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Author: Rajni Bakshi Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 9780140278385 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Stories To Inspire People Who Despair About India Bapu Kuti, At Sewagram Ashram, Wardha, Is The Mud Hut Which Was Mahatma Gandhi S Last Home. Half A Century After Bapu Was Killed, The Kuti Is Alive With Gatherings Of People Who Share His Dreams. They Do Not Call Themselves Gandhians . Yet, As They Search For Solutions To The Many Problems Of Modern India, These Activists Find Themselves Coming To The Same Conclusions As Had Gandhi. In This Collection, Rajni Bakshi Explores The World And Lives Of Twelve Such People Who Have Turned Their Backs On Lucrative Professions To Embark On A Search For Practical And Humane Ways Of Political And Social Transformation, Rooted In The Faith That A New India With Prosperity For All Can Be Built On The Strengths Of Cooperation And Community. In Rajasthan, For Instance, Through A Rare Community Effort, Villagers Make A Creative Livelihood Instead Of Migrating To Urban Slums; In Andhra, Impoverished Weavers Gain New Life By Reviving Their Dying Craft; In Bhagalpur, Bihar, A Movement Is Launched To Liberate Mother Ganga. These Images Of Passionate Creativity Present An India Seldom Seen In The Mainstream Media. They Challenge The Pervasive Cynicism Of Our Times To Show That Idealism Did Not Die With Gandhi. Affirming Humanity S Ceaseless Striving To Evolve To Higher Levels Of Being, They Anticipate An Age When Conciliation Must Replace Confrontation For Building A More Just Future.
Author: Rajni Bakshi Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 9780140278385 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Stories To Inspire People Who Despair About India Bapu Kuti, At Sewagram Ashram, Wardha, Is The Mud Hut Which Was Mahatma Gandhi S Last Home. Half A Century After Bapu Was Killed, The Kuti Is Alive With Gatherings Of People Who Share His Dreams. They Do Not Call Themselves Gandhians . Yet, As They Search For Solutions To The Many Problems Of Modern India, These Activists Find Themselves Coming To The Same Conclusions As Had Gandhi. In This Collection, Rajni Bakshi Explores The World And Lives Of Twelve Such People Who Have Turned Their Backs On Lucrative Professions To Embark On A Search For Practical And Humane Ways Of Political And Social Transformation, Rooted In The Faith That A New India With Prosperity For All Can Be Built On The Strengths Of Cooperation And Community. In Rajasthan, For Instance, Through A Rare Community Effort, Villagers Make A Creative Livelihood Instead Of Migrating To Urban Slums; In Andhra, Impoverished Weavers Gain New Life By Reviving Their Dying Craft; In Bhagalpur, Bihar, A Movement Is Launched To Liberate Mother Ganga. These Images Of Passionate Creativity Present An India Seldom Seen In The Mainstream Media. They Challenge The Pervasive Cynicism Of Our Times To Show That Idealism Did Not Die With Gandhi. Affirming Humanity S Ceaseless Striving To Evolve To Higher Levels Of Being, They Anticipate An Age When Conciliation Must Replace Confrontation For Building A More Just Future.
Author: Venugopal Maddipati Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429557582 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 206
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Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi’s religious need to establish finite boundaries for everyday actions; finitude in turn defines Gandhi’s conservative and exclusionary conception of religion. Drawing from rich archival and field materials, the book begins with an exploration of Gandhi’s religiosity of relinquishment and the British Spiritualist, Madeline Slade’s creation of his low-cost hut, Adi Niwas, in the village of Segaon in the 1930s. Adi Niwas inaugurates a low-cost housing architecture of finitude founded on the near-simultaneous but heterogeneous, conservative Gandhian ideals of pursuing self-sacrifice and rendering the pursuit of self-sacrifice legible as the practice of an exclusionary varnashramadharma. At a considerable remove from Gandhi’s religious conservatism, successive generations in post-colonial India have reimagined a secular necessity for this Gandhian low-cost housing architecture of finitude. In the early 1950s era of mass housing for post-partition refugees from Pakistan, the making of a low-cost housing architecture was premised on the necessity of responding to economic concerns and to an emerging demographic mandate. In the 1970s, during the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries crisis, it was premised on the rise of urban and climatological necessities. More recently, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, its reception has been premised on the emergence of language-based identitarianism in Wardha, Maharashtra. Each of these moments of necessity reveals the enduring present of a Gandhian low-cost housing architecture of finitude and also the need to emancipate Gandhian finitude from Gandhi’s own exclusions. This volume is a critical intervention in the philosophy of architectural history. Drawing eclectically from science and technology studies, political science, housing studies, urban studies, religious studies, and anthropology, this richly illustrated volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of architecture and design, housing, history, sociology, economics, Gandhian studies, urban studies and development studies.
Author: Madhavi Desai Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351893475 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 321
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The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.
Author: Pradnya Bivalkar Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3946552889 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 530
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Identity conflicts, a prominent feature of our times, a phenomenon of belonging somewhere yet belonging nowhere, are increasingly finding their way into cinema. This book looks at the representations of identity conflicts in India on the canvas of Indian cinema, connecting them with broader socio-political developments in contemporary India. Starting with the historical background of how political developments in Europe like the emergence of Nation states, secularism, modernity influenced socio-political developments in India in the past century, the book looks at how those developments have shaped modern India. While looking at the cinematic representations of a variety of identity conflicts through the lens of cultural and political analysis, it provides insights into how the construct of an Identity and the inherent conflicts associated with it evolve and manifest themselves through the medium of a film.
