Ghosh is known for his novels such as Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hunger Tide, River of smoke, Flood of Fire. Amitav Ghosh is also recipient of the Padma Shri(2007) and Sahitya Akademi Awards. Pradeep Kumar Sinha :He has become the longest serving bureaucrat in the post of ...
It is often referred to as the “read-only” Internet made of static web pages that only allowed for passive engagement. The next stage in the evolution of the web was the “read and write” Internet. Users were now able to communicate with servers and other users leading to the creation...
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. — Hu Shih 55 Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfe...
in recent decades the terminology has become more mainstream with the popularization of novels, movies, and TV shows likeFifty Shades of Greyand Netflix’sBonding(e.g., Weiss,2006). However, popular media depictions of BDSM are not always accurate; for example, theFifty Shades of Greybooks ...
([1], p. 5). MOOCs must innovate and create new trends such as the use of non-traditional textbooks such as graphic novels to increase students’ attention levels [8]. Jansen and Schuwer [9] states that “MOOCs are courses designed for large numbers of participants, that can be accessed...
This year samizdat has not been enriched by a single major prose work [1], as it was in past years by such works asSolzhenitsyn‘s novels, the memoirs ofEugenia Ginzburg, collections of stories byShalamov, and novels byLydia Chukovskaya,Vladimir Maximovand others. ...
A single style to which all of my five published novels can be said to answer. Unless by style is meant certain traits like freedom, avoidance of explicit realism, deference to the power and autonomy of language. But what these traits combine to produce is not uniform and similar. What ...
My novels tend to have more action than this. If you want a fictional#BeautifulStory, trySpeak Its Name.If you want to know why this is still a big deal in the Church of England,The Real Worldis out now. It’s too early to be thinking about Christmas, I’d gripe. In a normal ...
a minor character in the film, and he used the leader of the raid, Major Gus March-Phillipps, as the inspiration for his James Bond series of novels. The book byhistorian Damien Lewisgives the full, unfictionalized vision of this incredible group of commandos and is well worth the read. ...
As a game I have never played, but one that has always fascinated me, this fourth edition will be a must own for me.Fresh from their massively successful Dark Souls: The Game Kickstarter campaign (which you can read my take on here), Steamforged Games are also going to be bringing us...