Download or read book Kalahandi The Untold Story written by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan and published by Kohinoor Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three delightful real life stories and fifteen heart touching poems describe in graphic details the economic and sexual exploitation of poor tribal people of Kalahandi by scheming moneylenders, businessmen, local contractors, politicians and indifferent bureaucrats. The stories have been originally written in English, while the poems have been translated from the original Odia. For his poem collection on Kalahandi the author had won Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee prize for poetry in 2007. Once known as the “rice bowl” of Odisha, Kalahandi became infamous for large scale starvation deaths in the 1980s. The agrarian economy of Kalahandi was devastated following a 20 year long famine starting in 1965. Poor people in interior pockets died in hordes although Kalahandi district as a whole remained rice surplus even during the famine decades. Therefore the author contends that, although the famine was a natural calamity, the starvation deaths were an avoidable man made disaster. The stories and poems included in this book are written in a very simple language, in the form of funny real life anecdotes. But underneath their humorous exterior, these highly symbolic stories offer in-depth diagnosis as well as practical solutions to various grassroots level socio-economic problems in a penetrating manner.
Download or read book I She and the Sea written by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan and published by Kohinoor Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three real life love stories and fifty nine delectable romantic poems centering around three lovely women whom the author met after a series of strange visions and mysterious phone calls at midnight.Was any of these women the author’s wife in his previous life? These fascinating stories of magic and coincidence give compelling reasons to make one believe in a definite past life connection. This volume includes engaging and compelling reads such as “A Woman’s Scent”, “Two Women”, "Twenty Years After", "Love Before First Sight", “Sex Museum”, “After the Act”, “Anklets of Fire”, “Samadhi”, “Butterflies and Bees”, “Radha’s Soliliquy” and “Rubber Love”.
Download or read book Oral Epics of Kalahandi written by Mahendra Kumar Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of the oral epics sung by the ethnic and folk singers of Kalahandi, south-western part of Orissa, India.
Download or read book Stasi written by John O. Koehler and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.
Download or read book Untold Stalking Story written by Mary Luster and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sentence description is the 12 font and Times Roman.
Download or read book Economic foreign affairs written by Chandra Shekhar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A 2 Volume Set. Volume I Brings Together The Editorials In Chandrashekhar`S Young Indian Weekly For A Period Of Nearly 30 Years From 1971-2001 Covers Topics Relating To Political Events In The Concerned Period. Volume Ii Is An Anthology Of His Editorial Views In The Same Journal And Covers Economic Issues And Foreign Affairs.
Download or read book Orissa Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I She and the Sea written by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan and published by Kohinoor Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three real life love stories and forty nine delectable romantic poems centering around three lovely women whom the poet met after a series of strange visions and mysterious phone calls at midnight. Was any of these women the poet’s wife in his previous life? These fascinating stories of magic and coincidence give compelling reasons to make one believe in a definite past life connection. This volume includes engaging and compelling reads such as “A Woman’s Scent”, “Kissing a Woman”, “Sex Museum”, “After the Act”, “Anklets of Fire”, “Samadhi”, “Butterflies and Bees”, “Radha’s Soliliquy” and “Rubber Love”.
Download or read book The Greater Common Good written by Arundhati Roy and published by India Book Distributors (Bombay). This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article on Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.
Download or read book Kandhamal Riots written by Tapan Kumar Pradhan and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kandhamal Riot is a unique example of two protected minority communities, viz Kandha (scheduled tribe) and Pana (scheduled caste) engaged in a brutal armed struggle for cultural identity and political power. This is not only a strange departure from the traditional notion of conflict between majority and minority communities in a locality, but also a unique example of caste conflict, tribal insurgence and religious communal conflict all rolled into one. This is also an example of two centuries old peacefully coexisting communities suddenly developing mutual antagonism due to external forces. There is no parallel instance in world literature akin to Kandhamal riots. In the author's view, an in-depth understanding of Kandhamal riots is the key to the understanding of the possibility of harmony among coexisting communities in the societies of the future.
Download or read book State of Orissa s Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers.
Download or read book Trade and Urban Centres in Ancient and Early Medieval Orissa written by Chandramani Nayak and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BookUrbanisation Forms An Important Branch Of Historical Studies In Recent Times. UrbanCnetres Have Always Been Considered The Nucleus Of Human Civilization And CultureHistory Is No Longer A Mere Study Of The Events Of The Past But Its Scope Has Widened Along With Discoveries Of New Inscriptions And Excavations Of New Sites In DifferentParts Of Orissa, The Hitherto Neglected Areas Like Socio-Economic, Trade, Trade-RoutesAnd Urban Centres Have Slowly Come Into Focus In Recent Writings. This Book Serve AsA Unique Guide To Early Trade And Urban Centres Of Orissa.
Download or read book Resisting Dispossession written by Ranjana Padhi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people’s resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India. This saga of dispossession abounds with stories and narratives of ordinary peasants, forest dwellers, fisher folk and landless wage laborers, which make the canvas of resistance history more complete. The book foregrounds these protagonists and the events that marked their lives; they live in the coastal plains as well as the hilly and forested areas of south and south-west Odisha. The authors have chronicled the development trajectory from the construction of the Hirakud Dam in the 1950s to the entry of corporations like POSCO and Vedanta in contemporary times. It thus covers extensive ground in interrogating the nature of industrialization being ushered into the state from post-independent India till today. The book depicts how and why people resist the development juggernaut in a state marked with endemic poverty. In unraveling this complex reality, the book conveys the world view of a vast section of people whose lives and livelihoods are tied up to land, forests, mountains, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, trees, vines and bushes. These narratives fill a yawning gap in resistance literature in the context of Odisha. In doing so, they resonate with the current predicament of people in other mineral-rich states in Eastern India. The book is an endeavour to bring Odisha on the map of resistance politics and social movements in India and across the world.
Download or read book The J taka written by Edward Byles Cowell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staying Alive written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.
