She chose a noble young man for her husband. She knew he had only a year to live, but yet she married him. Even the God of Death bowed to her love and devotion, and restored her husband to life.

The mention of Savithri's name reminds one and all that she was first and foremost one of the greatest pathivrathas. Goddess Savithri is worshipped for begetting progeny. King Aswapathi was one such who received the boon of progeny from the goddess and very rightly, named the child Savithri. She grew up to be beautiful by the day. Princes who came seeking her hand in marriage turned away voluntarily as they thought they were undeserving. Her father thus got anxious and asked her to look fo...

The 10-Fold ReturnHow to Defeat Spiritual Attackers and Reclaim Your PowerSubtitle:A Guide to Recognizing Hidden Enemies, Accessing Divine Protection, and Using Your Spiritual Growth as a Weapon.

பெரும்பாலும் ஆண்களே கோலோச்சுகின்ற தமிழ்த் திரையுலகில் உருவான முன்மாதிரி இல்லாத துருவ நட்சத்திரம் சாவித்திரி. நடிகர் திலகம் சிவாஜிக்கு இணையான இன்னொரு நடிகரைச் சொல்வதற்கு இன்னமும்கூட தயக்கங்கள் இருக்கின்றன. ஆனால் சிவாஜி சிம்மாசனத்தில் இருந்த காலகட்டத்திலேயே நடிகையர் திலகம் என்ற புகழ்மொழி சாவித்ரிக்கு மட்டுமே சாத்தியமாகியிருக்கிறது. இதுதான் சாவித்ரியின் அற்புதமான நடிப்புத்திறனுக்கான ஆகச் சிறந்த கல்வெட்டு. கலையின் மீதான ஆர்வமும், அதை உயரிய வகையில் வெளிபடுத்த வேண்டும் என்கிற முனைப்பும், அளவிடமு...

WITH A FOREWORD BY N.S. MADHAVAN Seetha, an Indian national and a student at the University of Barcelona, arrives in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in search of her Kurdish lover Devran. Having just found out that she is pregnant, she is desperate to find Devran, who has mysteriously vanished. Seetha discovers some disturbing truths upon her arrival. The state is trying to trap Devran and his family for alleged terrorist links. The region is in the midst of a harrowing conflagration,...

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence.Through first-person essays and short stories, the contributors to The Uncaged Voice share their brutal yet heart-rending tales of fleeing the oppressive regimes of their homelands, where freedom of expression and the press is an ideal, not a reality, and where totalitarian forces at...

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist—Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897–1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist, who was highly mobile, and a life that intersected with several significant historical events—the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II, the struggle for Indian Independence, the social relations of science movement, ...

Named after the black river that flows through it, Karuthupuzha is a sleepy little town in the interiors of south India. But wait till you meet its inhabitants. A stingy accountant who wants to be a philanthropist, a godman with a strange fetish, the owner of an old age home who trades in pornography, a rationalist brought down to earth by an orphan's curse, and Savithri, a kind-hearted grandmother filling her secret room with delicacies: there's a surprise waiting at the turn of every pag...

Indra Soundar Rajan, (b. 13 November 1958) is the pen name of P. Soundar Rajan, a well-known Tamil author of short stories, novels, television serials, and screenplays. He lives in Madurai.He is something of an expert on South Indian Hindu traditions and mythological lore. His stories typically deal with cases of supernatural occurrence, divine intervention, reincarnation, and ghosts, and are often based on or inspired by true stories reported from various locales around the state ofTamil Nad...

In the early nineteenth century, the south Indian kingdom of Tanjore, which had come under the control of the East India Company, flourished as a ‘centre’ of enlightenment. This book traces the contours of the Tanjore enlightenment, which produced a knowledge that was at once modern and deeply rooted in the indigenous tradition. The chief protagonist of this first ever full-length study on Tanjore at the turn of the nineteenth century is Raja Serfoji II (r. 1798–1832), in whose world scien...

Naati Charami is a fine cultural and traditional blend alongside a contemporary and modern India, spanning from the days of new independence to the turn of the millennium. The story follows its 3 protagonists through conflicts between love and duty; idealism and reality; and values and individuality. Swati is an epitome of love and adherence to dharma fortifies her path. Her internal struggle in line with social situations and unwanted surprises that resulted as the byproduct of womens edu...

This open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside Africa, and takes as a starting point the 2015 student-led #RhodesMustFall movement which spread across universities in South Africa. Many of the questions being asked by #RhodesMustFall found parallels in ongoing discussions across in Europe and North America. This book pres...