Download or read book A Boy From Serendib written by Jacob Deme and published by Jacob Deme. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When religious organizations are given the power to discriminate, they will destroy your life forever. That is what they did to Kano. A Boy From Serendib, Part 2: Dashed Dreams is the story of Kano as a religious adult who persistently wrestled impasses until he abandoned his dream forcibly. A minority in more than one way he was stateless, homeless, dismissed, and forsaken. He still found other dreams to pursue.Human angels attended every single crisis. They appeared unexpectedly and provided him what he needed, be it affection, love, sex, money, or comfort.His story spans across countries and continents and weaves a colorful account of his predicament with religion, sexuality, family, identity, education, discrimination, and linguicism.Every time he listened to his heart and followed his conscience it misled him. Instead he learned to reason with his mind—based on reality. His views on religion began to evolve.Was he really who he thought he was? To be continued in the next book.
Download or read book Trains of Serendib 2 written by Aaron Dactyl and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron's train journey across all of Sri Lanka's rail lines continues.
Download or read book A Boy From Serendib A Novelized Memoir written by Jacob Deme and published by Jacob Deme. This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful and enchanting novelized memoir tells the true story of a boy from Sri Lanka, set in the seventies against the backdrop of prevailing Cold War politics, Islamic uprisings and Communistic revolutions. The coming of age stories transpire across Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan. His story is elevating, fascinating, traumatic, thrilling and inspiring. His misadventure began when he was just an infant and throughout his life it took treacherous turns. Every turn was an attack on his masculinity. He was taught to be submissive and compassionate like Jesus, so he never fought back. His coming of age in the midst of the prevailing culture, racism, politics and religions in the world set loftier challenges. The painful incidents that nearly took his existence changed him into an empathetic, caring, and a powerful boy. Forced to face life alone he conquered fears, battled violence, endured sexual abuse, and unwarranted guilt with his beautiful smile. In every moment of hopelessness, he serendipitously saw the spark of hope. Sometimes a win, sometimes a draw, sometimes a loss. Either he would heal or crumble. Now he would have to claw his way out of the darkness inch-by-inch into the light.
Download or read book Railroad Semantics written by Aaron Dactyl and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to train-hopping, graffiti, and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's Railroad Semantics series describes the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of exploring the western U.S. by freight train. The first four Railroad Semantics books are collected here for the first time. In their pages, you'll see epic, hidden works of art, read up on rail lore and riding tips, meet rail workers and fellow adventurers, and experience the perils and glories of life in rail yards, train cars, small towns, and encampments. The adventures in these books take you through California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oregon. Cities visited: Sacramento, California Arcata, California Redding, California Ukiah, California Willits, California Dunsmuir, California Roseville, California Fort Bragg, California Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Bend, Oregon La Grande, Oregon Missoula, Montana Laurel, Montana Cheyenne, Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming Pocatello, Idaho Nampa, Idaho Salt Lake City, Utah Elko, Nevada Denver, Colorado
Download or read book Juki Girls Good Girls written by Caitrin Lynch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"—female garment workers already established in the urban sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity. Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research conducted inside export-oriented garment factories and a close examination of national policies intended to ease the way for globalization, Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka. This book includes autobiographical essays by garment workers about their efforts to attain the benefits of being seen as "good" while simultaneously expanding the definition of what sort of behavior constitutes appropriate conduct. These village garment workers struggled to reconcile the role thrust upon them as symbols of national progress with the negative public perception of factory workers. Lynch provides the context needed to appreciate the paradoxes that globalization creates while painting a sympathetic portrait of the individuals whose life stories appear in this book.
