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Download or read book Kultar's Mime written by Sarbpreet Singh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kultar's Mime "tells the stories of Sikh children who survived the Delhi massacre through a poem that grew into a play, made its way from Boston to Delhi, and restarted the conversation about a forgotten chapter in history. In April 1903, a pogrom targeted the Jewish population in Kishinev, Russia, leaving many dead and wounded and thousands homeless. Upon visiting the aftermath, the Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik composed one of his most famous poems, "In the City of Slaughter." In 1984, after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot by her Sikh bodyguards, an orgy of murder, rape, and arson was unleashed upon the Sikh residents of Delhi, in which more than three thousand lost their lives. When he eventually discovered the hidden truth, Sarbpreet Singh, then a young Sikh living in Milwaukee wrote the poem "Kultar's Mime." The play "Kultar's Mime" synthesizes the suffering caused by these two events, separated by thousands of miles, many years, and vast cultural differences. Through the raw imagery of the two poems, it reminds us that, in the end, all innocent victims are the same.
Download or read book The Story of the Sikhs written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Season for Martyrs written by Bina Shah and published by Delphinium. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. literary debut of an up-and-coming Pakistani novelist and journalist. Ali Sikandar is assigned to cover the arrival of Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader who has returned home to Karachi after eight years of exile to take part in the presidential race. Already eager to leave for college in the U.S. and marry his forbidden Hindu girlfriend, Ali loses a friend in a horrific explosion and finds himself swept up in events larger than his individual struggle for identity and love when he joins the People’s Resistance Movement, a group that opposes President Musharraf. Amidst deadly terrorist attacks and protest marches, this contemporary narrative thread weaves in flashbacks that chronicle the deep and beautiful tales of Pakistani history, of the mythical gods who once protected this land. Bina Shah, a journalist herself and now a NYT op-ed writer, illustrates with extraordinary depth and keen observation into daily life the many contradictions of a country struggling to make peace with itself.
Author :Sarbpreet Singh Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :935708133X Total Pages :244 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (57 download)
Book Synopsis The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia by : Sarbpreet Singh
Download or read book The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia written by Sarbpreet Singh and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1801 the young scion of a petty fiefdom in the Punjab was invested with the title of Maharaja of Punjab. The young man whose name was Ranjit Singh went on to carve out a kingdom for himself that stretched from the borders of Afghanistan in the west to the boundaries of the British Raj in the east. It included the lush hills and valleys of Kashmir the barren mountains of Ladakh and the fertile plains of his native Punjab. The British valued him as an ally who would keep their western frontier safe and while they coveted his kingdom they did not dare to engage in military adventures in Punjab during his lifetime. The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia is an examination of Ranjit Singh and his times that focuses on a wide array of characters that populated his court. All these stories combine to present a nuanced and complex image of Maharaja Ranjit Singh through his interactions with these characters. The work humanises Maharaja Ranjit Singh and presents him as the brilliant man he clearly was without attempting to gloss over his flaws and foibles.
Book Synopsis Sikhi - Faith & Followers by : Harinder Singh
Download or read book Sikhi - Faith & Followers written by Harinder Singh and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikhi: Faith & Followers is a 32-page full-color richly illustrated booklet intended for a broader audience. The booklet traces the roots and history of the faith explaining the conditions under which Sikh arose, Sikh articles of faith, the Sikh world view, Guru, and the formation of the Khalsa. The booklet also covers Sikhs in the Panjab and the Diaspora, the institution of the Gurduara, and the impact Sikhs have had on global society and culture through their unique lifestyle and belief system.
Book Synopsis Religion and the Specter of the West by : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Download or read book Religion and the Specter of the West written by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-23 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.
Author :Sarbpreet Singh Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9353059763 Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis Night of the Restless Spirits by : Sarbpreet Singh
Download or read book Night of the Restless Spirits written by Sarbpreet Singh and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Indian in the USA embraces a cause rooted in his motherland, but one that he doesn't fully understand. A student's world is turned upside down when his friend and her family are caught in the cross hairs of volatility and violence. A train burns as it enters Delhi, and the sole Sikh survivor shares with the nation the harrowing tale of his survival . . . These and many other stories form this heart-rending collection that evokes the horrors and uncertainties of 1984, through the tales of ordinary people caught in something bigger than themselves. Set during a time of monumental upheaval, Night of the Restless Spirits blurs the lines between the personal and political, and takes the reader on a journey fraught with love and tinged with tragedy, frayed relationships, the breaking down of humanity and resilience in the face of absolute despair. These stories tell us that people are capable of the best and the worst, but that ultimately there is always hope.
