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"Personality Development Classic"
- Competition Success Review
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"Personality Development Classic
"The Bhagavad Gita is the greatest literary work anywhere in the world on how human beings must integrate their personality with their true essence. Prof. Kev Nair, the eminent philosopher-poet and English language authority, has now brought out a unique verse translation of this eternal classic. The title of this translation from Sanskrit into English is The Bhagavad Gita of Inner Courage. And it has an eloquent sub-title: “What it takes to stay calm and triumph over adversity”.
"The most striking feature of Prof. Nair’s Gita is this: While other translations and commentaries have presented the Gita mainly from a particular angle alone (like jnana, karma or bhakti), Prof. Nair’s work is the first ever translation that presents the Gita in its true wholeness. It clearly brings out the truth that the whole focus of the Gita is on teaching mankind why they tend to lack inner courage and to run away from reality when they are faced with adversity, and how everyone – irrespective of their religion, caste, sex, age or race – can acquire the knowledge, skill and devotion required to achieve this courage. By being able to see the Gita as a unified whole powered by this singleness of focus, and by being able to translate every verse with sole reference to this singleness of focus, Prof. Nair has been able to throw, for the first time in the history of Gita-related studies, a flood of new light on the verses and key terms in the original and to fill his work full of new insights. All this makes Prof. Nair’s work the definitive English translation of the Gita.
"This 3857-line poem in English metrical verse is easy to read and easy to understand and is exuberantly rhythmic. Prof. Nair has translated every verse by using simple, straightforward English in such a simple and straightforward way as to make even their hidden meanings clear. His language, style and tone are noble. The poetic metre in which Prof. Nair has composed each of the 700 stanzas makes rhythmic delivery easy. And it makes the language of this Gita really move and keep on creating an onward momentum. This feature alone can compel the readers to go on reading, participating in the ruling rhythm.
"This 307-page book has been published by the Adult Faculties Council, Kochi and is priced at Rs. 395.00. The publishers have hosted a very informative website www.justwakeup.com devoted solely to this first-of-its-kind book."
- Competition Success Review
| Prof. Kev Nair |
• “One of the world’s most respected English language scholars... Perhaps more innovative in method than Roget and more modern in approach than Fowler, Prof. Kev Nair is... one of the foremost Indian scholars who wield great influence on the thinking of the English-educated people around the world.”
– General Knowledge Today.
• “Prof. Kev Nair is regarded the world over as the father of fluency lexicography... Fluency lexicography came into existence as a separate branch of dictionary writing with the publication of Prof. Nair’s Dictionary of Active Fluency Combinations in 1986.”
– Competition Success Review.
• “Nair was the first person in the world to give shape to the area of study now known as ‘English fluency development’ and to systematize it into a distinct teachable subject... So he is better known as the father of fluency development.”
– General Knowledge Today.
• “An eminent scholar of international repute and a renowned English language lexicographer”
– The New Sunday Express.
• “A towering English language expert”
– Competition Success Review.
• “There is an air of enormous authority and dignity around all Prof. Nair’s works, each of which is a magnificent blend of scholarship and practical common sense.”
– Competition Success Review. |
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"There is nothing archaic about this version of the Bhagawad-Gita... The words used are simple so that everybody can understand the contents... It is easy on the reader and does not put you off... For the message to be clear while making the language as simple as possible, Nair slogged for years, rewriting and discarding many versions..."
- THE HINDU |
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"An English translation of the Gita which will make it more accessible to the reader... Kev Nair... has made every effort to make his Gita suited for reading aloud, to be enjoyed to the fullest... "
- The New Indian Express |
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– THE TIMES OF INDIA
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