Download or read book Kuroopa Change Stories Book 1 written by Kapil Raj and published by Anecdote Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book - Kuroopa (Change Stories - Book 1) ‘Why did God make me so ugly? Am I not your daughter? Was I exchanged at the hospital? Or did you leave me in the sun one day and that’s why I became so dark?’ Meera, one of three siblings, has been struggling with her identity since childhood. She is subjected to mean, insensitive remarks by neighbours, relatives, and random people around her due to the lack of pleasing physical attributes. Constant comparison with her fair, blue-eyed sister further deteriorates her relationship with friends, family, and most importantly, herself. Will Meera be able to find her footing in this hypocritical world that preaches “looks don’t matter” while constantly objectifying and running towards beautification? Will she be able to accept herself for who she is and overcome the hatred she has for herself? About Change Stories: “...gritty, timely and thought-provokingly insightful.” – The Hindustan Times Change Stories by Kapil Raj is an amalgamation of five independent short stories. Each short story interweaves a heartening story with a deeply imbibed social issue, hardened public belief, and associated fabrications. As you read the narrative, you watch and evolve with the characters, sometimes feeling yourself in them – empathising in circumstances that may or may not have existed in your lives. About the Author: Kapil Raj is a professional, speaker and writer-activist based in Delhi-NCR, India. With the heart of a philosopher, mind of a realist, and a deep-rooted non-conformist, he lives many lives, yet stealing the time for the most precious thing that matters to him: crafting plots, playing with characters, and weaving the stories, challenging the social dogmas.

His debut novel ENDURER A Rape Story is critically acclaimed by the media and loved by the readers. Connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram @ikapilraj

Download or read book A Gutterful Life Change Stories Book 2 written by Kapil Raj and published by Anecdote Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindus and Muslims live in harmony across an open gutter (naala) at the edge of the city.

Whether it’s the story of Somu and Aklaq – two innocent souls from different religions who stumble into each other on the naala and foster a friendship like no other; Billu and Arif – two budding businessmen trying to make a living – who are subjected to inter-community politics through the tryst of fate; or the community’s favourite Chai-Chachu – an old tea-seller with unknown origin but an important story to tell, A Gutterful Life brings forth a plethora of sentiments culminating in an emotional climax.

Will Aklaq and Somu’s friendship survive the vagaries of communal division? Will Chai-Chachu be able to bridge the gap between Hindus and Muslims across the naala? Will religious propaganda compel people to forget their hardships and sow seeds of division in the illusion of unity?

About Change Stories:

Each short story interweaves a heartening story with a deeply imbibed social issue, hardened public belief, and associated fabrications. As you read the narrative, you watch and evolve with the characters, sometimes feeling yourself in them – empathising in circumstances that may or may not have existed in your lives.

A Gutterful Life is the second story launched in the series after Kuroopa.

About the Author:

Kapil Raj is a professional, speaker and writer-activist based in Delhi-NCR, India. With the heart of a philosopher, mind of a realist, and a deep-rooted non-conformist, he lives many lives, yet stealing the time for the most precious thing that matters to him: crafting plots, playing with characters, and weaving the stories, challenging the social dogmas. His debut novel ENDURER A Rape Story is critically acclaimed by the media and loved by the readers.

Download or read book Akara Magazine April 2020 written by Writers Community and published by Writers Community. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akara April Magazine will contain beautiful blogs, poems, monologues, and all the works and devotion of artists which will fascinate more and more audiences and will explore your talent worldwide. Let’s have Akara in our life and bring the best of the collection with us. Akara, meaning where says collection also means the shape. Where now writers community is a world of a collection with every shape of art and every stream of art. Magazine where are made to explore knowledge, Writers C Community wants to explore talent, passion, the beauty of art, and artist behind it. Every Writer, Author, Performing Artist, Blogger, Poet, Photographer, etc. Deserve to get praised by the audience all over the world who really appreciates the art in them.

