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Over a career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan, easily one of the most influential and important writers of India, populated the fictional town of Malgudi with a host of unforgettable characters: Swami and his gang of friends, the Talkative Man, Raju the guide and Sampath the printer, among many others. These characters have carved out a place for themselves in popular imagination and live on, still fresh and endlessly entertaining, many decades after they first appeared.
Timeless Malgudi brings together a selection of the best and the most enduring of R.K. Narayan’s fiction and non-fiction. The Guide examines, with wit and irony, how a man becomes a godman. The story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ describes an attempt at cross-cultural communication which goes haywire, with hilarious consequences. The excerpt from My Days, Narayan’s autobiography, paints a poignant picture of the author’s childhood while the ‘Misguided “Guide”’ is a cynical, sharply written chronicle of the making of the film Guide, based on his novel. Also included in this volume are excerpts from the travelogue My Dateless Diary and a brilliant retelling of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram.
Catering both to Narayan aficionados and to readers who have not yet been introduced to his work, Timeless Malgudi is as much a showcase of Narayan’s writing as it is a celebration of Malgudi, the town which time does not touch.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the fictional town of Malgudi. Apart from these, Narayan wrote twelve other novels. Narayan has also authored five collections of short stories, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs, and re-told legends and epics. Narayan, who lived to be ninety-four, died in 2001.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Pendred Noyce  (Author), Roberta Baxter  (Author)
  
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  156 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13:  978-8184955965
  

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Galactic Academy of Science Series

Will Mae and Clintion return in time to uncover a vicious plot involving the new vaccine?

Mai and Clintion are fighting about whether a new vaccine is safe. But when protests against the vaccine threaten to turn violent, Selectra Volt insists that the two middle schoolers go on a mission together to find the truth. Mae and Clinton travel through time from ancient India to Europe, Australia and North America. They witness the fight against smallpox, rabies, polio and other viral illnesses as they visit Louis Pasteur, Jonas Salk, Macfarlane Burnet, Maurice Hilleman and Andrew Wakefield.

"The Vikramorvasiyam of Kalidasa
A New Skt.Comm. and Arthaprakashika, Various Reading Introd., a Literal Tr., Exhaustive Notes in Eng.& Appendices"

The beautiful Batik painting depicts two village women engaged in gossips on their way to fetch water from the village well. A panoramic scene of an Indian village is manifest in the spectacular painting. Two cows are beautifully painted and another woman is bust at her daily work. Trees are also given a refine touch. The method of waxing and then dewaxing also adds some beauty in the painting.

A village god is given a vivid portrayal in this beautiful Warli painting. Mythological figures are main motifs of this genre of painting. The goddess reflects the simple religious beliefs of the Warli people. One of the most ancient genres of Indian paintings, this type of tribal paintings depicts the simple life style 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.

Two beautiful village women are filling water on their earthen pots. A panoramic village ambience with the well, green trees, cows is manifest in the beautiful Batik painting. The women are also engrossed in talking as they are filling water on their pots. Batik paintings are mostly centered on West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu in India and are known for their originality, uniqueness and finesse. Batik is the art of creating images on the cotton cloth using wax resist method.

About the Book :-

This book is primarily intended to be an investigation into the meaning and religious significance of the important Vedic term dhi, which has been variously and often inadequately translated. The author has tried to determine its central meaning or semantic nucleus from which the various contextual connotations were derived. This central meaning is vision, not only in the literal sense (faculty of seeing), but in the Vedic texts mainly in the sense of mental vision, supranormal vision establishing the contact with the transcendent sphere or world of the divine powers from which the poets obtained their inspiration and their insight into the higher supersensuous truth and reality which they endeavoured to express and formulate in their poems. The author elaborately describes the relevant processes and the activity of the poets and adds chapters on related subjects, e.g., the heart as the organ of these mental processes, poetical inspiration in post-Vedic literature, contemplation and meditation, the Buddhist ideas on vision as well as the term pratibha "flash of intuition.

