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There are ghosts from the past, and there are spirits from the future. They can appear before you in all shapes, sizes and forms. They can lurk in your mirror, in your computer or in your classroom. They can be friendly, or very, very unpleasant. They can even be you.... A group of children discovers the powers of the planchette. A summer beach holiday turns into a nightmare. An astronaut finds stranger things in space than he had expected. An old book takes ...
Spine-tingling tales of the paranormal. By turns chilling, tragic and darkly comic, the stories draw the mind to that unknown space that lies beyond the confines of reason and the material world. This collection gathers together oral histories, folklore and urban legends from every part of the country, and explores the many forms of the supernatural-spirits and bramhadaityas, dakinis and djinns, reincarnations and possessions, tutelary forest spirits and ...
This study traces historically the debate on uniform Civil Code and explores the complicated relationship between community, patriarchy, the state and gender justice. It examines and questions the attempt to locate Indian women as a homogeneous category and the community as a monolithic entity. Further, while emphasizing the need for Uniform Civil Code, the monograph argues that there cannot be any top heavy uniform prescription. Instead the code should be framed ...