Download or read book Updating Hindu Mythologicals Ulta Ramayan the Rama Ravana Saga written by V. K. Sinha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story written in the Ramayana seems to be very simple and straightforward, but it hides many secrets in its bosom. For the layman it is a story of good versus evil with evil getting a beating and good, being victorious, getting a rousing welcome. But there are many details that, if read carefully, reveal many secrets that have been hidden from the general society. The present author has tried to reveal those secrets but because of lack of space has limited himself to the revelation of just a few of those secrets. After a proper study, it seems that Ravana was not as bad as has been made out to be. It seems he had many grand ideas, but because the war was lost, the ideas also died. One of them, not mentioned in the book because of the lack of full details is that he had a medical system similar to the Red Cross that we have today. Similarly, there are many other details of Ravana that have been described. It turns out that Ravana was not that bad a person nor was it that Rama that did not have any fault in him. Ramayana emphasises that the victor is always a good and revered person and the loser is cursed by society.

Download or read book UPDATING HINDU MYTHOLOGICALS written by V.K. SINHA and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story written in the Ramayana seems to be very simple and straightforward, but it hides many secrets in its bosom. For the layman it is a story of good versus evil with evil getting a beating and good, being victorious, getting a rousing welcome. But there are many details that, if read carefully, reveal many secrets that have been hidden from the general society. The present author has tried to reveal those secrets but because of lack of space has limited himself to the revelation of just a few of those secrets. After a proper study, it seems that Ravana was not as bad as has been made out to be. It seems he had many grand ideas, but because the war was lost, the ideas also died. One of them, not mentioned in the book because of the lack of full details is that he had a medical system similar to the Red Cross that we have today. Similarly, there are many other details of Ravana that have been described. It turns out that Ravana was not that bad a person nor was it that Rama that did not have any fault in him. Ramayana emphasises that the victor is always a good and revered person and the loser is cursed by society.

Download or read book The Legend of Parshu Raam written by Dr Vineet Aggarwal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the guru of Bhishma Pitamah... He was the avatar of Vishnu but a disciple of Shiva... And He shall be the martial guru of Kalki, the last Avatar in this Yuga! When the Chandravanshi emperor Arjun began expanding his empire to the entire world, the Asuras hit back with an insidious plan. Caught in the crossfire is Raam, who comes back from his penance tofind 21 arrows piercing his father's body. Raam vows to avenge his death by killing the evil Kshatriyas 21 times starting with Arjun. Thus begins The Legend of Parshuram.

Download or read book Invading the Sacred written by Krishnan Ramaswamy and published by Rupa Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American academy is systematically undermining core icons and ideals of Indic culture and thought. For instance, scholars of this counterforce have disparaged the Bhagavad Gita as a dishonest book ; declared Ganesha s trunk a limpphallus ; classified Devi as the mother with apenis and Shiva as a notorious womanizer who incites violence in India.

Download or read book Makers of Modern India written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actorsÑthink of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian historyÑrace, religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism, economic development, violence, and nonviolenceÑMakers of Modern India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define the modern world.

Download or read book Male Homosexualities and World Religions written by P. Hurteau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality.

Download or read book Across the Himalayan Gap written by Tan Chung and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.

Download or read book Tattva Viveka written by HH Bhanu Swami and published by Tattva Cintāmaṇi Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vishwamitra written by Vineet Aggarwal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born a Kshatriya. He became a Brahmarishi. When Satyavati, wife of Rishi Ruchik, exchanges with her mother, Queen Ratna, the magic potion for bearing a child, they change not just their children’s destiny, but also the history of mankind. Born of this mix up is Vishwamitra, the son of a Kshatriya, with the qualities of a Brahmin. The duality in his life soon begins to show as he strives to become a Brahmarishi—the ultimate, the most powerful of all Gurus. With the creation of the Gayatri Mantra he begins a tapasya that makes him second to none. He challenges the Gods and shakes the very foundation of the heavens. Vishwamitra is the powerful, riveting story of a brave but stubborn, haughty yet compassionate, visionary king of Aryavarta who not only acquires material wealth through military conquests but also becomes one of the most well-known sages of all times.

