The infighting between religious factions takes an unconscionable toll on the female population that was exceptionally difficult to read about. Razak was brilliant to have used a progressive family to journey through this experience, providing home as a necessary balance to the proliferating injustices. Their two daughters are Alma – fourteen years old, prone to wearing a red apple clip. Much of the early part of the book is implicitly told from her viewpoint, giving it something of a young adult feel initially. Due to concerns for the safety of unmarried girls, Daddee Ma arranges an overly hasty marriage for her, including clumsily faking her astrological chart. Alma herself is somewhat obsessed with the world of Djinn’s and gods and of legends and transfers some of this to imagined visions of her promised husband.

Harbison, Brad (4 August 2015). "A Termite-Damaged Book...Or Is It?". Pest Control Technology . Retrieved 20 June 2019. Red apple hair clip. Sweet milk pudding. A fair haired boy at the shore. The sacrifice? The moth. Ninety three women dead in the well.The term is also used idiomatically to describe an avid or voracious reader, [17] or a bibliophile. In its earliest iterations, it had a negative connotation, referring to someone who would rather read than participate in the world around them. Over the years its meaning has drifted in a more positive direction. [18] See also [ edit ] Many new photographs have been included, including significant numbers of leaf mines, and those of adult moths are arranged where appropriate in a common orientation with the head to the upper right. UK and Ireland species maps are included for the first time, and a dark line below photographs of adult moths indicates their typical length. Some two million people died, and the trauma lives on in their survivors and descendants. In addition, an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped during Partition. Some were forcibly converted to their abductor’s religion and coerced into marriage. A pact signed in Delhi in 1950 sought to find and repatriate these women, but many of them didn’t want to go home. They were afraid they’d be killed by their own families for having dishonored them. Crew, Bec (August 25, 2014). "How Book Scorpions Tend to Your Dusty Tomes". Scientific American . Retrieved 20 June 2019. These insects consume portions of books that contain polysaccharides. Paper that is slightly ragged at the edges is usually the work of silverfish. [3] [12] Silverfish ( Lepisma saccharina) Lepismatidae [ edit ]

Alma was still very much a young girl who dont understand things, she is stubborn, naive, love to spin eery wild tales of djinns and monsters, her passionate love for her family, also very immature in many things. Yet, as she was forced apart, she learned that she need to care for herself independently, she need to do anything to survive. The family, Bappu a estimated professor and the head of the family was a good man who cared so much about his family and Ma, the mother who fought against any traditional beliefs that women could not be other than housewife. She was a learned woman, become a professor and had forward thinking that gets her scrutinized for. Roop, the youngest at 6 had the characteristic of psychopath in making for her obsession with death, torturing animals, they are very hard to read through for me, it felt quite absurd and uncomfortable. Otter class at Braeburn Primary Academy used Moth in their lessons about adaptation and evolution, and created these beautiful non-fiction diagrams Termites are the most devastating type of book eating pest. They will eat almost every part of a book including paper, cloth, and cardboard, not to mention the damage that can be done to shelves. Termites can make entire collections unusable before the infestation is even noticed. [3] Ma/Tanisi was orphaned when young, and bought up by her Uncle on a houseboat in Kashmir where she learnt the Urdu she now teaches (both at University and to the sons of a well known local Muslim – both positions becoming increasingly untenable) and of which she, with her blue eyes, still dreams as well as remembering her infatuation with her Uncle which she seems to find echoed more in the father of her charges than in her husband. Tanisi and her Uncle are (I think) of the Pir Ali caste (which I think from some research is associated with the poet Tagore and seen as heretical by pure Brahmins). Concise guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Martin Townsend & Paul Waring, 2007. Illustrations of all macro-moths in natural resting postures plus concise field notes. British Wildlife Publishing.

I read this book due to its longlisting for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novelists, although I had been aware of it as it featured on the influential Observer Best Debut Novelists of the Year feature for 2021 alongside such other successful and impressive books as “Little Scratch” (2021 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist), “Open Water” (2021 Desmond Elliott Prize longlist, Costa First Novel Award winner), “Lear Wife” and “Assembly” (also on the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize and for me the best novel of 2021). And this feeling of things falling apart is very dominant in the book. Our focus is a Brahmin family, mother and father both lecturers at the local university. This immediately tells you something about the family at that time, and the mother experiences plenty of discrimination because she is not a man. The family is preparing for the wedding of their young daughter, Alma, a wedding they are not sure is a good idea but which they feel they need to proceed with to protect her. Because all around them, the threat of violence is continually growing as Partition approaches. Melody Razak tells this story in Moth, her remarkable debut novel. A pastry chef and café owner, she was inspired to go for an MFA in her forties after listening to elderly survivors recount their experiences on a radio program, Partition Voices, (ah, BBC Radio 4 . . .) “It wasn’t just about the political and geographical rupture in India,”she said in an interview for the Telegraph of India, “It was ruptures between families, between friends, between people because there was so much love there. And that was kind of ripped apart.” The prose was lyrical and courageous, championing Alma's father for his dedication to seeing women as human beings. But Razak did not shy away from depicting the downside of a non-misogynistic patriarch during a time of widespread violence either. Complexity and nuance, yes please! This is but one example of many. Perhaps unusually the author of the book has more of an emotional/travel connection to India than a familial one – with an Iranian born mother and estranged father from Pakistan, was born and grew up in London, worked as a pastry chef/café owner, took an MA in Creative writing and came to the topic of Partition originally through a Radio 4 programme – which made her determined to give a voice to what she saw as the lost voices of the women caught up in the traumas and horrors of the time via rap and abduction.

My only other gripe is that I had heard at least a third of the stories already, on The Moth podcast. Some of them I reread and enjoyed all over again, but others I skipped, in favor of discovering a new story. This was of course unavoidable--based on how the stories were collected in the first place--but as a reader and a Moth listener, I was slightly put off. While friends turned on friends, neighbors vilifying each other, MOTH by Melody Razak is not the big picture of what was happening everywhere but a deeper insight into one family particularly which impressed in forging a personal connection with the characters and becoming one with the family. Remember to submit your questions for me via the Great Science Share! I look forward to answering them! Moth Hall of Fame

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Field guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Paul Waring & Martin Townsend, 2009. Illustrations of all macro-moths in natural resting postures plus detailed field notes. British Wildlife Publishing. The first edition of this popular photographic guide was published in 2008 as British Moths and Butterflies. The second edition represents a significant revision, and has much new material to offer. This third edition has been significantly expanded so that it includes all species on the British list, approximately 2,500 in total, representing a magnificent achievement by the author, Chris Manley. It also includes updates to the text, improvements to the photographic selection, and extra identification hints. For the leaf-mining micros, photographs are included to demonstrate the all-important feeding signs that can often be a more reliable identification method than seeing the adult. Teachers from around the world have sent me spectacular examples of art, science and writing work created in response to Moth. Scroll down to visit my Moth Hall of Fame, and find ideas for working with Moth in your own classroom! Great Science Share for Schools 2021 If you are ready for something different, and/or if you are in the mood to give a friend a fabulous gift, grab a copy of The Moth. I promise that you will be glad you did.