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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

A Novel

By: Padma Viswanathan

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From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 life, The Ever After demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril. In 2004, almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of Air India Flight 182 from Vancouver, two suspects are—finally—on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in North America, comes back to do a “study of comparative grief,” interviewing people who lost loved one in the attack. What he neglects to mention is that he, too, had family members who died on the plane. Then, to his delight and fear, he becomes embroiled in the lives of one family that remains unable to escape the undertow of the tragedy. As Ashwin finds himself less and less capable of providing the objective advice this particular family seeks, his surprising emotional connection to them pushes him to face his own losses. The Ever After imagines the lasting emotional and political consequences of a real-life act of terror, confronting what we might learn to live with and what we can live without.

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1593766130

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The Toss of a Lemon

By: Padma Viswanathan

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The Toss of a Lemon

By: Padma Viswanathan

In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that his includes a prediction, albeit a weak one, that he will die in his tenth year of marriage. Despite the ominous horoscope, Sivakami’s parents hesitate only briefly, won over by the young man and his family’s reputation as good, upstanding Brahmins. Once married, Sivikami and Hanumarathnam grow to love one another and the bride, now in her teens, settles into a happy life. But the predictions of Hanumarathnam’s horoscope are never far from her new husband’s mind. When their first child is born, as a strategy for accurately determining his child’s astrological charts, Hanumarathnam insists the midwife toss a lemon from the window of the birthing room the moment his child appears. All is well with their first child, a daughter, Thangam, whose birth has a positive influence on her father’s astrological future. But this influence is fleeting: when a son, Vairum, is born, his horoscope confirms that his father will die within three years. Resigned to his fate, Hanumarathnam sets himself to the unpleasant task of readying his household for his imminent death. Knowing the hardships and social restrictions Sivakami will face as a Brahmin widow, he hires and trains a servant boy called Muchami to help Sivakami manage the household and properties until Vairum is of age. When Sivakami is eighteen, Hanumarathnam dies as predicted. Relentless in her adherence to the traditions that define her Brahmin caste, she shaves her head and dons the white sari of the widow. With some reluctance, she moves to her family home to raise her children under the protection of her brothers, but then realizes that they are not acting in the best interests of her children. With her daughter already married to an unreliable husband of her brothers’ choosing, and Vairum’s future also at risk, Sivakami leaves her brothers and returns to her marital home to raise her family. With the freedom to make decisions for her son’s future, Sivakami defies tradition and chooses to give him a secular education. While her choice ensures that Vairum fulfills his promise, it also sets Sivakami on a collision course with him. Vairum, fatherless in childhood, childless as an adult, rejects the caste identity that is his mother’s mainstay, twisting their fates in fascinating and unbearable ways.

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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

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By: Padma Viswanathan

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Like Every Form of Love

A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

By: Padma Viswanathan

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Like Every Form of Love

A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

By: Padma Viswanathan

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person—all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story. Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life. But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his childhood that kept them connected for more than twenty years. Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named Harvey, a miner, farmer and communist. After Phillip’s mother left the family, Harvey advertised for a housekeeper-with-benefits. And so Del, the most glamorous and loving of stepmothers, stepped into Phillip's life. Del had hung out with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Mexico City before the Cuban revolution; she was also a convicted bank robber who had violated her parole and was suspected in her ex-husband’s murder. Phillip had long since lost track of Del, but when Padma said she’d like to write about her and about his own young life, he eagerly agreed. Quickly, though, Padma’s research uncovered hidden truths about these larger-than-real-life characters. Watching the effects on Phillip as these secrets, evasions and traumas came to light, she increasingly feared that when it came to the book or the friendship, only one of them would get out of this process alive. In this unforgettable memoir, Padma reflects on the joys and frictions of this strange journey with grace, humour and poetry, including original readings of Hans Christian Andersen fairytales and other stories that beautifully echo her characters’ adventures and her own. Like Every Form of Love is that rare thing: an irresistible literary page-turner that twists and turns, delivering powerful revelations, right to the very end.

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Random House Canada

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1039006213

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Imperial Babel

Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Padma Rangarajan

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Imperial Babel

Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century

By: Padma Rangarajan

At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain. Unlike other readings that cast colonial translation as primarily a tool for oppression, Rangarajan’s argues that translation changed both colonizer and colonized and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Imperial Babel explores the diverse political and cultural consequences of a variety of texts, from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siecle and from translation proper to its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants. Searching for translation’s trace enables a broader, more complex understanding of intellectual exchange in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced awareness of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century literature. Rangarajan argues that while bearing witness to the violence that underwrites translation in colonial spaces, we should also remain open to the irresolution of translation, its unfixed nature, and its ability to transform both languages in which it works.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823263622

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Like Every Form of Love

A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

By: Padma Viswanathan

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A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime

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The Toss of a Lemon

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Vintage Canada

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New Trends in Natural Dyes for Textiles

By: Padma Shree Vankar,Dhara Shukla

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New Trends in Natural Dyes for Textiles

By: Padma Shree Vankar,Dhara Shukla

New Trends in Natural Dyes for Textiles addresses 20 natural dyes that are finding innovative uses in industry and academia. It comprehensively addresses issues relating to natural dyes and dyeing problems, including efficient extraction and standardization of dyes, dyes structure, dyes characterization and identification. Readers working in the dyeing of textiles will learn how to improve practices to minimize environmental pollution, avoid bad dyeing, and select the best mordants to fix colorant compounds. Key benefits of natural dyes over synthetic are examined in detail, providing readers with an understanding of the importance of natural dyes and the proper methods for applying them.

