Download or read book Magic of Indian Weddings written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic of Indian Cricket written by Mihir Bose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the first time a developing country has become a major player in the international sports arena. This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Bose's classic history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon. Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal experience, Bose traces the development of the Indian game from its beginnings as a colonial pastime to its coming of age as a national passion and now a global commercial powerhouse. This illuminating study reveals Indian cricket's central place in modern India’s identity, culture and society. Insightful, honest and challenging, Bose tackles the myths and controversies of Indian cricket. He considers the game in terms of race, caste, politics, national consciousness and ambition, money, celebrity and the media, evoking all the unpredictability, frustration and glory that is the magic of Indian cricket.
Download or read book Rituals and Customs of A Hindu Wedding written by Kavita Kapoor and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lists all the Hindu ceremonies, what they mean, what you need to do them and finally why you are doing them. It's an all emcompassing guide for planning your wedding. It gives you control over your big day. You select the ceremonies you want to do, how you want to do them and you are not cohered by either a pundit or an auntie you hardly know. You can budget for your wedding with the help of this guide. This book is easy to read, user friendly and has checklists to ensure that you do not forget anything. This book gives you an exposure of our rich culture and symbolisms. You will do the ceremonies with understanding and enjoy your wedding day more. This book makes the understanding of Hindu Weddings easy and logical.
Download or read book Magic in Arranged Marriage written by Dr.Mahabala Shetty and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready, willing and eligible girl and boys parents arrange for an initial meeting. Both the boy and the girl are free to make decisions based on their own personal likes and dislikes. Since there is no dating or courtship involved, decisions are business-like and, hence, there are no emotional feelings that come in the way of tough decisions. It is completely decentralized and fits the 21st century business model.
Download or read book Lucky in Love written by Eleni N. Gage and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every engaged couple wants two things: a meaningful wedding and a lifetime of happiness. This great gift book is a cross-cultural collection of marriage folklore that will help you achieve both. Create your own lucky traditions with nods to each other’s heritage, customs from places you’ve visited together, and auspicious rituals that just feel special. Whether you are just engaged or you’re days away from tying the knot, you’ll gain insight every step of the way. With this book as your guide, you can make your own luck in love.
Download or read book Sona and the Wedding Game written by Kashmira Sheth and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the magic of an Indian wedding in story about a girl playing a fun, traditional game on her sister’s wedding day. Sona's big sister Nisha is getting married and Sona has been given an important job. She has to steal the groom's shoes. Her grandmother tells her that this tradition is intended to help the bride's and groom's families get to know each other. If Sona is successful, Anil-ji will have to bargain with her to get his shoes back and she can ask for a special reward. Sona has never attended a wedding before, so she's unfamiliar with this Indian tradition-as well as many of the other magical experiences that will occur before and during the special event. There's so much to do: making garlands and rangoli designs to decorate their home, welcoming relatives from India, and helping Nisha-ben get ready. And there are so many exciting things happening: an artist draws patterns on the hands of the girls and women at a mehndi party, Dadima fancy braids Sona’s hair—and the groom arrives on a white horse! Still, Sona can't stop worrying about how she will steal Anil-ji's shoes. Fortunately her know-it-all cousin Vishal, who has arrived from India, is available to help Sona come up with a plan. In an author's note, Kashmira Sheth describes her childhood experiences attending weddings in India (she never got to steal the shoes!) and explains the significance of the Hindu customs and rituals described in the story.
Download or read book Beauty Within Weddings written by Bhupinder Kumar Pall and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Within Weddings is Fabulous Signature Indian Weddings description. A dream book filled with beauty of inherited culture, traditions, customs, fun and frolic. About 30,000 weddings taking place per day, on average, in India 900,000 weddings a month are celebrated, more than 10 million per year. The annual cost of Indian wedding is 25 Billion USD business annually. Indian weddings are vibrant, intricately planned, culture-rich festivities full of celebration and traditionally oriented. While the very essence of a Indian wedding ceremony is the physical, spiritual, and emotional union of two people; it's also about the coming together of two families through wedding religious rituals and celebration. The host of a culture that has been prevalent for a long time, India is perhaps one of the most diverse countries in the world. From the attire worn by the people belonging to different communities to the languages spoken and even in the food habits, the country both reflects its amazing diversity and varied heritage. In this this book both authors Bhupinder and Joshua explore regional weddings of India, their rich blended cultural heritage, traditions and series of wedding rituals. Bhupinder is firebrand weddings planner, organizer. He has to his credit several of weddings successfully organized in India and abroad.
