Jewels of Gujarat: Mayur Thakorbhai Dalal


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COACHING TOWARDS THE WEALTH OF LIFE When he was three-years-old, his grandfather raised him gently at 4:30am each day with a smile on his face and took him to a temple. On the way, he would tell him stories and lessons he himself had learnt from his ancestors. Those stories carrying wisdom of hundreds of years became his treasure and today, more than five decades have passed, yet he lives by those wise teachings. Mr. Mayur Thakorbhai Dalal, a disciple of H.D.H. Pramukh Swamiji and 16 mentors, says, lessons in those stories and a few wise habits have transformed him.




Bombay 3


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Mumbai is an ever-evolving city, bustling and brimming, never sleeping for a wink. But the past four decades brought upheavals of great magnitude that shaped the city as we know today. Marred by communal riots, gang wars and terrorism, the spirit of Mumbai has emerged indomitable every single time. Born and raised in the lanes of Bombay 3, this is the story of Jagan Kumar who dreams of being a television journalist and changing the world. But once he achieves this, he realises that television journalism has lost its path, now afflicted with sensationalism, corruption and bias. As a crime reporter, he comes across various unscrupulous means that law enforcement agencies adopt to combat organised crime syndicates. He is shocked to witness interdepartmental rivalry that often jeopardises public security. Disenchanted, in conflict with his conscience and confused about his calling, he is about to quit when something happens that changes the course of his life. Bombay 3 begins from the bylanes of old Bombay of the seventies and then takes you to Mosul in ISIS's Iraq of 2014 and finally to the streets of Bangkok where the underworld of Mumbai has spread its tentacles. A fast-paced thriller, it answers certain questions about life in Mumbai and raises a few new ones.







The Habit of Art


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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.




The Atlantic Telegraph


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23 Grams of Salt


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Unframed


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The first sustained analysis of the relationship between women's contemporary painting and feminism. This international collection of specially commissioned pieces brings together writing both by theorists engaged with the process and practice of painting and practitioners engaged in theory, to bring into question what has been a neglected area within feminist literature on visual culture. Looking at gender, subjectivity, spectatorship, the gendered audience and maternal subjectivity and painting, Unframed encourages reflexivity about the practice and includes in its scope a range of processes including drawing, printing, collage and installation. The process of painting and the materiality of paint, haptic vision and the contemporary sublime are all discussed. Lavishly illustrated in black and white, Unframed will be of interest to practitioners and students of fine art, art history and women's studies.




Party


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In Party, Mahesh Elkunchwar takes a Chekhovian look at the members of the creative set in an Indian metropolis, with their pretensions, rivalries, aspirations, and frustrations, even as they are stalked like a guilty conscience by Amrit, the one among them who chose to drop out of the set and went over to live and fight with marginalized tribals who were being denuded progressively of their human rights by the land-grabbers. The play happens to be a party where Amrit s absence becomes more than a presence till the news of his death in an encounter with the police breaks up the party and shows up the irrelevance and the heartlessness of the games the creative set plays.







Because I'm Oliver That's Why a Gratitude Journal Notebook for Men Boys Fathers Sons with the Name Oliver Handsome Elegant Bold Personalized 6 X9 Diary Or Notepad Back to School


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A beautiful, elegant, bold, & personalized notebook with the name Oliver.An Appreciation Gift of 120 White Pages Lined Writing Journal Notebook with Personalized Name.Can be used as a Diary or Notepad to write in.Makes a great gift for a Oliver in your life such as fathers and sons, brother, grandfather, cousin, best friend, best man, teacher for a graduation, birthday or wedding.Perfect for taking notes, jotting lists, doodling, brainstorming, prayer and meditation journaling,