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Pattur and Noolur are two mutually interdependent silk-weaving towns in South India. While Noolur made patturis for Pattur and fed Pattur's silk looms with value-added silk yarns of superior quality, Pattur lent its eponymous tradename patturi to Noolur's silk saris for greater visibility in global markets.This interdependence worked fine for both towns, until one Venkatraman, a first-generation English lecturer, appeared on the scene. Venkat was visibly enraged by Pattur's Big Brother attitudes and actions, its dominance and its merciless exploitation of Noolurian silk weavers and silk co-operatives. Venkat assumes the role of an iconoclast and the responsibility for smashing the status quo. He goes about raising the war flag for Noolur's generic independence and for liberating the nooluri eponym from the clutches of patturi.Venkat's contagious war cries force Noolur and Pattur into ugly confrontational situations. Where and how do they end? What was the outcome of the face-offs? Did Venkat succeed in his mission? Whatever happened to the murky politics of eponyms?A novelette with an unusual plot that spins around this murky politics of territorial eponyms, Politics of Eponyms is a must read for anyone who likes to delve deeper into how eponyms evolve and exploit. To weave offbeat plots in the bargain.

Wherever he goes, colours chase him and hound him. They dog him to no end. He is a committed chromophobe, a victim of a strange condition called chronic malachromia. His aversion to colours and the deep hatred he nurses for them is not a new phenomenon. He developed them right when he was a teenager. Later as a journalist, he finds himself victimised by colours, whichever publication he worked for. Disgusted, he quits active journalism in the quest of colour-free vocations such as e-publishing and teaching.Sadly, he discovers to his dismay the entire knowledge sector is awash in duplicitous colours. That pushes him to turn to non-profits. And later to electoral politics, which survives solely on double-timing colours. Seeing no escape from colour conspiracies, the committed chromophobe turns into a colours-chasing chromophiliac. Nevertheless, colours continue to conspire against him. Felled by fatal colour conspiracies again and again, he relapses into chromophobia. There on, his life story takes a tragic turn.What happens to him finally? What are colours doing in his life now? Where do colours finally take him? Do the diabolical conspiracies of colours, integral parts of every human life, succeed in getting him finally?Conspiracies of Colours is not just the story of a chromophobe. It is the story that reflects on the colour-dilemmas everyone of us face and the shocking story of the duplicitous lives most of us lead today. Packed and peppered with colour aphorisms, colour wisecracks and colour anecdotes, this edge-of-the-seat thriller is a must-read for everyone. Simply because this is everyone's story as we all continue to be victims of colours sometime or other.

Can you describe temptingly low-hanging fruits as tantalising? Are all doomsayers Cassandras? Which is right, squaring the circle or circling the square? Why is the vegetative metaphor in a vegetative state today?When does the arithmetic metaphor become a good metaphor arithmetic? Is botany a metaphor for all hand-me-down knowledge? Can negative words become resonant? Why is Eureka moment fast turning into a weasel metaphor?Yeast and dough - which is the spreading metaphor and which is the accommodating metaphor? Why shouldn't veneer be used as a respectable metaphor? Is wilderness a metaphor for the down and out? Are all harsh and severe laws draconian?Many more metaphor questions.............Many more answers..............And many more metaphor stories. Much More Metaphoric Madness is all about metaphor sanity.

Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the finish line, as the start line becomes a mere blur in the circuit of life, which metaphor should be your focus on?Why is your finish line only as good as your start line? How are these two metaphors connected? Is sprint a metaphor for any short and speedy spell of running? When are you likely to short circuit the circuit metaphor? Can stymie be a metaphor for frustrating your initiatives totally, stem and root? When does your food turn into a mulligan stew?How did the common defence strategy of sandbagging turn into a billiards metaphor? Marathon and steeplechase, which is a metaphor for endurance and which is a metaphor for perseverance? Is volley a metaphor for a hail of compliments? Should salvo surprise and sear to be a metaphor? When do you turn gambit into a weasel metaphor?Why should chequered be a metaphor for our basic life philosophy? Which pawn metaphor is extremely negative? When do you run the risk of stalemating the stalemate metaphor? When does stalemate on ground become a diplomatic checkmate?All metaphoric googlies Springing nasty surprises and visiting you unannounced Do not get caught off guard With Not the End of Metaphoric Madness, you need not feel checkmated. This Book 4 is sure to help you out of your metaphoric dilemmas. It will also assist you in upholding metaphoric propriety and ensure you do not commit a serious metaphoric faux pas.

The Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking widespread disruption, social and economic. Much more than what the Great Depression and the Second World War together did. Unfolding as humankind's greatest challenge to date, the pandemic is rapidly altering the world, its politics and economics. In the process, turning upside down established relationships, accepted rules and prevalent norms.Though we cannot foretell with certainty what is in store, we can at least try to decode the telltale signs that are popping up all around us. The Post-Pandemic Planet does precisely that. This futuristic study examines the socio-cultural changes that are in the offing. It peeps through the prism of unfolding events to understand the possibilities that lie ahead.Among others, The Post-Pandemic Planet looks at how coercion-employing territorial states are changing and how the politico-cultural nation states are morphing. It tries to go into the reasons why our social lives are gradually getting colonised and why mysophobia will increasingly dictate the complexion of travel tomorrow.Is Covidisation of a new European Union a possibility? What happens to the concept of common markets now? Will the Marshalls and the Molotovs give way to the Merkels of the world? What colour the world health order is likely to take? How will the dissent-intolerant governments manipulate the privacy laws tomorrow? Why is the World Wide Web in the danger of turning into a World Narrow Web? Will jingoistic data localisation lead to digital dictatorships?These are among a score of questions you will find answered in The Post-Pandemic Planet. As a pandemic-threatened planetarian, you are sure to find them absorbing.

Birth, dream, fruits, mother, street, ........................well, ............................Do not shrug your shoulders dismissively. Do not wave all these words away as plainly pedestrian. Many more Simple Simons such as these straddle across the English linguistic landscape as powerful and potent metaphors. Only that you should know when, where, and how to use them all as pictorial metaphors.Metaphoric Madness will precisely help you gain that rare expertise. Using simple words as sexy metaphors for a variety of emotions, conditions and circumstances is actually multiplying your word power manifold. And discovering artful metaphors in mundane words is actually mastering quality in communication. Ideally, treat this book as the first leg in your new metaphor journey.You are sure to find Metaphoric Madness absorbing and addictive. That addiction is certain to prove creative and constructive. In more ways than one.

Is mothball a metaphor for a proposal abandoned or for a project shelved? When does history become a metaphor for geography? How does the metaphor hive provoke a publication to jettison by-lines for good? How does butterfly win its metaphor battle with the beetle?Can chameleon be a metaphor for a colourful person? When does textbook become a positive metaphor for an individual? What is that useful metaphor in the frog-scorpion fable? Is albatross a metaphor now for power of flight or pathetic plight? Are all hounds pesky metaphors? Why is spine a wrong metaphor for physical heroism? Why isn't maverick a metaphor for me-toos?Metaphors are everyday business and everyone's right of speech. So, it is high time you had questions like these answered by an expert.As the second volume in the metaphoric madness series, More Metaphoric Madness brings expert advice, word-pictures and imagery to your doorsteps and ensures metaphors are no longer the sole preserve of academia and elite speakers and writers.

This is the fourth and the final book in the Metaphoric Madness series. The metaphoric theme of this Book 4: games and sports. The book tells you how to turn simple words from games and sports into pictorial metaphors, supported ably by live-wire usage examples from world's leading newspapers, magazines, journals and websites. At the same time, the book helps you to resolve the usual dilemmas that are associated with the usage of 35 cherrypicked game-and-sport metaphors in your writing and speech. Here are a few examples of such dilemmas that are sure to be resolved by this book: * Where do I use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? * Is sprint a metaphor for any short and speedy spell of running? * When am I likely to short circuit the circuit metaphor? * When does food turn into a mulligan stew? * When does gambit turn into a weasel metaphor? * When do I run risk of stalemating the stalemate metaphor?* When does stalemate on ground become a diplomatic checkmate? An immensely useful handy volume for students, academics, writers and speakers. And for the layperson too.

With progressions in technological advancements, new materials are being developed to meet industrial requirements. One such Nickel based super alloy is Inconel 625. Inconel 625 exhibits extraordinary mechanical properties along with chemical stability at high temperature. Due to extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties, Inconel 625 is exceptionally hard to machine/finish. In this book, magnetic abrasive finishing process has been proposed to finish flat Inconel 625 surfaces. Three different parameters processing time, pole rotational speed and weight percentage of abrasives and their range has been selected. Design expert software has been used to plan experiments. Seventeen experiments were conducted as per experimental plan. The effect of process parameters on output characteristics (Percentage improvement in surface finish and Material removed) has been analyzed. Microscopic analysis and SEM analysis of few work pieces has been also provided to analyze the effect of process parameters.

India is the largest producer of chickpea accounting for 64% of global chickpea production but its production is adversely affected by several pathogens. Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceri) is very serious disease in chickpea crop. The present research as done to minimized the disease incidence by take Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma harzianum neem cake and carbendazim. Use of pesticides increases the health problems and decreases of soil fertility as well as increases the resistance the pathogens. The fungal antagonists and organic amendments lead. The positive role in increases the soil fertility and decrease the health problems. So we conclude the antagonists Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma harzianum and organic amendments neem cake can be successfully exploited as a biological approach the management of soil borne disease particularly Fusarium wilt.