What is it about life that makes it so challenging? We may not always have what we want, and the things we do have are either unappreciated or we fail to recognize their true value until it's too late. Riya, like any other young woman her age, fantasized about meeting the right guy and living a happy, romantic life with her Prince Charming straight out of a fairy tale world, but she was soon forced to accept reality, seeking happiness with her lover, Harsh, rather than pining over someone who may or may not exist. Riya was helplessly drawn to a new guy who started working at the same company she did... His demeanor reminded her of the man of her dreams; he was just as stubborn, aggressive, and challenging as she was. Riya believed she had finally found him... her Prince Charming... the one worthy of her eternal love after meeting Rachit. What will happen, however, when Riya discovers that her beloved was not who she had expected, that her dreams were nothing more than fantasies, and that reality was even further away than the west from the east?

In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women and girls of all ages, resulting in anxiety, eating disorders, and depression. One question we often forget to ask is this: What is God's design for womanhood? In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for. Girl Defined helps readers · discover God's design for femininity and his definition of a successful woman · uncover the secrets of lasting worth, purpose, and fulfillment · be equipped and empowered to live out a radically better vision for womanhood · gain personal insight through the chapter-by-chapter study guide

The project-in-lieu of thesis, Unfulfilled Desires investigates how a tongue can "speak itself" to express unconscious, repressed, or unfulfilled desires by simple but repetitive actions. Desire is formless like solid colors, but is actualized by projecting fantasy onto a subject. Desire is like a strange and endless loop between reality and fantasy, never fully satisfied in either case. Unfulfilled Desires is a video installation composed of two synchronized High Definition videos, Unfulfilled Desire I_idiosyncrasy and Unfulfilled Desire II_blindness, which capture hyper-details of a tongue performing tasks such as melting a lollipop and licking honey. By contrasting two different means of fulfilling desire, I show that desire is not fulfilled upon completion of the task in Unfulfilled Desire I_idiosyncrasy, nor is desire satiated through infinite supply in Unfulfilled Desire II_blindness. In Unfulfilled Desire I_ idiosyncrasy, a tongue licks a lollipop until it is completely dissolved. This performance focuses on the simple, mechanical actions of the tongue, which licks the lollipop while never truly consuming it. The color blue is the most familiar hue for sky or sea, but it is the most unfamiliar color for human skin or food. The saturated blue of the tongue, face, and lollipop provides a saccharin pleasure and implies fantasy. Unfulfilled Desire I_ idiosyncrasy exposes the physical process of the transformation of the lollipop into a warm and sticky syrup mixed with saliva. The work contrasts the sweet pleasure of desire with the fatigue induced by the tongues action. In Unfulfilled Desire II_blindness, honey dripping from a sword becomes a trigger to attract the tongue like a flower attracts bees. The color red communicates desire as an intense and reckless force, knowing danger yet tempting fate. The contrast between the strong and sharp steel of a sword and the soft and vulnerable muscle of the tongue increases the tension between blind desire and dangerous pleasure. A tongue doesn't have eyes. A tongue doesn't think. A tongue doesn't feel guilty. A tongue becomes the living embodiment of desire as a receptor of pleasure. I investigate human desire by questioning what is known and unknown, available and unavailable, and simultaneously concealing/revealing meanings by observing human body actions.

In our relativistic society, Christians more than ever are bombarded by tough questions about their faith. Author Paul Copan has observed that many of these questions emerge as "anti-truth claims" that are part of today's skeptical mind-set. Christians defending their faith often hear slogans and questions such as: Ž It's all relative Ž Everything is one with the Divine; all else is illusion Ž The Gospels contradict each other Ž Why would a good God create hell? This book provides incisive answers to slogans related to truth and reality; theism, pantheism/Eastern religion, and naturalism; and doctrinal issues such as the incarnation and truth of Scripture. Each of the twenty-two chapters provides succinct answers and summary points for countering the arguments. Copan's book is accessible for all Christians who want to defend the plausibility of Christianity in the marketplace of ideas. It also includes helpful summary sections, additional resources, and additional documentation in the endnotes for review and discussion.

This is a book on spirituality. It attempts to present to readers the purpose of life and enables them to look at life in a much broader perspective. It is written in a lucid and simple style which helps make the concepts easy to understand. Everybody looks to gain permanent happiness, but search in the wrong place. They search in the world full of bright objects hoping that by acquiring the next shining article, their life will be full of happiness and are dismayed when they do not find it. This book removes many misconceptions and presents to readers the source of immortal bliss. Readers will be exposed to the fact that the source of eternal bliss is internal and the book provides basic information about the route to eternal bliss. The book also explores concepts of God, birth, death and reincarnation in a clear manner. I hope readers find it thought provoking and enables them to take the first step on their spiritual journey.