Religions of the world have inspired divine art forms, embracing the deepest insights and highest aspirations of mankind. This book charts the origin and evolution of these divine art forms and aims to understand the deeper, spiritual psychology of human beings inspired by divinity. Beginning with the worship of nature , divine art inspired forms as diverse as writing, music, dance, drama, pain...

Divine legacy: Dagars and Dhrupad

Quraishi, Humra

Saint-composer Tyagaraja's Nauka Caritramu

Vasundhara, C.

ISBN: 9788179860496, 8179860493

In this transliteration and translation of the Nauka Caritramu, Dr. C. Vasundhara has done the transliteration in Roman Script in strict accordance with the Telgu orthography; and, in the translation she has made a sincere attempt to render into English idiom the literary beauty the musical excellence and the philosophical allegory, the three essential characteristics, which the Nauka Caritramu...

Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna: a study

Vanama, Prabhu Kumari

ISBN: 9788190084802, 8190084801

The present study strives to portray the biographical sketch of Balamurali Krishna with a special reference to the amalgamation of music with history, for, the image of the culture and the history of any nation is reckoned mainly by the greatness of its music and fine arts.;

Art without frontiers: classical dance and music of India

Lowen, Sharon

ISBN: 9788182904910, 8182904919

Drama queens: women who created history on stage, foreword by Girish Karnad

Sai, Veejay

ISBN: 9789351941958, 9351941957

The book places itself at the crossroads of understanding modern cultural history. Through ten leading ladies of theatre, including Munni Bai, Mukhtar Begum, Jahanara Kajjan and Moti Bai, the book traces an unwritten narrative of women, performance, nationhood and modernity. The visuals knit a historical account reflecting the rich artistic lives they led. Through a project of memory, this book...

Dream merchants: the great visionaries of Hindi cinema

Batra, Susheel Kumar

ISBN: 9788182902480, 8182902487

This book traces the works of the remarkable, mass based Hindi film directors, who worked relentlessly in different tenures during last 70 years, whose films have not only entertained the millions of moviegoers but also were appreciated for their approach to meaningful cinema.

Dutaghatotkacam of Bhasa with Ganga, Sanskrit and Hindi comm. by Gangasagar Rai

Panorama of Indian puppetry

Ghosh, Sampa

ISBN: 9788182904170, 818290417X

Education in ancient India

Bakshi, SR et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788176292283, 8176292281

Contents: Structure of society; Division of ancient Indian education; Rigvedic education; Buddhist education; Prominent universities; The son of sages; women and marriage; Music and dance; Food and drink; Views of Swami Vivekananda.

The vanishing point: moving images after video,

ISBN: 9788194717584, 8194717582

This book tracks the fugitive after-life of the moving image ever since the proclaimed death of celluloid film. At once everywhere and nowhere, rapidly circulating moving images have become archives of public memory, degraded repositories of what was cinema, surveillance tools and instruments of governance. In this book, filmmakers, moving image artists and theorists are assembled to reconstruc...

The eight darlings of Indian aesthetics, forward by Padmashri Sunil Kothari

Upadhyay, A M

A critical study of the subject of Astanayikas in Sanskrit literature.

Eighteenth century Deccan: cultural history of the Peshwas

Shirgaonkar, Varsha S.

ISBN: 9788173053917, 817305391X

This century witnessed an important position granted to the post Peshwa, as seen from the Sahad of Maratha King Chhatrapati Shahu in the name of Peshwa, bestowing upon him total administrative authority. The new political convections brought with them streams of new culture to the Deccan. Culture of the North, Persian language, luxurious items, music and dance entered the Deccan and blended wit...

Ek-sa sangit, anuvadak: Mozez Maikel

Seth, Vikram

ISBN: 9788126701261, 8126701269

Originally published in English on An Equal Music.

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