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VILLAGE BY THE SEA SUMMARY

Chapter 1

One day early morning Lila ,a thirteen girl went to the shrine on the beach to offer flowers to god. she stayed there for a short time enjoying the warmth of the rising sun, bowed again and turned back to home. sometimes ago Lila’s father  owned a fishing boat and went to sea to fish. Then her mother used to brig flowers to this rock in the sea,and pray. On her way  back along the path among the coconut grove she passed bungalow.it was locked and shuttered.it was belonged to the rich people who were living in Mumbai.her two sisters were brushing their teeths with twigs when lila came.they complained that she were late.lila get hurry and boil water for tea.hari came with the little pot of milk.lila added some milk to mothers cup because she were ill.lila could smelt  the fermented toddy smell that was hated by a small child.bela and kamal  walked with hari to the school.at the edge of the village was a pond where woman washed clothes.Ramu a former school mate of hari came on a bicycle.ramu said that they get jobs.hari heard that some factoris are coming upon village.but lila too had the same problem in mind she was thinking about that.they did not like fishing .hari could not walk any more.after the school bela and kamal came to beach  carryin a small pot.lila has sent them to collect barnacles.Bijus  daughter was walking on the road.they were wearing beautiful sarees.other women talk about them.hari’s nature is exposed a little.he does not like other people to see what is doing.he brought his net only after the other people have gone.he threw the tiny fish that came in to his net back to the sea.he is observant about how the birds behave.their dinner is ready it is a pleasant dinner because it is a result of co-operative effort.the story of pinto is amusing.hari asked “where is the father” because they hate their father going to the toddy shop.

Chapter 3

Mother condition has turned worse.lila and her sister were panicked.their neighbour is Hira-bhai.she drink in toddy shop.she insult them thinking that they came for toddy for father or to get some money on loan.they were explained theis suffer.the old woman promised to send the medicine man who she said has herbs.bela and kamal fled back to their home.little later pinto came limping.The medicine man came and made some sounds with his drum.he uttered some chants and got the girls to bring some ash from fire place.then he demanded payment.they had no money or valuable thing to give him.she show that their mothers silver ring.the man looked rough and left.after the mental agony the girls underwent because the medicine man.a band of the men had invaded the dense shrubbery surrounded the creek.they made a big commotion and caught a small mangoose .bela was highly grieved because they killed such  a little mangoose.a drunken man came and ask for their father.he wanted them to pay money their father had borrowed for toddy.soon after the man had gone  hari returned home.

  

Chapter 2

Lila is going to the market at thul today.after bela and kamal came she wore her new saree.while she going to market she met a friend  mina.mina had nothing to do.her parents find a husband to her.lilas bag was full.lila and mina walk together.biju’s boat was being built.the villagers talked about him.they seem to be jealous of Biju ,probably because of his proud manners.bela and kamal have heard people talk about smugglers and want to know about them from hari.hari played on their ignorance until they fell asleep.hari and other boys in the village on finding a jobs.they don’t have any jobs in the village acceptable to them.ramu is very hopeful. They know nothing about  the cities such as Bombay and the job opportunities there. Mr.silva  the lady of the house.lila and her sister were also very good to the silva and won their good will.It was only their father messed up.Had he been not drunk Mr.silva  would have given them jobs. Hari has no definite plan about the future.he goes to the site where the factory is to come up to find about it.hari being an uneducated man didn’t understand what he mention as fertilizer ,factory complex,manure and so on.haris biggest finding a job to earn money to look after his sisters.he knows that he cannot find a job in thul.

Chapter 4

After all thinking hari has came to a conclusion that he must do something to get out of this situation.he listen to the watch man who said about the factories and the change they would bring about and Biju protests.the villagers became very angry.because of the destruction that the factories would bring on them.just an irresponsible watcher ,but people believed what he said without checking on the truthfulness of what he said.The news of what the factory project would do to Thul and surrounding villages angered the villagers.a man from alibhag began to speak to the crowd.he spoke against the factory project and enticed people to protest.while waiting for some ice for mother hari heard about the massive demonstration to be held against the fertilizer factory.he could take the side of the factory and try to find work there.as hari reached home he found the something was wrong .the girls were crying when he asked was it somebody has poisoned pinto.hari understood their plight.every one looking down upon them.because they are helpless and poor.

