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This comic book in large format and beautifully illustrated in color on art paper recounts several stories from Madh Pradesh, now known as Rajasthan. In this volume we invite you to walk with us on the golden sands of Madh Pradesh. Experience the vast beauty and the relentless ferocity of the desert and hear its plaintive songs and sounds wafting through the blue-black night. The stories in this volume share the heart aches of the immortal love stories of Madh ...
This volume includes the articles presented on the occasion of the National Conference on Ancient Sciences and Archaeology held from March 27th to 28th, 2006 at Sri Parasakthi College for Women, Courtallam. Scholars from different parts of the country took part in the academic deliberations and present papers on various topics of ancient Sciences and Archaeology. It was aimed at the interactions of the scholars on different issues and the recent researches done ...
This comic book in large format beautifully illustrated in color on art paper presents the fascinating, dramatic, piteous and hilarious world of myths, legends and folk tales and enables us to see how intelligence confronts power, compassion confronts wealth and women subvert a patriarchal world. In this volume, we travel with the bongas into the world of the Santhals, one of the largest tribal communities of India. Circle the earth with Hans and Hansil and see ...
This comic book in large format beautifully illustrated in color on art paper brings to the reader most popular legends, myths and folktales of the region - fishermen and dalits who struggle to worship their favorite Goddess Bishalakshmi, Manik Pir who could cure all manner of diseases. In this volume we invite you to enter the verdant world of the Sunderbans in lower Bengal, wade through its mangrove swamps, meet its famous tigers and some of its heroes and ...
This volume contains an interesting mix of folk tales, myths and legends, some of which could be considered a blend of both history and folk legend. Stories of Dokka Sitamma, Alluri Sita Ram Raju and Bhadrachalam Ramadasu are a few such. The River Godavari in Andhra Pradesh is the beautiful, serenely blue background of this collection of fascinating stories. Most of them originates in the fertile plains east of the river, but can we stop stories from flowing down ...
Once people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen and musicians, masons and poets, painters and dancers simply did not know how to make an ugly thing; they could not close their hearts to the light of heaven. For them, countless numbers of them, beauty was as necessary as the air they breathed. It gave dignity and meaning to drab ...
This is a book about simplicity-not destitution, not parsimoniousness, not self-denial=but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. It is a book about the advantages of living a less cluttered, stressful life than that which many of us are now living in the overcrowded an manic-paced consuming nations. It is a book that has nothing to do with subsistence living on the Lake Isle of Innisfree, but everything to do ...
This book seeks to show how our capitalist system is dependent on the promotion of the three Buddhist principles - 'Poisons' of Greed, Hatred and Ignorance: Greed for profit at any cost ; Hatred of foreign obstacles to profit ; and Ignorance of the link between Western corporations and Third World dictators.In this first book Free to be Human. David Edwards showed how powerful state and business interests distort our understanding of many political, ethical and ...
This is a book about freedom, and above all, about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been fully attained. While in the West few individuals today suffer physical restraint by the state, we are still constrained by powerful psychological chains, which are in many ways far more effective.Free to be Human shows how the same filter system distorts our understanding of many personal, ethical and ...
Once upon a time in northern India, there lived a violent and fearsome outcaste called Angulimala (necklace of fingers). He terrorized towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace.The Buddha set out to meet Angulimala, and with the power of love and compassion he persuaded him to renounce violence and take responsibility for his past actions. Thus Angulimala was transformed. ...
This committed and critical collection of writings by women and men spanning three generations from the South and the North, presents the first in-one-place analysis of the World Social Forum. From political ideologies, social movements and processes of the old to present-day-reality, the views expressed in this volume converge on the significance of the World Social Forum. On the eve of the fourth World Social Forum, The Word Social Forum: Challenging Empires ...