Word: sanskrit
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...change with the success of Aksara (www.aksara.com). The independent bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara (the name means "letter" in Sanskrit) also encourages shoppers to simply hang out and browse - a novel experience in Jakarta. But Aksara is hoping to do more than effect a revolution in local retailing practices. It also sees itself as being on a cultural mission, importing all the accoutrements of 21st century cool, printed or otherwise...
...change with the success of Aksara (www.aksara.com). The independent bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara (the name means "letter" in Sanskrit) also encourages shoppers to simply hang out and browse-a novel experience in Jakarta...
...hear a thing from University Hall until it was a couple of weeks ago, when we were told, ‘Hey, guess what, we’ve got a surprise,’” said Leonard van der Kuijp, the chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department. “There’s not a lot of transparency...
...kind of society, which is rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal. Sen points out that if Indians have historically been the world's most religious people, they have also been, paradoxically, its most skeptical. Many of India's most influential thinkers, like the Buddha, were agnostics?or outright atheists. "Indeed, Sanskrit not only has a bigger body of religious literature than exists in any other classical language, it also has a larger volume of agnostic or atheistic writings than in any other classical language," says Sen. Just as it has allowed space for skepticism within a mainly theistic tradition, Indian culture...
...result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron?two verses added by the English poet...