Download or read book A Meeting Under A Banyan Tree written by Grahame Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after the surrender of the Japanese in September 1945, South East Asia was a cauldron of chaos and danger from Japanese armed forces who refused to accept the abrupt ending of the war, and from the Indian, Chinese and Indonesian populace who wanted independence from their colonial masters. Much of the population of South East Asia was starving and in China the communists and the nationalists were gearing up for civil wan Allied troops wanted to go home and not remain fighting in foreign lands.Robert Draper, recently released from internment camp is determined to stay and make a life for himself in He also wants revenge against those who betrayed him and others in helping the Japanese to seek the gold that had been hidden in Singapore in 1942. The story is based on true events of the period. To this day no true account of the missing gold has ever been told.
Download or read book Under the Banyan Tree written by Graeme Dobson and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells of travel to the far reaches of the world where an old, mid-19th century Groote Eylandt man, spoke of chasing huge fish across cold seas and hunting furred creatures on seas hard as stone. It’s a story of great, forgotten empires on Australia’s doorstep and rich Sultans who claimed that Australia’s north as their own long before Cook laid eyes on it. It’s a story very few Australians know about. When marine biologist Graeme Dobson asked elders about the origins of a strange stone structure in the middle of a bay, off a tiny island, near the coast of Arnhem Land they replied ‘Not ours’, and so began a remarkable quest that became a mystery wrapped in an adventure, folded into history. His research took him to the far corners of Arnhem Land and into the Seas and Islands to its north. It led him back through time, past missionaries, colonists, huge fishing fleets, Dutch map-makers, Portuguese explorers-come-slavers, unknown settlers and miners, and pearl cultivating tribesmen until he finally found the answer in another bay off another tiny island, this time in the remote Indonesian Aru Islands. This is a mystery/adventure with a difference, plus fascinating insights into little discussed history of northern Australia.
Download or read book Under the Banyan Tree written by Sheldon J. Segal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results. Today, even as fertility rates decline on a global scale, relentless increases in population and other population-driven factors threaten not only the food supply, but also the stability of entire regions of the world. No single individual has contributed more to our understanding of scientific matters related to human population than Sheldon Segal has. Pioneer in contraceptive research and developer of Norplant, Segal has orchestrated many of the international clinical trials of new contraceptives in the last quarter century. In this one volume Segal examines how population factors impact critical scientific elements of human affairs: contraception, family planning, environmental degradation, climate change, food and fresh water supply, and the threat of newly emerging diseases. As we follow Segal from meetings with heads of state and foreign ministers through to his impassioned, grassroots efforts to secure suitable funds for impoverished countries, we gain a behind-the-scenes perspective on how individuals and nations juggle humanitarian and scientific concerns with political agendas. Informed at every turn by Segal's keen intelligence and humane values,Under The Banyan Tree skillfully blends engaging narrative with history and analysis, providing a dramatic and all-encompassing portrait of this most basic of human concerns.
Download or read book Under the Banyan Tree written by Sada Nand Talwar and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lad of Mettle written by Nat Gould and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Circle of Reason written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit.
Download or read book Agricultural and Rural Reconstruction written by Jayant Patil and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly covers Maharashtra, India, as a case study.
Download or read book Silent Requiem written by Arun K Shrivastwa and published by Arun. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the past never truly stays buried, Silent Requiem weaves a gripping tale of crime, redemption, and the haunting echoes of guilt. Roshan and Monica, two seasoned criminals with a shared history of deception and violence, find themselves at a crossroads when their carefully constructed lives begin to unravel. Forced to flee, they assume new identities in a remote village, where they plan to hide from their past and the authorities closing in on them. But the village, with its simple yet profound way of life, begins to work a quiet magic on them. As they become entwined in the community’s struggles—fighting against corrupt forces, advocating for basic necessities, and helping to build a better future—they discover a sense of purpose that had long eluded them. Their criminal skills, once used for personal gain, are now redirected toward protecting the village from a ruthless industrialist bent on exploitation. As they navigate the moral complexities of their new lives, Roshan and Monica are torn between the shadows of their past and the possibility of redemption. Their growing attachment to the village and its people forces them to confront the stark reality of their previous choices. Can they truly change? Or will the silent requiem of their guilt and the lives they’ve taken forever haunt them? Silent Requiem is a powerful narrative that explores the thin line between good and evil, the possibility of transformation, and the unspoken truths that linger in the silence of our lives. It is a story of unexpected hope in the face of overwhelming darkness, where even the most hardened souls can find a path to redemption—if they are willing to face the music of their past.
