![]() ![]() Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers. ![]() Ramachandra Guha - Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. ![]() This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Get this from a library India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi a major anti-corruption movement more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy Kindle Edition by Ramachandra Guha (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 3,050 ratings 4.4 on Goodreads 16,494 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.74 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 30.73 7 Used from 31.45 14 New from 30. Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.Īfflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Winner of the 2018 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, that tunnel was much longer than anyone expected. She hit a pocket of bad air while tunneling, and got so turned around that when she unexpectedly emerged from the floor of the temple of Ganesh in the backwater town of Rath, she did so with relief. Like, say, when you read a single-volume collection of an awesome, epic webcomic that was originally published over the course of six years.ĭigger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels is a wombat. ![]() But sometimes, sometimes, you get the opportunity to see that growth as it happens. ![]() Most of the time, this change is imperceptible because it happens page by page and panel by panel. As they grow, so do the creators behind them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgia's Stone Mountain Park which is famous for its large rock carving of Confederate leaders planned to close on Saturday in response to a planned right-wing rally. ![]() ![]() ![]() STONE MOUNTAIN, GA - AUGUST 15: A woman argues with a far-right protester during a rally on Augnear the downtown of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Woodward’s earlier book about the Trump White House, “Fear,” was dismissed by Trump and his allies as fake, because so much of its material came from anonymous sources. The public lies that contradict his private admissions to Woodward, his repeated dismissal of the seriousness of the virus and his cavalier disdain for masks have surely contributed to the American carnage that the virus has left in its wake, with millions infected and more than 190,000 dead. Trump told Woodward, for instance, in early February, that he knew the coronavirus spreads through the air and is far more lethal than the flu. The usual White House playbook to deny and denounce unflattering Trump stories can’t be used against “Rage,” because Trump himself, in his own voice, is the book’s main source. In what we have heard so far, the President does an excellent job of hanging himself with his own rope. President Donald Trump gave 18 on-the-record interviews for “Rage.” Woodward recorded almost all of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth. Her text The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems is widely used in college poetry classes. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. A widely published poet and essayist, Frances Mayes has written numerous books of poetry, including Sunday in Another Country, After Such Pleasures, The Arts of Fire, Hours, The Book of Summer, and Ex Voto. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. “When you travel you become invisible if you want. ![]() ![]() The Just For Laughs Tour has been bringing some of its favourite comedians to Canadians from coast to coast for almost 20 years and is very excited to welcome our audience back into the theatre for live shows, and we are committed to doing so safely. $1 per ticket sold (less taxes) will be donated to Movember. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tour will provide Movember with an additional platform to bring continued awareness to men’s health, including mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Just For Laughs is also proud to once again be partnering with Movember on the Just For Laughs Comedy Tour. Tickets go on sale Monday, November 26 at 10:00 AM. The Tour will stop in Hamilton at the FirstOntario Concert Hall on Apat 7:30 PM. Together, these comedians will visit 18 prestigious theatres across the country – a mari usque ad mare! – starting Apin Moncton, NB and wrapping up in Victoria, BC on May 22, 2022. This 19th edition, titled Just For Laughs Comedy Night in Canada, will feature co-star of STARZ’s Ramy Dave Merheje, Just For Laughs Festival favourite Eman El-Husseini, and 2018 Juno award winner Ivan Decker. ![]() Just For Laughs is excited to announce the return of the Just For Laughs Comedy Tour! Following his successful turn as host in 2019, Canadian comedy legend Rick Mercer returns to lead a stellar line-up of Canada’s most hilarious and diverse comedians. ![]() ![]() The tale itself is based on the real Katherine Swynford and the Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of our Royal Family, and the love story between them. I appreciated Diana Bishop all the more after listening to some samples in preparing my 'wish list' for when my full Audible membership commenced. It isn't until you hear a truly terrible narrator that you can really appreciate just how well some narrators do. That's how enjoyable I found the book! It is beautifully read by Diana Bishop, who does a wonderful job with characters and accents, and little smatterings of French and Spanish here and there. How wrong I was! I listened long into the night when I should have been sleeping and consequently got through the book in just over a week. I promptly downloaded it as my trial membership, the 24+ hours of listening would keep me occupied for a month or so, I thought. ![]() ![]() I was delighted to find 'Katherine' by Anya Seton on Audible after it being recommended to me so often by my mum, for whom Anya Seton is one of her favourite authors. ![]() ![]() (Summary of Half Bad taken from Goodreads). But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves? ![]() ![]() Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers-before it’s too late. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. ![]() Half Bad, Half Wild and Half Lost by Sally Green. If you haven’t read the books or the last book, please beware of spoiling yourself! it’s a great reading, so if i were you i wouldn’t do it! But, if you don’t mind spoilers, read under your own discretion. Oh! before i forget, i made a cut after the non spoilery review, if you read after the cut you’ll find my SPOILERY OPINION of the ending of the trilogy. Oh my god! I finally finished the trilogy and now i can bring you my complete review for it!! Oh, i’m so happy because, let me tell you this these books are life for me, this may be my favorite trilogy ever and there’s nothing more rewarding than talking about something you love so very much … ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the intimate, terrifying, and deeply alive story of Abdul's journey, we are witness to an artist's birth by fire. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit and the deep nourishing power of love and of art, The Kid chronicles a young man about to take flight. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist's lofts, The Kid tells of a twenty- first-century young man's fight to find a way toward the future. Left alone to navigate a world in which love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push's unforgettable heroine, Precious.Ī story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious's son, Abdul. ![]() ![]() A multitude of scholars and critics have noted how the 110-minute film stripped away many supporting characters, subplots and grim situations to create a production suitable for all ages. Zipes is not alone in this assessment of Disney's adaptation. The first popular English translation published in 1928 by Whittaker Chambers (an American writer, later Soviet spy-turned-defector) would eventually become the basis for Disney's animated film. The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, is newly translated with an introduction by Zipes, and includes new illustrations by Alenka Sottler. And he was really addressing in a metaphorical way the problems that Europe was having," said Jack Zipes, a folklore expert and professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. "He really wrote this book, Bambi, not for children, but for adults. ![]() But a new translation of the original text, published 100 years ago, hopes to reveal the complex - and, at times, much darker - story at its core.īambi, a Life in the Forest (sometimes translated as Bambi, a Life in the Woods) was written by Felix Salten, of Hungarian Jewish descent and living in Vienna, and was published in 1922. ![]() The Sunday Magazine 9:35 Bambi at 100: Not the Disney classic you thought you knewīambi is one of the cornerstones of Disney's oeuvre of classic family-friendly films. ![]() |