A compilation of conversations between Dr Palash Sen of the enormously popular band Euphoria, and Pune-based visual artist Ashish Kate, this book acts as the official biography of Palash Sen, and is the first Rock-Book to come out of India.Palash muses about his life and music, his childhood and schooldays, and shares his life for another generation of musicians and doctors. The engaging tete-a-tete covers almost every subject under the sun - the Indian music industry, education, politics, life and art. It also includes the views of Palash's friends and peers from the industry such as Shubha Mudgal, Vidya Balan, Pradeep Sarkar, Shaan, and many more, which provide a fascinating insight into one of India's best known pop singers.
LOVE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY. BUT CAN TRUE LOVE OVERCOME DESTINY? When ASHU finds out that his so-called loved ones pampered him only till his father was living, he is heartbroken. After his father’s sudden demise, Ashu is left alone, fighting the world for every small bit of happiness. But he rediscovers love and affection in DISHA, who he meets at a job interview. Disha is an epitome of love and he finds his true happiness with her. Soon after their marriage, just as they are beginning to relish the little joys of life, Ashu is diagnosed with a fatal disease. The only way out is a transplant, which in itself is a life-threatening surgery. Will Disha’s overwhelming love, acceptance and sacrifice make the impossible possible? Holding On To Love is an astonishing true story of Ashu’s will to defeat destiny, backed by Disha’s faith in the power of their love.
If Einstein had been born in Kanpur, he might have been called Einsteinava and teased for his seemingly nonsensical theories, like his supposed discovery of gravity. Even young Arshad, at the age of seven, was jokingly referred to as Einstein, not because of his intelligence, but because everyone regarded him as unintelligent. Every day, his father, Nafees Miyaan, would insist on taking him to school, determined to prevent his son from following in his footsteps as a garage mechanic. This placed immense pressure on Arshad's elder brother, Soheb, to pursue the science stream in ninth grade. Nafees Mian harbored dreams of opening his own garage, while Arshad's mother, Nafisa, longed for a day when she could sleep without worrying about money. Arshad's grandmother, Rukhsar Begum, dreamt of becoming a cricket commentator. Even the guava tree in their courtyard, rendered sterile due to excessive pesticide spraying, yearned to bear sweet guavas. Every item in the house, painted blue – be it the tin utensils, wooden chairs, cupboards, or stools – wished to reveal its original color, obscured by layers of leftover distemper paint. Arshad’s best friend 8 year old collector dreamt of discovering Alibaba's treasure, while every household in the neighborhood, akin to Hawai Chacha, aspired to purchase roadside land and build rental shops. All the characters in this tale hail from your very neighborhood, familiar faces you've known for year
What is the one quality we all share? We are all narrators. Each of us has many stories to tell; good ones, bad ones, romantic ones, etc. Mr Amar Singh is a man with many problems. He has less income, more responsibilities and very less reputation, but this does not define him. Only one word can define him. He is a NARRATOR. On the other hand, there is Shri Satya Prakash Dubey, who has money, name and fame. However, he has a dark past and an uncertain future. He is the protagonist in the story told by Mr Amar Singh, which has colourful characters, who at times represent the grey shades of humanity. The Narrator travels between the meaninglessness of life to the meaningfulness of life. Just turn a few pages, and you will know how.
This rare constellation of varied literary themes both troubles and surprises the reader with its intruding narrative and its vast swathe of picturesque fabric. Swinging between the natural and the supernatural, its characters are not easy to judge since most of them bear the same name of Kabir. By not forcing new names with each subsequent story, the reader is forced to see the same character in his different lives and avatars – so that he may not judge one without sympathizing with the other, and may not condemn one without lauding the other. In The Watchdog, Kabir is a coarse ‘one-legged faint-hearted villain’ during the times of the Raj, who despises the order of the world, whereas, in The Prophecy, he’s forced to listen to a chiromancer as he interprets the hidden meanings in the lines of his palm; The Wall Phone and the Stack of Letters is a Sufi love story over a telephone; and, in the French city of Chandigarh, [a] Blind Man…sells cigarettes; there is Little Kabir, who is a thief and also a bibliophile; and there are others. Who will you judge, laud or condemn when it can very well be the same person?
The man of self-confidence is a master of destiny. He is positive and affirmative. Swami Vivekananda says, “The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.” At another place, he said, “Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convention, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, Have faith in this fellow or that fellow, but I say, Have faith in yourself first, that’s the way. Have faith in yourself. All power is in you. Be conscious and bring it out. Say, I can do everything.”
