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Author : Perumal Murugan (N. Kalyan Raman Tr.)
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789386228499
Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. THE GOAT THIEF is a selection of his ten best stories focused on men and women who live in the margins of our society.
Author : Perumāḷmurukan̲
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Tamil poetry
ISBN : 0143428829
A king decrees that all humans be skinned alive. A man runs from words that hound him like a pack of wolves. A legion of white snakes sweeps across a land blighted by drought. A beleaguered soul laments the loss of a homeland. A coward's many virtues are lauded to disturbing effect. By turns passionate, elegiac, angry, tender, nightmarish and courageous, the poems in Songs of a Coward weave an exquisite tapestry of rich images and turbulent emotions. Written during a period of immense personal turmoil, these verses are an enduring testament to the resilience of an imagination under siege and the liberating power of words in one's darkest moments.
Author : Perumal Murugan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353058388
Young Selvan's life is no longer the same. His family's ancestral land has been sold in order to make way for the construction of a housing colony. Now the verdant landscape of his childhood has been denuded, while Selvan and his family are compelled to move to much smaller lodgings. In the ensuing years, as the pressures of their situation simmer to a boil, Selvan observes his family undergo dramatic shifts in their fortunes as greed and jealousy threaten to overshadow their lives. Murugan's first novel, which launched a splendid literary career, is a tour de force. Now translated for the first time, it poses powerful questions about the human cost of relentless urbanization in the name of progress.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780241296134
The Rough Guide to India is the definitive travel guide to this captivating country. More a continent than a country, India is an overload for the senses. From the Himalayan peaks of Sikkim to the tropical backwaters of Kerala, the desert forts of Rajasthan to the mangroves of West Bengal, India's breathtaking diversity of landscapes is matched only by its range of cultures, cuisines, religions and languages. The Rough Guide to India gives you the lowdown on this beguiling country, whether you want to hang out in hyper-modern cities or explore thousand-year-old temples, track tigers through the forest or take part in age-old festivals, get a taste of the Raj or watch a cricket match. And easy-to-use maps, reliable transport advice, and expert reviews of the best hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, and shops for all budgets ensure that you won't miss a thing. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to India.
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Community development
ISBN : UCAL:$B180381
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190226930
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.
Author : Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538106860
The Tamils have an unbroken history of more than two thousand years. Tamil, the language they speak, is one of the oldest living languages in the world. The only people comparable to the Tamils in terms of their hoary past and vibrant present would be the Jews with one marked difference. The Tamils have always had their homeland 'Tamilaham' (alternately pronounced and spelt 'Tamizhaham') known today as Tamil Nadu which to them represents their mother and is revered by them as 'Tamizh Tai' literally ‘Tamil Mother’. This is in striking contrast to the Jews who have been through a long and arduous struggle to gain their homeland, a deeply contested site to this day with Hebrewisation of Israel being a key marker of Jewish identity in the region. Tamils, by contrast have a clear numerical majority in the region that now comprises Tamil Nadu and the language unites rather than divides adherents of different faiths. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Tamils contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Tamils.
Author : David Leeming,Christopher Fee
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780235387
For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.
Author : Babu Jacob,Suraj Jacob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108832342
Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hindi newspapers
ISBN : UOM:39015057963814
Author : K. C. Dutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, Indic
ISBN : UVA:X004500875
Author : Ka.Vi.Kannan
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684666041
I was born into a farming family. As a Delta Farmer, I have been in the agricultural business for the past fifty years. The farming activity in delta districts is solely dependent on River Cauvery. Since the year 1974, Cauvery delta farmers have been deprived of their right to use Cauvery water. This made them poor, debt struck and has led to suicides. Farming has become unsustainable. The root cause of all these sufferings is the insufficient flow of Cauvery water. The aim of this book is to let our North Indian leaders, BJP and Congress, know that River Cauvery is sacred and revered and that it makes the delta soil fertile and rich. Without Cauvery water, the delta lands now look barren and dead. All the fine arts grew and developed only because of Cauvery. Architecture was in full bloom on the banks of Cauvery because of Tamil kings. Cauvery irrigation is systemic and technically viable. Solutions to augment the flow of Cauvery water from the west-flowing rivers have been proposed to resolve the issue permanently.
Author : L D Barnett,G U Pope
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022678809
An annotated bibliography of the Tamil-language books held in the collection of the British Museum. Pope and Barnett provide detailed descriptions of each book, as well as historical and cultural context for the Tamil literary tradition. This book is an essential reference work for scholars of South Asian literature and Tamil studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015064098307
Author : P. V. Jagadisa Ayyar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Hindu shrines
ISBN : 8120601513
