Guru English

Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

BEEHIVE (Prose) 1. THE FUN THEY HAD –Isaac Asimov 2. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (I. Evelyn Glennie, II. Bismillah Khan) –Deborah Cowley 3. THE LITTLE GIRL – Katherine Mansfield 4. A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND –William Butler Yeats 5. THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer 6. MY CHILDHOOD –A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 7. PACKING –Jerome K. Jerome 8. REACH FOR THE TOP –I. Santosh Yadav, II. Maria Sharapova 9. THE BOND OF LOVE –Kenneth Anderson 10. KATHMANDU –Vikram Seth 11. IF I WERE YOU –Douglas James BEEHIVE (Poetry) 1. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN –Robert Frost 2. WIND –Subramania Bharati 3. RAIN ON THE ROOF – Coates Kinney 4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree –William Butler Yeats 5. A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND – Phoebe Cary 6. NO MEN ARE FOREIGN –James Kirkup 7. THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO –Edward Lear 8. ON KILLING A TREE –Gieve Patel 9 THE SNAKE TRYING –W. W. E. Ross 10. A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL –William Wordsworth MOMENTS (Supplementary Reader) 1. THE LOST CHILD –Mulk Raj Anand 2. THE ADVENTURES OF TOTO –Ruskin Bond 3. ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER – R. K. Laxman 4. IN THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS – Kannada Folktale (ed.) A. K. Ramanujan 5. THE HAPPY PRINCE –Oscar Wilde 6. WEATHERING THE STROM IN ERSAMA –Harsh Mander 7. THE LAST LEAF –O, Henry 8. A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME –Zan Gaudioso 9. THE ACCIDENTAL TROURIST –Bill Bryson 10. THE BEGGAR –Anton Chekhov GRAMMAR Tense, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Prepositions, Reading Section, Unseen Passages Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions

HORNBILL (Prose) 1. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, 2. WE''RE NOT AFRAID TO DIE-IF WE CAN ALL BE TOGETHER, 3. DISCOVERING TUT : THE SAGA CONTINUES, 4. LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL, 5. THE AILING PLANET : THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S ROLE, 6. THE BROWNING VERSION, 7. THE ADVENTURE, 8. SILK ROAD, HORNBILL (Poetry) 1. A PHOTOGRAPH, 2. THE LABURNUM TOP, 3. THE VOICE OF THE RAIN, 4. CHILDHOOD, 5. FATHER TO SUN, SNAPSHOTS (Supplementary) 1. THE SUMMER OF THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE, 2. THE ADDRESS, 3. RANGA'S MARRIAGE, 4. ALBERT EINSTEIN AT SCHOOL, 5. MOTHER'S DAY, 6. THE GHAT OF THE ONLY WORD, 7. BIRTH, 8. THE TALE OF MELON CITY, Writing Skill 1. Note-Making, 2. Summarizing, 3. Sub-Titling, 4. Essay writing, 5. Letter writing, 6. Creative writing, Grammar (a) Comprehensive Passages, (b) Notices and Poster,

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Remembrance of God is the Greatest Worship! Taking 'The Lord's Name' is all about remembering God! The first Astpadi of the Sukhmani Sahib sums up the necessity and benefits of remembering God! The entire Gurbani is about remembering God! But how do we remember 'The One' Who is not visible, Who is beyond our senses? How do we keep God in our consciousness? We generally do it in three ways - by Talking about Him, by Listening about Him, and by reading about Him. This book has been made possible only by the Grace of God. It is a compilation of 101 Divine Verses, or Hymns which are known as 'Hukamnama', that have been randomly selected from the Sikh Holy Book, the revered 'Siri Guru Granth Sahib'. Every verse indicates which Guru Ji imparted it, along with the Ang, which is the page number on which it appears in the Holy Siri Guru Granth Sahib'. Hukamnama, is a compound of two words, 'Hukam', meaning command or order, and 'namah', meaning statement. A Hukamnama refers to a hymn from the Guru Granth Sahib which is given as an order to Sikhs, or a historical order given by one of the Guru's of Sikhism. The Hukamnama also refers to a hymn randomly selected from the Guru Granth Sahib on a daily basis. This is seen as the order of God for that particular day, for devotees to contemplate and reflect on. The Hukamnama is distributed and then read aloud in Gurdwaras throughout the world. The purpose of this book is to help readers and seekers who are not well versed or have no knowledge of Gurmukhi, to get a 'Daily Dose of Divine Wisdom' in English. Reading and contemplating only on one Hukamnama a day, in any order, be it in sequence or randomly on a daily basis will bring about a major transformation in your life - to your Body, Mind and Soul! Such is the Divine Grace of The Lord!! To make a start, read a verse at least once a day, for a period of 101 days, and see for yourself the wonders that result from the remembrance of God and keeping Him on your mind. Not only will your yearning and Love for God, and divine wisdom increase, the people around you will also be positively affected by your aura and the positive vibrations that you send out! Just like a piece of iron(you) that comes within the magnetic field of a Super-Magnet(God), on a daily basis, one day you too will be magnetized and finally merge with the Super-Magnet(God)!! We always give time to whatever is our priority, and I can conclude with conviction that God is our 'Greatest Priority'! Can't we offer at least a few minutes daily to 'The One' Who has provided us with Twenty-Four Hours a Day? Why forget 'Him', who has given us everything? God Bless All!