SRI RAMA'S LIFE JOURNEY : EVENTS AND FACTS

SRI RAMA'S LIFE JOURNEY : EVENTS AND FACTS
Author: Dr. B Balnarayana
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2023-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

One of the best-known and most revered of the ancient Indian epics is the Ramayana. The Ramayana is an ancient Hindu epic with significant cultural and religious importance in India and Southeast Asia. It is attributed to the sage Valmiki and is composed of about 24,000 verses divided into seven books, known as Kandas. The epic narrates the life and adventures of Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu. Ramayana serves as an inspiration for this book. A well-known king, Lord Rama is also a wonderful person. Various poets have portrayed Ramayana in a variety of ways. The Ramayana is not just a story; it also includes significant moral, ethical, and spiritual aspects. This book contains the details of Dharma (Righteousness), dedication and allegiance, selflessness and sacrifice, reverence for elders and authorities, honor and integrity, bravery and tenacity, forgiveness and compassion are best captured in this book. For millions, the epic continues to be treasured and a source of inspiration and moral instruction.

Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare

Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
Author: Mohan Gopinath
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2022-01-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527579018

This book is written for all lovers of the performing arts, especially those who love Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala, the southern state in India. While other texts have been written about the history of the dance drama in English, this book uniquely brings in Shakespearean plays and characters, comparing them to the stories and characters in Kathakali to give it a completely new perspective.

Gods, Heroes and their Story Tellers

Gods, Heroes and their Story Tellers
Author: V. Hari Saravanan
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 837
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9384391492

We can hear Urumula Naganna’s drum roll during the rendition of the Sri Akammagaru Kaviya. An oral tradition which is as old as the hills is captured in the book Gods, Heroes and their Storytellers. Do you know the story of how the Madiga community came to inherit the right to skin cattle carcass and produce leather articles? How are contemporary Folk Oral Literatures connected to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? There are many such stories and tradition bearers who doggedly go on in spite of the onslaught of the digital media. The author here has tried his best in keeping these traditions alive by not only telling the stories but also by living with the story tellers themselves. The rich details give us a window to a world which is not only very far away for our everyday mundane existence but also makes us retrospect on what we are missing out. Each of the tradition bearers are different and so are their stories and the region to which they belong. These are not merely stories but a way of life for these oral narrators who are fast disappearing in today’s consumerist landscape. The need of the hour is to keep alive these traditions and the tradition bearers.

Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics

Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics
Author: Mohan Gopinath
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2023-06-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527515427

This book demonstrates that people writing and creating characters almost 6,000 miles apart, and in different centuries, have a lot more in common than one might expect. It examines the day-to-day themes appearing in two epics, The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham, and some of Shakespeare’s plays (without entering into the realm of philosophy). The book reveals that whatever backgrounds people may have, they ultimately tend to tackle life in very similar ways, and this claim is substantiated with many pertinent examples. The perspectives presented in this book will be of interest to all who study literature.

Local/Global

Local/Global
Author: Janice Helland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351559842

Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century is the first book to investigate women artists working in disparate parts of the world. This major new book offers a dazzling array of compelling essays on art, architecture and design by leading writers: Joan Kerr on art in Australia by residents, migrants and visitors; Ka Bo Tsang on the imperial court in China; Gayatri Sinha on south Asian artists; Mary Roberts on harem portraiture of the Ottoman empire; Griselda Pollock on Parisian studios; Lynne Walker on women patron-builders in Britain; S?shy;ghle Bhreathnach-Lynch and Julie Anne Stevens on Irish women artists; Ruth Phillips on souvenir art by native and settler women; Janet Berlo on North American textiles; Kristina Huneault on white settler identity in Canada; Charmaine Nelson on neo-classical sculpture in North America; and Stacie Widdifield on Mexico. This pioneering collection addresses issues at the heart of feminist and post-colonial studies: the nature of difference, discrepant modernities and cross-cultural encounters. Written in a lively and accessible style, this lavishly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on women, art and identity. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women artists and the art of the nineteenth century.

OLD Malayalam Film Songs

OLD Malayalam Film Songs
Author: VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
Publisher: VICTORIA INSTITUTION
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Old Malayalam film songs are wonderful. Most of them lend a most mesmerising sensation to the hearer. The style and tone has been set and led by Vayalar Ramavarma. Such others as P Bhaskaran, Sree Kumaran Thampi, and others have more or less tried to equal him in calibre. However, with the demise of Vayalar, there was no compelling standards or parameters to which film songs could remain loyal to. Standards deteriorated. There were attempts to cover the defects with loud music, and boisterous sounds. Now, what is so great about these songs? They convey a most elevated feel to the human psyche. In feudal Malayalam, everything has to remain in various social and mental levels. Starting from that of extreme lowliness to the heights of divine attainments. These songs generally lend a very ennobled aura to the human beings. There is the chakravartinis, salabanjigagas, rajashilpis, ajantha shilpams, anthapurams, agraharams, rathisukasares, mayalokams, manoharinis, anuraghapaurnamis and much else. Then there are the thenivarikkakaad, and such other exotic sounding places. However, the reality of Kerala life is much more mundane. It has no connection with the sweet dreamlike world depicted in the songs, which more or less make use of Sanskrit words and usages with gay abandon. The reality of communication in Kerala is rough, and tough, and possibly uncouth to those one does not respect or revere. Here everything comes with a string of respect versus pejorative codes connected to financial and social status; and also to age (currently).

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Author: Gautaman Bhaskaran
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 8184752687

One of the most critically acclaimed directors after Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan occupies a unique space in the world of cinema. His life intertwining with his art, and his art drawing upon real people and real lives, Gopalakrishnan’s cinema turns the mundane into the magical, the commonplace into the startling. In Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema, the first authorized biography of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner, Gautaman Bhaskaran traces the ebbs and flows of the life of this enigmatic director. From his birth during the Quit India movement to his lonely childhood; from his belief in Gandhian values and life at Gandhigram to his days and nights at the Pune Film Institute; and from his first film, Swayamvaram, to his latest and long-awaited, Pinneyum, Bhaskaran’s lucid narrative tracks the twists and turns of Gopalakrishnan’s life, revealing an uncommon man and a rare auteur.

AKASHVANI

AKASHVANI
Author: All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1980-10-05
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 5 OCTOBER, 1980 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 60 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLV, No. 43 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 7-24, 37-56 ARTICLE: 1.Conserving For Survival: Sources Of Energy 2.How Minerals Shaped The Mankind ? 3.Life And The People Across The Rohtang Pass 4.Acupuncture : Theory and Technique 5. Preparing New Generation For Challenges Ahead 6. What Can An Engineer Do for The Village ? AUTHOR: 1. Maheshwar Dayal 2. T. C. Ganesh 3. K.C. Pandey 4. Dr. A. Krishnamurti 5. Dr. C. L. Anand 6. Dr. B. S. Samaga Document ID : APE-1980 (S-D) Vol-III-02 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan

The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Author: Suranjan Ganguly
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1783084111

This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives about identity, selfhood and otherness, in which innocence is often at stake, and characters struggle with their consciences. Ganguly places the films within their larger frameworks of guilt and redemption in which the hope of emancipation – moral, spiritual and creative – is real and tangible.