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Interview: Leigh Bardugo talks telling tales of tales in ‘The Language of Thorns’

Author Leigh Bardugo speaks to Hypable about her beautiful new short story collection, The Language of Thorns.

Drawing from the Bardugo’s sumptuous Grishaverse — the Shadow and Bone trilogy, Six of Crows duology, and the forthcoming King of ScarsThe Language of Thorns pulls readers into the fabric of her invented world. With new stories and familiar tales, this new collection will intrigue, awe, frighten, and inspire both stalwart fans and new readers looking for a heady spoonful of fantasy.

Interview with Leigh Bardugo

How did The Language of Thorns come about?

I guess it really started way back when we were promoting Shadow and Bone. I was lucky enough to get asked to write a short story for Tor.com, and instead of writing a prequel or a companion story, I decided to do a fairytale that would be the kind of thing my characters had heard growing up.

So that was really where the first Grishaverse folktale began, and it was inspired by Hansel and Gretel, because that was probably the story I was most disturbed by as a kid! [laughs] And not because of the cannibal witch, but because I always thought it was really weird that they went back to their dad at the end of the story, who had let them be lured into the woods not once, but twice.

Yeah, I read “The Witch of Duva” last night–

I hope you enjoyed the gingerbread holocaust!

I wasn’t expecting that to happen! So aside from existing in-world, do the stories in The Language of Thorns weave into the Grishaverse in any other ways?

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The stories are really sperate from the Grisha world, and you don’t need to have read any of the Grisha books to read them. That said, in one of the new stories there is a cameo from a character in the Grisha world, and you’ll recognize the countries that they’re set in, and probably some of the things about the culture. I mean, the stories that we tell and that we choose to tell, the way that we define heroism, the way that we talk about love, the way that we talk about moral good, really is, I think, shown in these kinds of stories that we tell children.

And admittedly, these are much darker than what you would ordinarily tell children!

Well, Russian-analog children. Their tolerance might be higher!

Russian-analog, but also, there’s a story Fjerda, a story from Kerch, a story from Novyi Zem. So you’re going to see different corners of the Grisha world, and different ways of thinking.

So what was it like shifting from novels to the very different format of the folktale?

It’s funny, over the course of writing the Shadow and Bone trilogy, I was writing these folktales. I wrote one for each of the books, “The Witch of Duva,” “The Too-Clever Fox,” and “Little Knife,” and then there are three new stories in the new book.

But I’ve also contributed to a couple of anthologies, and I have to say, I find writing short stories incredibly challenging. I think it flexes a very different muscle than writing novels does, but I also feel like — I mean, maybe I’m deluding myself! — but I feel like I improved as a writer because of these short stories. I think it forces you to think in very short, very specific terms, and that you’re really working at the sentence level. So I think it changed the way that I thought about my own prose.

I think Megan Whalen Turner once described short stories as a little present from your muse.

I think my muse is maybe a little stingy! Like, my muse didn’t get the memo that she was my Secret Santa, because I find the short stories don’t really arrive in that way. But I will say that the process is very different too. When I write novels, I outline them extensively.

When I write short stories, I really sit down and I tell them to myself. Sometimes it’s when I’m driving, sometimes it’s in my bathtub… but it’s really the act of immersing myself into that storyteller voice, and finding the story that way.

There’s an omnicience to fairytales. You have the sense that these stories have been told many, many times. And the presence of the narrator is, in some ways, closer to [an] old-school fantasy voice. And I think you can see it actually in the prologue and epilogue that are in each of the Shadow and Bone books, so I think that voice is there, but that’s definitely what I’m trying to access. And also, that narrator carries different biases depending on the story that they’re telling.

Did you do any research into the folktales and stories of the cultures analagous to those in the Grisha world?

For me, those cultures are not direct analogues, they’ve always been points of departure. That said, I read a lot of fairytales, myth, local legends, and also I try very hard to think about things like food. Even the way people relate to their geography, the way they relate to their religion. That is present in these stories, even in very small details. And again, because they’re short stories, you have less space to build a world in, and I don’t want you to have to pick up Six of Crows to understand Fjerda, or to understand Kerch. I want you to be able to start the first page of this story and understand where you are and what’s important in this world.

