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Over twenty years in the writing, this unique book fills a long-felt gap in literature on India. An impressionistic and lyrical account of journeys, it offers fresh insights on the well-trodden paths, but is also about little-known treasures that are still of easy access. Descriptions of exquisite temples will inspire and pulsating crowds will excite; vast mountain ranges will vie for attention with anonymous beaches and atolls of extraordinary beauty. The ...
There are impossible tales told by intrepid travellers; then there are ordinary travellers who find themselves in extraordinary places, meet people who make their journeys remarkable, and encourage others to embark on such possible journeys. From an impromptu late evening party at 10000 feet in Nepal, to dining with prostitutes in a Rangoon restaurant; from a star-studded night on a beach in the Andaman Islands to an avalanche strewn path in North Sikkim, author ...
Kidar Sharma was born in village Narowal, Punjab in the first decade of the last century. He had always been attracted to the world of entertainment, giving his first performance as a harmonium player in 1915. While graduating he wrote and performed in Punjabi stage plays and completed his maters in English. He started his career in 1932 when he joined new theatres in Calcutta as a backdrop screen painter and poster painter for B.N. Sarcar. He has been called a ...
Oona Mountain Wind is an intense account by a mother who faces a double tragedy. It is a journey through memory of thirty-three years of her daughter Oona's life and three and a half of Ilya's, Oona's daughter, as Jasjit Mansingh struggles to find meaning in the fact of young lives, so obviously good, snuffed out arbitrarily. Is there a God, and what kind of God is it who allows such things to happen? Is the only reality the tangible one of flesh and blood, of ...
Emotionally scarred very early in life, Raju, an eighteen year old, has retreated into a world of silence. His wings are almost destroyed when he meets Prabhu, the protagonist. To shield Raju from more pain and hurt, Prabhu goe out on an emotional limb but with every passing moment the realization grows on Prabhu that Raju’s world of silence is much more superior to the chaotic up in a spectrum of emotions as he falls in love for the first time. Who is the ...
Partition has by and large come to mean the vivisection of Punjab as well as the holocaust accompanying it. Bengal suffers from a relative neglect, although of late some studies have focused on the trauma that Bengal underwent during and after 1947. This book portrays the hardships experienced by women in the aftermath of the Bengal Partition and how they were able to emerge as a distinct category of refugee women in due course. Their struggles for shelter, food ...
According to Joseph Campbell (The Mask of God, Occidental Mythology, ‘The Unity of the race of man, not only its biology but also in its spiritual history… has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony.’ Nowhere is this more evident than in Hindu civilization and the stories of its gods and goddesses. Both gods and devils have been presumed as supernatural forces either divine or demonic. In ancient times man regarded natural forces as those ...
Like alternate worlds in science fiction, two distinct Tibets co-exist these days. One flourishes in the light of celebrity patronage, museum openings, academic opportunities, pop spirituality and New Age fashions. This is the Tibet that has captured the romantic fantasy of the West and which has drawn much of the interest that the Tibet issue receives at the moment. Here, the problems of Tibet: the nation of the Tibetans, is nowhere as relevant or important as ...
An anthology of particular interest to academic philosophers and students of philosophy. Krishnamurti's thought is quite removed from academic philosophy, particularly in the analytic tradition. There is a simple reason why this should be so: Krishnamurti was not interested in presenting theories; and theories are what academic philosophy is all about. Is it possible to live without relying psychologically on authority - either on external authority or even on ...
Meditation is not opposed to activity; it is not opposed to thought, but on the contrary, becomes nourishment for our thinking and our activities. Activity and meditation infuse energy into one another and create a wholeness of experience. Ultimately meditation is a state of total love for everything in the universe. It is an experience of the continuous explosion of energies within one’s self, and that energy streams forth in all your activities. This is how ...
Sangeetha Menon presents an elaborate analysis of the transpersonal psychology of consciousness based on the bedrock of the experiential philosophy in Bhagavad-Gita. The challenges and puzzles faced in consciousness studies are discussed. The discussion of consciousness with a focus on materiality, karma, happiness and freedom give a new twist to the much fascinating problem of the subjective nature of consciousness. A must reading for students and scholars ...
Swami Bodhanand says that freedom is that ability to make use of your environment, whatever it may be, to explore your potential and to express that Infinite Potential while interacting with the world. This is the meaning of moksha father than something to be achieved in an after-life or in some future life-time. By following the seven spiritual laws he outlines, he says we can remain cool amidst the most strenuous pursuits and daily activities which generally ...
Swami Bodhananda is a renowned Vedanta seer and scholar, who has been teaching Vedanta, meditation, and Indian theories of management in the context of contemporary developments, for the last twenty-five years. He is a charismatic public speaker, classroom teacher as well as a private counselor. He is the guiding inspiration behind the various centres of Sambodh foundation, Sambodh Seva Trust, Bodhananda Seva Society, Bodhananda Research Foundation for ...
This book lays no claim to being an objective academic treatise. It is an advocacy piece, scrupulous regarding facts, but not too concerned about giving equal time or space to China's point of view, which, in any case, has become so unrelentingly pervasive as to be quite overwhelming. Regarding the question of objectivity itself, especially as it surfaces in most (especially academic) discussions on China, the book defers to the greater wisdom of Lu Xun, china's ...
Swami Bodhananda interprets the Indian philosophy, religion and culture for modern day managers so that they may attain excellence in whatever work they are engaged. There is an imperative need for corporate as well as public managers to produce and deliver quality and cost-effective products and services benefiting consumers and the common man. This calls for good management which is only possible if rooted in India’s own value system. The modern-day manager ...
This book provides an inspiring and masterly review of various facets of Radhakrishnan's personality. Hence, compulsively readable, well informed and up-to-date.Marx has said, "Many have interpreted the world but the question is how to change the world." The question, indeed, is revolutionary in itself. Since then intellectuals all over the world have been trying to find a way to change the world. Dr. Radhakrishnan is one of those giant geniuses who has ...