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Book Synopsis Mahakumbh, the Greatest Show on Earth by : J. S. Mishra
Download or read book Mahakumbh, the Greatest Show on Earth written by J. S. Mishra and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is About Mahakumbh-2001 At Allhabad. Presents Mahakumbh In Its Totality Details Of Management Aspects-Highlights The Lessons Learnt From The Successful Execution Of This Mega Event-Suggests Strategies To Effectively Manage Such Mega Events In Future. Well Illustrated. Has 12 Chapters.
Book Synopsis Wonder in South Asia by : Tulasi Srinivas
Download or read book Wonder in South Asia written by Tulasi Srinivas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of wonder—encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication—and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women's charitable practices, Kipling's Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.
Book Synopsis The Kumbh Mela: Greatest Show On Earth by : Tahir Shah
Download or read book The Kumbh Mela: Greatest Show On Earth written by Tahir Shah and published by ebookpartnership.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kumbha written by Nityananda Misra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid and enlightening account, Nityananda Misra takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through the modern Kumbha Mela, the largest pilgrimage and the biggest festival in the world attended by crores of people. The book details the origin and symbolism of the Kumbha Mela, its dates and venues, and its awe-inspiring organization that has been called a wonder of modern-day management. It provides a personal close-up view of the visitors at the largest human gathering on earth-the sadhus, the kalpavasis, the tirthayatris, and members of new-age Hindu movements. The author sheds considerable light on the cultural aspects (literature, arts, and music) of the Kumbha and argues how the mela is perhaps the most diverse and inclusive human gathering and how the tradition is immortal, as if made so by the nectar of immortality which is believed to have spilled on the sites of the Kumbha Mela. Throughout the book, the author shows how diverse participants come and work together at the Kumbha Mela following the spirit of samgacchadhvam (“come together”)-a spirit that permeates the mela in his view. The author captures his personal experience too in Prayaga, Nashik, and Ujjain, leaving an anecdotal touch to the narrative. The final chapter presents an overview of the upcoming Ardha Kumbha Mela in Prayaga in 2019.
Book Synopsis Happiness is a Choice by : J.S. Mishra
Download or read book Happiness is a Choice written by J.S. Mishra and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an occasion for the reader to pause, think and appreciate the worth of life as well as all the gifts of life that we otherwise take for granted. It is an effort to analyse the factors that lead to 'Happiness' and highlight the important aspects in our day-to-day life, which have the potential to make life full of joy and happiness. The objects of happiness are spread all around but the choice to be happy is a conscious decision and the option to choose it lies with us. Happiness is floating all around us. We just need to be open and receptive towards it&we need to let it alight upon us!
Book Synopsis Our National River Ganga by : Rashmi Sanghi
Download or read book Our National River Ganga written by Rashmi Sanghi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a plethora of information available on the river Ganga in the form of books, blogs, articles, websites, videos. Unfortunately, most of the information about this famous river is in a scattered form and reproduced from unverified sources. This contributed volume is the first multi-author volume publication on this subject. The River Ganga includes a vast array of topics written by several authors of distinction. Topics include; hydrology, tributaries, water uses, and environmental features such as river water quality, aquatic and terrestrial flora/fauna, natural resources, ecological characteristics, sensitive environmental components and more. Part I gives a basic introduction of the Ganga river. The existing data and available information from various sources has been compiled in a pictorial fashion in the form of cmaps. Its cultural importance with changing times is also discussed. Part II looks at the rich biodiversity of the Ganga Basin. It gives a detailed description of the major floral and faunal biodiversity with special emphasis on the national aquatic animal dolphin and Sunderbans, the largest mangrove wetland in the world. Part III examines ‘The Ganga Water as it flows’. It focuses on the water quality as well as its associated challenges. Part IV looks at the complexities of issues confronting the river ‘Ganga in changing times’ be it snowmelt runoff, river bank erosion hazards and hydropower assessments; how the factors of population, poverty and pollution contribute to the fate of the river. Part IV touches on economic aspects derived from the river such as business opportunities and tourism.
Book Synopsis Guide to Indian Periodical Literature by :
Download or read book Guide to Indian Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life by : Pam Grout
Download or read book The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life written by Pam Grout and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as "experiential" tourism—vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. In the footsteps of the briskly selling The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life featuring North American destinations, our new title extends these ardent travelers’ sights to global scale. From helping to build a health clinic in Tanzania to learning massage in Thailand to aiding green turtle conservation in Belize, The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life is full of fun, meaningful, and memorable possibilities for today’s discerning traveler. The lively text irresistibly conveys the charm and excitement of each location and delivers solid, reliable travel-planning information. Abundant sidebars reveal little known local facts, nearby places to visit, lists of things to do, and more. Other books on the market address singular aspects of experiential vacations around the world (learning, volunteering, culinary). But none presents the best of all categories in one comprehensive guide—until now. The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life holds great appeal for travelers of many interests who want to make the most of their vacations. And, with its elegant packaging, this deluxe trade paperback will catch the attention of gift-shoppers as an inspired and attractive choice.