Chapter 5

Hari did not know that biju boats was to be put to the sea that day.the place was decorated with banners made of old saris of bijus wife.the boatmakers had made all the arrangements to move the boat to the sea and gone home.the boat makers did not return in the morning and biju was so impatient to put the boat to the  sea  at the auspicious time.he got hold of some local people and set at the task.but the boat slips to a side wildly across the greased logs and titled dangerously .the men ran away for safety.all attemps to move it from there that day failed.as the night fell everybody except biju left the beach to the tide line where it was put to sea quietly when the tide came.by this time hari was far away from thul and he had forgotten all about biju’s boat.

Chapter 6

Hari managed to get a lift in bullock cart from alibagh to rewash.when he reached sun was rise.hari think that the fertilizer must be something important  eventhough he did not know about it.it was fourteen kilometers from rewash to Bombay.he did not have a ticket but slipped into a boat and sat with the people.someone felt sorry for hari who was sitting huddled while other people were  eating and drinking .he gave him a dry chapatti and the boy gulped it with difficulty.as  the boat approach the city of the Bombay.hari was filled with wonder.Tall buildings, roads full of traffic tooting of horns people hurrying about like ants was something hari had not seen.As he was pushed from behind by the passengers trying to get out as quickly as possible,he saw cranes operating on ships lifting large bundles of goods.he saw another procession coming and their procession had to stop to give way to the other on the order of the police.it was a procession of women demanding lowering of cost of living.hari left the village but his sisters at home did not know about it.the happy event is the arrival of Mr.silva and his family.

Chapter 7

Hari who had never gone out of the village  was left alone in Bombay ,one of the big city  in india.he had not eaten yesterday morning and had only a few cents in his pocket.throughout the day he had been going about with the people who came to protest against the new factory  project in Thul.his attempt to meet Mr.de silva also failed.fortunately he meets a kind man who took him to a place where he was given a meal and a place to sleep.

Chapter 8

Hari began his work at sri Krishna eating house.the name is very grand but from the subsequent description we came to know that it is the meanest and dirtiest eating house in Bombay.the customers are beggars and coolies.the boy had to work without break.the owner of the eating house seems to be a peculiar person.he told hari that he can have his meals free and stay at the place free if he liked and that he would pay 1 rupee a day.hari goes to the road to empty a pail of garbage into one of the big concrete disposal units on the roadside.he speaks to an eldery man who repairs watches.he turned out to be a kind man.he speaks to hari and hari develops a friendship with him.Mr.silva and his family came when lila was about to go to alibagh to bring  medicine for her mother.but she didn’t know any doctor or have the money pay for the medicine.lila offered to do the work that hari did.they worked so well that the cook was satisfied.lilas mother sick and take her to hospital.when lila came home she had to face another problem.father was drunkard.

Chapter 9

Hari had to work in the kitchen in intense heat.jagu paid his wages  as promised and since he get his meal free.he had to sleep on a bench or on the dirty floor.traffic was never stand still and the noise that  the road made was unnerving .one day for a change he went to sleep on the pavement because it was little cooler there.the old watch repairer saw him and told him if he can go to the park it would be a better place.hari had to suffer in Bombay lack of a place to sleep eventhough later he found a place to sleep by luck.the old gentleman who spoke to the policeman should be a very respectable man influential person in locality .otherwise the policeman would not have accept defeat.lilas immediate problems are over .she has a good income and her mother is getting better .father has given up drink amd looking after mother at the hospital .she visits mother at the hospital once a week and gives some money to fathers for his expenses.

Chapter 10

Mr.panwallah was thrilled because of coming of the monsoon.he asked Jagu to give hari and evening off and brought him in bus.he brought hari a green coconut and paper cone filled with puffed rice.the roaring sea stretched up to Africa made him feel lighter and happier.he didn’t forget to say “thank you” to Mr.panwallah.hari was sick and but he can’t leave the kitchen. Watch repair shop is in his charge but he has no time to go to a doctor in the morning.jagu is taking him home to go to  doctor in morning.jagu is a good man.he should get a good income from business.he doesn’t know how to manage business well.even his eating house is the dirtiest.he is peculiar man.jagu understood that he had made a mistake by bringing hari to the house eventhough he did it out of kindness.Mr.silva come back and he could get a job if he goes to him brighten hari.but he is reluctant to leave the friends he had made and the environment even for a lucrative job with comforts.

Chapter 11

Mr.panwallah was a great amn .he not only  gave sound advice to hari  he also undertook to train him further in watching mending .he was asked to take what the customers pay for the watches he repairs.when he  fell ill with bronchitis he had closed his shop and gone home.hari does not know where he lived.when jagu gave his address to a customer hari heard it and got the address from jagu and got one hour off and went to see Mr.panwallah.Mr.panwallah was very glad man to hari.when hari expressed his wish to go home he told him that the ferry does not operate  and wait until it begins operating and in the meantime to learn a more about watch mending .he also pointed out that he will be able to save a little more to take home.when hari said that he will not be able to find a job in Thul,Mr.panwallah  gave him very good advice on that too.

