Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people's lives in India today. Focusing on Delhi, noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh chronicle the halting emergence of networks of men and women living under the shadow of stigma and criminalized behavior—in a country where anti-sodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were recently struck d...

This book covers all aspects of statistical methods in detail with applications. It presents solutions to the needs of post-graduate medical students, doctors and basic medical scientists for statistical evaluation of data. In present era, dependency on softwares for statistical analysis is eroding the basic understanding of the statistical methods and their applications. As a result, there are very few basic medical scientists capable of analyzing their research data due to lack of knowle...

चरण सिंह पथिक हिन्दी के उन चुनिन्दा कथाकारों में हैं जिनके यहाँ लेखन की प्रेरणा कोई शैल्पिक कौतुक या नवाचार नहीं, बल्कि कथ्य होता है। वे पूर्णकालीन रूप में गाँव में रहते हैं। इसीलिए वे ग्रामीण जीवन की उन परतों को भी देख लेते हैं जो कोई नागर दृष्टि कितने भी साहित्यिक उद्यम के बावजूद नहीं देख पाती। क्रूरता, वैमनस्य, सहज मानवीयता के प्रति एक मूलबद्ध द्वेष, पर तथा आत्मघाती ईर्ष्या, स्पर्धा, लालसा और जिन-जिन नैतिक मूल्यों को धर्म और ईश्वर स्थापित करते प्रतीत होते हैं, उन सबसे एक परफ़ेक्ट और चाल...

The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresses which cause significant yield losses. The effects of climate change also increase the frequency and severity of such abiotic stresses. Molecular breeding technologies offer real hope for impro...

There has been a lack of understanding of the term ‘Ghar’ used extensively and prominently in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. It is now, as a result of the path-breaking research by Dr Charan Kamal Singh, that the term ‘Ghar’ has been presented the way it has never been done so far.It is for the first time that ‘Ghar’ has been related to each and every sentence of Gurbani. And all types of ‘Ghar’ of ‘sabads’ as well as ‘chhants’ have been established. In addition to the term Ghar, the ambigu...

Research is the foundation of medical advancement, and research involving human people is eventually required. Understanding the causes, progression, and effects of diseases to enhance therapeutic, diagnostic, and preventive interventions (methods, procedures, and treatments) is the main goal of medical research using human subjects. Research is nevertheless necessary to continuously assess the quality, safety, efficacy, efficiency, and accessibility of even the well-proven programs. Ethic...

This book emphasizes the importance of production politics, or struggles in the workplace between workers and their employers, for understanding migrant labour regimes in Asia and the Gulf. Drawing from a study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore, as well as on comparative material in the region, Bal shows that migrant labour politics are significantly influenced by the specific form of production politics as well as their variable outcomes. In contrast to contentious politics...

This book examines the objectives of public debt management and the re-emerging issue of separating monetary policy formulation from fiscal and debt management. The recent Great Recession has resulted in a rethink of the objectives and working of macroeconomics, and in many countries, including India, has led to the scope of fiscal operations being expanded and debt-to-GDP ratios increasing significantly. Consequently, debt management has encountered considerable difficulties, and the need...

Women and the word marginalization have never remained oxymoronic – the cross-cultural texts and Engels interest on subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multiculturalist and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectru...

Chitarlekha, written by Bhagwati Charan Verma in 1934, is a renowned novel of Hindi literature. It was later translated into Punjabi by Guwant Farag and published by the Language Department. The novel begins with the fundamental question, “What is sin?” and moves forward by portraying many scenes and narrating a series of events. Through its story, it explores philosophy, religion, society, love, relationships, and the ideas of virtue and sin. While reflecting deeply on these themes, the n...

Extracellular Vesicle-Based Biovectors for Diagnostic and Biomedical Applications provides comprehensive coverage on not only the biosynthesis, isolation, purification, and functionalization of extracellular vesicles for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, but also current trends in functionalized extracellular vesicles for biomedical research and commercial-scale opportunities. Sections focus on the fundamental aspects of extracellular vesicles, covering their origin, classification,...

This volume provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of gastrointestinal interventional radiology (IR). The text reviews the extensive array of gastrointestinal IR procedures available, while illustrating the ways in which IR can help and how IR may be the only means available to treat patients. The book also focuses on common clinical issues surrounding IR procedures, including how to know which procedures are best for a patient, how to prepare patients for the procedure, and how to ...