The Life of Hinduism

a ramayana on air. 145 the Tulsi Manas, Sagar claims to have been involved for some twenty-five years in a group that met regula ...

146. performance behind the serials Bunyaad and Khoj, the weekly Hindi film, and the film-clip revue Chitrahaar in the number of ...

a ramayana on air. 147 equipped with television sets, where driver and passengers piled out to watch the episode. On occasion, t ...

148. performance series could end on schedule. At the request of Doordarshan officials, Sagar prom- ised in writing that he woul ...

a ramayana on air. 149 common in Hindi publications, and many viewers protested that the epic was end- ing too quickly. When ask ...

150. performance merely as the anchor for an improvised verbal meditation that may include almost endless digressions and elabor ...

a ramayana on air. 151 reflected in his use of excerpts from the latter’s performances to introduce several of his marketed cass ...

152. performance brief appearances). Yet the depiction was hardly “realistic” in other respects. The costumes and wigs of Ram an ...

a ramayana on air. 153 character—each bhav of classical aesthetic theory—was conveyed visually, and in scenes involving many cha ...

154. performance Illustrated Weekly (1987, 9) complained that the serial had “destroyed the spirit and the superb literary quali ...

a ramayana on air. 155 nessed a seven-evening performance by the Banaras expounder Shrinath Mishra based on one line from book 7 ...

156. performance ———. 1988b. “Ramayandekho, malpuapao” [Watch Ramayana and get sweets]. June 6: 3. ———. 1988c. “Dharavahik Ramay ...

a ramayana on air. 157 Schechner, Richard, and Linda Hess. 1977. “The Ramlila of Ramnagar.” The Drama Review 21 (September): 51– ...

10. Possession by Durga The Mother Who Possesses kathleen m. erndl 158 This essay was previously published as “The Mother Who Po ...

possession by durga. 159 class family in the company of about fifty festively dressed people—women, men, and children. It was ab ...

160. performance itly) that the possessing entity is an epiphenomenon, that is, that it does not “really” exist. Anthropologist ...

possession by durga. 161 tain specifics of terminology and practice may be unique to this region, I believe that similar dynamic ...

162. performance cordingly, as a reflection of the way things really are, she takes on both gentle (saumya) forms such as Vaisno ...

possession by durga. 163 circumstances, a respectable woman’s hair is tied up and braided, not allowed to hang loose. In a discu ...

164. performance The person possessed is called the savari, “vehicle” (as in “she is the vehicle of Kali”); savarihere designate ...