The Curious Adventures of a Doctor from Jaffna

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Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814385670
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis The Curious Adventures of a Doctor from Jaffna by : K. Puvanendran

Download or read book The Curious Adventures of a Doctor from Jaffna written by K. Puvanendran and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a childhood spent playing marbles and climbing trees in Ceylon to a medical career in bustling Singapore, Dr K. Puvanendran’s experiences have been rich and varied. A leading neurologist, he counts kings and presidents among his former patients. This charmingly written autobiography traces the trajectory of his life against the changing landscapes of two vastly different countries. As a boy in Jaffna, Dr Puvanendran found imaginative ways to fill his time. He recounts with great relish the carefree pranks, adventures and school experiences. Woven into the evocation of these simple pleasures are also sobering glimpses of the darker periods in Ceylon’s history. After attending medical college in Colombo, Dr Puvanendran stayed in Ceylon to work before accepting a position at Outram Road General Hospital, now Singapore General Hospital, in 1971. As the narrative unfolds, we read about the roots of his interest in neurology, the highs and lows of his career, the doctors who inspired him and the most memorable medical cases from his fifty years of practice. Some of these intriguing cases include sleep-related crimes, for which he has testified in court as a local pioneer in sleep medicine. Dr Puvanendran’s story takes us through the old world of Ceylon and into the heady post-independence days of Majulah Singapura (“Onward Singapore”, as the national anthem proclaims), offering along the way a successful doctor’s take on the study and practice of medicine.

The Seasons of Trouble

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688834
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Book Synopsis The Seasons of Trouble by : Rohini Mohan

Download or read book The Seasons of Trouble written by Rohini Mohan and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan’s searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city-bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces, his middle-aged mother, Indra, searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Mugil, a former child soldier, deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived, they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims, frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country, losing his way – and almost his life – in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays, breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world, desires, plans, and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling, brutal, yet beau­tifully written debut from a prize-winning journal­ist. It is a classic piece of reportage, five years in the making, and a trenchant, compassionate examina­tion of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people.

Malarial Subjects

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172365
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Malarial Subjects by : Rohan Deb Roy

Download or read book Malarial Subjects written by Rohan Deb Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.

Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900415602X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 by : Alicia Schrikker

Download or read book Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 written by Alicia Schrikker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.

The Guru Chronicles

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Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN 13 : 1934145408
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Guru Chronicles written by and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid before us. We have but a handful: Autobiography of a Yogi; Milarepa: Tibet's Great Yogi; Ramakrishna and His Disciples and a few of others. Now comes an amazing book, The Guru Chronicles, filled with the magical and highly mystical stories of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, his Sri Lankan guru Siva Yogaswami and five preceding masters, who all held truth in the palm of their hand and inspired slumbering souls to "Know thy Self."

The Elusive Quest for Growth

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Book Synopsis The Elusive Quest for Growth by : William Easterly

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Michael Ondaatje

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795854
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Michael Ondaatje by : Lee Spinks

Download or read book Michael Ondaatje written by Lee Spinks and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work. The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje’s career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing which significantly revises conventional accounts of Ondaatje as a postmodern or postcolonial writer. As the fullest account of Ondaatje’s work to date, Spinks’s approach draws on a range of postcolonial theory and, as well as being a landmark in Ondaatje scholarship, makes a distinctive contribution to debates about postcolonial literature and the poetics of postmodernism.

Noontide Toll

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Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 162097021X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Noontide Toll by : Romesh Gunesekera

Download or read book Noontide Toll written by Romesh Gunesekera and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In postwar Sri Lanka, a hired driver observes his passengers—tourists, soldiers, businessmen, and others—in these linked stories by a “master storyteller” (The New York Times). Vasantha retired early, bought himself a van, and now works as a driver for hire. As he drives through Sri Lanka, carrying aid workers, entrepreneurs, and visiting families; meeting lonely soldiers and eager hoteliers, he engages them with self-deprecating wit and folksy wisdom—while revealing to us their uncertain lives with piercing insight. On his journey from the army camps in northern Jaffna to the moonlit ramparts of Galle, in the south, Vasantha slowly discovers the depth of his country’s troubles—as well as his own—while catching a glimmer of the promise the future might hold. From the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Reef comes a collection of “gracefully crafted road stories” that draws a potent portrait of postwar Sri Lanka and the ghosts of civil war (TheGuardian). Praise for Romesh Gunesekera “Monkfish Moon strikes the reader like a hammer blow. . . . Gunesekera’s subtly erotic prose animates Sri Lanka’s natural luxuriance, veined with menace.” —Voice Literary Supplement

At Random

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030781999X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis At Random by : Bennett Cerf

Download or read book At Random written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a publishing house.

Der Breslauer Froissart

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Der Breslauer Froissart written by Arthur Lindner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rescued from the Nation

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619910X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Rescued from the Nation written by Steven Kemper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka’s recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose “protestant” reformation of Buddhism drove monks toward increased political involvement and ethnic confrontation. Yet as tied to Sri Lankan nationalism as Dharmapala is in popular memory, he spent the vast majority of his life abroad, engaging other concerns. In Rescued from the Nation, Steven Kemper reevaluates this important figure in the light of an unprecedented number of his writings, ones that paint a picture not of a nationalist zealot but of a spiritual seeker earnest in his pursuit of salvation. Drawing on huge stores of source materials—nearly one hundred diaries and notebooks—Kemper reconfigures Dharmapala as a world-renouncer first and a political activist second. Following Dharmapala on his travels between East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, he traces his lifelong project of creating a unified Buddhist world, recovering the place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, and imitating the Buddha’s life course. The result is a needed corrective to Dharmapala’s embattled legacy, one that resituates Sri Lanka’s political awakening within the religious one that was Dharmapala’s life project.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
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Book Synopsis Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by : Sir James Emerson Tennent

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From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India

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Total Pages : 398 pages
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Book Synopsis From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India by : Edward Carpenter

Download or read book From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India written by Edward Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jaffna College Miscellany

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Jaffna College Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated

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Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated by : John Penry Lewis

Download or read book List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated written by John Penry Lewis and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1913-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity

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Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787351300
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity by : Harshana Rambukwella

Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity written by Harshana Rambukwella and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.

The Book of the Pearl

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of the Pearl by : George Frederick Kunz

Download or read book The Book of the Pearl written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: