2016/05/20

The Raj Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Raj Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The Raj Quartet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Raj Quartet is a four-volume novel sequence, written by Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The series was written during the period 1965–75. The Times called it "one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction."[1]
The story of The Raj Quartet begins in 1942. World War II is at its zenith, and in South East Asia, the Allied forces have suffered great losses. Burma has fallen, and the Japanese invasion of the Indian subcontinent from the east appears imminent. The year 1942 is also marked by Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi’s call for theQuit India movement to the British rulers of India. The Raj Quartet is set in this tumultuous background for the British soldiers and civilians stationed in India who have a duty to manage this part of the British Empire, known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British Monarch. 
One recurrent theme is the moral certainty of the older generation as contrasted with the anomie of the younger.[2]
 Another is the shocking racism to which this leads.[3] 
To justify the racism and combat this danger of anomie and disintegration, the British characters let themselves be "trapped by codes and principles, which were in part to keep their own fears and doubts at bay."[4] 
Most of the major characters suffer difficulties, and some die, either because they try to follow codes which have become outmoded (Ahmed Kasim, Merrick, Teddie Bingham) or because they reject the codes and become outsiders (Kumar, Lady and Daphne Manners, Sarah Layton).[5] Some critics have compared The Raj Quartet to the epic novels of Proust and Tolstoy.[6] Though some critics have thought the Quartet to be a straightforward example of nineteenth-century style realism, others have argued that its non-linear narrative style and occasional "outburst of dreams, hallucinations and spiritual revelations" give it an added dimension.[7]
The lead characters in the first novel, which sets the stage for the subsequent ones, are Daphne Manners, a young Englishwoman who has recently arrived in India, and her British-educated Indian lover, Hari Kumar. Ronald Merrick, a British police officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, is another main character.
The manner of narration is, especially in the first volume, looping and elliptical, shifting from 1942 to 1964 and back again, with detours back to the early 1900s. The voices shift as well as the perspective, from a third-person narrative about the doomed schoolteacher Edwina Crane to a first-person narration by another character, Lady Chatterjee, to a tour of Mayapore one evening in 1964.[8] This shifting chronology, while never confusing, has inspired much discussion.[9][10][11]

The novels

The four volumes are:
Some of the characters are carried through to a further novel called

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Notes

  1. Publisher's website
  2. For instance, in Day of the Scorpion, Sarah Layton envies the "self-assurance" of her older aunt. See Day of the Scorpion, Book Two Part Two ch. IV
  3. For example, in Day of the Scorpion, Hari Kumar describes how the British were shocked and embarrassed at the sight of an Englishwoman treating an Indian as a human being rather than as an inferior being. See Day of the Scorpion Book Two Part One Ch. I
  4. review of Raj Quartet in The Spectator
  5. P. Morey, Fictions of India: Narrative and Power, p.153
  6. Steinberg, Twentieth Century Epic Novels, p.125
  7. Morey, Fictions of India, p.158
  8. New York Times review of TV series
  9. N. Hale, Chronotopicity in Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet"
  10. Lennard, The Raj Quartet and Staying On, p.17
  11. Eva Brann, Paul Scott's Raj Quintet, p.192
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2016/05/19

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Book: The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke,Stephen Mitchell
ISBN13: 9780679722014
ISBN10: 0679722017
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RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Rilke's work invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.



Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections DUINO ELEGIES (1922) and SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (1922), the semi-autobiographical novel THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (1910), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (1929).
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Rainer Maria Rilke - Selected Poetry & Prose (7 books)

Duino Elegies & Sonnets to Orpheus [trans. Poulin]
Letters to a Young Poet [trans. Louth]
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [trans. Hulse]
On Love & Other Difficulties [trans. Mood]
Poet's Guide to Life, The [trans. Baer]
Selected Poems [trans. MacIntyre]
Selected Poetry [trans. Mitchell]

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RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Rilke's work invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.

Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections DUINO ELEGIES (1922) and SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (1922), the semi-autobiographical novel THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (1910), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (1929).