Download or read book Clean written by Virginia Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we still have nits? What exactly are 'purity rules'? And why have baths scarcely changed in 200 years? The long history of personal hygiene and purity is a fascinating subject that reveals how closely we are linked to our deeper past. In this pioneering book, Virginia Smith covers the global history of human body-care from the Neolithic to the present, using first-hand accounts and sources. From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from ascetics to cosmetics, Smith looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this striving for purity has brought great social benefits as well as great tragedies. It is probably safe to say that no-one who reads this book will look at his or her body (or bathroom) in quite the same way again.
Download or read book Civic Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclectic and beguiling observations by bestselling author Tahir Shah, Three Essays considers three quite different subjects in ways they have never been considered before. The first piece looks at cannibalism, noting how prevalent it has been throughout human history. Only frowned upon in relatively recent times, Shah makes the point that cannibalism was never regarded as shocking. The second essay considers the Kumbh Mela - an Indian cultural extravaganza and the greatest human gathering of all time. The third text looks at the way Arab Science from the so-called 'Golden Age' of Islam shapes the world in which we live - making everything from mobile phones to medical transfusions possible.
Book Synopsis International Press Institute Global Journalist by :
Download or read book International Press Institute Global Journalist written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Thought World of Hindu Nationalism by : Christian Karner
Download or read book The Thought World of Hindu Nationalism written by Christian Karner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes textual material and qualitative data on Hindu nationalism to reveal the co-existence of several 'self-other category relations' and of more elaborate schemas of interpretation in a transnationally circulating discourse often reduced to a cognitive pattern of binary 'us versus them' distinctions. The result is a theoretical approach capable of addressing the blind spots in traditional structuralism - structural diversity, meaning, history, and agency.
Download or read book The Kumbh Mela written by Mark Tully and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Ganges and the Jamna meet people from many,many different traditions of Hinduism come together. Therewill be many genuinely holy men, some charlatans, and someobscurantists. But the majority of those who come to bathe inthe Sangam will be villagers. The Kumbh is an awe-inspiringdemonstration of simple piety and a clear example of the powerof myth.This is a small book presenting the Kumbh Mela, the biggestreligious festival in India. The renowned journalist MarkTully, who has covered with the BBC and as a free-lancer themain events in the recent history of India, gives in his inimitablestyle his impressions of the Kumbh Mela held at Allahabad in1989.
Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by Diana L. Eck and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) at Allahabad; includes articles on it's management, infrastructure and planning.
Download or read book Three Essays written by Tahir Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of three essays. CANNIBALISM: IT'S ONLY MEAT provides a sense of revelation at this last taboo. THE KUMBH MELA: GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH reflects on this massive Hindu pilgrimage. THE LEGACY OF ARAB SCIENCE discusses how the Arabs of the Abbasid Age shaped the world in which we live.
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage and Power by : Kama Maclean
Download or read book Pilgrimage and Power written by Kama Maclean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely representing foreign media outlets, had swarmed to the mela, intent on broadcasting to a global audience sensational images of naked (or wet-sari-clad) Indians taking part in "ancient" religious rituals. Resistance to foreign interference with the mela has roots that go back 200 years. The British colonial state and the colonized had different ideas about what the Kumbh Mela represented: for the former, it was a potentially dangerous gathering that demanded tight regulation and control, but for the latter it was a sacred sphere in which foreign domination and interference were intolerable. In this book Kama Maclean examines this tension and the manner in which it was negotiated by each side. She asks why and how the colonial state tried to manipulate the mela and, more important, how the mela changed as Indians responded to the colonial power. In recent years many scholars have emphasized the extent to which the Kumbh Mela has been monopolized by the Hindu nationalist movement. Maclean seeks to situate the history of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad within a much broader context. She explores the role of a pilgrimage fair like the Kumbh Mela in disseminating ideas, particularly political ones like nationalism and ideas about social reform. Kama Maclean tells the mesmerizing and important story of the Kumbh Mela with exciting detail as well as careful scholarly attention, illuminating for the reader the full scope of the event's historical and socio-political context.
