My Frozen Embryo


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What do you do when you want to be a mother more than anything in this worldbut your body betrays you? Do you leave it to the forces of nature and prayer? Do you cling to wisps of hope? Or do you wait for a miracle? Sometimes, you have to work towards the miracle and that means seeking help. My Frozen Embryo chronicles the story of my empty womb, my struggle, my acceptance if being tagged as a woman who could not conceive naturally, the physical & emotional pain that finally lead to a twin pregnancy and motherhood. It was very important for me to tell my story. When I was going through all those fertility treatments, I had no one to fall back on. I had no book to read. I did not have anyone to tell me how a procedure would take place. It was then, that I decided that educating women facing this situation was important. This thought gave birth to my book. It was time to remove the taboo surrounding the words Fertility Treatment. My Frozen Embryo is a personal journey towards parenthoodthe journey, I so proudly narrate today.




Outlook


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India Today


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Rashtriya Sahara


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Textile Trends


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Sharbari Datta


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This book tries to capture the essence of designer Sharbari Datta's contribution to ethnic menswear complemented by interviews and testimonials by Sharbari's celebrity clientele, and a treasure trove of photographs.




Indian Silk


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Styling South Asian Youth Cultures


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For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion.This book explores South Asian youth cultures and fashion across the countries of this region and their diasporas from a transnational perspective. Through visual and textual analysis of film, photography and digital cultures, as well as ethnographic fieldwork, the expert contributors look at how gender, sexuality, class, the media and faith intersect with and style youth cultures. By establishing the heterogeneous nature of South Asia and its youth cultures, they also dismantle grand western narratives that tend to understand the region's diverse cultural modernity through the lens of homogeneity.




Rituparno Ghosh


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An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into radical queer politics. This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics. In this first scholarly study undertaken on Rituparno Ghosh, the essays discuss the cultural import of his work within the dynamics of a rapidly evolving film industry in Bengal and more largely the cinematic landscape of India. The anthology also contains a conversation section (interviews with the filmmaker and with industry cast and crew) drawing a critical and personal portrait of this remarkable filmmaker.