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Illustrated Sisir November 1925

1925

With ligtning like--speed I passed from the paradise of the happiest of the happy to the haunting darkness in which the wretchedest of the wretched lives. [...] Now find me this Lady of my Dreams to be my wedded Sultana for without her verily aye the moments of existence void and dark as a starless: night." And the ministers bowed and witdrew and the ambassadors of the Sultan went forth through the cities of the Universe searching the slavmarkets of the world till they brought to the foot of the Sultan's jewelled throne from the snows of her Cas [...] And the Sultan of the East beat his breast and fell to weeping sorely so that his ministers were alarmed and his ambassadors journeyed through the cities of the Universe searching the slave-markets of the world till they brought to the foot of their master's careen throne from the southern shores of "Feringistan " a daughter of a light-hearted race who looked like a young moon and sang like a ni [...] Marga music of which the origin may be traced to the genius of Druhin a musical prodigy for that remote antiquity was based on the conception that the Ragas were the real ultimate units of music the immutable and everlasting seeds of the later rich tunharvest that the world has since been reaing. [...] I do not propose to discuss the relative superiority of any of the schools of classifiction but this diversity of opinion is eloquent of the great difficulty which a classifier of psychological entities must experience and points unmistakably to the view that the flesh and blood if not the soul of a Raga is its sentiment—its skeleton being the notes.
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The Diagnosis
949-952 N.K Venkateswaran view
Action and Reaction
953-960 unknown view
Ethics of Birth Control
961-962 unknown view
Is Birth Control Immoral ?
963-964 unknown view
Paxton
965-974 Naresh Sen Gupta view
Indian Women and Law
975-976 P.N Subrahmanyam view
Prayer
977-984 unknown view
Variety
985-987 Miriem Khundkar view
Classical Indian Music
988-993 Pramatha Banerjee view
The English Character and the English Language
993-998 Vernon Rendal view
The Evils of Tobacco
999-1001 Maud Allen view
The Action and Reaction of Wages and Standard of Living
1002-1006 Javandlal Dutt view
Waterloo as Described by Warrior Statesman and Historian Ligny
1007-1013 G.L. De view
Universities & Military Training
1014-1020 Devaprasad Sarvadhikary view
How’s that Umpire ?
1021-1027 S.T. Nesan view
A Private View
1028-1030 Arun Sen view
Mgriculture in India
1031-1036 D. Clouston view
How the Pay Was Earned ?
1037-1044 A. Renegade view
Miraculous Cure
1045-1047 unknown view
Mahatma Gandhi and Birth Control in India
1048-1050 Basanta Roy view
Things that Amuse
1051-1060 unknown view
The Young Tutor
1061-1064 Nando Prabhakar view
Facts
1065-1068 unknown view

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