Download or read book Bookless in Baghdad written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amalgam of essay, literary criticism, and memoir blends into a tribute to the world of books. Chicago...

Download or read book The Mirror s Messiah written by Vivek Iyer and published by Polyglot Publications London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Seven Commandments of the Bhagavad Gita written by J.P. Vaswani and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bhagavad Gita has been hailed as a universal scripture, a Bible of humanity. The song of the Lord, uttered by Sri Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra over five millennia ago, remains even in Kaliyuga, in the 21st century, a tremendous source of faith, hope, inspiration and wisdom, to seekers of the spirit in the East and West. Dada J.P. Vaswani offers the Song Divine to us as a text that all of us can cherish and love. Countless are the learned and scholarly commentaries available on the Gita: Dada’s unique achievement is to make this great scripture accessible to us; interpreting its momentous message in a way that we can relate to effortlessly; linking its profound precepts to our daily life, work, conduct and personal relationships. In short, making Lord Krishna’s Song Divine, a book for you and me and a thousand others like us. We do not have to memorise and recite the Gita; with Dada’s lucid guidance, we can actually translate the Gita into deeds of daily living! Make The Seven Commandments of the Bhagavad Gita your guide to a better, higher, more joyous, more meaningful life! Let Dada J.P. Vaswani take you to the heart of the Gita and offer you its essential truths as only he can! You are sure to hear the divine music of Sri Krishna’s flute reverberate in your spirit!

Download or read book An Anthology of Poems Assorted Plumerias written by Dr. Purnima Kulkarni and published by Onlinegatha. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assorted Plumerias is an Anthology of Poems revolving around ten different themes viz, Love and Friendship, Life and Death, Krishna Consciousness, Women Power, Nature and Environment, War and Technology, Relationships, Social Ailments, Adventure and five Bio Poems dedicated to five public figures whom the Poetess ardently admires. The readers can enjoy the Poetess’ spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions, recollected in solitude as she attempts to convey an exhilarating human experience through a range of themes. She has crafted some memorable verses through her choice of poignant words and meaningful expressions. The collection is bound to touch the readers’ hearts and leave an indelible impact on their minds.

Download or read book Krishna s Mahabharatas written by Sohini Sarah Pillai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings. This book argues that Vaishnavas (devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms) throughout South Asia turned this epic about an apocalyptic, bloody war into works of ardent bhakti or "devotion" focused on the beloved Hindu deity Krishna. Examining over forty retellings in eleven different regional South Asian languages composed over a period of nine hundred years, it focuses on two particular Mahabharatas: Villiputturar's fifteenth-century Tamil Paratam and Sabalsingh Chauhan's seventeenth-century Bhasha (Old Hindi) Mahahbharat.

Download or read book Finger Pointing to the Moon written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One who is not ready to stake his very life will never be able to know the hidden mysteries of life. Those secrets are not available cheaply. Knowledge is available very cheaply; knowledge is available from books, from scriptures, in education, with the teachers. Knowledge is available almost for free; you do not have to pay anything for it. In religion you have to pay heavily. It is not right even to say ”heavily” because only when someone stakes everything do the doors to that life open. The doors to that life open only for those who put this life at stake. To put this life at stake is the only key to the door of that life. But knowledge is very cheap, so the mind chooses the easier and the cheaper way. We learn things – words, doctrines – and think that we know. Such knowledge only enhances ignorance.

Download or read book Hidden Paradigms written by Brenda E.F. Beck and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than thirty-eight hours to complete over eighteen nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works – the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the Bible, and the Epic of Gilgamesh – establishing this foundational Tamil story as one that engages with the same universal human struggles and themes present throughout the world. Copiously illustrated, Hidden Paradigms provides a fresh example of the power of comparative thinking, offering a humanistic complement to scientific reasoning.

