Download or read book Ravi The Unknown Prince written by Rookmin Cassim and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing story is of an orphan boy who grew up in poverty and later discovers that he was a Prince. Many years later he met with his dying uncle 'The Ruler of Manaos Kingdom,' and he revealed the truth about their ancestors. His uncle asked Ravi now[Hasan] for one favour; to bury him next to his mother in the family grave-yard in exchange for his Kingdom. Ravi owns that plot of land, but he granted his uncle his dying wish and took over the Kingdom of Manaos.

Download or read book The Black Dogs of Glaslyn written by Guy Holmes and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing has been the same in The Prince's household since he traded one of his fine hunting dogs for a strange, green-jacketed monkey, and now his Kingdom, in Medieval Gwynedd, is starting to suffer. One thousand years later, in modern day Beddgelert, Martyn Llewellyn is struggling to recover from a traumatic childhood and has been offered the chance to make a name for himself at Bangor University through conducting an experiment on dogs. The lives of Martyn, The Prince, and The Prince's son are inextricably linked: haunted by their own demons, their own 'Black Dogs', each has to find a way to survive.

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With appendices.

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.

Download or read book Love Has Wings into the Unknown written by Mamata Dey and published by Partridge Publishing India. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravi and Sheela are childhood friends, and when they enter into their teens, they realize they are in love with each other. At the age of fifteen, Ravi loses his parents in an accident. His uncle comes and takes him back to his native place. Thus Ravi is separated from Sheela. In the meantime, Sheelas parents get her married to a low-paid, plump government employee, and Ravi is married to an MLAs daughter. Twenty years pass away, and one fine day, Sheela spots Ravi in a fair. Somehow, she gets in touch with him, and their old flame of love is revived. Thus begins an extramarital affair between them, unknown to their respective spouses. They secretly meet in parks and beaches and consummate their love in hotel rooms. On one such occasion, they unwillingly become witnesses in a rape case, which happens in the hotel room adjacent to theirs. In a bid to escape the consequences, they land high up in the Himalayas, in a strange world ruled by a Godman. They become his disciples and enjoy love and togetherness for two years. When the beautiful daughter of the Godman comes and proposes to Ravi, Ravi rejects her marriage proposal, and the Godman kills both Ravi and Sheela, who die in each others arms.

Download or read book At the Turn of the Tide written by Lakshmi Raghunandan and published by Lakshmi Raghunandan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book At the Turn of the Tide written by Richard Perry and published by Lakshmi Raghunandan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prince with a Paintbrush written by Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan and published by Red Panda. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Portrait 5 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog details the journey of the academic realism and colonial influence that impacted Raja Ravi Varma’s works and his contemporaries like Rustom Siodia, Pestonji Bomanji, Abalal Rahiman, M V Dhurandhar, A X Trindade, M F Pithawalla, Fyzee Rahamin, Ravi Shankar Raval, Ghasiram Sharma and many others.

Download or read book The Year of My Indian Prince written by Ella Thorp Ellis and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1945, and April is delighted that the war is finally over and her beloved father is home again. But she has a nagging cough and a temperature, and she just can't seem to get better. When she's diagnosed with tuberculosis she's in shock-all she knows about TB is that characters in novels die of it. Soon her world has changed from school and swim meets to long days of complete bed rest in a TB hospital. There she meets her roommate, the beautiful and desperately ill Nancie. There she also meets Ravi, the handsome Indian prince who begins courting her. But April is slowly getting sicker. There is one way out: radical surgery that will leave her scarred-if she lives through it. What should she do? This vivid depiction of romance, tragedy, and courage is based on the actual experiences of the author, who spent three years in the hospital, and was courted by an Indian prince.

Download or read book Journal of Kerala Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Cinderella Across Cultures written by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.

Download or read book The Painter written by Deepanjana Pal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 29, 1848, in a small estate in Travancore, was born a boy destined to become more famous than the ruler of his kingdom. His uncle, noticing his precocious talent at art, took the teenager to the royal court at the invitation of the king to learn painting there. Ravi Varma’s debut was to come seven years later when a Danish painter arrived in court to paint the Maharaja and his wife. The twenty-year-old boldly upstaged the experienced artist, presenting the king with a more flattering painting of the royal couple at the same time as the official portrait was unveiled. Jensen, the painter, never forgave Ravi Varma, but for the young man there was no looking back. His reputation grew with each painting. For the first time, an Indian artist was using the realism and sensuality of the European oil painters and applying them to not just ordinary Indians, but to the deities as well. The artist-prince became India’s first celebrity painter. The lines to see his exhibition of mythological paintings in Bombay in 1890—the first public showing by any Indian artist—were endless; the prices he commanded were astronomical; then, when he started his own printing press, producing oleographs of his work, Raja Ravi Varma became a household name. Soon, every home had a Ravi Varma print. For the first time, comes a beautifully told, gripping account of Ravi Varma: the man who was the darling of the royal courts, but who hardly gave his own wife and children any time; the nobleman who took the revolutionary step of being an artist, yet who insisted on using the false title of raja; and the idealistic entrepreneur who bankrupted himself running a printing press, yet whose dream of bringing art to the masses became a reality. Blending fact with imagination, writing with wit and lyricism, Deepanjana Pal takes you into the life of an extraordinary man and brings him vividly alive.

