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WRITE VIEW
Israel’s
lost tribes, Jesus and India
Review by Randeep
Wadehra
The Mystery of Israel’s Ten Lost Tribes and the Legend of
Jesus in India
by Joshua M. Benjamin. Mosaic Books, New Delhi. Pages x + 150. Rs.
250.
MOSES,
the progenitor of Hebrews, lived nearly 4000 years ago. He declared
the God of mankind to be One and Omnipotent. His progeny produced
three great religions – namely, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Moses liberated Hebrews from the slavery of Pharaohs and brought
them out of Egypt to the Promised Land. He bound the children of
Israel into a nation and gave them their law, the Ten Commandments,
and a guidebook in the form of the Torah.
Sound
of music
Review by Kavita
Chauhan
The Spirituality of Music
by Selina Thielemann. APH Publishing, New Delhi. Pages 218. Rs 600.
THE
melodious presence evoked by a singer or a player of a musical
instrument is music. In the present book the author seeks deeper
cosmic principles inherent in it. Music is more than a harmoniously
structured arrangement of notes. Classical and devotional music is
not an abstract concept which exists outside the reality of being,
yet music represents principles whose dynamics makes the universe
function.
Forgotten
comedians in classic mould remembered
Review by Philip French
Stan and Ollie: The Roots
of Comedy
by Simon Louvish. Faber, London. Pages 518.
IN
the English-speaking world and in France they are called Laurel and
Hardy. Elsewhere, they are known by a dozen or more different titles
- Dick und Doof in Germany, Gog og Cokke in Denmark, Sisman ve Naif
in Turkey, Stan es Pan in Poland. But whatever we call them, their
names have been inseparable these past 70-odd years.
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