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Big, small, round, square, heavy, light... homes can be of many kinds! Find out why each home is different, and build your own home. Our little architect shows you how! Story Attribution: ‘The Best House of All’ is written by Natasha Sharma. © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/) Other Credits: This book was first published on StoryWeaver by Pratham Books. The development of this book has been supported by Oracle.
The Temple Elephant is a novel meant for all those with a young heart,a vivid imagination and a thirst for divine love.Narrated from the viewpoint of an elephant, it may be called a bestiarywith a socio-political and spiritual message. The novel opens with aneloquent description of an ancient South Indian temple in which theaged elephant, Kesavan, is serving God. As he ambles along the streetsof a temple town with the silver image of Krishna on his back, Kesavanrecalls the events of his past life. His turbulent youth and manhood inthe jungle, his capture in a keddah operation, his sufferings at the handsof his tormentors, his revenge, and finally his willing submission to theMaharishi, his guru, who not only saves him from slavery and death,but also shows him a path of love and self-surrender that eventuallybrings him to serve in an ancient temple.Set against the backdrop of the British Raj, the novel takes its readers onan odyssey from the beautiful jungles of South India through the opulenceof palace life to the serene simplicity of an ashram.
When a techie goes for joining in her third job, she meets Craig who is attractive and autocratic. She dares not fall for him, of course when she is legally bound to her husband. She pushes off his charming and secretive personality, but finds that he wants her above anybody in this world. Even the thought of his first born child didn't cringe him for a split second and he falls in love with this beautiful irresistible lady. Kristina doesn't want him because she loves Smith too much. She hesitates but she couldn't step aside from the affectionate and passionate physical affair that she and Smith never had. Intimidating and arousing, the Gamed trilogy is a story of a common woman who wasn't common in infinite ways. This book series is meant for adults.
The Svetasvataropanisad is considered to be the most beautiful of all the Upanisads, the philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. In this new translation, Devadatta Kali takes a fresh look, and works from a new premise that the Svetasvatara represents a Saivite (one of the Hindu sects) point of view. This he claims, allows its intended meaning to shine forth. The translation and commentary brings to life the seer Svetasvatara, who from time to time delights in provocation and word play, allowing the reader to share the joy of his liberated vision that all this world is an expression of the Divine. This translation aims to capture the seer's ecstatic response to the wonders of creation whil...
This volume is dedicated to the history, culture, and mythology of the Kaveri. Along its course of more than 750 kilometers from the Western Ghats to the Bay of Bengal, the river passes by numerous cities and towns with ancient forts and shrines. A selection of these sites appears in this volume, accompanied by superb, specially commissioned illustrations. Each chapter is written by a scholar who has made a particular study of the chosen site or topic.
The book 'Spectrum ' is a concatenation of a rainbow of ideas focusing on the litany of hindrances that have hobbled the upward march of society. The research articles to be published in' Spectrum' can be pigeonholed into different segments considering their political, social, and economic implications. The contributors in this research book have hit upon the prospects and avenues of economic growth that might take society to an unhindered development trajectory. The research articles have thrown sufficient light on the knock-on -effects of imbalanced growth witnessed in different socio-political firmament and thus the articles are a sincere attempt at building an egalitarian world based on ...
Why did a Chola king dive into chasm into which Kaveri vanished? How did Kaveri set Kodagu style of draping a sari? How did a spider become a king? How did the Handsome Bridegroom of Srirangam, himself 'abducted', find a bride from another faith? This book takes us from the river's origin in Talakaveri to the site of the ancient port of Poompuhar. For 802 kilometres, the Kaveri river winds her way through hills, valleys, and plains, seeking to fulfill her destiny, her union with the Lord of the Sea. In this carefully researched book on the river Kaveri, authors Padma Seshadri and
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