In this powerful novel set in contemporary Kandahar, an Afghan woman approaches an American military base to demand the return of her brother's body.At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cue from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloq...

"An enigmatic fable in the tradition of 'The Thousand and One Nights.' " —Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book ReviewHassan, a storyteller, has gathered listeners in Marrakesh's fabled Jemaa el Fna to perform his annual re-creation of the night on which two foreigners mysteriously disappeared from the square. But as his audience offers contradicting testimonies, and details transform or dissolve in the haze of memory, the couple takes on an air as enigmati...

‘আকাশ অংশত মেঘলা অবিটি ২০২২ সালে ৫ অগাস্ট মুক্তি পায়। স্বপ্নময় চক্রবর্তীর পতাকার কাপড় ও মেরুডণ্ড গল্পদুটি অনুসরণে এই স্থবির চিত্রনাট্য লেখেন ও পরিচালনা করেন জয়দীপ মুখার্জী। যদিও মূল গল্পদুটি থেকে ছবির চিত্রনাটা ভীষণ ভাবেই স্বতন্ত্র। এই ছবির মূল চরিত্রগুলিতে অভিনয় করেছেন রুদ্রনীল ঘোষ, রাহুল ব্যানার্জি, অঙ্কিতা চক্রবর্তী, বাসবদত্তা চ্যাটার্জী ও অন্যান্য আরও অনেকে। বন্ধ কলকারখানার প্রেক্ষাপটে তৈরি এই ছবি সমালোচকদের কাছে প্রশংসিত হয়েছে ও বিভিন্ন চলচ্চিত্র উৎসবে বিবিধ পুরস্কারে ভূষিত হয়েছে।

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The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata, completed between 1933 and 1966, represents a landmark in the textual history of an epic with a nearly 1500-year history. Not only is the epic massive (70,000 verses in the constituted text, with approximately another 24,000 in the Vulgate) verses, but in its various recensions, versions, retellings, and translations it also presents a unique view of the history of texts, narratives, ideas, and their relation to a culture. Yet in spite of the fact t...

The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata, completed between 1933 and 1966, represents a landmark in the textual history of an epic with a nearly 1500-year history. Not only is the epic massive (70,000 verses in the constituted text, with approximately another 24,000 in the Vulgate) verses, but in its various recensions, versions, retellings, and translations it also presents a unique view of the history of texts, narratives, ideas, and their relation to a culture. Yet in spite of the fact t...

How Asia's top owner-CEOs fueled the region’s rise, and what every leader around the world can learnShapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia's Extraordinary Owner-CEOs, written by a team of McKinsey partners, reveals the leadership strategies behind Asia's highest-performing entrepreneur-led companies. Drawing on rigorous empirical research, hundreds of hours of interviews, and deep personal relationships built over decades of advisory work, the au...

If you want to stay in a one-room apartment, make sure it is the kitchen. What is the actual role of a chef? What are the secret ingredients a chef uses to prepare food? How do you set up your kitchen like a professional chef? How can you impress your family and friends at the dinner table without a chef? A chef’s work is challenging, respectable and glamorous, with lots of responsibilities.

The Smart Shift: Business Strategy for the Intelligent Era by Joydeep Dutta is a comprehensive workbook designed for modern leaders navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape. As AI, automation, and remote-first ecosystems reshape industries, traditional business strategies are no longer enough. This book introduces a new strategic framework - one that integrates technology, data, human capital, and cultural agility into a unified approach.Spanning six parts and twenty-three...

Why do so many organisations still see HR as paperwork and policy policing?Why is it still called Human Resources—as if people are replaceable commodities?Why do clients today ask more about your people practices than your product itself?Why is focus more on people & culture now, with AI taking over conventional HR roles?Because people aren’t just part of the business. They are the business.In an age where work can happen anywhere—at a desk, on a couch,...

Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning is a key text for the origins of Martin Heidegger's concept of "facticity." Originally submitted as a postdoctoral thesis in 1915, it focuses on the 13th-century philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus.Heidegger first analyzes Scotus's doctrine of categories, then offers a meticulous explanation of the Grammatica Speculativa, a work of medieval grammar now known to be authored by the Modist grammarian Thomas of Erfu...

"Amarnath Yatra: A Photo Story to the Abode of God and the Secret of Immortality" invites readers on an evocative journey to one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines. Through stunning photographs and heartfelt narrative, this book chronicles a memorable pilgrimage starting from Srinagar to the sacred Amarnath Cave. The journey unfolds with a vivid description of the life of the people, the flora and fauna of Kashmir valley, description of the serene landscapes of Jannat e Kashmir and spiritual re...