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Aayat Athar finds herself in an alternate dimension. She is saved by cousins Feedaa and Sae Sae, who inform her that she has landed in Faejenda, a city occupied by Djinns. They offer to help her find a way back. Sae Sae’s father was a researcher who has crossed the interregnum—the pathway joining the dimensions—and is now stranded in the human world. By helping Aayat, Sae Sae wants to reunite with his father. A few Djinns in Faejenda, looking to open a permanent portal to the human world, are declared unruly by the government, and live in a community outside the gates of the city. Feedaa’s mother, Errumm, is the district head, and along with her team, she is planning an attack on the Djinns who love humans side. She is aided by Tenzen, a recently transferred, and his secret partner. Aayat, Sae Sae, and Feedaa begin exploring the disappearances of others to understand the ways the crossover works. Meanwhile, Sae Sae secretly meets the human lovers, who ask him to bring them the details of the siege planned by Errumm and her team in return for the information about the interregnum.
Kite Kid by N. D. RaoA cynical hustler rediscovers his inner child during a gig gone awry in California's East Bay. Can he clean up his act?Fire And Ice by Rani JayakumarA girl growing up in a small town reflects on her relationship with her dead mother and her alcoholic father as she struggles to reconcile the traditional Indian culture and mythology she was taught with her modern American upbringing, and her own dreams.Multicoloured Muffler by Nazia KamaliSophia reaches Seoul with no knowledge of the local language and culture. All felt wrong until she meets Yi Soo, an aspiring novelist who works in a café nearby. Their love transcends all boundaries until one of them decides that it is not enough.Water for TsaTsa by Glenn MoriIn "Water for TsaTsa" the expedition sent to negotiate mining rights discovers that the life forms on the planet exist in a manner wildly different from what they expected.
Have you ever been in a situation where all of those internal warning signals went off but you went forward anyway? Or in a situation where you started to drive forward and then something told you to stop? This anthology is a collection of stories of similar situations that our authors experienced. Read on to find out about their own red flags.
The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Chloe starts an internship as a reporter at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe becomes smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. But as their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies into terrifying rages. He confides in Chloe that he suffered a traumatic childhood, and Chloe is moved to help him. If only he could be healed, she thinks, their relationship would be perfect. But her efforts backfire and Kieran becomes violent. Chloe breaks up with him, but Kieran pursues her relentlessly to make up. Chloe must make the heartrending choice between saving herself or saving Kieran, until Kieran's mission of remorse turns into a quest for revenge.
In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring millions of gods into a singular edifice of faith. Basu exposes the purported “Hindu Nation” as itself an orientalist vision by analyzing three crucial moments: European anthropologists’ and ...
This established text covers the full range of obstetric ultrasound examinations that a sonographer would be expected to perform in a general hospital or secondary referral setting, and is the only text that combines the practicalities of learning how to perform these examinations with the information needed to carry them out in a clinical setting. It encourages students to think about their practice and provides the sonographer with the necessary tools to provide a 'gold standard' service. - Explains the principles of grey scale ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound and instrumentation - Addresses problems from both practical and clinical viewpoints - Provides comparative images showing results of...
Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance of this concept in the application of Islamic law and demonstrates how the concept relates to the objectives of Islamic law (maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah), generally. Included in this examination are the following maxims: al-Umūr bi-Maqāṣidihā ("Matters shall be Judged by their Objectives"); al-Yaqīn lā Yazūl bi-sh-Shakk ("Certainty Cannot be Overruled by Doubt"); al-Mashaqqa Tajlib at-Taysīr ("Hardship begets Facility"); Lā Ḍarar wa-lā Ḍirār ("No Injury or Harm shall be Inflicted or Reciprocated"); and al-ʿĀda Muḥakkama ("Custom is Authoritative").
Part of series of studies about how white working class communities in various European cities are responding to the continent's growing diversity
About the book: The book Indian Women Novelists in English: Art and Vision is a volume of twenty five research articles on contemporary Indian women novelists and their works ranging from Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Manju Kapur, Shobhaa De, Meena Alexander, Githa Hariharan, Arundhati Roy to the younger generation of novelists Anita Nair, Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri along with two less explored novelists Rita Garg and Nayeema Mahjoor. Three regional writers- Sarah Joseph, Qurratulain Hyder and Mahasweta Devi are also part of this volume, though their write-ups are in regional languages, yet their translated works in English have earned wide popularity. The volume with its diversity of to...
"Peace In the Hood takes readers inside the dual world of violence and intervention, evoking the reality of gangland warfare but also acknowledging the possibility of peace in these war zones. Written from the perspective of Aquil Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, it documents the lessons Basheer has learned over his 40 years of working in inner cities, and passes these lessons on to readers so they too can know what the job of peacekeeping entails"--