Download or read book Valmiki s Ramayana written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, an incarnation of Lord Visnu, born to rid the earth of the terrible demon Ravana. An idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honor, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies, and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals and terrifying demons. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.
Download or read book Lost Loves written by Arshia Sattar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Ramayana is a story of trial and tribulation, of the subtlety of right and wrong, of love and loss. The actions of Rama, the righteous but troubled prince of Ayodhya, have perplexed readers over millennia. Lost Loves is an attempt to come to terms with Rama and with the Ramayana – a text that Arshia Sattar has translated to acclaim. The essays in this book imagine what might have been the thoughts and feelings of Rama and Sita as they lived through those terrible years of trial and separation. They explore what happens to love in separation, and how public lives and private desires collide to devastating effect. By trying to see the events of their lives as Rama and Sita may have seen them, Arshia Sattar makes the existential conflicts of the Ramayana fascinatingly relevant and freshly inspiring for the contemporary reader.
Download or read book Bliss of Life written by and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bliss of life is found in the simplest of moments, where joy dances freely and contentment thrives. It's in the gentle caress of a loved one's hand, the warmth of a heartfelt smile, and the beauty of a sunrise painting the sky with hues of hope. It resides in the laughter of children playing, the harmony of nature's symphony, and the serenity of a peaceful mind. Life's bliss is not always grandiose; it often hides in the mundane, waiting to be discovered in the quiet corners of everyday existence. Embrace these moments, for they are the essence of true happiness, enriching the tapestry of our lives with meaning and fulfillment
Download or read book Shakespearean Drama Disability and the Filmic Stare written by Grace McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama. The book explores the intersections of adaptation studies, film studies, Shakespeare studies, and disability studies to analyze twentieth and twenty-first century representations of both physical disability and ‘madness’ in global cinematic film, television film, and digital broadcast cinema in Shakespeare’s works. Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare argues that the filmic stare does not differentiate between male and female characters with disabilities, or between powerful and powerless figures in disability representation. This multi-disciplinary volume is ideal for disability studies scholars, Shakespeare scholars, and those interested in adaptations of Shakespeare’s famous works.
Download or read book Pious Peripheries written by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.
Download or read book Father The Silent and the Secret Supporter written by AISHWARYA CHAKRABORTY and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers are not good at expressing their feelings openly. Fathers also love their children like mothers but can't express it properly. FATHER: THE SILENT AND THE SECRET SUPPORTER is a collection of write ups dedicated towards fathers, to portray how fathers secretly and silently try to support their children in any situations. This book is created with love and care to depict how fathers sacrifice for their children and how much they love them. As a compiler of this book I promise that this book will be the wonderful gift to all the fathers around there.
Download or read book And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again written by Ilan Stavans and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting digital anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, and artists from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. Net proceeds benefit booksellers in need. As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. In Queens, after thirteen-hour shifts in the ER, a doctor dons running shoes and makes the long jog home. And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, poems, and artwork in this collection--from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more--detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. Together, they comprise a profound global portrait of the defining moment of our time, and send a clarion call for solidarity across borders. Our literary culture depends on bookstores--and those irreplaceable sources of conversation and community, of inspiration and solace, have been decimated by the lockdown. Net proceeds from And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which helps the passionate booksellers we readers depend upon.
Download or read book The Mouse Merchant written by Arshia Sattar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in ancient India, money is always a good thing and everyone wants it. The stories in The Mouse Merchant—selected from the Sanskrit universe, from the period of the late Rig Veda to the twelfth century—tell us how money was dealt with in everyday life in ancient and medieval Indian society. At the heart of these tales is the merchant. Sometimes gullible, sometimes greedy; ingenious at some moments, dim-witted at others; and hopelessly in love with courtesans but also loyal to their wives, our merchant heroes show how innovation in business is sometimes more important than capital. The Mouse Merchant puts these stories into the context of Indian business history, giving not only rare insights into the romance of the ancient seafaring life but also great wisdom about money.
Download or read book ELYSIAN written by ELYSIAN and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing is an amazing journey. A beautiful process of inking our thoughts. My 30 divinely inspired co-authours has bended their thoughts and emotions waved in poems and short stories. The writing given by my co-authours are beautiful , perfect and creative like the name of this book " Elysian"..... Elysian beauty , melancholy, grace , brought from a pensive though a happy place ~said by William Wordsworth
Download or read book Maryada written by Arshia Sattar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the idea of dharma.