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Woodhead Publishing

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0081026862

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The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920

By: Padma Anagol

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The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920

By: Padma Anagol

Grounded in a variety of rich and diverse source materials such as periodicals meant for women and edited by women, song and cookbooks, book reviews and court records, the author of this pioneering study mobilises claims for the existence of an Indian feminism in the nineteenth century. Anagol traces the ways in which Indian women engaged with the power structures-both colonialist and patriarchical-which sought to define them. Through her analysis of Indian male reactions to movements of assertion by women, Anagol shows that the development of feminist consciousness in India from the late nineteenth century to the coming of Gandhi was not one of uninterrupted unilinear progression. The book illustrates the ways in which such movements were based upon a consciousness of the inequalities in gender relations and highlights the determination of an emerging female intelligentsia to remedy it. The author's innovative study of women and crime challenges the notion of passivity by uncovering instances of individual resistance in the domestic sphere. Her study of women's perspectives and participation in the Age of Consent Bill debates clearly demonstrates how the rebellion of wives and their assertion in the colonial courts had resulted in male reaction to reform rather than the current historiographical claims that it was a response purely to threats posed by 'colonial masculinity'. Anagol's investigation of the growth of the women's press, their writings and participation in the wider vernacular press highlights the relationship between symbolic or 'hidden' resistance and open assertion by women.

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Routledge

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1351890808

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Agro Enterprises for Empowering Farm Women

By: T. Rathakrishnan,S.R. Padma

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Agro Enterprises for Empowering Farm Women

By: T. Rathakrishnan,S.R. Padma

This book gives a broad idea about the importance of such enterprises which are feasible for farm women. Techniques of Mushroom production, Layer production and Value addition of fruits and vegetables were the enterprises covered in detail in this book. This book will serve as a valuable reference material for upcoming entrepreneurs, field functionaries of women development programmes, food processing industries, NGOs, public and private sector training centers, graduates and agricultural other related enterprises.

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Scientific Publishers

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9386237601

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9789386237606

Rosemary Class 5 Semester 2

By: Dr Lucy Shaily,Manish Agarwal,V. Madhavi,R. S. Dhauni,S.S. Sharma,Ashima Arora,Kavita Thareja,Harshita Khandelwal,Jyoti Sharma,Padma Kumari Khatri,Ameesha D’Cruz,Aparna Khan,Mahak Kalra

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Rosemary Class 5 Semester 2

By: Dr Lucy Shaily,Manish Agarwal,V. Madhavi,R. S. Dhauni,S.S. Sharma,Ashima Arora,Kavita Thareja,Harshita Khandelwal,Jyoti Sharma,Padma Kumari Khatri,Ameesha D’Cruz,Aparna Khan,Mahak Kalra

Our new semester series, Rosemary-An Activity-based Integrated Course for Classes 1 to 5, has meticulously followed the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, and the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2023. Pramanas, Panchakosha Vikas, and Panchpadi, the three main constituents, have been used significantly through the explanations, examples, and exercises used in this series. It means the focus has shifted to the process of learning. This series envisages conceptual understanding as a continuous process. The books for Classes 1 and 2 include English, Mathematics, Environmental Studies, and General Knowledge. For Classes 3 to 5, the subjects expand to include English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and General Knowledge. In developing this educational series, considerable attention has been focused on creating an engaging and enjoyable learning environment. This approach aims to establish a solid educational foundation for young learners, contributing to their all-around growth and development at every educational level. The series is characterised by several notable features: • Integrates key educational concepts with visually appealing activities, interactive games, and practical real-world examples • Methodically structured and comprehensive exercises, ensuring thorough assessment and understanding • Robust online support, including animated tutorials, interactive modules, subject-specific videos, and digital books (exclusively for teacher use), tailored to meet the needs of each topic ENGLISH: Combines with historical and contemporary elements, it focuses on interest-based selections to engage learners and improve memory retention. It emphasises the four key language skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing) with clear grammar explanations. MATHEMATICS: With engaging and thorough presentation of concepts, it is suitable for all learning levels, using a graded and age-appropriate approach. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: It focuses on analysis and inquiry, encouraging learning through discussion, observation, and conversation. SCIENCE: It offers meaningful learning by connecting scientific concepts to students' everyday experiences and the natural world. SOCIAL STUDIES: In this subject, innovative teaching methods are used to enhance life skills, civic understanding, and prepare students for life's challenges. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: It is designed to incite curiosity and a passion for learning about the world. Online support in the form of animated Lesson, interactive exercises, topic-wise videos and E-books (for Teachers only) as per the requirement of the subject. Teachers' Resource Book (TRB) includes Lesson Plan and Learning Objectives along with the answers of the questions to facilitate teaching. Feedback from students, teachers, and parents is welcomed for consideration in future updates and editions. -The Publisher

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Goyal Brothers Prakashan

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9357269991

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Book's by Padma Viswanathan

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

The Toss of a Lemon

The Toss of a Lemon

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

Like Every Form of Love

Like Every Form of Love

Imperial Babel

Imperial Babel

Like Every Form of Love

Like Every Form of Love

The Toss of a Lemon

The Toss of a Lemon

New Trends in Natural Dyes for Textiles

New Trends in Natural Dyes for Textiles

The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920

The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920

Agro Enterprises for Empowering Farm Women

Agro Enterprises for Empowering Farm Women

Rosemary Class 5 Semester 2

Rosemary Class 5 Semester 2

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