The following books are a mix of PDF or ePUB/MOBI formats as indicated:

* DUINO ELEGIES & THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (Houghton Mifflin, 1977). Bilingual edition. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. -- PDF

* LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (Penguin Classics, 2011). Translated, Edited and with Notes and an Afterword by Charlie Louth. -- ePUB + MOBI

* THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (Penguin Classics, 2009). Translated and edited by Michael Hulse. -- ePUB + MOBI

* ON LOVE & OTHER DIFFICULTIES (W. W. Norton, 1975). Translated by John J. L. Mood. -- PDF

* THE POET'S GUIDE TO LIFE: The Wisdom of Rilke (Modern Library, 2005). Edited and translated by Ulrich Baer. -- ePUB + MOBI

* SELECTED POEMS (University of California Press, 1971). Bilingual edition. Translated by C. F. MacIntyre. -- PDF

* THE SELECTED POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE (Random House, 1982). Bilingual edition. Translated and edited by Stephen Mitchell. -- ePUB + MOBI
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2016/05/18

John Menadue. The Anzac Myth. | John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations

John Menadue. The Anzac Myth. | John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations

John Menadue. The Anzac Myth.

Posted on 21/04/2016 by John Menadue
This is a repost from 20 August 2014.
The four-year and well-funded carnival celebrating Anzac and WWI is now rolling. The carnival will depict WWI as the starting point of our nation, as our coming of age! 
It was nothing of the sort. It was a sign of our international immaturity and dependence on others. What was glorious about involving ourselves in the hatreds and rivalry of European powers that had wrought such carnage in Europe over centuries? Many of our forebears came to Australia to get away from this. But conservatives, our war historians and colonel blimps chose deliberately to draw us back to the stupidities and hatreds of Europe. Conservatives and militarists want us to cling to a disastrous imperial  war. They encourage us to focus on how our soldiers fought in order to avoid the central issue of why we fought.
It seems that the greater the political and military stupidity of wars that we have been involved in, the more we are encouraged to  hide behind the valour of our service people at Gallipoli, the Western Front and elsewhere.. The ‘leadership’ of Winston Churchill and General Ian Hamilton were catastrophic both for the British and for us. Australian and New Zealand forces at Gallipoli were commanded by a British General. No hiding behind the sacrifice of troops can avoid the facts. We should not have been there and it was a disaster.
Unfortunately the more we ignore the political and military mistakes of the past, the more likely we are to make similar mistakes in the future. And we keep doing it. If we had a sense of our calamitous involvement in wars in the past like WW1 we would be less likely to make foolish decisions to involve ourselves in wars like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our history is littered with tragic military adventures, being led by the nose by either the UK or the US.  And it goes on through the Boer War, the Sudan War and more recently, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. In all these cases, and just like WWI, we have desperately tried to hide behind the valour of our service people.
The most important and justified war in which we have fought as a nation was WWII, in defence of our own people and land. But WWII is rated by the Australian War Memorial and so many others as of much less significance.  WW1 Is the Holy Grail.
On April 25 each year we are told by tongue-tied people that the great sacrifice of WWI was in defence of freedom and the right. But I don’t think that they even believe it themselves. It just does not ring true. Tony Abbott says it was a ‘just war’. But he is yet to explain what was ‘just’ about it. It is claimed that it united this country, but it divided us in a way that we had never been divided before or since with Billy Hughes exploiting the anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment in the country. Only 30% of eligible men chose to enlist. WWI was a great divider. It was not a unifier despite the platitudes of Anzac Day.
Some claim that WWI was to bring peace to Europe. But the war and its aftermath laid the ground for even greater death and destruction in WWII.
In relation to our population, our greatest loss of lives was in the Frontier Wars where over 30,000 indigenous people died in defence of their own land. But we ignore it in favour of the myths of Anzac. Best we forget the Frontier Wars.
Yet it was the Frontier Wars -the forcible occupation of a vast continent- and not the wars of Gallipoli or the Somne that made Australia.
The first time Australians and New Zealanders fought together was against the Maoris in New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s. The ANZAC connection was not forged at Gallipoli but half a century before in the Maori Wars.  It’s best that we forget that too. It doesn’t do our self-respect much good to recall that we fought together with New Zealanders in a race war to quell the Maori people.
The early and remarkable achievements of this young country at the turn of the century and early in the 19th Century are blotted out by the blood and blather of WWI, ANZAC and Gallipoli. We talk endlessly about the Gallipoli landings. A more honest description would be the invasion of Turkey.
Federation in 1900 was a remarkable achievement, pulling together our six colonies into a nation. We led the world in universal suffrage, the rights of women, industrial democracy and the minimum wage. The ‘Australian ballot’ or secret ballot was progressively adopted in the Australian states in the latter half of the nineteenth century. We were a world leader. Our ballot was adopted in New Zealand, Canada, UK and US
In 1904 we had not only Australia’s first Labor Government. It was the first in the world. The rights of working people as expressed in the Harvester Judgement of 1907 put Australia as a leader on the world stage. We were an advanced social laboratory. Before WWI there were two decades of remarkable nationhood and advancement for ordinary people.
But conservatives were frightened of the future. They wanted to drag us back to the heart break of the past. And they succeeded with the help of Billy Hughes and other Labor renegades
In the process we broke our own heart – or as Marilyn Lake has expressed in a blog on April 23 this year ‘WWI fractured the nation’s soul’.
It is time we were honest with ourselves and discounted the myths of WWI, ANZAC and Gallipoli.
Instead we should celebrate the two remarkable decades of progress before the catastrophe of WWI. And never forget the Frontier Wars.

