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Kith

By: Divya Victor

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kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations. In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith' might mean outside of the national boundaries of those people belonging to the Indian and South East Asian diasporas. Through an engagement with the effects of globalization on identity formation, cultural and linguistic exchange, and demographic difference, Kith explores questions about race and ethnic difference: How do 'brownness' and 'blackness' emerge as traded commodities in the transactions of globalization? What are the symptoms of belonging? How and why does 'kith' diverge from 'kin,' and what are the affects and politics of this divergence? Historically-placed and well-researched, Kith is an unflinching and simultaneous account of both systemic and interpersonal forms of violence and wounding in the world today. Praise for Kith: "For Divya Victor, history is a wound. And the poet's language is bright like the white bandage on which blood shows more clearly. What we have on display in this book is an imagination that is as wide as the world. Part-anthem, part-instruction manual, part-memoir, part-dictionary, this text offers testimony to other ways of being and remembering, a reflection on forgotten lives. I read most of Kith in airplanes and airports, and found myself paying greater attention to everyone around me. I was grateful for Victor's long sentences that spilled into seemingly every corner of our contemporary reality--these sentences that describe so well our locked destinies and, at the same time, perhaps because of their wit, or vitality, or compassion, deliver us into liberated zones of heightened consciousness." -- Amitava Kumar, author of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm A Tiny Bomb Kith is a luminous work of "Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering," as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha might say, the dead flittering out of her thrifted coats with kith in their mouths. Kith, like neighbor, friend, enemy, or community, is a kind of conceptual limit, "not of blood and yet belonging"; not kin, which it is often confused with, but kindred, kinship, and also knowledge. Yet in Kith, it turns out that kith is also kin and kin is also kith and the neighbor is also friend, enemy, and the other neighbor's neighbor, and "we" are all stuck here at the limits of language grasping for new forms of community and belonging when those words suck too yet refuse to burn. Lodged within this "atlas of mangle" known as now-time is something at the helm of being named--Kith's offering, Kith's knowledge, Kith's open boat, Kith's astounding "shriek frightful." Where were you when it will happen? --Rachel Zolf

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Book*hug Press

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1771663227

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9781771663229

Odyssey

Short Stories by Indian Women Writers Settled Abroad

By: Divya Mathur

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Odyssey

Short Stories by Indian Women Writers Settled Abroad

By: Divya Mathur

Collection Of Short Stories.

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140

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Star Publications

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8171440533

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9788171440535

Religion and Poverty

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 02/2015

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Waleed Chellan,Logan Cochrane,Divya Kannan,Alvin Lim,Atara Moscovich,Sabine Müller,Jeremiah Unterman

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Religion and Poverty

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 02/2015

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Waleed Chellan,Logan Cochrane,Divya Kannan,Alvin Lim,Atara Moscovich,Sabine Müller,Jeremiah Unterman

Nowadays religions are especially important for those who are living in countries of the formerly so-called 'Third World'. The miseries of life seem to be so hard that just an afterlife in a transcendent paradise is promising relief. Consequently, there seems to be a close connection between religion and poverty, especially in the 21st century, when the hope for a better afterlife has become a driving force of the poor population of the world. However, what could be interpreted as a proof of the Marxist doctrine of religion as opium of the people, for sure deserves a more multiperspectival approach, which would not just cover the recent years of human history, but past centuries as well as the different religions around the globe. Therefore the second issue of Global Humanities traces the interrelationship between religion and poverty not only from a historical, but also from a sociological, religious and artistic perspective.

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Neofelis Verlag

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3943414949

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9783943414943

Television and Adolescents: An Empirical Study

By: B.P. MAHESH CHANDRA GURU & K.P. Divya Kumari,K.P. DIVYA KUMARI

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Television and Adolescents: An Empirical Study

By: B.P. MAHESH CHANDRA GURU & K.P. Divya Kumari,K.P. DIVYA KUMARI

The impact of television on the lives of the people including the adolescents is widely investigated by the behavioral scientists and media scholars in the world. The present book is primarily based on an empirical investigation conducted by the authors in Karnataka state on the impact of television on adolescents. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health calls for accelerated action for the health and progress of adolescents. The book is the result of the comprehensive empirical study carried out by the authors. It contains about 07 chapters namely - salient features of television, determinants of personality, scientific study of adolescents, research on adolescents and television, the present investigation, empirical analysis and conclusion. It provides a comprehensive understanding on the need for developing a methodology of preventing the harmful effects of television on the personality of adolescents. The book is indeed, a welcome addition to the body of literature on television and adolescents. It also meets the objective of being a text book and reference that provides empirical evidence and practically relevant guidelines pertaining to the role of television in the development of adolescents. PROF. B.P. MAHESH CHANDRA GURU (b.1957) was born at Gundlupet, Karnataka in a family with the background of agriculture and government service. He obtained Master’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication (1980) from the University of Mysore and PhD in Development Communication (1997) from Mangalore University. He has served for about four decades as a journalist, development researcher, media scholar and social activist in the country. Foreword by PROF. SANJAY DWIVEDI Director General Indian Institute of Mass Communication JNU New Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, Delhi

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PS Opus Publications

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8194731844

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9788194731849

Landscape, Race and Memory

Material Ecologies of Citizenship

By: Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly

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Landscape, Race and Memory

Material Ecologies of Citizenship

By: Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Whilst the relationships between the political value of landscape and national memory have previously been written through, there has been little mention of postcolonial, 'diasporic' racialized citizens. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. It uses memory to examine how postcolonial citizenship in Britain is experienced - through remembered citizenships of 'other' geographies abroad. By reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, the book reveals social-historical narratives about migration, citizenship and belonging. New spaces of memory are presented as mobile and as politically charged with meaning as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book offers a refiguring of race memory as being critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on memory, race and landscape.

