Valour Sacrifice

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.

Relentless service to the Country, indomitable spirit, countering dangerous challenges, never give in attitude to defeat odds has become a religion of this Family. Receiving Gallantry Awards and Rewards for chivalry and bravery in war and peace in all humility has become a tradition. The family has the honour of 120 years of continuous meritorious and glorious service to the Indian Army and the Nation. These passionate soldiers have remained benevolent, self-respecting and God-fearing Many a clan has gone into oblivion and forgotten for lack of recorded history. What we cannot read and remember is soon forgotten. That is why history has special significance in the World. Countries have laid great stress on recording their history and preserving it. There are libraries and archives for readers and storage. The World over, researchers are busy over time in recovering lost history. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa are some examples where excavation was done to retrieve and piece together hidden and lost civilizations that had gone into oblivion.

Delve into Warwick Deeping's debut novel, 'Valour', set amidst the harrowing landscape of World War I. Enter the world of Pierce Hammersly, born into the esteemed family of Scarshott, where privilege and naivety intertwine. As a young officer and gentleman, Pierce embarks on a journey that leads him to the devastating battlegrounds of Sulva Bay in Gallipoli. Confronted with the brutal realities of war, Pierce grapples with his own limitations, struggling to find his inner strength. It is through the extraordinary presence of a captivating woman that Pierce discovers the path to redemption, reclaiming his sense of self and embracing a second chance at courage.

Reflections is immense pleasure & thought - provoking. Gentle rhythm in the poems and lucid, tasteful expressions on themes which are undoubtedly laudable is soothing & rejuvenates one in ones otherwise busy & tension- ridden life. Shri Loknath Misra (Ex-Governor) Assam In Reflections, the poets sense of commitment to the readers as friend, philosopher and guide has found its pristine expression in each line of the poems impeccable style & chaste manner. Subjects addressed cover vast tapestry. Shri M V Dieghe (Ex Governor) Meghalaya

Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Examining works by over 110 authors, Alex Houen surveys how war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major modern and contemporary conflicts, from the First World War to the War on Terror. Various conceptions of sacrifice are examined, including Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and secular. The discussion ranges across literary portrayals of multiple sacrificial practices, including ancient rituals of child sacrifice, martyrdom, scapegoating, and suicide bombing. Houen builds an innovative interdisciplinary approach to how war, sacrifice, and their representations interrelate, and a wide range of Anglophone literature is discussed, including novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, manifestoes, elegies, ballads, and lyric poetry. Whereas critics and theorists have tended to emphasize that war's reality exceeds any attempt to represent it, Houen contends that political, religious, and cultural frames of sacrifice have continued to play a significant part in shaping how war's reality is shaped and experienced. Those frames are inextricably tied to modes of representation, which include symbolism and mimesis. Sacrifice and Modern War Writing explores how sacrificial killing in war is itself riddled with symbolic transfigurations and mimetic exchanges, and it builds a fresh approach by arguing that the figurative and imaginative aspects of literary writing ironically become its very means of engaging closely with the reality of war's sacrifices. That approach also develops by using the literary analyses to critique and revise various prominent theories of sacrifice and war.

Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one’s ordinary life. More specifically, courage and hope ought to be understood as the virtues required for enjoying ordinary life. If college-educated citizens wish to hold onto the concepts of courage and hope, however, then both courage and hope need to be understood as intellectual virtues. As a moral virtue, courage has become outdated. As a theological virtue, hope violates the logic of the golden mean. Focusing on intellectual virtues also requires shifting from moral perfectionism to rational perfectionism. Rational perfectionism involves keeping impossible demands in view for oneself while constantly and continually striving for one’s “unattained but attainable self.” Goodson defends these arguments by learning from the bits of wisdom found within American Transcendentalism (Emerson, Cavell), German Idealism (Kant, Hegel), Jewish philosophy (Maimonides, Spinoza, Putnam), neo-pragmatism (Putnam, Rorty, West), post-modern theories about pedagogy (Nietzsche, Foucault, Rorty), and secular accounts of perfectionism (Murdoch, Cavell).