Folk Drumming in the Himalayas: A Linguistic Approach to Music

Arts & Photography

Chandola, Anoop

Music

Ams Pr Inc

Why is it that the face of World War II has appeared in print or film so often, but very seldom the back, the larger part? Could Hitlers rise and fall be seen in India? The reader will find controversial answers in this backside story of WWII from a remote, spectacular Himalayan region. Chander, a U.S.-educated journalist, writes his memoirs at the request of his American wife, Kristi. The memoirs, which remained unpublished for decades due to the young couples accidental death, reveal that Chander as a young boy lived with his mother in a Himalayan village, while his father was fighting in WWII. Chander recounts dramatic experiences of local WWII soldiers and civilians from 1941 to 1948. The experiences are juxtaposed with his hometowns Rama Lila, a famous folk play of the Ramayana epic, where Prince Rama fights the terrorist-chief Ravana. Jagriti, a girl in Chanders village, introduces and, though forbidden, enacts parts of the play with him. Inspired by her, he watches the ten-night Rama Lila every year, while experiencing wars reactions and other emotionally charged actions, from humorous to terroristic, in his Hindu village, Christian school, and Hindu-Christian-Muslim town.

The Second Highest World War: The Rama Theater

Literature & Fiction

United States

iUniverse

A Systematic Translation of Hindi-Urdu into English (English and Hindi Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Univ of Arizona Press

The Way to True Worship

This book shows how Hindus worship with scriptures and mythology by presenting the most popular worship and story of Vishnu or God. Its text, Satya Narayana Vrata Katha, meaning "True God Worship", is extracted from the world's largest mythological work in Sanskrit, the Skanda Purana. This is the first English translation and exposition of the text. Divided into four parts, the book offers an authentic description and explanation of the procedures, techniques, materials, mantras, prayers, myths, concepts, and symbols associated with the worship. Part I explains the religious literary history that is the background of the worship text. Part II explains how other Hindu philosophical and mythological aspects are related to the worship and story. Part III is the translation of the five main chapters used in the worship. Part IV explains exactly how the entire performance takes place. Other useful features are a pronunciation guide to Sanskrit words, a glossary, and a bibliography.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

University Press of America

<p>This book shows how Hindus worship with scriptures and mythology by presenting the most popular worship and story of Vishnu or God. Its text, Satya Narayana Vrata Katha, meaning 'True God Worship', is extracted from the world's largest mythological work in Sanskrit, the Skanda Purana. This is the first English translation and exposition of the text. Divided into four parts, the book offers an authentic description and explanation of the procedures, techniques, materials, mantras, prayers, myths, concepts, and symbols associated with the worship. Part I explains the religious literary history that is the background of the worship text. Part II explains how other Hindu philosophical and mythological aspects are related to the worship and story. Part III is the translation of the five main chapters used in the worship. Part IV explains exactly how the entire performance takes place. Other useful features are a pronunciation guide to Sanskrit words, a glossary, and a bibliography.</p>

Contactics: The Daily Drama of Human Contact

The book presents a new useful field called "contactics", the study of conscious contact. It addresses two central questions that permeate our existence in the waking hours of our contact with things: How do we make sense out of things in our lives and the world around us? What do we do to change the existing sense of these things? Accordingly, the book is divided in two parts. Part I shows, through the use of small scenarios and analysis, what contactics is and how it works. Here we observe how conscious actions - doing, saying and writing - are organised in terms of a few simple elements of a code that is situated in every brain. Part II presents case studies that show how contactics as a social behavioural science is used for problem solving, extending itself to a humanistic philosophy, "contactism". Contactism requires that a solution to problems involving human contact take place in an egalitarian manner.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Univ Pr of Amer

Dehradun City, Himalayas, India 1977: Two bright, beautiful, lesbian research assistants accompany their Indian professor to this city near the tense borders of China and Nepal to observe the “holy-war” dance of the Mahabharata and its link to polygamy and local heroes (or villains?). The girls begin to question the holiness of the Bhagavad Gita’s two polygamist avatars while watching the dance, even as they fall in love with India and their friendly hosts. While gathering data on women’s rights violations, caste discrimination, and animal cruelty, they discover more about their own culture, their relationship and themselves. When their hosts uncover the women’s secret love-life, they turn against them and the research team's existence is threatened. Will the Indian "holy-war" become a personal one between locals and outsiders, men against women, polygamists against lesbians, Indians against Americans? The answer lies in the Himalayan nights...

In the Himalayan Nights

Action & Adventure

Savant Books & Publications LLC

<p>Bijli Kandyal is an Indian Himalayan girl who has just returned home from gathering flowers to celebrate the last day of a spring festival. But after she arrives, she is horrified to find her polygamist father beating her mother. When she attempts to defend her mother, Bijli is beaten as well. The following day after she discloses the situation to a relative, Bijli and her mother are rescued by a family member and the girl is eventually taken to San Francisco by her maternal uncle, Gunanand, a radical, atheist engineer. While she is attending the University of California at Berkeley, Bijli's uncle is killed by a drunk driver while crossing the street. One day when she finds some of his writings detailing social injustices, she decides to share them with her girlfriends, Maya, an African American undergraduate student majoring in South Asian studies and Indira, a Caucasian woman majoring in anthropology. As Gunanand's stories are slowly unveiled, Bijli sets out on a vengeful journey that takes her back to her village to confront past wrongs. In this intriguing novella, an Indian Himalayan girl who escapes an abusive childhood to live in California eventually returns to her village to seek revenge.</p>

Lashes of Lightning: (A Satirical Story of Free Radicals)

Humor & Satire

Music As Speech: An Ethnomusicolinguistic Study of India

South Asia Books

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