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Kalima Publishing and Distribution is a publishing company based in Tunisia ,whose main aim is to provide the readers with books that cater to their cognitive and cultural needs.Kalima’s book publications range from a wide variety of cultural fields like ( Literature, History , novels, poetry, philosophy, linguistics...). Through its cultural project Kalima Publishing and Distribution ,seeks to present to the readers the best quality of books that will help them develop critical thinking and guarantee their mental growth, without any form of restrictions on the freedom to write and create.Kalima Publishing and Distribution is a powerhouse whose publications are an added valueto the cultural content in the Arab world. Hence, Kalima’s dedication to listeningto its readers and granting special attention to their opinions andinterests.Kalima Publishing and Distribution was designed to discover talents and ideas with multiple expressions: it is a project of a cultural message, which does not take away the right to be different, but aspires to go beyond limited perspectives, when dealing with reality. For us, reality is not condemned to remain as it is, nor to bebound to any region or group.Intellectual property rightsWithin the framework of its relations with various authors, "Kalima" Publishing and Distribution strives to respect the intellectual property rights believing that they are one of the most important factors that support the promotion of the publishing industry in that it represents respect for the rights of the publisher and the author. Therefore, this protection willhave positive results that will be reflected on the quality of the performance of the publishing house in this field.
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FictionDecember 2014Golden Needle in the Weaver Bird's Nest
by Arupa Patangia Kalita
If one can disentangle a weaver bird’s nest, one will find a golden needle that can sew and mend anything, but there’s a small condition: not a single thread must break in the process. Since no one has met the challenge successfully yet, the needle remains elusive. Perhaps the secret lies in building the nest with people as threads, perhaps in the harmony of all men. SYNOPSIS Banamali Chaudhury is a revenue collector or mouzadar of the British Raj in a small town dominated by Bodo people. A tall, handsome, aspiring brown sahib swearing by the British Crown, the philandering pseudo-royal would have women brought to his haveli in a palanquin to quench his lust. One day, he sets his eyes upon a beautiful girl of lower caste and wishes to marry her. But unknowingly, he ends up marrying a plain looking but well-educated girl, Santipriya. Realising his mistake, Banamali searches for the other girl and marries her too. Mistreatment and depression make Santipriya age quickly, but she gives birth to a pair of male twins, Chandranath and Priyanath. The twins grow up to be the antithesis of their father; they seek India’s freedom and join the Gandhian movement. Dismayed, their father disinherits them from his estate. The boys take shelter in a school house and continue their studies from there until their father dies. The elder becomes a lawyer in the big city and Priyanath takes up the reins of the estate that his debauch father has reduced to shambles. But Priyanath starts working for the people and gets involved in community activities. He sires a son and names him Alok. Alok is talented and an idealist. He studies in Delhi and gets a scholarship to pursue higher studies abroad. Defying pressures from his extended family, Alok decides not to leave his father and takes up a job as teacher in a local college. Difficult days have descended upon Assam; a secessionist movement erupts under a terrorist organisation. Every year, a family from neighbouring Bhutan would visit Priyanath’s home. Traditionally, many households here have such families visiting them from the Himalayan kingdom; the same family wouldvisit them every year. But this is soon going to stop – terrorists kill the entire family camping with Priyanath. Only a small boy survives and Priyanath takes him as his own.Just as Assam’s secessionist movement was losing steam, another armed struggle begins in this region, entailing the demand for a separate state. The extortionist militants demand money from Priyanath who refuses to comply. Out of revenge they barge into Alok’s college one day and gun him down. The now ageing Priyanath hears about a child born in the paddy fields. Riots had broken out between the Bodo and Muslim people. But in the midst of the fight, a woman collapsed. Nobody knew whether she was Hindu or Muslim, but the rioting stopped and everyone gathered around her. A lady known as Ammi Jan delivered the baby. When Priyanath heard this story, he sent his Bhutanese foster boy to fetch the mother and child. Looking at the innocent eyes of the one who had stopped the riots, Priyanath gives her something close to his heart – a gold chain that once belonged to his own child Alok. The novel carries fifty interwoven stories centred around the plot. The discreet narrative captures the socio-economic background of a tribal belt of Assam, an easternmost Indian frontier, bordering Bhutan. The novel traces the historical status of women and the calculated destruction of lush green nature along with its flora and fauna, rivers and hills. It is rich in the use of myths, tales and description of the different cultural layers of this quaint region. It traces some endangered institutions like an elephant training centre, along with its colourful folk beliefs and customs. It touches elements like the advent of Christianity in the place. An epic novel with its treatment of time and space across a century, it gives meaningful shape to a welter of facts, speculations and elements of popular imagination.
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FictionJanuary 1994Dawn
by Arupa Patangia Kalita
Dawn or Solstice is a compelling and moving story grounded in the rich texture of the society that it describes. The novel centres around the story of a talented, sensitive and intelligent girl who suffers in a society ruled by patriarchy. Set in the heady days of Indian struggle for independence the saga of a woman dreaming equality and a dignified status of woman is sad as well as inspiring. SYNOPSIS The novel picks up an array of characters from different walks of life. These characters are well etched coming out of the pages with life-like clarity. The novel is a status of women in a particular and crucial point of history. The struggle for independence in India ripens and the life of the women described in the novel have become more and more oppressed by patriarchy in different forms. The contrast is clear and gives the novel a special character. None of the women can come out of the cruel patriarchy but the struggle does not stop. More the oppression becomes cruel, more the struggle gains momentum. The novel becomes the voice of a voiceless silent group. Colourful characters, interesting story-line, gripping narrative, historical relevance make the novel worth reading.
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Children's & YADecember 2018The Story of Tanya
by Arupa Patangia Kalita
A father brings two fluffy bundles of joy from the foothills of Bhutan for his daughter to replace her dead dog Tom. Siblings of Tibetan Spaniel breed, the girl Tanya is given away to another loving family that dotes on her as their own child and the ball of fluff enters a life of adventure, sheltered by the love and bonding of the town’s children. Tanya is adopted by Arunabh’s family from Jilmil’s, leaving her brother Jigme behind. Although her new life starts with the pain of parting from her brother, Tanya quickly adapts to her new surroundings and continues her ‘adventurous’ life. She thinks she’s brave as a tigress, but in reality, as chicken as a hen. She almost gets run over by military trucks, is nearly crushed by the family’s fat aunt, and she rattles her entire household one night over a stray tom cat that she thinks is a thief. Tanya also rides an elephant and she did actually protect her family from a poisonous snake once. As the years go by, and her loving brother Arunabh steps into adulthood, Tanya grows into an old lady in the body of a baby. Arunabh goes to Delhi to continue his studies and Tanya misses his company and the tunes of his harmonica. The story ends with Arunabh’s mother noticing her son and his friends’ adulthood as the veil of childhood innocence is lifted from her eyes with Tanya’s death. Tanya is a universal story of a cute dog and her adventures. What she communicates with her peers and what she says to her family is beautifully expressed through imaginary speech by the author. Albeit with a sad ending, Tanya is a happy story of a dog that lived a happy life, spread mirth and joy among whoever she came across and overshot the average life-span of her breed. Narrated in twenty-one chapters, the story of Tanya unravels through short and interesting episodes presenting her adventures and emotions across a span of 10-11 years.
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Agriculture & farmingAugust 2015Social Ecological Diversity and Traditional Food Systems
by Ranjay Kumar Singh, Nancy J. Turner, Victoria Reyes-Garcia & Jules Pretty
This book draws on world-wide experiences and valuable lessons to highlight community-ecosystem interactions and the role of traditional knowledge in sustaining biocultural resources through community-based adaptations. The book targets different audiences including researchers working on human-environment interactions and climate adaptation practices, biodiversity conservators, non-government organizations and policy makers involved in revitalizing traditional foods and community-based conservation and adaptation in diverse ecosystems. This volume is also a source book for educators advocating for and collaborating with indigenous and local peoples to promote location-specific adaptations to overcome the impacts of multiple biotic and abiotic stresses.
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Agriculture & farmingJanuary 2014Ancestral Knowledge in Agri-Allied Science
by Ratan Kumar Saha
Indigenous knowledge is the knowledge of the indigenous people inhabiting different geographical regions of the world with their own language, culture, tradition, belief, folklore, rites and rituals. Indigenous knowledge so developed is based on necessities, instinct, curiosity and observations of ethnic groups to mitigate the immediate situations. Eventually, this local knowledge in course of time gets socially accepted and validated which finally inters into the social life and subsequently become the Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) of the society as a whole. As such, scientist in this knowledge base economy who are in research of new ideas and innovations expect that indigenous knowledge may hold significant message which may be of use to remedy the deficiencies in modern agricultural and environment related issues. There is a need for studying and documenting traditional knowledge in different ecological and cultural environments. Several researchers are working on ITK in different fields of agriculture and allied sectors. There is a demand for a standard book on the overview of ITK. This book is designed in such a way that will give an overview of ITK, the differences between Science & ITK, different tools and techniques used in ITK, classification, importance & utilization of ITK, and recent ongoing researches on ITK in different parts of India. The objective of this book is to encourage the study of ethnic knowledge in different field of agriculture and allied sector. It is also an attempt to circulate amongst a larger group of readers regarding the importance of indigenous knowledge in scientific world. This book will, perhaps, be well received in all the Agricultural Universities, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries University, State Govt. Agri-allied Departments, Private and Public Sector Institutions where training, teaching, research and extension of agri-allied sector is undertaken.
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Geography & the EnvironmentJanuary 2011Numerical Methods and Models in Earth Science
by Parthasarathi Ghosh
"Understanding earth systems and its dynamic behavior requires objective insights into the complex observational data sets and their interrelationships. Drawing meaningful inferences from such data is not always an easy task as the deterministic relationships between various geological variables often remain obscured. These interrelationships need to be determined empirically through the analysis of a large set of data and validated through numerical simulations. The ever widening horizon of techniques of numerical analysis and simulation now provides a good number of tools to aid the interpretation. However, due to the inherent complexity of earth science data, expert supervision is required at all stages of analysis from collection to dissemination. This ensures that the most appropriate methodology is adopted and the results remain consistent with the geological principles. Discussions on these practical issues often lie beyond the scope of textbooks and this is precisely where this book is placed. In this book eminent geoscientists present their experiences in analyzing and managing earth science data as well as in designing numerical models to simulate earth processes. Apart from giving a discourse of their own approach towards a particular research problem they also discuss at length the relative merits of alternative methodologies. These seven authoritative articles, richly illustrated, will be a valuable resource for research students and professionals interested in research and teaching in various branches of earth science like, tectonics, GPS geodesy, sedimentology, geographical information science, and evolutionary biology."