Chapter 12

Hari was in Bombay for seventeen months and has learnt a lot.the two friends jagu and Mr.panwallah liked him so much they bought him a bus ticket jointly out of their money.he worked in the eating house under very difficult conditions,made friends and learned to repair watches.Mr.Panwallah he can manage on his own in this world successfully like a city man.As he came by bus for the first time  he saw the scene on the either side of the road from Bombay to Thul.Now he has come home.hari want to ask many question about many things but lila was so insistent he followed her to house.the sister gave them the sweets they have made for Diwali and all of them ate together.hari gave them presents  he brought for them.

Chapter 13

Hari has come back with definite plants to earn his living and live in Thul with his siters.he has a little money saved and has acquired a skill in watching mending.with the money he is going  to start a paltry farm in a small way at the beginning .he knows that there would be a demand for eggs and chicken when people  from faraway places come to work in the factory.hari meet several people his return from Bombay.ramu has not changed.he is still waiting to get a job from the factory.but he does not think  that he must have some experience or training to get a job in factory.father meets hari.he looks too old.his hair turned grey.hari mother is in good health.mother was asked to relate a story and lila related Rama Ravana story.at the end children understand the importance of lighting lamps on Divali day.hari took his sisters to see the races.after the bullock cart races they turned to go back home.hari saw  his mother at the shrine.he shouted lila.look!there’s mother at the shrine

Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing. The more technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion" that the more general term "costume" has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses likefancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term "fashion" means clothing generally, and the study of it. For a broad cross-cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume and fabrics. The remainder of this article deals with clothing fashions in theWestern world.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture. The Japanese Shogun's secretary boasted (not completely accurately) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years. However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.

Changes in costume often took place at times of economic or social change (such as in ancient Rome and the medieval Caliphate), but then a long period without major changes followed. This occurred in Moorish Spain from the 8th century, when the famous musician Ziryab introduced sophisticated clothing styles based on seasonal and daily timings from his native Baghdad and his own inspiration to Córdoba, Spain.Similar changes in fashion occurred in the Middle East from the 11th century, following the arrival of the Turks who introduced clothing styles from Central Asia and the Far East.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing. The most dramatic manifestation was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment, from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing on the chest to look bigger. This created the distinctive Western male outline of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers.

Marie Antoinette was a fashion icon

The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images. Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles. These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France.Though the rich usually led fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern Europe led to the bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance sometimes uncomfortably close for the elites - a factor Braudel regards as one of the main motors of changing fashion.

Albrecht Dürer's drawing contrasts a well turned out bourgeoisie from Nuremberg(left) with her counterpart from Venice. The Venetian lady's high chopines make her taller

Ten 16th century portraits of German or Italiangentlemen may show ten entirely different hats, and at this period national differences were at their most pronounced, as Albrecht Dürer recorded in his actual or composite contrast of Nuremberg and Venetianfashions at the close of the 15th century (illustration, right). The "Spanish style" of the end of the century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid 17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century.^[11]

Though colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year,^[12] the cut of a gentleman's coat and the length of his waistcoat, or the pattern to which a lady's dress was cut changed more slowly. Men's fashions largely derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European war, where gentleman officers had opportunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the "Steinkirk" cravat or necktie.

The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the 16th century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s. By 1800, all Western Europeans were dressing alike (or thought they were): local variation became first a sign of provincial culture, and then a badge of the conservative peasant.^[13]

Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, and thetextile industry certainly led many trends, the history of fashion design is normally taken to date from 1858, when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first true haute couture house in Paris. Since then the professional designer has become a progressively more dominant figure, despite the origins of many fashions in street fashion. For women the flapper styles of the 1920s marked the most major alteration in styles for several centuries, with a drastic shortening of skirt lengths, and much looser-fitting clothes; with occasional revivals of long skirts forms of the shorter length have remained dominant ever since. The four major current fashion capitals are acknowledged to beMilan, New York City, Paris, and London. Fashion weeks are held in these cities, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences, and which are all headquarters to the greatest fashion companies and are renowned for their major influence on global fashion.

Modern Westerners have a wide choice available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person'spersonality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes a fashion trend may start. People who like or respect them may start to wear clothes of a similar style.

Fashions may vary considerably within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation, and geography as well as over time. If, for example, an older person dresses according to the fashion of young people, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms 'fashionista' or fashion victim refer to someone who slavishly follows the current fashions.

