Souvenir honoring Jagadguru Sankaracharya of Sringeri Mutt (Abhinava Vidyateertha b.1917); comprises articles, chiefly on the Sringeri Mutt.

Most Devotionally laid at the Holy lotus Feet of HIS HOLINESS SRI JAGADGURU SANKARACHARYA SRIMATH ABHINAVA VIDYATHIRTHA MAHASWAMI

Sringeri Srinivas was tearing his hair in anger in Annual Haircut Day. He came up with a great idea in Too Many Bananas. In Too Much Noise, he found peace. In this book, the crazy but lovable, long-haired farmer becomes very, very angry again.

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. This academic field is called Indology or Sanskrit studies. From their analysis of Sanskrit texts, the scholars of this field are intervening in modern Indian society with the explicitly stated purpose of removing 'poisons' allegedly built into these texts. They hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and serve as political weapons in the hands of the ruling elite; that the sacred aspects need to be refuted; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The traditional Indian experts would outright reject or at least question these positions. The start of Rajiv Malhotra's feisty exploration of where the new thrust in Western Indology goes wrong, and his defence of what he considers the traditional, Indian approach, began with a project related to the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, one of the most sacred institutions for Hindus. There was, as he saw it, a serious risk of distortion of the teachings of the peetham, and of sanatana dharma more broadly. Whichever side of the fence one may be on, The Battle for Sanskrit offers a spirited debate marshalling new insights and research. It is a valuable addition to an important subject, and in a larger context, on two ways of looking. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them? Readers can judge for themselves.

Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing orientations that are part of everyday life compel the question: How do individuals imagine the normative, and negotiate and express it, when normative sources are many and diverging? Moral persuasiveness, Prasad suggests, is intimately tied to the aesthetics of narration, and imagination plays a vital role in shaping how people create, refute, or relate to "text," "moral authority," and "community." Lived understandings of ethics keep notions of text and practice in flux and raise questions about the constitution of "theory" itself. Prasad's innovative use of ethnography, poetics, philosophy of language, and narrative and performance studies demonstrates how the moral self, with a capacity for artistic expression, is dynamic and gendered, with a historical presence and a political agency.

If you wished Harry Potter had a message, read on … Entangled in their own petty politics, the people of the Republic of Sidua have forgotten who their real enemy is. Instead, they make speaking the forbidden truth a punishable offence! In the adjacent Kingdom of Malsia, Yosh and his men are asked to carry out an important mission. To find the Book of the Truth and destroy it. Because only the Book of the Truth can destroy them. In the Siduan capital of Hema, Noora, a seventeen-year-old lad too is entrusted with an immense task — to undertake a perilous journey to find the Book of the Truth. For only the Book of Truth can save Sidua from its enemies. Thus, the stage is set for an epic battle for possessing the Book of the Truth. Get set to ride a roller-coaster tale of adventure filled with magical spells, mountain giants, wizards, and intriguing twists and turns at every step. Witness the epic and eternal battle between an inclusive culture and an exclusive one, between nature worshippers and the followers of the so-called one-and-only one true God…. And decide who you would rather be with. If you liked the Lord of the Rings and the Game of Thrones, you will fall in love with The Forbidden Truth, too.