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a historical quibble: the invention of zero is attributed to an ancient chinese scholar. (p.245). ...
When I was young
I was my father's daughter ...
I am a female thing. ...
How do we taste milk in this town
where trees are planted of venom? ...
I want to make it clear from the outset that this will be, in large measure, a book about learning. A decade or three ago that would not have been particularly unusual; today it is a genuine rarity. ...
I'm now on the other side of the earth though
I can touch you now
I can close the book that remains open on your bosom ...
Sly are the ways of temptation.
Birds with grains, children with peppermints,
and brunettes with bracelets. ...
In the late 1800s, a NY importer claimed duty-free status for tomatoes, which he argued were "fruit"... the US Supreme Court... decided on the grounds of linguistic custom. Tomatoes, held the majority, are "usually served in the main part of the dinner, and not like fruits, generally as dessert." So our litigator had to cough up the 10% as tax. pp. 124-5 ...
When his mouth faced my mouth, I turned aside...
But oh, what could I do, then, when I found
My bodice splitting of its own accord? - Amaru ...
august 20, 2011
- Kavi Kala by Madness Mandali (2010)
I run my finger down
My collar between my breasts to where the
Neckline should be. He looks away and
Increases my wishes by an inch. ... - How to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry by Edward Hirsch (2000)
death is inside the bones,
like a barking where there are no dogs, ... - East window: the Asian translations by William Stanley Merwin (1998)
A poet should learn with his eyes
the forms of leaves ... - Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems by K. M. George (ed) (1992)
By mistake I had left my head in the office when I started home.
My hands are still hanging from the bus-strap. ... - The true subject: selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Naomi Lazard (tr.) (1988)
critic Abdul Jabbar:
In Lazard's translation, the heartbeat one feels is that of Faiz himself. Such an achievement is, indeed, rare in translations. ... - Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren and Gerry Bothmer (tr) (1959)
[Pippi, about her grandmother]: If she was walking on the street and a brick happened to fall on her head, she'd start to scream and make such a fuss you'd think something terrible had happened. 16 ...
- Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi and Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya (ed.) (2005)
[on sanskrit manuscripts:} the action of time, air, rain, white ants, and all other vermin except scholars will surely destroy the greater number that still survive the neglect and laziness of their possessors. p.574 ...
- Women's eyes: being verses translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur William Ryder and Bhartrihari (1910)
Oh, fie on her and him and Love and HER and me! ...
- Bhartrihari: poems by Bhartrihari and Barbara Stoler Miller (tr.) (1967)
... a man distorted by trifling knowledge,
Brahma himself cannot sway. ... - The Satakas: Or, Wise Sayings of Bhartrihari by John McFarland Kennedy (tr.) (1913)
The fundamentally ignorant man is easily led, and the wise man still more easily ; but not even the Almighty Himself can exercise any influence on the smatterer. ...
- A Century of Indian Epigrams: Chiefly from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari by Paul Elmer More (1898)
...minds by half-way knowledge warped and bent,
Not Brahma's self their fury may assuage. ... - Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective: a guide for teaching by Barbara Stoler Miller (ed.) (1994)
- Action meets word: how children learn verbs by Kathy Hirsh Pasek and Roberta M. Golinkoff (2006)
july 28, 2011
- The Memory of Love: Surdas Sings to Krishna by Suradasa and John Stratton Hawley (tr.) (2009)
The season of rains has come
but Hari is not to be found.
Thunder rumbles deep
... - Poetry with young people by Gieve Patel (ed) (2007)
The giant tree
Stands against the sky,
A thousand green flags
Fluttering. ... - River of words: images and poetry in praise of water by Pamela Michael (ed) (2003)
The nap time rain
sings lullabies ... - India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms by John Charles Hawley (ed.) (2008)
[more than twenty associations of india-lovers throughout senegal]... There is no Indian expatriate community in Senegal which can account for this Indophilie, as is the case in eastern Africa or the Caribbean. Moreover, Senegal is a francophone country ...
- Selected Poems by Jayanta Mahapatra (1987)
since all poetry readers like to "discover" their unknown pet poets, and ignore the well-known voices, initially, i didn't pay sufficient attention to mahapatra. ...
- From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (2004)
- The transfiguring places: poems by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1998)
The letters keep falling out, the early ones
Unsigned, the latest full of old accusations. ... - Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State by Itty Abraham (1999)
in the peculiar historical reasoning [of nuclear non-proliferation] anyone after 1964 is an official proliferator, but not the countries before this, all of whom happen to be permanent members of the UN Security council ...
- The Witches by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (ill.) (1983)
A real witch gets the same pleasure from squelching a child as you get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream. ...
- Dragon Fire by Humphrey Hawksley (2001)
- Blowback by Mukul Deva (2010)
one can never tell what the blowback [...] - the unintended consequences of an intelligence operation - might be. You can never tell which way things ...
