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Lampa k Hatha-jógu (The Lamp to Hatha-yoga) Translation of a preface to the Hatha-yoga pradipika, by the Czech occultist, mystic, and writer Karel Weinfurter, originally published in 1936. -
Obrázky z Bengálska (Pictures from Bengal) The text is a translation of excerpts from a work by the Czech scholar and writer Milada Ganguli, where she relates her experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, during which she worked as a volunteer. Née Milada Sýkorová, the author left Czechoslovakia for India in 1939, accompanied by her Bengali husband, and passed away in Calcutta in 2000.