Book Synopsis In the City of Slaughter by : Chaim Nachman Bialik
Download or read book In the City of Slaughter written by Chaim Nachman Bialik and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaim Nachman Bialik's epic response to the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom roars with with fresh urgency and rage in this dynamic literary translation by Jeffrey Burghauser, one of America's premier formalist poets.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies by : Suzanne Newcombe
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies written by Suzanne Newcombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1, 4, 9, 12, and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism by : Karen O'Brien-Kop
Download or read book Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism written by Karen O'Brien-Kop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st – 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from South Asian intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the Patanjalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhasya and Asanga's Yogacarabhumisastra, this book highlights and clarifies many ideologically Buddhist concepts and practices in Patanjala yoga. Karen O'Brien-Kop demonstrates that 'classical yoga' was co-constructed systemically by both Hindu and Buddhist thinkers who were drawing on the same conceptual metaphors of the period. This analysis demystifies early yoga-meditation as a timeless 'classical' practice and locates it in a specific material context of agrarian and urban economies.
Download or read book Lost Heritage written by Amardeep Singh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memory and Pedagogy by : Claudia Mitchell
Download or read book Memory and Pedagogy written by Claudia Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to see their future as something that belongs to them, and that they can influence in some way for the better. This edited volume brings together essays from scholars who are studying the interconnections between pedagogy and memory in the context of social themes and social inquiry within educational research. The book provides a range of perspectives on the social and pedagogical relevance of memory studies to the educational arena in relation to the themes of memory and method, revisiting childhood, memory and place, addressing political conflict, sexuality and embodiment, and inter-generational studies.
Book Synopsis The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School by : Rudolf J. Siebert
Download or read book The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School written by Rudolf J. Siebert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Book Synopsis Modernity and Religion by : William Nicholls
Download or read book Modernity and Religion written by William Nicholls and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1988-02-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition." What is modernity—a philosophical outlook or a set of ideas? What is modernization —a social process? Is modernity the same as secularity, as many theologians and sociologists in the West believe? Is the impact of modernity weakening religious traditions? Are the responses of non-Western religious traditions to modernity similar to Western ones, or are they distinctive, indigenous adaptations to the same world-wide development. These are the kinds of concerns the interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses in this volume. Contributors include Moshe Amon ("Utopias and Counter-Utopias"), Alan Davies ("The Rise o Racism in the Nineteenth Century: Symptom of Modernity"), Robert Ellwood, Jr. ("Modern Religion as Folk Religion"), Irving Hexham ("Modernity or Reaction in South Africa: The Case of Afrikaner Religion"), Shotaro Iida ("Japanese New Religions"), Shelia McDonough ("modernity in Islamic Persepctive"), William Nicholls ("Immanent Transcendence: Spirituality in a Scientific and Critical Age"), K. Dad Prithipaul ("Modernity and Religious Studies"), Tom Sinclair-Faulkner ("Caution: Moralists at Work"), Huston Smith ("Can Modernity Accommodate Transcendence?"), and John Wilson ("Modernity and Religion: A Problem of Perspective").
Book Synopsis Culture and Religious Studies by : Danielle Pratt
Download or read book Culture and Religious Studies written by Danielle Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social behavior and norms that are prevalent in human societies are collectively known as culture. It is a central concept of anthropology which encompasses the phenomena that are transferred through social learning in human societies. The field of study which is involved in the analysis of the political dynamics of contemporary culture is known as culture studies. It also focuses on the conflicts, defining traits, contingencies and historical foundations of culture. The academic field which is concerned with the research of religious beliefs, behaviors and institutions is referred to as religious studies. It focuses on describing, comparing and interpreting different religions. It explains the systematic and historically based cross-cultural perspectives. It encompasses various disciplines and their methodologies such as sociology, philosophy, anthropology and history of religion. This book contains some path-breaking studies in the field of culture and religious studies. It presents researches and studies performed by experts across the globe. Those in search of information to further their knowledge will be greatly assisted by this book.
Book Synopsis The Body in Performance by : Patrick Campbell
Download or read book The Body in Performance written by Patrick Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.' Contributors include Rebecca Schneider whose book The Explicit Body in Performance is a key text in this area, and Joan Lipkin, director and writer.
Book Synopsis Orlando False Flag by : Kevin Barrett
Download or read book Orlando False Flag written by Kevin Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mainstream media's version of the Orlando shooting - RADICAL MUSLIMS HATE GAYS, PLEASE SUPPORT GUN CONTROL - falls apart under critical examination.In this book, former CIA Clandestine Services Officer Robert David Steele offers what he calls "probably the only systematic look at sixty-five anomalies associated with what appears to be a false flag event." Seventeen other leading public intellectuals also weigh in. Some consider the evidence suggesting the event was a false flag; others discuss the historical and cultural background and deconstruct the media propaganda.Following on the heels of We Are NOT Charlie Hebdo and ANOTHER French False Flag, Orlando False Flag brings Kevin Barrett and colleagues' trenchant critique of the "war on terror" back home to the USA.
