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Once upon a time, there were five little girls who believed in themselves and in the women they wanted to be. One fine day they stood gazing at the fragmented remains of their wings smashed by the patriarchal society. Calmly they observed the broken, blurry pieces that silently glittered on the ground. And yet they felt so proud of their reflections and shadows that smiled back at them. The society by all means could chop off their wings but their spirits were indomitable. And though these women with a spine of steel, at times could be broken, but could never be defeated.They rose unfettered, unbeaten, unimpeded. "Overcome And Become" is the story of those five resilient, remarkable extraordinary, gritty, daring (S)Heroes from Punjab. It's a saga of confidence, courage and compassion. It's a tribute and salute to the Daughters of Punjab -Surinder Kaur, Amrita Pritam, Dr. Kiran Bedi, Dr. Inderjit Kaurand last but not the least, Amrita Shergil.There is something these inspirational women all share in common: they are all warriors and continue to inspire us in our own modern lives. Preet has a magical flow in her writing, may it be the expression of fondness, regard or the pain of losing her subject. I was extremely touched by her superior usage of simple, effective and appropriate language. I am so sure that all readers when they go through this piece of art, they'll shower their blessings upon her. - DOLLY GULERIA As I finished reading "Overcome And Become" I feel nostalgic. I wanted to keep reading more and more about the gritty, phenomenal, inspiring women. Well done Preet!! Each word penned by you has come straight from your heart and reached where it should, deep within the hearts of the readers. In a surreal way again I feel you have wrapped all the women of Punjab in that beautiful dupatta I wore..... - DIVYA DUTTA (from the foreword)
"The book being FOREWORD-ed is written by SS Bhatti, a master of writing and a scholarly expert, with a novel approach to the study and understanding of life and its innumerable expressions across the globe. In the following book, the author has illustrated many facets of his expertise in the field of religion, history, and art. He renders Guru Nanak's Jap stanzas in his own poetry; he covers several dimensions of divinity; he writes a section on the vocabulary employed in the hymns of Guru Nanak. He describes Guru Nanak as a dispenser of love and light. He covers even the paintings of Guru Nanak; the paintings were done by the devotees years after Guru Nanak left for the heavenly abode. Bhatti has added one art-work done by him that expresses in apt visual metaphors the divine exhortation of Guru Nanak: "Naam, Daan, Isnaan", and is supported by a poem published long ago in The Tribune, a leading English newspaper of north-western India. All this makes the scope of the book very vast, holistic and refreshing ... The readers of the book may be from many disciplines and interests besides the Sikhs and the Mureeds. However, I feel that they will find the author's profound insights and holistic interpretations enriching as well as illuminating. To my reckoning, this book should find pride of place in all public and private libraries internationally." From the Foreword by (Bhai) Harbans Lal, Ph.D.; D. Lit (Hons) based in America
"Tehreer" is a collection of different forms of Hindi poetry with a touch of Urdu; this adds weight to the writings and raises its standard. The book is an intelligent mix of Poetry, Gazals, Nazms, Couplets etc. written in an easy language. The quality prose ensures that its content can be read and enjoyed by all, irrespective of gender/age groups. The book deals with different kinds of human emotions/experiences poetically and would establish a connect with its readers by making them relate to it at some point or the other. It is a perfect example of the hold & understanding of Hindi and Urdu by the writer when she succeeds in fusion of the same in some of her creations. "Tehreer" has something to offer to people from all walks of life, be it youngsters or elderly, with plenty of choice between love poetry, emotional poetry, philosophy of life, etc. It is "a must have" for poetry lovers. You'll enjoy reading it!
