Download or read book Kite in An Evening Sky written by Shaik Kadir and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kite in the Evening Sky is Shaik Kadir’s firsthand account of growing up in a Geylang Serai kampung in the late 1950s and 1960s. It was a time when children spent the hours after school playing capteh and marbles, eating fresh jambu, hauling pails of water home from the public standpipe, attending prayers at the surau, learning to fast, reading the Quran, as well as enjoying evenings in the open-air cinema. Despite the poverty, he thrived in the twilight years of the kampung and managed to make his dreams soar like a kite, fulfilling the aspirations of his single mother for a better life in a modernising city. Thoughtful, amusing and heartwarming, these stories hark back to simpler days and humbler ways, offering us a vivid glimpse of the kampung that raised the child.
Download or read book A Kite in the Evening Sky written by Shaik Kadir and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Kite in the Evening Sky written by Shaik Kadir and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Tales of childhood and kampung life in Geylang Serai 1960s and 1970s* Publication of book timed for the opening of Wisma Geylang Serai in early 2018* Shaik Kadir has written several books and has a recent reissue of Islam Explained
Download or read book Flying Kites at Night with Lights written by Glenn Davison and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kites can be flown at night with powerful LED lights that use tiny batteries to create amazing effects. This guide gives you all the details about the lights, kites, and connections so you can put on a show in the night sky."Fabulous and well written. This book is fun and informative and a great guide to everything about kites with lights."
Download or read book Kites in the Sky written by Atem and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kites in the Sky distills the wisdom of one lifetime, asking questions, pondering possibilities and embracing simplicity. These humble thought-children, born from love and based on haiku, will give rest to your heart.
Download or read book The Little Blue Kite written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have fears, but if we can’t face the small ones how will we face the big ones? Kai is afraid to fly a little blue kite. But Kai is also very, very brave, and overcoming this small fear will lead him on a great adventure. Remember: all great adventures start with one little moment. You know the one. It’s like a gentle breeze whispering in your ear what you already know by heart: not even the sky is the limit . . . The only other thing you might want to know about this book is that there are at least three ways to read it. The first way takes only a few minutes. Just follow the rainbow-colored words. The second takes only a little bit longer. Just follow the words haloed with blue and red and the rainbow words too. For the third way, just start at the beginning.
Download or read book Kites over the Mango Tree written by Janet M. Powers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu nationalists in the west Indian state of Gujarat repudiate the pluralist vision of Gandhi and Nehru and foment state-sponsored violence and ethnic cleansing against Muslims and Christians. In 2002, the burning to death of 59 rightwing Hindu militants in a train in Gujarat set off waves of state-condoned communal riots in which as many as 2,000 predominantly Muslim Gujaratis were murdered and 200,000 made homeless. In the wake of these atrocities, secular peace-building organizations have redoubled their efforts to heal the rift between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat. A certified mediator, Janet Powers bases her book on interviews with workers in twenty of these peace-building NGOs and grassroots peace organizations, which are locked in struggle with politicized Hindu religious organizations largely funded by money raised in the United States. This is the first book to examine Hindu-Muslim relations in Gujarat in the frame of ongoing peace and conflict resolution efforts. Gujarat is the state of origin of most of the entrepreneurial Indians who own motels, convenience stores, and gas stations in the United States and United Kingdom. Much of the funding for the rightwing Hindu parties that foment extremist violence, ethnic cleansing, and re-conversion campaigns against the Muslim and Christian minorities in Gujarat comes from Gujarati expatriates in the U.S. and UK. Gujarat is the home of Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1948 by an agent of the RSS, a violently anti-Muslim Hindu nationalist organization that flourishes today in Gujarat in virulent association with the ruling BJP and VHP parties. Equally dangerous to the peace of Gujarat are violent Wahhabist organizations based in Pakistan but operating in India. Powers assesses the prospects for long-term healing in Gujarat based on historical precedents, and she applies the lessons of Gujarati grassroots peace-building organizations in Gujarat to zones of state-sponsored religious conflict in other parts of the world.