- The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, vol. 2 (Devraj to Jyoti) by Amaresh Datta (ed) (2006)
- Ten 20th Century Indian Poets by R. Parthasarathy (2004)
- Postmodern Indian English Literature by Bijay Kumar Das (2003)
- Richard II / The origin of species / The misanthrope / The principles of psychology by William Shakespeare and Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Moliere and Henry James (1977)
- Jibanananda Das by Chidananda Dasgupta (2004)
- T. S. Eliot : Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 by Thomas Stearns Eliot (1963)
- Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life by Steven N. Austad (1997)
in 1951 a few cancerous cells from a terminally-ill woman were cultured... These HeLa cells are still growing and dividing - they are used in hundreds of labs around the world. But normal cells grow and divide for some time, then they die. ...
- Unforeseen affection and other love poems by Jayaprabha and Narasimha Rao, P. V. (tr.) (2005)
- An anthology of Sanskrit Court poetry Vidyakara's "Subhasitaratnakosa" by vidyAkara and Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (tr.) (1965)
592. When the anklet has grown still
the girdle's sound is heard.
It's ever when the lover tires,
the mistress plays the man. ... - The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson (ill) (1984)
You may quarrel with centipedes, quibble with seals,
declaim to a duck in the park,
engage in disputes with cantankerous coots,
but never mince words with a shark. ... - A bad case of the giggles : Kids pick the funniest poems, Book #2 by Bruce (ed) Lansky and Stephen Carpenter (ill.) (1994)
Rain, reign, rein, English is a pain. ...
- The Oxford book of American light verse by William Harmon (ed) ()
David McCord : Epitaph on a Waiter p.412
By and by
God caught his eye. ... - The Oxford book of American light verse by William Harmon (ed) ()
- Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary and Martin Brown (ill) (2008)
A Bristol historian wrote: Every brick in the city of Bristol is cemented with the blood of a slave. [p.27] ...
- The Open Door by Latifa Al-Zayyat and Marilyn Booth (tr.) (2002)
Mother: If everyone said whatever was on their mind the world would have gone up in flames long ago.
Layla: So people should just lie, you mean. ... - Only the soul knows how to sing by Kamala Das and Kamalā Sur̲ayya (1996)
perhaps we need to talk more about the problems faced by men poets writing in indian english. ...
- Summer In Calcutta by Kamala Das (1965)
... My eyes lick at you like flames, my nerves
Consume ; and, when I finish with you, ... I spit
Out small heaps of ash, nothing else. ... - One hundred poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth (tr.) (1956)
I dreamt only that one day she would come with me
On a trip like this, and now she is only dust. ... - The Iron, the Switch and the Broom Cupboard: A Jiggy McCue story by Michael Lawrence (2007)
"No one in their right minds would care if their underpants are pressed."
"I care," said Mum.
"My point exactly". 17 ... - Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary and Martin Brown (ill) (2008)
A Bristol historian wrote: Every brick in the city of Bristol is cemented with the blood of a slave. [p.27] ...
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2003)
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated ...
- French lover: a novel by Taslima Narin and Sreejata Guha (tr.) (2002)
- "Benoir, you don't love Pascale." - "So who do I love?" - "You love yourself, Benoir, your own self. No one else." ...
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared M Diamond (1991)
The genetic distance (1.6 per cent) separating us from pygmy or common chimps is less than that between two species of gibbons (2.2 per cent), or between closely related bird species as red-eyed vireos ...
- The Home and the World (ঘরে বাইরে, _ghare-bAire_, 1916) by Rabindranath Tagore and Surendranath Tagore (tr.) (1919)
Nature surrenders herself, but only to the robber. For she delights in this forceful desire, this forceful abduction. ...
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (1997)
[QWERTY keyboard] designed to force typists to type as slowly as possible, such as scattering the commonest letters over all ...
- Modern India: An Interpretive Anthology by Thomas R. Metcalf (ed.) (1971)
- Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani (2006)
At Pasha de Hautner’s office, it didn’t appear that anyone ever ate. All the girls ... were mere slivers of womanhood. ...
- The tiger ladies: a memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul (2002)
"Real food can only be prepared in traditional equipment." old-timer cook, Sudarshan, p. 42 ...
- Hymns from the Rig-Veda by Jean L Mee and Ingbert Gruttner (photo) (1975)
- Ganga Observed: Foreign Accounts of the River by Jagmohan Mahajan (ed.) (1994)
Mark Twain: _Following the Equator_, 1897 Experiments on Ganges water: Mr. Henkin, govt scientist at Agra, went to Benares and got water out of the mouths of the sewers : a cubic cm of it contained millions of germs; at the end of six hours they were _all dead_. ...
- The Character of Logic in India by Bimal Krishna Matilal and Jonardon Ganeri (ed) and Heeraman Tiwari(ed) (2000)
- Jayadeva by Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1996)
particular emphasis on poems outside the gIta-govinda - a collection of 26 poems anthologized in sadukti-karNAmr^ta [saduktikarnamrita], as well as ...
- The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1968)
Miller's scripts are very detailed. ...
- Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State by Tariq Ali (1983)
In theory, Islam was an egalitarian religion which tolerated no caste distinction. All muslims were equal before God. In one of [Sir Syed Ahmed's] speeches opposing the elective principle, however, he revealed his prejudices extremely clearly: ...
- World's Last Mysteries by Robert Davreau (1976)
- Umhu by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (2009)
- Dakater Bhaipo by sirShendu mukhopAdhyAy (2007)
sakaler nAk ek rakam DAke nA. kAr-o bAgher garjan to kAr-o shyAm-er bnAshI, kAr-o bomA fATAr AoyAj to kAr-o gaRAgaRAr guRuk guRuk shabda. 89 ...