One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. (Compare some of the work of Roland Barthes.)

[edit]The Fashion Industry

The fashion industry is a product of the modern age. Prior to the mid-19th century, virtually all clothing was handmade for individuals, either as home production or on order from dressmakers and tailors. By the beginning of the 20th century—with the rise of new technologies such as the sewing machine, the rise of global capitalism and the development of the factory system of production, and the proliferation of retail outlets such as department stores—clothing had increasingly come to be mass-produced in standard sizes and sold at fixed prices. Although the fashion industry developed first in Europe and America, today it is an international and highly globalized industry, with clothing often designed in one country, manufactured in another, and sold in a third. For example, an American fashion company might source fabric in China and have the clothes manufactured in Vietnam, finished in Italy, and shipped to a warehouse in the United States for distribution to retail outlets internationally. The fashion industry has long been one of the largest employers in the United States, and it remains so in the 21st century. However, employment declined considerably as production increasingly moved overseas, especially to China. Because data on the fashion industry typically are reported for national economies and expressed in terms of the industry’s many separate sectors, aggregate figures for world production of textiles and clothing are difficult to obtain. However, by any measure, the industry inarguably accounts for a significant share of world economic output.

The fashion industry consists of four levels: the production of raw materials, principally fibres and textiles but also leather and fur; the production of fashion goods by designers, manufacturers, contractors, and others; retail sales; and various forms of advertising and promotion. These levels consist of many separate but interdependent sectors, all of which are devoted to the goal of satisfying consumer demand for apparel under conditions that enable participants in the industry to operate at a profit. ^[14]

[edit]Media

Fashion shot from 2006

An important part of fashion is fashion journalism. Editorial critique, guidelines and commentary can be found in magazines, newspapers, on television, fashion websites, social networks and infashion blogs.

At the beginning of the 20th century, fashion magazines began to include photographs of various fashion designs and became even more influential on people than in the past. In cities throughout the world these magazines were greatly sought-after and had a profound effect on public clothing taste. Talented illustrators drew exquisite fashion plates for the publications which covered the most recent developments in fashion and beauty. Perhaps the most famous of these magazines was La Gazette du Bon Ton which was founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel and regularly published until 1925 (with the exception of the war years).

Vogue, founded in the US in 1892, has been the longest-lasting and most successful of the hundreds of fashion magazines that have come and gone. Increasing affluence after World War IIand, most importantly, the advent of cheap colour printing in the 1960s led to a huge boost in its sales, and heavy coverage of fashion in mainstream women's magazines - followed by men's magazines from the 1990s. Haute couture designers followed the trend by starting the ready-to-wear and perfume lines, heavily advertised in the magazines, that now dwarf their original couture businesses. Television coverage began in the 1950s with small fashion features. In the 1960s and 1970s, fashion segments on various entertainment shows became more frequent, and by the 1980s, dedicated fashion shows likeFashion-television started to appear. Despite television and increasing internet coverage, including fashion blogs, press coverage remains the most important form of publicity in the eyes of the fashion industry.

However, over the past several years, fashion websites have developed that merge traditional editorial writing with user-generated content. New magazines like iFashion Network, and Runway Magazine, led by Nole Marin from America's Next Top Model, have begun to dominate the digital market with digital copies for computers, iPhones and iPads.

A few days after the 2010 Fall Fashion Week in New York City came to a close, The New Islander's Fashion Editor, Genevieve Tax, criticized the fashion industry for running on a seasonal schedule of its own, largely at the expense of real-world consumers. "Because designers release their fall collections in the spring and their spring collections in the fall, fashion magazines such as Vogue always and only look forward to the upcoming season, promoting parkas come September while issuing reviews on shorts in January," she writes. "Savvy shoppers, consequently, have been conditioned to be extremely, perhaps impractically, farsighted with their buying."^[15]

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Within the fashion industry, intellectual property is not enforced as it is within the film industry and music industry. To "take inspiration" from others' designs contributes to the fashion industry's ability to establish clothing trends. For the past few years, WGSN has been a dominant source of fashion news and forecasts in steering fashion brands worldwide to be "inspired" by one another. Enticing consumers to buy clothing by establishing new trends is, some have argued, a key component of the industry's success. Intellectual property rules that interfere with the process of trend-making would, on this view, be counter-productive. In contrast, it is often argued that the blatant theft of new ideas, unique designs, and design details by larger companies is what often contributes to the failure of many smaller or independent design companies.

In 2005, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a conference calling for stricter intellectual property enforcement within the fashion industry to better protect small and medium businesses and promote competitiveness within the textile and clothing industries.^[16][17]