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Essence of Self-Knowledge

Edit The Hindu 02 Jul 2016
The Hastamalaka Stotra, believed to have been composed by one of Adi Sankara’s disciples, captures the irony and contradiction in the attempt to pinpoint the essence of Self-Knowledge, pointed out Swami Gautamananda in a discourse ... ‘I am not man, not deva, or yaksha, not a brahmin, kshatriya, etc, not a student, nor a householder, nor a forest dweller, nor a mendicant nor a sanyasi ... ....

Excavations at Sannati and Kanaganahalli reveal many facets about Ashoka and Buddha

Edit The Times of India 27 Jun 2016
Glimpsing the past. Beginning in 1986, excavations conducted by ASI have played a vital role in reshaping understanding of Ashoka ... The size of the bricks used range from 39cm x 20cm x 6.5cm to 40cm x 30cm x 7cm ... also came to light ... While examining a possible image of Yaksha in Hassargundi village near Sannati, Poonacha identified the ancient town as Santimati, from which the name of Sannati village is derived ... How to get there? ... Sannati....

Argentina has enshrined fond memories of Tagore

Edit The Times of India 14 Jun 2016
New Delhi, June 14 (ANI) ... It is believed that the Indian Nobel laureate had started drawing and painting after his stay with Victoria, whom he fondly addressed as 'Vijaya'. Later, she had organised an exhibition of Tagore's paintings in Paris in 1930 ... Reading out his poem on Borges, Abhay K ... Borges had read Mahabharata in German and was fascinated by 'Yaksha-Yudhisthira' dialogue and the character of Dhritarashtra, the blind king ... (ANI)....

Buenos Aires to get a taste of Indian poetry

Edit Indian Express 11 Jun 2016
In the festival Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K will read his new poems. (Photo. Thinkstock) ... Myrta Barvie is known as an Argentinian icon of Indian dance ... Later she organised an exhibition of Tagore´s paintings in Paris in 1930. Jorge Luis Borges had read ‘Mahabharata’ in German and was fascinated by the Yaksha-Yudhisthara dialogue and borrowed Indian philosophy of non-dualism (Advaita) heavily in his short-stories ... ....

Budding talent in bloom

Edit The Hindu 09 Jun 2016
What happens when a group of connoisseurs organise a festival of Carnatic music? It draws a sizeable audience, nurtures artists, sets a trend and tone and determines the future course of the art itself ... Unlike the the sabhas in Chennai, where the audience largely comprises the elderly, the scene in Cleveland was heartening ... Ten years ago, V.V ... Yaksha Gana, Bharatanatyam and Kolattam make up dance and traditional theatre ... Keywords. VV....

Book review 'Gangamma’s gharial': Twist in the retell

Edit Deccan Chronicle 07 Jun 2016
Yakshas who command clouds and are a kind of forgotten being in Indian mythology, a gardener with a mission to raise blue lotuses and a thousand-year-old girl and an apple tree, not to mention a river crocodile shaped earring which teleports — all these are the elements that make Shalini Srinivasan’s Gangamma’s Gharial so fascinating....

Mangaluru Events

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016
Day two of 'Pada Yana' programme to felicitate senior yakshagana artist Padyana Ganapathi Bhat, yakshagana talamaddale - Karna Parva, 9am-12.30pm; yaksha-gana-nrithya vaibhava, 1pm-4.30pm; stage function, benediction by Sri Keshavananda Bharati, Sri Shankaracharya Thottakacharya Samsthanam, Sri Yedaneeru Math, felicitation by K S Sathyananda, Veda ......

Adventures in Wonderland

Edit Indian Express 04 Jun 2016
A long, long time ago, before Doraemon and Chhota Bheem took charge of children’s spare time, yakshas, rakshasas and talking animals in folk tales and fables were pressed to the job. Shalini Srinivasan brings back memories of those days with her novel featuring a bunch of plant-loving yakshas who are thrown out of their community for venturing ......

Yakshagana artiste to be celebrated on 60th birthday

Edit The Times of India 03 Jun 2016
MANGALURU. The 60th birthday of eminent Thenkuthittu Yakshagana Bhagavatha Padyana Ganapathi Bhat will be celebrated during a two-day event from Saturday at Padyana Sambrama at the Town Hall ... This will be followed by 'Padyana Vaibhava', featuring cultural offerings by the Padyana family ... This will be followed by Yaksha-Gana-Nritya Vaibhava ... RELATED. From around the web....

Tusker inscription found in Pavagada

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Mysuru ... The rock was discovered by S G Ramadasa Reddy, head of the history department at Government First Grade College ... Shivamogga Kalashree Yaksha Group has organised an unique 32 -hour non-stop Yakshagana performance at the Kuvempu Ranga Mandir ... RELATED....

Cover Story: This ancient land

Edit Dawn 08 May 2016
Following his ethnographic study of minority festivals in Pakistan, Haroon Khalid’s In Search of Shiva ... Shiva even predates the Vedic deities ... Throughout the book, Shiva’s presence can be felt at every corner ... According to Haroon, the djinns these locals refer to are Yakshas — Hindu tree spirits named after “one of the most well-known spirits’ in ancient India who was believed to reside in the branches and roots of Banyan trees ... 256pp ... ....

Trust lends a helping hand to ailing Yakshagana artistes

Edit Deccan Herald 03 May 2016
Several awards, including Seethanadi Ganapaiah Award, Yaksha Raksha Award and Skanda Puraskara Award have been conferred on him, he said ... Alike Yaksha Sahaya Nidhi assistance has been provided earlier to Yakshagana artistes Pakalakunja Krishna Naika, Punjalkatte Dharnappa Shetty, Koragappa Naika Khanderi, Kanchana Sanjiva Rai, Udyavara Jayakumar, Sujana Sullia, Puttur Chandrashekhar Hegde, Ganesh Kolekadi and Udaya Navada Madhur. ....

Mirrors and Windows

Edit The Hindu 17 Apr 2016
Poet, novelist, travel writer and publisher, in popular imagination the author of Paleri Manikyam. Oru Paathirakolapathakatinte Katha, Thachom Poyil Rajeevan is a compilation of the doors he has knocked open, the worlds he has left behind and those he has befriended. Each world has left its imprint on his craft ... Life and Time of KTN Kottoor ... Rajeevan is set to launch his eighth poetry collection – Yaksha in America ... Ramachandran....
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