- : Ganga (No:1591)
- The divine beauty
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- : Ganga is a great river of India. She rises from the Himalayas, flows through the vast fertile plains of North India and pours into the Eastern seas. Great kingdoms arose on her banks. Ganga is considered sacred and a bath in her waters is supposed to lead to salvation. In the lower reaches Ganga is also called Bhagirathi one brought down by Bhagiratha, an ancestor of Rama. The story of this descent of the Ganga occurs in the Ramayana and Mahabharata. It involves on one hand the war of gods with demons, the demons' refuge in the ocean, the gulping away of the ocean by a great sage. On the other hand, it is related to the horse-sacrifice by Sagara, an ancestor of Rama. The horse vanished into the underworld. Sagara's sons going in search of the horse enraged a sage who turned them to ashes. Sagara's grandson Bhagiratha raised them to life with waters of the Ganga that flowed down to fill the emptied ocean as well.
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- : Mother teressa (No:1588)
- Little acts of love
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- : It was on the train from Calcutta to Darjeeling that Mother Teresa says she first heard the call. This voice made her leave her comfortable and sheltered life and serve the poorest of the poor. This was the turning point in her life and since then she has been dedicated to serving the underprivileged. From a convent to the streets of Calcutta, her life has been quite an incredible journey. She touched many lives and was appreciated for her work. Even today, she is looked up to and given as an example to us. She was Albanian by birth, but chose to make India her home. She helped the unwanted and the unloved and gave them hope.
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- : Parashurama (No:1587)
- Sixth incarnation of vishnu
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- : It was a time when the earth was ravaged with violence and bloodshed. The Kshatriya kings had forgotten their duty to rule with compassion. Instead, they subdued the people by unleashing a reign of brutal terror. At such a time the sixth incarnation of Vishnu was born. Parashurama, axe-weilding warrior-saint, strode across the age to destroy evil and liberate good.
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- : Gandhari (No:1585)
- A mother blinded by love
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- : A hundred sons, the sages say, are a hundred blessings. Gandhari's hundred Kaurava sons, however, were more of a curse. Did they become evil by some divine plan or was it because she was proudly blind to their faults? Helpless as they heaped dishonour on the family, she was furious with Lord Krishna for abetting in her son's eventual slaughter. Un fortunately, her grief was overpowering, and threatened to wreak further havoc...
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- : Ananda math (No:1583)
- A patriotic novel by bankim chandra
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- : The British were ruthless, they drained away the wealth of Bengal to fill their own coffers. In Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's 19th-century tale, holy men take up arms, loving husbands abandon their families and demure housewives become wily spies to fight the reign of terror. Ananda Math, particularly its theme song, 'Vande Mataram', inspired an entire generation of idealistic young men and women to revolt against the British rule in India.
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- : Elephant stories (No:1582)
- Jataka tales of nobility
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- : An elephant's grace often matches his size. Amazingly patient and kind, he can put the petty greed of human beings to shame. But at times the odd elephant can turn nasty. What then can the smaller creatures of the world do to save themselves? Read the ancient wisdom of these Jataka tales to find out.
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