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The predatory neo-liberal capitalism that has become the norm in India over the last two decades raises many uncomfortable questions. Today, consumption defines what we are. And with the western capitalist model reigning supreme, all of us seem to have been reduced to being just consumers in the eyes of the government. The effect on India s peasantry has been tremendous. The recent tragic stories played out in Kalinganagar, Singur and Nandigra...

Autobiography of a woman college professor, historian, and vice-chancellor from Calcutta, India.

On 1 September 1965, Pakistan invaded Chamb district in Jammu and Kashmir, triggering a series of tank battles, operations and counter-operations. It was only the bravery and well-executed strategic decisions of the soldiers of the Indian Army that countered the very real threat of losing Kashmir to Pakistan. Recounting the battles fought by five different regiments, the narrative reconstructs the events of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war, outlinin...

The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore. Most of India Divided was written in prison and it was published in 1946, a year before India was partitioned. It specifically examines the theory that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two nations, and concludes that the solution for the Hindu Muslim issue should ...

And then finally I felt sadness, aided perhapsby those futile notes, by the dust that keeps thickening, by the untouchable past, the inevitable future, and by everything else that pushesus around.' Ib lives with his schizophrenic father and his 'nice' mother negotiating life, not knowing what to do, steered by uncaring winds and pushy people. From his slimy, unmiraculous birth to the tragic death of a loved one, Ib wanders the city, from one t...

Not very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic 'Chandu and the Bissyaar', one of eighteen evocative stories in Neelum Saran Gour's third book of fiction. The making and unmaking of a poet is described in 'A Lane in Lucknow', two old men find solace in 'Winter Companions', and a nurse examines the quality of her faith in 'The Knitting Needle'. In a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic ...

Each story in this collection illuminates a particular universe, completely authentic in texture and detail, giving us writing that is not only pleasurable, but finely-crafted as well'-Indian Review of Books In 'A New Year's Party', Geoffrey finds all his attempts to throw a successful party come to naught as his inappropriately chose guests make their dislike for each other very vocal, the wonderful camaraderie that can exist between a four-y...

Sometimes, a little nudge from the universe pushes one to find his raison d'etre in life. If actor Sonu Sood had given in to the celebrity syndrome of sitting in his ivory tower and expressing his generosity by remote control, he would have never come face to face with the trauma of India's migrant labourers or understood that a food packet was a woefully inadequate substitute for a ride back home. During the nationwide lockdown, imposed in th...

Customer to Human stems from Murali Balraman's extensive experience in customer experience and customer centricity. Murali took a pledge to give back his life's lessons many years ago and this book marks a step in that direction. It is filled with stories and experiences, to evoke the reader's interest and ideas that impact an organization or business. Every business has a customer, big or small, and that customer is the business's most import...

Sources of Indian Traditions is an indispensable and essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947 and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. Divided thematically, it begins with a ...

The World Wide Web is a gratifying nexus of social courtesies. But does it make relationships easier to build or destroy? Do we relish theanonymity of social media more than its congeniality? And do we feel less accomplished if a day goes by without a comment here or a swipe there? These are some of the questions that the fifteen short stories in Buffering Love explore. The central theme of each revolves around how technology, for better or wo...

You don't simply read a man like Vivekananda. In reading him, you meet him. And if you don't meet him and feel him contemporaneously, you can understand little of the meaning of what he is saying.' In the course of a short life of thirty-nine years, Swami Vivekananda came to be regarded as the patriot - saint of modern India. Despite all that has been written about his life and his epoch-making address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago...

The book Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century, written by an Indian author Shashi Tharoor, is an emphasis on the Indian diplomacy and its role in the global world. The book gives us an insightful and an interesting coverage of India's foreign policies and how the policies affect the common man. It also explains that in Indian politics why policies are important to an India focused on domestic transformation. Shashi Tharoor surve...

The British came to India in search of wealth and power. But it was a man's world and women, especially English women, were few. An English bride for long remained an expensive proposition, costing a small fortune to bring to Calcutta, and was quite out of the reach of young career-minded officers and civil servants. Driven by loneliness, lust or just plain longing, many looked foe companionship among Indian women, or where the more rakish amo...

The art of bitfulness helps create healthy boundaries between you and the floodgates of the internet. it offers new strategies to reclaim your time, privacy and attention. This book is all about how to live with tech, not how to live without it. The goal is not to spend less time on your devices, it is to spend your time on your devices better. This book also talks about how we got here in the first place. Why does our technology limit us, rat...

An errant genius' The Hindu The prevalent trend of classifying Manto's work into a) stories of Partition and b) stories of prostitutes, forcibly enlists the writer to perform a dramatic dressing-down of society. But neither Partition nor prostitution gave birth to the genius of Saadat Hasan Manto. They only furnished him with an occasion to reveal the truth of the human condition. My Name is Radha is a path-breaking edition of stories which de...

Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.

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Sometimes the smallest action can reignite love and bring people together again across time and distance Bryce and Nora fall in love in their last year of high school. They worry about their relationship surviving after graduation but are separated sooner when Bryce's father is transferred and Bryce has to leave. Bryce promises to write but not in a conventional way. He promises to leave messages behind pictures in hotels where his father work...