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NANDINI'S DIARY is basically a place where a person can share their journeys, experiences, opinions..... This book have great 50 co-authors who have shared their own feelings, opinions in words.... This book is mixed with lots of ideas, perspectives , events... This is the first book that I compiled, hence I named this book Nandini's Diary, as a great memory
Obliterated from the pages of history, as women often are, Odisha’s first woman Chief Minister, Nandini Satpathy, known also as the Iron Lady of Orissa, was born to a family of revolutionaries and intellectuals. During her teenage years in the ‘40s, this petite girl in a starchy cotton saree was jailed for pulling down the Union Jack from atop the edifice of Ravenshaw College. Thus began the makings of a force to be reckoned with. Coming up through the ranks to ultimately reach the hallowed halls of the Rajya Sabha at the mere age of 31, this grassroots student politician went on to become the I&B minister in Indira Gandhi’s first government, where she facilitated the working of the Fr...
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The Indian Government has repeatedly described Maoist guerrillas as 'the biggest security threat to the countryÕ and Bastar as their headquarters. This book chronicles how the armed conflict between the government and the Maoists has devastated the lives of some of India's poorest citizens.
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Female-to-male transgender people, or transmasculine people as they are called, are just beginning to form their networks in India. But their struggles are not visible to a gender-normative society that barely notices, much less acknowledges, them. While transwomen have gained recognition through the extraordinary efforts of activists and feminists, the brotherhood, as the transmasculine network often refers to itself, remains imponderable, diminished even within the transgender community. For all intents and purposes, they do not exist. In a country in which parents wish their daughters were sons, they exile the daughters who do become sons. In this remarkable, intimate book, Nandini Krishn...
For fans of Brandy Colbert and Jenny Han comes a lighthearted novel about tradition, high school social hierarchy, matchmaking, and swiping right (or left!) Fifteen-year-old Simran "Simi" Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole -- matchmakers -- with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer, her family is thrilled that she has the "gift." But Simi is an artist, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with relationships, helicopter parents, and family drama. That is, until she realizes this might be just the thing to improve her and her best friend Noah's social status. Armed with her family's ancient guide to finding love, Simi starts a matchmaking service -- via an app, of course. But when she helps connect a wallflower of a girl with the star of the boys' soccer team, she turns the high school hierarchy topsy-turvy, soon making herself public enemy number one.
This book, a collection of essays on and reviews of the life and works of Arun Sarma, contributes towards generating and sustaining academic engagement with the renowned litterateur of Assam, India, on both national and global platforms. It will push forth his legacy beyond the linguistic and geographical barriers of the Indian state, and develop a congenial environment for generating a new and active reading public—a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts all over the world. The book serves as an extension of the avowed goal of Arun Sarma as a playwright and novelist to rise above barriers of all kinds, resulting in the production of a body of knowledge on theatre of Assam. The book will be of use to academics, students, and research scholars of English literature, writings from North-East India, performance studies, theatre studies, India studies, south Asian cultures, and cultural studies, among others.
The term hindu is referred to the religious life of the people of India, and Spirituality understood as wisdom about the way back into the ground of pluralism of religious forms. These two volumes are strucrtured along the division between the classical and the postclassical.Twenty seven scholars from around the world shed light on the spiritual beauty of Hinduisms poetry art and temples, festivals and music, as well as the contributions of modern pioneers such as Swami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and others.
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul." This book portrays the creativity of more than 20 individuals from different spheres of life. Despite various types of procrastination, these individuals have been able to create and showcase their talent through their passion of writing.