Dohavali: Popular Couplets of Kabir and Others

Dohavali: Popular Couplets of Kabir and Others
Author: K. S. Ram
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781646507214

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Kabir and Rahim occupy an important position among those who have shaped the popular culture in India. The fact that many of Kabir's compositions form part of the Adi Granth, the Sacred Book of the Sikhs, is evidence to the extent of his appeal. Doha, meaning a two-lined rimed couplet, was a favourite format of Kabir and other poets. Their couplets have acquired the status of proverbs, quoted in the Hindi-belt a hundred times every day in conversations at home and in the street. Fifty-one such popular couplets, published earlier in 1986, are presented in this diglot edition, where the attempt is not just to translate but to trans-create the doha in English. "The Dohavali versions are excellent!"- P. Lal, Poet, Translator and Editor "I have not come across any sincere transcreations (of Kabir's dohas) than yours. I go by the ear. And your renderings do bring over the dhvani of the originals." - Mulk Raj Anand, Novelist

Reading Beyond the Alphabet

Reading Beyond the Alphabet
Author: Brij Kothari
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2003-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761997085

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This book is inspired by the need to devise appropriate strategies aimed at retaining and improving basic reading, writing and numeracy skills throughout life. The volume presents 14 innovations that recognise the important relationship between the 3Rs and personal and social empowerment. They illustrate the need to shift from an emphasis on literacy as a set of absolute skills to ‘literacy-as-practice’.

Couplets from Kabīr

Couplets from Kabīr
Author: Kabir
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788120809352

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The fifteenth century saint-poet Kabir's extempore outpourings of songs and couplets numbering thousands have been hailed widely for their deep spiritual fervour and poetic quality. They are widely read with rapture and regard by old and young alike in India. Kabir's couplets which are considered as rich gems for their spiritual message and worldly wisdom have not been rendered into English so far. Here are rhymed English verse translation of three hundred of them from a wide cross-section of the multifaced genius' utterances. Under each verse has been given a few lines in prose to help the reader grasp the underlying import of the message of the saint-poet.

Love Songs of Kabir

Love Songs of Kabir
Author: Kabir
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992
Genre:
ISBN: 9780948724336

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Couplets from Thulasee Das

Couplets from Thulasee Das
Author: Tulasīdāsa
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1997
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9788170173526

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The Kabir Book

The Kabir Book
Author: Kabir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1977
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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"Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting of the sacred dogmas of his time--to readers accustomed to the solemnity and ideological fidelity of most Western religious poems. Kabir has been translated into English only once before, by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. Unfortunately, Tagore's Victorian English was simply not equal to Kabir's directness, spontaneity, and irreverent humor. Working from the Tagore-Underhill translation, Bly has done much more than retranslate into American diction. A noted poet himself, he has breathed new life into the work of a fascinating poet"--From back cover.

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib
Author: Pashaura Singh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2002-12-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199087725

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This book offers an analysis of key issues concerning the phenomenon of scriptural adaptation. It offers a new understanding of religious pluralism, stressing the need to enter into dialogue with an 'open attitude' by honoring the individual commitments and maintaining differences in mutual respect and dignity.