The book opens in Shimla with a big, fat celebration from Lalaji on the cards. Not every day it happens that Lalaji would be 'celebrating' and inviting people. Occasion - his daughter, Sakshi's 18th birthday. She is one of the reasons for the 'birth' of this story and is one part of the core. Part I basically deals with Lalaji and his family, their background and daily life. Their interpersonal relationships with their surrounding social group, especially two important people who play a vital role throughout the book - Adv. Mahajan and Dr. Malhotra and their contrasting nature. Lalaji has a firm belief in Hindu Philosophy and has been trying to lead a life in accordance with the various stages described in Hindu scriptures. Part II takes us to Africa in the era of apartheid, struggle for freedom, patriotism, and revolution. This part deals with young love and the fire in the young hearts. It introduces and takes us through the life of the next pillar of the story, Shaka, Sakshi's love interest, culminating in bringing out the next pillar of the story. Part III takes us back to Shimla due to some tragic turn of events. The manifestations of the characters, the seeds of which were sown in Africa, are seen here. It takes us through a story of a person's capacity to challenge the mind and the body to limits. It also takes us through a roller coaster ride of the many so-called mysterious phenomena debated in the scientific and spiritual school of thoughts. The comparison between the spiritual-religious way of life and the scientific-pragmatic way of life is made and is left for the readers to decide which thinking or the way of life they want to follow, the old school or the more contemporary one.
What would you do if fate twists your ways? What choice will you make if life starts playing against you? Would you fight or flight or accept? "She Met Life" is a soul touching, unforgetful and a gripping story of a girl named Sophia from whom life snatched all her laughter and what meant the most to her. It's the story of a love-filled couple, the story of a perfect family, the story of an ideal relationship. Then what happened? What actually made her husband Sameer to betray her, after so many years of a successful marriage? Is Sophia able to come out of her tragic situation or her life remains fallen apart forever? Do circumstances bring any change in her or she keeps waiting for the circumstances to change? It is an extremely moving and inspiring account of finding out the true meaning of life, the power of change and how to keep moving even when destiny is against you. A tale which can empower anyone to decide his/her own fortune even when the situation is not under their control.
The book takes a tour through all the necessary technologies that are required to build an application ground up. Full stack development is quickly shaping up to be an industry standard requirement for developers. This book is aimed at making each of those technologies understandable through less definitions and more intuition-based examples. The chapter on machine learning introduces a new paradigm in computer programming, and the book takes a deep dive into understanding those concepts without requiring any prior knowledge from the reader. The chapter on Ethereum blockchain deals with another branch of technology that is completely new and the book takes a hands-on approach toward each new concept. The explanations in the book encourage a reader to think on own and arrive at conclusions regarding the scope and use case of a technology, during its application.
This is the story of a student who was not able to enter the desired - dreamed school as he failed badly in the entrance exams. After the failure, the immediate family, friends and acquaintances in the society downgraded him and concluded him as a failure. In general, if there are failures, we all have the habit to hide ourselves, implying we want to avoid that incident and people but then there is another set of people who face failure and give it all that they have. They, then, don't care about success but GIVE IT ALL and start to believe that the result is a by-product.This book is an effort to share the experience on what all happened with that student, with the family, with the friends and whosoever came in that journey.I know, you will say, "So this is another book like Goal or another movie like Independence Day/Chak De as there are many inspiring movies, books, articles, speakers, coaches who show us about the struggles to succeed and the hardships put together to achieve success."However, I think you will find this book a bit different because this is your own story, our own story. There are incidents which happen with everyone at some point in time and keep on happening non-stop; how you face them and stand up and finish all with the pride, matters the most.
Alex Abraham, the young dashing college lecturer, is never out of his decadent ways of running after the girls. For him, life is meaningful only with the realization of his erotic fantasies! The unsuppressed thirst for the fulfilment of the desires of his heart often lands him in serious troubles. Nevertheless, he is unable to resist the temptation. The drive for tasting the forbidden leads him to an encounter with his beautiful host. Her daughter catches them red-handed when she comes home early from the college one day. She becomes furious and chases him to tarnish his life after her mother commits suicide. Will he survive the scare? Will she be able to avenge the premature death of her mother? The intricacies of the novel leave you tight on your seat as shock, dismay, and wonder flood your otherwise excited mind. It will be an experience, one that you never forget the rest of your life!
The book is a collection of poems. It addresses the issues from the perspective of 20 year old girl and boy. What turmoil they have to go through and that too alone, also how it shapes up their mindset and develop their personalities.
The book is a doctrine on economic justice, in which author has penned a new theory of 'Line of Wealth' that is based on economic rights, equality and justice. It rejects the popular approach of Line of Poverty. The book discusses social, ideological, political and justice aspects of national economies and concludes with the fiscal theory of one-tax system - the taxation based on taxing the wealthy at higher scale and distribute the revenues equally among all citizens. It also professes a ceiling on the wealth possession beyond which the wealth-tax be imposed. Besides, it argues abolishing all other forms of domestic taxes.
Anglo-Indian cuisine is different from usual Indian recipes that you may have experienced. Anglo-Indian cuisine had developed over time where some English cooking were enhanced by traditional Indian spices to give it a unique blend of culinary dishes. This book showcases some of the treasured recipes passed down from generations, now to be shared and enjoyed by people who are willing to experience cooking and tasting these mouth-watering dishes like Bone Pepper Water, Minced Meat Ball Curry, Coconut Rice, Lamb Chops, Country Captain Chicken, Pork Vindaloo, Pork Roast and Dumpling Stew. All of the recipes are illustrated in an easy-to-read format to follow which includes colour photographs of all the dishes. Try out these hidden gems, you won't be disappointed.
This story is about a boy named Sumair who lived with his parents in New Delhi. His father was a successful businessman and mother was a successful, well-known social worker. Sumair was a very kind-hearted, simple, emotional and down-to-earth person. He met a boy named Ayaan who also lived in New Delhi with his family; his father was uneducated, rude and selfish kind of a person and mother was also of the same nature. So, he was very unhappy with the family. Sumair and Ayaan met each other and became best friends for life. After a few years they became like brothers from another mother. They were living their brotherhood with full joy and fun. A girl named Suhani entered Ayaan's life and they fell in love with each other. All three of them were living their lives happily. Ayaan and Suhani got engaged and Sumair was just waiting for his Ms. Right. They all travelled to many countries and enjoyed their bachelorhood together. Life is life - we plan something, and something else happens. Life gives us surprises by doing something which is against our plans. After a few months, one severe tragedy happened with all of them because of which they all had to go through the worst phase of their life. A tragedy changed their lives forever. To face the situation, they had to do something which was not at all planned. Because of their decision, every relation got a new name. A very big truth/reality was hidden from everyone. The climax of the novel is most unexpected, unbelievable as it will reveal the reality because of which someone will break many hearts and win many others. Someone will sacrifice everything, every relation just for the sake of everyone. Sometimes you get happiness because your love is smiling in front of you. Love is all about giving, not receiving.
MY FAVOURITE CHOCOLATE is an anthology for all students who want to learn something new and enjoyable. It is a remarkable book for student's thinking and inspiration. When they will read it they will learn many things and will change their little world in to a new one. Intention is that students should observe little thing around them and should get meanings from them. They like chocolate so this is an intellectual chocolate for them. Here many poems are about their behavior, feelings, nature, co-operation, love, relation, honesty, patriotism, science and technology. A stanza from a poem 'A BOOK' A book is your friend Always serves you words of gems Entertain with it To accomplish your aims
Who is Jugni? An angel or a devil? A vigilante? A superhero? Or a ghost of city's dead super cop Simar? Simar, who against all odds, started her journey to root out evil from the society. Her challenging journey had its consequences. Now, call Jugni whatever, but she is the only hope to save the city from a massive attack when no one from outside can help.
What was your greatest fear? Did your fear teach you something after it left your senses? Getting through the audacious rides of fears may sometimes feel exhausting but at the same time, there is an anticipation that signals the arrival of victory.
This valuable book deals with the prime cause of disputes among farmers in Punjab - Land. It illustrates a simple way of understanding the terminology, definitions, logic, calculations related to land division, transfer, inheritance, taxes. revenues on land as provided in the Punjab Land Record Manual 1935, 1973, Punjab Land Revenue Act 1887 and Punjab Registration Act. The key points addressed are - Jamabandi Girdawari Intekaal Nishandehi Kursinama Virasat
This book of short stories takes us on a fascinating journey across the Indian landscape to 9 different forests where wild animals give us a glimpse of their lives; and in the process teach us how to live a more wholesome life ourselves. The black and white sketches in the book are from actual photographs of these forests, these stories transport us into the world of these animals. Simple and warm, this book is a wonderful introduction to young readers to the Indian forests.
