Meenakshi: 28 books

'The Indian epics gain strength and renewal with every telling and retelling. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's compelling and accomplished narration of the crucial story of Amba and Shikhandi is a timely reminder of the constant currency and relevance of the Mahabharata.' - Namita Gokhale. Book one, The...

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In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a “sexscape,” a globalized assemblage of media, transnational...

I'm sorry if this doesn't fit in with the ideas people have about romance and epics but it's a true story, and I'm going to tell the truth here, because no one ever will. Who is Satyavati? Truth-teller. Daughter of water. Child of apsara and king. Cursed from birth. Fish-smell girl. Growing up as...

People generally think that having all the answers will keep them prepared for things to come. However, more often than not, knowing the questions that might come our way is better than having all the answers. Why, you ask? Because it is better to have things that we may not need or use, rather than struggle with not having the right things when you need them the most.

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration...

Kashmir, God's own land on earth, is the motherland of the Kashmiri Pandits. The year 1990 saw a mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their own soil due to threat to life and mass killings by the Separatists. The Divine And the Destiny is the story of Shereen, a young Kashmiri Pandit girl, and her family....

This book focuses on the issue of financial exclusion with particular reference to the urban informal sector in India. Continuing the work of its predecessor, the current Government of India is also placing considerable importance on driving policy initiatives for financial inclusion. However, financial...

doyenne signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture....

I wanted to compute 80th term of the Fibonacci series. I wrote the rampant recursive function,int fib(int n){ return (1==n 2==n) ? 1 : fib(n-1) + fib(n-2);}and waited for the result. I wait… and wait… and wait…With an 8GB RAM and an Intel i5 CPU, why is it taking so long? I terminated the process...

Searching & sorting algorithms form the back bone of coding acumen of developers. This book comprehensively covers In-depth tutorial & analysis of all major algorithms and techniques used to search and sort across data structures. All major variations of each algorithm (e.g. Ternary, Jump,...

College guides written by students for students. Rice University Students Tell It Like It Is This insider guide to Rice University in Houston, TX, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics, and insider tips...

This is journey of heart On wings of poetry Flying, moving, searching Through vivid patterns of life Finally connecting my words To your eyes… Let's explore together Layers hidden in these poems

The book raises issues of social and scientific backgrounds using the tools of simple language and ends with a lot of food for thought. The reader can empathize with the characters in the stories and the protagonist always has a social message. However the theme of each story has to be unraveled by...