- The Imperial Achievement: The Rise and Transformation of the British Empire by John Bowle (1977)
A sustained defence of imperial myths; the last gasp of an imperial tradition going back to JS Mill's History of British India... what is fascinating about this work is that it was written in the late 20th century, and not in ...
- An anthology of modern Hindi poetry by Kailash Vajpeyi (ed.) (2000)
Empty gunnysacks being darned... They
are the voids of my eyes. - Shamsher B Singh
[...] - One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year by Kenneth Rexroth (tr.) (1970)
Think of the days
When we were happy together.
If I live I will come back.
... - Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985)
Incongruous against this gory stereotypical background, the book has a number of well-done translations from prominent bengali poets. ...
- A treatise on language: or, The relation which words bear to things, in four parts by Alexander Bryan Johnson (1836)
This book holds a number of insights for an 1836 author who was doing philosophy on the side, as a successful banker. ...
- myth = mithya: a handbook of hindu mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik (2006)
i have been recently reading up on 1857, and was struck by how much the construction of the mutiny in british eyes was was essentially a mythological narrative - the attempts to overdramatize - e.g. fantastic tales of sepoys raping british women and skewering babies... it is the grotesqueness of these stories, that like a ten-headed demon, that gives myths its staying power ...
- Confronting Love : Poems by Jerry (eds) Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam (2005)
The selections here are definitely on the fresher side. Even for the known poets, the poems chosen, (Kolatkar's Lice, Ramanujan's Love 10) are among the lesser known. Many poets are being anthologized for the first time, so ...
- Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire by Don Nardo (2010)
modern scholars have significantly re-evaluated and refurbished the image of Genghis Khan. They do not dispute that he was a ruthless conqueror ...
- The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping (2010)
The midnight drum has sounded
and your horse may slip with the frost so heavy.
Better not to leave. ... - A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry by J.P. Seaton and Dennis Maloney (1994)
- Beijing and Shanghai by Peter Neville Hadley (2007)
MARCO POLO: Whether Marco Polo ever visited China is much disputed. However, according to the book he dictated to a ghost writer who embroidered it ...
- The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway and Richard Guy (1995)
- The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning by Bonnie Blackburn (2000)
- How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics by William Byers (2007)
the moment put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry. ...
- A concise history of modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf (2006)
There was no law in the Panjab in those days. Our instructions were to decide all cases by the light of common sense and our own sense of what was just and right. ...
- The Invention of Tradition by Eric J. (ed) Hobsbawm and Terence O. Ranger (1992)
- Waiting by Ha Jin (2000)
It dawned on him that he had never loved a woman wholeheartedly and that he had always been the loved one. This must have been the reason why he knew so little about love and women. ...
- Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 by John Kaye and George Bruce Malleson (ed.) (1888)
- The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857 by J. A. B. Palmer (1966)
- Tantric treasures: three collections of mystical verse from buddhist India by Roger R. Jackson (2004)
- pAtAlghar পাতালঘর by Sirshendu Mukherjee (1996)
- The 1857 Rebellion : Debates in Indian History and Society Series by Biswamoy Pati (ed) (2007)
clearly there was a vehement dislike for British rule, a groundswell of feeling that the _firanghis_ (Britishers) should _chhoD re hamar deswa_ (leave our country), as Badri Narayan's folklore studies reveal. But does this make 1857 a "freedom struggle"? Like any term used in language, there is no clear definition, and the debate can rage on. ...
- Kathamanabi: her voice and other poems by Mallika Sengupta (2005)
to bathe me were the rivers born
to dry me came sunshine
in the heat of my anger, flintstones
flashed into flickering fire.
my fierce need for love created man ... - Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire by Don Nardo (2010)
modern scholars have significantly re-evaluated and refurbished the image of Genghis Khan. They do not dispute that he was a ruthless conqueror ...
- Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia by Ayesha Jalal (2008)
- Ethics and epics: the collected essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal, Volume 2 by Bimal Krishna Matilal and Jonardon Ganeri (ed) (2002)
Here is a master scholar dealing with myth and how it relates to our modern lives. Raises some fascinating moral questions, and attempts to show us ...
- The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India by Eric Stokes (1980)
No contrast could be more absolute than that between the ferocity of Jat rebellion in western Meerut (which later spread north into Muzaffarnagar) and the conspicuous 'loyalty' displayed by the Jats of eastern Meerut and Bulandshahr. The only sufficient explanation, [was better _bhaichara_ organization] ...
- kAkAbAbu banAm chorAshikArI (কাকাবাবু বনাম চোরাশিকারি) by Sunil Gangopadhyaya (1995)
kAkAbAbu, jojo and santu are in kaziranga, where they run into a gang of desperate rhino poachers, headed by a enigmatic bandit who announces his ...
- How languages are learned by Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada (1993)
5 At birthday party: Father (raises stemmed glass w juice): I'd like to propose a toast. After [some time], David (5,1) raised his glass and said I'd like to propose a piece of bread. ...
