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It would be an error to call is a scientific or an artistic study. It is something deeper that has value of both these approaches. Mr. Nirmal Kumar has emerged as one of the greatest modern thinkers
Hitherto psychiatrists have been searching for the sources of the Indian maladies in European myths and legends. Nirmal Kumar has done a tremendous job by tracing their sources single-handedly to the experience of the Indian race.
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Nirmal Kumar draws ...
The wise say truth is the most common thing available. It is all around us. Yet truth is called a rare thing, since we see it and do not receive it. It is so mixed with worldly noise that we cannot separate and contain it exclusively. It comes and goes with the changing din of daily chore. It is only when the faculties of the heart and the mind and their powers-intuitions, thoughts, emotions and visions-get strung properly, like the players and the musical ...
The volume examines the Delhi of the medieval period of history and poses questions to understand its significance at various times. The essays cover Delhi as the Chishti Sufi centre, Delhi as viewed by medieval historians of the region in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries, and the architectural wealth of the place such as the Lodi-era funerary architecture and the capital city Shahjahanabad. They view numerous cultural, religious and social associations with ...
These are interesting times in the history of Indian cinema, particularly because the established aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry are being challenged, as are the boundaries between what is alternative and what is mainstream. This book is an attempt to contextualize the upsurge in this form of cinema in Bollywood/Hindi film industry.
It also aims to promote an academic enquiry into the works of these filmmakers, their ...
This is a powerful novel that tells the tale of the Tibetan people's fight for freedom. The non-violent Tibetans rise up against the Chinese army which invaded their country in 1959, even if they lack sophisticated weapons and training. The triumph of the human spirit is portrayed through the adventures of Siva -- the hero of this novel, who dares to face every challenge life throws at him. Siva absolves his fellow men from the narrow ties of nation, ...