Saraswati.Bookmark in 24 Karat Gold-Plating

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Saraswati  is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning.She is a part of the trinity of Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. All the three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate-recycle the Universe respectively.
The earliest known mention of Saraswati as a goddess is in Rigveda. She has remained significant as a goddess from the Vedic period through modern times of Hindu traditions. Some Hindus celebrate the festival of Vasant Panchami (the fifth day of spring) in her honour,and mark the day by helping young children learn how to write alphabets on that day.The Goddess is also revered by believers of the Jain religion of west and central India, as well as some Buddhist sects.
Saraswati who is revered as a goddess of knowledge, music and arts is also found outside Nepal and India, such as in Japan, Vietnam, Bali (Indonesia) and Myanmar. More...

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From India

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From India

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From India

From India :)

Cute, pretty sight :)

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Kingfisher Airlines

Kingfisher Airlines Limited is an airline group based in India.

Two India's finest poets-Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy

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Kamala Suraiyya (b. Kamala Madhavikutty)  (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. More...

Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is a Indian poet, painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and film producer. He is Bengali by ethnicity. He was member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament representing Maharashtra based party Shiv Sena. He has published a number of poetry books in English and translated poems by other writers from Bengali and Urdu into English.More...

Book "Tonight This SavageRite"- http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article1155553.ece

Chumbak

Chumbak was born out of love for India and the love of travel. Our original plan was to have only fridge magnets, but somewhere along the way, Chumbak became a lot more than just that! Chumbak became a way to experience a little bit of India, the India that we see everyday ... in the form of fridge magnets, keychains, t shirts, pens, bookmarks, notebooks and various other stuff..More about Chumbak

Bookmarks of dried palm leaf

This bookmarks is made with vegetable-based paints, on a dried palm leaf, the same way manuscripts were done several centuries ago.

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Ganesha - God of auspicious beginnings.

Ganesha is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal.Hindu sects worship him regardless of аффилиатионс. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.

Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify.Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstaclesand more generally as Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles  patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom. He is honoured at the beginning of rituals and ceremonies and invoked as Patron of Letters during writing sessions.Several texts relate mythological anecdotes associated with his birth and exploits and explain his distinct iconography. More...

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Beautiful bookmarks from India :)

This bookmark is made with vegetable-based paints, on a dried palm leaf, the same way manuscripts were done several centuries ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-leaf_manuscript

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Elephant

It is silk screen print of elephants. The gold one in the center is shiny. 

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Embroidered of Kashmir

This handmade leather bookmark is embroidered by Khanyar Leather Co-operative, Kashmir, in the style of traditional embroidery first introduced in the vale of Kashmir by Persian craftsman in the 15th Century. Both men and women still practise the crafts of Kashmir Embroidery.
Kashmir  is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range. More...

Thank you very much for this wonderful gift,Rick :) The is very soft leather or suede. I very like it  :)