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Book Review: Greatest French Short Stories
The French sensibility is different from the English and French literature is equally different from English literature. Of course the French and the English get along as do cats and dogs and often are seen to be throwing barbs at one another.
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Book Review: Revisiting Orissa
When we think of Orissa, we think of a state that has not lived up to its potential, a people that live on the other side of the poverty line and the cyclones that often add to the state's woes. Yet Orissa is rich, not just in natural resources but in the variety of its abundant culture and its traditional arts.
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Book Review: Stones in the Sand
Often when a tourist thinks of India, after the Taj Mahal, his thoughts turn to Rajasthan. Indeed this region often represents India to him.
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Book Review: New Light on Hampi
Hampi is one historical site that should be better known and be considered as one of the icons on the tourist map of India.
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Book Review: The Art of Living by Francois Gautier
He is described as Love incarnate. Writes Gautier: ‘‘Coming near him is like being embraced in a cocoon of love, watching him always triggers love, being with him is being swept away by love, looking at him is feeling love for everyone.
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Book Review: Master of the Ring By A.P. Maheshwari
Who doesn’t like a story? Specially children, when the narrative comes from the wizened tongue of grandparents.
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Book Review:God's Mischief By M. Mukundan
R.K. Narayan made Malgudi, a fictional village in South India not only popular but also a literary idiom for life as lived in Indian villages.
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Book Review: THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI
The Deepak Chopras and Eknath Easwarans have done a great service in calling attention to ancient scriptural wisdom that is in danger of being forgotten.
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Book Review: Bhagvad Gita
This prose version of the Gita written in 1935 is introduced as “a good choice For first-time readers of the text.” One feels sorry to say that the first-time Reader is likely to be baffled and put off by this version.
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Book Review: The A to Z of Hinduism
At a time when people all over the world are getting to be increasingly materialistic and the upholding of religion is being taken over by fundamentalists.
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