Author: Sathya Saran
Publisher: Juggernaut Books
ISBN: 9386228556
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How does Sushmita Sen remain poised and confident? What is Madhu Sapre's secret recipe for perfect skin? How does Neha Dhupia deal with bad hair days? What are Lara Dutta's make-up tips to look youthful? Answering these and many more questions, How to Look Like Miss India is a practical guide by Sathya Saran who was on the core team of the Femina Miss India Contest for several years. In this book she brings you helpful, easy-touse tips and advice from Wendell Rodricks, Ambika Pillai, Dr Jamuna Pai, Mickey Contractor and many others. The people who turned Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra into superstars reveal industry secrets that create the winning formula. From making your skin glow to choosing clothes that flatter your body type, this is the book you need to read whether you want to be Miss India or your very best self
How to Look Like Miss India
Author: Sathya Saran
Publisher: Juggernaut Books
ISBN: 9386228556
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How does Sushmita Sen remain poised and confident? What is Madhu Sapre's secret recipe for perfect skin? How does Neha Dhupia deal with bad hair days? What are Lara Dutta's make-up tips to look youthful? Answering these and many more questions, How to Look Like Miss India is a practical guide by Sathya Saran who was on the core team of the Femina Miss India Contest for several years. In this book she brings you helpful, easy-touse tips and advice from Wendell Rodricks, Ambika Pillai, Dr Jamuna Pai, Mickey Contractor and many others. The people who turned Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra into superstars reveal industry secrets that create the winning formula. From making your skin glow to choosing clothes that flatter your body type, this is the book you need to read whether you want to be Miss India or your very best self
Publisher: Juggernaut Books
ISBN: 9386228556
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How does Sushmita Sen remain poised and confident? What is Madhu Sapre's secret recipe for perfect skin? How does Neha Dhupia deal with bad hair days? What are Lara Dutta's make-up tips to look youthful? Answering these and many more questions, How to Look Like Miss India is a practical guide by Sathya Saran who was on the core team of the Femina Miss India Contest for several years. In this book she brings you helpful, easy-touse tips and advice from Wendell Rodricks, Ambika Pillai, Dr Jamuna Pai, Mickey Contractor and many others. The people who turned Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra into superstars reveal industry secrets that create the winning formula. From making your skin glow to choosing clothes that flatter your body type, this is the book you need to read whether you want to be Miss India or your very best self
Making Miss India Miss World
Author: Susan Dewey
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country’s borders. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey’s Making Miss India Miss World examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country’s borders. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey’s Making Miss India Miss World examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments.
Transnational Television, Cultural Identity and Change
Author: Melissa Butcher
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761997665
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This significant book is based on intensive fieldwork in Korba, a little known multi-project industrial area in Chhattisgarh. It describes the impact of piecemeal industrial development, and its consequent environmental degradation on the lives of the original inhabitants of the region./-//-/This timely and thought-provoking book about the impact of multiple industrial projects on the environment and on the lives of the local people questions the concept of ‘development’ that benefits a few at the cost of many.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761997665
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This significant book is based on intensive fieldwork in Korba, a little known multi-project industrial area in Chhattisgarh. It describes the impact of piecemeal industrial development, and its consequent environmental degradation on the lives of the original inhabitants of the region./-//-/This timely and thought-provoking book about the impact of multiple industrial projects on the environment and on the lives of the local people questions the concept of ‘development’ that benefits a few at the cost of many.
Being a Humane Being
Author: V.Chellappan Iyer
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946983217
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Are you a good human being? Yes no doubt you are. Everyday we are meeting,interacting,discussing,advising,arguing,shadow boxing, what’s apping,admiring,e-mailing,blessing,cursing,fighting with people and people of all sorts. According to this old monk(the author),the best qualification is GHB degree—Good Human Being.This book will act as a catalyst to get you the coveted GHB degree. Being masculine or feminine is God’s gift to you,but being Humane is the real gift you should give to yourself.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946983217
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Are you a good human being? Yes no doubt you are. Everyday we are meeting,interacting,discussing,advising,arguing,shadow boxing, what’s apping,admiring,e-mailing,blessing,cursing,fighting with people and people of all sorts. According to this old monk(the author),the best qualification is GHB degree—Good Human Being.This book will act as a catalyst to get you the coveted GHB degree. Being masculine or feminine is God’s gift to you,but being Humane is the real gift you should give to yourself.
