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From when they were kids, Akash and Karan had a dream. They wanted to become professional racers and compete in the Great Himalayan Rally. Years later, when they are on the verge of realizing their passion, a crisis occurs that puts Akash on the crossroads. He must choose between the adrenaline-pumping, life-threatening life of a racer or opt for the stable, professional career that his parents and girlfriend want for him Follow the paths of Akash and Karan, in Journey to Rebond as they explore the limits of friendships, relationships and family ties while competing in the toughest car rally of them all. With their sponsors threatening to pull out, competitors playing dirty and a vehicle that’s barely holding together, Akash and Karan have to reach deep within for answers. Will the race make them or break them?
This is a novel conceptualized with the aim of putting a good read in the hands of a discriminating reader, with its multiple characters and varied incidents. It revolves around ambitious persons in pursuit of treasures at the peak of Green Mountain. The tough trekking and difficult terrain allows creation of interesting incidents. Green Mountain belongs to the imaginary range of mountains to the south of Himalayas. The story is about the legend of treasures atop that Mountain. The stage of the drama in the novel is Green Mountain for most part and later Mumbai in the second part. As the peak of the mountain was repository of treasures, people from everywhere wished to reach that place in haste to own those riches. Aspirant people ranging from ascetics to burglars trek up the Mountain. Their interaction stage by stage unfolds the story.
This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ‘ways of seeing’ through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the Indian graphic narratives examined here? The book posits that the ‘seeing’ of post-millennial Indian graphic narratives revolves around a visuality of the inauspicious, complemented by narratives of the same. Examining both form and content across nine Indian, post-millennial graphic narratives, this book will appeal to those working in South Asian visual studies, cultural studies and comics-graphic novel studies more broadly.
This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective industrial realities of contemporary cultural production with eighteen all-new chapters presenting pioneering empirical research on the complexities and controversies of comics work. Art Spiegelman. Alan Moore. Osamu Tezuka. Neil Gaiman. Names such as these have become synonymous with the medium of comics. Meanwhile, the large numbers of people without whose collective action no comic book would ever exist in the first place are routinely overlooked. Cultures of Comics Work unveils this hidden, global industrial labor of writers, illustrators, graphic designers, letterers, editors, printers, typesetters, publicists, publishers, distributors, translators, retailers, and countless others both directly and indirectly involved in the creative production of what is commonly thought of as the comic book. Drawing upon diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, an international and interdisciplinary cohort of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners intervenes in debates about cultural work and paves innovative directions for comics scholarship.
PANTYLESS NIGHTS : LIVES OF SEX WORKERS by Abbas Mirza is a well-documented book on the lives of sex workers in India. The book is an effort to attract attention towards the miserable lives led by the sex workers who are dragged into this business. After all sex workers are human too. Hence they too should live with human dignity. Debates are going around on legalising sex work which would give them an opportunity to pay tax and work with dignity. But at the same time one should not forget that majority of the sex workers do NOT work by their own choice. They HAVE TO DO out of compulsion or force. Why not give them better ways to earn rather than selling their bodies? The contents are: 1.IN THE RED LIGHTS OF SONAGACHI 2. TANU DI, A COMMERCIAL SEX WORKER 3.LIFE OF A PROSTITUTE 4. WIFE SOLD INTO PROSTITUTION 5.ANOTHER EXPERIENCE NARRATED 6. LEAVE PROSTITUTION? 7.PROSTITUTION 8. WHEN SEX WORK IS "FAMILY BUSINESS" 9.CHILD PROSTITUTION IN INDIA 10. MEN, ACCORDING TO PROSTITUTES 11. SEX, PROSTITUTION AND A LIE CALLED 'LOVE' 12. THE HUMAN COST 13. RIGHT TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY 14. DECRIMINALISE SEX TRADE?
This book contains select papers presented during the 2nd National Conference on Small Satellites, discussing the latest research and developments relating to small satellite technology. The papers cover various issues relating to design and engineering, ranging from the control, mechanical, and thermal systems to the sensors, antennas, and RF systems used. The book is of interest to scientists and engineers working on or utilizing satellite and space technologies.
This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Soft Computing for Security Applications (ICSCS 2023), held at Dhirajlal Gandhi College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India, during April 21–22, 2023. It covers recent advances in the field of soft computing techniques such as fuzzy logic, neural network, support vector machines, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and probabilistic reasoning to solve various real-time challenges. The book presents innovative work by leading academics, researchers, and experts from industry.
A collection of English poems authored by Praveen Kumar