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Sep 12, 2019 · These three gunas are tamas (darkness & chaos), rajas (activity & passion), and sattva (beingness & harmony). From the ethereal Prakriti the three gunas (qualities of energy) emerge to form the essential aspects of all nature—energy, matter, and consciousness.
Tamas (lit. Darkness) is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975.
Jul 16, 2019 · Tamas (तमस/Darkness) is a period television film directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhishm Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi ...
Tamas: With Pankaj Kapur, Deepa Sahi, Amrish Puri, Bhisham Sahni. This TV miniseries ("Darkness" in English) became famous in India in the mid/late 80s for its realistic depiction of the partition of the Indian subcontinent.
Jul 19, 2022 · Tamas (lit. Darkness) is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sa...
Tamas (Sanskrit: तमस् tamas, lit. ' darkness ') is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and sattva (purity, goodness).
Based on a novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas — as everyone probably knows by now — is a story of Partition, of the flight of Hindu and Sikh families to India.
Based on the novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is an epic drama set against the backdrop of riot-stricken North India on the eve of Partition in 1947. Nathu, an outcast, is hired to kill a pig, whose carcass he’s later appalled to find in front of the mosque.
Sep 7, 2023 · Tamas, a novel on the Partition by Bhisham Sahni, begins with Nathu in a room filled with shadows from a clay lamp, trying to kill a pig. It’s only in chapter five that the reader learns that a dead pig has been found on the steps of a mosque and the locality is bristling. Tamas (Darkness) was published almost 50 years ago and widely read ...
Acclaimed film-maker Govind Nihalani talks about the 1988 mini-series, Tamas, which courted multiple controversies in its time; calls the experience of making it “exhausting and exhilarating”