Download or read book Red Kite Blue Kite written by Ji-li Jiang and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, fly kites from their roof and look down at the crowded city streets below, they feel free, like the kites. Baba loves telling Tai Shan stories while the kites--one red, and one blue--rise, dip, and soar together. Then, a bad time comes. People wearing red armbands shut down the schools, smash store signs, and search houses. Baba is sent away, and Tai Shan goes to live with Granny Wang. Though father and son are far apart, they have a secret way of staying close. Every day they greet each other by flying their kites???one red, and one blue???until Baba can be free again, like the kites. Inspired by the dark time of the Cultural Revolution in China, this is a soaring tale of hope that will resonate with anyone who has ever had to love from a distance.
Download or read book A Different Freedom written by Nikita Desai and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kite flying is a sport native to South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Symbolic of both freedom and control, the kite has been used as a metaphor in classical Indian literature, poetry, language and folklore. Uttarayan, a kite festival celebrated in the state of Gujarat, is not merely a religious observance, but also a time when young and old come together in celebration; a time when differences hold little meaning… The culture of flying and fighting kites, its history, politics, language, and the commerce that lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life provide an interesting backdrop to the celebration of Uttarayan. The buying of kites, preparations in the kitchen and the rooftop wars all form a part of this colourful festival. A Different Freedom explorers the world of the kite, as it travels and changes through the centuries, to its current form and the festivities associated with it in modern day Gujarat.
Download or read book Realization Makes Improvement written by Tamanna Khan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This motivational book talks about the uneven lifestyle that we all people go through on a daily basis and how should we overcome it by realizing and improving as when there is realization, there is improvement and how to be guided whenever we get muddle-headed. In this book, there are many poetic devices which have been used for comparing human life with nature's life as it depicts that we get mature just like nature. It also talks about how we can get guidance of our goal if there is no person to guide us and by realizing and improving we can make our dream come true. We feel worthless and upset because we get so confused and by this, we stuck in seeing others doing better than us that we lost our own concept of achieving a goal as we get immersed in this worldly life and want to get everything even though we are not conducive of that things in many ways, we focus more on things that everybody wants but not which has already been made for us but the only thing that we can do is to discover our talent but discovering talent won't be easy because it's hard as finding the pearl in a shell and then have to engrave it on a marble which is our soul .failure is not a person who fails but a person who makes decisions and never finishes it. Being thankful to God whenever there is endowment and not to be avaricious as there is difference between being greedy and being passionate because to be greedy does not mean to be passionate and to be passionate does not mean to be greedy. Sometimes there would be weal and woes but to be satisfied, we have to realize and get absorbed to improve in order to discover our own selves in decent yet different ways by being real, hard worker and loyal in accomplishing our dream.
Download or read book Annals written by Harvard College Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of quarto publications, exclusive of the Annals , made by the officers of the observatory from 1877 to 1896, with references to the work of the Blue Hill observatory from 1885 to 1895: v. 30, p. 3-8.
Download or read book Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College written by Harvard College Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All We Shall Know written by Donal Ryan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he’s gone, and Pat leaves too, full of rage. She’s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming, while the past won’t let her go. It’s a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a bold young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody’s life. Following the nine months of her pregnancy, All We Shall Know unfolds with emotional immediacy in Melody’s fierce, funny, and unforgettable voice, as she contends with her choices, past and present.
Download or read book A Kite Journey Through India written by and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India, kite-flying is pursued with a passionate intensity and dedication. This text follows the track of kites across the Indian sky as a pathway into the heart of the subcontinent. Kites become the vehicle for profound contact with the minds of their makers and flyers.
Download or read book Light Kite written by Kizzymarlene Petersen and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl in Hong Kong and her loved ones celebrate the magic of the fall. While some people marvel at the autumn leaves tumbling to the ground, KT and her friends have their eyes on the night sky. The kite she flies at sunset is a typical pastime, but today is a Chinese lantern festival. After enjoying amazing foods like dragon fruit, everyone releases their lanterns to create a beautiful show that reminds them all of the light they shine in each other's lives every day. Read Light Kite today-let one girl looking up help you to look up, too.
