[PDF] The Whispering Tree Of Bengaluru eBook

Author : Sridhar Pai Tonse
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1636697100

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On a summer afternoon in 2015, I was driving alone by car along the west coast from Mangalore to Goa. As I revelled at the scenery, I suddenly felt something odd. The next minute, the landscape changed tremendously. A massive wave of emotion took over forcing me to stop. The street was silent. The tree in front of me was ablaze with something I had never seen before. It beckoned. Every leaf, branch, and the trunk lit up with an unimaginable radiance. I was stunned. It was a transformative moment for me. Trees speak. And this Neem tree, growing up along the Margosa Road in the mid-1950s in Malleshwaram, has a story of her own. She develops a special affection for Balu, a child next door. A wonderful relationship develops between them. Till one day, young Balu leaves the city. She misses the little boy. Decades later, she narrates her life, their daily battles for survival, an incredible ‘social web’ that keeps the planet alive. And life in old Bengaluru. What happened to Balu? And to the tree? Did they meet again? What was her life like? What message does she share for humanity? Hear from the whispering tree.

Author : Fey Huyn
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781727289237

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Anthony Selero, some call him Ants. Ants has problems. After a job gone sideways, from an act of violence, there is now the blood of his girlfriend on his hands. He now finds himself on the run, from the law, from the man that instigated the violent act, from a bloodied nightmare. But, a chance encounter with a strange old man with a tale about a mysterious tree that can grant forgiveness sets him on quest to seek such absolution.

Author : Savita Hiremath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 8195131735

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Endlessly Green looks at the history, the science and the art of composting and sustainable waste management through a kaleidoscope of philosophical, moral and ethical intricacies. The author digs into her rich pool of experiential learnings and raw inputs gathered through a decade of research, legwork and fearless execution. This engaging field guide equips community volunteers, activists, students, SWM practitioners and professionals with practical inputs on segregation, composting and organic gardening/farming, making sustainability imaginable in a concrete jungle. In doing so, it helps individuals discover the possibilities of bringing about a change in their environment by engaging their own environmental sensibilities. Endlessly Green is an extraordinary celebration of things small and significant and the fight against waste, culminating in a replicable and scalable end-to-end solution.

Author : Michael C. Shapiro
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788120826076

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During the past two decades there has been a significant amount of research and publication concerning the sociolinguistics of South Asian languages. Language and Society in South Asia is the first major attempt to assess the impact of this new literature. It exposits the methodological and theoretical assumptions of sociolinguistic descriptions of south Asian languages, and contrasts them with the assumptions of earlier characterizations of these languages. An important feature of this book is its detailed examination of numerous schools of linguistic analysis within which most past descriptive work on South Asian languages has been carried out. This is done in language accessible both to the professional linguist and to non-linguists interested in social aspects of language use in South Asia. Among the topics treated in this book are traditional taxonomies of South Asian languages, South Asia as a linguistic area, social dialectology, bi- and multilingualism in South Asia, pidginization, creolization, and South Asian English, ethnographic semantics, and the ethnography of speaking. The work also contains an extensive bibliography of the scholarly literature pertinent to the study of South Asian languages in their social contexts.

Author : Richard Skinner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0571340474

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Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel. Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, characters, settings - with charm and rigour. But more than that, he argues that the journey towards a final manuscript is as important as the finished article itself.His approach works: many of Richard's students have gone on to secure publishing deals and many more have left his courses with work to be proud of. With its balance of warmth and wisdom, Writing a Novel will give any aspiring writer the confidence to face the blank page -- and to fill it.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9788129118929

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Great Stories for Children is a collection of some of Ruskin Bond's most delightful children's stories. It stars Toto, the monkey, who takes a fancy to the narrator's aunt, much to her dismay, a python besotted by his own appearance, a mischievous ghost who enjoys stirring up the house when things get dull, three young children stranded in a storm on the Haunted Hilland Ruskin Bond himself, who happens to make the acquaintance of a ghost at a resort late one night.

Author : Steven Borsman
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN :

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"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House