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Ghachar Ghochar

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311168X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Ghachar Ghochar written by Vivek Shanbhag and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of financial gain in contemporary India. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai

Author : Srinath Perur
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351185702
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai written by Srinath Perur and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to travel with others for adventure, lust and god? This delightful travelogue, in which Srinath Perur embarks upon ten conducted tours, is full of rich experiences: hanging on to a camel in the Thar Desert, joining thousands on a pilgrimage in Maharashtra, crossing living root bridges near Cherrapunji, rediscovering music while on the trail of Kabir, and a lot more. As much about people as it is about places, the book is also a reflection of the nature of popular travel today, which is marked by the packaging of experiences, the formation of tourist economies and compulsive picture-taking. How this influences tourists comes across vividly: in their creation of a mini India on a bus as they race through treasured sights in Europe; in their perfunctory devotion as they hop from temple to temple in Tamil Nadu; and in their ‘enjoying’ with sex workers far away from home. Ironic, and often comic, If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai is an idiosyncratic portrait of India and her people.

Ghachar Ghochar

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101992948
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ghachar Ghochar written by Vivek Shanbhag and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of financial gain in contemporary India. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

The Impossible Fairy Tale

Author : Yu-ju Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1555977669
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Fairy Tale written by Yu-ju Han and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won’t be denied a coveted sweater. Then there is the Child who, by contrast, is neither lucky nor unlucky. She makes so little impression that she seems not even to merit a name. At school, their fellow students, whether lucky or luckless or unlucky, seem consumed by an almost murderous rage. Adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by cruelty and soul-crushing hierarchies. Then, one day, the Child sneaks into the classroom after hours and adds ominous sentences to her classmates’ notebooks. This sinister but initially inconsequential act unlocks a series of events that end in horrible violence. But that is not the end of this eerie, unpredictable novel. A teacher, who is also this book’s author, wakes from an intense dream. When she arrives at her next class, she recognizes a student: the Child, who knows about the events of the novel’s first half, which took place years earlier. Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale is a fresh and terrifying exploration of the ethics of art making and of the stinging consequences of neglect.

Voices in the City

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 8122200532
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Voices in the City written by Anita Desai and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1965 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.

The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Author : Rob Simms
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172123
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian written by Rob Simms and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts, by Rob Simms and Amir Koushkani, examines the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry, as represented by its greatest living exponent. This in-depth study surveys the social and historical context of the twentieth-century tradition of avaz while placing Shajarian’s early career within this complex culture, from being a child prodigy of Qur’an recitation in Mashhad to his rise to national prominence in the 1970s. As a globetrotting celebrity who is renowned for singing medieval poetry with impeccable technique and radiant inspiration, Shajarian’s life and work provide a compelling case study for larger issues of reconciling tradition and modernity, and the crucial role of the individual in maintaining and renovating traditional art forms. Avaz is discussed in the broader context of Iranian narrative performance traditions, where the performer retells well-known scripts in a way that is appropriate to the audience and the present occasion, spinning the tale to convey a personal message. Shajarian’s career also exemplifies the huge changes that Iranian musical culture underwent in the 1960s and 70s. Finally, the study includes a detailed examination of the materials and creative processes of Shajarian’s artistic craft, including his acquisition process and training, vocal technique, selection and treatment of poetry, use of traditional musical materials, and his balance of engaging preset materials with improvisation. The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian is an impressively detailed study of the music, life, and environment of the most influential musician in Iranian classical music of the past three decades.

A State of Freedom

Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473523109
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book A State of Freedom written by Neel Mukherjee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.

Ghachar Ghochar

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Akshara Prakashana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghachar Ghochar written by Vivek Shanbhag and published by Akshara Prakashana. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ ಹತ್ತು-ಹದಿನೈದು ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್. ಆಧುನಿಕ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರದ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸಂವೇದನಾಶೀಲವಾಗಿ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾಗಿ, ಹೃದಯಂಗಮವಾಗಿ ವಿವೇಚಿಸುವ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಧ್ಯಾನಿಸಿ ಬರೆದ ಕತೆಯೊಂದು ಹೇಗೆ ಒಳನೋಟಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅನುಭವವನ್ನೂ ಒಂದಿಡೀ ತಲೆಮಾರಿನ ತಲ್ಲಣವನ್ನೂ ಹಿಡಿದಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಕುತೂಹಲಕಾರಿ. ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್ ಅಂಥದ್ದೊಂದು ಕತೆ. ಜೋಗಿ 'ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್' ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಮುಗಿದಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತನ್ನಿಸುವುದು, ಆ ದಾರಿಗೆ ಇರಬಹುದಾದ ಹಲವು ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ. ವೆಂಕಟ್ರಮಣ ಗೌಡ ಕೇವಲ ಸಾಂಸಾರಿಕ ರಗಳೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗೋಳುಕರೆಯಾಗಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದ ಕಥನವೊಂದು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಸ್ವಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ತನೆಗಳ ಹಿಂದಿನ ನಿಗೂಢತೆಗೆ ಹಿಡಿದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ; ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಧ್ಯಾನವಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಟಿ.ಪಿ. ಅಶೋಕ ಈ ಯುಗಳ ಪದ ನಮ್ಮ ಇಡೀ ಬದುಕೇ ಗೋಜಲಾಗಿರುವ ಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾವ ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಯಂತೆ ಅನುರಣನಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಸ್. ಆರ್. ವಿಜಯಶಂಕರ A Kannada book by Akshara Prakashana / ಅಕ್ಷರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ

The Girl and the Tiger

Author : Paul Rosolie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945654312
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Girl and the Tiger written by Paul Rosolie and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isha is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she finds a young Bengal tiger that needs her protection. Her crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India.

Common Sense Pregnancy

Author : Jeanne Faulkner
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 160774676X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Common Sense Pregnancy written by Jeanne Faulkner and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a mama without the drama When you’re pregnant, your friends, the Internet, and even your doctor often give advice that leaves you anxious and overwhelmed. You deserve a calm, straightforward, no-nonsense pregnancy. It’s time to dial down the stress and dial up the common sense. Common Sense Pregnancy is a breath of fresh air: accessible, authoritative, funny, reassuring, and personable, while still chock-full of comprehensive, medically-sound advice. Women's health expert, labor nurse, mother of four, and Fit Pregnancy.com columnist Jeanne Faulkner has been at the bedside for thousands of deliveries and provides the honest insider advice you need during pregnancy, labor, birth, and beyond, including straight talk on: · Which prenatal tests you actually need, and which you don’t. · Who’s on your labor team—and how to keep your labor room drama free. · What about sex? · How to deal with feeling lousy. · What works and what doesn’t for starting labor naturally. · How to avoid unnecessary and risky medical interventions. Whether you want your pregnancy and birth to be all natural, all medical, or something in between, Common Sense Pregnancy eliminates the fear and puts you in charge of your body and prenatal experience, and helps you make the right choices for you and your baby.

Land Where I Flee

Author : Prajwal Parajuly
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623654580
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Land Where I Flee written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Prajwal Parajuly has established himself as a distinctive voice in literature about the South Asian diaspora. Now in his debut novel, Land Where I Flee about returning home, Parajuly demonstrates that he is, as Manil Suri noted, "a master capturing, with wit and humor, the day-to-day interactions between his characters." To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi--her landmark eighty-fourth birthday--three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his family's inquisition into why he is not married, and terrified that the reason for his bachelordom will be discovered. Joining him are his sisters Manasa and Bhagwati, travelling from London and Colorado respectively. One the Oxford-educated achiever; the other the disgraced eloper--one moneyed but miserable; the other ostracized but optimistic. All three harbor the same dual objective: to emerge from the celebrations with their formidable grandmother's blessing and their nerves intact: a goal that will become increasingly impossible thanks to a mischievous maid and a fourth, uninvited guest.

No Presents Please

Author : Jayant Kaikini
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 194822691X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book No Presents Please written by Jayant Kaikini and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

Shadow City

Author : Taran Khan
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784708023
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shadow City written by Taran Khan and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boston Girl

Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857208926
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Girl written by Anita Diamant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie's intelligence and curiosity propelled her to a more modern path. Addie wanted to finish high school and to go to college. She wanted a career, to find true love. She wanted to escape the confines of her family. And she did. Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.

English, August

Author : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171790
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book English, August written by Upamanyu Chatterjee and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.

One Part Woman

Author : Perumal Murugan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146732
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book One Part Woman written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “intimate and affecting” novel of an Indian couple’s quest for a child that sparked national conversations about caste and female empowerment (Laila Lalami, New York Times Book Review). Set in South India during the British colonial period, One Part Woman tells the story of Kali and Ponna, a married couple unable to conceive. The predicament is of major concern for their families—and the crowing amusement of Kali’s male friends. From making offerings at different temples to circumambulating a mountain supposed to cure barren women, Kali and Ponna try everything to solve the problem. But a more radical plan is required. The annual chariot festival, a celebration of the god Maadhorubaagan, who is part male and part female, may provide the answer. On the eighteenth night of the festival, the rules of marriage are relaxed, and consensual sex between unmarried men and women is overlooked, for all men are considered gods. The festival may be the solution to Kali and Ponna’s problem, but it soon threatens to drive the couple apart as much as to bring them together. Wryly amusing and deeply poignant, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage strained by the expectations of others, and an attack on the rigid rules of caste and tradition that continue to constrict opportunity and happiness. Longlisted for the National Book Award

The Wish Maker

Author : Ali Sethi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101061286
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Wish Maker written by Ali Sethi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, enthralling debut novel about a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in contemporary Pakistan, The Wish Maker is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves "part of the same litter." In a household run by Zaki's crusading political journalist mother and iron-willed grandmother, it was impossible to imagine a future that could hold anything different for each of them. But when adolescence approaches, the cousins' fates diverge, and Zaki is forced to question the meaning of family, selfhood, and commitment to those he loves most. Chronicling world-changing events that have never been so intimately observed in fiction, and brimming with unmistakable warmth and humor, The Wish Maker is the powerful account of a family and an era, a story that shows how, even in the most rapidly shifting circumstances, there are bonds that survive the tugs of convention, time, and history.