USE VERBAL PROMPTS AND PRACTICES TO BECOME THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BEWhen wellness star Vasavi Kumar suggests “saying it out loud,” she means it literally. Years of journaling in an attempt to learn about herself and meet her goals hadn’t worked, so she decided to talk to herself instead, out loud and with the compassion of a best friend. She used this technique as she journeyed through the challenges of being the daughter of Indian immigrants, a bipolar diagnosis, ...

చరిత్ర ఆధారాల ప్రకారం, వైశ్య కులంవారి మూలం ఉత్తర భారతం, ముఖ్యంగా అయోధ్య పరిసర ప్రాంతం. కాలాంతరంలో 714 గోత్రాలకు చెందిన వైశ్య కుటుంబాలు దక్షిణాపథం వైపు ప్రయాణించి ఆంధ్ర దేశంలోని పెనుగొండలో (ఇప్పటి పశ్చిమ గోదావరి జిల్లా ప్రాంతం) తమ ముఖ్య స్థావరాన్ని ఏర్పరచుకొని నివసించసాగారు. తూరుపు చాళుక్య సామ్రాజ్యాన్ని పరిపాలించిన రాజులలో కుబ్జ విష్ణువర్ధనుడు, నాలుగన విష్ణువర్ధనుడు, కలి విష్ణువర్ధనుడు అన్న పేర్లున్న ఎందరో ఎదురౌతారు. వీరిలో క్రీ.శ. 1015 నుండి 1022 వరకు ఏడు సంవత్సరాల కాలం రాజ్యభారం చేసిన వి...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, Vasavi Kumar points out that how we talk to ourselves sets the tone for every experience in our life: our voice is a powerful guide in releasing emotions, traumas, and difficult memories, and can be dramatically effective in transforming our lives in meaningful ways. As we start speaking to ourselves out loud with kindness and curiosity, our body will loosen up and speak back to us.Kumar is a first generation Indian American, a li...

Use verbal prompts and practices to become the person you want to beWhen wellness star Vasavi Kumar suggests “saying it out loud,” she means itliterally. Years of journaling in an attempt to learn about herself and meet hergoals hadn’t worked, so she decided to talk to herself instead, out loud and withthe compassion of a best friend. She used this technique as she journeyedthrough the challenges of being the daughter of Indian immigrants, a bipolar...

Education in India is a site of intense contestations. Instead of addressing the multiple inequalities of caste, class, and gender that are embedded in the social fabric, the neoliberal state has privileged only the rhetoric of ‘development’, ‘modernity’, and the ideals of the Right to Education. Growing populist authoritarianism, consumerism, an all-enveloping mass media, and the rise of new aspirational classes have compounded the problem further. However, despite these significant limit...

This book covers the sensitive real-life story of Gulzari and Parvati, their marriage in Lahore in 1942, the eruption of violence and carnage, their flight to New Delhi just a month before the partition and their aristocratic lifestyle that slowly crumbled (so did their love for each other).An interesting account of a man who struggles to keep up with his swanky lifestyle he once enjoyed as one of the richest landed families of Lahore, who never knew what it meant to work for a livi...

ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯಾದ ಕಾಳಿಂಗನು ತನ್ನ ಹಸುವನ್ನು ಮನಃಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ ಪೂಜಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮತ್ತೊಂದೆಡೆ, ಅಮೆರಿಕದಿಂದ ಹಿಂದಿರುಗಿದ ನಾಟು ತನ್ನ ಹಸುವನ್ನು ಹಾಲು ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಂಸವನ್ನು ನೀಡುವ ಸಾಕುಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಎಂದು ಭಾವಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ನಂಬಿಕೆಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಈ ಜನರ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳು, ಭಾವನೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ನೈತಿಕತೆಯ ನಡುವಿನ ಸಂಘರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರೂಪಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

The book discusses the latest developments and outlines future trends in the fields of microelectronics, electromagnetics and telecommunication. It contains original research works presented at the International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunication (ICMEET 2022), held in Bheemavaram, West Godavari (Dist), Andhra Pradesh, India during 22 – 23 July 2022. The papers were written by scientists, research scholars and practitioners from leading universities, eng...

While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India, little is known about the people who work in these industries, about the nature of the work itself, and about its wider social and cultural ramifications. The papers in this collection combine empirical research with theoretical insight to fill this gap and explore questions about the trajectory of globalization in India. The themes covered include: (a) sourcing and social structuring...