Gonu Jha and Other Maithili Picture Stories
गोनू झा आ आन मैथिली चित्रकथा
The spoken tale finds a visible rhythm
Selected-page visual criticismTHE READING ROOM / ENGLISH CRITICISM
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Picture stories, translations and the work of preservation.
गोनू झा आ आन मैथिली चित्रकथा
The spoken tale finds a visible rhythm
Selected-page visual criticismमिथिलाक लोकदेवता
Preservation takes more than one visual form
Selected-page visual criticismमूल मिथिलाक्षर ताड़पत्र पञ्जी
Preservation makes a source available, not self-explanatory
Catalogue-based critical introductionछोट आ पैघ
Comparison ends in companionship
Whole short-book visual readingमाल-जाल आ जानवर दिस देखू
The invitation to make noise meets an adult's hush
Whole short-book visual readingहमर परिवार
The reader enters the family's reading world
Whole short-book visual readingजानवर
Naming is a first encounter, not a complete lesson
Selected-passage criticismपोथी 13: 1. . . 2. . . 3. . .
Two numeral systems share the page
Selected-passage criticismबाजाक अबाज
A silent page asks for sound
Selected-passage criticismरेस
A surprise interrupts the vocabulary pattern
Selected-passage criticismए बी सी डी- प्रकृति अक्षर पोथी
The letter becomes part of a landscape
Selected-page visual criticismसभ खाइत अछि
Repetition makes a difference noticeable
Selected-passage criticismबो म्याउ बाह
Colour records the animals' movement
Selected-page visual criticismरङ सभ
Colour becomes the trace of an encounter
Selected-page visual criticismहमर मोनक इच्छा
The child is allowed to make a claim
Selected-passage criticismमैथिली चित्रकथा
Oral encounters acquire panels and gestures
Selected-page visual criticismविद्यापतिक पुरुष परीक्षा
An inherited text enters a different reading form
Selected-page visual criticismEvery entry in “00 मुख्य समग्र”, including collected editions and three digital companions.
मैथिलीक एकटा समानान्तर व्याकरण, रचना आ भाषा विज्ञान (ठेठी, अंगिका आ बज्जिकाकेँ संग लऽ कऽ)
A grammar becomes a map of participation
Selected-passage criticismप्रबन्ध · निबन्ध · समालोचना सिद्धान्त आ अनुप्रयुक्त अध्ययन
What should criticism do in public?
Selected-passage criticismगजेन्द्र ठाकुर समग्र अनुवाद खण्ड
Unequal lives, carried between languages
Selected-passage criticismभामती (वाचस्पति) [मूल संस्कृत सँ मैथिली अनुवाद: गजेन्द्र ठाकुर]
Whose argument are we reading?
Selected-passage criticismआत्मतत्त्वविवेक (उदयन) [मूल संस्कृत सँ मैथिली अनुवाद: गजेन्द्र ठाकुर]
Follow the alternatives before the conclusion
Selected-passage criticismन्यायकुसुमाञ्जलि (उदयन) [मूल संस्कृत सँ मैथिली अनुवाद: गजेन्द्र ठाकुर]
How much does an analogy prove?
Selected-passage criticismतत्त्वचिन्तामणि (गंगेश) [मूल संस्कृत सँ मैथिली अनुवाद: गजेन्द्र ठाकुर]
Why begin with a mistake?
Selected-passage criticismअभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् (महाकवि कालिदास); आगमडम्बरम् -जयन्त भट्ट; भगवदज्जुकम् -बोधायन; कवि भल्लट- भल्लट-शतक (भल्लटक शत अन्योक्ति), महाकवि क्षेमेन्द्र- छल-कौशलक विलास (कलाविलास), कवि नीलकण्ठ- कलियुग-विडम्बना (व्यंग्य); चतुर्भाण- श्री शूद्रक केर मूल संस्कृत- पद्मप्राभृतकम् (कमलक भेंट), ईश्वरदत्तक मूल संस्कृत- धूर्तविटसंवादः (धूर्त आ दलालक विचार-विमर्श), वररुचिक मूल - उभयाभिसारिका (परस्पर प्रेम-पलायन) आ महाकवि श्यामिलक केर मूल संस्कृत- पादताडितकम् (लात); दामक प्रहसनम् (सम्भवतः भास रचित); हास्यक सागर / हास्यार्णवप्रहसनम् (मूल संस्कृत प्रहसन श्री जगदीश्वर भट्टाचार्य्य); कादम्बरी (वाणभट्ट आ भूषणभट्ट); माटिक खेलौना-गाड़ी / मृच्छकटिकम् (शूद्रक रचित संस्कृत नाटक); मत्तविलास प्रहसनम् (पल्लव नरेश श्री महेन्द्रविक्रम वर्मा प्रथम केर मूल संस्कृत प्रहसन); मंत्री राक्षसक राजसी मोहर / मुद्राराक्षसम् (विशाखदत्त रचित संस्कृत नाटक); पालाण्डुमण्डन प्रहसनम् (हरिजीवन मिश्रक संस्कृत प्रहसन); उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति) - संस्कृतसँ मैथिली अनुवाद गजेन्द्र ठाकुर
Thirteen units, several kinds of reading
Selected-passage criticismनित नवल सुभाष चन्द्र यादव
Social argument meets the problem of form
Selected-page visual criticismनित नवल सुशील
Read the polemic against the textual evidence
Selected-passage criticismनित नवल दिनेश कुमार मिश्र
Living beside the river
Selected-passage criticismनित नवल वृषेश चन्द्र लाल
A slow opening can earn its length
Selected-passage criticismरंग-संगम — नओटा मैथिली नाटक आ तकर अंग्रेजी रंगमंचीय रूपान्तर
What does the epilogue settle?
Selected-passage criticismपर्वत ऊपर भमरा जे सूतल
Three lengths, three kinds of attention
Selected-page visual criticismगोहि सभक बीच जलसमाधि (मैथिलीक आइ धरिक सभसँ पैघ उपन्यास)
The past is built into the numbering
Selected-passage criticismगोहि सभक बीच जलसमाधि (मैथिलीक आइ धरिक सभसँ पैघ उपन्यास) [किशोर संस्करण]
Which difficulties should an adaptation keep?
Selected-passage criticismगोहि सभक बीच जलसमाधि (मैथिलीक आइ धरिक सभसँ पैघ उपन्यास) [बाल संस्करण]
Accessibility becomes a question inside the story
Selected-passage criticism३७ टा मैथिली बाल उपन्यास — गजेन्द्र ठाकुर
Where should a child begin?
Catalogue-based critical introductionWater-Burial Among the Crocodiles [English Teaching Companion]
A guide also chooses a way of seeing
Selected-passage criticismGohi Sabhak Beech Jalsamadhi Teaching Course PDF
From a large novel to a teachable sequence
Catalogue-based critical introduction“Gohi Sabhak Beech Jalsamadhi” English Teaching Course Documentary
The doorway is an editorial choice
Digital companion assessment“Water-Burial Among the Crocodiles” English Teaching Course PPT Player
If the viewer fails, can the source survive?
Digital companion assessment“Water-Burial Among the Crocodiles” English Teaching Course Documentary
Autoplay and study pull attention differently
Digital companion assessmentए.आइ. सँ वीडियो बनाउ
A plausible image still needs checking
Selected-passage criticismमैथिली रेडियो नाटक: स्वयं सीखू मार्गदर्शिका
Silence is part of the script
Selected-passage criticismEnglish-Maithili Thesaurus — Gajendra Thakur
Try the word inside a sentence
Selected-passage criticismMaithili-English Thesaurus — Gajendra Thakur
The direction of a dictionary matters
Selected-passage criticismविदेह सदेह १–३७ — एक समालोचनात्मक आस्वादन
An archive begins to interpret itself
Selected-passage criticismVIDEHA QUIZ MASTER — विदेह १–४४० विस्तृत अध्ययन — 10,135 प्रश्न
Retrieval is useful, but it is not interpretation
Selected-passage criticismविदेह सदेह १–३७ विस्तृत अध्ययन — 54,192 प्रश्न
What makes a question difficult?
Selected-passage criticismविदेह शोध-लेख (अंक १ सँ ४४७ धरि)
Metadata is an argument about discoverability
Selected-passage criticismGAJENDRA THAKUR'S PARALLEL PHILOSOPHY VOLUME I
Comparison works best when it preserves disagreement
Selected-passage criticismHISTORY OF MITHILA, VAJJI & ANGA in India & Nepal: From Prehistory to the Contemporary Period VOLUME I
A region defined by movement as well as rule
Publisher-based critical introductionGADYA PADYA BHARTI 1 — विभिन्न भाषासँ अनूदित गद्य आ पद्य रचना (खण्ड-१)
Keep the contributors visible
Publisher-based critical introductionGADYA PADYA BHARTI 2 — विभिन्न भाषासँ अनूदित गद्य आ पद्य रचना (खण्ड-२)
The intermediate language belongs in the story
Publisher-based critical introductionWATER-BURIAL AMONG THE CROCODILES [ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY THE AUTHOR GAJENDRA THAKUR HIMSELF]
An author translates a narrative architecture
Publisher-based critical introductionस्वप्नमे मिज्झर होइत · WHEN DREAMS MERGE
The threshold between dream and waking
Publisher-based critical introduction37 MAITHILI CHILDREN NOVELS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
An English collection needs its own entry points
Publisher-based critical introductionHISTORY OF MITHILA, VAJJI & ANGA: SOCIO-CULTURAL-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MITHILA, VAJJI & ANGA IN INDIA & NEPAL FROM PREHISTORY TO THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD [A PARALLEL HISTORY OF MITHILA & MAITHILI LITERATURE] VOLUME II
History moves into the household and workplace
Publisher-based critical introductionGAJENDRA THAKUR'S PARALLEL PHILOSOPHY VOLUME II
The comparison must survive its own breadth
Publisher-based critical introductionA Parallel History of Mithila & Maithili Literature
Who gets to stand for a literature?
Publisher-based critical introductionDecoding the Panji of Mithila
A record of lineage is also a record of selection
Publisher-based critical introduction