Timepass

Author : Protima Bedi
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140288805

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Timepass by Protima Bedi Pdf

Few lives have been more eventful and controversial than Protima Bedi's, and Timepass, derived from her unfinished autobiography, journals and her letters to family, friends and lovers, is a startlingly frank and passionate memoir. Protima recounts with unflinching honesty the events that shaped her life: her humiliation as a child at being branded the ugly duckling, repeated rape by a cousin when she was barely ten, the failure of her 'open' marriage with Kabir Bedi, her many sexual encounters, and the romantic relationships she had with prominent politicians and artistes. She writes, too, of her intense involvement with dance, her relationship with her guru and fellow dancers, the difficult mission of establishing Nrityagram, and the suicide of her son--a tragedy from which she never fully recovered. In a moving epilogue to the book, her daughter, Pooja Bedi, describes her last days and the circumstances of her death. Illustrated with over fifty photographs, Timepass is the story of a remarkable woman who had the spirit, the courage and the intelligence to live life entirely on her own terms. I have broken every single rule that our society has so carefully constructed. doing and never given a damn. I have flaunted my youth, my sex, my intelligence, and I have done it shamelessly. I have loved many, been loved by some...

Author : Craig Jeffrey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804775137

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Timepass by Craig Jeffrey Pdf

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a social experience and basis for political mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes. The book also explores how this north Indian story relates to practices of waiting occurring in multiple other contexts, making the book of interest to scholars and students of globalization, youth studies, and class across the social sciences.

Author : Hemilkumar P Patel
Publisher : Pencil
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789356103764

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Love Is Timepass by Hemilkumar P Patel Pdf

About the book: I am Hemilkumar P Patel. Who is mommy and daddy? The mother father of a son or daughter, So I want to send them a message. You people also take my point forward. This is one of the things I wrote that I put in front of you in the form of a story. It happens that those who do TIMEPASS always break the heart of others and say that love like Krishna Radha. Understand that Krishna and Radha love each other, not like you, one playwright breaks one. They were both one. If Krishna is walking then the shadow falls on Radha and if Radha is walking then the shadow falls on Krishna. Boys and girls these days, when they say something good, they don't understand how badly they think about it. And the one who thinks good will leave it and that man will fight with himself all his life. For one thing, if you understand that a boy or a girl loves someone and does not appreciate others, then yes, what do you do? How sad it is to be released after saying yes, He/she will be in trouble for the rest of his/her life, You know that! By what right do you bother him? He/She does not force you to love, You break the heart of a man by passing the time, So let me tell you one thing, if you break someone's heart by playing a love game and passing the time, So you have no right to take true love.

Author : Andreas Sedlatschek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290120

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Contemporary Indian English by Andreas Sedlatschek Pdf

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the International Corpus of English), this book explores the dynamics of variation and change in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary Indian English. The aims are to document the extent of lexical and grammatical nativization at the beginning of the twenty-first century and compare contemporary Indian English to other varieties around the world (for example British and American English). The results are relevant to sociolinguists, variationists and lexicologists seeking to investigate ongoing language change in emerging standard varieties of English. With its strong empirical foundation and its comparative outlook, the book is also of interest to anyone looking for an introduction to the corpus-based description of varieties of English.

Author : Drew Thomases
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190883577

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Guest is God by Drew Thomases Pdf

Every year, the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar sees its population of 20,000 swell by two million visitors. Since the 1970s, Pushkar, which is located about 250 miles southwest of the capital of New Delhi, has received considerable attention from international tourists. Originally hippies and backpackers, today's visitors now come from a wide range of social positions. To locals, though, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims and tourists: it is where Brahma, the creator god, made his home; it is where Hindus should feel blessed to stay, if only for a short time; and it is where locals would feel lucky to be reborn, if only as a pigeon. In short, it is their paradise. But even paradise needs upkeep. In Guest is God, Drew Thomases uses ethnographic fieldwork to explore the massive enterprise of building heaven on earth. The articulation of sacred space necessarily works alongside economic changes brought on by tourism and globalization. Here the contours of what actually constitutes paradise are redrawn by developments in, and the agents of, tourism. And as paradise is made and remade, people in Pushkar help to create a brand of Hindu religion that is tailored to its local surroundings while also engaging global ideas. The goal, then, becomes to show how religion and tourism can be mutually constitutive.

