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Lokvani Spruces Up For Spring! Spring is a time for new beginnings,
and here at Lokvani, we are getting a head start on nature! more...
Lokvani Talks To Shobha Shastry The wedding of your dreams, planned your
way whether it is small and intimate or extravagant, Shobha Shastry
of Alankar leaves nothing to chance. Lokvani talks to Shobha on
her work and her involvement with the community. more...
Getting to Know Amol
Matre of 'Leela' Fame Local
talent Amol Mhatre, who holds his own against a stellar ensemble
of Dimple Kapadia, Deepti Nawal and Vinod Khanna in 'Leela' speaks
to Lokvani from LA.more...
Technology - Molecularly Imprinted
Nanomaterials 'Choosy Molecules
and Materials' and 'Cast and Mold Chemistry for Nanotechnology'
are being used to develop the next generation of high-tech functional
materials.more...
Cricket Mania - World Cup 2003 With the remarkable victory over Sri
Lanka, India is all set for the semi-finals in World Cup 2003. more...
Art Of Living Presents A Workshop
Designed To Transform Your Life This
workshop will offer innovative tools for managing stress, resolving
conflict, improving health and living life with more joy and enthusiasm.
more...
Tufts Association Of South Asians
(TASA) Presents Chandni TASA
cultural show, 'Chandni' was a sold out event on both days. more...
Zeenat Aman Comes To Boston! Zeenie baby's in town. Don't miss a chance
to catch up with the original Bollywood babe on March 28, 2003 at
the Copley Theater in Boston.more...
Ghungroo - Variety Show By Harvard
South Asian Students Association Ghungroo
was truly South Asian - representing various aspects of the complex
region and its culture, from the sublime to the ridiculous.more...
Vidyanjali By Alarmel Valli Don't miss this unique and exciting opportunity
to see the living legend Alarmel Valli, one of the foremost exponents
of Bharatanatyam at Tufts University.more...
Trends In Off-Shore Services While the information technology (IT)
industry is seemingly recovering from a depressive hangover after
the 90s, India-centered software firms are quietly posting record
revenues, new contracts and strong profits. more...
A Singular Hostage - By Thalassa
Ali I have to confess that
when I first heard about the book I was a little skeptical. An American
woman born into a Boston Brahmin family - what would she know about
life in India?more...
Recipes - Fruit Juices, Sherbets
And Cocktails Shake up a fruit
cocktail, simmer some exotic tea...more...
Film Review - Leela 'Leela' is a clever exploration of insecurities,
infidelities, superficiality, and mid-life crises in a suburban,
middle-class Indian American community. more...
For The Mathematically Inclined Congratulations to the winner of our,
first Math puzzle Dharmesh Mehta. In this issue we bring you yet
another challenge.more...
People For Peace Wars set everything back. Education, health, arts,
civil rights, women's rights: every basic thing we care about. more...
Wireless Technologies That Will
Survive The Slow Economy "There
are a billion subscribers of cell phone services today and it is
going to be one and a half billion in future, though the growth
of new subscribers has slowed down," says Vinit Nijhawan.more...
IITSINE Gathering - A Fun Event Over a hundred people attended the IIT
SINE event in Burlington bringing lot of warmth and cheer to a dreary
cold evening. more...
Sakina's Restaurant - Critically
Acclaimed Play Comes To Harvard Sakina's
Restaurant generates so much warmth you could warm your hands by
it. more...
Spirit of 'Lysistrata' Invoked In War Protest Enactments
and readings of Aristophane' comedy, Lysistrata were simultaneously
staged all over the world. On Monday, March 3, the Boston Indian
community met in Bedford to protest the impending war.more...
Women's History Month Commemorated With Workshops Navaras Dance Theatre presented
two workshops recently with powerful themes to commemorate International
Women's Day and Women's History Month.more...
Jokes, Jokes Celebrate each day with laughtermore...
Thought For The Day Around the corner: By Henson Townemore...
