Download or read book Making the Impossible Possible written by Yohei Sasakawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent disability. But a diagnosis of leprosy can have consequences that go far beyond the disease's physical manifestations. The age-old stigma associated with leprosy can result in severe social discrimination that robs people of opportunities in life and condemns them to society's margins. This book is the most detailed account yet of Yohei Sasakawa's quest, over two decades as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, to work for a world without leprosy and the discrimination it causes. It chronicles his travels to remote communities around the world to hear directly from those affected by the disease, as well as his meetings with policy-makers, government leaders and heads of state to advocate for renewed commitment to the fight against leprosy, including measures to protect the human rights of those it affects. While much progress has been made, completing 'the last mile' in leprosy eradication is the hardest part of the journey. Making the Impossible Possible highlights the author's unflagging resolve to ensure that all involved stay the course.

Download or read book Let s Visit Mumbai Maya Neel s India Adventure Series Book 2 written by Vivek Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multicultural and educational series from Bollywood Groove, join Maya, Neel and their pet squirrel, Chintu, as they visit their cousin Arnav to explore Mumbai, one of India's most fun cities! Kids will learn about history, famous places, food, language and cultural elements of Mumbai... all while making two new best friends!

Download or read book First Days in India written by Arthur Clinton Boggess and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Nights in Mumbai written by Ernest Dempsey and published by Relic Runner. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dak Harper, tracking down lost relics for an eccentric young millionaire sounded like an easy gig, especially after years dodging bullets for the Delta Force. A way to bank some cash, travel to exciting destinations on his boss? dime, and keep under the radar of some very bad men trying to kill him.But Dak has traded one deadly set of problems for another. Dak might have traded his combat fatigues for jeans and trainers, but he?s still getting shot at for money. Now in India to save a stolen idol and rescue the Mumbai museum curator protecting it, he?s got to duck Russian mobsters, sidestep an Indian casino boss who wants more than just his time, and distract a local police force who seems to be as incompetent as they are clueless. If Dak has to keep this up, there?s a good chance this new job is gonna get him killed faster than his old one.--

Download or read book ZARA written by Khushboo Kar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I thought he had spared me and let me go. I assumed he had left. I shut my eyes as I let myself sink into my chair. But then, I felt a gush of chilled shock on me. He splashed a glass of icy chilled water on my face and slapped me until I opened my eyes. Giving me a minute of rest, he then tore open a packet of my drug, powdered sugar, on my face. “This is what you need to stay awake, huh?” he said as he forcefully opened my mouth and sprinkled it in. I didn’t want to consume it. Passing out craving for it was better than giving in for it and staying up to bear torture. The powder went into my nose and entered my mouth. I choked. The sugar gave a kick to my body, but made me feel even dizzier. My body didn’t understand what was happening with it. My brain froze, and I was lost. He stepped back and pulled out another small cylindrical container. It looked like my sugar. He put his fingers inside and pulled out a pinch of that powder. I wondered what he was up to next. He started sprinkling it on the slits on my arm, on my wounds. It burnt like I was on fire. It was salt. I cried out for help, but there was no one who could help me. I moved vigorously but it was all in vain. The more I moved, the more he seasoned my scars with salt.

Download or read book The Mumbai Blues written by Adithya Bhardwaj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 20-year old idealist Karthik, control over his life is everything. His friends admire him, girlfriend adores him, and his mother is proud of him. How will he react when this perfect, illusory bubble around his world suddenly bursts? For the 18-year old orphan Chandu, standing on his own feet is primary. Moving to mysterious Mumbai was only the beginning of his journey. How will he handle the responsibilities and relationships in this new world? ‘The Mumbai Blues’ is a parallel narrative of two worlds connected by chaos, courage and companionship. What is this connection? How are Karthik and Chandu related? You are holding in your hands a tale of two boys who are, like you, me and everyone else.

Download or read book The Heart Is a Shifting Sea written by Elizabeth Flock and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting "A book that truly is impossible to put down.”—Washington Post "This remarkable debut is so deeply reported, elegantly written, and profoundly transporting that it reads like a novel you can’t put down. It’s both a nuanced and intimate evocation of Indian culture, and a provocative and exciting meditation on marriage itself."—Katie Roiphe, author of The Violet Hour In the vein of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an intimate, deeply reported and revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern India—as witnessed through the lives of three very different couples in today’s Mumbai. In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the nation’s development, so too are pop culture and technology—an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea introduces three couples whose relationships illuminate these sweeping cultural shifts in dramatic ways: Veer and Maya, a forward-thinking professional couple whose union is tested by Maya’s desire for independence; Shahzad and Sabeena, whose desperation for a child becomes entwined with the changing face of Islam; and Ashok and Parvati, whose arranged marriage, made possible by an online matchmaker, blossoms into true love. Though these three middle-class couples are at different stages in their lives and come from diverse religious backgrounds, their stories build on one another to present a layered, nuanced, and fascinating mosaic of the universal challenges, possibilities, and promise of matrimony in its present state. Elizabeth Flock has observed the evolving state of India from inside Mumbai, its largest metropolis. She spent close to a decade getting to know these couples—listening to their stories and living in their homes, where she was privy to countless moments of marital joy, inevitable frustration, dramatic upheaval, and whispered confessions and secrets. The result is a phenomenal feat of reportage that is both an enthralling portrait of a nation in the midst of transition and an unforgettable look at the universal mysteries of love and marriage that connect us all.

Download or read book The Shooting Star written by Shivya Nath and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

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Download or read book Forever written by Rajiv Shah and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not every relationship in life is perfect, but every relationship can be made perfect.” Forever – A Love Saga is a tale of soul-searing love that captures moments of love, romance, humor and suspense. Arjun and Karishma, college students, meet each other by chance and find themselves falling for each other. Everything is perfect until…Karishma is found dead. Enter Rahul and Susan, who take on their role as detectives to investigate Karishma’s death. Between investigating the possible causes for her death and grappling with their own feelings for each other, Rahul and Susan stumble upon discoveries that leave them breathless. Does Rahul find out the truth behind Karishma’s death? Or does it remain a mystery Forever?

Download or read book We Also Own the Night written by K HariVansh and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 40 years of experience in a laboratory he knew its ins and outs, aspirations of the people who worked there, their fights, love and malice. But he writes without his involvement in the affairs of the people, though he has observed them from very close quarters. "We Also Own The Night" is the first novel of a new author from India but already a best seller, appreciated by main publishers in the UK. It is wonderful to go through and you will love it.

Download or read book India written by Aline Dobbie and published by Melrose Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her infancy the author has been fascinated by that most magnificent and elusive of beasts, the tiger. Her second book on India, [this] is a personal account of her pilgramage to India's great wildlife parks and tiger sanctuaries ... and provides a comprehensive study of Ranthambhore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett Tiger Reserves as well as detailed backgrounds to Nagarahole, Kaziranga, Pench, Bharatpur and Gir National Park, home of the rare Asiatic Lion ... In addition, the author highlights the continuing threat to India's tigers and the on-going efforts to protect them ... Dobbie is a Hindi speaker and uses her many contacts and childhood reminiscences to great effect throughout this book. The reader will also find valuable information on some of India's historical gems such as Gwalior, Orchha, Sonagiri, Mandu, Sanchi and Bhimbetka as well as the hill station of Nainital. India: The Tiger's Roar is certainly not a travel guide, nor a guide to the wildlife of India, although it is an excellent source of information on both subjects. Instead it is a heady blend of travelogue and personal insight, cultural and political philosophy, anecdotes, cautionary tales, historical and religious references and a thesis on the state of Indian wildlife conservation.

Download or read book Airborne to Chairborne written by A.S. Ahluwalia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "AIRBORNE TO CHAIRBORNE" ´Chairborne´ is not commonly used as one word but as separated ´chair borne´, but Encarta Dictionary gives the meaning of this used as one word as: "holding sedentary military job" Work at a desk in an office job in the armed forces rather than having combat or field duties. Since, I started my lawyer´s career within the air force going into the Department of the Judge Advocate, I think it is appropriately used.

Download or read book Words Of Passage written by Bala Thomson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bala’s Story is third volume in a set published by Xlibris under the generic title of Words of Passage. The period covered starts with her father-in-law’s story, Words of Passage: The Original, and then there is her husband’s memoir, Words of Passage: A Journalist Looks Back. Bala’s Story touches on her Hindu values, and then features the struggles she had in a Western country with a small Indian population, and how she transformed life there with the talent of her cooking, the charm of her language and the determination that gave her a place in broadcasting history.

Download or read book The Hills Around Me written by Imtiaz Fiona Griffiths and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great romance and a life with horses form the lynchpins around which Imtiaz Fiona Griffiths’ nostalgic memoir revolves. Coming along for the ride, we have guest appearances by dodgy bookmakers, fast racehorses, slow tortoises, gregarious Jesuits, and a host of other fascinating characters. Griffiths’ story takes us on a journey through pre and post-independence India: from her childhood spent in railway “hill stations”; to adventures in the horse-racing world of Calcutta in the 1950’s and 1960’s; to building her dream racehorse stud farm with her husband Mike in the hills of rural Bihar. A final transition to life in Canada forms the bookend to a joyous and poignant read.

Download or read book Special Operations Case Studies written by Lt Gen Prakash Katoch and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in four sections covers the ‘Operational Milieu and Special Operations’, ‘Successful Special Operations’, ‘Failed Special Operations’, and ‘Implications for India’. It covers regular, irregular and mixed operations under the rubric of hybrid warfare of select foreign militaries, and Indian experience in sub-conventional operations. A myriad of successful and failed special operations covering a span of over seven decades from 1943 onwards have been analyzed in detail, drawing lessons from each. The last Section, ‘Implications for India’, covers lessons, challenges and recommendations in three chapters. These highlight India’s adverse strategic asymmetry vis-a-vis China-Pakistan, inability of India to put in place SOF structures to optimize the considerable SF potential for employment at the strategic, operational and tactical levels, and ending up with policy recommendations.

Download or read book Life is Like This written by Shiny Thomas and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen George is the Marketing Head of a business newspaper. He went to Dubai to bring out a special supplement on the occasion of Indian Republic Day. During his visit, he meets two Indians who had come to Dubai with millions of dreams and hopes like any other migrant Indian labourer in the Middle East. But unfortunately, their dreams were shattered. They returned to their motherland with wounded hearts and empty pockets. Stephen George went through very unfortunate incidents in his personal life. He lost his son; his wife was admitted to a mental hospital. He suffered a lot and contemplates ending his life. Life Is Like This is not just a story about the business head in a media house; it is the story of various people struggling for their livelihood. It talks about sentiments, sensitivities, selfishness, and corporate culture. This book also tells the internal story of a media house along with the daily life of their employees. Read Life Is Like This and find out how people cope with corporate lifestyles and personal tragedies.