Ando, Tadao
Badinter, Robert
Beurdeley, Cécile
Boecklin, Arnold
Bawa, Geoffrey
Bourdelle, Antoine
Cader, Muhanned
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Camus, Albert
Cézanne, Paul
Chitrasena and Vajira
Dimitri, Olga
Dissanayake, S.
Estève, Maurice
Fernando, Winitha
Giacometti, Alberto
Gunatillake, Kingsley
Handagama, Ashoka
Hugo, Victor
Jayasundara, Vimukthi
Keyt, George
Khemadasa, Premasiri
La Fontaine, Jean de
Lahor, Jean
Maire, André
Malraux, André
Matisse, Henri
Merton, Thomas
Nadar
Nair, Meera
Ondaatje, Michael
Palliyaguruge, Thilak
Perera, Anoli
Picasso, Pablo
Pieris, Lester
Raphael
Ransonnet, Eugene de
Ratnayake, Bennet
Ratnayake, Pradeep
Rodin, Auguste
Saint-Exupéry, A. de
Segalen, Victor
Semage, Jayasiri
Sieff, Jeanloup
Silva, Jayamini de
Vithanage, Bandula
Vithanage, Prasanna
Wendt, Lionel
Wijewardene, Anoma
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Whispers of the Mirror Wall
by W.J.M.Lokubandara
Godage International publisher, 2008
ISBN: 9789553006103
It is not often recognized that ‘some of the most astonishing documents in the ancient world are the Sigiri graffiti (Prof. Senake Bandaranayake)
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by Bruce Kapferer, Georges Papigny
Viator Publications (Pvt) Ltd, Negombo, 2005
ISBN: 955-8736-06-6
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Hors-cadre
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
October 2005
ISBN 2711849821
Gérard Rondeau has been photographing museums and temporary exhibitions for 15 years, particularly those in Paris and at the Galeries Nationales. The photos reflect not only artistic works, visitors and buildings, but also the secret and meticulous behind-the-scenes activities which accompany the display of great works of art, examining the contrast between separated,
institutionalised and grandiose art and the bustling life that surrounds it.
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Center for Art and Culture
Pics Prasanna Upajeewa
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Mark Amerasinghe’s eleventh monodrama
‘Look Back in Love’
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According to Grecian legend, Orpheus, that celebrated musician of Thrace, followed his recently dead wife, Eurydice, to the other world and obtained her release on one strict condition. He must not turn back, to take even a fleeting glimpse of his beloved, until they were both safely home. Unfortunately, Orpheus did look back and he lost Eurydice for evermore.
On 23 September at 6.30 pm, in the Alliance Francaise de Kandy, Mark Amerasinghe presents, a monodrama - an adaptation of his translation of Jean Cocteau’s original script of the black and white French film Orphée (screened in 1950) .
In Cocteau’s modern version ,while the young lovers finally rejoin each other to live happily ever after in this world, Orpheus is a celebrated poet,[some Greek sources consider Orpheus both the leading poet and musician of his time] hated by the avant-garde and feminists of the day; and Other World characters, not mentioned in the original legend, are introduced...
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Focus on India
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L'Art indien,
PU PARIS SORBONNE (2010).
ISBN-10: 2840507021.
Très riches et très diverses, l'architecture, la sculpture et la peinture de l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est offrent aussi une indéniable unité : elles véhiculent les valeurs et les significations liées au bouddhisme et au brahmanisme, nés tous deux en Inde.
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Paris / Centre Pompidou
PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY / 25 MAY - 5 SEPTEMBER
IMAGES DE L'INDE
Paris - Delhi - Bombay..., an exhibition that invites to discover the modern Indian society through the eyes of Indian and French artists, with the ambition to generate exchanges and to create lasting links between the two cultures, the two artistic scenes.
Paris / Musée Guimet
RINA BANERJEE / 25 MAY - 26 SEPTEMBER
CHIMERAS OF INDIA AND THE WEST
As part of its spring-summer 2011 Indian Season the Musée Guimet is presenting “Chimeras of India and the West”, an exhibition of contemporary work by the Indian-born American artist Rina Banerjee. Installed at the heart of the permanent collections, Banerjee’s hybrid, poetic compositions enter into resonant interplay with the works held by the museum, which date back hundreds and thousands of years, offering a new angle on Asian civilisations and their complex relations with the West.
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Fascinating Orient
Lyon
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Till 4 July 2011
The Genius of the Orient, modern Europe
and the arts of Islam
Marseille
CENTRE DE LA VIEILLE CHARITE
From 27 May to 28 August 2011
Orientalism in Europe
From Delacroix to Matisse
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Dictionnaire des langues
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Conçu pour témoigner de la diversité des langues du monde, ce dictionnaire présente près de 200 langues, familles ou sous-familles de langues, regroupées géographiquement par continent.
Il résulte de la collaboration de 151 auteurs, universitaires ou chercheurs, français ou étrangers. La majorité des langues décrites sont issues d une recherche de première main, réalisée par des auteurs, pionniers ou premiers descripteurs de la langue qu'ils traitent.
Edited by Alain Peyraube
Presses Universitaires de France - PUF (17 November 2010)
Collection : Quadrige
Language: French
ISBN-10: 9782130569145
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Beyond the Canon
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Hong Kong University Press
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The issues are specifically addressed to Asia but have relevance to all English-using students and researchers. The book also includes an extensive bibliography representing pedagogical, theoretical and historical resources. This volume can be used as a text or a resource book for graduate and undergraduate courses in English studies, Asian Englishes, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics, post-colonial studies and ELT.
