Purusha

Songs for seventeenth

Edit The Hindu 11 Jul 2016

On July 17, there will be 17 hours of music at SAMA 2016, dedicated this year to Dr. J. Abdul Kalam. The fest, featuring competitions in poetry, drawing and painting is open to children. “We wanted to bring in art in its varied forms under one umbrella at SAMA,” says violinist Dr. R ... “The theme is a presentation of Purusha Daiva Kriti ... with Veda Gosha ... Keywords....

Visitors throng Jackfruit Mela

Edit The Times of India 04 Jul 2016

Mangaluru. It was 'fruit'ful Sunday for the people as well as the shopkeepers at 'Jackfruit Mela' organised by the Savayava Krishika Grahaka Balaga ... "We never thought that this mela would attract so many fruit lovers ... It was brought from a farmer in Belthangady ... "We were not able to meet customers' demand as our product was sold by noon and many had to return empty handed," said Krishnappa Purusha, a farmer from Bantwal ... RELATED....

Essence of Self-Knowledge

Edit The Hindu 02 Jul 2016

When the boy saw Adi Sankara, he prostrated in front of him ... ‘Tell me who you are ... The Brihadharanyaka says, “Where everything indeed has become the self itself, whom and by what should one think? By what can we know the universal knower?” While instructing the Kshetra Kshetrajna jnana, Krishna affirms that Prakriti, Nature, and Purusha, the Self, are the two sides of the Supreme Being . ....

The gender conundrum

Edit The Hindu 01 Jul 2016

If there is a Shiva, there is a reciprocating Shakti; if there is Purusha, there is a reciprocating Prakriti; if there is a potent Nayaka, there is definitely a tender yet blazing Nayika. Since time immemorial the dual nature of our existence has been celebrated by the world ... So if a male dancer is attempting one of these pieces, he has to immerse himself into the character and then come out on stage ... “Good dance is good dance....

The male version of menopause

Edit DNA India 26 Jun 2016

-->. Medical practitioners describe andropause in ageing men as a time of weight gain, reduced morale and libido and perplexing behaviour, finds out Ornella D'Souza ... Think of it as the male experience of menopause ... "Like yin and yang or purusha and prakruti, testosterone and estrogen must be in a balanced ratio, with higher testosterone production in men," says Dr Patil ... "Andropause is a colloquial term in medicine ... ....

Andropause: The male version of menopause

Edit DNA India 26 Jun 2016

-->. Medical practitioners describe andropause in ageing men as a time of weight gain, reduced morale and libido and perplexing behaviour, finds out Ornella D'Souza ... Think of it as the male experience of menopause ... "Like yin and yang or purusha and prakruti, testosterone and estrogen must be in a balanced ratio, with higher testosterone production in men," says Dr Patil ... "Andropause is a colloquial term in medicine ... ....

Lovely lotuses blossomed by the sun

Edit The Hindu 15 Jun 2016

(Excerpts from an article published in Nrisimhapriya dated May 2003. Details associated with the formative years of the preceptor have been recaptured for the benefit of Friday Review readers.) ... Ramanuja explained ... Therefore kapyasam can be interpreted as blossomed by the sun and the entire phrase can be interpreted (as the eyes of that Purusha within the golden solar orbit are as lovely as the lotuses blossomed by the rays of the sun)....

A doll on spring!

Edit The Hindu 09 Jun 2016

From start to finish Sujata Mohapatra was simply mesmerising. Keeping up the tempo throughout the evening, she presented an ode to Odissi through her performance ... The tehdis (katam) were aesthetic to say the least. The famed “Sakhi hey kesi madana muraram...” ashtapadi where a lovelorn Radha (nature/prakriti personified) relates to her friend (sakhi) her romantic interludes with her beloved Krishna (purusha) ... Keywords....

Primordial cause

Edit The Hindu 19 May 2016

It takes up the discussion of the terms Mahat, the great; Avyakta, the unmanifested or undeveloped; and Purusha of the Katopanishad passage to show that these do not refer to the Sankhya categories ... Beyond the Mahat is the Avyakta, the undeveloped, and beyond the Avyakta there is the Purusha. Beyond the Purusha there is nothing — this is the goal, the highest path.”....

In utero keepsakes record heartbeats, flood baby market

Edit The Miami Herald 15 May 2016

At bedtime, Julian Buller bids goodnight to the furry friends sharing his bed. Mickey Mouse and the bowtie-clad puppy stuffed with his little brother's heartbeat ... "I'm a sucker for the kinds of things you keep forever," explains Buller of Bear ... "We're dealing with both sides of the spectrum — life and death," says Purusha Rivera, co-owner of My Baby's Heartbeat Bear, which is headquartered (of course) in Bear....

Dance for the gander: A different kind of Kathakali

Edit DNA India 01 May 2016

But in playing Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Manasa and other titular women in solo routines, Probal Gupta is bringing stree vesham (female characters) to the fore in an art form that revolves around purusha vesham (male characters). "When I moved to Bangalore in 2003, I had no access to purusha vesham costumes and chutti (make-up)," remembers Gupta, who trained under Kalamandalam Calcutta doyen Govindan Kutty for 16 years....

Theatre to enhance personality and confidence of tribal children

Edit The Hindu 25 Apr 2016

Theatre workshop under able guidance of veteran Odia theatre and film personality Surya Narayan Mohanty is being used to enhance personality, confidence and talents of school children in tribal-dominated Koraput district of Odisha ... The elders are working on a play named ‘Purna Purusha’ while the children are engaged in a play named ‘Bhut Nagri’ ... ....

No love for Ambedkar

Edit Indian Express 23 Apr 2016

B R Ambedkar ... Golwalkar declared. “The Hindu People is the virat purusha, the almighty manifesting himself. Though they did not use the word ‘Hindu’, it is clear from the following description of the almighty in Purusha Sukta wherein it is stated that sun and moon are his eyes, the stars and the skies are created from his nabhi (navel) and Brahmin is the head, Kshatriya the hands, Vaishya the thighs and Shudra the feet ... When the....