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Author : Shankar Vedantam
Publisher : India Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ghosts of Kashmir written by Shankar Vedantam and published by India Research Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Shifa Haq
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498582494
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book In Search of Return written by Shifa Haq and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1989, more than 8,000 men disappeared in Kashmir. These disappearances were publicly denied, leaving mourners to grapple with unrecognized grief. Drawn from ten years of psycho-historical research in Kashmir, Shifa Haq reflects on the bereaved families’ intricate experiences of mourning. Haq expands the psychoanalytic understanding of loss and argues for a mourning that includes porous affective links with the political.
Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829002
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Empire written by Kwasi Kwarteng and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism.
Author : Shankar Vedantam
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385525222
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed.
Author : Shankar Vedantam
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652211
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.
Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464296
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Capitalism written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. “A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India’s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ‘privatization of everything,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence.” —The Nation “A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews “Roy’s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book’s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Githa Hariharan
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060639
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Almost Home written by Githa Hariharan and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington D.C.? How do people in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately carved essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan tackles these questions and takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world’s most fascinating and fraught cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Harihan combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the world—from Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventh-century Córdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these place’s vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the fight for human rights and the day-to-day business of survival. “In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.” —JM Coetzee “Hariharan’s writing in spare, punctuated with passages of brilliant clarity and compassion.” —Verve "She can do magic… Hariharan's greatest gift is the ability to weave story, poetry and magic into the simplest of sentences, so that reading her is an effortless pleasure." —India Today Born in Coimbatore, India, Githa Hariharan grew up in Bombay and Manila. She was educated in those two cities and later in the United States. She has worked as a staff writer for WNET-Channel 13 in New York, an editor for Orient Longman, a freelance professional editor for a range of academic institutions and foundations, and visiting professor at a number of international universities. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 1993. Her other novels include The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), When Dreams Travel (1999), In Times of Siege (2003), and Fugitive Histories (2009). She has also published a highly acclaimed short story collection, The Art of Dying, and a book of stories for children, The Winning Team. Her essays and fiction have also been included in anthologies such as Salman Rushdie's Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997. She lives in New Delhi.
Author : Rosie Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007449992
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Kashmir Shawl written by Rosie Thomas and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Tea-Planter’s Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir.
Author : Altaf Hussain Para
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042965734X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Kashmir written by Altaf Hussain Para and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the roots of modern-day Kashmir and the role of Sheikh Abdullah in its making. As the most influential political figurehead in twentieth-century Kashmir, he played a crucial role in its transformation from a kingdom to a state in independent India. He was enigmatic and complex, to say the least. Following his meteoric rise, he dominated the political scene for more than 50 years, with enduring impact. The volume presents a keen analysis of pre-Independence events which led to the emergence of a controversial and confused identity of the region. It also looks at other major themes in the political life of Kashmir, including the formation of the Muslim Conference, the plebiscite movement and the Kashmir Accord. A major intervention in the political life of South Asia, this book presents an inside-view of the history of modern Kashmir through the life and times of Sheikh Abdullah. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, history, and modern South Asia.
Author : Claire North
Publisher : Redhook
ISBN 13 : 0316335932
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Touch written by Claire North and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touch is an electrifying thriller by the author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. He tried to take my life. Instead, I took his. It was a long time ago. I remember it was dark, and I didn't see my killer until it was too late. As I died, my hand touched his. That's when the first switch took place. Suddenly, I was looking through the eyes of my killer, and I was watching myself die. Now switching is easy. I can jump from body to body, have any life, be anyone. Some people touch lives. Others take them. I do both. More by Claire North:The Gameshouse84KThe End of the DayThe Sudden Appearance of HopeTouchThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Author : Prem Shankar Jha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195648584
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Kashmir, 1947 written by Prem Shankar Jha and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exhaustive and careful documentation of the accession of Kashmir in 1947. Based on declassified papers, correspondence, and reports that have become available in the recent years, it provides a virtually day-to-day account of the critical times when the fate of Kashmir was`decided' in the context of Britain's geopolitical compulsions and strategies.
Author : Iqbal Chand Malhotra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789390358625
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Kashmir's Untold Story written by Iqbal Chand Malhotra and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Etteth
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143064886
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Gold of Their Regrets written by Etteth and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Was A Hypnotic Sight, Bars Upon Bars Of It, Gleaming, With The Nazi Eagle Insignia Stamped On Each. Gold Has Its Own Power, Jay, And I Realized That Day Why Men Fought And Died For It. And Murdered For It & A Voice Spoke From Behind Them. 1945. An Aircraft Bearing The Commander Of The Indian National Army, His Bodyguard And Twenty Million Pounds In Gold, Crashes In The Heart Of The Burmese Jungle. Only Three Men Know The Truth Behind The Crash, And What Happened To The Gold That Disappeared Mysteriously. Sixty Years Later, A Stranger Stalks These Men, Seeking The Lost Gold And Revenge. Things Come To A Head When One Of The Three Is Found Dead, Flung From The Terrace Of His Twenty-Ninth Storey Penthouse In Central Delhi. Can Jay Samorin And Deputy Commissioner Anna Khan Stop The Killer Before He Strikes Too Close To Home? In This Gripping Tale Of Murder And Intrigue, Ravi Shankar Etteth Brings Jay Samorin And Anna Khan, First Seen In Etteth S The Village Of Widows, Face To Face With A Most Determined And Cunning Adversary. It Is A Confrontation That Will Leave A Trail Of Violence And Death Before It Is Concluded In The Place Where It All Began.
Author : Will Storr
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448177065
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural written by Will Storr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts instantly vanish. In the cold light of day, Will decides on a quest for the truth about ghosts. He meets professional paranormal investigators and takes part in séances and a vigil in the most haunted house in Britain, tries out divining rods and ouija boards, and goes on set with TV's Most Haunted. But Will also seeks out the sceptics in clinical psychology and philosophy who ask if spirits are really just in our heads. His journey is full of bizarre, terrifying and hilarious experiences, each one a new insight into life, death and what might come after.
Author : Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290747
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book India's New Independent Cinema written by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood—India’s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth examination of the burgeoning independent Indian film sector. It locates the new 'Indies' as a glocal hybrid film form—global in aesthetic and local in content. They critically engage with a diverse socio-political spectrum of ‘state of the nation’ stories; from farmer suicides, disenfranchised urban youth and migrant workers to monks turned anti-corporation animal rights agitators. This book provides comprehensive analyses of definitive Indie new wave films including Peepli Live (2010), Dhobi Ghat (2010), The Lunchbox (2013) and Ship of Theseus (2013). It explores how subversive Indies, such as polemical postmodern rap-musical Gandu (2010) transgress conventional notions of ‘traditional Indian values’, and collide with state censorship regulations. This timely and pioneering analysis shows how the new Indies have emerged from a middle space between India’s globalising present and traditional past. This book draws on in-depth interviews with directors, actors, academics and members of the Indian censor board, and is essential reading for anyone seeking an insight into a current Indian film phenomenon that could chart the future of Indian cinema.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900468042X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book ReFiguring Global Challenges written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary.
Author : K. Hari Kumar
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353573564
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)
Download or read book India's Most Haunted written by K. Hari Kumar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are places where the past lingers, making shapes in the moonlight and blowing in the curtains even as the air goes suddenly still. K. Hari Kumar, bestselling author of spine-chilling horror fiction, brings you the terrifying tales of some of India's most haunted places -- including Bhangarh Fort, Malabar Hill's Tower of Silence and Jammu and Kashmir's notorious Khooni Nala.Whether you read them at night or in daylight, these stories will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.
