This is the acclaimed study and interpretation of Banaras, the holy place of the Hindus.

    Born Abdullah Shah, Bulleh Shah belonged to the oral tradition and his poems are primarily in Punjabi as well as in Siraiki. Bulleh Shah's poetry is in the Kafi style, already established with the Sufis who preceded him, and extensively use the Rubbay (Quatrain) form. Several of his verses are an integral part of the traditional repertoire of Qawwali, the musical genre which represents the devotional music of the Sufis. Following the tradition of Sufi poetry, the poems in this collection refer to love of or for God, or the Mentor, or the desire for absorption in nature, described through symbolic references to local customs pertaining to weddings, funerals, journeys, and harvests

    An embodiment of infinite love and deep concern, her simple life was a shining example how to live a divine and pure life. This book, Holy Mother written by Swami Nikhilananda, a renowed writer of Ramakrishna Order enable the readers to know life and teachings of Holy Mother that has a direct bearing on the present human situation and also reveals various dimensions of reality that tells us about man and the world and also how to utilize this knowledge for man's physical welfare.

    Focussing on Deoband, the most important Islamic seminary of the period, she discusses the ways in which the ulama enhanced a sense of cultural continuity in a period of alien rule. Deprived of a Muslim state, the leaders of Deoband sought to renew Islamic spiritual life by teaching early Islamic principles. To this end, they concerned themselves with popular behaviour and the education of both elite and non-elite Muslims through the spoken language, Urdu.

    Rasa, is the first gathering in English translation of essays and review articles on Hindu aesthetics and translations from the Sanskrit by the French writer Rene Daumal (1908-44).

    In the days of jet travel and packaged tours, Peter Hillary and Graeme Dingle choose to travel the hardest way - on foot and carrying their supplies - through the toughest terrain in the world: the Himalayas. They climbed and tramped for 5,000 kilometres. It took them ten months. They passed through regions and countries which are merely exotic names to most of us - Sikkim, Nepal, Garwhal, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet - and of course India and Pakistan. They moved amongst three major ethnic groups, and heard more than fifty dialects. They stepped back in time, visiting places normally inaccessible to the outside world, and with a way of life which has remained unchanged for centuries.

    Kalidasa s knowledge of the human heart and his understanding of the complex play The first volume,of the three volumes contemplated,opens a window into the rich world of the imanigation of a writer of whom it was once said that no second to him has been found. The second volume,contains his plays. Kalidasa s knowledge of the human heart and his understanding of the complex play of human motivation are profound.A keen observer of nature in all it s varied aspects-he is at the same time a learned writer who wears his enormous learning lightly and with grace.A mystic awareness of the transcendental combines in his works with a sensuous feeling for beauty in woman and nature,reflecting as it does the blend of the erotic and spiritual that characterizes Siva mythology.In all of his works he celebrates the values of the great civilization that he was heir to,but not without qusetinoning as is made amply clear in the introduction.. Chandra Rajan nee Sarma,the translator has a distinguished academic record taking degrees taking degrees in English and Sanskrit literature,.She has taught English in prestigious Universities in India and abroad.

    Hardly any account of this massive calamity has been registered in India’s literature, says Debendranath Acharya in the late 1970s, in the preface to his Sahitya Akademi award-winning Assamese novel. During this migration an estimated 450,000-500,000 Burmese Indians walked to north-east India, fleeing from the Japanese advance and also from escalating ethnic violence in the Burmese theatre of war. ‘Corpses lay everywhere, and there were no jackals and vultures to pick them clean... All other forms of animal life seem to have abjured this pathway, save for scores of beautiful butterflies that cover the bodies in a sea of colour’, say contemporary foreign accounts of this exodus. Jangam is the only sustained fictional treatment of this long march.