Karna's Song

Karna's Song
Author: R.Radhakrishnan
Publisher: R.Radhakrishnan
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2023-01-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

India is a land of stories and songs. The Mahabharata is a literary masterpiece and well known around the world. But unlike other literary classics, around the world, the Mahabharata is a people’s epic as it is a story of human emotions and frailties. The cast of characters is vast and we can always find someone with whom we can identify. Karna, the tragic, the heroic and intriguing character is a favourite all almost all people who read the Mahabharata. His quest to find his identity engrosses us. His question, “who am I” is existential, which reverberates throughout the story and touches a chord among us. We are all seeking to find out who we are. This small book is a poetic interpretation of Karna’s thoughts at the end when he finds some answers. As usual, Radhakrishnan writes with simplicity, clarity and brevity and yet charms with these songs which lay bare the essence of Karna. Get this book to get an insight into one of the most intriguing and loved characters from the Mahabharata, Karna.

Karna's Song

Karna's Song
Author: R Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-13
Genre:
ISBN:

From India the land of stories and songs. India is a land of stories and songs. The Mahabharata is a literary masterpiece and well known around the world. But unlike other literary classics, around the world, the Mahabharata is a people's epic as it is a story of human emotions and frailties. The cast of characters is vast and we can always find someone with whom we can identify. Karna, the tragic, the heroic and intriguing character is a favourite all almost all people who read the Mahabharata. His quest to find his identity engrosses us. His question, "who am I" is existential, which reverberates throughout the story and touches a chord among us. We are all seeking to find out who we are. This small book is a poetic interpretation of Karna's thoughts at the end when he finds some answers. As usual, Radhakrishnan writes with simplicity, clarity and brevity and yet charms with these songs which lay bare the essence of Karna. Get this book to get an insight into one of the most intriguing and loved characters from the Mahabharata, Karna.

Kattaikkuttu

Kattaikkuttu
Author: Hanne M. de Bruin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350236624

This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition from India. It describes the theatre's characteristic heroic nature as expressed through its principal, male kattai characters, explores its history, social status and ritual context, and examines the production of all-night plays. After placing Kattaikkuttu in the wider, competitive context of the performing arts in India, Hanne M. de Bruin introduces readers to some of the debates about the form and provides an overview of the different elements that make up a Kattaikkuttu performance. It considers its performance spaces and the way the form has changed, such as its transition towards an independent and more professional theatre genre, as well as the opening up of the form to different castes and to women. It covers the production and frameworks of all-night performances, uses the Mahabharata play Karna Moksam as a case study and examines recent changes in the Kattaikkuttu repertory. In addition, the book looks in more detail at the role of the performer, including the training of a Kattaikkuttu novice, the performance score of actor-singers that underlie a specific role or vesam, and a seasoned performer's agency in interpreting well-known roles. Finally, the study turns to recent innovations, in particular the creation of new work and the Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam.

GANGA

GANGA
Author: JAWAHARLAL SHANMUGAM
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The fiction is a triangular love story with differences and uniqueness. The Sadhu closes his eyes for a minute and is in an intense prayer. Then, he opens his eyes and looks at Ganga. SADHU: Beti, your name is Ganga. You have some divine connection with this place and the Lord. The Lord has called you for some purpose. You have the blessings of Lord Kashi Viswanath, Aadhi Shakthi Visalakshi, Bhagwan Maha Vishnu, and Ganga Ma in this holy place. This boy, Jamal, is another God. You don't leave him. There is some unique bond between both of you. My Lord Mahadev tells me that some good thing will happen to both of you soon. Let me tell you the truth. It is difficult for people to survive in Ganga once she pulls you. But you survived the mighty current. It indicates that the Lord was with you. He was waiting for Jamal to take you. Karna is stunned listening to the Sadhu. Is he the messenger of Lord Mahadev to deliver some divine message? The sadhus jumping into the river and saving Ganga and Jamal look like some form of divine intervention. Karna goes forward and holds Ganga's hands. Who is this wonderful Jamal? What is his connection with Ganga, Sadhus, Karna, and Arjun at the holy and sacred place, Varanasi? The story unfolds

The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education

The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education
Author: Timothy Brophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 848
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190248157

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable challenge in finding a way to measure student learning in their classrooms. From Australia to Taiwan to the Netherlands, music teachers experience similar struggles in the quest for a definitive assessment resource that can be used by both music educators and researchers. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors from across the globe come together to provide an authority on the assessment, measurement, and evaluation of student learning in music. The Handbook's first volume emphasizes international and theoretical perspectives on music education assessment in the major world regions. This volume also looks at technical aspects of measurement in music, and outlines situations where theoretical foundations can be applied to the development of tests in music. The Handbook's second volume offers a series of practical and US-focused approaches to music education assessment. Chapters address assessment in different types of US classrooms; how to assess specific skills or requirements; and how assessment can be used in tertiary and music teacher education classrooms. Together, both volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Assessment in Music Education pave the way forward for music educators and researchers in the field.

Love.... Jaisa Kuch

Love.... Jaisa Kuch
Author: Karan Gandhi
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Karan, a simple focused guy.. Zoya, a full of life girl. What happens when stranger Zoya enters into Karan's life and how his life get a U-Turn.... Witness the friendship, Discover the New-Age College-Romance set in the streets of India and the Roller-Coaster journey of Karan and Zoya in, "Love.... Jaisa Kuch"

On Thrones of Gold

On Thrones of Gold
Author: James R. Brandon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1993-07-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780824814250

¿Perhaps the best English-language puppetry book in years.¿ ¿Library Journal ¿Accessible and unexpectedly involving ... an essential book for anyone seriously interested in wayang.¿ ¿

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Author: Jai Chakrabarti
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9357081909

In the fifteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title story, a closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover's wife. An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An American musician travels to see his guru for the final timeand makes a promise he cannot keep. A young woman from an Indian village arrives in Brooklyn to care for the toddler of a biracial couple. And a mystical agent is sent by a mother to solve her son's domestic problems. Throughout, the characters' most vulnerable desires shape lifealtering decisions as they seek to balance their needs against those of the people they hold closest. The stories in A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness capture men and women struggling with transformation and familial bonds; they traverse the intersections of countries and cultures to illuminate what it means to love in uncertain times; and they showcase the skill of a storyteller who dazzles with the breadth of his vision.

Sons of Darkness

Sons of Darkness
Author: Gourav Mohanty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2023-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1035900203

THE HOUSE OF THE DRAGON MEETS SUCCESSION IN AN EPIC REIMAGINING OF THE MAHABHARATA 'An unforgettable wild journey set in re-imagined Vedic India' SF Book Review 'Like Game of Thrones in an Indian alternative universe... exhilarating... heralds the arrival of a special new talent' Dan Jones 'Mahabharata imbued with A Song of Ice and Fire, The First Law, & Malazan Book of the Fallen' Novel Notions SOME BALLADS ARE INKED IN BLOOD Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither gold nor alliances last forever – and that they are not the only players on the board. Mati, Pirate-Princess of Kalinga, has decided to mend her ways and become a good wife. But old habits die hard, especially when one habitually uses murder to settle old scores. Brooding and beautiful Karna hopes to bury his brutal past, but finds that destiny is a miser when it comes to granting second chances. Hero-turned-torturer Shakuni limps through a path of daggers. Meanwhile, his foes and woes multiply, leaving little time for vengeance. Their lives are about to become yet more difficult, as a cast of sinister queens, naive kings, pious assassins and ravenous priests are converging where the Son of Darkness is prophesied to rise... even as forgotten Gods prepare to play their hand.