Samskara

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ISBN 13 : 9780195610796
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Samskara by : U. R. Anantha Murthy

Download or read book Samskara written by U. R. Anantha Murthy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death which stands as the central event in the plot brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation.

Samskara

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Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Samskara written by U. R. Anantha Murthy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vamshavriksha

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Vamshavriksha written by Es. El Bhairappa and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bara

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089787
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Bara by : U.R. Ananthamurthy

Download or read book Bara written by U.R. Ananthamurthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ajji, can I have some water? ... Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs, weary women sleep on empty stomachs.... Would those perishing now have died anyway? Or is hunger calling them away prematurely? Filled with social concern, Satisha, the district commissioner, wants to help the afflicted. But he is caught between the politicians who are unwilling to declare the district drought-hit and the murky local realities where a religious outfit strives to protect cows, the desperate youth hold a deity responsible for the failed rains and petty activists seek to secure their own interests. Can the idealist Satisha win the game where corrupt politicians are rolling the dice and stand by his conviction to help the afflicted? Written during the Indian Emergency, Bara depicts the tortuous realities of Indian democracy and captures the political and moral dilemmas of the educated middle class.

Bhava

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351182878
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Bhava written by U R Ananthamurthy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling tale of mystery, passion and spiritual exploration seventy-year-old Shastri; A reciter of Harikatha, encounters an Ayyappa pilgrim on a train. Around the pilgrim's neck is a Sri chakra amulet which looks like one that belonged to Saroja, Shastri's first wife. But Shastri thought he had killed Saroja years before, believing she was pregnant by another man. If the amulet is Saroja's, then she might have survived, and the pilgrim (Dinakar, a television star) could be Shastri's son. A similar story is revealed when Dinakar visits his old friend Narayan: either could be the father of Prasad, A young man destined for spiritual attainment. The interwoven lives of three generations play out variations on the same themes. Whose son am I? Whose father am I? Where are my roots? These mysteries of the past and present are explored, but there are no clear answers. And while significant in daily being , such questions lose urgency in the flux of becoming (Bhava means both being and becoming). So we are led to consider that Samsara-the world of illusion and embodiment-may not be very different from Sunya , the emptiness from which everything arises. At times a drama of cruelty and lust, at times a lyrical meditation on love and transformation, Bhava is an exceptional novel by one of India's most celebrated writers. Translated from the Kannada by Judith Kroll with the author.

Suragi

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199466320
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (663 download)

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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.

Hindutva or Hind Swaraj

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352774906
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Hindutva or Hind Swaraj written by U. R. Ananthamurthy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of a meditation on the ideas of the nation state and nationalism, and what the new power structures and centres mean for the very idea of India, Hindutva or Hind Swaraj is a manifesto -- written in the form of aphorisms, using shifting tones and styles to make a deep, elegant and heartfelt point about the human cost of radicalization. This last work of Jnanpith award winner and pre-eminent writer U.R. Ananthamurthy is a creative response to the rise of Hindutva nationalism in India. Juxtaposing V.D. Savarkar's idea of Hindutva with M.K. Gandhi's concept of Hind Swaraj, the book examines the two directions that were open to India at the time of Independence.

Samskara

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179137
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Samskara written by U.R. Ananthamurthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously flouted the rules of caste and purity for years, eating meat, drinking alcohol, marrying beneath him, mocking God, unexpectedly falls ill and dies. The question of whether he should be buried as a Brahmin divides the other Brahmins in the village. For an answer they turn to Praneshacharyah, the most devout and respected member of their community, an ascetic who also tends religiously to his invalid wife. Praneshacharyah finds himself unable to provide the answer, though an answer is urgently needed since as he wonders and the villagers wait and the body festers, more and more people are falling sick and dying. But when Praneshacharyah goes to the temple to seek a sign from God, he discovers something else entirely—unless that something else is also God. Samskara is a tale of existential suspense, a life-and-death encounter between the sacred and the profane, the pure and the impure, the ascetic and the erotic.

Valmiki's Ramayana

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113694
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Valmiki's Ramayana written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, an incarnation of Lord Visnu, born to rid the earth of the terrible demon Ravana. An idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honor, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies, and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals and terrifying demons. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.

Avasthe

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Publisher : Harperperennial
ISBN 13 : 9789390327829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Avasthe written by U. R. Anantha Murthy and published by Harperperennial. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories

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Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140285246
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories written by U. R. Anantha Murthy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of Finely Crafted Stories That Challenge Our Political, Social And Cultural Beliefs. One Of The Leading Exponents Of The Modernist School In Kannada And Jnanpith Award Winner, U.R. Anantha Murthy Has Been A Writer For Nearly Five Decades. This Excellent Anthology Brings Together Stories From His Five Collections. Spanning Thirty-Five Years From 1955-89, They Represent His Journey From An Angry Young Radical To An Intensely Humanist Conservative . 'Clip Joint Explores The Conflict And Confluence Of Indian And Western Values Through An Encounter Between An Indian Student In England And His English Classmate. Ghatashradhha Is A Severe Indictment Of The Brahminical System Where A Priest Performs A Mock Funeral For His Child-Widow Daughter, Yamunakka, Who Has Become Pregnant. The Critique Of Unquestioning Belief In Tradition Is Pursued In Akkayya But Resolved With A Touch Of Humour Through The Protagonist S Singular Life Story. In The Crowning Story, Stallion Of The Sun , Which Is Typical Of Anantha Murthy S Later, Self-Reflexive Phase, The Dissonance Between Tradition And Modernity Settles In Favour Of Simple Faith. The Seven Masterful Stories In This Collection, Many Of Which Have Been Translated Into English For The First Time, Affirm Anantha Murthy As One Of India S Foremost Fiction Writers.

Scared Text

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1885635249
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Scared Text written by Eric Baus and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Pearls Blows Up

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449401066
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Book Synopsis Pearls Blows Up by : Stephan Pastis

Download or read book Pearls Blows Up written by Stephan Pastis and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the escapades of self-centered Rat and kindly (but dumb) Pig and their pals, with commentary from the author.

Blue-Skinned Gods

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Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641292423
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue-Skinned Gods by : SJ Sindu

Download or read book Blue-Skinned Gods written by SJ Sindu and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity. Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on—father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin—starts falling apart. Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of New York City, Blue-Skinned Gods explores ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, and spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our globally interconnected world.

Rethinking Third Cinema

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134613237
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Third Cinema written by Wimal Dissanayake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted from the movement, from directors such as Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray and Nelson Pereira dos Santos, are among the most culturally signficant, politically sophisticated and frequently studied films of the 1960s and 1970s. However, despite the contemporary popularity and critical attention enjoyed by films from Asia and Latin America in particular, Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory appears to have lost its momentum. Rethinking Third Cinema seeks to bring Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory back into the critical spotlight. The contributors address the most difficult and challenging questions Third Cinema poses, suggesting new methodologies and redirections of existing ones. Crucially, they also re-examine the entire phenomenon of film-making in a fast-vanishing 'Third World', with case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, among others.

A Life in the World

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352776232
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Book Synopsis A Life in the World by : Chandan Gowda

Download or read book A Life in the World written by Chandan Gowda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and 2013, Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda, and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood, friendships, the evolution of his intellectual life, and public involvements, his passionate ideas on tradition, on India's political culture, and on language and writing make the conversations an engaging and valuable document. A Life in the World -- perhaps the first exercise of its kind done with an Indian writer -- will enthral both general readers as well as admirers of Ananthamurthy's works.

The History of Doing

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Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of Doing written by Radha Kumar and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: