Parvez Dewan
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Parvéz Dewân can send you to sleep about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. He once decided to climb up a steep, almost sheer, mountain, and trek through forests of the nearly extinct burza/ bhoj patr, to check tribal chief Haji Muhammad Rafique Bocken's report that ...
Sri Ram is the most popular deity among the Hindus. Hanuman Ji is his greatest devotee and also the keeper of the gates that lead to Sri Ram. The devout believe that the only way to reach Sri Ram is through Hanuman Ji. That Hanuman Ji and the Vanars were monkeys is a belief that has been with the Hindus at the folk level for centuries perhaps for more than three thousand years.
This book asks: 1) Who was Hanuman ji? Was he a person given to deep reasoning or a ...
Praven Dewan can send you to sleep about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers.Along the way he chanced upon shrines located on Indian soil, the devotees of which lived mostly across the line of control and opened up to tourists the Pangong lake and other areas at around 14000 ...
Parvéz Dewân can send you to sleep about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. During the first posting of his career Parvez revived the famous Basohli School of miniature painting, in the face of cynical predictions that the art that had vanished in 1856 could never ...
Sri Ram is the most popular deity among the Hindus. Hanuman ji is his greatest devotee-and also the keeper of the gates that lead to Sri Ram. The devout believe that the only way to reach Sri Ram is through Hanuman ji. The Hanuman Ji and the Vanars were monkeys is a belief that has been with the Hindus at the folk level for centuries-perhaps for more than three thousand years.This book asks:i) Who was Hanuman Ji? Was he a person given to deep reasoning or a ...
Two Indians-the first Tibet ologists from Gyagar sinces Rahuul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) – went to Tibet to plug gaps in their knowledge of Himalayan Buddhism, and to see how Tibet compared with the neighbouring Ladakh region of India. What they found instead was an affluent, breathtakingly planned, 21st century town. With sparking six-lance roads and glass front shops that sold all the top international designer labels. Siddharth dubbed Lhasa 'the most ...
He who is most compassionate. He who is kind. The benevolent one. The beneficent one. Allah is widely believed to have ninety-nine Names, each of which has a meaning and is indicative of a desirable quality. This copiously researched book contains the most popularly accepted ninety-nine Names of Allah along with several lesser-known titles. These sacred Names are given in Arabic and phonetic English, with English translations and explanatory notes. Enhancing the ...
Pervez Dewan can send you to sleep about Kashmir. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. Along the way, he discovered that Kashmir had its own school of miniature painting, followed a hunch about a second Amarnath cave from a shepherd’s report, studied the bedtime habits of black bears, explored myths about ...
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this land, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost region, administering and adventuring his way around its desert plains, passes and lakes. Along the way, he discovered that Kargil and Leh had large Buddhas carved into the mountainside, noticed that the world’s purest Aryans’, the Drokpas, weren’t amused by suggestions that there was mass kissing at ...
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Jammu. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. Along the way he discovered sculpted stone tables (and stunning bathing beauties) at enclosed mountain springs, met shamans who drank the blood of slaughtered goats and mystics who walked on live coals, changed from a cynic ...
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Jammu. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. Along the way he managed to revive Basohli’s famous miniature paintings and worked with nomadic Gujjar tribes. Along with studying the history of the region, he spent more than two years recording the ...
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Kashmir. If anyone has the ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. Along the way he discovered that Kashmir's ancient tradition of fine miniature painting had continued unbroken till the early twentieth century. He also trekked with the chief of a tribe of shepherds to discover an ancient ...
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. In his very first week in Ladakh, a snowstorm forced Parvez to stay in a hut near the cave monastery shown on the front cover. He used those five days to learn Ladakh's Bodhi script and, gradually, the ...