Author : Bradford Skow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191022258

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Objective Becoming by Bradford Skow Pdf

Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass. Along the way, he provides in-depth discussions of alternative theories of time, including those in which there is 'robust passage' of time or 'objective becoming': presentism, the moving spotlight theory of time, the growing block theory of time, and the 'branching time' theory of time. Skow explains why the moving spotlight theory is the best of these arguments, and rebuts several popular arguments against the thesis that time passes. He surveys the problems that the special theory of relativity has been thought to raise for objective becoming, and suggests ways in which fans of objective becoming may reconcile their view with relativistic physics. The last third of the book aims to clarify and evaluate the argument that we should believe that time passes because, somehow, the passage of time is given to us in experience. He isolates three separate arguments this idea suggests, and explains why they fail.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Fireworks Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780956723109

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First Time Pass by Michael Bell Pdf

Pass your professional exam, the first time you take it.In today's ever more competitive job market, an unblemished exam record can make all the difference between landing that sought-after position you covet, and not. But what can you do, as a career professional holding down a demanding job whilst studying for a challenging exam, to ensure that you boost your career prospects and gain that first time pass? This inspirational book covers every aspect of the study process, from the moment you decide to start studying, to the moment you finish your exam, and beyond. Its unique emphasis on the psychological aspects of learning, in addition to its focus on professionals rather than school and college students, ensures that it is a book that goes far beyond other books about study and exams. Following the invaluable advice contained in this positive, powerful, yet pragmatic and practical guide will ensure you maximise your chances of exam success and achieve that essential first time pass.

Author : David Farrugia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317432623

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Spaces of Youth by David Farrugia Pdf

Contemporary young people are situated within a complex and disorienting set of social changes that are reshaping how youth is constructed, governed and experienced across the globe. Historically, it has been taken for granted that youth primarily concerns time, especially with regards to personal and social development. In Spaces of Youth, Farrugia shows that the concept of developmental time has become a regulatory framework that is used to govern aspects of globalisation, including the formation of labour forces and the boundaries of liberal citizenship regimes. Interrogating this context, this volume explores the changes in the social organisation of youth within the spatial dimensions of work, citizenship and popular culture in a global context. Thus, Farrugia establishes a new interdisciplinary research agenda into youth and spatiality, including young people from across the global north and the global south, and which situates young people within the key dynamics of contemporary globalisation in its economic, political and cultural dimensions. An enlightening and timely volume, Spaces of Youth is an important resource for post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers across all social scientific disciplines interested in space, youth, globalisation, work, citizenship and culture.

Author : Yuval Dolev
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262262521

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Time and Realism by Yuval Dolev Pdf

A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology. How does time pass? Does time itself move, or is time's passage merely an illusion? Analytic philosophers belong, for the most part, to one of two camps on this question: the tensed camp, which defends the reality of time's passage, conceiving the present as “ontologically privileged” over the past and future; and the tenseless camp, which denies time's passage and holds that all events, whatever their temporal location, are ontologically equal. In Time and Realism, Yuval Dolev goes beyond the tensed-tenseless debate to argue that neither position is conclusive but that the debate over them should be seen as only the first stage in the philosophical investigation of time. The next stage, he claims, belongs to phenomenology, and, he argues further, the phenomenological analysis of time grows naturally out of the analytic enterprise. Dolev shows that the two rival theories share a metaphysical presupposition: that tense concerns the ontological status of things. He argues that this ontological assumption is natural but untenable, and that leaving it behind creates a new viewpoint from which to study central topics in the metaphysics of time. Dolev shows that such a study depends on the kind of meticulous attention to our firsthand experiences that drives phenomenological investigations. Thus, he argues, phenomenology is the venue for advancing the investigation of time. Time and Realism not only analyzes the tensed-tenseless debate, resolving some of its central difficulties along the way, it transcends it. It serves as a bridge between the analytic and the continental traditions in the philosophy of mind, both of which are shown to be vital to the philosophical examination of time.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780345810885

