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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By Azim Jamal (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2006
• Pages : 236 pages 
• Size :14 x 1.26 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10:  817992520X
  
• ISBN-10:  978-8179925201

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Discover the uncommon connection between the age-old Sufi philosophy and living and working in the 21st century. Through Sufi messages and parables, the Corporate Sufi illustrates how using Sufi principles in a corporate setting can bring fulfillment, meaning and spiritual enrichment in your life. Inspired by 20 years' experience in professional life, the author includes practical tips on how to, fuse your life's mission with your corporate mission, balance work, family and spiritual needs, use the Sufi faith in the unknown when navigating uncharted corporate territory, link the Sufi search for the essence to the search for the corporate soul, apply the Sufi approach to eliminating the ego in order to become a selfless corporate leader, reach the top of your corporate ladder without giving up your ethics and principles and find meaning, fulfillment and inner happiness.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Manjiri Prabhu (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2013
• Pages :  324 pages
• Size :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8184954794
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8184954791

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India’s First Astro-Detective. A detective agency that combines astrological science with investigations!

If you have a problem, contact Sonia Samarth.

Sonia Samarth couldn’t have predicted it. It had only been a day, but her first advertisement had drawn dozens of responses. In the bustling city of Pune, with its winding alleys and exotic customs, Sonia has launched a brand new business – private investigation guided by Hindu astrology. Her unique brand of investigation might raise eyebrows but before long, she seems to have found her niche.

When a cat leads Sonia to her very first investigation, she uses astrology to unmask the killer. Suddenly, clients begin streaming in – a persistent, handsome TV personality; a terrified bride-to-be; a missing husband with suicidal tendencies. These cases initially seem like isolated experiences, but Sonia soon finds that they are bound by an invisible thread. Very soon she will have to look closely at her own stars: a notorious international criminal has just crossed Sonia’s path – and he has his own plans for her future!

Manjiri Prabhu lives in Pune, India. She’s been a filmmaker and television producer for several years and a writer of two romances, two mystery novels and a non-fiction book on Hindi films. She is currently putting the finishing touches on The Astral Alibi – the next book in the Stellar Investigation series.

The beautiful Batik painting depicts Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati along with their son Ganesha in a most refine manner. The figure of Lord Shiva is shown in blue colour and Parvati is wearing a red cloth. A sense of love, affection and care is manifest in the beautiful painting that tells the story of a perfect couple in colour. The background Kailash mountain is also shown in a most beautiful manner. The method of waxing and dewaxing has given rise to aspectacular effect to the painting.

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ABOUT THE BOOK: In Hindu theology Divine Power is conceived as a divine woman-the Goddess. Sometimes she is wholly autonomous and sometimes she is the divine spouse of the creator God, Siva or Visnu. She is also held to be the evolving material source of every created phenomenon. Religious texts like Puranas and Tantras have thoroughly investigated the mysterious nature of the Cosmic Goddess. Tantra as a religious practice endeavoured to show how through ritual and Yoga one may achieve realization of the mystery of the Supreme Goddess. Authors in Sanskrit and modern Indian languages, have poured out their ecstatic devotion to the Goddess. She is close to the heart of the passionate devotee, who adores her as mother or daughter - a mortal emotional bond with the divine so peculiar to Hindus. She is also sovereign Power a little part of which reigning royalties covet to possess in order to be good rulers. AS the divine woman she is represented in all women. Therefore women should be holding a high position amongst Hindus. But the question is, do they? In spite of the obvious contrary evidence, women do succeed in carving out a very important position in Hindu religious practices by having their alternative religious rituals highly valued by Hindu women have a very complex interrelationship. The book focuses on the great cosmic Goddess and her ritual worship, Tantric theology and praxis in a wider sense, the attitude of her devotees towards her authority and the social character of the Tantric practitioners, and the position of Bhakti. It also figures out the position of women inside the Tantric and non-Tantric Hindu religious milieu. The Goddess symbolizes the supreme divine authority that activates the creation, protection and governance and necessary dissolution of the world in accordance with the ancient Indian concept of cyclical Time. But She also discharges the divine sovereign privilege of punishing evil-doers and rewarding true devotees. Finally, the relevant forms of the Cosmic Goddess in this book are Sri/Tripurasundari/ Lalita; Goddess Kali and Her various emanations; and Laksmi and Her powers in the Pancaratra canonical texts.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Alexandre Dumas (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Reading level: 10 - 16 years
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  216 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9388423119
  
• ISBN-13:  978-9388423113

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Jaico illustrated classics series is a collection of beloved children’s classics read by generations all over the world. Rich with adventures and thrills, these immortal stories with vivid illustrations are designed to delight young readers. Edmond Dantes, an upcoming sailor with a bright future, is implicated by his three jealous friends for a crime he did not commit. He is imprisoned for life. In the prison, an old, dying mate incoherently tells him of a vast amount of treasure buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Dantes escapes after fourteen years in prison. Starting life all over again as a sailor, he eventually finds the treasure and becomes immensely rich, ruthless and powerful, donning the title of ‘count’ with only one aim in life that is to seek revenge against three men responsible for his imprisonment. How he goes on to avenge the injustice and harm done to him is this story of the count of Monte Cristo.