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183

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Routledge

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1317108191

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9781317108191

The Final Battle of Life

By: Divya Bhadouria

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The Final Battle of Life

By: Divya Bhadouria

The actions and adventures revolving around our life is an admixture of both good and bad. It is not that we always win our battles, but also we learn to be further superior from our failures. "The Final Battle of Life", presented by Souvik Sengupta, offers the readers a new perspective on how to overcome the hardships and reach to the glory of life. This book is compiled by Divya Bhadouria, in association with many co-authors. The co-authors present their viewpoints through their literary brilliance. This book offers a variety of short stories and poems based on the importance of life, to win the battles of life with patience and love; and to overcome the failures with hard work and dedication, and to achieve the confidence one requires to conquer all the battles of life.

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The Little Booktique Hub

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8194808529

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9788194808527

Merchants of Virtue

Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia

By: Divya Cherian

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Merchants of Virtue

Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia

By: Divya Cherian

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390067

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9780520390065

Accountancy Book for Class 11 | CBSE (NCERT Solved) | Examination 2023-2024 | by VK Global Publications

By: Divya Sharma

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Accountancy Book for Class 11 | CBSE (NCERT Solved) | Examination 2023-2024 | by VK Global Publications

By: Divya Sharma

Overview in the beginning of each chapter presents the basic structure, major topics covered and the central idea of the subject matter at hand. 1. Must Know section of each chapter provides ready practice through a variety of solved NCERT questions. 2. Questions with incomplete information/missing figures provide ability to hypothesize a constrained range of figures and/or entries for the missing items. 3. Assess Yourself is the range of exercises at the end of each chapter. It constitutes typology of questions comprising remembering, understanding and application-based questions. 4. A Collage of Chapter-wise Objective Type Questions comprising of O MCQs O Fill ups O True or False O Assertion-Reason Questions O Case-based Questions

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VK Global Publications

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9356122180

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9789356122185

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology

By: S.B. Divya,Mur Lafferty,N.K. Jemisin,Cory Doctorow,Ken Liu

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Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology

By: S.B. Divya,Mur Lafferty,N.K. Jemisin,Cory Doctorow,Ken Liu

The fifteenth anniversary of the Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast Escape Pod, featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers. Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world, at the forefront of a new fiction revolution. This anthology gathers together fifteen stories, including new and exclusive work from writers such as from Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, Mary Robinette Kowal, T. Kingfisher and more. From editors Mur Laffterty and S.B. Divya comes the science fiction collection of the year, bringing together bestselling authors in celebration of the publishing phenomenon that is, Escape Pod.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1789095026

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9781789095029

2016 Annual Indices For Expatriates And Ordinary Residents On Cost Of Living, Wages And Purchasing Power For World's Major Cities

By: Khee Giap Tan,Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen,Divya Chandran,Kong Yam Tan

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2016 Annual Indices For Expatriates And Ordinary Residents On Cost Of Living, Wages And Purchasing Power For World's Major Cities

By: Khee Giap Tan,Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen,Divya Chandran,Kong Yam Tan

As cities continue to play an increasingly significant role in driving economic growth in many countries, competition among cities have shifted from the national level to the global arena. In this context, international benchmarks for cities are vital for businesses and individuals to make informed decisions. In particular, cost of living, wages and purchasing power are of great interest to employees, employers, multinational corporations and policy-makers as basic indicators tracking urban living standards.This publication by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) provides annual indices and rankings for cost of living for expatriates as well as indices and rankings for cost of living, wages and purchasing power for ordinary residents in 103 global cities since 2005. The ACI's study reflects salient differences in costs of living for expatriate and ordinary urban dwellers which arise from variations in their lifestyles and consumption preferences. This is of critical significance as cost of living for the former is usually conflated as that for the latter by the general public. In this book, we also delve into the analysis of the nexus between liveability, cost of living and purchasing power. We outline the trends and patterns of these benchmarks and explore if there are trade-offs between liveability and affordability. The ACI's study has received considerable interest from reputable media outlets such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Edge Malaysia.

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World Scientific

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9813227222

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9789813227224

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Kith

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Odyssey

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Religion and Poverty

Religion and Poverty

Television and Adolescents: An Empirical Study

Television and Adolescents: An Empirical Study

Landscape, Race and Memory

Landscape, Race and Memory

The Final Battle of Life

The Final Battle of Life

Merchants of Virtue

Merchants of Virtue

Accountancy Book for Class 11 | CBSE (NCERT Solved) | Examination 2023-2024 | by VK Global Publications

Accountancy Book for Class 11 | CBSE (NCERT Solved) | Examination 2023-2024 | by VK Global Publications

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology

2016 Annual Indices For Expatriates And Ordinary Residents On Cost Of Living, Wages And Purchasing Power For World's Major Cities

2016 Annual Indices For Expatriates And Ordinary Residents On Cost Of Living, Wages And Purchasing Power For World's Major Cities

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