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Download or read book A Feast of Serendib written by Mary Anne Mohanraj and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We come together with other Sri Lankans-homelander and diaspora, Sinhalese and Tamil, Buddhist and Hindu and Christian and Muslim-over delicious shared meals. Sri Lanka has been a multi-ethnic society for over two thousand years, with neighbors of different ethnicities, languages, religions, living side by side. We try to teach our children to be welcoming to all, to share our unique cultural traditions. That is part of what it means to be Sri Lankan, what it has always meant. Dark roasted curry powder, a fine attention to the balance of salty-sour-sweet, wholesome red rice and toasted curry leaves, plenty of coconut milk and chili heat. These are the flavors of Sri Lanka, a South Asian island at the crossroads of centuries of migration and trade. Can we choose the good parts of our culture to cherish, and leave the darker aspects behind? I hope so. I hope food can help provide a pathway there. Come together at our table, sharing milk rice and pol sambol, paruppu and crab curry. Linger over the chai-just one more cup. Eat, drink, and share joy. In A Feast of Serendib, novelist and post-colonial academic Mary Anne Mohanraj introduces her mother's cooking and her own American adaptations, providing an introduction to Sri Lankan American cooking that is straightforward enough for a beginner, yet nuanced enough to capture the unique flavors of Sri Lankan cooking.
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Elke Frey and published by Nelles Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter is proud to announce its new alliance with the producers of the Nelles Guides, a formidable series of great value guides covering destinations around the globe. Established in 1990, Nelles Guides sought to provide travelers with comprehensive destination coverage in a handy, take-along format. Today, the tradition continues.
Download or read book Railroad Semantics written by Aaron Dactyl and published by Microcosm Pub. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to train hopping and train culture, this firsthand account of a risk-taking traveler describes with stunning detail the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of riding United States railroads without a ticket. From exhausting waits in sparse canyons to breezy sunny rides through the Pacific Northwest, the author glorifies train hopping and expounds his grand adventures. Full of unique photographs documenting the author's railroad journeys, this real-life narrative of a self-styled hobo exudes the feel of adventure and allows readers to explore the world of freight train travel vicariously though him.
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Philip Briggs and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new seventh edition of Bradt's Sri Lanka remains the most detailed and comprehensive guidebook to this alluring island nation. Written by Philip Briggs, one of the world's most experienced and highly regarded guidebook writers, this thoroughly updated guide provides detailed coverage of every aspect of this diverse and compact country, from idyllic tropical coastlines to mist-shrouded tea plantations and time-warped colonial homesteads. Alongside in-depth sections on all major beach resorts, archaeological sites, historic towns and national parks, it introduces adventurous travellers to intriguing lesser-known sites and emergent destinations inaccessible for decades prior to 2009, when the civil war ended. Beach holidays are a year-round attraction, while fantastic Buddhist-affiliated UNESCO World Heritage Sites range from the massive dagobas of Anuradhapura, built in pre-Christian times on a scale rivalling Egyptian pyramids, to Dambulla’s exquisitely painted cave temples. Wildlife-viewing opportunities abound, and this guide provides unparalleled, illustrated advice on making the most of these. Asia's densest elephant and leopard populations thrive in an extensive network of national parks, complemented by fine whale and dolphin-watching, and 450 bird species including 30 occurring in no other country. Extensive hotel and restaurant listings, covering everything from exclusive boutique hotels to shoestring homestays, have been cherry-picked based on the author’s personal inspection of hundreds of properties countrywide. Sri Lanka’s increasingly renowned cuisine features strongly, as does its growing focus on wellness tourism including Ayurveda therapies. This guidebook differs further from competitors by catering for truly independent travellers, providing 70-plus visitor-focused maps covering all major towns and resorts, clear directions for public transport, and off-the-beaten-track information. Following a tourist boom in the south, and the gradual opening of the north and east to independent travel, tourism jumped 15% in the two years to 2018. Following COVID-19 and a 2019 terrorism incident, Sri Lankan tourism is again welcoming visitors, with infrastructure benefitting from recent investment in trains, which provide comfortable, efficient and inexpensive public transport. Whether you’re into wildlife, culture, beaches or cuisine – and whether you seek luxury or budget travel – Bradt’s Sri Lanka will address your every need for an enjoyable visit to this bewitching and varied country.
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