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In this beautiful Warli painting, the countryside of the tribal populace is given a refine and prolific touch. The main characteristic of such kind of painting is that the artists don't use any chemical colours. Natural dyes and water colours are used in abundance on handmade paper to create a resplendent spread on the overall painting. One of the most ancient genres of Indian paintings, this type of tribal paintings depicts the simplicity of the Warli tribes in Maharashtra. Major economic preoccupation of the tribal people, celebration, wedding, rituals and births are the main motifs of this genre of painting. The Warli art has a special characteristic of representing the humble life of the Warli tribe. Here the womenfolk are going to their fields, they are carrying foodstuff on their heads, some are carrying the products in their carts. Some are working at their homes. Cows and other animals are grazing in the fields. Overall a simple life of a village is painted and it takes you right into the village setting. At the bottom of the painting, a tram is also nicely painted depicting the advent of modernism in the life of the Warli people. The characteristic feature of Warli paintings is the use of geometric designs such as triangles, circles, squares, dots and crooked lines are used to depict human figures, animal figures, houses, crops etc. Warli art is known for its monochromatic depictions reflecting the folk life of socio-religious customs, imaginations and beliefs. Predominately white colour is used on a red earthen background.

The brass figure of Lord Hanuman, the monkey disciple of lord Ram has been chiseled out revealing a sense of devotion and obeisance in the face of the bhakta (disciple) His folded hands reveal his devotion towards Ram. His headgear, hands and arms are heavily decorated with ornaments. His waist is covered with a loin cloth and is wearing ornaments. Lord Hanuman is worshipped by the Hindu devotees for the fulfillment of desires.

This feast of smiles was put together giving the secret strategies and all the tricks of courtesans One of Kshemendra’s finest satires, The Courtesan’s Keeper is a delightful and rambunctious rendition of the life and times of the courtesan Kankali as she teaches the ways of the world to her ward Kalavati. From the attractive courtesan and her shrewd keeper to the experienced barber and the avaricious trader, the book brings to life the vibrant society of Kashmir Valley a thousand years ago through a host of characters, each drawn in vivid detail. With its terse narrative, directness and economy of style, and fast-paced action, the book is fully suited for the twenty-first-century reader.

The graceful figure of the great sage and master Avatar Patanjali is beautifully carved out of stone with great refinement and detail. He was the founder and father of Yoga. He was considered to be a fully self-realized avatar, who had mastered the mind, the body, its senses, and even this physical world. He was also a profound knower of knowledge which made him an amazing philosopher and teacher of how to master your life. Patanjali was an incarnation of Adi S'esha who is the first ego-expansion of Vishnu, Sankarshana. Sankarshana, the manifestation of Vishnu His primeval energies and opulences, is part of the so-called catur vyuha, the fourfold manifestation of Vishnu. And this aspect of the Lord is being nicely depicted in the stone figure. Thus may Patañjali be considered as the one incarnation of God defending the ego of yoga.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Rene Guenon
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : November 1, 2007
• Pages : 142
• Weight : 300 g.
• Size : 5.4 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569115
• ISBN-10 : 8186569111
• Product Code : BK14254

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“Guénon is not an ‘orientalist’ but what the Hindus would call a guru.”
—Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
In the first half of the twenteeth century, a French man, René Guénon (1886–1951), struck the conscience of the Western world by reminding it about the spiritual knowledge that was at the heart of all traditional civilizations but that the modern Western world had completely lost sight of, and urged it earnestly to recover it before it would be too late. A profound knower of Hindu, Islamic, Taoist and other traditions, Guénon expounded, in the same way as A.K. Coomaraswamy with whom he regularly corresponded, the traditional metaphysics which gave a unity beyond the forms to the apparently different traditions of mankind. Though completely ignored by the official academic world, his message inspired quite a few seekers, and more than 50 years after his death his books are regularly republished and his influence grows steadily.
In The Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in 1927, Guénon writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness and its spiritual destitution when confronted with the traditional civilizations. Eighty years later, his words are still amazingly present and fully valid, but there is something that has definitely changed: the traditional East that Guénon sets against the modern West has disappeared in a great measure as Asia has taken, by its own choice or by the force of circumstances, to the same road than the West. The reflexions of Guenon about the modern world are thus in a big extent applicable to the India of today, in danger of being submerged by the strong flow of modern ways and conceptions and of forgetting the spiritual base that was always the foundation of its civilization and that was the main cause for its unique survival through so many centuries.

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This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual and dramatic forms. It focuses on the Draupadi cult's own double mythology, moving from its storieis about Draupadi's 'primal temple' near the capital of the medieval South Indian Kingdom of Gingee to its version of the Mahabharata war on the North Indian plain of Kuruksetra. Throughout, Hiltebeitel intertwines 'regional' data, gathered from both oral and written sources, with the 'epic', drawn from the cult's own performative traditions as well as from classical versions of the Mahabharata in both Tamil and Sanskrit. He re-examines many issues critical to Indological studies and takes up them while breaking new ground in investigating the further rapport between the Hindu goddess and the Indian epic. Future volumes will treat the rituals of the Draupadi cult and the Mahabharata as seen through a Draupadi cult retrospective.

