Maya Sharma

This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and material, a consonance of approach which is reflected in the innovative and non-traditional format of the Element itself – not simply in its length, but its constitution. The Element was created collaboratively with contributions from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of professional expertise. It consists of a series of interventions which are then discussed by the contributors and is foundationally multi-voiced and discursive. The Element attempts to be non-extractive, ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and constantly ongoing and provisional in its representation. The Element strives to contribute to ongoing attempts to rethink, reconfigure, reassess, and entirely change the object of study and the practice of history.

This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and material, a consonance of approach which is reflected in the innovative and non-traditional format of the Element itself – not simply in its length, but its constitution. The Element was created collaboratively with contributions from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of professional expertise. It consists of a series of interventions which are then discussed by the contributors and is foundationally multi-voiced and discursive. The Element attempts to be non-extractive, ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and constantly ongoing and provisional in its representation. The Element strives to contribute to ongoing attempts to rethink, reconfigure, reassess, and entirely change the object of study and the practice of history.

Maak kennis met de betoverende wereld van de Indiase keuken met het nieuwe kookboek van auteur Maya Sharma, "Kruidige Sferen: Authentieke Indiase Smaakexplosies." Dit boek neemt je mee op een gastronomische reis door India, waarbij je de rijke smaken en culinaire geheimen van dit diverse land zult ontdekken. Maya Sharma, een gepassioneerde chef-kok en liefhebber van de Indiase keuken, onthult haar beste recepten en de geheimen die ze heeft opgedaan tijdens haar reizen door heel India. Van kruidige curries tot aromatische biryani en verfijnde desserts, dit boek zal je smaakpapillen prikkelen en je laten zien hoe je authentieke Indiase gerechten kunt bereiden." Kruidige Sferen" is meer dan alleen een verzameling recepten; het is een diepgaande verkenning van de Indiase cultuur en culinaire tradities door middel van eten. Maya laat je zien hoe je de beste kruiden en specerijen selecteert, smaken in balans brengt en de warme gastvrijheid van India naar je eigen keuken brengt. Sluit je aan bij Maya op haar culinaire reis en ontdek waarom de Indiase keuken wereldwijd wordt geroemd om haar smaakexplosies en vari teit. "Kruidige Sferen" is jouw sleutel tot het cre ren van heerlijke Indiase gerechten die je vrienden en familie zullen betoveren en je smaakpapillen zullen verrassen. Open dit boek en begin aan je eigen culinaire ontdekkingsreis door het hart van India.

The narratives in this volume constitute immense challenges and small but profoundly significant triumphs. Located within a personal journey of emergence from a space fraught with silences and half-truths, the book documents the life-stories of ten working-class queer women living in north India. In doing so, it dispels the myth that lesbians in India are all urban, westernized and come from upper and middle classes. These real-life narratives create a space for voices with little or no privilege, providing these women with an opportunity to share their lived realities with one another and with others. The stories effectively challenge the notion of women as sexual beings without agency, and it is hoped, will influence the women's movement towards an inclusion of lesbian women in the movement.