- The sound of the kiss, or the story that must never be told by Pingali Surana and Velcheru Narayana Rao [Vēlcēru NārāyaNarāvu] (tr.) and David Dean Shulman (tr.) (2002)
Writing poetry is like milking a cow.
You have to pause at the right moment.
You have to feel your way, gently, with a good heart,
[if you fail] you get kicked... - Beer by Michael Jackson (2007)
IBU Acronym for International Bitterness Units, a standard scale of measurement for determining the bitterness of beers. ...
- The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays by T.S. Eliot (1997)
Another essay, "Poets on poetry", is mentioned in the blurb at the back but seems to have lost its way during production; it's certainly not there in the edition I have. ...
- Literary theory: an introduction by Terry Eagleton (1996)
Nobody will penalize me heavily if I dislike a particular Donne poem, but if I argue that Donne is not literature at all then in certain circumstances I might risk losing my job.
[AM: a great example; but this still means "Donne = literature" is a shared subjectivity rather than an objective fact.] ... - Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction by Benjamin W. Fortson (2004)
[the picture of PIE has been in constant change over more than two centuries of study, hence] The account of linguistic history given in this book is not an immutable truth. ...
- manojder adbhut bARi by Sirshendu MukhopAdhyAy (2004)
an utterly gyAnjAkhuRi tale of swashbuckling adventure that keeps turning pages like a cross between treasure island and a marquez novel. ...
- Child's talk: learning to use language by Jerome Seymour Bruner and Rita Watson (ed) (1983)
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian and Mabel Lee (tr.) (2004)
I ask everywhere and search street after street and lane after lane. I feel as if I'm rummaging through my pockets; I've taken out everything, but still can't find what i want. In despair I drag along my weary legs, uncertain whether they still belong to me. 73 ...
- The mammoth book of literary anecdotes by Philip Gooden (2002)
Many of the stories are prefaced by notes that indicate that they are unreliable. Interesting-ness prevails over truth; but aren't there enough truly interesting situations as well? ...
- Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami and Alfred Birnbaum (tr.) (2003)
The autumn sky was as clear as if it had been made that very morning. Perfect Duke Ellington weather. ...
- The mammoth book of literary anecdotes by Philip Gooden (2002)
Many of the stories are prefaced by notes that indicate that they are unreliable. Interesting-ness prevails over truth; but aren't there enough truly interesting situations as well? ...
- Mental floss presents Instant Knowledge by Will (eds) Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt and Mental Floss (pub) (2005)
Reno’s first escalator was installed at Coney Island, and 75,000 people rode Reno’s “inclined elevator” during a two-week exhibition in 1896. Let’s be clear: The escalator was not the means by which one traveled to a ride. It was the ride itself... ...
- Mental floss presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits by Will (eds) Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt and Mental Floss (pub) (2005)
During the 13 years he spent on the [Cook County] bench, from 1977 to 1990, Maloney “fixed” as many as six murder trials, taking bribes from $10,000 to $100,000 from gangs to convict members of other gangs of murder or ...
- Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (1999)
I suppose it wasn't often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner. Gussie ...
- jhiler dhAre bARi by shIrShendu mukhopAdhyAy (1988)
Despite the enid-blyton-esque plot, the background and characters are far more intimately portrayed, and the stories of the bengal countryside makes it a much more compelling read. ...
- Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana (1992)
translation depends on the Western philosophical notions of reality, representation, and knowledge. Reality is seen as something unproblematic, "out there"; knowledge involves a representation of this reality; and representation provides direct, unmediated access to a transparent reality. ...
- How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school by John Bransford and NRC Committee on Science of Learning (2003)
Constructivists assume that all knowledge is constructed from previous knowledge, irrespective of how one is taught — even listening to a lecture involves active attempts to construct new knowledge. ...
- Semantics by Frank Robert Palmer (1981)
It is, or should be, clear that the study of semantics is not advanced by being 'reduced' to logic. 113 ...
- Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle-period Bengal by Ronald B. Inden (1976)
[Eurocentric distinctions] of clan rank, "modified" to take into account Hindu concerns for purity and ritual status, looked more and more like Ptolemy's attempt to account for the motion of the heavenly bodies by adding epicycles. - p. 8 ...
- jhiler dhAre bARi by shIrShendu mukhopAdhyAy (1988)
sripati thinks a while and says: "these are village ghosts, you know - may be they don't have the guts to scare those city honchos." - p.23 ...
- The anti-Chomsky reader by Peter (eds) Collier and David Horowitz (2004)
Chomsky’s work manifests a deep disregard and contempt for the truth [1], a monumental disdain for standards of inquiry, a relentless strain of self-promotion, remarkable descents into incoherence[2] and a penchant for verbally abusing those who disagree with him [3]. ...
- Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie (2010)
When Haroun had been Luka's age he had travelled to the earth's second moon, befriended fishes who spoke in rhyme and a gardene r made of lotus roots, and helped to overthrow the evil Cultmaster Khattam-Shud who was ...
- Vision and the emergence of meaning: blind and sighted children's early language by Anne Dunlea (1989)
are both about the same. However, senses are used more effectively, e.g. echolocation - bright blind children spontaneously learn to clap and echolocate around age 1.5-2. 10 ...
