A fiction based on two South Indian Brahmin families, documenting their journey as they bridge a generation of the past, the values and culture around it, with that of the contemporary. A peek into their everyday lives, the conversations, their minds and menus, their traits and traditions. What are the promises and compromises along the way? It is the story of the young protagonist who breezily anchors the generational shift, with an egoless mind, a selfless approach, as he conspires and inspires their way into the future, drawing into his path as many lives, as many dreams as his compassionate heart could embrace, with an undying urge to make all their lives brighter and their smiles bigger. Where does his strength lie? What does his future hold? How does his journey feel like? A beautiful love story couched in the heart of this journey, caught between many a battle of emotions, fought fair and square! The book takes you through a piercing journey into their minds, traversing layers and layers of their concerns, follies, dreams and desires. What remains at the end—is it the beginning or the end? Read on to explore!
Dr.S.Peerbasha, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.A.Basheer Ahamed, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.P.Shivaathmajan, Student, B.Tech IT, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.Pavithra.M, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jansons Institute of Technology, Karumathampatti, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.T.Suresh, Assistant Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning, K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the Central Himalayas, Hindu deities are ever present in the lives of devotees. Through ritual practices of placemaking, spirit mediums, oracles, priests, and other specialists bring these beings into embodied form, calling on them for healing and counsel. In exchange for alleviating human suffering, deities ask that a place be made for them—in homes, villages, and temples, and in bodies, lives, and communities. Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people. Aftab S. Jassal traces how acts of placemaking, including healing practices that repair and restore relations between people and deities, allow deities to participate and intervene in human affairs. Many of the professional healers, storytellers, musicians, spirit mediums, and lay devotees who are chronicled belong to marginalized Dalit communities. These communities are at the forefront of combined pressures of tourism, neoliberal development, and Hindutva nationalist politics and often find creative ways of responding to their changing worlds. Bringing together fresh insights on the dynamics of caste and gender with enduring questions about ritual, healing, and the nature of human-divine relations, Gods in the World offers a striking account of everyday Hinduism in a contested and rapidly changing region.
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