Prem Kissa
Author: Pravin Maharaj
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543770657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Prem was six years old, and the only son to his parents but from the outset, after their daily storytelling evenings with, their grandfather, Baba. He gave all the children stories from the past, when they were noticeably at a young and tender age. Being a brahmin, he hated the caste system in which he grew and lived in, during his growing up days. His life started in a rural area of Deganga, in India, and grew up in an extended family. As a young adult, he graduated as an educated teacher, from an established university. Prem remained a bachelor for a short time only, whilst he lived on the farm, with his mum, until he was twenty-two years old. Soon he was introduced to and then married a pretty damsel. He grew up to be an elegant, handsome and charming person and his journey abroad highlights his attributes, friendliness, career, aligned with his explorative ideals, romance and dreams in all of his endeavors. He was the only member of his family that wanted to get away from the poor life in India, and decided to get away to London, which leads to the second book.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543770657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Prem was six years old, and the only son to his parents but from the outset, after their daily storytelling evenings with, their grandfather, Baba. He gave all the children stories from the past, when they were noticeably at a young and tender age. Being a brahmin, he hated the caste system in which he grew and lived in, during his growing up days. His life started in a rural area of Deganga, in India, and grew up in an extended family. As a young adult, he graduated as an educated teacher, from an established university. Prem remained a bachelor for a short time only, whilst he lived on the farm, with his mum, until he was twenty-two years old. Soon he was introduced to and then married a pretty damsel. He grew up to be an elegant, handsome and charming person and his journey abroad highlights his attributes, friendliness, career, aligned with his explorative ideals, romance and dreams in all of his endeavors. He was the only member of his family that wanted to get away from the poor life in India, and decided to get away to London, which leads to the second book.
bevu bella
Author: Dr.B.S.Chandan
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947429353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Set in the fictional South Indian town of Ambadi, Bevu Bella – bitter-sweet tales is a collection of short stories. A mixture of bevu (neem flowers) and bella (jaggery) is eaten on Ugadi (Kannada New Year) to symbolise that life is a potpourri of various emotions and events. Similarly, each story speaks about a variety of people, lifestyles and surroundings of this place and tackles issues like environmental pollution, downside of modernisation, politics and more, in a light-hearted manner. Browse through these scrumptious tales, delectably presented on a platter!
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947429353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Set in the fictional South Indian town of Ambadi, Bevu Bella – bitter-sweet tales is a collection of short stories. A mixture of bevu (neem flowers) and bella (jaggery) is eaten on Ugadi (Kannada New Year) to symbolise that life is a potpourri of various emotions and events. Similarly, each story speaks about a variety of people, lifestyles and surroundings of this place and tackles issues like environmental pollution, downside of modernisation, politics and more, in a light-hearted manner. Browse through these scrumptious tales, delectably presented on a platter!
Delphi Collected Works of Talbot Mundy (Illustrated)
Author: Talbot Mundy
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1786560542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9331
Book Description
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Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1786560542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9331
Book Description
www.delphiclassics.com
Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity
Author: Mary Fong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742517394
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches--from empirical to ethnographic--a wide variety of essays look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intra-ethnic identity. Sites of analysis range from movies and photo albums to beauty salons and Deadhead concerts. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742517394
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches--from empirical to ethnographic--a wide variety of essays look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intra-ethnic identity. Sites of analysis range from movies and photo albums to beauty salons and Deadhead concerts. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Aesthetics of Ugliness in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema
Author: Sunitha Srinivas C
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036409376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual representation of the Ugly, its politics and aestheticization, are deeply rooted in the screen space. Featuring unconventional characters, unembellished visuals, raw and gritty storytelling, the unaesthetic challenges conventional notions of beauty on screen. The physical, psychological, and social manifestations of the ugly are incorporated into the cinematic space through content, theme, physical representations, symbols, setting, dialogue, as well as the camera. Exploring the intricate connection between ugliness and the cinematic medium, the book focuses on identity, gender, and other manifestations of Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. It meticulously analyses the portrayal of ugliness in characters, narratives, and visual aesthetics, thus highlighting societal norms and realities of life. The book is a must-read for film scholars, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the intersection of aesthetics and storytelling.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036409376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual representation of the Ugly, its politics and aestheticization, are deeply rooted in the screen space. Featuring unconventional characters, unembellished visuals, raw and gritty storytelling, the unaesthetic challenges conventional notions of beauty on screen. The physical, psychological, and social manifestations of the ugly are incorporated into the cinematic space through content, theme, physical representations, symbols, setting, dialogue, as well as the camera. Exploring the intricate connection between ugliness and the cinematic medium, the book focuses on identity, gender, and other manifestations of Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. It meticulously analyses the portrayal of ugliness in characters, narratives, and visual aesthetics, thus highlighting societal norms and realities of life. The book is a must-read for film scholars, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the intersection of aesthetics and storytelling.
Beauty Diplomacy
Author: Oluwakemi M. Balogun
Publisher: Globalization in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781503608856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.
Publisher: Globalization in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781503608856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.