Digital Rare Book:
The Tiruvachagam or, Sacred utterances' of the Tamil poet, saint, and sage Manikka-Vachagar
The Tamil text of the fifty-one poems, with English translation.
By Rev. G.U. Pope
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1900
Manikkavacakar, the 9th century Tamil poet has composed ...
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Book Review:
Bhagwanlal Indraji (1839-88) - The first Indian Archaeologist: Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the past
By Virchand Dharamsey
Published by Darshak Itihas Nidhi,Vadodara - 2012
Although it has ‘prehistoric’ roots, such as early studies of fossils or of classical languag...
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Essay:
A Photograph of Four Orientalists (Bombay, 1885):
Knowledge Production, Religious Identities, and the Negotiation of Invisible Conflicts
By Filipa Lowndes Vicente
In October 1885, four men got together in a Bombay studio to have a photograph taken of them dressed as Hindu Brahmans. The im...
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New Book:
BHAGWANLAL INDRAJI (1839-88) - The first Indian Archaeologist: Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the past
By Virchand Dharamsey
Published by Darshak Itihas Nidhi,Vadodara - 2012
Book Review:
A third kind of sidelined scholarship is introduced to us by Virchand Dharamsey’s ...
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Article:
A guide to state secrecy surrounding Subhas Chandra Bose
By Anuj Dhar
8th May, 2013
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose secured our freedom but in the last 6 decades our Government seems to have confined him to hidden vaults, where thousands of secret records about him have piled up.
Essay:
Behind the Veil : visual acuity
By Arindam Sen
July 31, 2011
This post is not a Tagore anthology attempt. In a year that has been dotted with Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations, the poet has predictably engaged many in the research and analysis of his artistic...
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Rabindranath Tagore is a 1961 black-and-white short film directed by an Indian director Satyajit Ray on the life and works of noted Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Ray started working on the documentary in the beginning of 1958 and it was...
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India – M K Gandhi – father of the Indian nation highly important document dated ‘Asho sudi 4 Vikram Samvat 1982’ (September 23rd 1926 on the Gregorian calendar) being the will of M K Gandhi written at the Satyagrah Ashram Sabarmati Bhadarva in hi...
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In 1946, Mohandas Gandhi sits next to a spinning wheel (Charkha), a device used to make yarn or thread; the now-famous image came to symbolize the notion of Indian self-sufficiency — and thus independence from British rule.
Photographed by Margaret BourkeWhite Collarn a unique, celebrated care...
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Rare Video:
A rare video of the young Jiddu Krishnamurti in New York (1928) and Ojai (1930), reading what he had said at the Ommen Camp on August 3, 1929 (dissolution of the Order of the Star).
Watch on Youtube:
http://bit.ly/19kG6GV
For those who are interested in e-books by and about Jiddu K...
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Digital Rare Book:
The PATH
By Jiddu Krishnamurti
Published by Star of the East, Amsterdam - 1920
Excerpt:
I am alone on the road, not a soul in front of me; there may be many behind me, but I do not desire to look back upon the horror of sufferings of the past. On either side of this long and w...
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"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organi...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti during the annual Star Camp at Ommen, the Netherlands, on August 3, 1929.
Break with the past:
Over the next few years, Krishnamurti's new vision and consciousness continued to develop. New concepts appeared in his talks, discussions, and correspondence, together with an evol...
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Movie:
The Making of the Mahatma
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Written by Fatima Meer
Released in 1996
The Making of the Mahatma (1996) is joint Indian - South African produced film, directed by Shyam Benegal, about the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi during his 21 years in South Africa. Th...
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