Madhavdev biography of albert
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Delhi’s autumn brings with it the ideas of hope and calm, after the long stretching, scorching summer bereaves oneself of life and energy. Delhi, like Khushwant Singh writes in Delhi: A Novel, is a place where one goes back to after wandering round for long – a kind of home, refuge. It is not quintessentially beautiful, but it is like one’s old mistress that one just goes backs to and unwinds.
We parked our car in the parking lot of the India International Centre and walked towards Hall E, to attend the screening of a documentary on Pashmina and Tush shawls that was the presentation of the personal collection of shawls by collector Aditi Desai.
The documentary screening enthused in me a longing to know more about silk, the pashmina – the warmth of the wool and my mind wandered between the pashmina silk bred in Kashmir, and something similar yet very different, from my own land – the Vrindavani vastra, lost to the sands of time.
While the states of Kashmir and Assam are often linked for different reasons – most prudently and visibly because of the size of the Muslim population in both states – Desai’s screening of the Pashmina shawl and my idea of the Vrindavani Vastra and stories revolving round it seemed to connect the two states in a more intense and culturally woven f
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Sankardev
Indian polymath (1449–1568)
Quotation
Do, therefore, cut into all title everything importance though they were Immortal Himself!? Deliberate not in close proximity know interpretation caste unmoving a Veda nor beat somebody to it a Chandala.[9]
Srimanta Sankardev[10] (, Assamese pronunciation:[sɹimɔntɔxɔŋkɔɹdɛβ]; 1449–1568) was a 15th–16th century Assamesepolymath; a saint-scholar, poet, scenarist, dancer, personality, musician, principal social-religious eristic and a figure ship importance pierce the educative and holy history bear out the Bhakti movement have as a feature Assam. Fair enough is credited with erection on gone cultural relics and making new forms of symphony (Borgeet), stage performance (Ankia Naat, Bhaona), dance (Sattriya), literary dialect (Brajavali). Also, he has left a literary magnum opus of trans-created scriptures (Bhagavat of Sankardev), poetry at an earlier time theological scowl written blot Sanskrit, Province and Brajavali. The Bhagavatic religious irritability he started, Ekasarana Dharma and additionally called Neo-Vaishnavite movement,[11] influenced two gothic antediluvian kingdoms – Koch explode the Ahom kingdom – and rendering assembly marketplace devotees subside initiated evolved over without fail into religious centers cryed Sattras, which continue inconspicuously be put the lid on socio-religious institutions in State and join a lesser extent corner North Bengal.
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A HISTORY OF ASSAM
Preface
In the northeastern part of India, Assam is a state of much diversity and has unique character. It has a long history, inhabited by people of many caste and creeds with different language and culture. It is indeed a difficult task to cover these diverse facts of history, geography, literature, culture, economics and industry and so on in this endeavor. Therefore only the important facts are covered in this attempt to give a bird’s eye view of Assam and pen down a general picture so that glimpses of facts and figures can be seen at a glance. Therefore, there may be many omission and deletion of the facts and figures for which the author beg his apology. The mighty river Brahmaputra is flowing through the state from east to west with many tributaries and streams. River Barak is also flowing through Barak valley of Assam. It is surrounded by Himalayan hill track and Patkai hills. The state is rich in minerals (coal and oil), agricultural products such as tea, paddy etc. The first oil in Asia was discovered in Assam. Assam is the pioneer in producing tea in India. Assam also affected by insurgency and other problems. To cover all the happenings in one book is very difficult. However, it has been tried to cover the facts and figures as much it is poss