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Marathi: Dharma Artha Kama Moksha
Translation of Dharma Artha Kama Moksha : 40 Insights for Happiness Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these…
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Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore
Eden is the garden of happiness that humanity was cast out of when Adam and Eve, the first human couple, disobeyed the one true God, and ate the fruit of the forbidden tree. To this garden we shall return if we follow God’s law and accept God’s love, conveyed through his many messengers, the first…
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Marathi: Pilgrim Nation
Translation of Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh राष्ट्रवादी आणि देशभक्त यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या, वसाहतवादी आणि घुसखोर यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या, सम्राट आणि राजे यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या अशा भारताचे ‘वस्त्र’ तीर्थयात्रेच्या मार्गरूपी धाग्यांनी विणले गेले होते. आत्मज्ञानाच्या शोधार्थ बाहेर पडलेले साधक आणि ऋषिमुनी उत्तर-दक्षिण, पूर्व-पश्चिम असे पर्वत ओलांडून, नद्यांच्या काठाकाठाने कृत्रिम सीमांकडे दुर्लक्ष करत देवाच्या शोधार्थ फिरायचे. विख्यात पौराणिक-कथाकार…
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Marathi: How to Become Rich
Translated version of How to Become Rich: 12 Lessons I Learnt from Vedic and Puranic Stories Lakshmi is worshipped as the goddess of wealth. Her arrival is considered auspicious, while her departure is bad and inauspicious. In temples, gods are bedecked with jewels; during festivals, our houses are decorated with flowers, lamps and lakshmi’s footprints.…
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Hope: Wisdom to Survive in a Hopeless World
Have you lost all hope? Does the world feel bleak and unforgiving? The pandemic crisis has seen many of us lose family, friends, colleagues. How can you recover from this devastating loss? You are surrounded by anger and violence everywhere. Bad news hits you – a failing economy, climate change – every day. Do you…
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Shyam, Our Little Krishna
Shyam, Our Little Krishna: Read and Colour. An all-in-one storybook, picture book and colouring book from India’s most-loved mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik introduces the story of Krishna, fondly known as Shyam, to a new generation of readers. Told simply in his inimitable style, Shyam, Our Little Krishna is perfect as a read-aloud to acquaint young readers…
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Kabir, Kabir: The life and work of the early modern poet-philosopher
As the right wing tries to claim Kabir for itself, while other conservatives disown him and yet others portray him as a secular idol beyond religion, the poet has never been so misunderstood. Coming from the Nirgun bhakti tradition, the words of this fifteenth-century poet have the power to reach beyond time and speak to…
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Hindi: Yoga Mythology: 64 Asanas and Their Stories
Translation of Yoga Mythology: 64 Asanas and Their Stories…
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Marriage: 100 Stories Around India’s Favourite Ritual
Marriage, by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, brings together stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil, and Sanskrit literature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore, from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years of history and 3 million square kilometres of geography, to reveal the diversity and fluidity of Indian customs and beliefs around marriage. ‘Let all the…