Was there a story that was particularly challenging for you to write?

Yes! There is a story called “When Water Sang Fire” that I think I can best describe as my sea-witch origin story. There’s Hans Christian Anderson, but there’s definitely some Ursula in there too. It’s the longest of the stories, and I think in some ways it really wanted to be a book or a novella, and so I really had to shape it and re-shape it to get it where I wanted it to be.

Whip that story into shape!

Would you call “When Water Sang Fire” the centerpiece story The Language of Thorns? Is there one?

Well, the book opens with a story called “Ayama and the Thorn Wood” which is a kind of mishmash of Beauty and the Beast and A Thousand and One Nights, and Aridne and the Minataur, and it’s really very much about stories themselves, and the idea of what truths are found in that. So I think that that, in some ways sets the stage for the rest of the book.

I was trying to think of other writers who are able to publish a book of in-world short stories like The Language of Thorns, and I came up with J.K. Rowling, and that was it. So you’re in pretty vaunted company now!

[Laughs] I mean, it’s not like she’s sending me an invitation to her castle to hang out!

I’m surprised that there aren’t more people who have done this. I suspect their must be, and I’m just not thinking of them. I mean, even when you’re reading fantasy — you mentioned Megan Whalen Turner, I’m thinking specifically of [the Queen’s Thief…] there are multiple levels of story within the stories we read. There’s the story that you’re reading on the page, then there are the stories that the characters tell each other about themselves, and then there’s another layer of story in terms of what they’ve internalized — whether that’s stories that are religious parables or myths of heroes that they grew up with.

So those things are already built into these books. And I think that they really sort of speak to the question of truth, and what the charachters believe is real and what isn’t real. I mean, that’s something that you see opperating with the Tower of Joy story in Game of Thrones. And what is real about their world, and what is real about the morality of their world, I think you see that more in something like the Attolia books.

So I may have pulled them out, but I feel like that’s always present in fantasy.

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20th Summit – Shanghai Cooperation Organization

20th Summit of SCO Council of Heads of State was held recently. The Meeting was chaired by the President of the Russian Federation Mr. Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi led the Indian delegation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated India’s firm belief in regional peace, security and prosperity and raising voice against terrorism, smuggling of illegal weapons, drugs and money-laundering. He mentioned that India’s brave soldiers participated in about 50 UN peacekeeping missions and India’s Pharma industry supplying essential medicines to more than 150 countries during the pandemic.

‘Shanghai Cooperation Organization’

  • The SCO was founded in June 2001, built on the ‘Shanghai Five’ grouping of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic) and Tajikistan, which had come together in the post-Soviet era in 1996, in order to work on regional security, reduction of border troops, and terrorism.
  • A particular goal all these years has been “conflict resolution”, given its early successes between China and Russia, and then within the Central Asian Republics.
  • The 1996 meeting of the Shanghai Five, for example, resulted in an ‘Agreement on Confidence-Building in the Military Field Along the Border Areas’ between China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which led to an agreement on the mutual reduction of military forces on their common borders in 1997. Subsequently, it helped push the Central Asian countries to resolve some of their boundary disputes as well.
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  • In 2001, the Shanghai Five inducted Uzbekistan into the group and named it the SCO, outlining its principles in a charter that promoted what was called the “Shanghai spirit” of cooperation.

Mandate of the SCO

  • According to its rules, the organisation has two permanent bodies — the SCO Secretariat based in Beijing and the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) based in Tashkent.
  • The SCO Secretary-General and the Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO RATS are appointed by the Council of Heads of State for a term of three years.
  • However, the venue of the SCO council meetings moves between the eight members (including India and Pakistan). The SCO also has four observer states — Afghanistan, Iran, Belarus and Mongolia — which may be inducted at a later date.
  • The SCO was eyed with some misgivings by the U.S. and Europe as a result of this, not the least by its desire to build a “new international political and economic order”, and it was even dubbed the “Anti-NATO” for proposing military cooperation.
  • In 2005, the Astana declaration called for SCO countries to work on a “joint SCO response to situations that threaten peace, security and stability in the region”, indicating the group’s strategic ambitions.

