Re: [silk] Any leads?

2017-05-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
My wife likewise umm.. convinces me to take the family to Shirdi once a year or so. And there’s the usual family deity thing as well, to somewhere like 80 km from Udhay’s Karungulam. [Karunkulam on google maps, thanks to a similarly named town somewhere near Thanjavur being called Karungulam]

Re: [silk] Any leads?

2017-05-31 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Samanth Subramanian wrote: > > A friend in the US is working on a photo feature, and she's looking for > families in India (nuclear or joint) that go repeatedly to a particular > place as an act of pilgrimage -- that consider this a kind of family > vacation, almo

[silk] Any leads?

2017-05-31 Thread Samanth Subramanian
Hello: A friend in the US is working on a photo feature, and she's looking for families in India (nuclear or joint) that go repeatedly to a particular place as an act of pilgrimage -- that consider this a kind of family vacation, almost. Would anyone know of any such families? Any contacts or

Re: [silk] Books about the Bhakti movement?

2017-05-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Speaking of that – the Chennai Ramakrishna Math has a large number of Swami Ramakrishna and Vivekananda’s works but transcribed into word or something of the sort, and not in a Unicode font either. So trying to turn them into HTML or make them into something cross platform is resulting in a ton

Re: [silk] Books about the Bhakti movement?

2017-05-31 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Caveat: I'm consciously omitting books by professional historians that spend more time on the transactional human exchanges than the idea of Bhakti. https://istore.chennaimath.org/product/spiritual-heritage-of-india/ The spiritual heritage of India by Swami Prabhavananda; I highly recommend thi