On 03/26/2013 02:11 PM, sparaig wrote: > http://www.amazon.com/In-Himalayan-Nights-Anoop-Chandola/dp/0982998708 > > "Dehradun City, Himalayas, India 1977: Two bright, beautiful, lesbian > research assistants accompany their Indian professor to this city near the > tense borders of China and Nepal to observe the “holy-war� dance of the > Mahabharata and its link to polygamy and local heroes (or villains?). The > girls begin to question the holiness of the Bhagavad Gita’s two polygamist > avatars while watching the dance, even as they fall in love with India and > their friendly hosts. While gathering data on women’s rights violations, > caste discrimination, and animal cruelty, they discover more about their own > culture, their relationship and themselves. When their hosts uncover the > women’s secret love-life, they turn against them and the research team's > existence is threatened. Will the Indian "holy-war" become a personal one > between locals and outsiders, men against women, polygamists against > lesbians, Indians against Americans? The answer lies in the Himalayan > nights..." > > The professor discusses Maharishi and the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath with > fellow Indians at one point. > > > Anoop Chondola is a an anthropologist and linguist specializing in Indian > studies. He learned to meditate from the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath who was > the direct successor of Gurudev. His family has close ties to the > organization of scholars and religious leaders who chose Gurudev to be the > Shankaracharya, so he has an interesting perspective on things. > > L
Lawson, what character set are you using on the Mac? You and I suspect other Mac users display what are often extended characters on other machines that what they probably saw on their screen. Example: “holy-war� I think that Vag once said it was an incorrect character set that was causing the problem. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
