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Entangled Fictions

Author	: Suvadip Sinha
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2022-08-26
ISBN	: 1000607208
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Fictions written by Suvadip Sinha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, Entangled Fictions argues that the corpus is limited epistemologically and politically when it comes to their examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions from autobiographical to spectra in effort to introduce readers to fictional worlds marked by human-nonhuman fluidity and trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before the telos of human extinction became either a global or local concern.

The Story of a Goat

Author	: Perumal Murugan
Publisher	: Pushkin Press
Release Date	: 2021-04-29
ISBN	: 178227572X
Pages	: 162 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Goat written by Perumal Murugan and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat's life in rural India by the greatest living Tamil author A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous. But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll: dangers lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world? With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and colour, The Story of the Goat is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller who is finally achieving recognition outside his home country. Perumal Murugan is an Indian author and professor of Tamil literature. He has written six novels and four collections each of short stories and poetry. His best-known novel One Part Woman, highly controversial in India, won the ILF Samanvay Basha Samman, and Aniruddhan Vasudevan's English rendering won the Translation Prize from India's National Academy of Letters.

Our Transgenic Future

Author	: Lisa Jean Moore
Publisher	: NYU Press
Release Date	: 2022-07-05
ISBN	: 1479814431
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Our Transgenic Future written by Lisa Jean Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How scientific advances in genetic modification will fundamentally change the natural world The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notably goats, mice, sheep, and cattle are now genetically modified in this way. In Our Transgenic Future, Lisa Jean Moore wonders what such scientific advances portend. Will the natural world become so modified that it ceases to exist? After turning species into hybrids, can we ever get back to the original, or are they forever lost? Does genetic manipulation make better lives possible, and if so, for whom? Moore centers the story on goats that have been engineered by the US military and civilian scientists using the DNA of spiders. The goat’s milk contains a spider-silk protein fiber; it can be spun into ultra-strong fabric that can be used to manufacture lightweight military body armor. Researchers also hope the transgenically produced spider silk will revolutionize medicine with biocompatible medical inserts such as prosthetics and bandages. Based on in-depth research with spiders in Florida and transgenic goats in Utah, Our Transgenic Future focuses on how these spidergoats came into existence, the researchers who maintain them, the funders who have made their lives possible, and how they fit into the larger science of transgenics and synthetics. This book is a fascinating story about the possibilities of science and the likely futures that may come.

CLAT Companion

Author	: Sudesh K Jain
Publisher	: Aarushi Publications
Release Date	:
ISBN	:
Pages	: 684 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book CLAT Companion written by Sudesh K Jain and published by Aarushi Publications. This book was released on with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book most suitable for reputed law entrance exams in India - CLAT, AILET, SLAT & Other Law Entrance Exams. The book covers the syllabus prescribed by NLU/Consortium of National Law Universities.

Tamil Characters

Author	: A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2019-01-24
ISBN	: 1529022592
Pages	: 100 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Tamil Characters written by A. R. Venkatachalapathy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamilnadu’s politics and culture befuddle outside observers. Ruled for half a century by two regional parties – DMK and AIADMK – its politics has been marked by language pride, non-Brahmin movement, caste-based reservation, regionalism, welfare populism, and cinema. Despite the negative coverage it tends to get from outside, Tamilnadu is a developed state scoring high on all human development indicators. In Tamil Characters, noted historian A. R. Venkatachalapathy provides a ringside view of contemporary Tamilnadu beginning with an assessment of political figures such as Periyar and Anna, Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, and significant poets, writers and thinkers including Subramania Bharati and Iyotheethos Pandithar. The final section discusses contentious issues such as language politics, prohibition, jallikattu and Dalit rights.