Download or read book Bhojpuri Traditions in Mauritius written by Sarita Boodhoo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shape of the Beast written by Arundhati Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape Of The Beast Is Our World Laid Bare, With Great Courage, Passion And Eloquence, By A Mind That Has Engaged Unhesitatingly With Its Changing Realities, Often Anticipating The Way Things Have Moved In The Last Decade. In The Fourteen Interviews Collected Here, Conducted Between January 2001 And March 2008, Arundhati Roy Examines The Nature Of State And Corporate Power As It Has Emerged During This Period, And The Shape That Resistance Movements Are Taking. As She Speaks, Among Other Things, About People Displaced By Dams And Industry, The Genocide In Gujarat, Maoist Rebels, The War In Kashmir And The Global War On Terror, She Raises Fundamental Questions About Democracy, Justice And Non-Violent Protest. Unabashedly Political, This Is Also A Deeply Personal Collection. Through The Conversations, Arundhati Talks About The Necessity Of Taking A Stand, As Also The Dilemma Of Guarding The Private Space Necessary For Writing In A World That Demands Urgent, Unequivocal Intervention. And In The Final Interview, She Discusses With Uncommon Candour Her Ambiguous Feelings About Success And Both The Pressures And The Freedom That Come With It.
Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.
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Download or read book Kumba Africa written by Sampson Ejike Odum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘KUMBA AFRICA’, is a compilation of African Short Stories written as fiction by Sampson Ejike Odum, nostalgically taking our memory back several thousands of years ago in Africa, reminding us about our past heritage. It digs deep into the traditional life style of the Africans of old, their beliefs, their leadership, their courage, their culture, their wars, their defeat and their victories long before the emergence of the white man on the soil of Africa. As a talented writer of rich resource and superior creativity, armed with in-depth knowledge of different cultures and traditions in Africa, the Author throws light on the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa when civilization was yet unknown to the people. The book reminds the readers that the Africans of old kept their pride and still enjoyed their own lives. They celebrated victories when wars were won, enjoyed their New yam festivals and villages engaged themselves in seasonal wrestling contest etc; Early morning during harmattan season, they gathered firewood and made fire inside their small huts to hit up their bodies from the chilling cold of the harmattan. That was the Africa of old we will always remember. In Africa today, the story have changed. The people now enjoy civilized cultures made possible by the influence of the white man through his scientific and technological process. Yet there are some uncivilized places in Africa whose people haven’t tested or felt the impact of civilization. These people still maintain their ancient traditions and culture. In everything, we believe that days when people paraded barefooted in Africa to the swarmp to tap palm wine and fetch firewood from there farms are almost fading away. The huts are now gradually been replaced with houses built of blocks and beautiful roofs. Thanks to modern civilization. Donkeys and camels are no longer used for carrying heavy loads for merchants. They are now been replaced by heavy trucks and lorries. African traditional methods of healing are now been substituted by hospitals. In all these, I will always love and remember Africa, the home of my birth and must respect her cultures and traditions as an AFRICAN AUTHOR.
Download or read book Gandhi and Philosophy written by Shaj Mohan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought, animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship, removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence, law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to imagine Gandhi's thought anew.
Download or read book Bamboopreneur written by Selim Reza and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting the use of bamboo for livelihoods, enterprises, and land management is a recent trend in bamboo growing countries. The book ‘Bamboopreneur’ is a ready reckoner for the bamboo fraternity. It will create interest and will motivate everyone to participate in a bamboo development journey in various capacities. The book covers the sociology of bamboos and the unknown or un-captured stories in Southeast Asia and Africa. Some of the topics included are: • Understanding the bamboo myths and culture • Growing and managing bamboo • Bamboo bioengineering • Scanning the business for enterprise development • Process costing, pricing, value chain, and cluster development • Bamboo enterprise models
Download or read book Virgin Patiala Peg written by Gaganjeet Singh Gujral and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgin Patiala Peg After years of being bullied and ignored, Karamjit disconnected completely from the world. Growing up with an uncle who was a disciplinarian made his life even harder. He would shy off from speaking his mind and his fear of social association blurred his dreams of traveling the world. Anyway, how could an introverted and secure boy like him with no friends fulfill anything? But things took a turn and Karamjit not only built friendship with one of the boys but also won the affection of a girl. Things were looking out for Karamjit until he received the news of the death of his father who was a Captain in the Indian Army. He also learns about his mother's dying wish for him to visit the Bahama and meet Professor Emmanuel Joshua. Karamjit goes through a new journey, in a different city, all by himself. With so much struggle, he learns to survive harsh conditions and gets the chance to meet Professor Joshua after 2 years of studying at the Bahamas University. With a powerful mentor by his side, Karamjit is set for greatness as he works on his dream of being a professional speaker. Get a copy and enjoy this story of change, victory, and passion as Karamjit gets to fulfill his dreams and build his confidence.
