City Improbable: Writings (R/E) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City Improbable: Writings (R/E) write by Khushwant. This book was released on 2010-09. City Improbable: Writings (R/E) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Delhi is the twin of pure paradise, a prototype of the heavenly throne on an earthlyscroll’—Amir Khusrau A city of contradictions, where ancient traditions and modern aspirations jostle for space, Delhi has often been compared to a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its three thousand years of eventful history have witnessed the rise and fall of several empires, a process that continues today. City Improbable brings together writings by immigrants, residents, refugees, travellers and invaders who have engaged with India’s capital over different epochs. Babur shares his earliest experience of the city and Amir Khusrau praises the fine lads of Delhi; Ibn Battuta and Niccolao Manucci record the glories and follies of prominent rulers; William Dalrymple and Khushwant Singh provide intriguing accounts of the threshold period that saw the coming of the British and the waning of the Mughals. Poets and storytellers—Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, Yashpal, Kamleshwar, Ruskin Bond—narrate their versions of the city. Contemporary Delhi is featured in a variety of vignettes: the bureaucracy, the Emergency, the anti-Sikh violence, lovers and joggers in Lodi Gardens, the city’s Sufi legacy as well as its changing cuisine. Among the new pieces in this expanded edition are Sam Miller’s account of his experiences in the suburb of Noida, Manto’s story about a girl from Delhi leaving the city during Partition, Jarnail Singh’s unflinching recollection of the massacre of Sikhs in 1984, a photo essay on Shahpur Jat by Karoki Lewis, and a composite narrative by the young writers of the Cybermohalla Collective about the making of a resettlement colony.
City Improbable
City Improbable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City Improbable write by Khushwant Singh. This book was released on 2001. City Improbable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.
Improbable Scholars
Improbable Scholars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improbable Scholars write by David L. Kirp. This book was released on 2015. Improbable Scholars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work.
The Accidental City
The Accidental City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Accidental City write by Lawrence N. Powell. This book was released on 2012-04-13. The Accidental City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
An Improbable Life
An Improbable Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Improbable Life write by Michael I. Sovern. This book was released on 2014-02-18. An Improbable Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world. According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the institution after growing up in the South Bronx. He addresses key issues in academia, such as affordability, affirmative action, the relative rewards of teaching and research, lifetime tenure, and the role of government funding. Sovern also reports on his many off-campus adventures, including helping the victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, stepping into the chairmanship of Sotheby's, responding to a strike by New York City's firemen, a police riot and threats to shut down the city's transit system, playing a role in the theater world as president of the Shubert Foundation, and chairing the Commission on Integrity in Government.
