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Feb 16

Call For Papers : Conference on Shaivism

Imagine you are surveying the religio-cultural landscape of India exactly a thousand years ago, 1022 CE. You will notice that in the north, the Kashmiri śaivācharyas, Abhinavagupta & his disciple Kṣemarāja,

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..are busy at work composing monumental texts of Śaiva tantra; in the south, the great temple to Śiva, Brihadeśvara, has just been completed under the reign of the Śaiva king Rājārājā Cōḻa; in the east, the Buddhist Pāla king of Bengal, Mahīpāla I has taken Śaiva initiation

.. & appointed a Śaiva Siddhānta ascetic as the Rājaguru of the Pāla kingdom; in the west, the Solanki dynasty prolifically patronize the Śaiva religion; in the Deccan, the Kālamukha sect of Śaivism under the patronage of Kalyāṇī Chālukyas dot the land with innumerable..

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Feb 16

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#BookOverview The Revolutionary: Ram Prasad Bismil’s Autobiography From the Death Row by Saket Suresh

This book is a translation of Ram Prasad Bismil’s memoirs into English

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@IndicaBooks It was a cold morning, the Nineteenth day of December, in the year 1927, when a well-built young man, barely Thirty, walked to the gallows, with the chants of Vande Mataram on his lips in Gorakhpur prison

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@IndicaBooks This death will be mourned by the patriots who would follow him in the struggle for Independence. This death will be forgotten by many in the years after independence

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Feb 14

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Avadhāna in Veda-Svādhyāya Tradition - Lecture by Prof Nagaraj Paturi

The Centre for Avadhanam @Chinmaya_VV in collaboration with INDICA, is arranging a series of lectures by subject experts, every month, coinciding with Purnima tithi

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@Chinmaya_VV There are certain Avadhanam elements or aspects found practiced among the Veda panditas

These are connected to the highly challenging and rigorous memorization skills employed by these scholars

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@Chinmaya_VV The Dharana aspect of Sahitya Avadhana might have its origins in or may be influenced by these Veda Avadhanam practices

Certain aspects of Veda Avadhanam seem to have their similarity with or influence on other kinds of Avadhana such as Natya Avadhana , Sangeeta Avadhana etc

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Dec 2, 2021

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#Announcement INDICA BOOKS (@IndicaBooks) is pleased to announce its latest book 'Communicating Across Boundaries: The Indian Way' by Sri Ramesh Rao & Avinash Thombre

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#BookOverview India is a multifaceted, multicultural nation with a rich tradition of ethnic, religious, linguistic, social and cultural mores, beliefs and practices

What has allowed for such a rich diversity of people & what have been the challenges to effective communication...

…between and among these groups? India is also Bharat, and where does the twain meet between the imagined and the real India and the imagined and the real Bharat?

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Dec 1, 2021

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#BookReview Isavasyopanishad, An English Commentary By Nithin Sridhar

In this #Thread, we shall take a deep-dive into the book through the excellent review of the book by Shivakumar GV @SaamaanyaJ

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At the outset, it seems like a shift in his focus, a leap into the Paramartha. However, from this review it will be clear that a singular focus and concern is driving all his writings. The ‘Paramartha Chintana’ is very much part of ‘Purushartha Chintana’.

Bharateeya Parampara does not see the two any differently. The ‘Iha’ and the ‘Para’ are always together.

The former is organized towards the latter. The latter shapes the former.

The Upanishad he has chosen is ‘Isavasyopanishad’

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Nov 30, 2021

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#BookOverview 'Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History'
by Meenakshi Jain

This work examines the medieval response to temple destruction and image desecration

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While temples were destroyed on a considerable scale, also noteworthy were the repeated endeavours to reconstruct them

In each instance of rebirth, the temple retained its original name, even though there was a visible downsizing in its scale and grandeur

The Keshava temple at Mathura, the Vishwanath temple at Kashi, the Somnath temple in Saurashtra, the Rama mandir at Ayodhya were among the shrines continually restored, well after Hindus had lost all semblance of political power

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