Author: Meghana Ashtaputre Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 275
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The followers of ‘Ramanuj Sampradaya’ in Mulher province, worship Lord Shri Krishna. It has its historic importance. The followers of this sect traditionally celebrate ‘Raas-Leela’ of lord Shri Krishna at every ‘Sharad Poonam’. This tradition is 350 years old. The ‘Raas-Leela’ of Mulher is equally important as the ‘Raas-Leela’ of Brindavan. Lots of followers from the interior parts of Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra participate in the yearly ‘Raas-Leela’ celebration. They come to worship Lord Shri Krishna, among them some thank the Lord for their fulfilled wishes, and others pray to God to fulfill their wishes. They have a feeling of love, affection and equality about all the religions in their hearts. They all are lost in themselves; their souls are connected to the Lord. They are so engrossed in singing ‘Bhajans’ that they forget hunger, thirst, etc. In this ‘Raas-Leela’ one local child enacts Shri Krishna and others enact as his ‘Gopis’. All night the followers sing ‘Bhajans’ under the ‘Chakra’. The ‘Padas’ of ‘Raas-Leela’ are sung by them. A total of 105 ‘Padaas’ are sung. They are composed in various ‘Raagas’- Traditional as well as the ‘Raagas’ which are scarcely known. We can easily make out that those ‘Raagas’ are different from the present ones. In this book, there is an humble effort to give the detailed information about the history of raas leela , the present situation of Raas-leela: a live description , Raas padaas with notation ( pt. Bhatkhande notation system ), actual meaning of each pada, a study of the raagas in which the padas are composed, and an effort to know the actual face or structure of the raagas in medieval period and in modern period.
Author: America Ferrera Publisher: Gallery Books ISBN: 1501180924 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all. Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up.
Author: Deborah Santana Publisher: Nothing But the Truth So Help ISBN: 9780997296211 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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"An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth"--Amazon.com.
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