Bücher von C.

The knowledge, the wisdom, the manners and morals, depicted in the epic tales, are our valued inheritance. Happily, this brilliant and mellifluous legacy, embedded in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, has been reinvented and retold in the present collection of epic tales. An attempt has been made in this book to retrieve the hoary past, qua the ancient tales, unknown or less known, with a view to making them known to the common citizens. The tales as implied in the title of the book "Recalling the Epic Tales," are both spiritual and religious. Verily, they may be remote in time, but they are not remote in thought.

Do you know that there was a "three-legged" seer, named rishi Bhringi? Perhaps you do not know. To make you "know" the "unknown," or "lesser known," is the sine qua non, nay the aim, of the book entitled "Story Time: The Puranic Wisdom." For the stories, myths, legends, tales, included in this volume, have been dug out from the holy scriptures and renowned classics. One of the characteristic beauties of the puranic and the classical literature is the happy amalgamation of nature and imagination. It is common to entertain children with stories in which birds and beasts are made to speak. But the stories of the Puranas and the epics are meant for elderly people. The usual expedient device employed is that these creatures in the previous birth, were human beings. For instance, a deer was a rishi in the previous birth, or a fox a king; the subsequent degradation being due to a curse. Each story teaches us something about life.

Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration.