An incisive exploration of the Maoist insurgency in the heart of the country questions what India?s `growth story? really means today. An innocent adivasi cut down in his prime by the unholy nexus of ruthless Maoist rebels and corrupt bureaucrats; a highly educated Maoist ideologue who had to die because he sought an end to bloody conflict; a contractor bitter at having been left in the lurch by his corporate paymaster; and a young adivasi woman, recently in the news, who dared to challenge the status quo to emerge as an authentic voice of her people... It is their compelling stories, among several others, that Rohit Prasad felt driven to explore while travelling in Chhattisgarh for over two years. The result is Blood Red River, an impassioned weaving together of narrated history and hard fact, first-person accounts of those who have witnessed terrible violence and encounters with keepers of the law, both in the Indian government as well as Maoist ranks. It offers, too, a startling glimpse of the so-far-unrevealed role that corporate rivalry has played in thwarting vital industrial projects in the name of insurgency. Using Chhattisgarh as a microcosm, this multi-layered narrative is an immersive inquiry into the roles of different stakeholders in the no-holds-barred war over natural resources that has continued to ravage some of India?s mineral-rich states for more than three decades. Bold and unafraid to take sides, it leads the reader deep into a world where corruption and greed underlie ideological posturing and reveals the false dichotomies of India?s development paradigm.
If you have ever dared to dream big, this book will change your life. Through the true stories of two people ? Abhishek and Abhinav Sinha, founders of the IT organization, Eko ? who braved the rough road, Start-up Sutra presents entrepreneurship in its essence ? not a checklist to be crossed, but a passion to be lived. Bringing to life the daily dramas, the struggles in the trenches, the battles with inner demons and impossible external odds that need to be overcome on the journey to achievement, this inspiring, multi-layered story enumerates the five qualities that every entrepreneur must possess: courage, resilience, the capacity for creative action, dispassion, and faith in the intent of the universe.
Roy Aron stepped off a sun-kissed beach and plunged into the fiery pits of hell. He had a life-altering vision. To actualize his epiphany, he metaphorically descended the bowels of hell to grapple with man’s ruinous frailties. He followed in the footsteps of Dante Alighieri as he witnessed each of the nine sins: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. He came upon unexpected and macabre sagas, engaged in intriguing and enthralling events, which bore testimony to all that these sins manifest, and observed how the sinners end up sundering devastation around them. After observing the lowest of lows, he pulled himself out of these depths and vowed to fight the intoxicating attraction of sin. Roy undertook this odyssey, again and again, every year to make himself a better husband, a better father and a better human being. Journey with him through the heart of darkness, live through these bizarre and metamorphic incidents and emerge in the sunshine of hope.
An essential account of the major events of the twenty-first century Allegations that lab leaks led to a global pandemic. The astounding rise and fall of cryptocurrency. The proliferation of polarizing leaders. The continuous unrest in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Ukraine. It is clear that the world as we know it is rapidly unravelling. If you've ever caught yourself wondering: 'What's going on? How did we get here? Where are we headed?' this book has some answers for you. In clear prose, economist Rohit Prasad examines the major economic, geopolitical and social events of the current century, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the US debacle in Afghanistan, the rise of Trump, the appeal of Putin, the influence of Big Tech and the erosion of human relationships. Along the way, Prasad reveals how the ideology of 'rationality' helped build our world, and how the current fault lines represent its highest development as well as its last dance.
Everyone, in a family of reputed professionals of the town, has been successful in cracking the Worlds toughest exam in their first attempt but Pancham is unable to maintain the legacy. Father is furious at Panchams failure. Pancham thinks if he dies, the society won't trouble his family. Before the thought could take the shape of reality, an affectionate mother calms him down and sends him to the Sikh temple, where he meets a weird looking stranger with whom he takes an emotional roller coaster of conversations. Based on actual events, the story is influenced by the author's life who refused to believe the crowd and made his path for an unbelievable achievement.
About the Book: This book contains 30 Life Skills Lessons covered in 10 Units, which have the potential to differentiate an ordinary life from an extraordinary life in the long run. These life skills lessons are important enough to be taught in school, but unfortunately, these lessons do not find space in school books, even though school books are filled with many lessons,which a student might not be required to apply anywhere in their life. This book contains practical tips to cover and repair loopholes in your belief system, make you mentally tough, and improve your fitness, finances and relationships.
