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      • Trusted Partner
        April 2022

        Ich werde leben

        Roman

        by Lale Gül, Dania Schüürmann

        Lale Gül hat einen autobiografischen Roman geschrieben: über das Aufwachsen eines muslimischen Mädchens im abgehängten Amsterdamer Westen, über Grenzen, Gebote, Loyalitäten einer ultrakonservativen Familie, über die Hoffnung auf ein selbstbestimmtes Leben. Bei seiner Veröffentlichung bricht die Hölle los, und plötzlich steht sie zwischen Rechten, Linken und religiösen Fanatikern, im Kampf um die eigene Stimme … Ich werde leben erzählt in einer Sprache ohne Respekt von einer jungen Frau auf dem Schlachtfeld der Zugehörigkeiten, von ihrem Zickzackkurs entlang Familie, Glaube, Freiheit und unserer Gegenwart, vom modernen Kampf um Identität und Diversität im Abendland. Ein einzigartiges Zeugnis gegen die Kräfte der Unterdrückung, von welcher Seite auch immer.

      • Fiction in translation
        September 2020

        Alindarka's Children

        by Alhierd Bacharevič, Translated by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid

        Alindarka's Children (Dzieci Alindarkiis, 2014) is a contemporary novel about a brother and a sister interned in a camp. Here children are taught to forget their own language and speak the language of the colonizer, aided by the use of drugs as well as surgery on the larynx to cure the 'illness' of using the Belarusian language.   The children escape but are pursued by the camp leaders and left to thrive for themselves in this adventure, which bears a likeness to an adult, literary 'Hansel and Gretel'.   The dialogue translates well to the guttural differences between English Received Pronunciations and Scots. The Russian, translated by Jim Dingley, will become RP and the Belarusian, translated by Macsonnetries author Petra Reid, Scots. This novel has been translated and will be published in September 2020 thanks to the Pen Translates Award, won by Scotland Street Press in May 2019

      • Veterinary medicine
        January 2022

        Pongamia for Bio-Energy and Better Environment

        by M.V.R. Prasad

        Pongamia pinnata is also credited with several preventive and curative properties as established by Ayurvedic medicine. It may be recalled that in the decades of nineteen seventies a few villages reaped sustainable incomes in the face of acute and chronic droughts that plagued the nation, solely due to the availability of some old Pongamia / karanj tree stands around those zones. Kranj oil has exhibited promise as a source of green energy. Nevertheless, the research on improvement of Karanj and its management as a productive plantation is nebulous. It is heartening that the Monograph on Karanj by Dr. M.V.R. Prasad fills this void. Dr. Prasad has been pursuing the work on oil bearing perennial trees of which Pongamaia pinnata has been studied in greater detail during the decades starting from nineteen eighties to date. The Monograph describes clearly as to how Pongamia pinnata could be harnessed to exploit the proven and potential benefits cited above, in addition to giving valuable information on its genetic improvement and plantation management.

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