Modern Traditions - Contemporary Architecture in India
India is a lively and diverse country that in recent years has developed into one of the largest industrialized nations in the world. This process is also reflected in its architecture. Recent developments betray a new consciousness and the search for an Indian identity. International influences are merging with traditional styles to create a unique new architectural language, which also bears the stamp of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, who worked there.
The book contains sketches of people's patterns of different regions of India, made Roxane Leary. Ms. R. Leary - a writer and artist who lives in Mumbai, India. She visited almost all corners of India, where she studied arts and crafts.
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
More than half a century after his death, Mahatma Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world. Yet modern India, most strikingly in its decision to join the nuclear arms race, seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision. Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul." Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. Gandhi was the pioneer of Satyagraha - resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving the independence of India from foreign domination.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2010
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The Tiger Prince
Johansen confirms her reputation as a Mistress of Romantic Fantasy with a sensual tale of adventure and desire set in India, America, and the heather-scented Scottish hills. Ruel McClaren brings feisty Jane Barnaby from India to his native Scotland to spin his web of revenge, but finds it difficult to play the uncovering captor to this woman who has touched his heart--and made his blood run hot with passion.
