The Oral and Intangible Heritage of South Asia
 | | Date of publication: 2007
Number of pages: 32 pages
Format: 25 cm x 20 cm
UNESCO ISBN: 9 789231 040559
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This monograph was produced in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of UNESCO and on the occasion of the annual meetings of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors and SAF Governing Council, South Asia Foundation arranged performances of 40 outstanding south asian dancers and musicians at the UNESCO house, Paris.
Download the monograph (pdf: 1,3 Mo).
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Sasia Story
 | | Date of publication: 2005
Number of pages: 224 pages
Format: 25 cm x 20 cm
UNESCO ISBN: 92 3 203992 3
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Over half a century and a score of books later, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote the introduction to Madanjeet Singh's latest book, The Sasia Story (2005).
It is a poignant and riveting saga of the traumatic communal conflicts that the author witnessed in the aftermath of Partition and which shaped his lifelong commitment to secular ideals and regional cooperation.
He strongly believes that in today's fast-moving and ultra-competitive world no country can survive unilaterally. 'Sasia' is a name he has coined for South Asia's common currency in the hope that, like the Euro, it will become an anchor of economic stability, peace and prosperity.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu describes The Sasia Story as 'a splendid tribute to the people of the region and to the author'.
The Sasia Story has been published in English, French, Spanish and other major European language editions by UNESCO in cooperation with the European Commission and South Asia Foundation. It is also published in the following South Asian vernacular editions:
Bangladesh
BANGLA: contact email
Bhutan
DZONKHA: contact email
India
HINDI, URDU: contact email
PUNJABI (Gurmukhi): contact email
BENGALI: contact email
ORIYA: contact email
ASSAMESE, MANIPURI, MITHILI: contact email
MARATHI, KANNADA: contact email
GUJRATI: contact email
TELUGU: contact email
KASHMIRI, DOGRI: contact email
TAMIL, MALAYALAM: contact email
Nepal
NEPALI: contact email
Pakistan
URDU, SINDHI, PUNJABI (Urdu script), PUSHTU: contact email
Sri Lanka
SINHALESE: contact email
Download the Sasia Story (pdf: 8,3 Mo).
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The Timeless Energy of the Sun
| | Date of publication: 1996
Number of pages: 207 pages
Format: 25 cm x 31 cm
UNESCO
ISBN: 81 85 822 51 - 92 3 303453 4
Chinese Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 962 20 9451 1
English Mappin India
ISBN: 81 85 82251 4
English Thames & Hudson U.K.
ISBN: 0 500 01851 0
French France Loisirs
ISBN: 2 7441 1495 2
Italian Silvana Editoriale
ISBN: 88 8215 089 5
German Frederking & Thaler
ISBN: 389405 3755
Spanish Circulo de Lectores Barcelona
ISBN: 84 226 6924 2
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| | About the Author
Madanjeet Singh was born on 16th April 1924 in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. A well-known painter and a distinguished photographer, he is an internationally known author of several books on art and other subjects, closely interwoven with UNESCO's and SAARC's programmes, principles and ideals.
He has published several books, among them Indian Sculptures in Bronze and Stone (1951), Etruscan Cave Painting (1953), Indian Miniatures (1963), Ajanta, Paintings of the Sacred and the Secular (1964), and The White Horse (1976).
His collaboration with UNESCO began in 1954 when he published India: Paintings from Ajanta Caves in the UNESCO World Art Series; Prime Minister Nehru wrote the Preface. This was followed by Himalayan Art in 1968, also published in English in association with UNESCO, and translated into French, Italian and Spanish. In 1993, he published The Sun in Myth and Art during the UNESCO World Decade for Cultural Development, the 9 editions were translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, and a sequel, The Timeless Energy of the Sun (1998), which was published by UNESCO for the UNESCO World Solar Program (1995 - 2005), also translated into many languages including Chinese.
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The Sun, In Myth and Art
| | Date of publication: 1993
Number of pages: 398 pages
Format: 25 cm x 31 cm
English Harry Abrahams Ltd U.S.A
ISBN: 08109 38383
English Thames & Hudson U.K
ISBN: 2 0 500 01598 8
French Bordas Paris
ISBN: 2 04 0199756
Italian ISBN:
Japanese Kodansha Ltd Tokyo
ISBN:
Spanish Plaza y Janés
ISBN: 84 01 37466 9
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Himalayan Art
| | Date of publication: 1968
Number of pages: 293 pages
Format: 26 cm x 33 cm
English Mc Millan U.K
ISBN:
French Editions Weber
ISBN:
Italian Silvana Editoriale
ISBN:
Spanish Ediciones Destino
ISBN:
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India, Paintings from Ajanta Caves
 | | Date of publication: 1954
Number of pages: 32 pages
Format: 34 cm x 48 cm
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This my People
| | Date of publication: 1989
Number of pages: 156 pages
Format: 30 cm x 31 cm
English Rizzoli U.S.A
ISBN: 0 8478 1153 0
French
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Italian Silvana Editoriale
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Spanish Ediciones Destino
ISBN: 84 233 1776 5 |
In 1949, shortly after India's partition, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru handwrote the Preface to This My People - later published worldwide (1989) in several languages. 'An astonishing book of photographs..... his is a mental journey through the India he loves deeply', wrote Souren Melikian, the eminent art critic of The International Herald Tribune.
The famous film producer Ismail Merchant praised 'the aesthetic merits and historical value of the book' in a full-page review in The New York Times. |