Download or read book The Big Indian Wedding written by Sakshi Salve and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Haldi to Honeymoon A Journey through Indian Wedding Traditions written by Ranjot Singh Chahal and published by Rana Books Uk . This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey through the kaleidoscope of Indian wedding traditions with "From Haldi to Honeymoon." This comprehensive guide offers an immersive exploration of the rich tapestry that weaves together the diverse rituals and customs embedded in the fabric of Indian matrimonial celebrations. Delve into the heart of cultural significance as you unravel the pages, beginning with the pre-wedding rituals like the vibrant Haldi ceremony and moving through the sacred vows of the wedding ceremony steeped in Vedic traditions. Traverse the labyrinth of post-wedding customs, savor the opulence of attire and jewelry, and get lost in the enchanting cadence of music, dance, and decor that characterize Indian nuptials. Discover the symphony of flavors in the extensive chapter dedicated to the culinary delights of Indian weddings, from traditional feasts to modern culinary innovations. Immerse yourself in the intricacies of wedding invitations and stationery, and gain valuable insights into managing finances and budgeting for the grand celebration. As the narrative unfolds, witness the evolution of Indian weddings through Chapter 10, exploring modern trends and innovations that are reshaping the landscape of the wedding industry. Navigate the delicate nuances of cultural sensitivities and overcome challenges with grace in Chapter 11. "From Haldi to Honeymoon" is not just a book; it's an odyssey, a visual and intellectual feast that captures the essence of Indian weddings in all their splendor. Whether you're a bride-to-be, a cultural enthusiast, or simply a lover of vibrant traditions, this book promises to be your ultimate guide, offering a panoramic view of the sacred and celebratory moments that define the journey from Haldi to Honeymoon.
Download or read book The Magic in You written by Deepa Rajani and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awaken Your Soul ARE YOU A MONEY MAGNET? HOW DO YOU REACT TO ADVERSITIES? DO YOU FEEL SOME PEOPLE ARE LUCKIER THAN YOU? Some of us believe that our fates are written in our stars—predestined and unchangeable. But it is possible to take charge of our own lives. For years, experts have been talking about the power of the human mind—helping us realize the boundless energy that lies untapped, until we set it free. You only have to believe! This book will not have all the answers to your problems, nor is it a guide to lead you to some “promised land”. But it will awaken the unlimited power within you, a resource you can access anytime. With this power, you can shape your future. Within these pages you will learn to craft your own success story with the help of anecdotes from the author’s own life and those around her, and also to navigate difficult situations with ease. This is a book to remind you of something very important: The Magic in You! DEEPA RAJANI is a mother to two lovely daughters and an entrepreneur. A few roller-coaster life challenges compelled her to journey inwards, leading her to discover books, mentors and alternative healing. This journey also triggered her to pen her first book, The Magic in You.
Download or read book The Shaadi Story written by Amita Sahaya and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Indian Wedding Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bedtrick written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Download or read book Matrimania written by Gita Aravamudan and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All that is great about a country and all that is wrong with it can be summarised by a single wedding, says Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram (*1977) and member of Agence VU'. In his documentary work, he mostly studies the complex societal system of his home country. Working as a wedding photographer, he had privileged access to a cross-section of celebrations of the Indian upper- and middle-class society. Young adults assume the role of princes and princesses in a Bollywood-like fantasy often choreographed by their parents. On the periphery, a multitude of workers entertain crowds, cater to thousands of guests, and keep the show going on for days. Using images culled from over 150 weddings and created in the course of six years, the photo series Matrimania constructs a fictional narrative--an alternative wedding album--that depicts one long wedding night in India. Matrimania is a personal take on 21st century India's contradictions seen through the prism of its wedding culture.
Download or read book India s Middle Class written by Christiane Brosius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new millennium. It reveals an original theory on cosmopolitan Indianness and urbanisation in the age of globalisation.
Download or read book Post Colonial Trinidad written by C. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad s independence (1964), and provide first-hand evidence for the workings of a complex, plural society in which race, religion, and politics had become, and have remained, deeply intertwined. Entries occur whenever there is evidence of social scientific importance to the project, and these range from descriptions of weddings and pujas (prayer ceremonies devoted to a Hindu deity) to interviews with religious leaders, politicians and members of the south Trinidad elite.
Download or read book Love s Rite written by R. Vanita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades. Ruth Vanita examines these cases in the context of a wide variety of same-sex unions, from Fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together, to Nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women, to marriages between gay men and lesbians arranged over the internet. Examining the changing legal, literary, religious and social Indian and Euro-American traditions within which same-sex unions are embedded, she brings a fresh perspective to the gay marriage debate, suggesting that same-sex marriage dwells not at the margins but at the heart of culture. Love's Rites by Ruth Vanita is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
