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Love in Seven Easy Steps

A Novella

By: Gayathri Prabhu

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Love turns up, taking seven easy steps. Towards and away, wandering in its own light. She and he live on the shores of different seas. They meet one evening on her shore, Goa. All flows easy in the cover of night. Then life and love make other plans, drifting together and apart. A decade lapses. She and he will meet again, another evening by her sea. Love in Seven Easy Steps is a novella in prose poetry that celebrates the ways in which love charms, defies and lingers in us. Gayathri Prabhu is the author of a memoir, four novels and a study of cinema. She lives between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.

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Magic Mongrel Publishers

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8195040713

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Shadow Craft

Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

By: Gayathri Prabhu,Nikhil Govind

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Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

By: Gayathri Prabhu,Nikhil Govind

The years between Indian independence (1947) and the dominance of colour cinema (early 1960s) saw the emergence and fruition of a distinct, confident, and nuanced black and white aesthetic in Hindi mainstream cinema. Shadow Craft is an ardent and immersive study of cinematic craftings that emblematise the oeuvres of Kamal Amrohi, Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and Abrar Alvi. Films such as Aag (1948), Mahal (1949), Seema (1955), Pyaasa (1957), Sujata (1959), Kagaz Ke Phool (1959), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Bandini (1963) remain formative to the visual psyche of generations of South Asian viewers. This enduring visual language demonstrates a minutely attuned and sympathetic camera, evocative pools of shadow, affect-rich atmospheric composition, and the visual autonomy of performance. With seventy five rare and curated images from the archives, Shadow Craft offers for the first time a consolidated and intimate journey through this pioneering black and white cinema aesthetic at its most expressive and climactic moment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9390176565

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9789390176564

Vetaal and Vikram

Riddles of the Undead

By: Gayathri Prabhu

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Vetaal and Vikram

Riddles of the Undead

By: Gayathri Prabhu

This riddle can end in two ways: speech and defeat, or silence and death.' Vetaal and Vikram is a playful retelling of one of India's most celebrated cycles of stories. The narrative of King Vikram and the Vetaal is located within the Kathasaritsagara, an eleventh-century Sanskrit text. The Vetaal who is neither living nor dead is a consummate storyteller, and Vikram is a listener who can neither speak nor stay silent. Together they are destined to walk a labyrinth of stories in the course of a moonless night in a cremation ground. In 1870, eleven of the Vetaal's stories were adapted to English by the famed scholar-explorer Richard Francis Burton who tailored them to his audience's gothic taste. Vetaal and Vikram is a contemporary response that includes Burton within its storytelling folds. Fantastical and delightful, this retelling dissolves the lines between speaker and listener, desire and duty, life and death.

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208

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Harper Collins

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9353573408

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9789353573409

Model Optimization Methods for Efficient and Edge AI

Federated Learning Architectures, Frameworks and Applications

By: Pethuru Raj Chelliah,Amir Masoud Rahmani,Robert Colby,Gayathri Nagasubramanian,Sunku Ranganath

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Model Optimization Methods for Efficient and Edge AI

Federated Learning Architectures, Frameworks and Applications

By: Pethuru Raj Chelliah,Amir Masoud Rahmani,Robert Colby,Gayathri Nagasubramanian,Sunku Ranganath

Comprehensive overview of the fledgling domain of federated learning (FL), explaining emerging FL methods, architectural approaches, enabling frameworks, and applications Model Optimization Methods for Efficient and Edge AI explores AI model engineering, evaluation, refinement, optimization, and deployment across multiple cloud environments (public, private, edge, and hybrid). It presents key applications of the AI paradigm, including computer vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), explaining the nitty-gritty of federated learning (FL) and how the FL method is helping to fulfill AI model optimization needs. The book also describes tools that vendors have created, including FL frameworks and platforms such as PySyft, Tensor Flow Federated (TFF), FATE (Federated AI Technology Enabler), Tensor/IO, and more. The first part of the text covers popular AI and ML methods, platforms, and applications, describing leading AI frameworks and libraries in order to clearly articulate how these tools can help with visualizing and implementing highly flexible AI models quickly. The second part focuses on federated learning, discussing its basic concepts, applications, platforms, and its potential in edge systems (such as IoT). Other topics covered include: Building AI models that are destined to solve several problems, with a focus on widely articulated classification, regression, association, clustering, and other prediction problems Generating actionable insights through a variety of AI algorithms, platforms, parallel processing, and other enablers Compressing AI models so that computational, memory, storage, and network requirements can be substantially reduced Addressing crucial issues such as data confidentiality, data access rights, data protection, and access to heterogeneous data Overcoming cyberattacks on mission-critical software systems by leveraging federated learning

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394219210

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9781394219216

Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings

Discussions on NGO Approaches in India

By: Gayathri Balagopal,Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee

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Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings

Discussions on NGO Approaches in India

By: Gayathri Balagopal,Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee

This book discusses approaches used by NGOs in formulating and implementing mental health care in the community in the context of high treatment gap, insufficient public expenditure on health, human resource shortages, heterogeneity of communities as well as cultural beliefs in India. It uses a qualitative case study approach to document and analyse the work of some major NGO-run community mental health programmes in India, all of which cater to vulnerable populations and are in different and diverse regional settings. It casts the spotlight on envisioning community mental health in policy and law, implementation by the government, how it is practised by select NGOs and the challenges involved in programme implementation. In doing so, it hopes to understand the trigger factors that have led to NGOs embarking on community mental health programmes: how needs of the community are understood, the funding mechanisms, how the human resource gap was addressed, type of networks formed in the community, therapeutic and social interventions, accountability mechanisms, achievements and limitations of the programmes. This book is for students and researchers in the fields of social work and psychology, and NGOs, government and funding agencies, and for those interested in understanding and working with community mental health programmes.

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Springer

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9811391017

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9789811391019

Shadow Craft

Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

By: Gayathri Prabhu,Nikhil Govind

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Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema

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Love in Seven Easy Steps

Love in Seven Easy Steps

Shadow Craft

Shadow Craft

Vetaal and Vikram

Vetaal and Vikram

Model Optimization Methods for Efficient and Edge AI

Model Optimization Methods for Efficient and Edge AI

Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings

Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings

Shadow Craft

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