Arvind gigoo (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. pp. xix + 216.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The pot and the potter are one,' said Kashmiri author, translator and scholar Arvind Gigoo to his son Siddhartha in the course of his work on the poetry of Lal Ded. He also added, after this work was over, 'Lad Ded's philosophy is eternal. It can take a lifetime, and more, to understand it. My translation will always remain unfinished. In these words lie the greatness, the mystique and the simplicity of the poetry of Lal Ded, brought to life in this evocative 'interpretation' (as Arvind Gigoo prefers calling it instead of a 'translation') of 161 vaakhs verses or sayings that merge the sensuous with the spiritual, the philosophical with the practical. Bringing decades of scholarship and his lived experience to the work, Arvind Gigoo gives us a unique take on arguably the greatest of poets from Kashmir. This is Lal Ded like no other translation before. …

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Imagine being evicted from your home and being forced to live in a cramped tent with no electricity, no water, no possessions, no safety, and no security. Imagine being forced to live there not for a day or a month or year but an entire decade! This happened in modern India. In 1990, when half a million Kashmiri Pandits were expelled from Kashmir under militants' threat to their lives, they had nowhere to go, and were forced to take refuge in tents and one-room tenements in camps in Jammu and elsewhere. Struggling to survive, the displaced people battled alienation, deprivation and fear. Yet, for years, they nurtured hopeof returning to their homeland, of keeping the civilizational ties to a 5000-year-old history alive. Seeing no progress on their return to and rehabilitation in Kashmir, that hope is dwindling now. The writers of the stories in this book have lived with the horror of having been banished from their homes with no place to call their own. They are still living with the harsh reality of not being able to go back to Kashmir even after spending twenty-eight years in exile. They are living with the pain of seeing their homes and places of worship ravaged. They ask: Who are we? Where have we come from? What is going to happen to us? This book has the answers. Kashmir is, and will always remain incomplete without its original inhabitantsthe Pandits. (jacket).…