A big Himalayan sheepdog chases three children, who come face to face with it and, terrified by its loud bark, start running through the hills. When they reach the edge of the cliff they are met with a furry surprise. The illustrations are colourful and vibrant and little ones would want to see them repeatedly.
The story begins many years ago, describing the family set-up, particularly the relationships in the prevalent joint family system. The young protagonist calls her parents by their popular names and her father’s older brother is addressed by the term for a father. She lives and journeys to places with her elder aunt and uncle while her sisters live with her parents. Visits to temples and far-off cities are enjoyed in the same way, exclusively with her elder aunt and uncle. She even gets a sewing machine to stitch dresses for her dolls and learns the art in the process.
He asks if his sister is missing him, but she is busy reading. He meets his chachu, who isn’t missing him either, but he reminds him of someone else. Bittoo searches everywhere for this mysterious family member who might be missing him, but cannot find him.
Tale of Two Birds is about two birds who set out for a mountain, one wanting to go straight up and the other looking at the height, afraid. So they go the way a small bird can—to the first tree, then the next, resting on every branch until the mountain is near enough to reach. In this gently illustrated nature board book for children, little readers follow a climb taken one step at a time, and find that going slowly beside someone is its own kind of brave.
These combatants have been documented as well-educated females from affluent families, making their profiles complex and multifaceted. She groups the motivations for these radical female recruits into three categories: the uniting factor of religious ideology, the narratives of victimhood, and a political choice made to liberate oneself from the patriarchal traditions. They were committed to the roles of recruiters, facilitators, fundraisers, and were even stationed as gatekeepers of patriarchy tasked with promoting gendered policies (p. 112). Like their Pakistani counterparts, these women were also part of several
Epigraphy, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies and Ethnohistory. Influenced by Ranajit Guha and the Subaltern Studies tradition, the contributors argue that oral narratives, ritual practices, pilgrimage customs, songs, and collective memory can serve as legitimate historical sources when supported by independent evidence. The chapters move logically from the political and cultural settings of first-century North-West India and South India to discussions of the Acts of Thomas, the Seven Churches, Mylapore Archaeology and Syriac, Arabic, Patristic, Portuguese and Papal sources. The loss of Syriac and Malayalam manuscripts destroyed by Portuguese colonizers during the