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Aruna's Story

Author : Pinki Virani
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 935118076X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Aruna's Story written by Pinki Virani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable work of investigative reporting and non-fiction writing in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.Journalist Pinki Virani recreates the real-life tragedy of Aruna's Stories Shanbaug, who was attacked with a dog chain and brutally raped in the very hospital where she was a nurse, and abandoned by her family thereafter.Brain-dead for sight, speech and movement, yet hopelessly alive to pain, hunger and terror, she now lies, barely alive, in the hospital where she once treated patients back to health. Virani’s investigations also unearthed the crowning tragedy: while Aruna has been in coma for over twenty-five years, her rapist, a sweeper in the hospital, walked a free man after a mere seven years in prison for robbery and attempt to murder.Vivid and gut-wrenching, this is a book that will haunt the reader long after the final page has been turned.

Aruna's Journeys

Author : Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961940171
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Aruna's Journeys written by Jyotsna Sreenivasan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aruna, an 11-year-old Indian-American girl, reluctantly visits her relatives in India and in the process discovers more about who she is.

The RTI Story: Power to the People

Author : Aruna Roy
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8193704916
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The RTI Story: Power to the People written by Aruna Roy and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aruna Roy resigned from the IAS in 1975 to work with peasants and workers in rural Rajasthan. In 1990 she helped co-found the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). The MKSS struggles in the mid 90s for wages and other rights gave birth to the now celebrated Right to Information movement. Aruna continues to be a part of many democratic struggles and campaigns. This book is a collective history that tells the story of how ordinary people can come together and prevail against great odds, to make democracy more meaningful.

Fasting, Feasting

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448104556
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Fasting, Feasting written by Anita Desai and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

The Unknown War

Author : Arūnas Streikus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000595145
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown War written by Arūnas Streikus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The armed anti-Soviet resistance movement which arose in the second half of 1944 in Lithuania, as Soviet forces began to reoccupy the Baltic countries and Galicia, sparking a nearly decade-long fierce military conflict, has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history. However, controversy regarding the nature of this `war after the war' and its legacies constitutes one of the core elements in the contemporary information warfare waged by Russia against its neighbouring countries. The origins of various distortions surrounding the story of the partisan war in the western borderlands of the Soviet Union can even be traced to the final stages of that war, when Soviet propaganda sought to discredit the campaign as a battle waged by criminal elements. In this example of a historical event charged with controversial memories and geopolitical connotations, a thorough academic approach is extraordinarily instrumental. Responding to the growing need for historical research capable of providing international readers with the latest findings in the thematic field under question, six scholars from Vilnius University address the diverse aspects of this phenomenon as well as its role in the culture and politics of memory. Toward this end, this analysis – among the most comprehensive explorations of this history to date – is being released in both Lithuanian and English.

Bitter Chocolate

Author : Pinki Virani
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351184250
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Bitter Chocolate written by Pinki Virani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that challenges our notions of family honour and morality Sometime, somewhere, the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes had to be shattered. This path-breaking book"the first of its kind in the country and subcontinent"attempts to give that sexually abused child a powerful voice. It provides damning disclosures about men, and some women, in middle and upper-class families who sexually abuse their children, then silence them into submission. Based on studies, reports and investigation, this book reveals that a minimum of twenty per cent of girls and boys under the age of sixteen are regularly being sexually abused; half of them in their own homes, by adults who have the child's trust. In Bitter Chocolate, journalist and best-selling author Pinki Virani travels across the country to record the testimonies of the police, doctors, child psychologists, mental health professionals, social workers, lawyers and the traumatized victims themselves. The book opens with an account"brave and devoid of self-pity"of the author's own experience. Going beyond blaming, Pinki Virani then proceeds with her insightful analysis of the issue in three notebooks. The first spells out what constitutes CSA, why and how this happens, its devastating after-effects which haunt the victims as they grow into adulthood. The second notebook describes these effects through two real-life stories of women who were betrayed as children by men of their family. The third provides practical solutions on how to counter CSA, including a framework involving the law, the parent and their child. A special chapter addresses adults who have never before disclosed their sexual abuse as children. Plus: a nationally coordinated helpline. Accessible yet comprehensive, Bitter Chocolate is written for the young parent and guardian, principal and teacher, judge and police, lawyer and public prosecutor, teenager and tomorrow's citizen.

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

Author : Ana Menéndez
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847870
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd written by Ana Menéndez and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author. From the prize–winning title story—a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak—unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is at once “tender and sharp-fanged” as Ana Menéndez evocatively charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables, Florida, and explores whether any of us are capable, or even truly desirous, of outrunning our origins (LA Weekly). “With the grace of Margaret Atwood and the sensuality of Laura Esquivel,” Menéndez makes an unforgettable debut “rich in metaphor, wisdom, and delicious subtlety” (St. Petersburg Times).

Lithuania Ascending

Author : S. C. Rowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107658764
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Lithuania Ascending written by S. C. Rowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.

The Gita: For Children

Author : Roopa Pai
Publisher : Swift Press
ISBN 13 : 180075180X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Gita: For Children written by Roopa Pai and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The truth is, Partha,' Krishna said, 'that there is no "better" path. Both paths – the path of knowledge and the path of action – work just as well. It is up to you to pick the one that you are suited to.' The Bhagavad Gita is a profound book from India that people have cherished for over 2500 years. It emphasises kindness and understanding when we make mistakes, and tells a compelling story about Prince Arjuna and his friend Krishna. They engage in a crucial conversation about the war against the most powerful and dangerous enemy of all – the one that lives within our minds. Roopa Pai's spirited, one-of-a-kind retelling is engaging, easy to grasp, and leaves a lasting impact. After you finish reading, you'll find yourself contemplating its wisdom and feeling a sense of inner strength.