These Urdu poetic compositions begin with expression of a range of the travails of unrequited love in the Sub-continental culture still in transition to emancipation. The verses go on to intimate some thought-provoking perspectives on the great unanswered questions of human existence. The book is distinct in being printed in the author's own manuscript handwriting. The verses emphasize the emotion and the thought rather than adhere to forms and vocabulary that are less reflective of current times than in the past. There is much between the lines, which is reflective of the prevalent social order in these parts. Interpretation is left to the reader.
This is a story of two people 'carved for each other' - A beautiful and dynamic Kavya, and a young and charismatic Aditya. Making memories as they go through a roller coaster of emotions and situations, they experience the journey of life filled with love, togetherness, and suspense.The various characters of the story build a very interesting contrast of people we are generally surrounded by - Some people are too good to be true, but they are. Some people are too good to bring you any harm, but they do. And at most times, it's hard to find out who's who. This is a beautiful story of young love, of people young at heart going about their lives as best as they can, through the twists and turns life puts in front of them.
Despite all efforts on chemotherapy till date, visceral Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani still remains fatal and widespread. As an intra-macrophage pathogen, the parasite is most successful in exploiting the host cell metabolism, targeting the host protein into phagolysosomal compartment and modulating its phagosome. Even today, because of the complexity of the disease antileishmanial therapy is an incomprehensible subject. The ground reality is that very few agents have adequately been assessed in clinical trials and the most effective agents have the most potential toxic effects and are difficult to administer.> Although interaction of L. donovani with macrophages is known to be a ligand-receptor interaction, various aspects of macrophage surface receptor biology including: i] modulation of receptors and its effect on the interaction process and ii] receptor signalling involving cell-cell interaction at the surface remain totally untouched. Work in this area will help us to understand the mechanism of controlling the infections and of intracellular survival of this pathogen.
The planet earth is unique for its natural resources like water and greenery, besides its vast mineral resources. The animals of various categories and the humans are the inhabitants of this earth, and their survival is dependent upon these resources and also upon a healthy equation between both. While, broadly, the animals are physically mightier and have lesser mental development or a one-track mind; the humans are mentally superior with a greater intelligence than the animals. During the initial evolutionary stage of the animals and the humans, they had a friendly coexistence, with both the races having a commonality of interests and activities; and they learnt from each other in a spirit of give and take. But, slowly, negative feelings like selfishness and arrogance began to creep in, and that changed the scenario. The bone of contention was - who should rule the earth? While the humans wished to share the power along with the animals, the latter wanted the entire sway for themselves on the presumption that might is right. And it resulted in a series of conflicts between both.Though the animals were generally inferior to the humans in mental prowess, some of them were equally intelligent to the point of being cunning and outwitting the humans. A war raged where almost all the animal race, as well as a large contingent of humans was lost... This is the backdrop of this fantasy from where the theme of the present volume - The Mystery of the Eclipse Island, the first part of the multi-volume Merciless Dark, takes off. The story with its vast canvas weaves through deliberations and decisions, plots and counterplots, espionage and magic, an incredibly mysterious island, skills in various fields of knowledge, war tactics & strategies... Finally, whatever happens at the end of the first volume, The Mystery of the Eclipse Island, is not going to be the actual end but only a break since the epic fantasy has multiple volumes in its womb.
Jostling crowd, crying kids, supplicated by stench of antiseptic - not an ideal place for stories to start. But in real life, most stories end up here - the chaotic 'Indian hospital'. Caught between the ailing patient, the angry relatives and poor infrastructure, the 'Indian' doctor is supposed to offer magical cure. As he tries his best to pull a rabbit or two, out of his white coat pocket, the heavy emotional sandbag on his shoulder weighs him down. The unedited experience for you to laugh and cry.
