Author: K. R. Sharanya
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484034583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Born to the sun god and the earthly princess, Kanti, Radheya's birthright is to inherit sovereignty over all the kingdoms of the earth. But a quirk of fate sees the new born baby abandoned on the waves of the River Ganges - not to learn of his true identity until hours before his glorious death some four decades later. Though he is raised in obscurity by humble peasants, Radheya's natural kingly qualities cannot be covered by the poverty and disadvantage of his circumstances. They shine through like sun's rays through dark storm clouds, and, against all odds, Radheya makes his mark on the world. The Ballad of Radheya tells the life story of one of the most poignant figures of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
The Ballad of Radheya
Author: K. R. Sharanya
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484034583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Born to the sun god and the earthly princess, Kanti, Radheya's birthright is to inherit sovereignty over all the kingdoms of the earth. But a quirk of fate sees the new born baby abandoned on the waves of the River Ganges - not to learn of his true identity until hours before his glorious death some four decades later. Though he is raised in obscurity by humble peasants, Radheya's natural kingly qualities cannot be covered by the poverty and disadvantage of his circumstances. They shine through like sun's rays through dark storm clouds, and, against all odds, Radheya makes his mark on the world. The Ballad of Radheya tells the life story of one of the most poignant figures of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484034583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Born to the sun god and the earthly princess, Kanti, Radheya's birthright is to inherit sovereignty over all the kingdoms of the earth. But a quirk of fate sees the new born baby abandoned on the waves of the River Ganges - not to learn of his true identity until hours before his glorious death some four decades later. Though he is raised in obscurity by humble peasants, Radheya's natural kingly qualities cannot be covered by the poverty and disadvantage of his circumstances. They shine through like sun's rays through dark storm clouds, and, against all odds, Radheya makes his mark on the world. The Ballad of Radheya tells the life story of one of the most poignant figures of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
The Famine Plot
Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137045175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137045175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
Quotes of Life
Author: Radhey Shiam
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
ISBN: 9789388319560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The reminiscence of poetry emanates from the inception of our age-old civilization: from oral chanting to epics writings. The essence of poetry has been imprinted in our ancient Vedic literature. Poetry inspires to unfold the sublime spiritual essence of the basic building block of creation, the living and the non-living, since time immemorial. The literature has been considered as the blueprint of social reformation. From writing an epic poem to one-word haiku ('Tundra' by Cor van den Heuvel) has been a long journey in the history of poetry writing.
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
ISBN: 9789388319560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The reminiscence of poetry emanates from the inception of our age-old civilization: from oral chanting to epics writings. The essence of poetry has been imprinted in our ancient Vedic literature. Poetry inspires to unfold the sublime spiritual essence of the basic building block of creation, the living and the non-living, since time immemorial. The literature has been considered as the blueprint of social reformation. From writing an epic poem to one-word haiku ('Tundra' by Cor van den Heuvel) has been a long journey in the history of poetry writing.
River of Fire
Author: Qurratulain Hyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811204421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
“Magisterial” (Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books) and “to Urdu fiction what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Hispanic literature” (TLS) The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, forming a rich tapestry of history and human emotions and redefining Indian identity. But above all, it’s a unique pleasure to read Hyder’s singular prose style: “Lyrical and witty, occasionally idiosyncratic, it is always alluring and allusive: Flora Annie Steel and E. M. Forster encounter classical Urdu poets; Eliot and Virginia Woolf meet Faiz Ahmed Faiz” (The Times Literary Supplement).
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811204421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
“Magisterial” (Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books) and “to Urdu fiction what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Hispanic literature” (TLS) The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, forming a rich tapestry of history and human emotions and redefining Indian identity. But above all, it’s a unique pleasure to read Hyder’s singular prose style: “Lyrical and witty, occasionally idiosyncratic, it is always alluring and allusive: Flora Annie Steel and E. M. Forster encounter classical Urdu poets; Eliot and Virginia Woolf meet Faiz Ahmed Faiz” (The Times Literary Supplement).
River of Fire
Author: Qurratulain Hyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A novel of India through the eyes of four protagonists, reincarnated several times over 2,000 years. They retain the same names and are always involved with each other. A tale of love, war, possession and dispossession. By an Indian woman writing in Urdu.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A novel of India through the eyes of four protagonists, reincarnated several times over 2,000 years. They retain the same names and are always involved with each other. A tale of love, war, possession and dispossession. By an Indian woman writing in Urdu.
Unearthing Gender
Author: Smita Tewari Jassal
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.
Sexual Life in Ancient India
Author: Johann Jakob Meyer
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
ISBN: 9788120806382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
ISBN: 9788120806382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Krishna
Author: Edwin F. Bryant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199724318
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres -- classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199724318
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres -- classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.
Books in Print Supplement
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2056
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2056
Book Description
Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections
Author: Ayyappappanikkar
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126003655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
This Volume Has Two Parts, Surveys Of All The Languages And Selections From Three Languages Assamese, Bengali And Dogri.
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126003655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
This Volume Has Two Parts, Surveys Of All The Languages And Selections From Three Languages Assamese, Bengali And Dogri.