Download or read book Salman Rushdie and the Third World written by Timothy Brennan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie's novels and journalism.

Download or read book Shrimad Bhagavata Stuti Mala written by Swami Tejomayananda and published by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s various forms and glories as they are depicted in Srimad Bhagavatam, inspire seekers of all walks of life and of all spiritual inclinations, be it a devotee, and intellectual or a person of action. Swami Tejomayananda has lovingly selected 121 verses of praise from Srimad Bhagavatam, to be compiled into the fragrant and beautiful garland that is this book. This collection will serve as a beacon of light to aspirants on the spiritual path. The translations in simple English make the verses widely accessible and comprehensible.

Download or read book Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television written by Shoma Munshi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular". In its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian "mediascape" over the past decade – including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple screens have changed soap viewing forever. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, the book traces how prime time soaps in India still grab the maximum eyeballs and remain the biggest earners for TV channels. The book will be of interest to students of anthropology and sociology, media and cultural studies, visual culture studies, gender and family studies, and also Asian studies in general. It is also an important resource for media producers, both in content production and television channels, as well as for the general reader.

Download or read book My Concept Of Hinduism written by Vinay Kr Sinha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu philosophy tells us that the most important thing in life is Karma (action). Purposeful action done with integrity leads to Purushartha(worthy endeavors, achievements and fulfillments). Purushartha has four aspects – Dharma (right aims, objectives and endeavors), Artha (acquisition of physical necessities), Kama (emotional fulfillment) and Moksha (riddance of clutter, both physical and mental). These ideas were not created in a day, but accumulation of thoughts over the ages and generations. The first thinkers were the Rakshasas and their deity, Yam, gave us the first laws and philosophies. Over the millenniums many additional laws and by-laws came up. This gave us a very dynamic society which scoured the seas, the story of which is narrated in the Samudra Manthan. Through Samudra Manthan many new ideas came from other lands which got incorporated into Indian thoughts and this dynamism created the Indus Valley civilization (IVC). In IVC people of many cultures came to reside and that created a vast literature comprising Manusmriti, Puranas, Samhitas, Vedas, Gita, Mahabharata and many others. The new philosophy of Vaishnavism came up and transformed India to such an extent that India became known as the bird with golden feathers. However, for reasons not fully known the IVC collapsed but the engineers and architects who created IVC spread all over the then known world and made those worlds richer and magnificient. This narrative is an attempt to recount this lost saga in a very simple language. The author hopes that it will be interesting to the reader.

Download or read book Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of India written by Nalini Natarajan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. The published literature of the 20th century is a particularly interesting subject and is the focus of this book, as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. This reference book surveys the major regional literatures of contemporary India in the context of the country's diversity and heterogeneity. Chapters are devoted to particular regions, and the arrangement of the work invites comparisons of literary traditions. Chapters provide extensive bibliographies of primary works, thus documenting the creative achievement of numerous contemporary Indian authors. Some chapters cite secondary works as well, and the volume concludes with a list of general works providing further information. An introductory essay overviews theoretical concerns, ideological and aesthetic considerations, developments in various genres, and the history of publishing in regional literatures. The introduction provides a context for approaching the chapters that follow, each of which is devoted to the literature of a particular region. Each chapter begins with a concise introductory section. The body of each chapter is structured according to social and historical events, literary forms, or broad descriptive or analytic trends, depending on the particular subject matter. Each chapter then closes with an extensive bibliography of primary works, thus documenting the rich literary tradition of the region. Some chapters also cite secondary sources as an aid to the reader. The final chapters of the book address special topics, such as sub-cultural literatures, or the interplay between literature and film. A list of additional sources of general information concludes the volume.

Download or read book Roman Aeneas written by P. J. Loseby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles Latin selections from the first six books of Virgil's Aeneid.

Download or read book Invitation to World Religions written by Jeffrey Brodd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring a unique, consistent, and modular chapter structure and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to World Religions, Fourth Edition, invites students to explore the world's great religions with respect and a sense of wonder. The authors also encourage students to develop an appreciation for what religious beliefs and practices actually mean to their adherents"--

Download or read book Invasion of Religious Boundaries written by Jasbir Singh Mann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.