocacy on their behalf. Heise begins by showing that the tools of conservation science and law need to be viewed as cultural artifacts: biodiversity databases and laws for the protection of threatened species use rhetorical and cultural resources that open up different approaches to the problem of understanding global wildlife. The second half of her book explores ways of envisioning alternative futures for biodiversity. The narrative of nature s decline or even imminent disappearance has been a successful rallying trope for those skeptical of modernization and ideologies of progress. But environmentalists nostalgia for the past and pessimistic outlook on the future have also alienated parts of the public. Heise tells the story of environmental activists, writers, and scientists who are creating new stories to guide the environmental imagination."
Download or read book Dating the Era of Lord Rama written by Pushkar Bhatnagar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the epic Ramayana, Sage Valmiki mentioned that when Lord Ram was born, the sun was located in Aries, saturn was in Libra, Jupiter & the moon were in Cancer, Venus was seen
Download or read book Nightmarch written by Alpa Shah and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.
Download or read book Philosophy of Pancaratras written by S. Rangachar and published by Hesperides Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book India written by Stuart Cary Welch and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
Download or read book Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy written by Rana Singh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Indian subcontinent there are territories and areas wherein culture, geography, and the archetypal cosmos interact with each other to create a sacredscape that is infused with meaning, cultural performances and transcendent power. These sacred sites possess extensive mythological associations where believed that spirit can cross between different realms. In a broad perspective such studies falls within the realm of cultural astronomy, which has two broad areas, viz. archaeoastronomy, concerned with the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations; and ethnoastronomy that studies the use of astronomy and its role in contemporary cultures. The seven essays in this volume deals with the critical appraisal of studying cultural astronomy and cosmic order and its implications in India, illustrated with case studies like heritagescape of Khajuraho, where stone speaks; manescape of Gaya, where manes come and bless the devotees; Deviscape of Vindhyachal, where goddess resorts; Shivascape of Kashi, where Shiva dances in making order; Shaktiscape of Kashi, that possesses the spatial ordering of goddesses; and Naturscape of Chitrakut, where mother earth blesses.
Download or read book The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago written by V. Kanakasabhai and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mahadev Kolis written by Govind Sadashiv Ghurye and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Tamils written by P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2001 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Kerala written by Krishnat P. Padmanabha Menon and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astrological Insights into Personality written by Betty Lundsted and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This down-to-earth exploration of natal chart interpretation shows the familial, male-female patterns in the zodiacal signs and the potentials they hold in combination with planetary energies and house symbolism. Our personalities are strongly influenced by what was happening around us when we were infants and whether our needs were met. Lundsted explains that our natal chart is our parent’s transit chart, therefore revealing the truth of our childhood family dynamics. Once we understand these dynamics, Lundsted helps us move beyond laying blame on our parents by identifying the compensating strengths revealed in the chart. She also shows us that the typically classified difficult or hard aspects in the chart actually hold the key to our transformation.
Download or read book Narmada written by Amr̥talāla Vegaḍa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meandering Through Mountains And Valleys, The Narmada Twists And Turns Her Way Through Forest Fringes, Sculpting Boulders, Carving Deep Gorges And Creating Scenes Of Unsurpassed Beauty And Loveliness. Rich In History And Mythology, She Is India S Fifth Longest And The Most Sacred River After The Ganga. Award-Winning Artist And Writer Amrit Lal Vegad Has Been Capturing The Narmada On Canvas And In Print For Over A Quarter Of A Century. Narmada: River Of Beauty Details Vegad S Journeys On Foot Over A Period Of Eleven Years, Along The Riverbank From The Source Of The Narmada To Bharuch Where It Empties Into The Arabian Sea. The Geography Of The Narmada Valley Has Changed Since The Last Time The Author Traversed It, In 1987. Several Hundred Villages Have Been Submerged As A Result Of The Sardar Sarovar Project, As Well As Cultivable Land, Flora And Fauna. Using Exquisite Prose And Vivid Imagery, Vegad Has Captured The Beauty Of The Valley In Its Pristine Form. Alternating Between The Exciting And The Serene, His Account Mirrors The Narmada S Course From Source To Mouth. He Narrates His Encounters With The Villagers Who Live On The Banks Of The River, Their Easy Faith And Generous Hospitality, Hardworking Days And Restful Nights; His Nerve-Wracking Journey Through Bhil Country Where The Tribals Are Known To Loot Pilgrims; His Nighttime Adventure With A Pair Of Cobras, And Unexpected Run-In With A Colony Of Ants. Narmada: River Of Beauty Is Not Just About The River, But The Life That Thrives On The River. This Evocative Translation, Peppered With Sketches And Collages By The Author, Captures The Familiar Textures Of The Original, Making It A One-Of-A-Kind Travelogue About One Of The Most Magnificent River Valleys In India.
Download or read book Sacred Plants of India written by Nanditha Krishna and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.