The Doctor explained that at sea the time is divided into watches, or periods, of four hours each. The bell strikes once for each half-hour, until four hours, or eight bells, are reached, and then they begin again. One o'clock is designated as "two bells," half-past one is "three bells," and[Pg 54] four o'clock is "eight bells." Eight o'clock, noon, and midnight are also signalled by eight strokes on the bell, and after a little while a traveller accustoms himself to the new mode of keeping time. They went thither by jin-riki-shas, and arranged to stop on the way to see the famous bronze statue of Dai-Boots, or the Great Buddha. This statue is the most celebrated in all Japan, as it is the largest and finest in every way. Frank had heard and read about it; and when he learned from the Doctor that they were to see it on their way to Enoshima, he ran straightway to Fred to tell the good news. VIII "Ach, but I have no case, I am not what you call a patient. It is another matter--a matter of sentiment." "Oh, no," Hetty cried. "She never could have done that. Her own child, Bruce? Fancy a mother sacrificing the life of her own child to gratify a vengeance! I could not think as badly of her as that." He explained to me that one of those soldiers accused me of ... spying and arson. He had thought to recognise in me a person who had asked him that afternoon whether he was ... a Belgian or a German soldier, and whom he had also seen escaping from a factory which was in full blaze a moment later. A world where ordering reason was not only raised to supreme power, but also jealously secluded from all communion with lower forms of existence, meant to popular imagination a world from which divinity had been withdrawn. The astronomical teaching of Anaxagoras was well calculated to increase a not unfounded alarm. Underlying the local tribal mythology of Athens and of Greece generally, was an older, deeper Nature-worship, chiefly directed towards those heavenly luminaries which shone so graciously on all men, and to which all men yielded, or were supposed to yield,41 grateful homage in return. Securus judicat orbis terrarum. Every Athenian citizen from Nicias to Strepsiades would feel his own belief strengthened by such a universal concurrence of authority. Two generations later, Plato held fast to the same conviction, severely denouncing its impugners, whom he would, if possible, have silenced with the heaviest penalties. To Aristotle, also, the heavenly bodies were something far more precious and perfect than anything in our sublunary sphere, something to be spoken of only in language of enthusiastic and passionate love. At a far later period Marcus Aurelius could refer to them as visible gods;32 and just before the final extinction of Paganism highly-educated men still offered up their orisons in silence and secresy to the moon.33 Judge, then, with what horror an orthodox public received Anaxagoras’s announcement that the moon shone only by reflected light, that she was an earthy body, and that her surface was intersected with mountains and ravines, besides being partially built over. The bright Selênê, the Queen of Heaven, the most interesting and sympathetic of goddesses, whose phases so vividly recalled the course of human life, who was firmly believed to bring fine weather at her return and to take it away at her departure, was degraded into a cold, dark, senseless clod.34 Democritus observed that all this had been known a long time in the Eastern countries where he had travelled.C Possibly; but fathers of families could not have been more disturbed if it had been a brand-new discovery. The sun, too, they were told, was a red-hot stone larger than Peloponnesus—a somewhat unwieldy size even for a Homeric god. Socrates, little as he cared about physical investigations generally, took this theory very seriously to heart, and42 attempted to show by a series of distinctions that sun-heat and fire-heat were essentially different from each other. A duller people than the Athenians would probably have shown far less suspicion of scientific innovations. Men who were accustomed to anticipate the arguments of an orator before they were half out of his mouth, with whom the extraction of reluctant admissions by cross-examination was habitually used as a weapon of attack and defence in the public law courts and practised as a game in private circles—who were perpetually on their guard against insidious attacks from foreign and domestic foes—had minds ready trained to the work of an inquisitorial priesthood. An Athenian, moreover, had mythology at his fingers’ ends; he was accustomed to see its leading incidents placed before him on the stage not only with intense realism, but with a systematic adaptation to the demands of common experience and a careful concatenation of cause and effect, which gave his belief in them all the force of a rational conviction while retaining all the charm of a supernatural creed. Then, again, the constitution of Athens, less than that of any other Greek State, could be worked without the devoted, self-denying co-operation of her citizens, and in their minds sense of duty was inseparably associated with religious belief, based in its turn on mythological traditions. A great poet has said, and said truly, that Athens was ‘on the will of man as on a mount of diamond set,’ but the crystallising force which gave that collective human will such clearness and keenness and tenacity was faith in the protecting presence of a diviner Will at whose withdrawal it would have crumbled into dust. Lastly, the Athenians had no genius for natural science; none of them were ever distinguished as savants. They looked on the new knowledge much as Swift looked on it two thousand years afterwards. It was, they thought, a miserable trifling waste of time, not productive of any practical good, breeding conceit in young men, and quite unworthy of receiving any attention from orators, soldiers, and43 statesmen. Pericles, indeed, thought differently, but Pericles was as much beyond his age when he talked about Nature with Anaxagoras as when he charged Aspasia with the government of his household and the entertainment of his guests. The whole mausoleum, the terrace on which it stands, the four minarets as tall as light-towers, are all in dead white marble, the whiteness of milk and opal, glistening with nacreous tints in the brilliant sunshine under a sky pale with heat and dust. “Il est ici comme à Versailles Then it was the first, at any rate. His manner softened. Landor held up a silencing hand. "If you have any explanations that you care to make, that it would be worth any one's time to listen to, you may keep them for a judge advocate." He pointed to the door. He knew while he was yet afar off which was the American. She stood, big and gaunt, with her feet planted wide and her fists on her hips, looking over toward the general's tent. And when Cairness came nearer, strolling along with his hands in his pockets, observing the beauties of Nature and the entire vileness of man, she turned her head and gave him a defiant stare. 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