Manoj Das
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Yoga goes back to the dawn of human consciousness, to the first awakening of humanity's earliest aspiration for God, Light, Freedom, Bliss and Immortality. Despite vicissitudes of time this quest of man had resurfaced again and again-and this 'earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last,' says Sri Aurobindo. Great disciplines of Yoga such as Jnana, Karma and Bhakti apart, numerous schools bearing the name developed in India over the centuries, ...
BOOK I: Legends and Parables of India-The Golden Deer and other tales from the Jatakas. BOOK II: Legends and Parables of India-The Magic Tree. BOOK III: Legends and Parables of India-Equal to a thousand and other tales. BOOK IV: Legends and Parables of India-A Strange Prophecy and other tales. India is a land of stories, rich in legends, parables and myths. Chandamama has enriched many generations of young minds with these stories. Saraswati Samman and Sahitya ...
Tales told by mystics: A significant branch of India’s vast literary heritage consists of tales told by mystics through the ages, different from myths and legends. Though taken for granted as a part of our folklore and rarely discussed, their influence on the minds of generations of common people has been only next to that of the epics. Sometimes they hit the nail on the head, sometimes they shock and sometimes they make one laugh at oneself, but they ...
This collection of memoirs recounts the author's childhood experiences in the quiet and supine India of villages. The Indian village in the first half of the last century was not a fairy tale world, as numerous accounts of human misery set against its backdrop have testified over the years, but it was still a world where a child could run across a green meadow studded with palm trees, dreaming of catching the end of a huge rainbow spanning the sky. Set in ...
This volume features the work of four major writers of the short story in Oriya--Fakirmohan Senapati, Gopinath Mohanty, Kishori Charan Das and Manoj Das. The selected stories, some well known, some less so, indicate the vitality and strength of this vastly popular literary form in its hundred years of development in Orissa. They also introduce the reader to the variety within the writing of individual authors and to their particular styles and concerns.
This collection of 10 illustrated short stories are culled from the folklore of India, written and oral, except 'The Bewildered Giant' which is an original creation of the author.
BOOK I: New fiction for the young-The Fourth Friend. India is land of stories, rich in legends, parables and myths. Chandamama has enriched many generations of young minds with these stories. Saraswati Samman and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Manoj Das is one of their finest contributors. This book warmly invites you to the little world of the four friends and become the fifth member of their company. The illustrations are by renowned artist Sisir Datta. The ...
Translated from the Oriya original 'Akashara Isara' by the author, the overall theme of this novel is: Chance is the pseudonym of God which He uses when He does not wish to put down His signature. When a person's inner being is ready for mystic experiences can even farcical external situations present themselves as opportuni6ies? The Sky - always an inspiration for Padmalochan - comes to his aid both in the beginning and end of the book with astonishing results. ...