With such witty and humorous stories, I found myself immersed in a world of laughter and heartfelt moments from the very first page. The author has seamlessly woven together stories about camaraderie, friendship and the complexities of human nature. In their witty and candid style, the stories reveal the power of humour in the face of challenges that life may throw at us. The book makes one nostalgic, gives a new-found appreciation for incredulity and thoroughly entertains, in laugh-out-loud moments! Through his narration of mad escapades and “leg-pulling” episodes, the author has created a warm and fuzzy world of longing and hilarity. – Tamal Saha Independent Journalist News The Truth
The essays gathered here alternately adjust the focal length of the critical lens brought to bear upon texts and contexts in the area of Indian writing in English. They bring into view both intense engagements with major voices in this literary scene and the wider socio-historical perspectives in which they have thrived. Three clearly defined sections on the genres of poetry, prose, and drama are augmented by three incisive interviews with the diasporic Indian English poet Bashabi Fraser, the renowned Indian English fiction writer Kunal Basu, and the premier Indian English playwright Mahesh Dattani. The volume will appeal to students and teachers of postcolonial and comparative literatures. It raises crucial and timely questions about the state of culture in India and the world, the crisis of intolerance, and the loss of memory and diversity. It hones a post-millennial perspective on literature written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
With such witty and humorous stories, I found myself immersed in a world of laughter and heartfelt moments from the very first page. The author has seamlessly woven together stories about camaraderie, friendship and the complexities of human nature. In their witty and candid style, the stories reveal the power of humour in the face of challenges that life may throw at us. The book makes one nostalgic, gives a new-found appreciation for incredulity and thoroughly entertains, in laugh-out-loud moments! Through his narration of mad escapades and “leg-pulling” episodes, the author has created a warm and fuzzy world of longing and hilarity. – Tamal Saha Independent Journalist News The Truth
Following the emergence of lasers and optical fibers, optical networking made its beginning in the 1970s with high-speed LANs/MANs. In the 1980s, when the bandwidth of intercity microwave links turned out to be inadequate for digital telephony, the technology for single-wavelength optical communications using SONET/SDH arrived as a saviour to replace the microwave links. However, single-wavelength links couldn't utilize the huge bandwidth (40 THz) of optical fibers, while the bandwidth demands kept soaring. This necessitated the use of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) for concurrent transmission over multiple wavelengths, increasing the available bandwidth significantly. Today, optical networking has become an indispensable part of telecommunication networks at all hierarchical levels. The book Optical Networks provides a graduate level presentation of optical networks, capturing the past, present and ensuing developments with a unique blend of breadth and depth. The book is organized in four parts and three appendices. Part I presents an overview and the enabling technologies in two chapters, Part II presents the single-wavelength optical networks in three chapters, while Part III deals with the various forms of WDM optical networks in four chapters. Finally, Part IV presents some selected topics in six chapters, dealing with a number of contemporary and emerging topics. Optical Networks provides a comprehensive all-in-one text for beginning graduate as well as final-year undergraduate students, and also allows R&D engineers to quickly refresh the basics and then move on to emerging topics.
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