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2016/05/16

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg - YouTube

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg - YouTube



The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

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Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.

Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.

When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.

What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.

Newberg's latest book is How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation http://www.indiebound.org/book/978159...

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2016/05/14

Tamera Healing Biotope 1The Guest Center of Tamera

Tamera Healing Biotope 1

The Guest Center of Tamera

Welcome to Tamera

The Guest Center of Tamera is meeting place, home and study space for a growing international community of people. We warmly welcome you to get to know Tamera, its specific projects and people, and especially the vision of a new Earth.

You visit an emerging new culture that rattles conventional thinking and behavioral patterns. In the following, we want to give an introduction as to what you can expect in such an unconventional environment:

We are working to take all areas of life back to our own responsibility. This also concerns the material supply of food, energy and water. We learn from the cooperation with nature what it means to live again in wealth and real abundance and receive nature’s gifts with gratitude. We meet all creatures, even the smallest, with mindfulness and respect. They, just as we humans, belong to the great family of life.

We invite all our guests to get involved in a simple life in community during the period of your stay. You will get to know a communitarian lifestyle, meeting over meals, working together and sleeping in dormitories. Our kitchens serve vegan meals from predominantly regionally produced and organic food. The night lights up with a sea of stars, but there are no street lights.
Tamera researches and implements new social structures that enable relationships based on solidarity between man and woman. We call it "free love." Free love is not to be confused with indiscriminate and arbitrary relationships, but is a life practice that is free from falsehood, fear and violence. Through the thousands of years of patriarchal oppression in sensual love, a collective trauma has formed in humanity, and so in us all. In Tamera we are working on resolving this trauma. Tamera is not a place for quick sex or a quick solution to love problems. There is no such rapid solution, because the issues in sexuality and love are not private problems, but core topics of historical change.
We thank all those who want to participate in the healing of love! Please take time to understand these connections fully.

For more information, see the text "Free Sexuality and Partnership" on this website, or refer to the books and the writings of the project founders Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels. (link)

We love the vision of a new Earth: Terra Nova. We are working to make the spirit of this new era visible everywhere: in our own lives, in cooperation with each other, in contact with our guests, in our work, in our writings. It is the spirit of compassion for the unspeakable pain of creatures on this Earth, and taking an absolute stand for life.

"If life wins, there can be no losers." Dieter Duhm

Take time to get to know the new thoughts. What we have really recognized and understood can never be lost to us again. Help us to create a new Earth! Invest in a humane future. Support the "Healing Biotopes Plan."

In the name of the children of this Earth.
For a new civilization on planet Earth.

We wish you an intensive stay.

The Guest Center Team

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