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Category Archives: Indian Literature
Lit Post – 1
After a few days, he began to visit the boy’s home in Palayamkottai and met his sisters who, dressed in the daring new style of pavadai, blouse and dhavani, strolled about book in hand. Extracts from Padmavati, A. Madhaviah, Trs … Continue reading
Posted in 1890s, 19th century, Christianity, Colonial, Costume, Culture, Dress Reform, Fashion Quote, Girls, Indian Dress, Indian Literature, Indian Women, Late 19th century, regional styles, sari history, Tamil, tamil Literature, Tamil Nadu, Vintage, Vintage Books, vintage costume, vintage fashion
Tagged A Madhaviah, dhavani, Half saree, Indian literature, Padmavathi, Tamil Christians, Tamil Literature
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The Food Post
The iconography of Annapurna is given in the Agamas as a youthful goddess of red complexion having a face round like moon, three eyes, high breasts; the left hand carrying a vessel set with rubies and containing honey, and the … Continue reading
Posted in 16th Century, 17th century, 18th century, 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 19th century, Ancient India, British Raj, Colonial, historical art, historical costume, indian art, Indian Cooking, Indian Literature, Indian men, Indian Women, Medieval India, Mughal India, Paintings, Sanskrit Literature
Tagged 15th century, 17th century, 19th century, 7th century, ancient india, Annapoorna, bawarchi, British India, Chokher Bali, Dandin, Dasakumaracharitra, early 20th century, Food History, historical dress, Indian Art, Indian cookbooks, Indian Cookery, Indian cuisine, Indian Food, khansama, Malathi Chander, Mandu, medieval India, Mughal India, Mukul Dey, Ni'matnama, NS Harsha, picnic, Radha, Rahul Das, Rasachandrika, Savitri Chowdhury, Sushil Sen, vaishnava food, Veeraswamy, Vividh Vani, yogini
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2015
Everyone should read Banalata Sen, whether in the original Bengali or translated. As I mentioned the sari history posts were very time and energy consuming this year. I might revisit some of the earlier decades as the information on them … Continue reading
Posted in 1930s, Bengal, Early 20th Century, Indian Literature, Literature, Personal, Poetry, Vintage, Women
Tagged 2015, Banalata Sen, Bengal, Jibanananda Das, new year, poetry, sari, sari history
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