Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Extracts from my Books

Over the last year or so I made a couple of stuttering and ultimately failed attempts to upgrade my site (www.davidgodman.org). The design and coding were done twelve years ago and are now in need of a major overhaul. I am about to begin another attempt but as a stop-gap measure I recently made a new site that contains extracts from all my books, along with information on where they can be obtained. It can be viewed here:

http://davidgodman.wix.com/ramanamaharshibooks

The site was made from a template provided by a company called Wix. It is simple and easy to use and I can recommend it to anyone who wants to put out a site, but who doesn't have any knowledge of coding.

Since there is a built-in feature on the Wix site that enables blogging and the posting of photo galleries, slide-shows and videos, I plan to use it to add photo and video presentations. To start the ball rolling I have uploaded a gallery of photos that were taken by Eliot Elisofon when he visited Tiruvannamalai in 1949:

http://davidgodman.wix.com/ramanamaharshibooks#!photo-2/cos9

Eliot Elisofon was the photographer who took the photos for the article on Bhagavan that appeared in the 1949 article in LIFE magazine. He took many additional photos that were not included in this article. I have collected all the ones I could find and put them together in this slide show. It runs automatically, but you can stop it with your mouse to see captions or expand the photos.

The 'Photo' section also contains a collection of old black-and-white pictures of Arunachala that I have collected in recent years.

http://davidgodman.wix.com/ramanamaharshibooks#!photos/c1i7j

I love old photos of Tiruvannamalai and Arunachala and have many more that I will post in future presentations.