Desi Girl Speaking

Author : A. S. Hussain
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1471413500
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desi Girl Speaking written by A. S. Hussain and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tweety is struggling. Battling depression and faced with parents and friends who don't fully understand what's happening, sixteen-year-old Tweety feels like no one is listening and there's nowhere to turn to. Until she stumbles across Desi Girl Speaking, a podcast by someone else who's struggling too. Through episodes and exchanged emails, Tweety and Desi Girl begin to confide in each other, but as Tweety's depression deepens, she'll have to decide whether to stay silenced or use her voice to speak up. A powerful and compassionate novel about mental health and hope, for readers of Yasmin Rahman, Muhammad Khan and Danielle Jawando. (TRIGGER WARNING: this book explores mental health, including discussion of depression, suicide and self-harm.)

Author : Mohini Kent
Publisher : HopeRoad
ISBN 13 : 1908446439
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desi Girls written by Mohini Kent and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with the customs and expectations in the countries where they are now living, the mainly female characters in these tales have to choose whether to cling to their Indian culture, discard it completely, or learn how to adjust and compromise. It's a challenge! Themes of courtship, marriage and betrayal - of losing and re-forming one's identity while trying to live up to Indian ideals of behaviour in an alien environment - contain all the vibrancy of India herself. And amidst the fragrance, colour and beloved familiarity of the rituals that accompany the characters, many varied and sometimes disturbing dramas are played out in these stories by: Va Naidu, Achala Sharma, Anil Prabha Kumar, Anshu Johri, Archana Penuli, Aruna Sabharwal, Chaand Chazelle, Divya Mathur, Ila Prasad, Kadambari Mehra, Neena Paul, Purnima Varman Pushpa Saxena, Shail Agrawal, Sneh Thakore and Sudershen Priyadershini.

Author : Viv Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351399691
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979) written by Viv Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979. The performance of West Indian children in British schools has been the subject of enquiries by both a parliamentary select committee and the Department of Education. It is widely believed that an important factor in the relative failure of West Indian children is the language they use, West Indian Creole, and while teachers and others who work with them are aware that their language is often very different from British English, they seldom understand the nature of the differences, or their implications. The aim of this book is to provide the non-specialist with an account of the language of West Indian children and to examine how linguistic ‘interference’ can affect their level of reading, writing and understanding, even when they have been born in Britain. It also considers the worrying possibility that negative attitudes towards them and their language may have an adverse effect on their motivation to learn standard English. Viv Edwards places great stress on the fact that, although Creole is different from British English, it is in no way deficient as a language. She emphasizes the importance of familiarity with the structure of Creole, since it is only in this way that the teachers can discriminate between real mistakes and Creole ‘interference’. Attention is drawn to the relationship between language attitudes and social stereotypes and the danger that these might be translated into reality. Different strategies available to the teacher are examined, drawing on American experience in this field, and various initiatives taken by British teachers are described, thus making the study a work of practical value to teachers and others.

Author : Ashwin Singh
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1906582327
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice written by Ashwin Singh and published by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice is an anthology of five engaging and eclectic South African plays by award-winning playwright Ashwin Singh. The plays selected, namely To House, Duped, Spice ’n Stuff, Reoca Light and Beyond the Big Bangs represent the complete array of Singh’s storytelling skills in drama as well as satire. Each play reflects, in different ways, on the complexities and contradictions of life in post-Apartheid South Africa, and focuses particularly on people of Indian origin and their relationship with other South African communities. The plays present a moving portrait of a unique array of characters and are also punctuated by Singh’s trademark humour. Each one is set in Durban, South Africa’s third largest and most diverse city, and they are described by renowned academic and critic Betty Govinden as ‘undressing Durban, as they take us away from the neon lights and “candy floss” to the reality of the underbelly of post-Apartheid urban and suburban existence’.

Author : Embe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stiya, a Carlisle Indian Girl at Home written by Embe and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134790813
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Sikhs in a Global World written by Knut A. Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they interpret, shape and negotiate religious identities, traditions, and authority on an individual and collective level. With a particular focus on the experiences of second generation Sikhs as they interact with various people in different social fields and cultural contexts, the book is constructed around three parts: 'family and home', 'public display and gender', and 'reflexivity and translations'. New scholarly voices and established academics present qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork and analyse how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family and the expectations of the majority society, between Punjabi culture and religious values.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian's Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian's Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sherrill
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493418904
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Speak with Other Tongues written by John Sherrill and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty years ago, a reporter for Guideposts magazine set out to gather information about a strange new occurrence happening all over the country. John Sherrill, a skeptic when it came to speaking in tongues and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, was determined to retain his objectivity while digging out the facts. What he found would change his life. With more than 2.5 million copies sold, this classic work is the story of one man's journey from skepticism to a life-changing relationship with God. Filled with historical and biblical accounts of speaking in tongues, this is also the deeply personal and moving story of how you, too, can walk in the power of the Spirit day by day. Now includes a new epilogue and update on how to lean on the Holy Spirit for unity in an increasingly divisive world.

Author : Sonia N. Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190461780
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Rivalries written by Sonia N. Das and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Purism across the seas -- Narratives of a diaspora -- A heritage language industry -- Inscribing the ur -- Navigating the cosmopolis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary