Author: Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9390358256
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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'A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life ... in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco... The book is one of a kind.' -Prathama Banerjee is a noted historian of the global south and Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. '[A] flâneur of our everyday spheres of life, [the author] excavates the multiple layers of social, political and artistic thinking and experimentation ... with an unparalleled lightness of prose worthy of a Balthasar Gracián and Georg Lichtenberg.' -Ramin Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and Vice Dean and Director at Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. '[The] book builds an engaging web of thoughts about things which are ordinary but in their very ordinariness hide deep social truths... Dev Nath Pathak brings a lightness to his critical eye while reminding us of how much of the ordinary has been forgotten in academic pursuits.' -Sundar Sarukkai is a renowned philosopher and thinker in contemporary India. In Defence of the Ordinary is laced with light humour, soaked in serious sarcasm and powered with poetic polemics. Informed by sources such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, yoga, anthropology, popular cinema, folk songs and everything that is part of an ordinary living, it is a sociologist's sincere ruminations on the layered ordinariness. The book invites us to rethink the ways of seeing, understanding, enacting, emoting and relating with provocative ideas like why we don't value ordinariness and how our pursuit of extraordinary is misleading us into mishaps. The key objective of the human existence is that of the book too, namely, awakening the dormant potentials of emancipation every day rather than waiting for an occasional charisma induced by a holy book or a secular gimmick or an orchestrated leadership.
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739158511
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Author: Henry Blake Fuller
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Baoumi, Hussein
Publisher: Djusticia
ISBN: 9585441411
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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What does justice mean in times of transition? What kinds of possibilities and dissapointments emerge from processes of seeking justice through transition? How might we understand these processes through narrative? In August 2015, a group of Global South human rights activists and researchers gathered in Colombia for a workshop organized around the theme of transitional justice. This book, the third in a series, is the result of the discussions performed in that encounter. The chapters in this volume illustrate many complexities of transitional justice processes from the perspective of young human rights advocates involved in these struggles, many with their own complicated personal connections to the search for justice. These advocates hail from countries that have divergent relationships with the notion of transitional justice, from places deeply embedded in its norms and processes, such as Argentina and Colombia, to countries undergoing various kinds of transitions on very different terms, such as Turkey and Mexico. All of the chapters, however, write the messiness of seeking justice through transitions, spanning from the personal and intimate to the national and global. Together, these chapters beautifully illustrate both the pain and the political possibilities that come from the inability to leave history in the past, as well as the creativity of individual and collective efforts to seek justice through transitions. They also demonstrate the beauty of speaking, working, and writing justice from the hear.
Author: Vani Hari
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401954561
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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This follow-up to New York Times bestseller The Food Babe Way exposes the lies we've been told about our food--and takes readers on a journey to find healthy options. There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies we've been fed about the food we eat--lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science we base our food choices on. You'll discover: • How nutrition research is manipulated by food company funded experts • How to spot fake news generated by Big Food • The tricks food companies use to make their food addictive • Why labels like "all natural" and "non-GMO" aren't what they seem and how to identify the healthiest food • Food marketing hoaxes that persuade us into buying junk food disguised as health food Vani guides you through a 48-hour Toxin Takedown to rid your pantry, and your body, of harmful chemicals--a quick and easy plan that anyone can do. A blueprint for living your life without preservatives, artificial sweeteners, additives, food dyes, or fillers, eating foods that truly nourish you and support your health, Feeding You Lies is the first step on a new path of truth in eating--and a journey to your best health ever.