Download or read book Swirling Breeze written by Salabha Krishnan H and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swirling Breeze is a collection of poems which includes various themes from nature, humanism to feelings of a mankind. But it mainly consist of a man’s untold desires and feelings to show how a pen can pour your emotions, how fanatic we are in this small World with mysteries ignored by lack lusters but also shows that there is always someone from a pen to natures support to some esoteric, maybe you yourself.
Download or read book Diary of Earth written by Siddharth Srivatsa and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had no water and was still burning hot. This phase of my life was also called the Archeozoic. Even in those conditions, the first life evolved. I will unravel the magic here... Diary of Earth answers all the main questions about Earth and its life’s history. • How was the Earth formed? • Which was the first dinosaur? • How did humans evolve? Also, meet insects the size of buses, mushrooms the size of buildings, plants the size of your thumb and much more in this book.
Download or read book The Mind Puzzle written by Rajesh Subramanian and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we do if we forget our identity or sitting on a beach? How to handle a situation if we end up in a spooky place without the idea of how we entered and how we came out of the place to the beach but our head pains for answers? This is my situation in this book. I was sitting on a beach with my girl and we were witnessing a death along with other people. I forgot my identity and I forgot how I came to the beach. When I closed my eyes to understand the past incidents, different scenes came in different chronological orders, which created my headache. I met different people and experienced more horrors in the past three days. I need to withstand the pain and join the different pieces of events in a timely manner to solve my life puzzle.
Download or read book Conquest and Community written by Shahid Amin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest and Community, by prize-winning historian Shahid Amin, is a kaleidoscopic look into one of the most divisive issues in South Asian history: the Turkic conquest of the subcontinent and the subsequent spread of Muslim rule. Covering more than eight hundred years of history, the book centers around the enduringly popular saint Ghazi Miyan, the youthful and lovable soldier of Islam to whom shrines have been erected all over the country. After detailing the warrior saint s supposed exploits, Amin charts the various ways he has been remembered throughout the last millennium. As he shows, the charming stories, ballads, and proverbs that grew up around him domesticated the bloody conquest and made it appear both virtuous and familial. Amin brings the story of Ghazi Miyan s long afterlife into the contemporary period through his ethnographic analysis of the still-active shrines as sites of interreligious public piety. What is at first glance a story of just one mythical figure becomes through Amin s thoughtful treatment an allegory for the history of Hindu-Muslim relations over an astonishingly long period of time. As the Muslim conquest of India is being mobilized for dangerously polarizing political ends in India today, this nonsectarian account of religious strife will be a timely and sane contribution to the vexed historical debate."
Download or read book The Future Samaritan written by Dr. Inderpal Singh Kohli and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the existence and importance of various societal structures like family, society, and the federal system. It also discusses the introduction of a new hypothetical democratic system that might bring more effective benefits to society. The work also enlists some observations from the point of view of a common man (author's perspective) in today's socio-economic and cultural observations and further discusses what's next for the citizen to develop into The Future Samaritan. This work focusses and encourages individuals to make our society and system more egalitarian and socially secure. The Future Samaritan is the one who is literate and socially secure!
Download or read book Science in Saffron written by Meera Nanda and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much talk of the glories of ancient Hindu sciences in India today. Landmark discoveries in every field of science, from mathematics to medicine, are being credited to ancient scientists-sages of India. This book places such priority claims in a comparative global history of science. While fully acknowledging the substantial contributions of Indian geometers, mathematicians, physicians, artisans and craftsmen, it challenges their glorification for nationalistic purposes. It also questions the neo-Hindu scientization of yoga and Vedanta pioneered by Swami Vivekananda. Backed by the best available scholarship on history of science, this book offers a reading of history of Indian science without the hype that has come to surround it.
Download or read book The Inevitable Past written by Anirudh Mallavajhala and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book The Inevitable Past is a perplexing plot. The book carries around a world of Out of Blue circumstances and characters. It drags you to a fantasy of mysteries and unanticipated scenes. The lives of Steve Albright and Sophia Adams change after a vicious tragedy that led to the death of their best friend Jessie Danielson. They go on a hunt for the curse of the Danielson's. The book sheds light on supernatural elements and nightmare experiences. The deliciously thrilling stages unnerve and squeeze the mind to get goosebumps. About the author Anirudh Mallavajhala Anirudh Mallavajhala was born in 1998. Growing up he was enchanted with thriller, suspense, and mystery movies. Anirudh, who is an engineer as well as an MBA graduate, developed a desire for writing thriller stories using suspense story ideas. In The Inevitable Past, he traverses how the present events are influenced by the bitter past events. The Inevitable Past is Anirudh's first book.
