How on earth did Stephen Huyler find himself pedaling a bicycle rickshaw through the Indian border on his twentieth birthday?
Intriguing stories like this define Huyler’s life and his metamorphosis into a leading documentarian of the cultures and peoples of India.
In the fifty-two years since his unusual first entry, Stephen has traversed the subcontinent dozens of times by a wide variety of transportation in order to conduct a detailed survey of India’s village and other subcultures.
His innate friendliness has always opened doors, while his skills as a writer and photographer have allowed him to create books and museum exhibitions of material never before recorded.
Transformed By India invites the reader to join Dr. Huyler as he navigates this remarkable nation. The chapters revolve around tributes to the individuals he has known from maharajahs to musicians, Dalits to Brahmins, politicians to potters. Tying all the many stories together is the innate strength and creative capacity for improvement expressed everywhere in the subcontinent.
Early in his career as an anthropologist and art historian, Stephen Huyler recognized that most of the world had little access to feeling the pulse of the peoples of South Asia.
His seven previous books and dozens of museum exhibitions build bridges of communication between India and countries beyond its boundaries.
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From the legendary investment guru Devina Mehra—one of the most powerful women on Fortune India 2022 and one of the only two women to receive a gold medal in the history of IIM-Ahmedabad—Money, Myths and Mantras answers some of the most difficult yet pertinent questions
about investing.
How do you get started on your investment journey?
Is investment only about the stock market or should you go beyond it?
What are the rules of investing and when should you break them?
What are the strategies of successful investors, and should you follow them?
Which well-known investment mantras are really myths?
How can your brain sabotage your portfolio?
An investment book like no other, it critically analyses different investing approaches and underscores what works and what doesn’t. It helps readers not only learn about investing but also unlearn some of the commonly held beliefs and practices that often lead to wrong choices. Engagingly written by a thought leader in the industry, Money, Myths and Mantras includes frameworks, thoughts and aha moments for both the novice investor and the investment pros. This book is the distillation of three decades of analysis of the fundamentals of investing. It is sure to be your ultimate guide to wealth creation.
Much about Nalanda remains shrouded in mystery. When was it founded? Who founded it? Who studied and taught there? What subjects were offered? How many students and teachers were there? Was Nalanda a university in the modern sense? And what ultimately led to its downfall? Nalanda by Abhay K. unravels these questions, telling the story of the rise, fall, and re-rise of Nalanda Mahavihara. Through extensive research, the book explores Nalanda’s contributions in fields such as science, mathematics, philosophy, art, architecture, and poetry. It also highlights the great luminaries who elevated its unparalleled reputation as the preeminent seat of knowledge, as well as the foreign scholars who visited the celebrated monastery.
Broad in sweep and deep in history, Nalanda is a thrilling read that sheds new light on Nalanda and its journey over millennia.
Raj Kapoor’s Awara, released over half a century ago, is widely regarded as a classic of Indian cinema. With its socialist message, the unprecedented intensity of its central romance, the memorable songs and the hugely popular character of ‘vagabond’—the tramp as the quintessential ‘common man’—the film captured the imagination of a young, independent nation. It also made Raj Kapoor perhaps the most famous Indian in the erstwhile Soviet Union, China and the Middle East.
In this award-winning book, first published in 1992, Gayatri Chatterjee examines every aspect of Awara to try and understand not just its popular and enduring appeal but also its intrinsic merits as pure cinema. By situating it in a historical, social and political context, and decoding key shots, sequences and songs, she analyses the different levels at which the film works.
Containing over 100 photographs, this exhaustive study brilliantly uses a single landmark film to investigate the complex and often fascinating phenomenon of popular cinema in India.
“In the full bloom of spring, in a beautiful garden, in a place called Lumbini, a prince was born.”
So begins the extraordinary story of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the prince who would become the enlightened Buddha, the Awakened One. This classic tale follows Prince Siddhartha’s journey of truth-seeking and discovery, including his life-altering encounters with human suffering and his realization of the Four Noble Truths. Today, millions of people all over the world follow the Buddha’s teachings on meditation, selflessness, and compassion. Rendered here in exquisite original watercolor illustrations, this inspiring story is brought to life for young readers curious about one of history’s most monumental and influential figures.
Buddhist Stories for Kids: Jataka Tales of Kindness, Friendship, and Forgiveness
Long ago, the Buddha told his followers Jataka Tales, or “birth stories,” about the many lifetimes he lived before he was born as Prince Siddhartha. In this beautiful retelling of ten such stories, the Buddha is introduced as the Queen of the Dogs, a loyal Parrot, a mischievous Monkey, a wise Lion, a brave Forest Owlet, and more.
Each story conveys important morals that are short, sweet, and to the point, giving children a handful of useful lessons to apply to their lives, like “Always try to do the right thing, even when no one else is watching.” These tales are brought to life with the warm and captivating voice of author and narrator, Laura Burges, exploring in vivid detail how one’s actions affect others; the importance of kindness; the strength of friendship; the value of thoughtful decisions; and the importance of letting go and learning to forgive.
हितोपदेश भारतीय जन-मानस तथा परिवेश से प्रभावित उपदेशात्मक कथाएँ हैं। हितोपदेश की कथाएँ अत्यंत सरल व सुग्राह्य हैं। विभिन्न पशु-पक्षियों पर आधारित कहानियाँ इसकी विशेषता हैं। रचयिता ने इन पशु-पक्षियों के माध्यम से कथा-शिल्प की रचना की है जिसकी समाप्ति किसी शिक्षाप्रद बात से ही हुई है। पशुओं को नीति की बातें करते हुए दिखाया गया है। सभी कथाएँ एक-दूसरे से जुड़ी हुई प्रतीत होती हैं। हितोपदेश, पंचतंत्र की ही पद्धति पर लिखा गया है।
भावनाओं पर नियंत्रण से जीवन सफल बनाएँ
• क्या आप अपने जीवन को उत्साहमय बनाना चाहते हैं?
• क्या आप अपनी पारिवारिक उलझनों को सुलझाना चाहते हैं?
• क्या आप शारीरिक और मानसिक कष्ट देने वाली भावनाओं पर काबू पाना चाहते हैं?
• आप जीवन से कितने ही निराश हो चुके हों, परंतु आप बिलकुल चिंता न कीजिए! जीवन में उत्साह, आत्मविश्वास, साहस, स्फूर्ति तथा संतोष प्राप्त कर असफलताओं को सफलताओं में बदलिए!
• इस पुस्तक में डॉ. लक्ष्मीनारायण शर्मा ने ऐसी अनेक समस्याओं का समाधान किया है। आप भी इस पुस्तक को पढ़कर भावनाजनित कुंठाओं से मुक्ति पाइए।
The Adhikarathil family had a distinguished history. It prospered both in terms of wealth and eminence, acquiring the status of royalty in Malabar, Kerala, until the birth of a child named Eranimos shocked everyone. Unlike his fair-skinned, Christian forebears, Eranimos was born dark-skinned, leading to controversial conjectures about his lineage.
Blackened tells the story of its protagonist’s quest to discover the truth behind his dark skin and caste identity. But weaved into this personal tale are multiple layers of Kerala’s social and political histories—its caste conflicts, its massive waves of conversion and migration, its clashing belief systems, and its rural and urban divide.
Originally published as Karikkottakkary in Malayalam, Blackened is an impactful bildungsroman that covers the arc of a conflicted life, and shows us how family histories are tied into the larger historical currents that form communities and shape destinies.
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over
A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is.
Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she’s diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they’re clairvoyant visions.
Just when things can’t get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for one of her neighbors…who turns up murdered.
Nick Santiago doesn’t play well with others. Unless the “others” are of the female persuasion. Wink. He’s a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift.
When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress.
All they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep a by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. All before the killer discovers she’s a loose end that requires snipping.
