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Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya
The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has experienced high rates of urbanisation on the one hand, and tourist numbers have increased exponentially on the other, which has implications for the water supply of the people living there. Through several years of on-site research, challenges on various levels were documented and current governance approaches were analysed. This research forms the basis for future approaches to sustainable development.
Youth Politics in Urban Asia
Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in Asia enable or constrain young people’s citizenship, aspirations, and responses to a variety of socioeconomic and political issues in the region. Informed by qualitative and ethnographic approaches, featuring locales ranging from Pune to Shanghai, the chapters broadly address three themes: the variegated ways in which youth politics is constituted and ...
Pathways and Barriers to Parenthood
This volume explores the transition to parenthood from a holistic developmental approach, relating to barriers such as fertility problems and traumatic childbirth, as well as pathways such as positive experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. It presents an extended process, beginning with infertility issues, continuing with subjects pertaining to decisions regarding parenthood, pregnancy and birth, and ending with the early stages of parenthood from a positive psychology perspective. The volume draws on theories of resilience, meaning, terror management, and attachment, and considers psychological, sociological, legal, policy, medical, and therapy issues. It relates to the developmental needs of individuals and couples, as well as to the role played by family, society, and the media, offering a comprehensive in-depth evaluation of the latest topics.
Wide-Open World
For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa Rica, teaching English in rural Thailand, and caring for orphans in India. There’s a name for this kind of endeavor—voluntourism—and it might just be the future of travel. Oppressive heat, grueling bus rides, backbreaking work, and one vicious spider monkey . . . Best family vacation ever! John Marshall needed a change. His twenty-year marriage was falling apart, his seventeen-year-old son was about to l...
Ladakh Through the Ages, Towards a New Identity
It serves as a standard reference book giving a lucid profile, historical background, religion and customs of its post independence problems and developments.
An unending show
'An Unending Show’ and other stories are mirrors of life and full of the wisdom which one gains through keen observations and compassionate sensibility. It depicts the life of the common man and his philosophies which are imprinted in his mind in the trying and turbulent times. Each story delves deep into the human psyche, thereby, delivering a strong message: message that is relevant and universal without being didactic and moralist. Everythe story revolves around the basic emotion of love, compassion, shackled beliefs and fears associated with the unknown world of the supernatural, the the grim situation of mankind amidst the present turmoil in the world, the determination to survive in the harshest and inhospitable situations by displaying ample zest and fervour for life.
The Maha Bodhi
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