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The SCO describes its main goals, part of its Charter that was adopted in St. Petersburg in 2002, as –

  • strengthening mutual trust and neighbourliness among the member states;
  • promoting their effective cooperation in politics, trade, economy, research and technology and culture, as well as in education, energy, transport, tourism, environmental protection, and other areas;
  • making joint efforts to maintain and ensure peace, security and stability in the region; and moving towards the establishment of a democratic, fair and rational new international political and economic order.

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  • India and Pakistan joined the SCO as observers in 2005, and were admitted as full members in 2015. Since 2014, India and Pakistan have cut all ties, talks and trade with each other, and India has refused to attend the SAARC summit due to tensions with Pakistan, but both their leaderships have consistently attended all meetings of the SCO’s three councils: the Heads of State, Heads of Government, Council of Foreign Ministers, as well as other meetings.
  • Despite the fact that India accuses Pakistan of perpetrating cross-border terrorism at every other multilateral forum, at the SCO, Indian and Pakistani armed forces even take part in military and anti-terrorism exercises together, as part of the SCO-Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.
  • In addition, the two countries are part of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, to discuss the course of Afghanistan’s future, an issue New Delhi and Islamabad are bitterly divided over.

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Minister of Education has confirmed that through ‘Study in India, Stay in India and Internationalisation of Education’, we are committed to establishing India as a global hub of education. To ensure high quality of education, it is also necessary that we move forward with cooperation, coordination and agreement with the leading universities of the world.

In 2018, the Union Ministry of Education launched an ambitious “Study in India” programme to project India as a higher education designation by attracting and facilitating inward mobility of foreign students from 34 target countries (representing Africa, Middle East, and SAARC regions), thereby increasing India’s market share of global education exports.

Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education) had approved ‘Study in India’ programme with, inter-alia, the following objectives:

  • To improve the soft power of India with focus on the neighbouring countries and use it as a tool in diplomacy.
  • To boost the number of inbound International students in India.
  • To double India’s market share of global education exports from less than 1 percent to 2 percent.
  • Increase in contribution of international student in the form of direct spends, indirect spends, spillover effects.
  • Improvement in overall quality of higher education.
  • Increase in global ranking of India as educational destination.
  • To reduce the export – Import imbalance in the number of International students.
  • Growth of India’s global market share of International students

Road ahead

The ‘Study in India’ programme launched by the Government in 2018 needs to be executed strategically on a mission mode by engaging relevant stakeholders.

  • Appoint an education counsellor at every Indian embassy abroad in order to help promote Indian higher education and the benefits of studying in India.
  • Create a strong scholarship programme that will encourage the best brains to choose India as a study option.
  • Develop ‘student cities’ that should be safe along with adequate infrastructural and logistical supports.
  • Develop niche programmes in the areas that India has expertise in , such as life sciences, space sciences, creative disciplines, etc.
  • Create a framework to map the credits of Indian programmes with a global framework so that there is a seamless mobility/transfer of credits.
  • A joint working group should be created with inter-ministerial collaborations at the federal level and city level administrators along with leaders of leading public and private HEIs to develop a conducive ecosystem.
  • Effective industry engagement for apprenticeships and employment, safe and secure living environment, state-of-the-art infrastructure, etc. are some of the other critical prerequisites to boost international mobility of foreign students to India.

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The first National Agricultural Education Policy is set to bring academic credit banks and degree programmes with multiple entry and exit options to the 74 universities focused on crop sciences, fisheries, veterinary and dairy training and research.

A six-member committee of Vice-Chancellors has been asked to submit a draft policy document to the Agriculture Ministry soon. More than 45,000 students are admitted into agricultural universities every year, and the new policy is set to usher in some changes to their academic life.

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The Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) programme requires all students to undertake a six-month internship, usually in their fourth year, to gain hands-on training, rural awareness, industry experience, research expertise and entrepreneurship skills.

  • One major challenge is how to ensure that this experiential learning is made available to all students if we implement the multiple entry-exit system. Even if a student leaves after two or three years, even with a diploma, he should not miss out on it.
  • Another major challenge for agricultural universities could be the push for multi-disciplinarity. Our universities have been modelled on the land grant pattern, with a focus on research and extension, and deep community connections, driven by the philosophy that farmers need holistic solutions to their problems. However, in recent years, several domain specific universities in horticulture, veterinary science and fisheries sciences have come up. How to incorporate humanities and social sciences into these settings could be a big challenge.

Competition Commission of India – CCI

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered a detailed probe against Google for ‘abuse’ of its dominant position, primarily with regard to its digital payments application GPay.

  • The order follows a complaint by an ‘informant’ alleging multiple instances of abuse of dominant position by Google, with CCI deciding to carry forward the investigation into two of these instances — pre-installation of GPay on Android OS smartphones and use of Google Play’s in-app billing as the method of payment by developers.
  • The Commission is of the prima facie view that Google has contravened various provisions of Section 4 of the Act. These aspects warrant a detailed investigation. The Commission has directed the Director General to finish the probe and submit the report in 60 days.

‘Competition Commission of India’

  • The Competition Act, 2002, as amended by the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2007, follows the philosophy of modern competition laws. The Act prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position by enterprises and regulates combinations (acquisition, acquiring of control and M&A), which causes or likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition within India.
  • The objectives of the Act are sought to be achieved through the Competition Commission of India, which has been established by the Central Government with effect from 14th October 2003.
  • CCI consists of a Chairperson and 6 Members appointed by the Central Government (not less than 2 members). It is the duty of the Commission to eliminate practices having adverse effect on competition, promote and sustain competition, protect the interests of consumers and ensure freedom of trade in the markets of India.
  • The Commission is also required to give opinion on competition issues on a reference received from a statutory authority established under any law and to undertake competition advocacy, create public awareness and impart training on competition issues.

Significance of CCI

  • Competition is the best means of ensuring that the ‘Common Man’ or ‘Aam Aadmi’ has access to the broadest range of goods and services at the most competitive prices.
  • With increased competition, producers will have maximum incentive to innovate and specialise. This would result in reduced costs and wider choice to consumers. A fair competition in market is essential to achieve this objective.
  • The goal of CCI is to create and sustain fair competition in the economy that will provide a ‘level playing field’ to the producers and make the markets work for the welfare of the consumers.
  • The main objective of competition law is to promote economic efficiency using competition as one of the means of assisting the creation of market responsive to consumer preferences. The advantages of perfect competition are three-fold: allocative efficiency, which ensures the effective allocation of resources, productive efficiency, which ensures that costs of production are kept at a minimum and dynamic efficiency, which promotes innovative practices.” – Supreme Court of India in 2010.
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Young Adult

"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --

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A beautiful story. The writing was so descriptive, I felt like I could taste every dish. "Trust, okay? Trust. Yourself mainly, but the world, too. There is magic working in your favor."
- Meredith

The wicked king

Holly Black

Young Adult

As seneschal to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.

The revolution of Birdie Randolph

Brandy Colbert

Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.

I wanna be where you are

Kristina Forest

Young Adult

When Chloe's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles from Philadelphia to New York, the nearest audition. When annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, he threatens to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves without him and his smelly dog, Geezer. Now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast, with two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really dope playlist on repeat. -- adapted from jacket

Marie Lu

Young Adult

Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother. A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe--even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel's life. As the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him. At least not on his own . . .

