Rama

the Greatest” the stories were mainly about the activities the gods did and how they became the way they are now. In “Hanuman, the Greatest”, the monkey god, Hanuman meets the two sons of King Desaratha and finds out that one of the sons (Prince Rama) cannot find his wife, Sita. Hanuman asks the monkeys to search the entire forest and finally finds out that Ravana, the king of demons kidnapped Sita. Hanuman and the two princes defeat Ravana and save Sita. While I was reading this story, I…

In the short story, interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri incorporates symbols to help the reader better understand the relationships that are shown. The symbols vary from objects to actions. Often times these symbols can be overlooked and rendered meaningless, but with intent examination they can help us better understand the story and the relationships that are portrayed. Interpreter of Maladies is a story centered around a family and their tour guide. This family includes a Mrs. Das, Mr.…

67th Sate level “Van Mahotsav” Mahisagar Van O goddess, you are milk of the earth, queen of exaltation, you are beautiful to attract whole world and manifested as an empress of all rivers, please make me free from my sin. Sow Gujarat, Dynamic Gujarat Yati, Mati and Sati these are main three pride Rivers for Gujarat. Yati means Narmada, Mati means Sabarmati and Sati means Mahisagar. Marriage place (Meeting) of Mahi and Sea is “Vaherakhadi”. Introduction Vaherakhadi village lies on Vasad-Dakor…

Those celebrating Diwali spend time with family and friends. They perform religious ceremonies to bring in wealth and prosperity for a new year, cook and eat delicious food, design rangolis. Rangolis are patterns created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using, materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. They also light up their lives by lighting diyas, candles and sometimes, by lighting fireworks. It is a celebration of lights, and for many, it is truly a…

Badkonake Sefid The White Balloon Jafar Panahi Iran (Farsi) 1995 80 minutes The Point Jafar Panahi presents in his film is to not give up on one owns beliefs. Raziah shows viewers this through her multiple attempts to own a specific goldfish. First beginning when Fereshteh refuses to pay one-hundred tomans for a goldfish when they have plenty at home. Raziah continues to give her mother reasons on why she needs one and even convinces her brother to talk to her. When her mother finally agrees…

India has a glorious history of drama from the ancient times. Drama begins its journey in India with the Sanskrit plays. Indian drama is characterized with the rituals, folks, cultural heritage etc. But the major concern of contemporary Indian drama is the representation of socio-political scenario, marginalization, gender discrimination, oppression, poverty and hunger. A general consensus seems to have emerged that though the social criticism, corruption, oppression, gender discrimination can…

The Manusmrti remains one of the finest embodiments of Classical Hindu law and of fundamental importance in any study on law in India. Buhler designates Manusmrti as 'Bhrigu's version of the Institutes of Sacred law proclaimed by Manu".14 Its opening verses describe how Manu, the descendent of the self¬ existent Brahmana was approached by the great sages to explain the sacred law. Buhler further explains that if the versions given by commentators like Govihdraja, Narayana and Raghavananda as…

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

The Bhagavad-Gita is a story about a one of the Pandava brothers in combat against the Kauravas for the rights to the kingdom. The story takes place on the battlefield of Kuruksheta and contains the divine conversation between Arjuna of the Pandavas brothers and an avatar of Lord Krishna. The arguments presented in this story rationalize and support “righteous war” or dharmya yuddha, war that is just and well deserved (Upadhyaya, 164). Arjuna questions the morality of the situation and seeks…

New & Trendy Happy Diwali SMS Diwali is a festival of lights, joys, happiness and a win of good over evil. Diwali or Deepavali is the Hindu festival of lights which spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. Its celebration includes millions of lights shining on housetops, outside doors and windows, around temples and other buildings in the communities and even in the sky. People offers and wishes everyone around…