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The Chinese God of prosperity Fu Xing is being nicely carved out of brass in a most artistic manner. He is holding a baby on his arm. The figure is being heavily ornate and from toe to the arm his body is being covered with dress. His beautiful turban, the smiling face, the long beard all have been detailed out in a most gorgeous manner. There is an anecdote about hid origin in Chinese mythology. The legend says that Emperor Wu Ti (502-550 A.D) was besotted with midgets. When news came that the district of Dazhou was absolutely packed with tidily people, he was delighted. The imperious Emperor ordered that all midgets be taken from their families and brought to the Imperial Court. There they would be forced to serve as his clowns like some oriental premonition of the Munchkins. Everyone in Dazhou was heartbroken, especially the mothers of the midgets. But Yang Cheng, the Governor of Dazhou, was a kind-hearted soul and, risking his very life, wrote a forceful petition to the Emperor asking him to please leave off. Instead of the instant death such impudence had earned him, Yang Cheng was granted his request by the abashed Emperor. The midgets and their mothers were so grateful; they bowed down and worshipped him... and he became FU-XING, the God of Happiness and Disasters Averted.

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The abstract painting depicts some human figures and a number of colours such as white, yellow, red are being used to portray the special effect. Batik is an ancient form of art and the method of waxing and then again dewaxing gives a special effect to this kind of painting. Hand made designs are batiked on the cotton cloths.

Mala’s home in Delhi is empty, save for a lifetime of sketches left behind by her late husband Asad and the memories they conjure. Sifting through them on restless afternoons and sleepless nights, Mala summons ghosts from her childhood, relives the heady days of love and optimism when Asad and she robustly defied social conventions to build a life together —and struggles to understand how events far removed could so easily snatch away the certainties they had always taken for granted. As their story unfolds, others emerge: Of Sara, Mala and Asad’s daughter, who, unable to commit to a cause that will renew her faith in her parents’ ideals and her own, embarks on a search for purpose that brings her from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, the venue of recent carnage. Of Yasmin, whom Sara meets across a lately created ‘border’, a survivor of mayhem secretly dreaming of college and the miraculous return of her missing brother, Akbar, as she navigates menacing by-lanes to reach her school safely every day. Of innumerable other lives trapped in limbo—some caught in a mesh of memory, anguish and hate; others seeking release in private dreams and valiant hopes. Marked by an astonishing clarity of observation and deep compassion, Fugitive Histories exposes the legacy of prejudice that, sometimes insidiously, sometimes perceptibly, continues to affect disparate lives in present-day India. In prose that is at once elegant, playful and startlingly inventive, Githa Hariharan portrays with remarkable precision the web of human connections that binds as much as it divides.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Thomas M. Sterner (Author
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages: 116 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 938794431X
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387944312
  

DESCRIPTION:

Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life
Better Results and Less Stress through Proven Techniques
To be fully engaged requires clear goals and the focus and skill set to accomplish them with calm awareness. In his first book, the Practicing Mind, Tom Sterner provided clear guidelines for developing focus and discipline to achieve any life goal. As he travelled and spoke about it, he kept track of the questions that readers and participants at his seminars asked. Addressing and exploring these questions, Sterner provides specific techniques such as thought awareness training and setting goals with accurate data. He shows how these methods can be used to meet objectives while keeping you engaged every moment in your life when pursuing these goals. This reduces stress, consequently increasing the quality of life.
Thomas M. Sterner has studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He has also worked as a recording engineer, audio and video editor and processor and composer. An accomplished musician, private pilot, student of archery and avid golfer, he lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By  Joel Comm
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages :  200 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :9387944697
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-9387944695

DESCRIPTION:

Revolutionize how you work. Find more success in work and in life than you ever dreamed possible – by pursuing fun. The demands of work and the breakneck pace of technological change wear heavily on all of us, whether we are employees at a large company, solo workers in the gig economy, or entrepreneurs launching a new venture. The “hustle-and-grind” lifestyle that we’ve been told is essential to success actually leads to physical ailments, emotional burnout and a darkness in the soul. But Joel Comm has found a better way. In Fun@Work Formula, Comm reveals that the best path to success – in work and in life – is to focus on our passions, curiosity and the things that bring us great pleasure. Doing this leads not only to more dramatic results in whatever we do, but also to a more fulfilling life. Using entertaining stories and illuminating anecdotes from Comm’s own life and those of others, famous and not, Fun@Work Formula lays out a plan for making the subtle changes to our thinking and routines that will enable us to design the life we truly desire: one of significance and joy. Joel Comm is the New York Times bestselling author of 15 books, including The AdSense Code, Click Here to Order, KaChing and Twitter Power 3.0. He has appeared in the New York Times, on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, on CNN online, on Fox News and many other places. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

About The Author:

S. M. Srinivasa Chari (b. 1919, Mysore) has a brilliant academic record. He is an M. A. in Philosophy of the University of Mysore and recipient of Ph.D. from the University of Madras. He is a finished Sanskrit scholar trained up by eminent traditional teachers. He was a research Scholar at the University of Madras and a Fellow of Institute of Philosophy at Amalner in Maharashtra.

Dr. Chari joined the Ministry of Education, Government of India, after the completion of his university career. He retired in 1976 as Joint Educational Adviser.

Dr. Chari has traveled widely. He has participated in international conferences abroad, and addressed learned assemblies at University Centres on aspects of Indian philosophy and religion. He is author of Advaita and Visistadvaita and Vaisnavism

Foreword
Visistadvaita is one of the great religio-philosophical systems of the world. There are very few modern critical expositions of it based on the bhasya, supplement by later erudite works.

Dr. Srinivasa Chari has acquired quite a profound knowledge of Visistadvaita from great pundits with whom he studied for years the texts in original. His modern education has endowed him with the capacity to present classical ideas in a lucid and connected way.

Depending on the original texts, in particular on Vedanta Desika's Tattva-mukta-kalapa, Dr. Chari has written an excellent monograph which authoritatively expounds Visistadvaita. Moreover, it attempts to establish that this a system of philosophy in conformity with logic and experience.

From the Jacket:

The doctrine of Visistadvaita, expounded by Ramanuja, was developed into a sound system of philosophy by the most brilliant of his successors, Venkatanatha, 'popularly known as Vedanta Desika.' His chief contribution to the intellectual foundation of the system lay in the composition of the text of Tattva-mukta-kalapa, a treatise of significant philosophical import left for posterity.

In this volume, which is a study of Visistadvaita based on Tattva-mukta-kalapa, the line of arguments advanced by Vedanta Desika is closely followed. The major and important issues related to the philosophy of Visistadvaita are brought within the purview of discussion. The contemporary rival schools represented by Carvakas, Buddhists and Jainas, Nayaya-Vaisesikas, Mimamsakas and the Advaitins, of both orthodox and unorthodox camps, are successfully encountered. In the textual light of Tattva-mukta-kalapa, the notion that Visistadvaita is a theological system is dispelled, and its philosophic core is established beyond doubt.

The author maintains 'the original orthodox style, so characteristic of the ancient Acaryas', in his delineation of topics; yet the exposition remains free from all kinds of scholastic trappings.

The volume is a definitive study of Visistadvaita doctrine, both in their 'philosophical as well as theological aspects'. Its in-depth probe of 'the fundamental epistemological and philosophical issues…common to all schools' both I the East and the West makes its appeal to those interested 'in understanding the basic problems of philosophy'

 

Description

I have lived to see Bombay become Mumbai, Calcutta become Kolkata, and Madras become Chennai. Times change, names change, and if Bond becomes Bonda I won’t object.’ With these lines, begins another brilliant collection of essays, stories and poems by writer par excellence, Ruskin Bond. With an ability to look at ordinary situations with unique wit and acuity, Ruskin Bond invites us into his home, his countryside, his life. Peopled with monkeys, wild boars, an aunt with a phobia of flowers, an eccentric cousin who thinks he is the great cricket player Ranji, the wise seven-year-old Gautam, this collection is an absorbing read for readers of all ages.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK
Ruskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well-known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His Tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The Blue Umbrella, A Long Walk for Bina and Hanuman to the Rescue are also available in Rupa paperback. The Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghost Stories from the Raj, The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure, The Rupa Book of Himalayan Tales and The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories are some of his recent books for Rupa.

Specification

• Product Code :BK8695
• Publisher : Rupa Publications India
• Edition : February 2, 2006
• Pages : 156
• Weight : 160 gm.
• Size : 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Binding : Paperback
• Author : Ruskin Bond
• Language : English
• ISBN-10: 8129108283
  ISBN-13: 978-8129108289

 

SPECIFICATION:

Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Private Limited
By :      Anant Pai
Cover : Paperback
Language : English
Pages : 96 pages
Reading age ‏ : ‎  0- 5 years
Weight : 143 gram
Size : 13.97 x 0.71 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-10 : 8184822138
ISBN-13 :  978-8184822137

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha
• By : Anant Pai
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2008
• Pages : 96
• Weight : 210 gm
• Size : 8 x 10 x 1.8 inches
• ISBN-10: 8184822138
• ISBN-13: 978-8184822137

DESCRIPTION:

Collection of the following titles: the magic chant and other stories, the giant and the dwarf, the priceless gem

About the Author

Anant Pai or Uncle Pai, as he is popularly known as, was born on 17th September, 1929, in Karkala, Karnataka. He is the founder of the popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. He propagated the tales of Indian mythology and folk among the children through comic books. Some of his other works include Ramu and Shamu, Little Raji, Funland and Rekha. He has been awarded with several prestigious awards in his lifetime. He died on 24th February, 2011.

This 100 percent woolen and hand woven stole is an amazing piece for your wardrobe. It is made of hand-spun yarns in the beautiful Bandhej style of Rajasthan. The piece is designed in a hand loom retaining the ethnic beauty of this Jaipur piece. Bandhani is a type of tie-dye practiced mainly in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The term bandhani is derived from the Sanskrit word banda ("to tie"). Bandhani is also known as Bandhej or tie dye or Bandhni or Bandana and the art of Bandhani is highly skilled process. The technique involves dyeing a fabric which is tied tightly with a thread at several points,thus producing a variety of patterns like Leheriya, Mothra, Ekdali and Shikari depending on the manner in which the cloth is tied. The main colours used in Bandhani are yellow, red,blue, green and black. Bandhani work, after the processing is over, results into a variety of symbols including, dots, squares, waves and strips. Bandhani pieces can be dyed by natural and artificial colours.