Postbox Kashmir: Two Lives in Letters a Must-Read Non-Fiction on the Past and Present of Kashmir by Divya Arya, a BBC Journalist Pengui
Title | Postbox Kashmir: Two Lives in Letters a Must-Read Non-Fiction on the Past and Present of Kashmir by Divya Arya, a BBC Journalist Pengui PDF eBook |
Author | Divya Arya |
Publisher | Duckbill |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2022-03 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780143451693 |
Do only Muslims live in Kashmir? Why do girls in Kashmir do stone pelting? Whom do they want freedom from? Can you imagine being confined to the four walls of your home with no internet, no social media? Are Kashmiris really invisible to the rest of the country? These are some of the questions two teenagers--Saumya in Delhi and Duaa in Kashmir--asked through letters they exchanged over almost three years. Framing these letters is the detailed history and commentary provided by Divya Arya, a BBC journalist who asked them to be pen pals, which places their conversations against the backdrop of the political history and turbulent present of Kashmir and India. Postbox Kashmir takes on the challenging task of attempting to portray life in Kashmir from the perspective of the young minds growing inside it and providing a context of understanding for the young generation watching it from the outside. An engrossing non-fiction for teens on the history and present of a little known part of India, as seen through the letters of two teenagers.
Postbox Kashmir
Title | Postbox Kashmir PDF eBook |
Author | Divya Arya |
Publisher | Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2021-08-05 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9354920497 |
Do only Muslims live in Kashmir? Why do girls in Kashmir do stone pelting? Whom do they want freedom from? Can you imagine being confined to the four walls of your home with no internet, no social media? Are Kashmiris really invisible to the rest of the country? These are some of the questions two teenagers--Saumya in Delhi and Duaa in Kashmir--asked through letters they exchanged over almost three years. Framing these letters is the detailed history and commentary provided by Divya Arya, a BBC journalist who asked them to be pen pals, which places their conversations against the backdrop of the political history and turbulent present of Kashmir and India. Postbox Kashmir takes on the challenging task of attempting to portray life in Kashmir from the perspective of the young minds growing inside it and providing a context of understanding for the young generation watching it from the outside.
Burhan Muzaffar Wani
Title | Burhan Muzaffar Wani PDF eBook |
Author | Zulkaif Riaz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
This book covers the biography, story, and incidents related to Burhan wani's life. It is worth reading that how a 15-years-old boy escaped from his house to fight for the freedom of his state, Kashmir. He became a hero for his nation. After his assassination, people started following his footsteps. This book is a long description of Tipu Sultan's famous quote: -"It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years".Unfortunately, people call Baghat Singh a hero who fought against British occupiers for freedom of his country. But the same people condemn Burhan Wani's activities that nowhere different from Baghat Singh. Yes, there's one difference. Baghat Singh fought with arms but Burhan was smart. He used social media to develop the spirit of freedom in his nation.This book covers following topics: -Burhan wani-Solution of Kashmir Conflict-History of Kashm
Horrid High
Title | Horrid High PDF eBook |
Author | Payal Kapadia |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2015-12-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9352141962 |
THE WORLD'S MOST HORRID SCHOOL JUST GOT MORE HORRID! When Granny Grit is called away on a most mysterious mission, twelve-year-old Ferg and his friends are left at the mercy of Cook Fracas’s frenzied food fights, Colonel Craven’s manic panics and Miss Nottynuf’s nervous nail-biting. To make matters worse, the Grand Plan is still missing and the kids must find it before someone truly awful does. Can Ferg and his friends survive another term at the world’s most horrid school? Return to Horrid High and find out!
Creating Balance?
Title | Creating Balance? PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan Kaiser |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3642161995 |
A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today’s human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as “extreme workers” regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and ”the rest of life”. This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Title | Fresh from the Farm 6pk PDF eBook |
Author | Rigby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781418914219 |
Defining India
Title | Defining India PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Singh |
Publisher | Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9353055296 |
From Amartya Sen to Aamir Khan, Raghuram Rajan, Sachin Tendulkar, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitharaman and Sania Mirza among others, in this book eminent journalist Sonia Singh opens a window to the myriad worlds of these stalwarts, who share their idea of India in freewheeling conversations. Chatty, candid and amazingly gripping these 15 interviews uncover the pivotal moments in their lives that have become defining moments in the history of the nation.