An eternal and unforgettable love saga. Inscrutable, indefinable love has evolved to the spiritual level and gone beyond the mundane realm of union and separation. Cupid god has his divine sport with two wretched innocent creatures with no mercy at his victims. The theme revolves around two characters- Shruti and Shreyas. The story of love at first sight and at one stage they were at the verge of marrying. But the father of the girl opts for a better son-in-law and decides to marry Shruti to the groom of his choice. Shreyas has long foreseen such a corollary of his love. He is ready to reconcile to his inevitable fate but his agony is exacerbated by insistent demand of Shruti he must be present at her marriage and extend his blessings to the couple. He accepts the invitation but realizes later that it is never an easy task to be present at one's sweetheart's marriage. I have always cherished an enduring dream of writing on the theme of love and love only. The Rose is an attempt towards that direction. Love is going to the perennial and permanent theme of this book and of all my books to come in future.
A compilation of conversations between Dr Palash Sen of the enormously popular band Euphoria, and Pune-based visual artist Ashish Kate, this book acts as the official biography of Palash Sen, and is the first Rock-Book to come out of India.Palash muses about his life and music, his childhood and schooldays, and shares his life for another generation of musicians and doctors. The engaging tete-a-tete covers almost every subject under the sun - the Indian music industry, education, politics, life and art. It also includes the views of Palash's friends and peers from the industry such as Shubha Mudgal, Vidya Balan, Pradeep Sarkar, Shaan, and many more, which provide a fascinating insight into one of India's best known pop singers.
A story of two ordinary boys and their quest to conquer the world, True Dummy engages with questions about existence, ambition and the meaning and purpose of life while addressing the most soul-searching dilemmas of the human race. The enlightening fable takes you on a timeless journey with its thought-provoking narrative, delightful short stories and allegorical landscapes with extraordinary images. Delve into the mysteries of existence and life and discover a fantastic world imbued with philosophical insights in Ashish Jaiswal’s True Dummy – a magical tale about the deepest human ambitions.
The Power of Portrayal: Movies and Culture" delves into the intricate relationship between cinema and society. This insightful book explores how movies shape and reflect cultural trends, examining various theories and concepts through film examples. It analyzes storytelling techniques, viewing colors as characters and uncovering metaphors that illuminate broader cultural themes. From B-grade cinema's impact on cultural norms to assumptions about male attractiveness and evolving beauty standards, this book reveals the profound influence of film on our understanding of culture and identity. With engaging insights and thought-provoking analysis, "The Power of Portrayal" is a must-read for anyone curious about the dynamic interplay between movies and society.
This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700. The book challenges the long-held centrality of the Roman factor in the South Asian economy by locating the Indo-Sasanian interactions in long distance economic networks with trade as a central feature. It considers the role and influence of traders as an understudied group affecting the contribution of the Indian economy to the world system. Amidst rapidly changing political landscapes, traders of Indian and Sasanian origins are studied as conscious political beings, who formed ties with varieties of polities and religious communities to secure their commercial interests. In addition, their commercial interactions with their Sogdian (Central Asia) and Aksumite (East Africa) counterparts are analyzed. The book also considers the nature of trade routes and the specific connections between mercantile and religious networks, including patterns of construction of religious shrines and temples along trade routes. Integrating epigraphic, numismatic, literary and archaeological evidence, this book moves away from a marginal treatment of the Indo-Sasanian trade in Indian history, and demonstrates how regional economic history must address a plurality of causes, actors, and processes in its assessment of the regional economy. The book will be of interest to students and academics of Indian economic history, as well as the ancient economies of South Asia more broadly.
The book emphasises on the oppression, marginalization, exploitation, segregation, and discrimination which women are subjected to from time immemorial. Gender is a social construct. The abuse of women is not only material reality, originating in economic conditions but also a psychological phenomenon—how men and women perceive one another. This anthology contains 24 scholarly papers that concern with theoretical issues and historical perspectives, with spatial metaphors, discourse analysis, challenges of women in the professional and domestic sphere, and various arenas. Compromise, rebellion, madness are some of the strategies contrived by women to defend and express themselves. The present book explores multifarious facets as Women Empowerment, Transculturation, Me Too, Women for Women, Women Education, Women and Cinema, Marginalised Women, Working Women, Gender Discrimination, Feminism, Women's Emancipation and Post Modernism. The papers included in this volume will provide in-depth insight into the subject and prove valuable to research scholars, teachers, academicians, and those interested in Gender Studies.
Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-305 and help demonstrate your real-world expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including identity, governance, monitoring, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure. Designed for modern IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions Design data storage solutions Design business continuity solutions Design infrastructure solutions This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, as well as experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes About the Exam Exam AZ-305 focuses on knowledge needed to design logging, monitoring, authentication, and authorization solutions; design governance, identities, and application access; design relational and non-relational data storage solutions; design data integration; recommend data storage solutions; design backup and disaster recovery solutions; design for high availability; design compute and network solutions, application architecture, and migration. About Microsoft Certification If you hold Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification, passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential. Passing this exam demonstrates your expert-level skills in advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Azure solutions; and in partnering with others to implement these solutions. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn
Fiber Crop–Based Phytoremediation: Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability provides an informative source of information on using fiber crops for phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is gaining attention globally due to ever-increasing numbers and areas of industrially polluted sites. The major challenge is to develop new and cost-effective solutions to decontaminate polluted sites. In this regard, plant-based remediation, especially using fiber crops, is a promising and cost-effective approach for environmental remediation on a large-scale due to its socio-economic and ecological sustainability. Furthermore, changing environmental conditions also cause various biotic and abiotic stresses in fiber crops and thereby negatively affect the fiber crop establishment, growth and yield.This book will be specifically important to these readers who need to be able to select specific fiber crop species according to site-specificity of the contaminated site. Provides up-to-date research and understanding on how to utilize fiber crops for the phytoremediation of contaminated land Covers a wide range of applicable fiber crops, including bast, grass and woody crops, allowing for the utilization of techniques regardless of specific fiber crop Details the uses and benefits of fiber crop phytoremediation on environmental, societal and economic development
This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE) solution, which helps to optimize the entire computing infrastructure--compute, storage, and network resources--so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads, but that happens automatically in a SDE. In an SDE, workloads are dynamically assigned to IT resources based on application characteristics, best-available resources, and service level policies so that they deliver continuous, dynamic optimization and reconfiguration to address infrastructure issues. Underlying all of this are policy-based compliance checks and updates in a centrally managed environment. Readers get a broad introduction to the new architecture. Think integration, automation, and optimization. Those are enablers of cloud delivery and analytics. SDE can accelerate business success by matching workloads and resources so that you have a responsive, adaptive environment. With the IBM Software Defined Environment, infrastructure is fully programmable to rapidly deploy workloads on optimal resources and to instantly respond to changing business demands. This information is intended for IBM sales representatives, IBM software architects, IBM Systems Technology Group brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone who is developing or implementing SDE.
The Most Authentic Source Of Information On Higher Education In India The Handbook Of Universities, Deemed Universities, Colleges, Private Universities And Prominent Educational & Research Institutions Provides Much Needed Information On Degree And Diploma Awarding Universities And Institutions Of National Importance That Impart General, Technical And Professional Education In India. Although Another Directory Of Similar Nature Is Available In The Market, The Distinct Feature Of The Present Handbook, That Makes It One Of Its Kind, Is That It Also Includes Entries And Details Of The Private Universities Functioning Across The Country.In This Handbook, The Universities Have Been Listed In An Alphabetical Order. This Facilitates Easy Location Of Their Names. In Addition To The Brief History Of These Universities, The Present Handbook Provides The Names Of Their Vice-Chancellor, Professors And Readers As Well As Their Faculties And Departments. It Also Acquaints The Readers With The Various Courses Of Studies Offered By Each University.It Is Hoped That The Handbook In Its Present Form, Will Prove Immensely Helpful To The Aspiring Students In Choosing The Best Educational Institution For Their Career Enhancement. In Addition, It Will Also Prove Very Useful For The Publishers In Mailing Their Publicity Materials. Even The Suppliers Of Equipment And Services Required By These Educational Institutions Will Find It Highly Valuable.
Applications of Nanotechnology in Cancer Chemotherapy offers a complete and concise summary of nanotechnological interventions for cancer management. It highlights the basics of oncology, the cancer microenvironment, targets for active drug delivery, the underlying mechanisms and molecular pathways to enhance the drug delivery to the cancer site. The book discusses the principles of basic and innovative nanocarrier-based therapeutic approaches to modulate the progression of the disease. In addition, this book also explores the evolving targeting approaches specific to the cancer site and type. The scope of the book is not limited to targeted drug delivery for various cancers, but also explores the advancements in cancer imaging and diagnostics employing the nanotechnological tools. Emphasis has been given on the important evaluation techniques like in-vitro cell culture and in-vivo animal models to assess the performance of cancer nanomedicines. The book includes clinical study reports of various drug moieties explored using variety of nanoconstructs in myriad cancer conditions with the input of global market and pharmacoeconomics. Discusses how organic and inorganic nanoplatforms are being used in cancer treatment Shows how nanotechnology is being used to create new and more accurate diagnostic tools Surveys the current generation of cancer nanomedicines, assessing their advantages and challenges
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