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Book Synopsis A Shrine for Sarasamma by : Kota Shivarama Karanth
Download or read book A Shrine for Sarasamma written by Kota Shivarama Karanth and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shrine for Sarasamma is the English translation of Sarasammana Samadhi written by K Shivarama Karanth in 1937, in his early thirties. It offers one of the most authentic and searing accounts of Indian womanhood, which consistently, and through the ages, has suffered deep anguish, humiliation and crushing insult from the oppressive patriarchal culture prevalent in all parts of India and among all castes and classes. The novel is a classic in Kannada and the English translation is an attempt to bring to the English reading audience a taste of the regional classic.
Book Synopsis Nala Charitre - The Legend of Nala (A Short Epic) by : Saint-Poet Kanakadasa
Download or read book Nala Charitre - The Legend of Nala (A Short Epic) written by Saint-Poet Kanakadasa and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the mythological narrative of Nala-Damayanti as an epic poem in English. Among the luminaries of sixteenth century Bhakti tradition, Kanakadasa’s literary and musical compositions (kirtanes) are imbued with philosophical meanings, which show immense formative influence on the cultural and literary scene of Karnataka. Also, Kanakadasa’s literary works such as Mohana Tarangini, Haribhaktisara, and the eminent allegorical masterpiece Ramadhanya Charitre incorporate metaphors taken from everyday life, which fascinate the commoners and offers them respite from mundane life-struggles. While such metaphorical expressions represent a remarkable trend in Bhakti poetry, in Kanakadasa’s depiction of Nala and Damayanti’s misfortunes, the toilsome life of common men and women stares forth. Hauled out of their palatial leisurely living, a curious turn of events compels them to survive amidst endless suffering. On one hand Nala Charitre is a poignant story of love, and on the other, it thematizes human existence, humandivine relationship and simplifies poetry to reach the audience beyond the limited circle of literates. As the Bhakti Literature assimilates the vernacular into devotional poetry, Kanakadasa’s epic poem interweaves mythological themes from Mahabharata with struggles of medieval Indian society, thus overcoming the binaries of human and divine.
Book Synopsis The Shrine ; and Choma's Drum by : Śivarāma Kāranta
Download or read book The Shrine ; and Choma's Drum written by Śivarāma Kāranta and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Creativity and Environment by : Vidyānivāsa Miśra
Download or read book Creativity and Environment written by Vidyānivāsa Miśra and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air, Water, Soil Plants And Animal Life Of Different Forms Around Us - All In Their TotalityýConstitute The Environment. This Environment Affects Creativity And, In The Process, Is Also Affected By It And Hence Every Artist Is Concerned With How To Interact With His Or Her Environment Natural, Cultural And Socio-Political. The Sahitya Akademi Therefore Considered It Appropriate To Organise A Seminar On ýCreativity And Environmentý At New Delhi In February 1985. The Papers Presented Were Ably Edited By Prof. Vidya Niwas Misra And The Akademi Is Happy To Offer This Invaluable Volume For Benefit Of Both Scholars And Laymen, Charmed And Fascinated By The Phenomenon Of Creativity And Environment.
Book Synopsis Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India by : Kelly Pemberton
Download or read book Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India written by Kelly Pemberton and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful field research into the complexity of women's roles in a subset of Islamic culture. Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. Kelly Pemberton grounds her firsthand research into India's Sufi shrines and saints by setting her observations against the historical backdrop of colonial-era discourses by British civil servants, Orientalist scholars, and Muslim reformists and the assumptive portrayals of women's activities in the milieu of Sufi orders and shrines inherent in these accounts. These early narratives, Pemberton holds, are driven by social, economic, intellectual, and political undercurrents of self-interest that shaped Western understanding of Indian Muslims and, in particular, of women's participation in the institutions of Sufism. Pemberton's research offers a corrective by assessing the contemporary circumstances under which a woman may be recognized as a spiritual authority or guide—despite official denial of such status—and by examining the discrepancies between the commonly held belief that women cannot perform in the public setting of shrines and her own observations of women doing precisely that. She demonstrates that the existence of multiple models of master and disciple relationships have opened avenues for women to be recognized as spiritual authorities in their own right. Specifically Pemberton explores the work of performance, recitation, and ritual mediation carried out by women connected with Sufi orders through kinship and spiritual ties, and she maps shifting ideas about women's involvement in public ritual events in a variety of contexts, circumstances, and genres of performance. She also highlights the private petitioning of saints, the Prophet, and God performed by poor women of low social standing in Bihar Sharif. These women are often perceived as being exceptionally close to God yet are compelled to operate outside the public sphere of major shrines. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Pemberton sets observed practices of lived religious experiences against the boundaries established by prescriptive behavioral models of Islam to illustrate how the varied reasons given for why women cannot become spiritual masters conflict with the need in Sufi circles for them to do exactly that. Thus this work also invites further inquiry into the ambiguities to be found in Islam's foundational framework for belief and practice.
Book Synopsis Beyond Postcolonialism by : Jasbir Jain
Download or read book Beyond Postcolonialism written by Jasbir Jain and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on post-1950 Indic fiction.
Book Synopsis Social Mobility In Kerala by : Filippo Osella
Download or read book Social Mobility In Kerala written by Filippo Osella and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the processes involved, the ideologies that support or thwart it, and what happens to the people involved. They focus on the caste called Izhavas, a group that in the mid-19th century consisted of a small land-owning and titled elite and a large mass of landless and small tenants who were largely illiterate and considered untouchable, and who eked out a living by manual labor and petty trade. In the 20th century, Izhavas pursued mobility in many social arenas, both as a newly united caste and as families. The work considers how successful the mobility has been and looks at the effects on their society of an ethos of progress. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Native Life in Travancore by : Samuel Mateer
Download or read book Native Life in Travancore written by Samuel Mateer and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mulla on the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 by : Ramesh K. Abichandani
Download or read book Mulla on the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 written by Ramesh K. Abichandani and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vermillion Clouds by : Radha Chakravarty
Download or read book Vermillion Clouds written by Radha Chakravarty and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Akka written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suragi written by U. R. Ananthamurthy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014), author of Samskara and such other contemporary Indian classics, wrote in Kannada. Born in the heart of the Western Ghats, he grew up in an atmosphere steeped in Vedic thought. Suragi is his autobiographical work where he recounts how he grappled with questions of religion and secularism, orthodoxy and modernity, authoritarianism, and democracy. Drawing from Indian thought, he developed the concept of the critical insider, arguing that criticism of a culture becomes genuine and worthy of acceptance when it comes from one living within it. His evocative writing portrayed relationships shaped by the flux of contemporary India. He won the highest literary honours in India, including the Jnanpith, and was shortlisted for the Booker prize. He headed the National Book Trust and Sahitya Akademi, and served as vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Travelling across the world, Ananthamurthy served as a cultural ambassador who represented India through its ideas and metaphors. He did not shy away from unpopular stands, and remained a daring writer and provocateur till the very end. Suragi tells the story of his life. 'Suragi' is the flower that leaves behind a sweet fragrance long after its freshness is no more.
Download or read book Master of Arts written by Tulsi Badrinath and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.P. Dhananjayan was one of the first men to make a successful career as a Bharata Natyam dancer. In the late sixties, when he made this choice, Bharata Natyam – the classic dance form that Rukmini Devi helped evolve from the dance of the devadasis – was almost exclusively the domain of women. In making Bharata Natyam his profession, Dhananjayan had to create a space for his dance where none existed. It is only recently, in the relatively short span of the past seventy years, and to a great extent because of the creative efforts of versatile and innovative dancers like Dhananjayan, that greater number of men have performed Bharata Natyam as men, without needing to dress as women to appear on stage. As Dhananjayan’s student for nearly forty years now, and a trained dancer herself, the author, Tulsi Badrinath, chronicles the story of his brilliant life in dance with the insight of one who understands each nuance of it. Weaving her own life-long passion for Bharata Natyam with his remarkable story, she brings to light the difficulties faced by a male dancer in establishing himself in what was thought to be a somewhat unrespectable profession, and tells the compelling story of his life with empathy and understanding. Writing of his years in Kalakshetra and his departure from it; of the deep love that blossomed between him and his wife, Shanta, and the incredible dance partnership they forged, making them famous as The Dhananjayans; of his international collaborations with Ravi Shankar; and of his ability, as guru and teacher, to impart his passion for dance to his disciples, she explores her own understanding of what the dance, and her guru, have meant to her. Interspersing this remarkable tale of guru and shishya with the stories of other young male dancers in the realm of Bharata Natyam, she pays tribute to their extraordinary commitment, their talent and their courage.
Download or read book Kusumabale written by Dēvanūra Mahādēva and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight- when stone and water melt- at the village entrance, the guardian-lamp spirits meet, they talk, exchange notes, share joys, share sorrows. Devanoora Mahadeva leads us to a world of spirits ruled by a strong sense of justice. As we listen in, their conversation introduces four generations of a family: Akkamahadevamma; her son Yaada; his son Somappa; and the main protagonist, Somappa's daughter, Kusuma. In this intricately woven cosmos, death casts its shadow. Following the different voices around, we come face to face with the harsh realities of Dalit life. Steered by the nuances of folk tale and oral tradition, this extraordinary account of feudal oppression presents a rare blend of poetry and prose. A modern classic, when it first appeared in 1988, Kusumabale marked a turning point in modern Kannada literature.
Download or read book Gandhi On Women written by Pushpa Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ten Faces of a Crazy Mind by : Śivarāma Kāranta
Download or read book Ten Faces of a Crazy Mind written by Śivarāma Kāranta and published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Chowkhamba. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By a Kannada author.
Book Synopsis Concepts in Occupational Therapy- Understanding Southern Perspectives by : Sebestina Anita Dsouza
Download or read book Concepts in Occupational Therapy- Understanding Southern Perspectives written by Sebestina Anita Dsouza and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The book] attempts to facilitate contextually relevant interpretation and application of core occupational science and occupational therapy concepts from the vantage point of academics in the Global South. With around 30 authors mostly from India and South Africa, the book offers diverse insights into the socioeconomic, cultural and political factors influencing occupational therapy practice in the southern region. It describes the profession's development in India and South Africa. It elucidates the core skills, values and attitudes essential for practice, and more importantly, discusses the challenges to and opportunities for the profession in the Global South."--Back cover.