- The stuff of thought: language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker (2007)
Spam is not, as some people believe, an acronym for Short, Pointless, and Annoying Messages. The word is related to the name of the luncheon meat sold ...
- Encyclopedia of Perception, v.1 and v.2 by E. Bruce Goldstein (2009)
- Exercise physiology: people and ideas by Charles M. Tipton (ed.) (2003)
Effects of exercise: seen in the bushbaby, _Galago senegalensis_, by Edgerton etal, 1974. moderate intensity (running) - mostly slow-twitch oxidative type I; exercise; maximal (jumping) - used fast-twitch glycotic (type II). ...
- Indian Controversies: Essays on Religion in Politics by Arun Shourie (1993)
Arun Shourie's writing is unrestrained in its detail, overwhelming in its erudition, inflammatory in its invective; but most importantly, it holds interest. The contrast with typical secularly "correct" writing is ...
- The city in South Asia by James Heitzman (2008)
makes this site contemporaneous with Çatal Hüyük in Turkey (Mellaart 1967) and Jericho in Palestine (Kenyon 1970), several of the world’s oldest known settlements. ...
- Akbar by André Wink (2009)
Among the Great Mughals (1526–1707) only Akbar’s son Jahangir (1605–1628) was blessed with an equal lack of politically dangerous brothers. In Jahangir’s ...
- Child language: acquisition and growth by
Barbara Lust (2006)
30 mo Jumps into air with both Fastest increase in vocabulary; no feet; stands on one foot for babbling; utterances have communicative about two seconds; takes intent; frustrated if not understood by ... - A survey of Hinduism by Klaus K. Klostermaier (2007)
The very idea of writing, as an outsider, about the life and religion of a people as large and as ancient as the Hindus, requires, I believe, an apology. p.14 ...
- A history of mathematics: an introduction by Victor J. Katz (1998)
astrologers predicted that the daughter lIlAvatI of the Indian mathematician bhAskara (1114-1185) would not wed. But her father, ...
- Phonology and language use by Joan L. Bybee (2001)
To someone approaching linguistics from other disciplines, it might seem odd that '''language use''' is not considered while formulating theories of language. However, since language is such a complex phenomenon, it has been ...
- Concepts: Core Readings by Eric (eds) Margolis and Stephen Laurence (1999)
- The handbook of pragmatics by Laurence R. (eds) Horn and Gregory L. Ward (2004)
- Pragmatics and grammar by Mira Ariel (2008)
- The literary mind by Mark Turner (1996)
- Constructions: a construction grammar approach to argument structure by Adele E. Goldberg (1995)
- Chinese theories of reading and writing: a route to hermeneutics and open poetics by Ming Dong Gu (2006)
The words of ancient poets contain within themselves unlimited implications. When posterity reads them, they will come to different understandings, depending upon their dispositions, which may be shallow ...
- Syntax: an introduction, Volume 1 by Talmy Givon (2001)
Both the extravagantly abstract structures proposed by extreme formalists and the obsessively concrete structures embraced by extreme functionalists are due, in large measure, to pre-empirical philosophical predilections. For over ...
- Grammar by Frank Robert Palmer (1984)
What sets man apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is his ability to speak; he is 'man the speaking animal' - homo loquens. [other creature may make meaningful sounds, but they lack grammar.] Man is not merely homo loquens ; he is homo grammaticus. p.9-10 ...
- Granta 85 : Hidden Histories by Ian (ed.) Jack and Jeannie Erdal and Diana Athil and Orhan Pamuk (2004)
The literary treatment of sex is beset with vexed questions. First there is the problem of getting the characters to take their clothes off -- buttons and zips and hooks can be so awkward, and you couldn't ...
- A History of Modern Japan by Richard Storry (1969)
In the middle of the fourth century, an empress named Jingo organized, and, it is said, took command of, a military expedition to Korea... [not the etym < jingoism] ...
- Mughal and Rajput painting, New Cambridge history of India I.3 by Milo Cleveland Beach (1992)
- Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart & Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (1993)
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise. ... - The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran and Esther Tyldesley (tr) (2006)
The Chinese revolution sloganeered about the equality of women and men. In the work units, they are assigned equal work and there were no marks of rank. Yet, somehow, the leaders who emerge are almost all male. ...
- Indian literature, 227, May-June 2005 by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee and Sahitya Akademi (2006)
You should write when you can still laugh at yourself and the world, before you give yourself up to despair. ...
- The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2003)
It is far more useful to view computational science as part of the problem, rarher than the solution. The problem is understanding how humans can have invented explicit, algorithmically driven machines when our brains do not operate in this way. The solution, if it ever ...
- Moin and the Monster by Anushka Ravishankar and Anitha Balachandran (ill.) (2006)
"_Owowowowow!_ What have you done? What have you done?" wailed the monster.
"Why? What's the matter?"
"This is not how I should look," wept the monster. "I'm fearsome. You've made me look funny!"
... - An intimate history of humanity by Theodore Zeldin (1994)
It set me thinking about how my ancestors lived. Given that a large percentage of humanity were serfs for most of history, Zeldin says that most of our ancestors were slaves. ...
- The Poetry of Men's Lives: An International Anthology by Fred (ed.) Moramarco and Al Zolynas (ed.) (2004)
the uncollected man in converse with himself, ...
- Three Chinese Poets by Vikram (tr.) Seth and Wei Wang and Po Li and Fu Du (1997)
Empty hills, no man in sight
Just echoes of the voice of men.
... - Thousand cranes by Yasunari Kawabata and Edward G. Seidensticker (tr) (1959)
He gazed at it for a time. In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in the morning. 88 ...
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (2001)
"What do you have there?" Sheetal said, pointing at his nakedness and laughing. ...
- Indian literature, 227, May-June 2005 by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee and Sahitya Akademi (2006)
You should write when you can still laugh at yourself and the world, before you give yourself up to despair. ...
- Tribute to Papa by Mamta Kalia (1970)
I followed you like a corollary. ...
- Bhartrihari, the grammarian by Mulakaluri Srimannarayana Murti (1997)
Bhartirhari uses the wrod _sphoTa_ in the sense of the meaning bearer or expressive word, a concept different from the actual articulated sound which is called _dhvani_. ...
- We speak in changing languages: Indian women poets 1990-2007 by E. V. Ramakrishnan and Anju Makhija (2009)
Impossible union with a stranger.
Love will rise like a phoenix, they said;
friendship will follow with the children of god.
But first one has to be turned inside out. ... - Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra (1997)
One of my top books by any author. The stories are tight, psychologically gripping, intense. Set in Mumbai, the titles are Sanskrit words that have complex connotations in the Indian psyche. ...
- Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr (1982)
- Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (1994)
WOLF: It's about thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten. ...
- The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (1970)
Cotton textiles (even words like 'calico', Chintz', 'dungaree', 'pyjamas', 'sash' and 'gingham' are of Indian origin) and sugar are India's specific contribution to everyday life, just as paper, tea, porcelain, silk are China's. ...
- The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh and Reeve Lindbergh (2003)
There are thousands of lights along one side. They probably come from a factory. Surely Le Bourget wouldn't have a factory that size right next to it. [they are the headlights of cars waiting to see him land] ...
- The ghost of Gosain Bagan by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Nirmal K Bhattacharjee (tr.) and Agantuk (ill) (2008)
An inconsistency in the story has to do with the fact that the ghosts are very scared of the word "Ram" and disappear the moment it is uttered, (e.g. Rambabu). Yet the leading ghosts name is Nidhuram. ...
- Sanskrit poetry, from Vidyākara's "Treasury" by vidyAkara and Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (tr.) (1968)
Like all compilers of verse, Vidyakara was a man of his times, and he liked the poets and poetic taste flourishing around him. Thus, his choice of ...
- The Vintage Book of Marriage by Bel Mooney and Jonathan Dimbleby (1989)
- Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (2004)
And the gentle butterfly offers
Itself in bright yellow sacrifice
Upon my hard silicon shield. ... - Poems for the Millennium, The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (1998)
I don't believe the sky is blue;
I don't believe in thunder's echoes; ... - Kamasutra by Vatsayana and Wendy Doniger (tr) and Sudhir Kakar (tr.) (2002)
It is not, as most people think, a book about the positions in sexual intercourse. It is about the art of living -- about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or ...
- Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk and Maureen Freely (tr.) (2007)
The seagull is standing on the roof, in the rain, as if nothing has happened. It is as if it's not raining at all; the seagull is just standing there, as still as ever. Or else the seagull is a great philosopher, too ...
- Old snow: poems by Bei Dao and Bonnie S. McDougall (tr) and Chen Maiping (tr.) (1991)
where is the pear
whose body shuts like a clam
where is the pre-doomsday carnival
where is the flag's victorious star ... - Contemporary Indian poetry by Kaiser Haq (ed) (1990)
The white of the negro maid's eyeballs
is the only clean thing here, ... - Commando 3-in-1 : Battle Stories by Commando comics (publ) (1989)
- Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of One of the Deadliest Seasons on Everest by Nick Heil (2008)
[Everest, which] had once stood as a symbol of what was best in mankind -- determination, tenacity, teamwork -- now represented something much darker: ego, hubris, greed. 6 ...
- Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays by Chinua Achebe (1976)
An Australian student who had taken a course in African Lit, asked me if the time had not come for African writers to write about 'people in general' ...
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner (1981)
Medieval prayer: Tell me not why I must suffer. Assure me only that I suffer for Thy sake. 16 ...
- Traditional Asian Plays by James R. Brandon (1972)
==Contents== Indian Sanskrit Drama 7 The Toy Cart [Mricchakatika of Sudraka] (tr. P. Lal) 13 Thai Lakon Jatri 115 ...
- Space: Guide to Astronomy by John O'Bryne (1999)
- Vision and the emergence of meaning: blind and sighted children's early language by Anne Dunlea (1989)
congenitally blind, if vision is restored as adult by surgery, have difficulty recognizing objects visually - need training. [Molyneux problem] 11 ...
- Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow (1940)
Mr Tompkins lifts a bike and starts to pedal, he doesn't become shorter, but the world becomes narrower in his direction of ...
- The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves (tr.) (2004)
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. ...
