This is the story about a boy who runs away from home when he sees his widowed mother sleeping with a white man, the varied experiences he undergoes and how he finally comes to terms with life's realities.

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.

1. Raksha The Gokulpet police finds the body of a gangster named Bhadra in his own tempo van with multiple stab wounds. They initially believe it to be a gangland killing. Senior Inspector Jacob Janardhanan realizes that someone is misleading the investigators to protect the real killer. He delves deep into the life of the victim and realizes that everyone who Bhadra came across during his short unsavoury life has some reason to kill him. 2. Chikna The South Chennai cops receive an anonymous phone call that a car has crashed in the east-coast road. They find the body of a prosperous and popular businessman named Radheyshyam, who had relocated to Chennai twenty years ago. On gut instinct, Inspector Jacobs unearths a story that takes the readers down an incredible path of avarice, intrigue, and vicious cunning. 3. The Final Orbit The car of a reclusive Indore businessman Boopathi is found parked in a mango grove in Gwalior. Bhoopathi, an orphan who hailed from Gokulpet, has vanished in thin air. Senior Inspector Jacob Janardhanan finds the orphanage that brought up Bhoopathi. He then unravels the strange travails of a gifted young man through the murky waters of the Chennai underworld.

"Containing cases decided in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) by the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal." (varies)

Why does the usually aloof and reticent Paul suddenly want to meet Ali after Susanna's death? Why does the possibility of an unfinished manuscript by a longforgotten writer fascinate Ali and Abhi to the extent that they undertake a journey to Marayoor, a town deep in the heart of Kerala to meet the unknown Susanna? First published in Malayalam in 2019, Susanna's Granthapura is Ajai Mangattu's uniquely crafted novel that celebrates the strong bonds that form between people who share a love of reading and of books.

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