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'Sri Krishna, I am being put through an ordeal, the foolish Acts of your cousins are burning me up, save from these wicked ones Who are stripping me of the cloth I am clad in! You alone can save me, the saviour of the helpless; If I lose my honour, can I stay alive?' She vowed to never tie her hair till the day the Pandavas avenged the humiliation she had been subjected to by the Kauravas. That her hair would be left untamed and wild till the day Bhima would kill Dushyasana and smear her hair with his blood. This is an epic poem narrating the saga of one of the most important, intriguing and complex female characters of Hindu mythology-Draupadi of Mahabharata.The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi ...
In Formulating A Vision For The Future Of India, Dr M. Veerappa Moily In His Informative And Insightful Book - Unleashing India: A Roadmap For Agrarian Wealth Creation, Believes That It Is Important To See Beyond The Limits Of The Immediate Past To Rediscover The Greatness That Is India. When India Got Her Freedom, The World Witnessed How The Comprehending National Spirit Touched The Sublime. The Legacy For Which The Foundation Was Laid Survives With A Vibrancy That Offers The Nation The Vision To Raise Itself To The Status Of Superpower By 2020. The Book Emphasises On The Fact That For The Realisation Of This Dream, The Vision Needs To Be Woven Into The Mindscape Of Every Indian In The Country.
Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences -- the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him a...
Challenged and vibrant at the same time; noisy yet deafeningly silent on critical issues in the same instance and successful yet inefficient in matching the steps of a young nation-are dichotomies that succinctly sum up the state of Indian democracy today. The book goes beyond semantics and critically analyses issues of fundamental importance in the framework of the dignitarian goals of the republic, the role of a 'living Constitution', the necessity of equilibrium between executive, legislature and judiciary, the role of media, importance of equitable growth, a responsive justice system and a rising India's engagement with the world. It provides a statesman's perspective on addressing chall...
Many developed countries despite having superior infrastructure and significant investments in public health haven't been able to tackle the onslaught of Covid-19. It was in this backdrop that India's ability to rise to the challenge had been written off entirely by many leading 'experts'. Doomsday predictions were made which included mass deaths and anarchy. However, Prime Minister Modi's robust grip on the administration changed India's fortunes in the fight against the virus. He took absolute control of the country's response mechanisms and streamlined systems to cut red-tape. Led by fact-based scientific advice, the Indian government galvanized their inheritance of less-than-adequate res...
In an interview some years ago Sitakant Mahapatra said about his own poetry ...it is meditation on the mysterious quality of all that exists, a ceaseless negotiation with the world and the self to extract some meaning from the apparent meaninglessness of experience and to find metaphors for what looks inexplicable. At its heart, however, is a core of joy in the very act of experiencing.