- The Old Playhouse And Other Poems by Kamala Das (2004)
The language I speak... is half English, half
Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,
It is as human as I am human ... - A book of love poetry by Jon Stallworthy (1986)
- Postcolonial poetry in English by Rajeev Shridhar Patke (2006)
- Subhashitavali: An Anthology of Comic, Erotic and Other Verse by A. N. D. Haksar (tr.) and Vallabhadeva (ed.) (2007)
"What fault can I find?"
With this thought in mind
does a villain always start
to scrutinize the poet's art. [141] ... - Monkey Shadows by Sujata Bhatt (1991)
Who speaks of the green coconut uterus
the muscles sliding, a deeper undertow ... - nabanItA debsener shreShTa kabitA by nabanItA debsen (1989)
যদি আমি ফের ফিরতে চাই, বন্ধু, তোমার
ডুমুর গাছটি কি আমাকে ছায়া দেবে? ... - Indian love poems by Meena Alexander (ed.) (2005)
Her lips are like leaves. Mine are full-blown coral.
Don't bite too hard. ... - Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (2007)
“Doctor Greg, you must make time to share three cups of tea. We may be uneducated. But we are not stupid. We have lived and survived here for a long ...
- I can, but why should I go by Sakti Chattopadhyay and Jayanta Mahapatra (tr) (1994)
এখন গঙ্গার তীরে ঘুমন্ত দাঁড়ালে Now, when I stand, drowsy on the Ganga's bank
চিতা কাঠ ডাকে আয়, আয়, আয়। The wood of the pyre calls: Come!
... - padyasamagra 1 by Shakti Chattopadhyay (1989)
- Recipes worth their lack of salt by Michael E. deBakey and Antonio M. Gotto, Lynne W. Scott and John P. Foreyt (1984)
- The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India by Zaheer Baber (1996)
The dominant "colonialist" perspective was articulated by Grant, Mill, and Macaulay... conceived the pre-British India as a veritable tabula rasa onto which modern science and technology had to be inscribed as part of the ...
- Science, technology, and medicine in colonial India by David Arnold (2000)
Although the history of science, technology and medicine continues to be presented in general histories as a record of Western discovery and dissemination, it has become more widely acknowledged than a generation or two ago that not all such histories can be conflated into a single story of European achievement or saga of European enterprise overseas. p.1 ...
- A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup For the Soul by Jack (eds) Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen and Raksha Bharadia ()
- The book of general ignorance by John Lloyd and and John Mitchinson (2006)
Most dangerous animal: 45 bn people - half the humans that ever lived - may have been killed by diseases borne by mosquitoes. Today, one person dies every 12 seconds ...
- Learning Syntactic Structure by Yoav Seginer (2007)
While Amit was washing the dishes crashed to the floor. ...
- Introduction to Design by Morris Asimow (1962)
Engineering design is a purposeful activity directed toward the goal of fulfilling human needs, particularly those that can be met by the technological factors of our culture. p. 1 ...
- From Scott to Fuchs by Gerald Bowman (1960)
- Great plays of Kalidasa by Kamlesh Pandey and D.H. Doongaji and AK Lavangia and Kamala Chandrakant and Anant Pai (ed.) and P.B. Kavadi (ill) and Pratap Mulick (ill.) ()
- Great Sanskrit plays by Kamala Chandrakant and Subba Rao and Anant Pai (ed.) and H.S. Chavan (ill) and G.R. Naik (ill.) and Pratap Mulick (ill.) ()
- The Sacred beetle and other great essays in science by Martin Gardner (ed.) (1986)
If physicists reduce all existence to a finite number of particles or waves, one can always ask, "Why those particles?' or "Why those waves?' There necessarily must remain a basic substratum-a "dark abyss," as Santayana once described it, "before which intelligence must be silent for fear of going mad." It is the Unknowable of Spencer, the Noumena of Kant, ...
- The Oxford India Ramanujan by A. K. Ramanujan (2003)
It's terrible. I grow lean / in loneliness,/ like a water lily / gnawed by a beetle. ...
- Subtext: making body language work in the workplace by Julius Fast (1991)
how do you send out a subtext of confidence? Smile, was his first suggestion. ...
- The Routledge companion to aesthetics by Berys Nigel (eds) Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (2001)
- How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years by Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies and Malcolm B. DeBevoise (tr.) (2001)
He would have responded the same if yes was uttered in the same tone. So separating the phonetic component from the prosody remains a challenge for studies of word recognition. ...
- ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size by Maurice Sagoff and Roslyn Schwartz (ill.) (1980)
- Modern Indian drama: an anthology by G.P. Deshpande (ed.) (2004)
Leader: What is the purpose of staging the play?
Sutradhar: The purpose is to earn my bread, Sir.
L: Tchi! Tchi! What a petty concern!
... - Contemporary Indian short stories v.II by Bhabani Bhattacharya (2006)
- A Certain Sense by Jibananda Das and Sukanta Chaudhuri (ed) and Sumita Chakrabarti (ed) (2006)
- Climbing on the Himalaya and other mountain ranges by Norman Collie (1902)
A sport like mountaineering needs no apology. 51 ...
- Indira: the life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank (2002)
Indira's affair with Nehru secretary M.O. Mathai-- Mathai boasted openly of his liaison with Nehru's daughter, both at the time and for many years after. There is no q that Indira and M were very ...
