/lit/ - Literature

>>14524054
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_2020

You mean shiterature?

>>14524054
Dhammapada

>>14524529
FUCK YOU YOU STUPID MENTALLY ILL TRANNY

>>14524547
I know I accidentally mispelled it but give it a read.

>>14524522
>offers a vision of how India can emerge to be among the world's top four economic powers by the year 2020.
I mean, people laugh, but they are kinda there
Ramayana for me if OP is serious. Really blew me away when I first read, I'd rate it just as good as Homer or Virgil

>>14524054
Midnights Children

>>14524527
Don't disrespect a superpower like that

>>14524554
That's the one with the blue dude recusing his gf with the monkey army?

>>14524054
As >>14524554 he mentioned the Ramayana if you are serious, I would include more or less any Vedic-period literature would be worth your time. There's also some good Medieval/Mughal-era poetry if you're into that.

Is tagore any good? He won a noble prize but I've never seen him mentioned on this board

>>14524707
Shitting on the street is not a superpower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Vasistha

>>14524873
He’s solid. I think it’s outside most anons’ wheelhouse.

>>14524873
I have this edition laying around somewhere - i've never read it. I'd like a similar assessment.

>>14524909
Just went through some of his poems they seem metaphor heavy almost quasi-french. So far no poems on feet

A seminal text in modern Indian literature is ‘The prajna of street poop meditation yoga’ by Pajeet Pattel. Good luck on your journey OP. Namaste.

A seminal text in modern Indian literature is ‘The prajna of street poop meditation yoga’ by Pajeet Patel. Good luck on your journey OP. Namaste.

>>14524909
>tagore
the bengalis never wrote anything good

> the bengalis never wrote anything good
I recommend you to check out Humayun Ahmed and Kazi Nazrul Islam

>>14524890
this

>>14525505
did i fucking stutter
it's like they want to invite orientalism

Ramayana and the Mahabaratabuahb

>>14525543 #
You’re heavily misguided

>>14525543
Easterners all want Orientalism because it makes their culture seem cooler than it really is. Eastern people self-Orientalize all the time.

>>14526010
this. the classic hindu literature is essential and excellent; rigveda too. if these works are too intimidating you can start with the bhagavad gita, a prime excerpt from mahbharata

>>14524054
Hind Swaraj

>>14524552
You spelled it correctly.

>>14524054
Upanishads
Bhagavad Gita
Brahma Sutra with bhashya of Shankara

>>14526119
Fuck off tradcuck

>>14524054
Pather Panchali (the film is great too).

Which modern Pajeet language has the best literature?
Is it Hindi/Urdu, Bangla, Tamil or something else entirely?

>>14527655
Urdu definitely least pajeetiest of them all. Ghalib is a must read

--Vedic--

>Ramayana (three volumes):
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D9E8B9BA21457A7C7AEC4F6420219397

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=54A8585A5A44BDB4F94799A62858010C

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=F908378AC39CCE17BD021E2D36A441DE

>Bhagavata Purana (three volumes):
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E7A44619B94CF29B55AF1A05977C7C00

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=98518532C73482C5230590683C549B3E

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C26196A5232759D64E78191164F45A32

Straight translations, no commentary.


>Rig Veda: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0B6CF562881BC69B70DEBB54811EAE17

Straight translation, no commentary.

>Brahma Samhita: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=6B9101A4AB915CE06949FF8A1502553B

Gaudiya Commentary

--Zoroastrian/Mazdayasna--

>Original Magic - Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi:
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=389D009F8618379020AE60A6E178FF5D

>Inner Fire
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B9275B5C901C97D04595A5707310B6B9

>Hymns Of Zoroaster
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=FD2491509C82880E3619AA42B44D6C09

>>14527742
If you learn Hindi, is Urdu just learning a new script or is the difference much bigger?

Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Jhumpa Lahiri

>>14527802
A person who knows Urdu can have a casual conversation with someone who knows Hindi but the two languages in their literary form have a different vocabulary. As someone who knows Urdu I can't understand a Hindi news broadcast.
If you want to read Urdu literature you'll have to learn a whole different vocabulary based off Persian and Arabic the higher the Urdu literature the more Persian it becomes

>>14527745
I don't think Zoroastrianism can be considered pajeet unless you count the Parsis but they too are to civilized to be considered pajeet

>>14527655
i've heard modern kannada and tamil books are rather good. most of still untranslated though.

>>14524054
Khasakinthe Ithihasam. Sadly, the English translation is nothing compared to the oh Malayalam. In fact, calling it a translation is an injustice. The English is its own piece.

>>14524890
can i read it before the upanishads?

>>14524554
>economic powers
The only two meaningful forms of power are cultural and military. Economy is meaningless- India and China produce billions of pounds of plastic garbage and are happily, easily forgotten by the world at large.

>>14528263
>The only two meaningful forms of power are cultural and military
India and China are pretty high up on those things too, second only to USA

>>14528263
how will you make military without money

>>14527949
how did they manage that? is there a book for that - to maintain humanity around savage idiots?

>>14528090
yes

Indian bros how do you deal with not being physically attractive. I find you and your women equally repulsive so I cant take anything you say seriously. I mean I'm sure it's good or whatever you've been around for thousands of years worshipping cows or something but I take one look at your brown simple faces so socially awkward and bad at hiding intent and all I see is rats and cowards weasels and lazy liars. It makes your whole religious tradition seem like a giant sham, no majesty no grandeur just plain old boring solipsism - you are god - seems like hard cope for being an ugly and low race. Compare with the Chinese aesthetic which is quote beautiful in contrast, pale austere faces in giant temples clean and contemplative deep thinkers who built great dynastic empires and developed their own science technology philosophy etc. The Chinese are at least second rate.

>>14524054
this nigga right here has some of the best writing on metaphysics that I've ever had the pleasure of reading

>>14528405
We are a largely populated country so even bad things are not bad in the company of other similar people.

>>14528412
if you enjoyed shankara you are really in for a treat when you read nagarjuna, since he stole his entire logic and most of his metaphysics from him

>>14528473

>>14528381
It's called the Avesta and it's Aryan as FUCK

>>14528412
>>14528473
I submit Qualified Non-Dualism
>this kills the mayavadis

>>14528381
They're usually intelligent in a business minded way and tend to be community oriented

>>14529078
see pic related

>>14526591
Oh, then what is he upset about?

>>14529086
so they have the jewish blessing?

>>14528405
Not all Indian people are Dravidians. Original Buddhists were not Dravidians.

>>14529258
yeah kinda. they're a small minority but own a lot of the big businesses

>>14524054
You looking to read the non fiction work about elephant head blue monkey people or are you more into detailed guides on how to stretch.

>>14529271
so being a jew is aryan

>>14528412
Muh non-bina... non-dualistic metaphysics
Shankara's description according to Ramanuja of the phenomenal world as Maya and of the Ultimate Reality as nirguna Brahman (without qualities) make impossible the bhakti (in our terms, the 'ibadah), and a Shankarian is destined to fall into some solipsism and even nihilism (ironically Shankara accused Buddhists of that). A century after Ramanuja, Madhvacharya would say that the only way to do real bhakti was in an *absolutely* dualistic framework.

when your "god" has (nearly) no name/attribute to speaks of : it becomes metaphysical solipsism.

>>14529332
see >>14529222

>>14529383
gimme the name of the book dude i can't fucking read that on my phone

>>14529402
'Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy' by Sharma, it's on lib-gen and archive.org

https://archive.org/details/TheAdvaitaTraditionInIndianPhilosophyChandradharSharma

>>14528464
hang in there anon, maybe you'll be reborn in a more attractive race next time

>>14529994
that's a western problem

>>14529362
Avinash?

>>14528405
I am 6'5 chad jaat with a model tier jaw, not everyone is ugly

> 14527655
Definitely Bengali

>> 14527742
I would add Allama Iqbal too for quintessential urdu lit

>>14524054

Anyone have more contemporary works?

>>14529228
Because he read it and it failed to impress.

You pushing buddhism Butters?