Yasi Rasa Ta

Yasi Rasa Ta
Author: Vinod Kumar Shukla
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9352643801

In this story of three cousins, Vinod Kumar Shukla has introduced the meagre material culture of Chhatisgarh villages illuminated by Yasi, Rasa and Ta's sense of wonder about their parents' existence and the world at large. It is a children's book because the narrative is simple. It is a poet's book because each object - chappal, ghada, katori, phugga - seems more than itself, full of primal sounds and dipped in the mystery of 'being'.The exquisite beauty of the text reminds one of Saint-Exupery's Little Prince. It can become a source of wonder for both children and adults around the world.A dream of small-scale harmony against a cosmic backdrop.

THE WINDOWS IN OUR HOUSE ARE LITTLE DOORS

THE WINDOWS IN OUR HOUSE ARE LITTLE DOORS
Author: Vinod Kumar Shukla
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-12-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 935357482X

Yasi, Rasa and Ta are three restless children who live modest lower-middle-class lives at the edge of town, but their imaginations gleam with threads of many colours. Bored bicycles move away from their owners in the hope of being stolen ... A light bulb in a sari shop mischievously switches itself on and off ... Chalk doodles squirm and squiggle when adults are in the room ... Sandals lying by the door plead to be worn ... The adults who play their games must enter many worlds -- the one that prevails and the ones that are possible. They mumble and ask questions, but time and again they realize that a single glance won't take in the whole sky. In The Windows in Our House Are Little Doors, Vinod Kumar Shukla unrolls dreamy wisdom and brocade-like moments that catch the light and dazzle. This 'novel in twenty-six stories' is a thing of sublime joy and pure delight.

Blue Is Like Blue

Blue Is Like Blue
Author: Vinod Kumar Shukla
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9353029333

Winner of the Atta Galatta - Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize (Fiction) 2019.Renowned for bringing the marvellous to the ordinary, Vinod Kumar Shukla has long been recognized as one of India's foremost writers, with a voice uniquely his own.The stories in Blue Is Like Blue deal with 'smaller-than-life people'. They live in rented accommodation, often in single rooms, where one electric bulb does for light. There's a nail to hang clothes from and a wall-to-wall string for the washing. When the clothes are dry, you place the carefully folded shirt under a pillow and lie down to sleep. Money is a concern, but the bazaar is the place to go and spend time in, especially if you have nothing to buy. The fear that you may be overcharged accompanies every transaction, but joy is not entirely absent. Few works of modern Indian literature come alive in English, and fewer still in the way that these stories do in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai's brilliant translation.

A Silent Place

A Silent Place
Author: Vinoda Kumāra Śukla
Publisher: Eka
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Hindi fiction
ISBN: 9789390679140

Once It Flowers

Once It Flowers
Author: Vinod Kumar Shukla
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9350297205

A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky, and along with it, this intensely poetic novel opens up to the inner world of a dozen characters: Guruji, his wife, their two children, the village watchman, the tailor, the teashop owner at the railway station and the stationmaster. There is also the worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan, and his wife, who listens to the radio because nothing else will fill the emptiness in her life. A dreamlike novel that is an extraordinary evocation of modern India.

A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit

A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit
Author: Thomas Oberlies
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2012-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110899345

The two great epics of (old) India, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, are written in a language, which differs from so-called classical Sanskrit in many details. Both texts still are of an enormous importance in India and other countries. Because of this, a grammar describing all the different characteristics of epic Sanskrit has been missed until now. The Grammar of Epic Sanskrit will now close this gap.

Search for Sri Krishna

Search for Sri Krishna
Author: Swami B. R. Sridhar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1983-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539163596

The Search For Sri Krishna, Reality the Beautiful A penetrating look into the Center of the Infinite. Breaking through archaic misconceptions, "Search for Sri Krishna, Reality the Beautiful," reveals the supreme divinity as beautiful, affectionate, loving, and very personal. Swami B.R. Sridhar explains the origin of the soul and the soul's path of subjective evolution through devotion. He explains the necessity of a spiritual guide and how to approach the spiritual science. Parallels to Christianity are discussed as well as the six major philosophies of India. As only a perfected soul can do, he reveals the progressive levels of God realization culminating in the Krishna conception. The spiritual beauty and power of the Hare Krishna Mantra is described as well as what to avoid while chanting for the ultimate result, the inconceivable ecstasy of divine love. "Search for Sri Krishna" reminds us that we are spiritual beings and our real home is the spiritual realm, the land of love, and the abode of Sri Krishna.