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Women Entrepreneurship in India

Understanding the Role of NGOs

By: Namita Kumari

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Women Entrepreneurship in India

Understanding the Role of NGOs

By: Namita Kumari

The starting point for the book is the low economic activity of women in India, and hence, both governmental and NGO-based activities to raise the level of women’s participation to Indian economy, and through that, the increase in women’s economic and social independence. The book focuses on elementary and important issues of entrepreneurship and women in any economy. Prof. Anne Kovalainen School of Economics University of Turku, Finland The book focuses on three NGOs and their activities in enhancing and promoting women’s entrepreneurial activities in three different areas in India. The empirical material consists of interview materials as well as background data and reports, national level statistics and other figures that are used to describe the Indian situation in general, and specifically those conditions from where women’s entrepreneurial activities arise, such as gender equality and legislation frameworks. The book is very important, not only for the women’s entrepreneurship and economic activity but for the Indian society at large. Prof. Paola Villa Department of Economics University of Trento, Italy This book is a product of extensive and intensive research. The book aptly highlights and proves the importance of NGOs in promoting women entrepreneurship. Given the rigors of research methodology, the book will also serve as a model for future research on the related dimensions of women entrepreneurship. Prof. Italo Trevisan Department of Economics and Management University of Trento, Italy Women’s empowerment in India remains a daunting task for governmental and non-governmental organizations alike. Given the importance of economic empowerment of women, this study provides an overview of the entrepreneurship as a means to economic empowerment of Indian women. Dr. Suman Sharma Officer on Special Duty(OSD) Dayal Singh College (Evening) University of Delhi

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Notion Press

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9383808969

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9789383808960

The Mice in the Woods

By: Namita Kumari Thapar

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The Mice in the Woods

By: Namita Kumari Thapar

In memory of my loving mother, Shashi Prabha Thapar, my elementary school English project has now become a reality, three decades later. I also want to dedicate this book to my beautiful nieces, Siara (youngest) and Suriya and Surina (the twins). And a special thanks to my number one fan, my stepdaughter, who inspired me to get this little story edited, illustrated and printed and persuaded me to share this book with young kids all around the world. I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I did writing it when I was a little girl.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984510851

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Priya

In Incredible Indyaa

By: Namita Gokhale

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Priya

In Incredible Indyaa

By: Namita Gokhale

India is shining, and Suresh Kaushal, the stout lawyer -of sober habits', has propelled himself up the political ladder to become Minister of State for Food Processing, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Canneries. His wife Priya can't believe their luck and, determined to ensure it doesn't run out, struggles valiantly with -social vertigo', infidelity and menopause. Along the way she also learns vital lessons on survival, as she watches her glamorous new friend Pooonam chase status, sex and Jimmy Choo shoes, and her radical old friend Lenin ride a donkey and lose his bearings. In this wickedly funny, occasionally tender, book, Namita Gokhale resurrects some unforgettable characters from her 1984 cult bestseller Paro, and plunges them neck-deep into Delhi's toxic waste of power, money and greed.

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211

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Penguin UK

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818475874X

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9788184758740

In Search Of Sita

Revisiting Mythology

By: Namita Gokhale

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In Search Of Sita

Revisiting Mythology

By: Namita Gokhale

Sita is one of the defining figures of Indian womanhood, yet there is no single version of her story. Different accounts coexist in myth, literature and folktale. Canonical texts deify Sita while regional variations humanize her. Folk songs and ballads connect her timeless predicament to the daily lives of rural women. Modern-day women continue to see themselves reflected in films, serials and soap operas based on Sita’s narrative. Sacrifice, self denial and unquestioning loyalty are some of the ideals associated with popular perceptions of Sita. But the Janaki who symbolized strength, who could lift Shiva’s mighty bow, who courageously chose to accompany Rama into exile and who refused to follow him back after a second trial, is often forgotten. However she is remembered, revered or written about, Sita continues to exert a powerful influence on the collective Indian psyche. In Search of Sita presents essays, conversations and commentaries that explore different aspects of her life. It revisits mythology, reopening the debate on her birth, her days in exile, her abduction, the test by fire, the birth of her sons and, finally, her return to the earth—offering fresh interpretations of this enigmatic figure and her indelible impact on our everyday lives.

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Penguin UK

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935118420X

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9789351184201

The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns

By: Amir Peerzada,Anoo Bhuyan,Kalpish Ratna,M.G. Radhakrishnan,Namita Bhandare,Omkar Goswami,Pooja Dhingra,Saba Naqvi,Soutik Biswas

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The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns

By: Amir Peerzada,Anoo Bhuyan,Kalpish Ratna,M.G. Radhakrishnan,Namita Bhandare,Omkar Goswami,Pooja Dhingra,Saba Naqvi,Soutik Biswas

At a mere four hours’ notice, at 8.00 p.m., on March 24th 2020, the Indian Prime Minister Modi announced a lockdown to contain the spread of virus in order to jumpstart an already-crumbling healthcare system for one of the most devastating pandemics soon to envelop India. People stormed out to panic-buy ration stocks; India’s migrant working classes started walking back to the villages, left hungry and desolate without homes, work and wages - a scene not very short of an apocalypse. Over two summers, India woke up to similar headlines: a shortage of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines; a languishing economy; cases rising and falling; governments greenlighting Hindu religious, superspreader that compounded the second wave; misled unlocking schools, business and the social sphere, and reversed lockdowns when cases went up; underreporting of cases and deaths; lakhs dead to the virus and crores of people infected, and still counting. While the pandemic continues to rage on, notwithstanding its ebbs and flows, its real impact on society may start to be visible only much later. Over a year of tracking how the pandemic ravaged India’s society, economy, politics and culture, nine of finest India’s writers try and make sense of this difficult reality. The Dark Hour is a publisher’s anthology of specially commissioned long-form essays that unpack two dreadful summers of the pandemic that wreaked havoc on the many Indias within India.

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Roli Books Private Limited

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8195256678

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9788195256679

A Himalayan Love Story

By: Namita Gokhale

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A Himalayan Love Story

By: Namita Gokhale

A story of unrequited love. This is the story of Parvati, young, beautiful and doomed, and Mukul Nainwal, the local boy made good who returns to the Nainital of his youth to search for the only woman he has ever loved, a search that will bring him face to face with all that he has lost and can never reclaim.

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Penguin Books India

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0143028723

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Subjects That Matter

Philosophy, Feminism, and Postcolonial Theory

By: Namita Goswami

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Subjects That Matter

Philosophy, Feminism, and Postcolonial Theory

By: Namita Goswami

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice. In this ambitious book, Namita Goswami draws on continental philosophy, postcolonial criticism, critical race theory, and African American and postcolonial feminisms to offer postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice. Moving among and between texts, traditions, and frameworks, including the work of Gayatri Spivak, Theodor Adorno, Barbara Christian, Paul Gilroy, Neil Lazarus, and Hortense Spillers, among others, she charts a journey that takes us beyond Eurocentrism by understanding postcoloniality as the pursuit of heterogeneity, that is, of a non-antagonistic understanding of difference. Recognizing that philosophy, feminism, and postcolonial theory share a common concern with the concept of heterogeneity, Goswami shows how postcoloniality empowers us to engage more productively the relationships between these disciplines. Subjects That Matter confronts the ways Eurocentrism, an identity politics that considers difference as inherently oppositional, relegates minority traditions to a diagnostic and/or corrective standpoint to prevent their general implications from playing a critical and transformative role in how we understand subjectivity and agency. Through unexpected, often surprising, and thought-provoking analytic connections and continuities, this book’s interdisciplinary approach reveals a postcolonial pluralism that expands philosophical resources, confounds and limits our habitual disciplinary lexicons, and opens up new areas of inquiry. “This is a groundbreaking contribution to a number of distinct but intersecting fields.” — Amy Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

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270

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SUNY Press

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1438475675

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9781438475677

Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women

By: Namita Gokhale

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Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women

By: Namita Gokhale

‘The history of women is left to us in folklore and tradition, in faintly-remembered lullabies and the half-forgotten touch of a grandmother’s hand, in recipes, ancestral jewellery, and cautionary tales about the limits of a woman’s empowerment. Mountain Echoes describes the Kumaoni way of life through the eyes of four highly-talented and individualistic women. Their recollections mirror a social universe that no longer exists, that has been dissolved in the mainstream of modernization and urbanization, of democracy, education and emancipation. Shivani, Tare Pande, Jiya, and Shakuntala Pande were all alive and well when this book was first published in 1998. In the midst of all the rapid and unrecognizable charge that surrounds us, their stories and their memories are distilled into an even more precious evocation of times past.’

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Roli Books Private Limited

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9351941809

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9789351941804

In Search of Delhi

A Translation of Brij Kishan Chandiwala's Dilli ki Khoj

By: Jitender Gill,Namita Sethi

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In Search of Delhi

A Translation of Brij Kishan Chandiwala's Dilli ki Khoj

By: Jitender Gill,Namita Sethi

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in 1964 and has been out of print for many years. This English translation of Dilli ki Khoj revives an out-of-print classic and makes it more accessible to a global audience. The book covers Delhi’s long history, details on monuments built from the ancient times till the early 1960s and a detailed recording of all of Gandhiji’s visits to Delhi. It also traces significant epochs in Indian history and the rise of a national identity. The volume spans the genres of journalism, architecture, history, mythology and area studies and will be of special interest to historiographers, especially in the contemporary context.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000873269

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The Mice in the Woods

By: Namita Kumari Thapar

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The Mice in the Woods

By: Namita Kumari Thapar

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Book's by Namita Kumari

Women Entrepreneurship in India

Women Entrepreneurship in India

The Mice in the Woods

The Mice in the Woods

Priya

Priya

In Search Of Sita

In Search Of Sita

The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns

The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns

A Himalayan Love Story

A Himalayan Love Story

Subjects That Matter

Subjects That Matter

Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women

Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women

In Search of Delhi

In Search of Delhi

The Mice in the Woods

The Mice in the Woods

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