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Unique Book on Mysore Zoo
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Unique Book on Mysore Zoo

February 21, 2023

Title: It All Happened at the Zoo Author: Dr. J.K. Sunder Raj Year: 2022 Pages: 43 Cover Page Art: Anita Murthy A unique kind of a book about Mysore Zoo titled  “It All Happened at the Zoo” was published last year by Dr. J.K. Sunder Raj, a family doctor of our city. His claim to…

Book Talk: Looking Back on Independence Saga
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Book Talk: Looking Back on Independence Saga

January 13, 2023

Title :  “Partitioned Freedom” Author : Ram Madhav Year : 2022 Pages : 246 Price : Rs. 500 Publisher :  Prabhat Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi Independence struggle has been substantially dissected, deliberated and detailed during the past 75 years. However, the dogmatic distortions in its narration have only increased the hunger for unravelling the…

Raja Kalavida Ravivarma: Life history of a prodigy artist
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Raja Kalavida Ravivarma: Life history of a prodigy artist

January 4, 2023

Title: Raja Kalavida Ravivarma Author: Dr. Geetha Seetharam Price: Rs. 200 Publisher: Panchajanya Publications, Bengaluru For any average Hindu household, Ravi Varma paintings were not anything unusual. One would have grown up with the paintings of Lakshmi, Saraswati, Yashoda Krishna, Muruga  and visualised these Gods just as seen in the photos bedecking the high walls….

How to make Hindu religion a practising religion across different strata of our society
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How to make Hindu religion a practising religion across different strata of our society

December 17, 2022

Title :  ‘A Call For Progressive Spiritual Hinduism  — The Vivekananda Way’ Author :  Swami Muktidananda Year : 2022 Pages : 112 Price : Rs.75 Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (Publication House of  Ramakrishna Math) Swami Muktidanandaji, President of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, has written an interesting book, directed at all Hindus titled ‘A Call For Progressive…

Re-Discovering Bharat
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Re-Discovering Bharat

December 16, 2022

Second book of Sai Deepak’s Bharat Trilogy launched HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation has organised an insightful talk and interaction session on the book ‘India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation’  by its author  J. Sai Deepak, who is also a Supreme Court Advocate, at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri, Mysuru,…

The book I read in the US: The Maharaja and the Princely States of India
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The book I read in the US: The Maharaja and the Princely States of India

November 18, 2022

By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist Title:      ‘The Maharaja & the Princely States of India’ Author: Sharada Dwivedi Year:      2002       Pages:   156 Price:     224 dollars Publisher:  The Vendome Press, New Toekm USA Whenever I come to the US, I make it a point to visit the Sunnyvale Library in San Francisco. A beautifully designed coffee-table book…

A Book Debunking White Man’s Burden
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A Book Debunking White Man’s Burden

October 12, 2022

Title:  Legacy of Violence:  A  History of the British Empire Author: Caroline Elkins Pages: 896 Price: Rs.  2,564 Publisher:  Knopf Year:  2022 (March 29) By Bhamy V. Shenoy First reaction of any Indian seeing the title of the book is likely to be why waste time reading another book on British Empire. We are familiar…

Poignant real-life stories
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Poignant real-life stories

October 11, 2022

When Nobles became non-entities, Princes became paupers and Begums were reduced to beggars… By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy Title: Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857  (Originally in Urdu  as ‘Begumat Ke Aansoo’) Author: Khwaja Hasan Nizami Publisher: Hachette India Year of Publication : 1922                Translator : Ms….

Presenting Gurudev, his life endearingly
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Presenting Gurudev, his life endearingly

June 10, 2022

Title: ‘Vishwakavi Ravindranatha-Ondu Rangadarshana’ Author:    Dr. Geetha Seetharam Publisher:  Swathi Prakashana, Bogadi, Mysuru By Dr. Shanthi Narasimhan Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is a unique personality and no amount of words can appropriately describe him. However, an attempt to put his glorious life in an accessible format is mission impossible. But Dr. Geetha Seetharam has attempted this…

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