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    interest the readers‚ to bring them to the closer understanding of great poet’s soul. William Johns also translated into English the Arabian collection of poems by Firdavsi and Saadiy called "MyajuiaKOT". Also he had translated "Tarihi Nidirshohiy"‚ "Shakuntala"‚ "Hitonadesha". He is the author of such works as "the Essay about the Eastern poetry"‚ "Persian grammar" and

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    young actors - initially allocated to his provincial theatre - into the transformational artists they eventually became. Among the many productions for which his theatre company became famous were "Orpheus" by Jean Cocteau‚ "Shakuntala" based on text by Kalidasa‚ "Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve)" by Adam Mickiewicz and "Akropolis" by Stanisław Wyspiański. This last production was the first complete realization of Grotowski’s notion of ’poor theatre.’ In it the company of actors (representing concentration

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    Kumarsambhav :the birth of war god Kumārasambhava is a Sanskrit epic poem by Kālidāsa; the first eight cantos (sargas) are accepted as his authorship [1]‚ the last nine may be later additions. The period of composition is uncertain‚ Kalidasa is thought of as having lived in the 5th c. AD. Kumarsambhava is widely regarded as one of Kalidasa’s finest works‚ a paradigmatic example of Kāvya poetry. The style of description of spring set the standard for nature metaphors pervading many centuries of Indian

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    Classical Sanskrit include the Pānini’s Ashtadhyayi which standardized the grammar and phonetics of Classical Sanskrit. The Laws of Manu is an important text in Hinduism. Kālidāsa is often considered to be the greatest playwright in Sanskrit literature‚ and one of the greatest poets in Sanskrit literature‚ whose Recognition of Shakuntala and Meghaduuta are the most famous Sanskrit plays. He occupies the same position in Sanskrit literature that Shakespeare occupies in English literature. Some other famous

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    Types Of Theatres The word theatre means "place for seeing".The first recorded theatrical event was a performance of the sacred plays of themyth of Osiris and Isis in 2500 BC in Egypt. This story of the god Osiris was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization‚ marking the beginning of a long relationship between theatre and religion. There are several types of theatres in India.Each state in India has its own distinct theaterical form of itself. India has a longest and richest

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    1 . Theatre Of India The earliest form of the theatre of India was the Sanskrit theatre. It began after the development of Greek and Roman theatre and before the development of theatre in other parts of Asia. It emerged sometime between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE and flourished between the 1st century CE and the 10th In an attempt to re-assert indigenous values and ideas‚ village theatre was encouraged across the subcontinent‚ developing in a large number of regional languages

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    Achievements - Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. On June 18 in 1980‚ she again solved the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7‚686‚369‚774‚870 x 2‚465‚099‚745‚779 randomly picked up by the computer department of Imperial College in London. And this‚ she did in 28 seconds flat. Born on 4 November in 1939 at the city of Bangalore in Karnataka state‚ Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. Belonging from a very humble family‚ Shakuntala Devi’s father

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    title .of woman to child Long----- Unit 1---Ban bhatt prose style or shakuntala indian athetic text unit 2--- Geetanjali as a religious text or Aadhe adhere existentalism unit 3---phaniyamma { gender discourse } or revenue stamp reconstruction of life unit 4--- samskara as a subaltern text or river of fire {religious} short ----- hanuman ‚shakuntala ‚revenue stamp autobiography ‚manu ‚sanjay ‚phaniyamma social satire ‚river

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    JODHAA AKBAR (Hindi‚ 2008‚ 209 minutes) Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker Produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Ashutosh Gowariker Story: Haidar Ali; screenplay: Haidar Ali and Ashutosh Gowariker; dialogues: K. P. Saxena; lyrics: Javed Akhtar; music: A. R. Rahman; cinematography: Kiiran Deohans; production design: Nitin Chandrakant Desai; costume design: Neeta Lulla Ashutosh Gowariker’s sumptuous tribute to the Mughal Empire at the height of its culturally-syncretic glory unfolds with the leisurely

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    abuses by their spouses in their youth and under the control of their sons in their old age. Freedom‚ a right that we have grown accustomed to taking for granted‚ was a concept alien to those women. The Indian scriptures‚ of which The Ramayan & Shakuntala forms a key component‚ gave certain freedoms to the women of that era that were eventually curtailed by the patriarchal attitude of the society. Men who occupied all positions of power‚

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