Hare Krishna! In adoration of Sri Jagannath, the classic, world-famous chariot festival, the Navakalevara tradition, the significance of the Mahaprasad, the hectic daily rituals and Mahalaxmivratt are unique and wonderful. Why and how, you ask? The learned Brahmins and Vedic philosophers established Him as the source of all happiness and cause of liberation. Many argue this ancient culture and tradition has immense potential to bind the whole world. It is the ultimate devotional stream for the unstable and straying humankind of the present world. But who consecrated this most pious, most sacred parambrahma in this king of pilgrim centers? Why is Purushotamkshetra most endeared to Mahavishnu? Why is the Lord as well as the place called purushotam here? Where was He before this? Who was brought alive by this great tradition? How did it happen and from when has it being going on? Niladrisha answers these questions, and ends all the skepticism associated with it. It will push the reader into a world of devotional thoughts. “Namastuvyam,Namastuvyam Namastyuvyam Namoh Namah. Saranam twam propannowsmi Jagannath Namoshstute”
What if, instead of worrying about life not living up to your expectations or others' expectations you just lived and loved each moment as if it were your last? And that's what this book is about. so use this book for healing your F*CKED UP MIND. ""DARING TALKS' gives you a better understanding of daily life talks and simple techniques to deal with some daily life problems. And helps you to pursue stress-free life.
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It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
This book addresses state-of-the-art systems and achievements in various topics in the research field of speech and language technologies. Book chapters are organized in different sections covering diverse problems, which have to be solved in speech recognition and language understanding systems. In the first section machine translation systems based on large parallel corpora using rule-based and statistical-based translation methods are presented. The third chapter presents work on real time two way speech-to-speech translation systems. In the second section two papers explore the use of speech technologies in language learning. The third section presents a work on language modeling used for speech recognition. The chapters in section Text-to-speech systems and emotional speech describe corpus-based speech synthesis and highlight the importance of speech prosody in speech recognition. In the fifth section the problem of speaker diarization is addressed. The last section presents various topics in speech technology applications like audio-visual speech recognition and lip reading systems.
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
The title of the book “Environment and Sustainable Development: Perspectives and Issues” itself represents that the book is having topics related to current environmental problems and its possible solutions. This edition of book focuses on the issues related to sustainable use and management of natural resources and e-waste management. Several methods to handle a wide spectrum of environmental issues are taken into account in numerous chapters. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Climate is changing across our planet, largely, as a result of human activities. Some of the book chapters also provide a holistic coverage of the climate change policies and role of India. Climate change and various infectious diseases, proposes a comprehensive set of solutions to resolve various issues related to environment. The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly severe, natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate, and the gap between the rich and poor is widening. The need for sustainable development has never been more pressing than present. Therefore, this book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing conversation, challenges and opportunities around many critical issues. The chapter in the book explore a wide range of topics related to sustainability, including the role of renewable energy, the need for sustainable agriculture, the importance of community engagement, and the impact of climate change. The authors come from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, and they are expert at their disciplines. The authors come from diverse academic and professional background, and their insight provide a valuable contribution to the ongoing conservation around environmental protection and sustainable development. The editors of this book are to be commended for bringing together such a diverse group of contributors, and for presenting a balanced and nuanced exploration of these complex issues.
Cross-border capital flows are important for South Africa. They fund the nation’s relatively large external financing needs and have important financial stability implications evidenced by the large capital outflows and asset price selloffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper adds to the literature on the drivers of South Africa’s capital flows by applying the ‘at-risk’ framework––which differentiates between the likelihood of “extreme” inflows (surges) and outflows (reversals) and of “typical” flows––to both nonresident and resident capital flows. Estimated results show that among nonresident flows, the portfolio debt component is most sensitive to changes in external risk sentiment particularly during reversals. This applies to flows to the sovereign sector. Nonresident equity flows, both portfolio and FDI, are most sensitive to domestic economic activity especially during surges. This applies to flows to the corporate and banking sectors. Results also suggest that resident flows, in particular the FDI component, tend to offset nonresident flows, thus acting as buffers against funding withdrawal during periods of global risk aversion.
This eminently relevant and thoroughly entertaining book reminds us that understanding more about health care helps us understand the larger world around us. With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it—from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies—is becoming more complex, not less? Rohit Khanna's Misunderstanding Health examines some of today's most revealing health care trends while imploring us to look at these issues with alacrity, humor, and vigilance. Over the course of eighteen short, engaging chapters, Khanna explains • how unexamined beliefs can endanger patients, drive cost, and increase bureaucracy • the "Dr. Google" effect on the ways that we seek (or eschew) care • why our health care costs more than in any other country • the unintended consequences of using rating sites like Yelp • what we can learn about health care from hurricanes • how social media influencers impact health care • how artificial intelligence can improve health care • why health screening programs are so complicated • what the industry is doing to combat health care fraud • what the big deal about legalizing medical cannabis is • how to think about behavioral "nudges" designed to improve health • why understanding how data are collected is critical to understanding what they can tell us • and much more Each provocative and easy-to-read chapter covers a familiar aspect of health care in a clear and succinct way. Offering inquisitive readers a warts-and-all view of American health care, Misunderstanding Health is the book that you'll want to read if you know enough to be frustrated by the system but want a deeper dive into its challenges and opportunities.
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