Wayward son

Rainbow Rowell

Young Adult

"Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light... That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place... With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It's another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter. Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero's journey might be over--but your life has just begun"--

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Rainbow does it again! I know of no other author with such a knack for writing and creating characters to absolutely fall in love with (SHEPARD <3 <3 <3). If you liked "Carry On," you're going to like this--no doubt about it. It ends on a cliffhanger (curses!), but Rainbow has already announced a follow up: "Any Way the Wind Blows." I can't wait!
- Brian

There's something about Sweetie

Sandhya Menon

Young Adult

"The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi, which follows Rishi's brother, Ashish, and a confident, self-proclaimed fat athlete named Sweetie as they both discover what love means to them. Ashish Patel didn't know love could be so... sucky. After being dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up. The Patels insist that Ashish date an Indian-American girl -- under contract. Per subclause 1(a), he'll be taking his date on "fun" excursions like visiting the Hindu temple and his eccentric Gita Auntie. Kill him now. How is this ever going to work? Sweetie Nair is many things: a formidable track athlete who can outrun most people in California, a loyal friend, a shower-singing champion. Oh, and she's also fat. To Sweetie's traditional parents, this last detail is the kiss of death. Sweetie loves her parents, but she's so tired of being told she's lacking because she's fat. She decides it's time to kick off the Sassy Sweetie Project, where she'll show the world (and herself) what she's really made of. Ashish and Sweetie both have something to prove. But with each date they realize there's an unexpected magic growing between them. Can they find their true selves without losing each other?" --

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This book is adorable! Two Indian-American kids date against their parents' wishes. Plus, this book has a good dose of body positivity!
- Amanda

The secret commonwealth

Philip Pullman

Lyra Belacqua, aka Lyra Silvertongue, is an undergraduate at St. Sophia's College. She and her daemon, the soft-furred pine marten Pantalaimon, are alienated to the point of hostility. Lyra falls under the influence of popular writers who express 'universal skepticism' and contempt for sentiment, kindness and faith. When Pantalaimon witnesses a murder, both of them are pulled into a conspiracy involving the Magisterium. Lyra reconnects with Malcolm Polstead, now a professor at the College, but they are soon drawn back into a battle Lyra thought she'd left behind forever. -- adapted from jacket and online reviews

Crystal Simone Smith

Young Adult

Aurelia, the first princess born in Renalt in 200 years, is destined to marry the mysterious prince of Achelva, Valentin, but her treacherous lady-in-waiting, Lisette, plots to take her crown.

On the come up

Angie Thomas

Young Adult

When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.

We hunt the flame

Hafsah Faizal

In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.

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With a tag line like, "People lived because she killed; people died because he lived." how could you not fall in love with this book? I can't wait for the second book to come out!
- Alyssa

Brittney Morris

An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.


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Transmogrification All Classes Plate Waist Item Model List (WoD 6.2)

Last updated on Apr 11, 2016 at 13:13 by Damien 12 comments

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This page represents a section of our Transmogrification guide to item models for all classes and is targeted at readers who do not have Javascript enabled or who wish to only consult the list of models for a specific slot. This page is updated for World of Warcraft 6.2

Below, you will find the models for all the Plate Waist items that can be used for transmogrification in World of Warcraft. The idea is to make it easy for you to find an item with a design similar to an item set you might be trying to build.

Items by model. For each item model, hovering over its image will display a list of items that sport this model. The source of each item is also displayed, so that you can rapidly spot the items that are most easily obtained.

How are models sorted? Models are first grouped by design (all look-alike models are displayed consecutively). Then, we sort these groups of models by item quality (common, rare, epic, or heirloom) and item level, so that the models with the lowest item quality/item level are shown first and the models with the highest item quality/item level are shown last.

The page may take time to load completely, depending on the number of items to display.

To build this page, we have extensively used the World of Warcraft API and Wowhead. With the API, we obtained an initial list of items that we subsequently refined by checking on Wowhead which items were no longer available. The item models were taken from the official World of Warcraft website.

Item Model List

Enchanted Adamantite Belt Model
Fel Iron Plate Belt Model
Heavy Obsidian Belt Model
Blessed Trillium Belt Model
Belt of Barred Clouds Model
Girdle of the Mountains, Vicious Pyrium Belt Model
Beech Green Belt, Vicious Ornate Pyrium Belt Model
Protector's Trillium Waistguard Model
Avenger's Trillium Waistplate Model
Icebane Girdle Model
Belt of the Titans Model
Rickety Belt Model
Truesteel Waistguard Model


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