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Author: Lucas Lex DeJong Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669830942 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 558
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In recent years, the Vatican Secret Archives has declassified and disclosed the bulk of its once-private catalogue. Buried within was a journal. More than a century old, its entries had been written in a wide variety of languages, and it had been filed away as an oddity with little historical value. Meticulously studied and translated by Dr Anthony Waterman, a scholar of Western Esotericism, it told of a journey which crossed continents in pursuit of an obsession. Presented here is the personal account of the explorer Laurent Leroux - The Red Raider - and his lifelong search for the fabled Starless Citadel: Nástur
Author: Lucas Lex DeJong Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669830942 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 558
Book Description
In recent years, the Vatican Secret Archives has declassified and disclosed the bulk of its once-private catalogue. Buried within was a journal. More than a century old, its entries had been written in a wide variety of languages, and it had been filed away as an oddity with little historical value. Meticulously studied and translated by Dr Anthony Waterman, a scholar of Western Esotericism, it told of a journey which crossed continents in pursuit of an obsession. Presented here is the personal account of the explorer Laurent Leroux - The Red Raider - and his lifelong search for the fabled Starless Citadel: Nástur
Author: A. V. Raman Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1685388655 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 104
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Raman’s memoir chronicles the dramatic change in his profession as an accountant to launching him on the unchartered waters of management of research and development projects in Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and suggesting a fair and just appreciation of public passenger road transport system operated by State Road Transport Undertakings. His role as a trainer in these two diverse fields – scientific research, employing knowledge workers, and passenger road transport, employing blue-collar workers and a few managers – was daunting, which he meets with a suitably tailored approach in the design and delivery of training programmes. His research studies on Indian road transport operating under administrated fares and social costs and his seminal study of the US highways financing system should interest readers in the area of public policy reforms. His academic career spread over the whole gamut of teaching, research, consulting, guiding research students, administration of business schools and experience earlier in government and the public sector and brief but educative exposure to the Indian Parliamentary System vouch for his versatility. Raman's memoir should excite peers and students alike and serve as a model for future writers. Narrated with candour and humour, Raman’s description of his early life in Delhi amidst government servants and his own failed attempt to become a bureaucrat, his pen picture of the Delhi’s Madrasas, his family's musical legacy and religiosity and his values of accountability and integrity, ungrudgingly shared in this memoir, reveal his credentials as an engaging writer.
Author: Nissim Ezekiel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 384
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This Volume Of Critical Essays On Indian Literature Map The Charting Of Cultural Territory By The Postcolonial Indian Writers In English. This Volume Of Critical Essays On Indian Literature Commemorating Nissin Ezekiel, One Of India`S Most Significant Contemporary Poets Writing In English Today.
Author: Nikolina Bobic Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000774112 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 619
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For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.
Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1429943793 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 441
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When photographer Karan Seth comes to Bombay intent on immortalizing a city charged by celebrity and sensation, he is instantly drawn in by its allure and cruelty. Along the way, he discovers unlikely allies: Samar , an eccentric pianist; Zaira, the reclusive queen of Bollywood; and Rhea, a married woman who seduces Karan into a tender but twisted affair. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, the four lives are irreparably torn apart. Flung into a Fitzgeraldian world of sex, crime and collusion, Karan learns that what the heart sees the mind's eye may never behold. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay is a razor sharp chronicle of four friends caught in modern India 's tidal wave of uneven prosperity and political failure. It's also a profoundly moving meditation on love's betrayal and the redemptive powers of friendship.
Author: Talinn Grigor Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271089687 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 437
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One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western—and especially Gothic—architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power and identity in British India and in Qajar-Pahlavi Iran. The Persian Revival examines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in literature and then in art history. Tracing Western visual discourse about ancient Iran from 1699 on, Grigor parses the invention and use of a revivalist architectural style from the Afsharid and Zand successors to the Safavid throne and the rise of the Parsi industrialists as cosmopolitan subjects of British India. Drawing on a wide range of Persian revival narratives bound to architectural history, Grigor foregrounds the complexities and magnitude of artistic appropriations of Western art history in order to grapple with colonial ambivalence and imperial aspirations. She argues that while Western imperialism was instrumental in shaping high art as mercantile-bourgeois ethos, it was also a project that destabilized the hegemony of a Eurocentric historiography of taste. An important reconsideration of the Persian Revival, this book will be of vital interest to art and architectural historians and intellectual historians, particularly those working in the areas of international modernism, Iranian studies, and historiography.
Author: Lisa Björkman Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478013087 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able to secure otherwise impossible building permits. These and other dealmakers—whose behind-the-scenes expertise and labor are often invisible—have an intrinsic role in the city's functioning and can be indispensable for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world’s most complex, dynamic, and populous cities. Bombay Brokers collects profiles of thirty-six such “brokers.” Written by anthropologists, artists, city planners, and activists, these character sketches bring into relief the paradox that these brokers’ knowledge and labor are simultaneously invisible yet essential for Bombay’s functioning. Their centrality reveals the global-scale paradoxes and gaps that these brokers mediate and bridge. In this way, Bombay Brokers prompts a reconsideration of what counts as legitimate and valuable knowledge and labor while offering insight into changing structures of power in Bombay and around the globe. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Sarthak Bagchi, Tobias Baitsch, Sangeeta Banerji, Srimati Basu, Tarini Bedi, Amita Bhide, Lisa Björkman, Uday Chandra, Simon Chauchard, Ka-Kin Cheuk, Michael Collins, Daisy Deomampo, Maura Finkelstein, Ajay Gandhi, Rupali Gupte, Kathryn C. Hardy, Lalitha Kamath, Prasad Khanolkar, Bhushan Korgaonkar, Ratoola Kundu, Ken Kuroda, Annelies Kusters, Lisa Mitchell, Shailaja Paik, Gautam Pemmaraju, Lubaina Rangwala, Llerena Guiu Searle, Atreyee Sen, Prasad Shetty, Rohan Shivkumar, Edward Simpson, David Strohl, Rachel Sturman, R. Swaminathan, Aneri Taskar, Yaffa Truelove, Sahana Udupa, Lalit Vachani, Leilah Vevaina
Author: Kartik Nair Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520392280 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--
Author: Lucas Lex DeJong
Author: Lucas Lex DeJong
Author: A. V. Raman
Author: R. G. Gordon
Author: Nissim Ezekiel
Author: Nikolina Bobic
Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Author: Talinn Grigor
Author: Lisa Björkman
Author: R. G. Gordon
Author: Kartik Nair