His horses are called “Ketavah” meaning the rays of the Sun. The Rig Veda, the oldest Vedic literature, mentions Surya as the giver of knowledge, dispelling darkness in one’s life. It is the living force in the whole universe. The moon and all the planets get light from the Sun ...
Written byIan Thomas Malone, Posted inBlog,Movie Reviews Rituals either have meaning, or they don’t. The process of selecting a new pope feels fairly ridiculous, following certain rules and traditions that have been in place for more than a thousand years. Many of those customs, such as th...
last year, I became interested in what was a strong influence on his Oscar-winning musical: Bollywood cinema, or popular Hindi films from the global movie capital that is India. Bollywood films are perhaps best known for two things: (1) their epic-sized running times, and (2) the inevitab...
Quote of the Week: "The pinnacle of game design craft is combining perfect mechanics and compelling fiction into one seamless system of meaning."— Tynan Sylvester, Developer and Indie Game Designer February 25, 2022 Flutter is a popular open-source toolkit for coding cross-platform apps. You ...
meaning in the 18th century in the context of working first with combustible vapors, ‘coal gas’ and later, sadly, ‘poison gas’. The extension to intestinal vapors is attested from late 19th century, and ‘gas’ referring to fuel for the car, appears in the early 20th century. ‘...
The island of Bombay, designated by the natives “Mambai,” received its name from the goddess Mamba, in Mahrati Mahima, or Amba, Mama, and Amma, according to the dialect, a word meaning, literally, the Great Mother. Hardly one hundred years ago, on the site of the modern esplanade, ...
Have you ever stuck on the word chilman in a song or Ghazal? If yes, here is the meaning. Chilman is a screen, mostly a curtain, that is 'Parda' in Hindi, or sometimes a hanging screen made of bamboo or some type of plants. ...
nineties – a silent witness to the city’s astonishing growth to today’s modern metropolis,Dubai(which I was told is a mixed Farsi and Arabic word meaning literally, two sides of the water. I have also heard its meaning being referred to the Hindi words “Do – bhaee” (Two – ...
Produced by Jeffrey Kraus-yao. The Man Who Would be King By Rudyard Kipling Published by Brentanos at 31 Union Square New York THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. The Law, as quoted, lay
(Paulines Africa, 2010, 2011 , 2013. This is in addition to three oral literature texts, Riddles of the Abagusii People of Kenya: Gems of Wisdom from the African Continent (Nsemia Inc., 2011), The Proverbs of the Abagusii of Kenya: Meaning & Application (Nsemia Inc., 2012) and O...