Incredible Kratu

Incredible Kratu

Author: Tess Eagle Swan & Lynne Barrett-Lee

Publisher: John Blake

ISBN: 9781789465150

Category: Pets

Page: 304

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A solitary child who only really found solace in nature, Tess Eagle Swan ran away from home aged sixteen and, by her late twenties, had already survived sexual violence and drug addiction. In the following decade, life spiralled further out of control, as substance abuse filled the hole meaningful relationships should have occupied. Something had to change. And it did. Tess had always loved animals, so when she saw a post on Facebook about the plight of two dogs in Romania, she was moved to take action, helping find homes for both. It was the first step on the road that led her to Kratu - the Carpathian/Mioritic Shepherd cross she adopted in 2014. From his humble beginnings on a Roma camp in Transylvania, Kratu has gone on to become a canine international treasure. Now a trained assistance and therapy dog, he has brought joy to millions with his lovable antics - not least with his legendary appearances at Crufts. But the role he has played in Tess's story is more compelling still. After a lifetime of distress, Tess and Kratu's bond allowed Tess to finally learn to love herself and answer some of the questions behind her troubled beginnings. Incredible Kratu is the inspirational true story of this unlikely pair, who found in each other the love and support they needed to beat the odds and turn both their lives around.

The Aryabhata Clan

The Aryabhata Clan

Author: Sudipto Das

Publisher: Niyogi Books

ISBN: 9789386906137

Category: Fiction

Page: 476

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The Islamic state has spread its tentacles in India, penetrating stealthily into the academia, media and politics. The mastermind is Shamsur Ali, a physicist from Bangladesh. To destabilize India, he wants to create a sort of apocalypse, which the 21-year-old Kubha must prevent at any cost, come what may. In a brazen attempt at legitimizing the demolition of one of the most prominent historical structures in India, someone unbelievably, it could be both Hiranyagarbha Bharata, a radical Hindu outfit and the Islamic state resorts to a big deceit. Afsar Fareedi, a linguistic paleontologist, catches the fraud. In the melee, there are three gruesome murders, including that of her father, perhaps to eliminate all traces of a carpet which, Afsar discovers, has a lot hidden in its mysterious motifs. At the centre of all this is a verse composed by the maverick mathematician, Aryabhata, some 1,500 years ago.

Kratu

Kratu

Author: Samarpan

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 9789389104653

Category: Religion

Page: 338

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Cursed with eternal memory for transgressing the thin line between orthodoxy and liberty, Kratu, a young man from the ancient era, moves through time and worldly spheres, exploring both the illusions and the wisdom permeating the universe. Burdened by deathless memory, he pines for freedom while traversing successive worlds and epochs, deeply empathizing with the characters, bound in various shades of shackles that populate these sojourns. By the time he is born in a city in the present time, Kratu has dedicated himself to sprinkling joy and freedom from entrapment to people and personalities of all hues. As the story weaves together the successive births of Kratu, tales of wisdom, told masterfully through the medium of divinities and great seers, get knit into a unified whole of past, present and future, bringing alive the consciousness of a millennia of Indian tradition. Kratu, as an engaging novel, not only narrates a multitude of absorbing tales but goes beyond – indeed, as Kratu, the pan-temporal traveller, embeds our psyche with priceless wisdom deeply imbued in the numerous streams coursing through the consciousness of India and its people.

Incredible Kratu

Incredible Kratu

Author: Tess Eagle Swan

Publisher:

ISBN: 1004099142

Category: Dog owners

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By the time she was in her twenties, Tess Swan had moved into a squat and become addicted to heroin. Unable to maintain social relationships, and suffering terrible mental and physical health, she gave birth to two children she couldn't care for. After later being diagnosed with Hepatitis C and the total collapse of her relationship with her daughter, Tess was at rock bottom. Enter Kratu, Tess' unexpected canine saviour who changed her life. Born on the streets of Romania, Kratu was destined for a life of hardship, that was until Tess decided to adopt him and bring him home. Together they have gone on to achieve amazing things, overcoming multiple obstacles such as Tess's diagnosis with Autism, bringing joy to each other and everyone they meet. Tess's determination and Kratu's lovable energy have warmed the hearts of many, including the crowds of Crufts, where Kratu was a runaway success.

