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मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'बसरुरचे स्वातंत्र्य' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

Pedo, the central character of "The Headhunter's Granddaughter", grew up deep in the jungles of Borneo, Malaysia. Her parents gave her away to her father's brother, a cruel man who used her for child labor, tapping rubber trees to make money. Her parents had too many mouths to feed, twelve children in all. Pedo wouldn't be missed. Her grandfather, the "Headhunter", cared for her by recruiting village women to breastfeed her and their children. During WWII, the Japanese invaded Borneo and tried to take over their village, and Pedo's grandfather practiced his 'skills' with a vengeance.

ביצוע מיוחד ע"י נכדתו של מחבר הספר, הדס קלדרון. קיץ 1944: לאחר שהטיסו השלטונות הסובייטיים, במבצע יוצא דופן, את המשורר אברהם סוצקבר ואת אשתו מן השטחים שבשליטת הנאצים אל החופש התמסר המשורר מיד למשימה לכתוב חיבור על השואה בווילנה עירו. זה היה בחודשים האחרונים של מלחמת העולם השנייה, וככל שהיא התקרבה לסיומה, כן הלכו והתבררו הממדים הבלתי נתפסים של רצח היהודים. זהו אחד החיבורים הראשונים המתעדים את זוועות הנאצים וגם את התנגדות היהודים על פניה השונות – המאמצים להבטיח את הקיום הפיזי בתנאים הקשים מנשוא של הגטו, הפעילות החינוכית והתרבותית, הקמת המחתרת היהודית.

L'historienne médiéviste Claude Gauvard nous invite à découvrir Christine de Pizan, une figure méconnue mais essentielle de la France médiévale. Écrivaine novatrice des xive et xve siècles, elle s'impose comme l'une des premières femmes de lettres professionnelles, excellant dans l'écriture poétique, l'analyse politique et la polémique. À travers son oeuvre foisonnante, écrite en langue vernaculaire, Christine de Pizan défend avec force la place des femmes dans la société.

I walked into the courtroom expecting justice. Instead, I found a system designed to silence me. Jhovanny Maxi returned from vacation in March 2023 to find his world turned upside down. Falsely accused. Misjudged. Stripped of his home. Standing in a courtroom where he was the only Black person—and the judge was white. The legal system was against him from the start. He was charged $1,500 for requesting a translator, offered $1,000 for a home worth over half a million, and ignored at every turn.

Selenny Espinal's compelling book, The Struggles That Shaped Me, recounts her struggle from a difficult upbringing in the Dominican Republic to a better life in the U.S. Selenny struggled with bullying, racism, and a troubled home life due to poverty and social expectations. Her story explores societal bias, adolescent parenthood, and independence. Selenny shows courage and determination as she struggles with violent relationships and single parenthood. This inspiring story shows her perseverance and determination to improve her family's future.

In the early hours of March 24th, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumbled with tanks as soldiers seized the presidential palace, overthrowing Argentina’s leader. To many, it seemed like just another coup in a continent troubled by them, amid political violence and Cold War tensions. But there was something darker about this new regime. A compelling mystery and deeply researched account of a pivotal era in world history, A Flower Traveled in My Blood takes listeners on a journey of love, resilience, and redemption, revealing new truths about memory, identity, and family.

Whether he's initiating a coup d'état against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year-old who once called him a fat slut, Pope Lonergan's work is infinitely varied. This no-holds-barred account shows what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers. Featuring night-time drama, incontinence pads and the uniquely dark humour of one double-amputee Alzheimer's patient, here you can learn everything you ever wanted to know (and a few things you probably really didn't) about Britain's care system.

At the age of 23, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together Western, South-Asian and Qur’anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. With lyrical prose and scholarly precision, she weaves her personal experiences with incisive social commentary to uncover the meaning of faith and belonging, love and betrayal, family and womanhood. In so doing, she offers us a vision of freedom that isn’t measured in fabric.

This memoir tells the story of Dr. Joseph Sebarenzi, whose parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of 90 days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu - an efficiency that exceeded even that of the Nazi Holocaust. Outbreaks of ethnic violence had been occurring in Rwanda since colonial times when the Belgians ruled the region. As a child, Sebarenzi twice hid with his mother during episodes of killing, narrowly escaping with his life.

A deeply felt meditation on race, sex and American culture - at once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac. The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's Black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation.

Confessions of a Token Black Girl is a snappy comedic tale framing Danielle's first-hand experiences in Wisconsin and other places as the perpetual "token Black girl", fraught with dark moments and hate crimes. It's a coming-of-age-story but instead of finding herself during a road trip, Danielle found herself through the effects of racism. This book humorously chronicles Danielle's quest for understanding what Black identity means to her - instead of what it means to everyone else.

When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. Forest Whitaker narrates the story of this remarkable man who, while serving tea and supervising buffets, was also a witness to history.

Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan’s (grandfather’s) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.

All I Could Bare is the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who "took the road less clothed". Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relationship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters....

Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first nonfiction book, tells, largely in their own words, the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods, the people, the politics, idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, for Rory, his apprenticeship as a printer.

A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.

This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family.

Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need? At this time of Covid, singer, songwriter and best-selling author Alan Doyle is feeling everyone's pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing. We're all experiencing our own version of that deprivation, and Alan, one of Newfoundland's finest storytellers, wants to offer a little balm.

ಕುಂವಿಯವರ ಆತ್ಮಕಥನಾತ್ಮಕ ಬರವಣಿಗೆ. ಕುಂವೀ ಬರಹಗಳೇ ಹಾಗೆ. ಓದುತ್ತಾ ಓದುತ್ತಾ ಭಯ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಕಾಣಿಸಿದರೂ ಕಥೆ ಮುಗಿಯುಷ್ಟರಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಸೆಳೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಬಿಟ್ಟಿರುತ್ತವೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಾಂಧ್ರ ಗಡಿ ಭಾಗವಾದ ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗಳ ಬದುಕನ್ನು ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟುವಂತೆ ಕುಂವೀ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯ ನಕ್ಸಲೀಯರು, ಸದಾ ಹತ್ತನ್ನೆರಡು ಗನ್‌ಮ್ಯಾನ್‌ಗಳ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬದುಕುವ ಜಮೀನ್ದಾರರು, ಅಮಾಯಕ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜನತೆ-ಇವರು ಹೀಗೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬದುಕಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಎಂದು ಅಚ್ಚರಿಪಡುವಷ್ಟು ಅಪರಿಚಿತ ಬದುಕನ್ನು ನಮ್ಮ ಮುಂದಿಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯ ಎರೆಮಣ್ಣು ಮಳೆಗಿಂತ ರಕ್ತದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ನೆನೆದಂತೆ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸುವ ಇವರ ಬರವಣಿಗೆ ಕಂಡು, ಖ್ಯಾತ ಲೇಖಕ ಪಿ. ಲಂಕೇಶರು ಹೀಗೆಲ್ಲಾ ಇರಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಎಂದು ಅಚ್ಚರಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತ ಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದುಂಟು.