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- The happiness hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom by Jonathan Haidt (2007)
Even before Buddha, the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu had said that the road to wisdom runs through calm inaction, desireless waiting. p.37 ...
- The peasant armed: the Indian revolt of 1857 by Eric Stokes and Christopher Alan Bayly (1986)
The Sati Chaura Ghat with its Siva temple still bears the ominous title of Massacre Ghat, and the air seems loaded with menace. ...
- Comparative Studies of How People Think: An Introduction by Michael Cole and Barbara Means (1986)
jan 22, 2012
- a mermaid in a stream of moonlight by Namita Chaudhuri (2011)
I left one of my hands
at Rahul's home
and one of my eyes at Monimoy's
in the streets some people enquired
about my hand
and some others about my eye ... - Northern India according to the Shui-ching-chu by Luciano Petech and Daoyuan Li (1950)
- Indian food: A Historical Companion by K. T. Achaya (1998)
dec 5, 2011
- Dashti Upanyas by sirShendu mukhopAdhyAy (2000)
- The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work by Jon Gordon (2008)
[w:John Wooden] - the legendary UCLA basketball coach - never focused on winning. He focused on developing his players - improving their fundamentals, skills, character [...] and as a result he won ... a lot. ...
nov 17, 2011
- Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas by Romila Thapar (1973)
This inscription of Dhamma has been engraved so that any sons or great grandsons that I may have should not think of gaining new conquests ... but should only consider conquests by Dhamma ...
- Handbook of psycholinguistics by Matthew
J. Traxler and Morton Ann Gernsbacher (eds.) (2006)
thousands of languages in use around the world... most without writing systems. in a survey of only 317 languages, Maddieson (1984) describes 558 different consonants, 260 different vowels, and 51 diphthongs ...
- A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism by Arshin Adib Moghaddam (2010)
- Emergence: contemporary readings in philosophy and science by Mark Bedau and Paul Humphreys (eds) (2008)
- The Oxford India Anthology of Bengali Literature v.2: 1941-1991 by Kalpana Bardhan (ed) (2010)
Through the day I keep meeting the cat;
In the shade of the tree, out in the sun,
Amidst the dense shade of the leaves
... - Computational explorations in cognitive neuroscience: understanding the mind by simulating the brain by Randall C. O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata (2000)
- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie (2002)
The headman's teeth resembled a jagged mountain range. Three incisors protruded from blackened inflamed gums like flames of prehistoric basalt ...
- A Cultural History of India by A. L. Basham (1998)
Clive, who was never able to give an order in any Indian language, spoke Portuguese with fluency. ...
- Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda by Mohindar Singh Randhawa and Jayadeva (1958)
One cowherdess with heavy breasts embraces Hari lovingly
And celebrates him in a melody of love. ... - Royal temples of Gupta period: excavations at Bhitari by Vidula Jayaswal (2001)
who, possessing strength of arm most abundantly in the world, is the one hero of Gupta lineage; whose splendour is as profuse as renowned, who is Skandagupta by name... (verse 2) ...
- Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: North India: foundations of North Indian style, c.250 B.C.-A.D.1100, v.2; part 1 by Michael W. Meister and Madhusudan A. Dhaky, Krishna Deva (1988)
- Fibonacci's De practica geometrie by Leonardo Fibonacci and Barnabas Hughes (tr) (2008)
"the issue is no longer moot: Fibonacci was proficient in Arabic. ... [That Fibonacci] had complete fluency in Arabic, is now accepted as correct..." ...
- The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008 by Jayanta Mahapatra (2008)
Afterwards when the wars of Kalinga were over,
the fallow fields of Dhauli
hid the blood-spilt butchered bodies. ... - Door Of Paper: Essays And Memoirs by Jayanta Mahapatra (2007)
There is a door in the heart of man which never opens. Or if it does at times, we are not aware of its opening ...
- Words and the Mind: How words capture human experience by Barbara C. Malt and Phillip M. Wolff (eds) (2010)
are there “basic” body parts that are recognized across cultures in how people talk about the body? ...
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (2001)
while the locales move across temples and other regions of nepal hover in the background, the stories could just as well be anywhere. ...
- Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers by Charles Simic and Mark Strand (eds) (1976)
During the fourteenth charge
of the French cavalry
she mated
with the brown-eyed male fly
from Vadincourt. ... - In their own voice: The Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian women poets by Arlene R. K. Zide (ed) (1993)
Who speaks of the green coconut uterus
the muscles sliding, a deeper undertow
... - Collected Poems In English by Arun Kolatkar and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (ed.) (2011)
My loin has bared its teeth.
My thighs open like iron
Maidens. Guts whip out. ...
oct 31, 2011
- Massacre at Cawnpore by V. A. Stuart (1973)
the history is cliched, and even the storytelling is far from gripping. ...
- The number devil: a mathematical adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rotraut Susanne Berner and Rotraut Susanne Berner (ill.) (1998)
a historical quibble: the invention of zero is attributed to an ancient chinese scholar. (p.245). ...
- Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry by Velcheru Narayana Rao (tr.) (2004)
When I was young
I was my father's daughter ...
I am a female thing. ... - Lexical Semantics Without Thematic Roles by Yael Ravin (1990)
- No entry for the new Sun: translations from modern Marathi Dalit poetry by Arjun Dangle (ed) (1992)
How do we taste milk in this town
where trees are planted of venom? ... - Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious by Arthur S. Reber (1996)
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. ...
- Urban Voice-4 by Sunil K Poolani (ed) (2011)
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 ... - Losing My Way: Poems by Shiv K. Kumar (2008)
Sly are the ways of temptation.
Birds with grains, children with peppermints,
and brunettes with bracelets. ... - On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold J. Mcgee (1984)
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 ...
- Making love: the Picador book of erotic verse by Alan Norman Bold (ed) (1978)
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)