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From childhood, children need games, songs, stories and many more things. Though the stories are full of fantasies and superstitions, the children must also receive scientific facts along with these. Science is a knowledge which elucidates the real matters with proofs regarding the nature that we exist in and the society that we live in. Children are innocent. They learn and trust in what is told to them by the elders at home and at school. The elders will convey to their children what they have learnt from their elders. They teach the children only what they were taught. Children or adults, they will start to think only when they receive scientific knowledge. One need not learn all the aspe...
As the title indicates, this book is a critical study of an Indian epic, ëThe Ramayanaí. It proceeds in the same order as that of Sanskrit original consisting of : Bala kanda, Ayodhya kanda, Aranya kanda, Kishkindha kanda, Sundara kanda, Yuddha kanda and Uttara kanda. While Valmikiís Ramayana is composed of about 24,000 slokas (verses), ëRamayana the Poisonous Treeí consists of 16 stories, long and short, accompanied by 11 ëlinksí (narratives that ëlinkí the stories) and 504 foot-notes that show evidence from the Sanskrit original in support of the critique. Besides the main components of the text, this book has a long ëPrefaceí discussing the social essence of the epic in the con...
A wide-ranging examination of the many different versions of India's greatest epic, the Ramayana, focusing on versions that subvert the dominant readings of the work.
The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epic The seventh and final book of the monumental Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Uttarakāṇḍa, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rāma’s millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the rākṣasas and the violent career of Rāma’s villainous foe Rāvaṇa, and later recounts Rāma’s grateful discharge of his allies in the great war at Lankā as well as his romantic reunion with his wife Sītā. But dark clouds gather as Rāma makes the agonizing decision to banish his beloved wife, now pregnant. As Rāma continues as king, marve...
For the solution of the ‘Caste’ question Buddha is not enough Ambedkar is not enough either Marx is a Must This is neither Buddha's biography nor Ambedkar's. Further, it is not Marx's biography either. This is a discussion concerning the 'Dalit' question based exclusively on Ambedkar's writings. However, I have confined myself only to those writings that deal with the 'Dalit' question and Caste system. Ambedkar had also discussed other issues like Division of labour, Division of Labourers, poverty, unemployment and economic exploitation. These issues are connected with the Dalit question and the Caste system. Hence all these issues find place in this book. Ambedkar had also written on ot...
The question of unintelligibility does not arise with regard to books of fiction, such as the stories and novels, irrespective of how they are written. Even if a story is not understood, there is no great harm done. The problem is with the theoretical essays. Even there, there is no problem with the essays related to the natural science, if the language is simple. The real problem is with the books of philosophy! When we find the word ‘philosophy’ on the face of the book, we feel that ‘this book is meant for the scholars, not for us,’ The very word ‘philosophy’ at the outset will scare us immensely. When we read the word ‘philosophy’ on the face of a book, it does not mean that it represents ‘a great truth’ or ‘a great science.' The contents of the book could be correct or useless or a blend of both. The logic of the book will be in accordance with the philosophy of the book. A correct one will have a correct logic, a wrong one will have a wrong logic, and a vacillating one will have a vacillating logic.
Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’ is a work that discusses scientifically not only economic and political issues but also the entire process of development of human society. ‘Capital’ consists of 4 volumes. The title of the first volume is ‘Process of Production of Capital’. This contains 8 parts and a total of 21 chapters. The title of the second volume is ‘Process of Circulation of Capital’. This contains 3 parts. The total number of chapters is 21. The title of the third volume is ‘Process of capitalist production as a whole’. This contains 7 parts. The total number of chapters is 52. The fourth volume is in the form of three separate volumes, each one of which is called a ‘part’. The common title of all the three parts is ‘Theories of Surplus Value’. All the three parts contain a total of 24 chapters. Each one of these 3 parts has an ‘Addendum’. All these, as a whole, constitute ‘Capital’. This book is an introduction to Marx's Capital.
This Is The First Of Three-Volume Anthology Of Writings In Twenty-Two Indian Languages, Including English, That Intends To Present The Wonderful Diversities Of Themes And Genres Of Indian Literature. This Volume Comprises Representative Specimens Of Poems From Different Languages In English Translation, Along With Perceptive Surveys Of Each Literature During The Period Between 1850 And 1975.
Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’ is a work that discusses scientifically not only economic and political issues but also the entire process of development of human society. ‘Capital’ consists of 4 volumes. The title of the first volume is ‘Process of Production of Capital’. This contains 8 parts and a total of 21 chapters. The title of the second volume is ‘Process of Circulation of Capital’. This contains 3 parts. The total number of chapters is 21. The title of the third volume is ‘Process of capitalist production as a whole’. This contains 7 parts. The total number of chapters is 52. The fourth volume is in the form of three separate volumes, each one of which is called a ‘part’. The common title of all the three parts is ‘Theories of Surplus Value’. All the three parts contain a total of 24 chapters. Each one of these 3 parts has an ‘Addendum’. All these, as a whole, constitute ‘Capital’. This book is an introduction to Marx's Capital.
Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao. Velcheru Narayana Raos contribution to understanding Indian cultural history, literary production, and intellectual lifespecifically from the vantage of the Andhra regionhas few parallels. He is one of the very rare scholars to be able to reflect magisterially on the precolonial and colonial periods. He moves easily between Sanskrit and the vernacular traditions, and between the worlds of orality and script. This is because of his mastery of the classical Telugu tradition. As Sanjay Subrahmanyam puts it in his Introduction, To command nearly a thousand years of a literary tradit...