Author: Andrea Gunraj
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307374084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Neela Keetham and her brother Navi yearn to escape their hometown of Marasaw. Living with their grandmother after their mother had left years before to find work abroad, they struggle against the poverty and limited opportunities available in Marasaw. Navi hopes to prosper from his talent as a math prodigy, while Neela constantly battles to find some talent to rival her brother’s. Despite the support of their grandmother and friends, both Navi and Neela find that escaping their circumstances, much less their past, is no easy task. The siblings make their separate ways out of Marasaw, but each must make sacrifices and damaging compromises along the way. They also learn dark and dangerous truths about each other, driving them apart in fear and anger. As Navi and Neela work tirelessly to create new lives for themselves, the outside world, far from being a paradise, is revealed as more punishing and unfair than the world they left behind. Navi wins a prestigious government internship, but his success ironically snuffs out the opportunity for a lasting, loving relationship with a fellow intern. On the strength of rumours and the word of her boyfriend Jaroon, Neela daringly makes her way to a resort town hidden in the rainforest to work as a teacher, only to find that this “Eden,” and Jaroon, are not what they seem. Chastened and wiser for their experiences, Neela and then Navi are both forced by circumstances to return home. The disappearance of Neela’s daughter, Seetha, leads them back to each other and into the complex and mysterious bonds of family. To save Seetha, Neela and Navi must attempt to heal their damaged relationship and along the way they discover that in the cruel and imperfect world in which they live, hope may still prevail.
Author: Andrea Gunraj
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
ISBN: 1771088419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This “haunting, consistently entrancing” novel of loss, redemption and immigrant life “evokes questions that are pressing and profound” (Quill & Quire, starred review). As the children of a Toronto immigrant family, Alisha has grown up in the shadow of her studious older sister Diana. But now Diana is missing, having never returned from a local job fair. The family’s worst fears are confirmed when Diana’s body is discovered in the woods. Shattered by the loss, Alisha is also haunted by a guilty secret: she may know the killer’s identity—and yet she can’t tell anyone. As her family unravels, Alisha finds unexpected solace when she befriends a woman who volunteers at her school. Paula was once an orphan in the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Estranged from her own sister, Paula helps Alisha understand that redemption and peace can only happen when we face difficult truths. Partly inspired by the true experiences of a formed resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores themes of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender, race, and class dynamics.
Author: Wilfried Raussert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3946507794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Volume 3 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Author: V.K. SINHA
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647838746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The story written in the Ramayana seems to be very simple and straightforward, but it hides many secrets in its bosom. For the layman it is a story of good versus evil with evil getting a beating and good, being victorious, getting a rousing welcome. But there are many details that, if read carefully, reveal many secrets that have been hidden from the general society. The present author has tried to reveal those secrets but because of lack of space has limited himself to the revelation of just a few of those secrets. After a proper study, it seems that Ravana was not as bad as has been made out to be. It seems he had many grand ideas, but because the war was lost, the ideas also died. One of them, not mentioned in the book because of the lack of full details is that he had a medical system similar to the Red Cross that we have today. Similarly, there are many other details of Ravana that have been described. It turns out that Ravana was not that bad a person nor was it that Rama that did not have any fault in him. Ramayana emphasises that the victor is always a good and revered person and the loser is cursed by society.
Author: M. Krishnamacharya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sanskrit literature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Author: Kr̥shṇājī Pāṇḍuraṅga Kulakarṇī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sanskrit drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Wiebke Beushausen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351838776
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region’s history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean’s central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.
Author: Schrier, Karen
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 160960122X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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"This book brings together the diverse and growing community of voices on ethics in gaming and begins to define the field, identify its primary challenges and questions, and establish the current state of the discipline"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Julie H. Kim
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection Club, included in his tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for Detective Novelists the rule that "No Chinaman must figure in the story." In 1983, Ruth Rendell published Speaker of Mandarin, reflecting not only a change in British detective fiction but also a dramatic change in the British cultural landscape. Like much of the rest of British popular culture, the detective novel became more and more ethnically diverse and populated by characters with increasingly varied religious backgrounds. Ten essays examine the changing nature of British detective fiction, focusing on the shifting view of "otherness" of such authors as Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, Peter Ackroyd, Caroline Graham, Christopher Brookmyer, Denise Mina and John Mortimer. Unlike their American counterparts, British detective writers have been until recently, overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into ethnic diversity within a historically homogeneous culture. Religion has also played an important role in the genre, ranging from the moral certainty of the early part of the 20th century to the skepticism and hostility that is part of contemporary fiction. How this transition was made and how it reflects the changing nature of British culture are detailed here.
Author: Āi Pāṇḍuraṅgārāva
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788172016807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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On Valmiki, author of RamayanĐa.
