 | MUSSOORIE MEDLEY Tales of Yesteryear
Ganesh Saili In the spring of 1808, Captain Hyder Jung Hearsey and Captain Felix Raper became the first visitors to get a view of the Garhwal Himalayas from the bend near Lal Tibba in Landour. For centuries the Himalayan foothills have been summer retreats, where, the chaans or temporary thatch-shelters of the local hill folk were the only signs of human habitation. It was left to the British to come up, move in and claim all the credit for discovering hill-stations all over India. In the early nineteenth century, Capt. Young, an intrepid official of the East India Company arrived in Landour, was charmed by the gentle climate an indispensable relief from the heat of the plains down below and built a shooting lodge in Mullingar
| | |  | Akriti to Sanskriti by Harsha V. Dehejia India is a civilization of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied not only in our erudite texts but in our kathas (stories) and gathas (songs), akritis (visual forms) and rachanas (compositions), rich with a variety of forms, shapes, designs and motifs.
Akriti to Sankriti: The Journey of Indian Forms explores some akritis that adorn both majestic and grand monuments, as well as common and ordinary spaces, and which through their purely visual language are pointers to not only our culture, but equally to brahma jnana or transcendental knowledge... | | |  | DANCING WITH KALI Goa, land of sun, surf and sand, of secluded coves, and of forested hills, where foreigners frolic on the beaches without restraint and where, in the Hindu villages just a few kilometres inland, repressive traditions still rule. And when the boundary between the two is crossed, the consequences can be unpredictable.
There in Goa, while roaming the beaches with a band of hippies, Alec, an up-and-coming English lawyer, meets Anu, the daughter of a prominent Hindu landowner, who is yearning for the freedom of choice. Their marriage sets in motion a chain of events that culminates eighteen years later when Ronnie comes to Goa to visit the beach where his mother was lost in the sea and meets Meera, a young girl whose mother is also dead living with her grandparents all three of whom are being ostracised by the community.
And watching over them is Maushi Anus mother and Meeras... | | |  | Inner Guidance Communication is the key to living a successful lifeboth inner and outer communication. Inner Guidance and the Four Spiritual Gifts explores how your personal communication system works and how to make the most of it to live true to your lifes purpose.
Each of us is born with four spiritual giftsclairvoyance (inner vision), clairaudience (inner thoughts or ideas), prophecy (inner knowing) and healing (inner feelings). Some of these gifts are more well developed in us than others, and they are the foundation for how we individually communicate and use our intuition in daily life. These gifts are like personality traits that define us as a person and determine how we relate to others.. | | |