- When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others by A.K. (tr.) Ramanujan and Velcheru Narayana Rao (tr.) and David Shulman (tr.) and Ksetrayya (1994)
What's there
to be jealous about?
When youth passes,
nothing will go your way,
so grab the cash
... - Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story by Hatsuho Naito (1989)
I shall fall, smiling and singing songs. Please visit and worship at Yasukuni Shrine this spring. There I shall be a cherry blossom ...
- Kalidaser granthAbalI, v.2 by Kalidasa and Rajendranath Vidyabhushan (ed.) (1929)
वर्णप्रकर्षे सति कर्णिकारं दुनोति निर्गन्धतया स्म चेतः ।
प्रायेण सामग्र्यविधौ गुणानां पराङ्मुखी विश्वसृजः प्रवृत्तिः॥३.२८ ... - Celebrating the best of Urdu Poetry by Khushwant (tr. ed.) Singh and Kamna Prasad (ed.) (2007)
When my beloved raised her arms to gather up her tresses A million desires gathered in my heart and got tied up in a tangle ...
- The blacksmith and the carpenter by Sun Li and Sidney Shapiro (tr) and Gladys Yang (tr) and Yu Fanqin (tr) (1982)
- Ritusamhara by Kalidasa and Rajendra Tandon (tr.) (2008)
- The age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence by Ray Kurzweil (2000)
- chhoToder biShay: Abritti by debdulAl (eds.) bandyopadhyAy and amiya chaTTopAdhyAy (2006)
মায়েরা সব মায়ের মতন বাবারা সব বাবা-ই । ...
- The Cambridge Companion to Atheism by Michael Martin (ed.) (2007)
A exclusively western treatment; considers Jainism, Buddhism and Confucianism only in the context of whether these religions, all of which reject a notion of a personal god, may be considered to be atheistic. "The ...
- Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark (1998)
Minds are not disembodied logical reasoning devices. This simple shift in ...
- Indian Mathematics and Astronomy: Some Landmarks by S. Balachandra Rao (1994)
- My Mother's Sari by Sandhya Rao and Nina Sabnani (ill.) (2006)
- nATak samagra by Bratya Basu (2004)
- Buddha v. 1: Kapilavastu by Osamu Tezuka (2006)
- The Indian mutiny and the British imagination by Gautam Chakravarty (2005)
- Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru by Jawaharlal Nehru (1951)
What amazed me ... was our total ignorance in the cities of this great agrarian movement. No newspaper had contained a line about it; they were not ...
- Memoirs by Pablo Neruda and Hardie St. Martin (tr.) (1976)
Veinte poemas is my love affair with Santiago, with its student-crowded streets, the university, and the honeysuckle fragrance of requited love. ...
- Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda and Pablo Picasso (ill.) and William Stanley Merwin (tr.) (2004)
- Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography and Ritual by Serinity Young (2004)
- Contact linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes by Carol Myers-Scotton (2002)
Singly-occurring nouns are the most commonly switched elements in code-switching corpora. ...
- The story of our food by K. T. Achaya (2000)
The fine varieties of mangoes which the Portuguese had developed by grafting techniques [e.g. Alfonso] were also avidly pursued by the Mughals. ...
- Hindu Soul Recipes by Pushpesh Pant (2007)
the discussion is airy and insubstantial. Despairingly, one searches for answers, but none are to be found, e.g. the _doshas_ relate to the three elements - water, air, and fire - but the "relation" is never elaborated. ...
- Making Space: The Development Of Spatial Representation And Reasoning by Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher (2000)
- The rebel's silhouette: selected poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Agha Shahid Ali (tr.) (1995)
Each star a rung,
night comes down the spiral
staircase of the evening. ... - The Penguin Book of Modern Urdu Poetry by Mahmood Jamal (tr.) (1986)
Last night your lost memory came to me as spring comes quietly upon a wilderness ...
- Kala Ghoda Poems by Arun Kolatkar (2004)
a palpitating hill
of naked idlis ... - How do you withstand, body by Gieve Patel (1976)
-- And the professors! O professors,
Stale, malodorous, with yesterday's coats ... - A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food by Nilanjana S. Roy (2004)
her breasts were like used tea bags. As the weight loss progressed, the sachets deflated gradually, becoming little more than flaps of skin. ...
- bhojanshilpI bAMAlI by buddhadeb basu (2004)
There is nothing called "Indian literature," - as I have been saying in so many forums - similarly, there is nothing called "Indian food". It would be ...
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded Man by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson (1997)
Bela was married when she was 15 and Renuka at 10... although Rabindranath was strongly opposed to child marriage.] ...
- In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali by Edward C. (trans.) Dimock and Denise Levertov and Anju Chaudhuri (ill) (1967)
The marks of fingernails are on your breast and my heart burns. ...
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the past month i've been bicycling in the himalayas. had rented some rooms in a village overlooking the snows across a vast valley - so wasn't connected, and some patches of reading had accumulated... incidentally, we rode a total of 890 km including some rather steep slopes (birthi-kalamuni-munshiyari, joshimath-badrinath-mana, bageshwar-song, gagas-ranikhet, kosi-almora, etc).