About the Author :- Jan Gonda, born 1905, was professor of Sanskrit and Indology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 1932-1976. He is the author of many books and articles on Sanskrit, Indian religion and literature, among them Aspects of early Visnuism, Sanskrit in Indonesia, Die Religionen Indiens, The Dual Deities in the Religion of the Veda, Triads in the Veda, Vedic Literature, The Ritual Sutras, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. He is honorary member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and other Indian Academies and Institutes of the Royal Asiatic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences etc.

Cover : Hard Cover
Edition : 1985
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal Publication Pvt.Ltd
ISBN : 81-215-0076-1
Language : English
Pages : 372

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Ceremonial rites and rituals occupy a place of utmost importance in the life of a devout Hindu. In fact, there are no vital actions-birth, initiation, marriage, death etc.-which can be allowed to be performed without its appropriate rite or samskara. The number of samskaras has been fluctuating but was finally fixed at sixteen.

Marriage is the most important and elaborate out of these sixteen samskaras. Manu enjoins that rituals should be performed in the case of a virgin for legalizing the marriage, legitimatizing children and avoiding public scandal.

The mantras used in the nuptial rites being in Sanskrit are beyond the comprehension of not only the average Hindu but even the common priest entrusted with the duty of conducting the rituals. To overcome this difficulty the present book was originally prepared in Hindi and is now translated into English with the mantras etc. Romanized for the benefit of those who do not have adequate knowledge of Hindi, for example especially those whose forefathers had migrated to remote countries during the last one hundred years or so.

Dr. R.C. Prasad, taught English Literature at Patna University for over forty years, during which he wrote scores of books, including biographies and translations, the most outstanding of which was his prose rendering of the Ramacharitamanasa.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By:ARK Sarma (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages: 244 pages
• Size :  14 x 1.41 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  9386867710
• ISBN-13 :  978-9386867711
  

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Master Power Attitudes and Become an Icon Everyone can become an icon in any aspect of their lives – an iconic athlete, an iconic chef, an iconic entrepreneur, an iconic parent. you name it! A person can transform into an icon if he develops a collection of admirable attitudes over a period of time. Taking the great Swami Vivekananda as the role model, The Vivekananda Way presents attitudes in seven opposing pairs that can be adopted to radically change our lives and make us all icons in our chosen fields. These attitudes are paired specifically to help expand our inner and outer worlds and achieve a true balance between them.
The author, ARK Sarma, emphasizes the difference between ‘vision’ and ‘seeing the big picture’ and shows the way forward to developing the traits that shape a great personality.
Replete with over 108 life incidences and teachings of the great spiritual leader, this book will propel anyone to become an outstanding human being and achieve overall success.
ARK Sarma is an engineer and ex-UPSC Class-I officer. He has also worked in the private sector as Additional Vice President with Tata Teleservices Ltd. After a long stint of 15 years with the Tata's, he bade farewell to a regular job to pursue his other passions – becoming an entrepreneur and author. He has written over 20 books on Swami Vivekananda and sold over eight lakh copies in several languages.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :Osho  (Author)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2010
• Pages : 584 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8184950187
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8184950182

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Talks on Mabel Collins’ Light on the Path

In this book, Osho says of Light on the Path, “It is born out of those few essential words that man discovers again and again, and loses again and again. Mabel Collins says that she is not the author of the words that are collected in this booklet, that she has only seen them in the depths of meditation. She says, and rightly so, that these words are from a lost Sanskrit booklet.”

“Once you have heard the inner voice there is no more going astray in life…. The one who travels and the one who guides are one and the same.”

—OSHO

Osho is an Indian mystic and philosopher. He has spoken on major spiritual traditions including Jainism, Hinduism, Hassidism, Tantrism, Christianity, Buddhism, on a variety of Eastern and Western mystics and on sacred scriptures such as the Upanishads.