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Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed Pdf

From the bestselling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive. In her three previous books--her critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, her groundbreaking memoir, Wild, and her dazzlingly insightful “Dear Sugar” advice columns, Tiny Beautiful Things--Cheryl Strayed has shared with an ardently devoted audience the many twists and trials of her remarkable life, offering much-needed truths, as well as laughter, to millions of readers. Her honesty, spirit, and ample supply of tough love have enabled many of us, even in the darkest hours, to somehow put one foot in front of the other--and be brave enough. Whether humorous or wise (and often both at once) Strayed's words are anthems that remind us that we may inevitably make mistakes, but we can also do better, both for ourselves and for others. Such as: Be brave enough to break your own heart. You can't ride to the fair unless you get on the pony. Keep walking. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. Romantic love is not a competitive sport. Forward is the direction of real life. Brave Enough gathers more than 100 of these “mini-instruction manuals for the soul,” urging us toward the incredible capacity for love, compassion, forgiveness, and endurance that is within us all.

Author : Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770899384

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The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson Pdf

Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives. Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew, until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative influence he has become on Joey, which encourages him to begin a process of rehabilitation that includes traditional Indigenous healing circles and ceremonies. Powerful, courageous, and deeply moving, The Outside Circle is drawn from the author’s twenty years of work and research on healing and reconciliation of gang-affiliated or incarcerated Indigenous men.

Author : Dilip M. Salwi
Publisher : books catalog
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 812910492X

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Science Time-pass by Dilip M. Salwi Pdf

Everybody loves a gossip.It has even been scientifically found to be good for a healthy mind. Science Time-Pass is full of interesting gossip concerning scientists and science-all true and authentic with no rumours! Do you know, for instance: How Richard Feynman selected the title of his autobiography Surely You are Joking, Mr. Feynman! What made the legendary inventor Thomas Alva Edison deaf at an early age?

Author : Fashionary International Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9887711098

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Textile Directory by Fashionary International Limited Pdf

Author : Scott Hawkins
Publisher : Crown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553418620

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The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Pdf

“Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”—The Wall Street Journal “Freakishly compelling . . . through heart-thumping acts of violence and laugh-out-loud moments, this book practically dares you to keep reading.”—Atlanta Magazine A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away. Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts. After all, she was a normal American herself once. That was a long time ago, of course. Before her parents died. Before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father. In the years since then, Carolyn hasn't had a chance to get out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient customs. They've studied the books in his Library and learned some of the secrets of his power. And sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God. Now, Father is missing—perhaps even dead—and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her, all of them with powers that far exceed her own. But Carolyn has accounted for this. And Carolyn has a plan. The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters and propelled by a plot that will shock you again and again, The Library at Mount Char is at once horrifying and hilarious, mind-blowingly alien and heartbreakingly human, sweepingly visionary and nail-bitingly thrilling—and signals the arrival of a major new voice in fantasy. Praise for The Library at Mount Char An engrossing fantasy world full of supernatural beings and gruesome consequences."—Boston Globe "Vivid . . . the dialogue sings . . . you'll spend equal time shuddering and chortling."—Dallas Morning News"

Author : Rebecca Balcárcel
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452170008

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The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel Pdf

Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden. One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother. In the course of this immersive and beautifully written novel, Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole. This lyrical debut from Rebecca Balcárcel is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.