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Her first book, Small Arguments, won a ReLit Award in 2004. [7] Her second book, Found, was made into a short film by Paramita Nath. [8] Her third book, Light, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2014. [9] Her short story "How to Pronounce Knife" was shortlisted for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize out of 4,000 entries. [10]
Geetha is a 1981 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by and starring Shankar Nag in lead, alongside Akshatha Rao in title role. [1] The supporting cast features K. S. Ashwath, Ramesh Bhat and Gayathri. Ilaiyaraaja composed the soundtrack and the background score for the film that and was declared a blockbuster musical hit. He ...
Eknath Easwaran was born in 1910 in a village in Kerala, India. [5] Eknath is his surname, Easwaran his given name. [6] Brought up by his mother, and by his maternal grandmother whom he honored as his spiritual teacher, he was schooled in his native village until the age of sixteen, when he went to attend St. Thomas College, Thrissur, a Catholic college fifty miles away.
The Brahmastra (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मास्त्र, romanized: Brahmāstra, lit. 'Astra of Brahma') is a celestial weapon (astra) created and owned by the ...
How to Pronounce Knife is a short story collection by Souvankham Thammavongsa, published in 2020 by McClelland & Stewart. [1] The stories in the collection centre principally on the experiences of Laotian Canadian immigrant families, sometimes from the perspective of children observing the world of adults.
The dynasty thrives auspiciously in the Realm of King Parikṣit.” [7] [8] Parikshit is eulogised in a hymn of the Atharvaveda (XX.127.7-10) as a great Kuru king (Kauravya), whose realm flowed with milk and honey and people lived happily in his kingdom. He is mentioned as the raja vishvajanina (universal king). [9]
Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dada /Dadaji ("elder brother"), was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, [2] and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya family) in 1954. [3]
Gay-Neck, or Chitra-Griva, is born to a young owner in India.Gay-Neck's parents teach him how to fly, but he soon loses his father in a storm and his mother to a hawk. His master and Ghond the hunter take him out into the wilderness, but he becomes so scared by the hawks that he flees and ends up in a lamasery where the Buddhist monks are able to cure him of his f