Download or read book ERIKA written by Russell Joseph Geary and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, not too long ago, in a familiar world, there were: the perfect woman, a professor of Buddhology, a punk rock musician, an albino elephant, a playwright, and Chicago. Find humor, mental awakening, social commentary and outlandish events in this display of magical realism.
Download or read book Sea of Snow written by Arshia Tabrizi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyricism, romance and the surreal. Sea of Snow weaves words and imagery into an inspired poetic collection where "afternoon dresses itself up in the vague aroma of tea" and "nightingales cross the silk threshold from folk to the here and now." Spanning 25 years of the poet's writing life, the poems journey through notions of time and immortality, spirituality and nature, life and love. These pages hold a depth of feeling beyond their words, with memory alive in a heart's rhythm and messages but held in a whisper. For the poet, poetry is not structural engineering; it is a unique medium for creating beauty that transcends reality, a shared spiritual experience expanding the mind of both writer and reader.
Download or read book Crisis Cinema in the Middle East written by Shohini Chaudhuri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns of revolutions. Yet, filmmakers have persisted in their desire to tell their stories, against the odds, in creative acts that attest to their imagination, courage and resilience. In this book, Shohini Chaudhuri examines a broad range of films made during the tumultuous period since 2009, ranging from internationally award-winning festival favourites, such as For Sama (2019), Capernaum (2018) and Taxi Tehran (2015), to lesser-known films from the region. While freedom of expression is often understood through the lens of state censorship, she reveals the different types of obstacles that filmmakers face and their strategies for overcoming them so that those constraints are transformed into creative opportunities. Using her original interviews with filmmakers such as Waad al-Kateab, Yasmin Fedda, Larissa Sansour, Mani Haghighi and Ossama Mohammed, she identifies nine creative strategies for producing work under conditions of crisis. Chaudhuri argues that creativity is indelibly shaped by constraints, whether these are externally imposed by existing materials, funding and socio-political conditions, or self-imposed constraints, through choices of genre or acceptance of rules and responsibilities.She shows that the range of creative strategies emanating from the region is much wider than allegory and becoming ever more direct. She thus opens up new lines of inquiry into cinematic creativity in sites of conflict and crisis in the Middle East and beyond.
Download or read book Unbotherd written by DHANIKA MALIK and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbothered is an open-themed book authored by a variety of writers with different perspectives. Various thoughts and ideas are shared by inspiring authors in this book. We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we did. Wishing you a wonderful reading experience!
Download or read book Valmiki s Uttara Kanda written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail. First composed around 500 BCE, it tells the story of an unjustly exiled prince, the abduction of his wife from the forest by a ten-headed demon king, his alliance with a band of magical monkeys, and the internal and external battles he must fight to win back his wife and keep her. India’s great Sanskrit epic brings to readers the classic dilemmas every individual faces: love versus duty, destiny and free will, the public and the private self, the pull of family, and the right to personal happiness. These universal problems are layered with the quintessentially Indian ideas of karma (action) and dharma (duty).The book explores what it means to be human in a complex and demanding world, considering the parameters and contexts in which we make the decisions that will determine the color and tenor of our lives, the choices that make us who we are. It also offers a great, albeit tragic, love story—a story of the demands and pressures of love and how we might fail those that we love most. Accompanied by Sattar’s thoughtful essays weighing the moral complexity of this most enduring of epics, this translation crystallizes her deep and intimate knowledge of the Ramayana in a way that is utterly compelling.
Download or read book Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood written by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the world. This edited collection features analyses of cutting-edge new independent films and is conceived to serve as a beacon to guide future explorations into the burgeoning field of new Indian Cinema studies.
Download or read book A Festive Soiree written by Kamakshi Venugopal and published by The Little Booktique Hub. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals would be just another day on the calendar, if it wasn't for memories associated with them. Life is one big celebration only if you have something to look back at. A Festive Soiree is a collection of stories that celebrate big, small, happy and sad moments of your life on days that are special for the world as well. Like they say, let the festivites commence!
