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Carnatic music has survived contrary to all the gloom and doom that was predicted. New artistes are added, new labels released and new sabhas are born every year. If Carnatic music is still heard all over the world and makes an emphatic and grand statement of survival each year during the annual December season, it is because of a few great artistes who bore the art form aloft amidst crisis and threats. A colourful lot, much has been written about their art and ...
Director K. Subrahmanyam", as he was always known, was a lawyer turned pioneer of South Indian Cinema, a staunch Congressmen of the Gandhian vintage, a freedom fighter who risked his investment in films by advocating the cause of freedom in his films, a social activist who developed leftist learnings after independence, a "Star maker" and much more. His most renowned Tamil film Thyagabhoomi (1939) has the distinction of being the only Indian film ...
Bangalore was the name of a torpedo used for `clearing the beaches during the D-Day landings,' says www.firstworldwar.com. "Designed by Captain McClintock (of the British Army Bengal, Bombay and Madras Sappers and Miners) in 1912, so-called Bangalore Torpedoes were used as a means of exploding booby traps and barricades left over from the Boer and Russo-Japanese Wars." As a neologism, `to be Bangalored' means, to suffer "a layoff, often systemic, ...
What do you know about Carnatic music? South India's dance styles? Handloom weavers of Andhra Pradesh? The Madras Sanskrit College? The art of Ivory carving? Temple murals? Who was Ramanuja? How have Christians contributed to art, literature and architecture in South India? What's notable about Gangaikondacholapuram, Belur, or Islamic places of worship? What do we know irrigation practices in Ancient South India? The evolution of Malayalam ...
The term 'Devadasi' evokes a mystical past, replete with devotion and dedication of girls to deities, refrains of soaring music and sensuous dances that attracted the patronage of kings and commoners. The preservation and transmission of the arts largely rested with the Devadasis and they had a strong presence in South India, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though the intellectual elite, the wealthy and the famous, encouraged and ...
Indian cuisine is not only tasty but also nutritionally balanced. Explaining this in a simple and comprehensive manner is this book on everyday food. With India coming of age gastronomically, health concerns are as much a priority as fine food. 'India Food Sense', designed to appeal to the heath-conscious gourmet, bringing together the nutritional expertise and culinary abilities of Ruth N Davidar, who firmly believes that sound nutrition is not about ...
This is an 'insider' view, direct from Jesus' time, deep in feeling tones and profound in implications, giving a sense of how things truly were. This book also recounts how two clients of the author had, in previous lives, met Jesus during his mission in Palestine. The contents are deeply moving, giving a palpable taste of Jesus, presence and influence as well as vivid accounts of his activities, travels, healings and personal conversations. This is material you ...
This handbook of household hints is a collection of useful tips compiled from various sources for better home management. The tips are simple, practical and more important, inexpensive, as the requirements are easily available at home. These ready-to-use hints have been put to practical use by the author herself. Covering every aspect of housekeeping, they will save cooking time, preserve the original flavors of the food, keep your home spic and span and your ...
Preface. Illustrations. 1. What's in a name? 2. Day's 'no-man's-sand'. 3. To metropolitan limits. 4. The fort where it all began. 5. The mall to the mount. 6. The Thoman tradition. 7. The road south. 8. A tale of two islands. 9. Magnificent Marina. 10. The town of Thomas. 11. Of peacocks and lilies. 12. The retreats of theosophy. 13. Where the deer and the black buck play. 14. Bhavans of the Raj. 15. The road north. 16. The city within. 17. The road to ...
Over twelve thousand foreigners (that is, more than half the expatriate population in the country) now live in Bangalore. They hail from diverse backgrounds, practise various professions, and in this global city, which still retains traces of its small-town ethos, they are discovering previously unimaginable possibilities.So what exactly do they seek in Bangalore and do they find it there? On what levels do they interact with the local people? And, how ...
M S Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. He received his B Sc degree in Biology from Travancore University, Trivandrum; B Sc in Agriculture from Madras University, and PhD in Agriculture from University of Cambridge. He has had a distinguished research, teaching, and administrative career at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI); Director General of Indian Council of Agricultural research (ICAR); Secretary of Agriculture, Government ...