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An Interview with Betty Dixson ( Toni Yap) , Author of Talisman – Gifts of the Shavtal
Short Bio: Betty Dixson (Toni Yap) is an immigrant, and US Army veteran married to her husband of over 27 years. She has three adult children. She is Screenwriter, Author, Producer at Yoshiko Studios LLC, She currently lives with her husband and three cats in Snohomish, Washington. Compassionate, Driven, Introvert I’ve always wanted to write…
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An Interview with Dan Bar Hava, Author of The 36 Watchers Series.
Short bio: Dan Bar was born and raised in Jerusalem. Creativity was an essential part of Dan’s life early on, with music being the focus during teens and young adulthood and writing thereafter. After serving in the military and phase I of higher education, Dan Bar moved to the US. Dan Bar has co-written the…
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An Interview with Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, Author or Aliya, The Girl From Ukraine.
Short Bio: Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his parents, who lived in Hungary, fled after its invasion by the Nazis. As a teenager, he came to study at Yeshiva in Westchester County, NY, where he graduated in Talmudic Law. Returning to Brazil, he married and joined the family’s…
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An Introduction to Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Draupadi’ and the Emergence of the Subaltern as her own Rescuer
In the Mahabaratha epic Yudhishthira, the Pandava prince, and a plural husband of the princess Draupadi, loses everything in the episode which narrates the story of the Game of Dice; a familiar and recounted episode from the great epic and one which plays a determinant role in the war between the cousins. In a pivotal…
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Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins (Study Notes)
Ecology refers to the relationship between the human beings and their physical world or surroundings. Robbins inscribes about political ecology through an instance of East Africa. The ecology of East Africa is beautiful and on the same hand important. The flora and fauna (lions, hyenas, baboons etc.) gives the natives as well as the other…