Download or read book Akara March 2020 Magazine written by Writers Community and published by Writers Community. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this growing world, today when we humans rise up to find peace of mind so get closer with the alchemy of nature one observes many obstacles. The reason being, that the glory of art, the strings of words explaining many unrevealed emotions, music without instruments, poetry like twittering of Birds is lost some where. With this growing digital world aren't we losing the beauty in art. Do you know the definition of Artist?? Or can you define a poet, an author or an writer? Yes ,you can!! You will definitely find the definition of Artist, Poet, writer, Author on Google, Wikipedia etc. But does every Artist all over the world gives thumbs up to it… No! And this is because the technical definition will give you the information but won't make you bring with the reason, what makes one become an artist. Art has no boundaries, no limits, no caste and religion either. It's just a flow of creation, different perspective, concepts that are out of the boxes. Every artist has an different definition to his/her art. Artists are never alone as an art in them is best to it. We can say that one who makes a different world full of creative vibes, explores his or her imagination by colors, paradises it with power of words in the form of poetry, upgrades the information by updating it with blogs and a book of author which says story that is ever heard by any creation of on this planet until he revels it. Where qualities and art in them becomes wings to their life the definitely takes high swoop towards the destination. Performing arts are distinguished by this performance element in contrast with disciplines such as visual and literary arts where the product is an object that does not require a performance to be observed and experienced. The mystery of poetry is all down to its interpretation. Rather than expressing ideas or emotions in the narrative form, poetry attempts to use visual images captured in the imagination. Author is “the person who originated or gave existence to anything”. Every Artist is an magician. Akara, meaning where says collection also means the shape. Where now writers community is a world of collection with every shape of art and every stream of art. Magazine where are made to explore knowledge, Writers C Community wants to explore talent, passion, beauty of art and artist behind it. Every Writer, Author, Performing Artist, Blogger, Poet, Photographer etc. Deserve to get praised by the audience all over the world who really appreciates the art in them. Akara will contain beautiful blogs, poems, monologues and all the works and devotion of artists which will fascinate more an more audience and will explore your talent world wide. Let's have Akara in our life and bring the best of collection with us.

Download or read book Cereus Blooms at Night written by Shani Mootoo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a haunting multi-generational novel about the shifting faces of Mala - adventurer and protector, recluse and madwoman. The plot contains sexual violence and mature themes" -- Prové de l'editor.

Download or read book Small Towns Big Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is easier to know people in small places. Sometimes you can't help knowing them. Like the boy who walks four miles to school; or the elderly gentleman who is up every morning at five o'clock, taking his morning walk (tap-tap-tap, I hear his walking stick below my window); or that busy little woman gathering firewood for the winter; or the man from the nursery who sells me a potted geranium and ends up telling me the story of his life... So many stories waiting to be told! And, as I have discovered, small towns may be smaller than cities, and there may be fewer people living in them, but the stories they provide a writer with are big, they contain worlds upon worlds within them.'

Download or read book ENDURER A Rape Story written by Kapil Raj and published by Write India Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was a fun fed roller coaster: New found love, drugs, cat-fights, patch ups, crushes, night hangouts, and unplanned trips. Like any girl, not in the wildest dream, Palak could imagine that after attending a Rave Party, she will wake up to the horror of finding herself raped. In traumatic conditions and struggle between sanity and hallucinations, she is compelled by the circumstances to leave her world. Already fighting a war within, her stances take a toll witnessing horrifying tales of women and girls. Little did she know that this catastrophe was not enough for one lifetime, and a storm - was just cooling its heels. Will she be able to carve her path while facing the rapists, her tyrant father, appearances of her passed away mother? Should Palak let her life to be decided by people, society, and taboos? Would justice return her life or revenge lend her peace? A heart-rending story of a girl, whose beliefs and honor has been battered, stands up to make choices, rediscovering the meaning of life.

Download or read book Ahimsa written by Supriya Kelkar and published by Tu Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother is jailed for being one of Gandhi's freedom fighters, ten-year-old Anjali overcomes her own prejudices and continues her mother's social reform work, befriending Untouchable children and working to integrate her school.

Download or read book Bone Crossed written by Patricia Briggs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Patricia Briggs’s world, a place where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist). It takes a very unusual woman to call it home—and there’s no one quite like Mercy Thompson. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for. Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she’s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won’t be Mercy’s blood Marsilia is after. It’ll be her friends’.

Download or read book P O W written by Max Vos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being taken prisoner by a Taliban Warlord, can Sam Stone hold on long enough to get his best friend back to his family and find love in the arms of Abbas, the handsome, blue-eyed Arab? Sam Stone has been secretly in love with his best friend and fellow Marine, Benoit, for a long time. It's only after they were captured by a Taliban Warlord that he realizes that he would readily give his life to get Benoit back to his family. But it is Abbas, the Westernized Arab who steals his heart and helps Sam and Benoit regain their freedom. Now Sam has to learn to find true love and help heal not only himself, but the two men he loves deeply.

Download or read book The Fire of Theseus Survive written by Jerry Frissen and published by Humanoids, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Download or read book The Rape Trial written by Bidisha Ghosal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when the rapist is someone you know? What do you do when he has been found innocent in the eyes of the law? Rhea, Hitaishi and Amruta’s friendship has been cemented over a lifetime, but now they find themselves struggling to answer these questions together. Nearly a decade has passed since Rahul Satyabhagi, heir to the mega Satyabhagi business empire, had raped Avni Rambha, bested her in court, and gone on to become a men’s rights activist, and the who’s-who of Badrid Bay had breathed a sigh of relief that the sordid mess was over. But now a sting operation proves what many, the three friends included, had suspected all along – he’d been lying. Furious that he has been exposed, Rahul plans to sue the media as well as his long-suffering victim. Now, Rhea, Hitaishi and Amruta find themselves at a crossroad - can they carry on doing nothing? DC Virendra Dixit was among those who’d believed that the Rambha rape case had been a ‘false allegation’, but now the sting tape brings him to a case that promises to be a turning point in his career. Just as he thinks he is nearing a resolution, he finds himself at a crossroad of his own. Rhea, Hitaishi and Amruta have carved out a path that has already affected DC Dixit’s, but do their paths cross? Who is the hunter, and who is the hunted? Can a story of hard questions and difficult choices have an easy resolution?

Download or read book Real Rape written by Susan Estrich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many men believe that they can force women to have sex against their will and that it isn't rape--at least, not if the man knows the women and doesn't beat her up or wield a weapon. The law's casual treatment of such rape cases is the subject of this pioneering book, which is both a powerful exposé of the often shocking facts and a trenchantly written call for reform.

Download or read book Beyond a Heartbeat written by Ashna Kedia, and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Till death do us part…’ They never mentioned whose death She is Raina Kapoor – a confident and intelligent beauty forced to stay in a place where she doesn’t quite belong. He is Aryan Malik – a goofy and charming man, quick with his tongue, but even quicker with his smile. When put together, they are bound to collide. A love that should have conquered all may end before its time. Their journey entails sorrow, sacrifice and even death. After facing the toughest tests, can they possibly come out alive? Raina must make the most important decision of her life: to give up or to give in. Set in the small city of Indore, Beyond a Heartbeat is a story that will bring you joy, tears and a love that will linger until long after.

Download or read book 12 Rules for Life written by Jordan B. Peterson and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

Download or read book Reaching for Kloud9 written by Ruskin Bond, and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2019 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kloud9 is an exclusive magazine for youth, encapsulating within its pages interesting and motivational content for the readers, by the readers. The aim is to develop their creative talents and showcase them too. Kloud9 organises an All-India Short Story Contest in two categories every year – Junior (classes VII to IX); and Senior (classes X to XII, also referred to as first year graduation). Reaching for Kloud9 comprises award-winning stories from Junior and Senior categories, 2015-17. It opens up a fantasy world painted by these young, magical authors, with the stories spanning a wide gamut of themes – from young mystery solvers, to naughty escapades; from dreamy aspirations to paranormal encounters; from dreams to their fulfilment. Guided and mentored by Ruskin Bond – the internationally acclaimed writer for children – and a brainchild of Prof. Achyuta Samanta (Founder, KIIT and KISS), it has spread like wildfire among the student community.

Download or read book Ghost Brothers written by Rony Blum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rony Blum explores how "phantom-mediated" interpretations of the past and present were key to the uniquely successful relationship that developed between French settlers and Natives in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved