Dhruva: DREAM OF BECOMING LEADER, Season1: The Beginning

Dhruva: DREAM OF BECOMING LEADER, Season1: The Beginning
Author: Vishal Thakur
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2024-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Introducing our latest creation is a unique blend of narrative ingenuity and cinematic allure. Crafted with meticulous precision, this book unfolds like a gripping movie, immersing readers in a captivating experience that seamlessly bridges the gap between literature and film. Designed to captivate even those with a fleeting interest in reading, this book transcends conventional boundaries, drawing readers into a world where every page is a scene, every chapter a cinematic revelation. The seamless fusion of Action, Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Rivals, Friendship, and an overarching Great Story ensures an enthralling journey for every reader, regardless of their literary preferences. In its inaugural edition, this book lays the foundation for a vast universe that promises to expand with future editions. As you turn the pages, a perpetual sense of suspense and intrigue accompanies the narrative, compelling you to unravel the layers of a story that unfolds like a carefully orchestrated film script. Prepare to embark on a literary adventure where words transcend the confines of the page, evoking emotions and imagery akin to the silver screen. With this inaugural edition, we invite you to witness the birth of a saga that is destined to carve its place in the literary cosmos. Brace yourself for a reading experience that goes beyond the ordinary, and stay tuned for more editions that will further enrich this ever-expanding universe. This is not just a book; it is a gateway to an expansive universe waiting to unfold before your very eyes.

The Swap

The Swap
Author: Shuma Raha
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9353573998

There is nothing really wrong with Priya Bakshi and Akash Srivastav's six-year-old marriage ... except that Priya is having an affair. And Akash, too, seems to be on the lookout for sexual adventure. When Tarun, their richer, older, and manipulative friend, tells them about Delhi's couple-swapping parties, Akash wants to jump right in. With some reluctance, Priya agrees to give him company. Soon, Priya and Akash find themselves in a world of swinging couples and sexual abandon, joined by friends who are equally keen to test the waters. But as the clothes come off and the secrets begin to tumble out, it seems that none of them will emerge unscathed.Witty and racy, The Swap is a sparkling social novel about sex, marriage and morality.

Bal Narendra

Bal Narendra
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2014
Genre: Chief ministers
ISBN: 9789383923786

Read Riordan

Read Riordan
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781368058117

The adventure begins here - the first novels from the five groundbreaking series by Rick Riordan! Starting with THE LIGHTNING THIEF, the book that launched millions of readers into the amazing world of Greek mythology, to THE HIDDEN ORACLE, the story that gives a new look to Roman myths -- not to mention the god, Apollo -- with visits to Egypt and Valhalla in between. This beautifully packaged boxed set will thrill fans who want to relive the adventure and magic again, and will open the door to new readers of Riordan's epic storytelling.

Yoga in Transformation

Yoga in Transformation
Author: Karl Baier
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2018
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 3737008620

This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.

A Fragile Inheritance

A Fragile Inheritance
Author: Saloni Mathur
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478003383

In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Buddhist Teaching in India

Buddhist Teaching in India
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0861718119

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day.

Stone Mattress

Stone Mattress
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385539134

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.

Language of the Snakes

Language of the Snakes
Author: Andrew Ollett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520968816

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.