Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Silent Morning -- 2. Panic -- 3. Looking for a Cure -- 4. Other Cures -- 5. Home Remedies -- 6. Schooling -- 7. My Childhood Before Becoming Deaf -- 8. Working on the Farm -- 9. Back to Study -- 10. The High School Examination -- 11. Travels and Other Adventures -- 12. Careers or the Lack of Them -- 13. My First Camera -- 14. Becoming a Sadhu -- 15. Moving to Delhi -- 16. Why Are They Flailing Their Hands? -- 17. New Discoveries -- 18. Visit to a Deaf Club -- 19. Making Deaf Friends -- 20. Me, a Teacher! -- 21. Working in the Photo Studio -- 22. Learning about Leadership -- 23. Life Becomes Busier -- 24. Goyle's Death -- 25. Changes in School and Work -- 26. Have Tongue, Will Speak! -- 27. New Teachers -- 28. Adventures in Signing -- 29. The Interview of a Lifetime -- 30. Getting Engaged -- 31. The Air-Conditioned Darkroom -- 32. Working with Hearing People -- 33. What Is Gallaudet? -- 34. Working at the NPL -- 35. Looking for a New Career -- 36. Marriage -- 37. Wedding Ceremonies in Lohara -- 38. Back in Delhi -- 39. The Elusive Visa -- Epilogue: Life in America

"At the end of the 12th century the 'victorious armies of Islam' finally succeed in the conquest of Northern India, of Hindustan. Turkish war-slaves erect the Sultanate of Delhi. Yet, for the next 150 years the new power of Islam is constantly threatened from three sides: The Delhi-Sultanate remains separated from the classical lands of Islam by a Mongol power and Mongol armies which constantly threaten 'Sindh and Hind' from the West. In the East prosperous but turbulent Bengal remains a hotbed of rebellions and seditions - by Afghan warlords and competitors of the throne. Every one of these attacks or disruptions can initiate tax-revolts and rural unrest over the length of Hindustan and the Ganges valley. These dangers directly interact with a 'meritocratic' style of government in which the coups, political assassination and intrigue are routine. Thus, external threats and the despotism at the centre combine to create a unique culture of cruelty - vis-à-vis the Hindus, renegades and competitors. In fact, cruelty becomes a 'total phenomenon'. It is part of the struggle for power, wealth, and prestige. It is an indispensable feature of the art of war, of statecraft and political science, of religion and aesthetics." (author's abstract)

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This photo essay carries pictures of children, women and men from certain freed/denotified tribes (DNTs) living in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, trying to carve an existence for themselves. The idea is to capture the smiling faces of these children, women and men who are around us every single day, visible yet invisible.

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"In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India's capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story of Delhi is a parable for where we are all headed. The boom following the opening up of India's economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Many fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores nestled among the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. The city brimmed with ambition and rage. Violent crimes stole the headlines. In the style of V. S. Naipaul's now classic personal journeys, Dasgupta shows us this city through the eyes of its people. With the lyricism and empathy of a novelist, Dasgupta takes us through a series of encounters - with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts - which plunge us into Delhi's intoxicating, and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation. Together these people comprise a generation on the cusp, like that of Gilded Age New York: who they are, and what they want, says a tremendous amount about what the world will look like in the rest of the twenty-first century. Interweaving over a century of history with his personal journey, Dasgupta presents us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century's fastest-growing megalopolises - a dark and uncanny portrait that gives us insights, too, as to the nature of our own - everyone's - shared, global future. "--

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