Download or read book The Years of Awakening written by J Krishnamurti and published by Krishnamurti Foundation America. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was an independent spiritual teacher for the rest of his life, writing many books such as Krishnamurti Reader: No. 1, You are the World, Commentaries on living;: First series, from the notebooks of J. Krishnamurti. Mary Lutyens (1908-1999) was a British author best known for her three-volume biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti; the other volumes in this series are Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment and Krishnamurti: The Open Door. She wrote in the Foreword to this 1975 book, "This account of the life of the first thirty-eight years of Krishnamurti's life has been written at his suggestion and with all the help he has been able to give me. it shows the circumstances of the unfolding of Krishnamurti's teaching and demonstrates his extraordinary achievement in freeing himself from the many hands that clutched at him in an endeavour to force him into the role of traditional Messiah." He told his audience, "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect... I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind; please understand this." Lutyens' sympathetic, yet detailed and critical biography is "must reading" for anyone wanting to know more about Krishnamurti.
Download or read book The Leopard s Call written by Reginald Shires and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Source Code for 2D and 3D Graphical Algorithms and Splines 2D Algorithms: Bresenham, Sutherland-Cohen Out-Codes, Seed Fill recursive, Cyrus-Beck, Sutherland-Hodgman 3D Transformations: Specifications for camera Euler angles and radius parameters, World coordinates to Center of Projection, Canonical with Perspective, Canonical with Parallel, Projections into 2D, pixels, and display 3D Curves and Splines: Hermite
Download or read book The Avatar written by Ivar Tabrizi and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is based on the alleged discovery of Elvis Presley's reincarnation in Mangalam, a small village set amidst the backwaters of the Malabar Coast in India. The subsequent events when an Elvis-mad matron from Memphis, Tennessee comes to claim the child as her very own make for a very hilarious reading. The events start unfolding when the astrologer called into cast the child's birth horoscope declares the child to be an avatar, a great reincarnation. Everybody assumes the reincarnation to be that of Lord Krishna, the deity worshipped in the village. But the two precocious daughters of Sunita, the neighbour and a distant relation of the child's parents, create, without meaning to, a feeling that the child is actually a reincarnation of Elvis Presley. Neeli, the eldest of the two, editor of her college magazine and an aspiring journalist, manages to publish an article about the phenomenon in the "Memphis Tattler". Maggie Duckworth, a rich widow and fanatic in her devotion to Elvis, reads the article and lands in India to claim the child. She has Alonzo Bosworthy, a novice reporter from the tabloid, in tow to cover what she thinks will be a scoop. Besides, her ulterior motive is to chase out the present guardians of the Presley Foundation, with whom she had a long series of run-ins, and install the true heir to the throne of Graceland Mansions. The Mangalam villagers meanwhile have come to very different conclusions about the impending visit of the Americans. The village barber, a fanatic Maoist, is convinced that the Americans are actually CIA agents coming to take over what he imagines to be the oil wealth hidden under the village. He organizes the farm workers to protest against the visit. Meanwhile, a defrocked priest and his small coterie of Christian followers in the village maintain that the child is actually the second Christ come to redeem the world, and maintain a vigil outside the reincarnation's house. They are there to prevent the child being spirited away to the West. The barber's wild imagination had also infected the staid householders of the village and they want their cut of the oil wealth lying under their feet. Of course there is the village yokel suddenly transformed by a series of misunderstandings into a Greek scholar whose wild oratory is listened to by the villagers avidly but without understanding. By the time Maggie Duckworth arrives at the village she is met by all these forces, which she cannot fathom. Things are not helped by the avaricious nature of the reincarnation's father, Mr. Keshavan, who dreams of inheriting Presley's Graceland on behalf of his son. As if these things were not enough for Maggie Duckworth, Bosworthy manages to get himself arrested as a spy with designs on India's cultural heritage when he wanders into the village temple. The story goes on to its ultimate denouement as the Indian papers, slow on the uptake, now create a country- wide furor making the incident take on an international flavour with formal protests being lodged with the American Ambassador in India and nearly bringing the Indian Government down for kowtowing to the Americans. Sunita's two daughters though central to the theme are just onlookers and as bewildered as Maggie by the course of events they have unleashed. Babli, the younger one, is the agnostic with a healthy disrespect for the superstitions surrounding the village life. But she triggers off events leading to the acceptance of the child to be a reincarnation of Elvis.
Download or read book Diamonds in the Rough written by Lee Roberson and published by Sword of the Lord Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains some of Roberson's best stories and illustrations, which he personally handpicked for this volume.
Download or read book A Study On Volatility And Co Movement Of Selected Sectoral Indices Of National Stock Exchange Of India written by Dr GangineniDhanaiah and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings and Transactions of the Indian Oriental Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Religious the Spiritual and the Secular written by Robert N. Minor and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular presents an account of Auroville, a city in contemporary southeast India, and the vision of founder and well-known guru Sri Aurobindo. Aurovilles eventual takeover and the promotion of its goals by the Indian government leads to a thought-provoking discussion of the meaning of secularism in India.
