Language of the Heart:
Challenges in a Modern Interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita
Professor Graham M. Schweig
Tuesday, March 26th, 6:30 pm. (Reception at 6 pm.)
Rm. 106, McCormick Hall, Princeton University
Bhagavad Gita Lecture
The Pakistan general elections will take place May, 2013. Websites providing news updates relating to the Pakistan elections are listed at my Elections in Pakistan libguide. Here is the Election Commission of Pakistan approved code of conduct. And here is the Manifesto 2013: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians.
Three shipments arrived from the Library of Congress–New Delhi plan this week. The attached list NewAcquisitionsLCDelhi8March2013 includes newly arrived books in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. This batch includes some gorgeous portfolios of paintings that will be available in Marquand Library, including representations of Ganesha, a Monir art exhibition, and a Tanjore portfolio of Hindu gods in art. There is also a good selection of Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit literature. Other subjects in this shipment include Islamic law, social studies of science, human rights, geography, political science, Bollywood, tribal health, rural development, religion/folklore, diaspora studies, economics/finance, and other subjects. Additionally, a batch of new serials arrived this week. New approval books with a South Asia focus this week include the following list NewApprovals8March2013 of titles.
A new interdisciplinary subscription database of images, Image Quest, has been added to Princeton University Library electronic resources today. The collection includes more than two million images, all cleared for non-commercial educational use. Browse by subject, collection or keyword. For South Asia related images, keyword searching is probably the best approach on this site.
Recent Library of Congress–Islamabad office pdf files added to the LC collection include the following items:
A list of February 2013 acquisitions (most of these on the South Asia fund) is attached. March2013nonLC The list includes mostly monographs, but also a few standing orders, video recordings, and renewing serial subscriptions.