It was in a spirit of brotherhood that the Bengali Nobelist Rabindranath Tagore, upon arriving at the port of Jakarta in 1927, remarked, "I see India everywhere, but I do not recognize it." In this light, an Inner Circle anglophone in Asia who says "I see English everywhere, but I do not recognize it" should not be presumed arrogant.
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Author(s) : Clémence Lafarge, Zaü
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"Au huitième jour, Perle et sa famille arrivèrent tard sur la plage, car la nuit, il y avait eu beaucoup de vent. Ils avaient commencé une partie de cache-cache et s'amusaient énormément quand une énorme vague, venue de très loin, arriva en grondant. Elle se recourba et roula sur le sable, avec fracas, brisant et emportant tout sur son passage. C'était comme un gros soufflet qui en un instant pulvérisait tout."
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Dir: Jordi Savall
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the match
March 20, 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket.
But, none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived with her impeccable timing. The year was 1971, a year for an extraordinary match.
Three decades on, Sunny is now settled in London with a teenage son of his own.
But, despite the quiet comfort of his life, he feels unmoored. Trying to reconnect with his past,
he goes to watch the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team play at the Oval.
As the sun goes down at the end of the match, he discovers that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time.
From the acclaimed author of "Reef" and "Heaven's Edge", "The Match" is a moving, funny family story of finding home and coming home, of cricket, growing up and falling in love.
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Récits du dernier siècle des voyages
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the XXth Century's writtings are not really the object of criticism by scholars.
Nevertheless, this century has been enriched by many prestigious writters : Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, André Gide, Joseph Kessel, Blaise Cendrars, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, Raymond Roussel, Valery Larbaud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Butor, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Jacques Lacarrière, Jacques Réda, Nicolas Bouvier, etc.
Olivier Hambursin
Presses Université Paris-Sorbonne
May 2005
Collection Imago Mundi, number 10
ISBN 2840503565
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Tales of Kalila and Dimna: Classic Fables from India
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About the Book New renderings of classic Indian folk epics from the 2000-year-old Fables of Bidpai. These timeless, charming, and humorous tales have survived through the centuries and have resurfaced in most of our popular moral fables. These tales have received the highest praise from authors of some of the world's finest literature. The tales of Kalila and Dimna from the Fables of Bidpai originated almost 2000 years ago in a Sanskrit collection of animal stories called the Panchatantra.
These charming and humorous stories have found their way in one form or another into the folklore of every major culture and tradition. They have influenced all our fables from Aesop to La Fontaine, including Uncle Remus, The Arabian Nights, and The Canterbury Tales.
Publisher: Inner Traditions International (Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0892818166
ISBN-13: 978-0892818167
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Histoire des relations internationales de 1947 à nos jours
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Year : 2009
Publisher : L'harmattan
ISBN : 2296073352
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Une histoire de l'Inde
Les Indiens face à leur passé
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Professor and Vice-Président de l'Inalco
Année : 2007
Editeur : Albin Michel
ISBN : 2226173099
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The discovery of the Indian Theatre, in the 1780s, originates from the obstination and the chance of a British,
William Jones, who was convinced, in spite of the denegations of Brahmins and scholars, of the existence of chronicles about the history of the country.
It was only informed about the existence of "collections of conversations", without giving more details.
But one day, a Brahman accepted to give to him one of these "dialogues" - in reality, a play and an immense chef-d'oeuvre : Sakuntala. Immediately, William Jones translated this play into English with a considerable and lasting impact in Europe.
Publisher : GALLIMARD - PLEIADE BIBLIOTHEQUE
Date of issue : 03/2006
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"Et Siddharta devint Bouddha"
Jayasena Jayakody
Translation in French
from Sinhalese by
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Jayasena Jayakody's "Amavessa", the popular novel based on the life of the Gautama Buddha has been translated into the French language.
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ou le non-attachement
Martin Wickramasinghe
Translation in French
from Sinhalese by
Venerable Mandawala Pannawansa Thera
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ISBN : 273843486X
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August 25, 2005
ISBN: 0297847449
"The time has come for global philosophy to move beyond the model where the West is at the centre of radiating spokes of comparison".
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The Red Thread
Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality
Bernard Faure
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ISBN: 0691059977
In this study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality.
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Publisher: Pan MacMillan
(April 30, 2005)
ISBN: 033043554X
Set against the brilliantly drawn backdrop of India at the turn of the millennium, The Alchemy of Desire tells the story of a young couple, penniless but gloriously in love.
This is a major novel by one of the most significant new voices of his generation.
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"Swimming in the Monsoon Sea"
Shyam Selvadurai
Tundra Books
(September 13, 2005)
ISBN: 0887767354
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In this, his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor,
and compassion.
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SANGATI
Events
Bama Faustina
Lakshmi Holmstrom (Translator)
February 2005
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN : 0195670884
Sangati is a book about a community's identity, and ends on a personal note: that Paraiya women are always the most vulnerable, even when educated, independent, and living alone, like Bama herself.
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Madras on Rainy Days
Samina Ali
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN : 0749935677
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Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Hyderabad and mounting Hin- du-Muslim tensions, "Madras on rainy days" lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador.
It is a gorgeously written novel by an original new voice in international fiction.
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