Fakiri Ramzan has the poems which are those feelings which cannot be described. The effort has always been going on and will continue. Some parts of the heart which do not work in the outer expanse, they make a jumble in the inner world. Why, 'who' on a serious question like that, and then suddenly the realization of the reality of one or the other entity is the same - one is from above, the romantic feeling of time to get involved in one, establishes. But only the fragrance, its music, its share of anyone knows its part. The emission of love is not to be separated from the blood, the color of the blueprint.
I do not have a color, but it's a color My companion is not with me He's sitting inside somewhere. That the door is not closed from outside. *** In the blind power of nature I have become a whistle But someone says slowly You are infallible. *** Be your own self Finding a solution The way your mind is yours Do not follow the people. After providing the composition of some of the poetry based on deep thinking and poignant experiences of some novels, 'Raavi Bhangu' is turning towards the creation of a very deep spiritual level of poetry, which in itself is unique in the form of Punjabi literature. Despite not being persistent, Raavi has been very successful in understanding the human role in understanding the entire society.
The story revolves around a group of six friends who met in college and became friends for life. Soon enough, they meet Arhat and then the story takes their lives to another level where they all go through the ups and downs of life together. The story then centers around Arhat and Kartavya, who met each other incidentally and became best friends. As time passed, they met two sisters Sahana and Aryali and they fell in love with them respectively. The group became bigger as they all became best friends. Slowly, they settled in their respective lives and careers. On a big day, a severe mishap changed their lives forever.This novel is a set of five love stories, which are very well-defined in their own ways. Three big secrets and one letter will leave everyone speechless. This story will redefine the power of love, friendship, and humanity.
Love is inevitable... especially when you have 'Lovenesia' I woke up on a hospital bed critically injured. What? How? I had no clue. But what disturbed me more was the fact that I couldn't find her... Aditi Khandelwal, my extremely adoring girlfriend. It had been a fortnight, yet she hadn't contacted me. When I eventually found her on a busy road, she just passed by despite seeing me! I was left completely baffled by her indifference. Forthwith, I found out that Aditi has moved on & has no desire to rekindle our love while I... I was surviving on those sweet memories of our lovely relationship which commenced two years back. Fortuitously, we both are invited to a mutual friend's wedding, a lavish destination wedding which shall be an eight-day affair. Will she come? Is it the universe's plan for us or am I expecting too much from a mere coincidence? Will I ever be able to get that hopeless romantic Aditi back in my life? Find it out with me and also... - What all had happened between us in the past which I am unaware of. - How a legendary folktale resembles our story, proving itself to be relevant even in today's time. - How some beautiful songs are played around me, often hinting a twist in my tale! By the way, my name is Karthik Kulkarni. I am a simple middle-class guy, an aspiring Radio Jockey while Aditi is a... you'll find out soon. Unveil our startling tale which has some unconventional dates, a love confession in front of the whole city, a 'semi live-in' relationship and a love-fearing broken heart. Oh, and I forgot to mention, there's an unexpected revelation waiting at the climax my dear reader! Check out this heart-warming & wholesome urban Romance 'Lovenesia' from the Amazon bestselling author of 'The Pact of Love' by clicking 'Buy now' to get your copy. If you like the book, please do write your review below mentioning a '#Lovenesia'. Thanks in advance!
For every copy of "The Invisible Remote" you buy, INR 50/- will be forwarded to "National Defence Fund," to support our Indian Soldiers. For the parents who are facing any of the below issues- 1. You feel you are unable to control your kids? 2. Your kids feel you are not that cool as a parent? 3. Your kids listen to everyone except you? 4. Your kids feel you are pressurising them to get good grades? 5. You are unable to communicate to your kids that whatever you do it's for their good. 6. You feel scary when they are out of your sight? 7. You don't feel good when you meet their friends? 8. You feel you cannot control your kid's behaviour in your absence? 9. Are you facing teenage issues of your kid? 10. Your kids are not in your control? Reading this book and implementing the methodologies will help you transform you as a parent, build strong relationship with your kids and most importantly win the trust and respect from the heart of your kids.
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