Author: Sangharakshita Publisher: Windhorse Publications ISBN: 1911407511 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 725
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In this volume of memoirs, Sangharakshita arrives back in England after twenty years in the East. He expects to stay no more than a few months, but as the months become years, he begins to realize that it is here that he may best be able to 'work for the good of Buddhism', as one of his teachers had once exhorted him. After a farewell tour of his friends and teachers in India, he goes on to found a new Buddhist movement and to ordain twelve men and women into a new Buddhist Order.
Author: Kautilya Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 8184750110 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 832
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An extraordinary detailed manual on statecraft and the science of living by one of classical India's greatest minds; Kautilya; also known as Chanakya and Vishnugupta; wrote the Arthashastra not later than 150 AD though the date has not been conclusively established. Legend has it that he was either a Brahmin from Kerala or from north India; however; it is certain that Kautilya was the man who destroyed the Nanda dynasty and installed Chandragupta Maurya as the King of Magadha. A master strategist who was well-versed in the Vedas and adept at creating intrigues and devising political stratagems; Kautilya's genius is reflected in his Arthashastra which is the most comprehensive treatise of statecraft of classical times. The text contains fifteen books which cover numerous topics viz.; the King; a complete code of law; foreign policy; secret and occult practices and so on. The Arthashastra is written mainly in prose but also incorporates 380 shlokas. Artha; literally wealth; is one of four supreme aims prescribed by Hindu tradition. However; it has a much wider significance and the material well-being of individuals is just a part of it. In accordance with this; Kautilya's Arthashastra maintains that the state or government of a country has a vital role to play in maintaining the material status of both the nation and its people. Therefore; a significant part of the Arthashastra has to do with the science of economics. When it deals with the science of politics; the Arthashastra describes in detail the art of government in its widest sense—the maintenance of law and order as also of an efficient administrative machinery.
Author: Nagaraja Prakasam Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN: 9357081674 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 365
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Back to Bharat: In Search of a Sustainable Future is a book that addresses the present economic dilemma for Indian entrepreneurs and consumers, looking at the past and present situation of both India and the developed world to find a way forward. Written in an engaging and anecdotal style, the book is enriched with case studies from Nagaraja's investment career. It consolidates many observations and insights from the experience he has as a professional, investor and mentor for entrepreneurs across the country. It strongly expresses the belief that India's strengths are its people, problems and technology (PPT). As it draws on reallife examples of struggle and success, the book illuminates many questions that are most relevant to our present dilemma, both in terms of economic development as well as environmental threats that compel us to look at more sustainable alternatives to patterns of production and consumption.
Author: Jeroninio Almeida & Jyoti Nanda Publisher: Jaico Publishing House ISBN: 9389305187 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 213
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Inspiring stories of real heroes Be the Change is a decadelong journey of discovering soulstirring narratives that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. The compelling stories in this book are of ordinary citizens who have unleashed the spirit within, with extraordinary consequences, radically changing society for the better. The list includes globally eminent names like Meera Sanyal, Michael Norton, Arun Maira, Bill Drayton and Kumi Naidoo as well as unsung heroes like Lakshman Singh, Thangsingh Chinkholal and many others. Irrespective of their field, these are people who have reached out beyond their own life to help others, to be and to lead the change. Their stories will inspire all of us to recognize our own power to be a champion of change, reinforce the positive in society and leave an imprint on the sands of time. JERONINIO “JERRY”ALMEIDA is one of the world’s most innovative fundraisers and missionary entrepreneurs. He is a celebrated inspirational speaker, teacher, executive coach and management consultant. JYOTI NANDA is a teacher, special educator, author, editor and certified Life Coach. “[These stories] have that power to inspire people to rise and act, to make a difference.” NELSON MANDELA “Insights from thousands of people and villages.” AMARTYA SEN Nobel Laureate, Economist and Author
Author: David Hardiman Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231131148 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a larger vision of an alternative society, one that emphasized mutual respect, resistance to exploitation, nonviolence, and ecological harmony. Politics was just one of the many directions in which Gandhi sought to activate this peculiarly personal vision, and its practice involved experiments in relation to his opponents. From representatives of the British Raj to Indian advocates of violent resistance, from right-wing religious leaders to upholders of caste privilege, Gandhi confronted entrenched groups and their even more entrenched ideologies with a deceptively simple ethic of resistance. Hardiman examines Gandhi's ways of conducting his conflicts with all these groups, as well as with his critics on the left and representatives of the Dalits. He also explores another key issue in Gandhi's life and legacy: his ideas about and attitudes toward women. Despite inconsistencies and limitations, and failures in his personal life, Gandhi has become a beacon for posterity. The uncompromising honesty of his politics and moral activism has inspired such figures as Jayaprakash Narayan, Medha Patkar, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Petra Kelly and influenced a series of new social movements--by environmentalists, antiwar campaigners, feminists, and human rights activists, among others--dedicated to the principle of a more just world.
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