Storybook Favorites

I have found three very interesting storybooks from other students' blogs. One interesting storybook that I really caught my attention was about various kinds of festivals in India.

Epic Festivals of India

In the storybook, it talks about many different kinds of festivals in India. India is well-known for all kinds of interesting festivals throughout the calendar year. This storybook really has caught my attention for its interesting Indian festival picture.

Indian Festivity. Source: Holi powder festival

I have found this picture very fascinating. There is a saying that says "a picture is worth a thousand words." I think this picture definitely explains what that means. Besides the interesting picture, the storybook also did a great job in its introduction. Jalsa, the author, explained different kinds of important annual Hindi festivals in a concise, yet clear way.

Second interesting storybook that I have found is about Hindu dating.

Hindu Lover Online

This storybook is the most interesting and fun storybook so far that I have found. It talked about several Indian gods and goddesses who were involved in love and romantic affairs. This storybook was really interesting because it can kind of deceive people as being a Hindi online dating site outwardly, but it really talks about ancient Hindu gods, goddesses, and their romantic mythology.

Third interesting storybook that I have found is about life-long love devotion of Indian women.

Lifelong Devotion

The author did a great job in explaining interesting Indian traditions and rituals in her introduction such as Karva Chauth, a ritual that Indian women fast and pray for her life partner. The author also explained the story in an interesting storytelling narrative with several characters that she has created. This storybook has been my favorite of all three storybooks by far. I think it is an very unique, creative, and interesting storybook.

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Inayat. Twenty Jataka Tales, Reading A

I'm always been fond of reading Jataka tales. In fact, these collections of Jataka tales have been my favorite kind of reading for this semester because their plots are very interesting with lots of suspense and rich visual details. Monkeys look the most alike with humans, and they are usually the symbol of wisdom in many Indian epic stories. I liked all the readings in Reading A of Inayat's twenty Jataka tales, but one story that particularly stood out in my mind was the story of Monkey-Bridge. Monkey, including the wise god Hanuman, often has taken the role of clever, wise, and smart animal in Indian and Hindu epics. The story begins with a giant-like monkey who ruled eighty-thousand monkeys in Himalayan mountains. Wow.. Eighty-thousand monkeys are a lot and I can't even conceive how many monkeys that the giant monkey ruled in the cold, steep Himalayan mountains. I really like this very detailed, vivid, and full of image description of the monkeys' habitat: ...

Wikipedia Trail: From India to Chen Duxiu

I found myself fascinated with India. So I decided to do Wikipedia trail about India. 1. India : India is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [f] China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. 2. China : China is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country , with a population of around 1.404 billion . [13] Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by tot...

Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata, Part D

I really liked the combat story of Arjuna and Karna. The way the reading described the battle sounded very intense: "The arrows of Arjuna fell upon Karna like to summer rain; Karna's arrows were like stinging snakes, and they drank blood. At length Arjuna's celestial bow Gandiva was struck and the bow-string severed." The two heroes fought nip and tuck to win the battle. Karna, unlike Arjuna, seemed to lack grace and sense of justice. Karna attacked the injured men despite Arjuna's desperate warning: "Pause, O Karna. According to the rules of battle, thou canst not attack a disabled foeman." Despite Arjuna's warning, Karna was an unethical and ruthless foe. He attacked his injured opponent with ruthless raids of arrows. This cowardly action (from Arjuna's perspective) made Arjuna extremely angry that he almost became a different character: "When Arjuna had restrung his bow, he rose up like to a stricken and angry tiger held at bay, and...

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