It also follows that plagiarism is endemic and integral to academic worlds; and that professionals plagiarise in ways that they will get away with. The sanctions against plagiarism by amateurs are among the gatekeeper functions performed by professionals.
Though not in deliberate imitation, the new clothes advocated by the dress reformers were much similar to that of men’s more user-friendly and comfortable pants-like dresses. For practical reasons, during both World Wars, many women took to pants as they began doing jobs that were traditionally done by men.
‘Dreadlocks’ were not, in fact, from North America, nor were they from the ‘original’ African cultures that former slaves were forced to forget in American captivity, and then painfully remembered in the 1960s and ‘70s: jata were brought to the West Indies by indentured labourers from India who replaced the slaves when ‘free’ labour was deemed to be more efficient than unfree slaves.
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be of very different origins, and the Baghdadi Jews and Syrian Christians bear the same name as Muslims from the area which is now Syria and Iraq; I had a colleague with my surname from Romania, which of course was once a part of the Ottoman Empire, and I have never been anywhere near Syria or Iraq
I can read ‘Hindi’; I can speak bad Hindi if I am allowed to disregard all rules of gender; and I can write it if I must (my spelling is better than my grammar). But I somehow can’t do it without feeling that I am participating in some weird imperialist project. This has seriously hampered my engagement with much of North India, somewhat dismissively known now as the ‘cow belt’.
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at the sum of 20 talents of silver which is about 620 kilograms of silver, he laughed at them for being ignorant of who it was that they had captured and his worth.
He has created a community educational and medical haven in the heart of Tikiapara, Howrah, and mobilized a movement for social change in an extremely impoverished area with eighty percent of the population below the poverty line.
Each story portrays the various challenges lesbians face in living lesbian lives, either secretly or in the open. The book gives the reader insight in terms of both the progress made and the miles to go, before a lesbian and queer identity is not stigmatized or constrained.
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