Lost And Found In India
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Author | : David Grier |
Publisher | : Quivertree Publications |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1928209351 |
'Good luck, my friend.' Simple words said in passing by a holy man to David Grier on the streets of Mumbai. Grier didn't know the man; he hardly saw him, in fact, but that encounter was a sign that the madcap idea he was investigating - whether or not it was, in fact, possible to run the length of India - was something he had to do. With his hardy yet comical crew, he set off to run from the northernmost Hindu temple in the Himalayan foothills of Kashmir right down to the southern tip of India. Through mountain ranges and across rich farmlands and forests; dodging traffic, battling through smog-choked cities and across desert salt plains; fjording rivers and running (unwittingly) through a tiger sanctuary, they ran and ran. Armed with GPSs, maps and helpful directions, they got lost in India. But through its beauty, its heaving masses and the remarkable resilience of its people, they found themselves, 93 days and 4008 km later, emerging a whole lot wiser at their journey's end.
Author | : Braja Sorensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9789381431948 |
Author | : John James Kennedy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-05-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190917458 |
In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.
Author | : Braja Sorensen |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781512276626 |
Most books on India written by foreigners share one trait: the authors visit India, then leave. Sorensen moved in, set up house, became a resident in a village on the banks of the Ganges river, and eventually called India "home". A dozen years later, she's still there. Her writing swings from the depths of an ancient culture through to drunk bathroom repair men, tied together with a refreshing, grounded voice. It's macabre, hilarious, philosophical, and all 100% true. No, really.... "Braja Sorensen describes her adopted India with no analytical or spiritual pretenses. A funny, committed book." - Farrukh Dhondy
Author | : Suketu Mehta |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307574318 |
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Author | : Anushree Arun |
Publisher | : Educreation Publishing |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Love: Lost & Found is Anushree's first book comprising multifarious poems that she desired to publish before completing her teenage. The book is divided into two sections the first section encompassing a wrecked heart's loss 'Lost' and the second section expressing the joy of finding love & settling 'Found'. Through this book, she aims to connect with the reader's desolation and ecstasy when they lose and find love respectively.
Author | : Michael Church |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 178327607X |
This ground-breaking book is the first-ever study of the role played in musical history by song collectors.This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music''s unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the Turks were trying to erase in the 1915 Genocide; the prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who secretly noted down the songs of doomed Jewish inmates; the British singer who went veiled into Afghanistan to learn, record and perform the music the Taliban wanted to silence. Some collectors have been fired by political idealism - Bartok championing Hungarian peasant music, the Lomaxes bringing the blues out of Mississippi penitentiaries, and transmitting them to the world. Many collectors have been priests - French Jesuits noting down labyrinthine forms in eighteenth-century Beijing, English vicars tracking songs in nineteenth-century Somerset. Others have been wonderfully colourful oddballs.Today''s collectors are striving heroically to preserve endangered musics, whether rare forms of Balinese gamelan, the wind-band music of Chinese villages, or the sophisticated polyphony of Central African Pygmies. With globalisation, urbanisation and Westernisation causing an irreversible erosion of the world''s musical diversity, Michael Church suggests we may be seeing folk music''s ''end of history''. Old forms are dying as the conditions for their survival - or replacement - disappear; the death of villages means the death of village musical culture.This ground-breaking book is the sequel to the author''s award-winning The Other Classical Musics, and it concludes with an inventory of the musics now under threat, or already lost for ever.rve endangered musics, whether rare forms of Balinese gamelan, the wind-band music of Chinese villages, or the sophisticated polyphony of Central African Pygmies. With globalisation, urbanisation and Westernisation causing an irreversible erosion of the world''s musical diversity, Michael Church suggests we may be seeing folk music''s ''end of history''. Old forms are dying as the conditions for their survival - or replacement - disappear; the death of villages means the death of village musical culture.This ground-breaking book is the sequel to the author''s award-winning The Other Classical Musics, and it concludes with an inventory of the musics now under threat, or already lost for ever.rve endangered musics, whether rare forms of Balinese gamelan, the wind-band music of Chinese villages, or the sophisticated polyphony of Central African Pygmies. With globalisation, urbanisation and Westernisation causing an irreversible erosion of the world''s musical diversity, Michael Church suggests we may be seeing folk music''s ''end of history''. Old forms are dying as the conditions for their survival - or replacement - disappear; the death of villages means the death of village musical culture.This ground-breaking book is the sequel to the author''s award-winning The Other Classical Musics, and it concludes with an inventory of the musics now under threat, or already lost for ever.rve endangered musics, whether rare forms of Balinese gamelan, the wind-band music of Chinese villages, or the sophisticated polyphony of Central African Pygmies. With globalisation, urbanisation and Westernisation causing an irreversible erosion of the world''s musical diversity, Michael Church suggests we may be seeing folk music''s ''end of history''. Old forms are dying as the conditions for their survival - or replacement - disappear; the death of villages means the death of village musical culture.This ground-breaking book is the sequel to the author''s award-winning The Other Classical Musics, and it concludes with an inventory of the musics now under threat, or already lost for ever.sic''s ''end of history''. Old forms are dying as the conditions for their survival - or replacement - disappear; the death of villages means the death of village musical culture.This ground-breaking book is the sequel to the author''s award-winning The Other Classical Musics, and it concludes with an inventory of the musics now under threat, or already lost for ever.
Author | : Danielle Steel |
Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 039917947X |
Spurred by old memories and a life-changing accident, Madison embarks on a cross-country adventure to reconnect with three very different men to reevaluate her past choices.
Author | : C. P. Surendran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Nowick Gray |
Publisher | : Cougar WebWorks |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1990129056 |
Longing for vicarious adventures in global travel? The Last Tourist celebrates the end of an era. Traveling light, savor exotic destinations in Hawaii, India, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, Central and South America. Relive a backpacker's edgy tales, partake in healing journeys, share deep reflections on distant shores