Download or read book Body City written by Indira Chandrasekhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary India may be said to be in the throes of a transitionality that defines itself in terms of a challenge to earlier paradigms of nationhood and developmentalism. Rapid political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have taken place over the last two decades impelled by a world order that has seen the collapse of socialism and, attendant upon it, a reversal of the decolonization process and a globalizing neo-imperialism have set in motion new ways of looking at the past and positioning the present. In the sphere of culture and the arts, these new reflections manifest themselves as a series of questions: about how to rediscover domestic/indigenous spaces without dis-engaging from the world system or rejecting internationalism; about the assimilative inclusiveness yet alienating exclusion that accompanies changing contours of identity formation; about the tension between the private and the public in the artist s dual role as practitioner and citizen; about creative strategies/reinventions that simultaneously negotiate older cognitive frames and seek to transform these into fresh certitudes. The questions surface in various modes: some-times reflectively, sometimes oppositionally, sometimes in deflected stances, but always with a sense of responsibility and as sited interrogations, conscious of where they come from. These are the questions that underline the conceptual grid of this book.The book is divided into three main sections exposition body.city , frames , body.city figures that lead into each other but not sequentially, relying instead on the inter-connectivity of their textual and visual thematic concerns. The opening section is a set of four essays that explore the specific themes of the body and the city as these translate into modes of representation, performativity and placement. Jyotindra Jain, in Morphing Identities: Reconfiguring the Divine and the Political , discusses the role played by an eclectic range of popular imagery in constructing cultural, social and national identities. In subTerrain: artists dig the contemporary , Geeta Kapur extends the pun in her title to a reasoned-out proposition for locating the subversion of art practice in the interstices of urban spaces, to be excavated through the force of interpretation. Ravi Vasudevan, in Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema, 1974 2003 , explores the body space articulations of screen personas and city environments in the narrative space of today s cinema. In Actors Prepare , Anuradha Kapur s focus is the actor s body, the body in performance. She discusses performance styles in terms of how actors move between the abstract and the tangible and enter into a contract with their audiences by using different modes and by locating the body in different registers. The images reproduced in the book constitute a parallel visual narrative that reinforces the central themes. Interspersed with the text in the first two sections and coming together in the third section, these have a representational value of their own in the scheme of the book. The second section, frames , sets up a vantage point from which to view contemporary cultural practice and provides points of theoretical departure. These include: the notion of civil society in the third world (Sudipta Kaviraj); unfolding forms of collaboration and resistance in the new Indian metropolis (Partha Chatterjee); the shift away from secular, inclusive nationalisms to anti-modern, patriarchal particularisms that parade as nationalism (Pradip Kumar Datta, Kumkum Sangari); the re-imaging of the nation s geo-body through popular cartographic endeavours; and a look at identity formation through an exploration of literary texts (Susie Tharu, Amitav Ghosh).Indira Chandrasekhar is Managing Editor of Tulika Books, New Delhi.Peter C. Seel is Deputy Director of the House of World Cultures, Berlin.The editors of the volume make it clear that the project . . . is a deliberate attempt at distancing the act of enquiry itself from any easy, misleading glibness. It firmly and deliberately locates the critiques it produces within select urban centres . . . that happen to reflect the myriad relations between globalization, local traditions and newly designed living spaces in a particular way, consciously choosing the interface where the social and political conflicts that are central concerns in the artists works are at their most virulent .The Arts News Magazine of India

Download or read book Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Part II written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who wishes to understand what has happened in India in the twentieth century - politically and culturally - must read Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Among her men of letters he is unique; for the fertility of his mind and the polymathic range of his interests, as well as for the lucidity of his prose and his sheer integrity. — Geoffrey Moorhouse (Chaudhuri) has spent a lifetime kicking against the myths and shibboleths held by the majority of his fellow countrymen: he has ridiculed the pacifism of Mahatma Gandhi...he has castigated Indian nationalism for being corrupt, self-seeking, and destructive... (he has) vented his spleen at the stupidity and philistinism of the British in India. His latest (book) is almost a thousand pages long. It testifies to (his) eloquence, wit, and intellectual brilliance that he can go on at such length without once becoming a bore. — Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books

Download or read book Indian Popular Culture the Conquest of the World as Picture written by Jyotindra Jain and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cataloge of an exhibition.