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‘Sri Krishna, I am being put through an ordeal, the foolish
Acts of your cousins are burning me up, save from these
wicked ones
Who are stripping me of the cloth I am clad in!
You alone can save me,
the saviour of the helpless; If I lose my honour, can
I stay alive?’
She vowed to never tie her hair till the day the Pandavas avenged the humiliation she had been subjected to by the Kauravas. That her hair would be left untamed and wild till the day ...
This book relates to reservational justice to be ensured to the backward classes of the society and clinches various issues relating to reservational justice to the OBCs-as the creamy layer formula and other issues in Mandal case lay down for the benefit of deprived section of the society and to bring them back on the track as early as possible. Since reservation for OBCs in the Central Government Services had not been before March 1993 and it had been only for ...
Dr M. Veerappa Moily’s Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam is a highly laudable work which, though rooted in the contemporary Indian context, addresses universal concerns and presents a unique vision of past, present and future all clubbed into one. The title literally signifying quest and examination, the book rightly explores the Ramatattwa or the true principles of the Rama-story, from a secularist modernist perspective. Moily has introduced several new ...
The Edge of Time, translated from M. Veerappa Moily's acclaimed Kannada Novel Tembare, examines a complex cultural practice of coastal Karnataka, called Bhutaradhane, or the worship of hero-spirits. The Pambada community, a marginalised Dalit community, has, as its hereditary profession, spirit impersonation during elaborate rituals. The novelist explores two responses to this traditional and exploitative profession through two Pambada brothers: one who rebels ...