Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.

EMBARK ON A JOURNEY OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION! DISCOVER THE SECRETS TO UNLOCKING YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL AND FINDING INNER PEACE WITH THIS POWERFUL GUIDE TO KUNDALINI AWAKENING!Are you tired of feeling disconnected and searching for meaning?Do you struggle with negative energy and imbalanced chakras?Are you ready to tap into your intuition and expand your consciousness?Prepare to dive deep into the...

Manual Testing Bootcamp (Software Testing): Job-Ready Tester in 30 DaysManual testing is the foundation of quality assurance—and strong manual testing skills are essential for building a successful career in software testing. This book is designed to help beginners and junior testers build real-world testing skills through a structured, practical approach.Manual Testing Bootcamp takes you from the basics of software testing to job-ready man...

A big-hearted meditation on love, loss, and happy memoriesWhen journalist Kalpana Mohan's elderly father falls ill in Chennai, she is on the next flight over from California, where she has lived with her husband for three decades.Caring for her sometimes cranky, sometimes playful, and always adored father at his home in Chennai, Mohan sets out to piece together an account of her father's life, from his poverty-stricken childhood in a village in south India,...

This book is an array of poems written in different times as the writer travels through the journey filled with moments of peace, agony, pain and relief. The poems take you through the high and lows of several such moments. Happy Reading!

Why is a certain behavior considered ethical? By what processes does a certain behavior become ethical? Why are some people more capable of behaving ethically? This book discusses questions such as these with the help of the perspectives drawn from three distinct fields: Religion, Philosophy and Neuroscience. Theorists from the ancient to the recent from the Buddha and Socrates to Antonio Damasio are covered.

This book presents a framework for the linguistic analysis of speech and a computer program to process the results of this analysis. The model of description for the linguistic analysis is that known as ‘scale-and-category’ grammar. It is particularly suited for a study of how people use their language, and especially for a sociologically-oriented study of linguistic behaviour. By incorporating a concept of ‘delicacy’, it enables the investigator to vary, according to his particul...

MATERIALS FOR SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSIONThis book provides professionals and students with a resource on the basic principles and applications of solar energy materials and processes, as well as practicing engineers who want to understand how functional materials operate in solar energy conversion systems.The demand for energy is increasing daily, and the development of sustainable power generation is a critical issue. In order to overcome the...

The Urdu newspaper Pratap - and its Hindi counterpart Vir Pratap - had a long and eventful history. Launched by Mahashay Krishan on 30 March 1919 and ably carried on by his son Virendra and later his grandson Chander, it was a torchbearer against the British Raj that covered all the major events during India's struggle for independence and after, until it wound up in 2017.This book chronicles the exciting lives of the newspapers, their founder and editors, as well...

Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj was one of the most significant spiritual teachers of Non-Duality of his time. His powerful non-dual teachings continue to impact spiritual seekers from all over the world, decades after his passing. Maharaj spoke in his mother tongue, Marathi, and a translator would then translate his words into English. It goes without saying that the translator had to be finely tuned not only to Maharaj's teachings but also to the subtle nuances of his language, his singular vo...

Learning Perplexity from PerplexityBy Mohan Krishnamurthy, Powered by PerplexityUnlock the full potential of one of the most advanced AI-powered search and research platforms available today—Perplexity. Co-authored by Mohan Krishnamurthy and Perplexity itself, this groundbreaking guide takes you behind the scenes of AI technology, revealing how Perplexity works, why it's different, and how you can harness its power for your personal and professional...

Most enterprises don't fail at AI because their models are wrong.They fail because the system around the model was never properly built, secured, or governed.The AI Stack introduces a seven-layer reference model for enterprise AI — two parallel stacks covering infrastructure and security, and the integration points where they meet. Modeled on the clarity of the OSI framework, it gives leaders, architects, and governance teams a shared language for reasoning...