Author: Amit Soni
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Shiva Rajan, a student of La Martiniere, lives with his mother in Calcutta. His mother, an alumna of Shantiniketan, had lost her husband before they could get married. She runs a dance academy in Calcutta. On one summer holiday, Shiva goes to his maternal grandparents where he learns so much about life and nature from his shepherd grandfather, Mansukh. He also finds some good friends there. Shaiva gets connected deeply with his grandmother, Sudha, when she narrates her real life’s stories to him. Sudha's father was a sculptor, which was inherited by Sudha. But she gets married in a very early age and her father dies just after few months of her marriage. Mansukh was a librated guy as he didn't care for anyone in house. He stays angry with his businessman father, Krishna Kantha who is in touch with Gandhi. Mansukh had lost his mother when he was just ten. He thinks that his father was responsible for the death of his mother when they lived in Surat, Gujarat. At the time when his mother died, his father was on the way to India from Johannesburg. On ship, Krishna Kantha meets Junior, an attendant of the cruise. Junior helps Krishna Kantha to meet Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi on the ship. Gandhi was returning from South Africa after a long struggle against apartheid. The characters of Gandhi and Junior both impresses him immensely. He signs an appointment letter for Junior as a CEO of his fabric company in South Africa and he himself decides to join Gandhi's movements for the freedom of their country. He reaches to the City Hospital in Surat where his wife was admitted but couldn't save her. He regrets for being away from his family. This affects Mansukh badly and he starts hating his father. Krishna Kantha sells everything what he had in Surat and return back to Shantiniketan. West Bengal. Mansukh starts attending music classes at Vishva Bharti, an university established by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Mansukh hates his father more when he gets remarried after falling in love with Vandana who he meets while participating in a movement of Gandhi in Champaran, Bihar. After a couple of years Krishna Kantha gets hanged being found guilty in a conspiracy against British government, but soon before his death Mansukh realizes his duties and he goes to meet his father in the prison. He regrets for his acts towards his father. They hug each other and weep in prison. After his father's death, Mansukh starts spending his days on mountains and forest. They attract him and he feels utmost peace and harmony among them. He chooses to become a shepherd. Shiva also starts going to the mountains with his shepherd grandfather where he meets Vani, a beautiful girl. Vani lives in a nearby village and comes to the mountains to graze her sheep with Shiva’s grandfather. Vani had never gone to school but her intellect impresses Shiva’s innocent mind. They become good friends. Shiva returns to his mother in Calcutta when his holiday gets over. But his fate defeats him and he loses his mother in a very young age of fifteen. His grandmother Sudha comes to live with him in Calcutta. Shiva recovers somehow and keeps continue his study. But this misery turns him into an author. He starts writing and becomes one of the most liked authors of his age. He decides to go back to his shepherd grandfather and write in mountains with peace. After years, he again meets Vani in the forest. This time he finds Vani more beautiful than before. He falls in love with her and mountains simultaneously. He learns some great things from his grandfather. He is astonished to see his grandfather's wild library in the forest and his collection of rarest books. One day, in the wild library, he finds his grandfather talking to Swami Dhirananada, a great monk of Himalayas. After few months, his grandfather decides to leave for Himalyas, but before leaving, he entrusts his truncheon, a symbol of a perfect shepherd, to Shiva.
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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Sudha Murty
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357089438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox-to be filled with food-wherever she goes! Written in Sudha Murty's inimitable style, Common Yet Uncommon is a heartwarming picture of everyday life and the foibles and quirks of ordinary people. In the fourteen tales that make up the collection, Sudha Murty delves into memories of childhood, life in her hometown and the people she's crossed paths with. These and the other characters who populate the pages of this book do not possess wealth or fame. They are unpolished and outspoken, transparent and magnanimous. Their stories are tales of unvarnished humans, with faults and big hearts. Testament to the unique parlance of a small town, Common Yet Uncommon speaks a universal language of what it means to be human.
Author: Peter M. Hamm
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889207941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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More than 450 years after their birth in the Anabaptist movement, 125 years after their secession from Russian Mennonitism, and 60 years after their immigration to Canada, the Mennonite Brethren exhibit specific and measurable signs of sectarian viability and religious vitality. To explain the persistence of the sect, Hamm analyses the process of sacralization within the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Church — which “safeguards identity, a system of meaning, or a definition of reality” — and the process of secularization — which “erodes boundaries, dislodges stable structures, and destroys identity.” It is an oversimplification, the author argues, to insist that the factors of continuity — ethical and cognitive norms, family solidarity, ethnicity, worship, evangelism, community and church structures, and service agencies — are solely integrative and that the factors of change — urbanization, education, occupational change, and economic affluence — are solely disruptive. Instead, a complex dialectic between the two processes is at work that prevents restrictive rigidity within the sect and excessive accommodation to the host society. According to the author, “this analysis of the Canadian Mennonite Brethren becomes a case study to test the utility of an identity theory of religion, which hinges on the integration/differentiation dialectic. It is, at the same time, a serious self-study in religious sociology, by which the author seeks to gain a better understanding of the processes of growth and decline, of continuity and change, and of the ongoing tension resulting from the religious movement’s confrontation with society.”
Author: Didier Fassin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118959507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics
