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Monk Without Monastery
John Middleton Murry, 1889-1957, English writer.
Linguistic Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
‘Linguistic Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ Edited by Dr. Bulbul Gupta ji is a response of academicians from across the country to the Indian government’s clarion call to commemorate and celebrate 75 years of India’s Independence. The anthology brings together milestone poems or poems of enduring popularity composed at any point time in history and belonging to scheduled languages, official languages, and classical languages (a total of 23 languages) of India. It represents the east, west, north, and south of the country besides paying tribute to such poets and their compositions etched deeply in the minds and hearts of multitudes. The book aims to be an interesting and significant part of the official journey of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav that commenced on 12 March 2021 and ends post a year on 15 August 2023.
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Rites of the God-King
Rites of the God-King offers a critical revision of mainstream Hinduism from the perspective of the life of a single ritual from medieval India. Drawing theoretical connections to modern ethnographies, it raises questions about the nature of kingship and priesthood, image-worship, and ritual change.
Of Ancestors and Ghosts
"In Part I of this book, I argued that preta narratives participated in a larger world-building process that negotiated the contours of the Buddhist cosmos and, with it, the place of the departed. Through stories about encounters between humans and pretas, Buddhist authors explored the place of the departed in a karmic cosmological system, worked out how to best assist them, and advocated for the importance of the sangha in facilitating these offerings. These tales do not merely reflect the process through which the preta as a specific entity and rebirth category became distinguished from the ancestral departed, but also participated in this process. This illustrates the importance of viewing narratives, in Rob Campany's terms, as argumentative. Stories are not merely the distillation of more abstract doctrine but are sites for the construction of religious worldviews. This illustrates that religious cosmologies are not laid down fully formed in doctrinal treatises. They are cumulatively built over time, and "popular culture" can do important work in the aggregative construction of cosmologies"--
Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology
This open access edited book captures the complexities and conflicts arising at the interface of intellectual property rights (IPR) and competition law. To do so, it discusses four specific themes: (a) policies governing functioning of standard setting organizations (SSOs), transparency and incentivising future innovation; (b) issue of royalties for standard essential patents (SEPs) and related disputes; (c) due process principles, procedural fairness and best practices in competition law; and (d) coherence of patent policies and consonance with competition law to support innovation in new technologies. Many countries have formulated policies and re-oriented their economies to foster technol...