Download or read book Mirrors of Our Playing written by Thomas R. Whitaker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major paradigms that have influenced modern English-speaking theater

Download or read book Mahabharata The Exile Part 1 English written by Vikram Aditya and published by COSMIC SAGA PRIVATE LIMITED. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 5000 BC to 5000 AD – the same story unfolds in every home. Experience the timeless drama and profound wisdom of the Mahabharata like never before. Crafted meticulously by Vikram Aditya, this 300+ page epic reinvigorates the ancient story with a compelling modern touch, making the complex themes of ethics and values not only accessible but intensely engaging. As the Pandavas face their thirteen years of exile, their journey through adversities richly illustrates the conflicts and moral questions that resonate deeply with our contemporary struggles. Every page of this narrative is a mirror to the soul, reflecting themes of loyalty, justice, and the pursuit of righteousness amidst the harshest trials. More than just a thrilling adventure, "Mahabharata: The Exile" offers valuable insights into ethics, values, and the complexities of human relationships. It's a timeless tale that continues to resonate with readers today. Step into a world where each chapter offers not just a story, but a profound life lesson waiting to be discovered. "The Exile: Part-1" masterfully covers the first 50 percent of the Mahabharata's expansive narrative. Each chapter meticulously sets the pieces for the grander saga, "The Kurukshetra: Part-2."

Download or read book When Mirrors Are Windows written by Guillermo Rodríguez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream and earth are sky, one may ‘sometimes count every orange on a tree’, but can one count ‘all the trees in a single orange’? In this volume, Guillermo Rodríguez explores these possibilities by analysing the works of one of India’s finest poets, translators, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993).

Download or read book Lifting the Sentence written by Robert Fraser and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period.. This book is based on detailed and new research from a range of sources including the alternative press, such as the Los Angeles Free Press; public and private archives; interviews and oral histories.. Interdisciplinary in approach, it adds substantially to recent innovative research and teaching approaches in art history and other related disciplines.. Provides essential case studies for taught courses; scholarly debate and general cross-disciplinary readership.

Download or read book The Mahabharata written by Ramesh Menon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic known to man. The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and, also, in its violence and tragedy. It has been said that nothing exists that cannot be found within the pages of this awesome legend. The epic describes a great war of some 5000 years ago, and the events that led to it. The war on Kurukshetra sees ten million warriors slain, brings the dwapara yuga to an end, and ushers in a new and sinister age: this present kali yuga, modern times. At the heart of the Mahabharata nestles the Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God. Senayor ubhayor madhye, between two teeming armies, Krishna expounds the eternal dharma to his warrior of light, Arjuna. At one level, all the restless action of the Mahabharata is a quest for the Gita and its sacred stillness. After the carnage, it is the Gita that survives, immortal lotus floating upon the dark waters of desolation: the final secret! With its magnificent cast of characters, human, demonic, and divine, and its riveting narrative, the Mahabharata continues to enchant readers and scholars the world over. This new rendering brings the epic to the contemporary reader in sparkling modern prose. It brings alive all the excitement, magic, and grandeur of the original-for our times.

Download or read book The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination written by Avishek Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between ‘native’ itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks – from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial – in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as ‘vagabonds’ in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called ‘vagabond(age)’. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies.

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Download or read book Mirrors of a Disaster written by Gérard Chaliand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mirrors of a Disaster, Gérard Chaliand narrates the major events that followed the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru with the scope and rhythm of an epic poem. He seeks to make meaningful the strict chronicle of a conquest through those who lived it. Human details and the broader political background bring to life one of history's great tragedies.A new introduction by the author is included in this paperback edition. The comprehensive work is organized into three parts: "The Conquest of Mexico," "The Conquest of Guatemala and Yucatan," and "The Conquest of Peru." In each section, the author provides a summary prior to, in many cases, a day-by-day account of the events as they unfolded. Enriched by significant contemporary documents Mirrors of a Disaster relates the many facets of the conquest, presenting the Indians' perception of their defeat by the Spaniards, the conquerors' narratives of the same events, and the author's own retelling of a tragedy in which, he says, "the vanquished could not, ultimately, but be vanquished."

Download or read book The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry written by Wendy Doniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature. Each chapter, like a separate charm on a charm bracelet, considers a different constellation of stories, linked by a common cluster of meanings: the mutual imitation of real and fake, legal and illegal, marital and extra-marital jewelry; the circular form of rings and bracelets, miming the circle of eternity, which persists in the face of human ephemera