The Paradox of Omniscience. Short Stories

Author : Arunas Bartusevicius
Publisher : Arunas Bartusevicius
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Omniscience. Short Stories written by Arunas Bartusevicius and published by Arunas Bartusevicius. This book was released on with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancholic and introspective look into the life and the complexities of human interaction.

Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

Author : Tomas Balkelis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004314105
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century by : Tomas Balkelis

Download or read book Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century written by Tomas Balkelis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Population Displacement in Lithuania in the XXth Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies is an edited volume written by historians from several countries offering a series of ground-breaking case studies on forced migration in Lithuania during and between the two World Wars. Starting with the premise that the mass movement of peoples during and after the Second World War needs to be understood in relation to the population displacement of the First World War, the authors draw on theoretical perspectives ranging from entangled histories, cultural theory and studies of nationalism to trace the ethnic, social and cultural transformation of Lithuanian society caused by the displacement of Lithuanians, Poles, Jews and Germans. Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Daiva Dapkutė, Violeta Davoliūtė, Andrea Griffante, Ruth Leiserowitz, Klaus Richter, Vasilijus Safronovas, Vitalija Stravinskienė, Arūnas Streikus and Theodore R. Weeks.

The Excursion to Tilsit

Author : Hermann Sudermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Excursion to Tilsit written by Hermann Sudermann and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ponary Diary, 1941-1943

Author : Kazimierz Sakowicz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129173
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Ponary Diary, 1941-1943 by : Kazimierz Sakowicz

Download or read book Ponary Diary, 1941-1943 written by Kazimierz Sakowicz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis. He chronicled these events in a diary that he kept at great personal risk. Written as a simple account of what Sakowicz witnessed, the diary is devoid of personal involvement or identification with the victims. It is thus a unique document: testimony from a bystander, an “objective” observer without an emotional or a political agenda, to the extermination of the Jews of the city known as “the Jerusalem of Lithuania.” Sakowicz did not survive the war, but much of his diary did. Painstakingly pieced together by Rahel Margolis from scraps of paper hidden in various locations, the diary was published in Polish in 1999. It is here published in English for the first time, extensively annotated by Yitzhak Arad to guide readers through the events at Ponary.

Democracy, Culture, Catholicism

Author : Michael J. Schuck
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823267318
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Culture, Catholicism written by Michael J. Schuck and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiling scholarly essays from a unique three-year Democracy, Culture and Catholicism International Research Project, Democracy, Culture, Catholicism richly articulates the diverse and dynamic interplay of democracy, culture, and Catholicism in the contemporary world. The twenty-five essays from four extremely diverse cultures—those of Indonesia, Lithuania, Peru, and the United States—explore the relationship between democracy and Catholicism from several perspectives, including historical and cultural analysis, political theory and conflict resolution, social movements and Catholic social thought.

The Nazi's Granddaughter

Author : Silvia Foti
Publisher : Regnery History
ISBN 13 : 1684511089
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Nazi's Granddaughter written by Silvia Foti and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.

Matters of The Heart

Author : Ratna Magotra
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9384049123
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Matters of The Heart written by Ratna Magotra and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart is a living organ bestowed with romantic, spiritual, and indeed a vital mystique through the ages. Speaking medically, it is an intricately designed pump that beats ceaselessly through the entire life time of an individual. As the heart develops in the fetus, structural aberrations may result in birth defects of the heart, from a simple hole to a very complex malformation. Similarly, the delicate heart valves may get damaged in later life. Rheumatic heart disease is one such disease affecting largely the poor. Coronary artery disease on the other hand afflicts those with increasing affluence and stress of modern life accompanied by indulgence in food, smoking and alcohol. Heart surgery started in early twentieth century and progressed by leaps and bounds once the heart-lung machine became available facilitating open heart operations on a large scale. The practice of medicine is for basic good of mankind, no matter where and how it is rendered. The men and women working in the field of cardiac medicine and surgery have brought the latest skills to the suffering patients everywhere. In the process, we unconsciously wear a mask of technical competence and efficiency and get far removed from the social and emotional milieu of the patients. This book is an attempt to remove this mask and look beyond bringing a unique Indian perspective.

The Birdwoman's Palate

Author : Laksmi Pamuntjak
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781542048354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Birdwoman's Palate written by Laksmi Pamuntjak and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman's road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies. Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu cases reported across Indonesia. While it's put a crimp in her aunt's West Java farm, and made her own confit de canard highly questionable, the investigation does provide an irresistible opportunity. It's the perfect excuse to get away from corrupt and corrosive Jakarta and explore the spices of the far-flung regions of the islands with her three friends: a celebrity chef, a globe-trotting "foodist," and her coworker Farish. From Medan to Surabaya, Palembang to Pontianak, Aruna and her friends have their fill of local cuisine. With every delicious dish, she discovers there's so much more to food, politics, and friendship. Now, this liberating new perspective on her country--and on her life--will push her to pursue the things she's only dreamed of doing.