Son of Shiva

Son of Shiva

Author: Preetha Rajah Kannan

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

ISBN: 9789386348142

Category: Religion

Page: 260

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Beyond Genesis

Beyond Genesis

Author: Karthik Sankaran

Publisher: Notion Press

ISBN: 9781685639211

Category: Fiction

Page: 324

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A modern and noble UFO religion. A futuristic scientific discovery to save dying planets. An unthinkable story of our genesis. Professor Rudhran, renowned scientist and founder of a UFO religion called Kalki, is on a quest to find the crown jewel with the intention of saving our planet for our species to live in harmony. Abhimanyu, Rudhran’s son, owner of a huge conglomerate and a very influential person, is on a quest to find the crown jewel with the intention of saving our planet from our species so that all other species and the planet itself can live in harmony. He kills his own father to get ahead in the race. With the clue that Rudhran left, Krish, Iksha and others join in search of the crown jewel in a frantic hunt through ancient Indian temples. After a breath-taking adventure and solving the mysterious riddles, when they find the crown jewel, they are in shock to see that what they were searching for was not something that they expected. Can the crown jewel be used to save our planet? Abhimanyu or Rudhran, who’s vision will become true? What will be the future of our species and this planet? Along with all these questions, answers for our genesis and purposes on this planet are unveiled with the help of the crown jewel.

The Triumph of the Snake Goddess

The Triumph of the Snake Goddess

Author: Kaiser Haq

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674915114

Category: Religion

Page: 361

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The Triumph of the Snake Goddess, a prose translation by the scholar and poet Kaiser Haq, is the first comprehensive retelling of this epic in modern English. Haq’s Prologue explores the oral, poetic, and manuscript traditions, and Wendy Doniger’s Introduction examines the significance of snake worship in classical Sanskrit texts.

Living with Concepts

Living with Concepts

Author: Andrew Brandel

Publisher: Fordham University Press

ISBN: 9780823294299

Category: Social Science

Page: 348

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This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language. Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed and showing how the supposed need to grasp reality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. Contributors: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal

Brahma Vaivartha Purana: 4 Sri Krishna Janana Khanda: English Translation only without Slokas

Brahma Vaivartha Purana: 4 Sri Krishna Janana Khanda: English Translation only without Slokas

Author: Kausiki Books

Publisher: Kausiki Books

ISBN:

Category: Religion

Page: 500

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Brahma Vaivartha Purana observes Bhagwan Krishna as the supreme Parabrahma. Brahma Vaivartha Purana is considered by many scholars as the source of things Krishna and equivalent to Bhagavatha Purana in its supremacy. Brahma Vaivartha Purana is structured as follows: Brahma Khanda Prakrithi Khanda Ganapathi Khanda Sri Krishna Janana Khanda Sri Krishna Janana Khanda covers the most detailed account of Sri Krishna as Parabrahma and Sri Krishna’s avatara leela on earth. In this part of the Purana, the following are narrated: The divine river Viraja which forms the border between Vaikhunta and Go Loka, description of Goloka, Birth of Sri Krishna, Puja and Vratha of Sri Krishnashtami, Putana, Trinavartha’s attempts to harm Sri Krishna, Sakata Bhanjana, Marriage of Radha Krishna, Govardhana Uddhara, the Glory of aekadasi, Rasa kreeda and the Narrations of Siva and Parvati.

Maha-Bharata

Maha-Bharata

Author:

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814799819

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 607

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“The Book of Karna” relates the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna, great hero and the eldest Pándava, leads the Káurava army into combat. This first volume of "Karna" depicts mighty battles in gory detail, sets the scene for Karna's tragic death, and includes a remarkable verbal duel between Karna and his reluctant charioteer Shalya, the king of the Madras, as they hurl abuse at each other before entering the fray. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org