A Baba Boyhood

A Baba Boyhood

Author: William Gwee

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2013-02-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9814435511

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A Gift from Childhood

A Gift from Childhood

Author:

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 0888999313

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A stunningly illustrated memoir about growing up in a small village in Mali by a renowned, award-winning African artist, writer and storyteller.


A Nyonya Mosaic

A Nyonya Mosaic

Author: William Gwee

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2013-03-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 981443552X

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Multilingual Singapore

Multilingual Singapore

Author: Ritu Jain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1000386929

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This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and South Asian and Austronesian languages. The chapters in this volume trace the historical development, contemporary status, and functions of these languages, as well as potential scenarios for the future. Exploring the tension between language policies and linguistic realities in Singapore, the contributions in this volume capture the shifting educational, political, and societal priorities of the community through its past and contemporary present.


Aghor Medicine

Aghor Medicine

Author: Ronald L. Barrett

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-03-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0520941012

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For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.


Full Flame 2

Full Flame 2

Author: Dr. Ranga Rao

Publisher: Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 9350693143

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“What Bhagawan Baba told me during this visit was, I believe, the essence of all religious teachings. It is, therefore, not really important what occupation I may have, or where I may live in order to speed up my journey to self-realisation. It is, however, very important that I extend unconditional love to all around me and render unconditional service in the best way I can.” - Dr. Mehdi N. Bahadori (‘Love and Service’) Amazing grace! The first volume of Full Flame: Infinite Scenarios was blessed by Bhagawan on 26th November, 2009. It is not easy for the vast majority of educated devotees to get hold of a copy of many of these essays in out-of-print publications. These extraordinary human experiences are in danger of being lost to Sai devotees now spread the world over. Here is yet another compendium of Sai, covering almost every aspect of Sai Bhagawan – from the biographical to the metaphysical and philosophical – for the enjoyment and edification of even the common reader. Several authors here recount Sai experiences of earlier decades, beginning with the ‘40s. Each of these articles takes up some aspect of the mission, such as education, health, divinity, etc. The volume adds up to an overview of the entire mission to-date and its key cast in this cosmic play, and the divine wisdom, insight, patience, and perseverance, with which Swami has gathered His devotees for unconditional love and service. The rising, surging generations of devotees especially need to know about them. I place this book, Full Flame II: Unconditional Love, too at the Lotus Feet of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Dr. Ranga Rao is a Visiting Faculty at Prasanthi Nilayam Campus of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Swami’s University).


Language Ungoverned

Language Ungoverned

Author: Tom G. Hoogervorst

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 150175825X

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By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations. As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s, Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay as a language of the people.