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The Role, Effectiveness, and Sustainability of Nonprofit Organizations That Provide Employment Support for Veterans
Brandon F. de Bruhl; R. Gordon Rinderknecht; Shaddy K. Saba
RAND Corporation
2024
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Nonprofit organizations play a significant role in the ecosystem of support for service members during their transition to veteran status and the civilian job market. The authors describe the philanthropic environment and landscape for nonprofits that provide employment support to veterans, propose a framework for measuring the nonprofits' effectiveness, and consider how public-private partnerships might support the veteran employment mission.
Surge in Solar-Powered Homes
Shahidur R. Khandker; Hussain A. Samad; Zubair K.M. Sadeque; M. Asaduzzaman; Mohammad Yunus; A.K. Enamul Haque
World Bank Publications
2014
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Bangladesh has the world's fastest growing, off-grid solar home system (SHS) coverage. In the past decade, the number of SHS installations has risen phenomenally–from a five-year target of 50,000 in 2003 to 50,000 a month in 2013, with support from the World Bank and other development partners. Even so, only 10 percent of off-grid households have been reached, suggesting ample room for continued expansion. Given the recent surge in SHS adoption, a key policy issue is whether the partial subsidy provided under the current program, implemented by the Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), should be continued.Surge in Solar Powered Homes: Off-Grid Experience in Bangladesh assesses the country's remarkable growth in SHS, its support schemes, and the welfare impacts for rural households, using both large-scale household survey and institutional data. The book's findings clearly demonstrate that the social benefits from SHS adoption far exceed the cost of the subsidy. Within the current market incentive structure, there is tremendous scope for broadening the rural market reach. But the high upfront cost of purchasing a SHS at current market prices is a barrier to future sales, suggesting the continued need for IDCOL's well-targeted, subsidized operation.
r//K
tredition
2025
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R.K. Narayan occupies centre stage among Indian English writers of the twentieth century, with fifteen novels and novellas and more than half a dozen collections of short stories to his credit. He was the first Indian writer in English to win the Sahitya Akademi Award (1958). This work is a definitive study of the man and the writer. Ranga Rao presents an intimate picture of Narayan, based on his personal experiences with the Narayan himself and his friends and relatives. Rao does detailed critical analyses of all of Narayan's novels and novellas, reading them through the lens of the Indian philosophical concept of the three 'gunas' (quality or virtue): 'sattvic' (harmonious), 'rajasic' (passionate), and 'tamasic' (chaotic). Ranga Rao post-scripts his critique with wide-ranging endnotes, offering plenty of facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well as friends and interviewers of Narayan, and from the novelist's own non-fictional works.
The Indian novelist R.K. Narayan was a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial literature. This detailed critical study covers all of Narayan's work, offering an accessible introduction to his life and fiction with detailed analyses of the major novels. Although the chapters take the reader through the successive phases of his career, they are organised on a thematic rather than a chronological basis to allow a focus on the most significant critical issues his work raises. While the introduction sketches the outline of his life, the first chapter explores how his own background was developed into the fictional South Indian small town of Malgudi, the setting for almost all his work. The second chapter deals with the controversial issue of Narayan's politics, and the common criticism of his writing as insufficiently politically engaged. The central chapter of the book focuses on the submerged fables that animate some of his key novels, including his best known, The Guide. The fourth chapter considers Narayan's attitudes toward modernity as reflected in his essays and his fiction. Finally, there is an analysis of Narayan as storyteller and the special styles he devised to tell his elliptical, subtle and understated tales.
R.K. Narayan
Michigan State University Press
1993
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This collection of eighteen essays is the first major work to evaluate the contributions of India's foremost literary figure writing in English, R. K. Narayan. His fourteen novels and nine volumes of short stories are centered almost exclusively in the fictional south-Indian town, Malgudi. Narayan, who began to acquire an international reputation in the second half of this century, reveals the India of his experience by focusing on the details of the lives of the characters who live in this complex community.Representative of the general field of Narayan criticism, Contemporary Critical Essays provides a balanced assessment, but also contains new interpretations of Narayan's work that are drawn from the latest developments in literary theory, feminist and cultural studies, as well as investigations into the implications of colonization and decolonization. As a result, these essays offer fresh insights, explore new directions, and reveal the nuances of an established literary criticism.
R.K. (Ruben Kane): A Wife, a Girlfriend, a Murdered Boyfriend and a Gay Lover. It Don't Get Any More Complicated Than That.
Eddie J. Martin
Eddie J Martin
2014
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Complete collection of the first 6 poetry book from the author in a hard cover book. The poetry collection consists of 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I, II and III', 'Puzzled Poetry', 'Expressing Art Through Poetry', 'To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions', 'Death and a Bicycle' and 'HomeSpun'. All titles are still available individually in a paperback format on lulu.com. Along with two other individual poetry collection on both paperback and hard cover formats. 'Slang Poetry Volume I' is one and the other is 'The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6'.
Complete collection of the first 6 poetry book from the author in a hard cover book. The poetry collection consists of 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I, II and III', 'Puzzled Poetry', 'Expressing Art Through Poetry', 'To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions', 'Death and a Bicycle' and 'HomeSpun'. All titles are still available individually in a paperback format on lulu.com. Along with two other individual poetry collection on both paperback and hard cover formats. 'Slang Poetry Volume I' is one and the other is 'The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6'.
Complete collection of the first 6 poetry book from the author in a hard cover book. The poetry collection consists of 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I, II and III', 'Puzzled Poetry', 'Expressing Art Through Poetry', 'To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions', 'Death and a Bicycle' and 'HomeSpun'. All titles are still available individually in a paperback format on lulu.com. Along with two other individual poetry collection on both paperback and hard cover formats. 'Slang Poetry Volume I' is one and the other is 'The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 6'.
R K Narayan - The Writerman of India is a collection that features brief summaries of various books and stories of R K Narayan. It also features his criticisms, his achievements, his multiple contributions, and the various adaptations taken from his writings. The writing style, attractive power and life of the Writerman of India, R K Narayan, have been given in this light book. The book is for lovers of innovative authors as well as for academicians who are in the field of arts and literature in English. It is a complete integrated guide and informative book on R K Narayan.
R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan's beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan's excitement about his country's initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardour for cricket and all other things British. The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The Dark Room, Narayan's portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband's humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in The English Teacher, Narayan's most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.
Mr Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen - an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi - and commits himself to Gandhi's Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions.
Over a career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan, easily one of the most influential and important writers of India, populated the fictional town of Malgudi with a host of unforgettable characters: Swami and his gang of friends, the Talkative Man, Raju the guide and Sampath the printer, among many others. These characters have carved out a place for themselves in popular imagination and live on, still fresh and endlessly entertaining, many decades after they first appeared. Timeless Malgudi brings together a selection of the best and the most enduring of R.K. Narayan's fiction and nonfiction. The Guide examines, with wit and irony, how a man becomes a godman. The story 'A Horse and Two Goats' describes an attempt at crosscultural communication which goes haywire, with hilarious consequences. The excerpt from My Days, Narayan's autobiography, paints a poignant picture of the author's childhood while the 'Misguided Guide' is a cynical, sharply written chronicle of the making of the film Guide, based on his novel. Also included in this volume are excerpts from the travelogue My Dateless Diary and a brilliant retelling of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram.
Reflections R.K. Singh's Poetry and Self
Ram Krishna Singh
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
2018
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