Books

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 August 2024 English

Mal Paharia and Sabar Adivasi communities are drawing on their oral traditions to create grammar books and primers to preserve their endangered mother tongues. A story from PARI's Endangered Languages

drawing on their oral traditions to create grammar books and primers to preserve their endangered mother


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 March 2024 English

On March 14, 2024, the Election Commission of India (ECI) presented data on the purchase and encashment of electoral bonds in two parts: Details of Electoral Bonds submitted by SBI …

(a) such political paity keeps and maintains such books of account and other documents as would enable the


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2024 English

In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …

the world. Small sample studies show that many books continue to under-represent women and girls, and Comparing across countries, female representation in books is correlated with higher GDP and more legal rights (Kincheloe, 1983). Despite the potential importance of books for norms, still little is known quantitatively systematically about the extent of biases in school books around the world. In this paper we open the black many influences on children’s gender norms, school books make up a large share of children’s time spent at


Rekhta Foundation · 1 January 2024 Urdu

Pratapgarh. He acquired degree in M.A Urdu and later awarded Ph.D for writing confirmatory book. His books on collection of poetries are " Tabeer", and "Salasbeel", have been published in 1998 & 2000 respectively respectively. Apart from it "Urdu Tanqeed Ka Safar", "and Shafeeq Jaunpuri-Ek mutala" are his important books.


1 January 2024 English

All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), the oldest national women’s organization in India was born in January, 1927 in Poona. But the genesis had actually begun much earlier.

Hilda Seligman of UK (author of several children’s books featuring Skippo, the donkey) donated a van to


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …

Labour Office. www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/ WCMS_737648/lang--en/ index.htm. Jones, G. 2009 the internet, television, reading newspapers and books, and meeting with or attending training sessions


Rekhta Foundation · 1 January 2024 Urdu

poetry was at its peak yet his writing is more inclined to the classical poetry. Some of his important books are 'Raat ke Aakhir Hote Hote', 'Us Khusbu ka Yeh Qissa Hai','Aadmi udas hai','Ashk Asa Ne Nahar Nikali'


Rekhta Foundation · 1 January 2024 Urdu

poetry was at its peak yet his writing is more inclined to the classical poetry. Some of his important books are 'Raat ke Aakhir Hote Hote', 'Us Khusbu ka Yeh Qissa Hai','Aadmi udas hai','Ashk Asa Ne Nahar Nikali'


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English

The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. This …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been sponsored by by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS). The books include illustrations drawn by Ranjit Chitrakar, Sirajudaulla Chitrakar – traditional patachitra artists from West Bengal.This edition was published in November

book? This is a crucial question. There are many books and other writings about rivers. Experts in history


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