About the Author

Alf Hiltebeitel is Professor in the Department of Religion at George Washington University. Dr. Hiltebeitel is the editor of Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism, also published by SUNY Press, and he is the author of The Cult of Draupadi, Vol. 1, Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruks.

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• Product Code: BK9901
• Publisher  :   Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
• Edition  :   January 1, 2017
• Pages  :   368
• Weight   :   410g.
• Size   :   8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Cover   :   Hardcover
• Auther :   Alf Hiltebeitel
• Language   :    English
• ISBN : 8120810007, 978-8120810006

Every Indian is proud of India & art and culture. He shall wax eloquent on how it has assimilated the invader, and how they lost their own identities and became Indians. But if asked what exactly brought about this metamorphosis, he is bound to struggle for an answer; for the history he has read had enlightened him about the rise and fall of many dynasties both Indian and foreign - but kept him almost dark on their artistic and cultural achievements. Thus the catalytic agent responsible for this unusual phenomenon eluded his grasp. This book The Culture and Art of India by Radhakamal Mukerjee, answers the long felt need for a work on India art and culture in a lucid style. It brings in perfect focus that, the state, politics and conquest are far less significant in India than metaphysics, religion, myth and art as factors in social integration and it is these that have welded middle, East and South-East Asia for several centuries into one spiritual community

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• Publisher : Rupa Publications
• By : Ruskin Bond
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2018
• Pages : 250
• Weight : 300 gm
• Size : 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
• ISBN-10: 8129151863
• ISBN-13: 978-8129151865

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The Daffodil Case brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s fiction and non-fiction. From the thoroughly delightful ‘Dinner with Foster’ and ‘Who Kissed Me in the Dark’ to spooky tales like ‘A Fright in the Night’ and ‘Wilson’s Bridge’, and classics like ‘Death of a Familiar’, ‘Voting at Barlowganj’ and ‘My Father’s Trees in Dehra’—this volume is a selection of some of Bond’s best works. One of India’s most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond creates a charming portrait of the quiet, unhurried life for his readers with this collection.

About the Author

Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children’s books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of twenty-three he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla,
New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India, and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.

The Vedas-Rg, Yajur and Sama-have enjoined on the Hindus a number of rites that are to be performed during the succeeding hours of the day. Every moment of one's waking hours, from dawn to dusk, is so taken care of that even if one wishes, there is not a minute to spare for frivolous pursuits. These daily practices have taken cognizance of man's nature-that unless he is compelled by injunction, inducement, circumstances or ambition, he would fritter away his energy and time in chasing transient success-and aim to awaken the mental, moral and spiritual powers lying dormant in him.

Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu's The Daily Practice of Hindu describes in detail all the Vedic rites connected with the morning and midday duties. The Sanskrit text, its transliteration, work-meaning, translation and grammatical notes provide the assistance for the understanding of Vedic mantras. The chapters on Tantric and Universal Sandhya liberates the use of this book from its sectarian confinement.

Everyone, irrespective of his creed, shall find this book invaluable; for it caters to everybody's physical and spiritual well-being.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Krishna Dutta (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages :  144 pages
• Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : : 978-8184959406
  

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Authentic dal-based recipes from Kashmir to Kanyakumari! Flavoured with history, spiced with authenticity and served with love… straight from the Indian kitchen. Dal is to India what pasta is to Italy – cheap to produce, highly nutritional, suitable for long storage and capable of being cooked in myriad ways. This humble ingredient has been a staple in the diet of Indians and their neighbours for millennia. Across the subcontinent, it is consumed by rich and poor alike. High in protein and with practically no sugar, it is an essential for diabetics. Dal can be cooked in courses of infinite variety – there are at least 50 recipes for this humble food. Discover the multiple delicious ways of cooking it, with wide-ranging seasonings and all the assorted supplements to serve with it. Relish the many flavourful variants dished out over the centuries by cooks experimenting with locally available ingredients to satisfy a regional palate. Including recipes of khichri, dosas, vadas, dhokla, papadam and pakoras, The Dal Cookbook lays out an extraordinary array of foods to be created and savoured.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Patricia Cronin Marcello  (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2012
• Pages :  192 pages
• Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184953589
  

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He is both the living conscience of the Tibetan people and an internationally respected human rights symbol. His high-profile appearances and books have fueled the surging popularity of Buddhism in the United States and throughout the West. This new, up-to-date biography provides insight into the curious and winning personality of the Dalai Lama as a boy and his wisdom as a man. His story is revealed from early family life to his experiences in the world, his education as the 14th incarnation of the Lama, his exile in India and his current struggles to help Tibet regain its independence from China. Especially helpful is the historical overview of the Tibetan crisis after the Chinese invasion. A timeline and glossary supplement the text. Though the book is written especially for high school students, it will also immensely interest general readers.