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Bollywood Themes is a celebration of commercial Hindi cinema across the years. It explores the recurring themes and popular characters in Hindi films and offers a fascinating overview of the evolution of commercial cinema in India. Entertaining, insightful and sprinkled with anecdotes and trivia from the glitzy world of films, the book is a trip down Bollywood Boulevard. Embellished with rare photographs and visually stunning design, Bollywood Themes is a rich ...
“You knew shah Jahan, life and youth, wealth and glory, they all drift away in the current of time. You strove, therefore, to perpetuate only the sorrow of your heart… Let the splendour of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish life the magic shimmer of the rainbow. Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time forever and ever.â€-Rabindranath Tagore.
Enchanting Rajasthan, land of the proud Rajput warriors and extravagantly colourful lively people has been a favourite destination for travellers to India. The stories of honour, valour and chivalry, the magnificent pageantry of Maharajas, splendidly chiselled temples and the grandeur and opulence of the palaces has attracted visitors from all over the world. Its fairs and festivals are a riot of colour and its scintillating music and dance dazzle the onlooker. ...
The Ajanta caves, with their compelling architecture, their outstanding high-reliefs and sculptures, the remarkable richness and variety of the canopies and profusion of the shafts of their carved columns, are universally admired for the beauty of their paintings. These paintings, which decorate the walls, the columns, the door frames, the ceilings, illustrate, in a very detailed and precise fashion, about thirty avadana, or jataka extracted from the vast body ...
Indian Miniature Painting: Manifestation of a creative Mind comes out with a new perception of Indian miniature art. The book examines not merely its body but also its inherent soul, underlying unity, ethos it represents and factors that shaped it across the period from the seventh century onwards. Here reveals a totally different approach-aesthetic as well as formal, and in both cases bold, investigating and analytical. The significance of the ...
In the Royal Kitchens of Rajasthan, as well as other states, food was very serious business and raised to the level of an art form. Located in the Palaces, were the Rasowaras, or Kitchen Departments, that took care of the daily needs of the Palace and had some of the best cooks working to prepare exotic dishes for the Maharajas, Maharanis and their guests. There were cooks for different meals and occasions; there were cooks who specialised in making traditional ...
Hinduism's faces are several: to some it is a philosophy of life; others associate it with the Vedas, sacrifices and worship of icons; yet others acknowledge Bhagawan as the supreme lord of all beings. In India itself over 700 million people are Hindus: orthodox, reformist, philosophically inclined or a combination of all. Hinduism, as a religion, has evolved continuously since 2500 BC. Hindu India unfolds the complexities of Hinduism with the starting point that ...
This work is primarily a portfolio of bird pictures, selected from the works of a dedicated photo-naturalist and is accompanied with light and eminently readable narrative. Almost all existing books on Indian birds are either bulky ornithological treatises or small handbooks with descriptions and notes which rely heavily on line drawings or color sketches for illustrations. There are only a couple of recent books that have been illustrated with photographs, but ...
In the vast and mystic land of India, God is not folded away in a shrine or in a corner. Walk on the streets and one of the most startling observations is the presence of a deity in all facets of life. Little kids dot the traffic signals; scurrying with vessels, out of which the Lord Shani (Personification of the Planet Saturn) tucks out his little head to collect money in exchange for his blessings. The truck ahead of your vehicle has a black shoe hanging behind ...