ISBN 978-93-81931-05-9
This is a book of essays on Indian History from a fresh perspective, in telugu.
Authors : Kavana Sarma and Satya Sarada
Please contact http://rachana.net/ or http://kavanasarma.wordpress.com/ if you would like to purchase a copy.
Mana prachina charitra – oka kottha choopu front cover
MPCOKC – Back Cover
Today’s gifts -
A puja to vArAhI dEvI, for vidyavRddhi since it is a thursday.
Then a trip to kAlaDI’s engineering college and to the sanskrit university.
The sanskrit university has many interdisciplinary courses and modern courses and also has a sanskrit division. This university is run by the govt. of kerala.
The library has old sanskrit manuscripts written in malayalam lipi – script. We were lucky to be shown those palm leaf manuscripts. Before this I have only seen photographs.
Then in the evening – listening to the students learning veda mantrAs in the pATha s’Ala, very uplifting. Often makes me sorry that I am not one of those vaTUs!
Then a dars’ana of the pUrNA river.
And a masala dosa for dinner, at lakshmi bhavan – the only pure veg hotel in this town. They don’t serve meals at night in this town – so we are told.
Yesterday evening we saw the beautiful kRSNa temple and it rained something awesome.Today we didn’t get caught in the rain.
(Autos run at prefixed rates between predetermined stops. We paid Rs 140 from angamali to kAlaDi. We heard that it is Rs 300 to aluva.)
So now, I have two lives. One in the As’rama when my eyes are closed – that is the real one and the other general nonsense one that I live outside the As’rama with my eyes open.
There I know who I am, here I go with the mis-labelling. Almost everything is mis-labelled outside.
satyA
I have just recently been captivated by Satyajit Ray’s detective stories for the young at heart. Translated into English by Gopa Majumdar and published by Penguin.
Feluda is an Indian detective with a young cousin Tapesh. Together they travel to all sorts of interesting places in India solving mysteries and crimes.
When I was youn reading Enid Blyton, I was disappointed that ‘adventures only happened in England to English kids’. I wanted to have adventures and wanted mysteries to happen in India.
There were Children’s world and Chandamama and Amar Chita Katha and a few book published by CBT and NBT.
But I deeply regret that I hadn’t met this duo in my childhood. I am very glad to meet them even at this stage of my life. And I truly like the writer Satyajit Ray way more than the movie maker resident in that same body.
I am having a delightful time reading a bit of Feluda everyday. I would have finished the two volumes in two days, in my younger days.
So if you have a young daughter who is a bit like I used to be, please gift her Feluda! She will love you more!
And read it yourself and travel all over India learning and experiencing all that Tapesh does.
Every story is better than the previous one.
Jai Satyajit Ray! Jai Feluda!
Satya
