The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing, The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, were published by Penguin India in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She lives in New Delhi Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing, The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, were published by Penguin India in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She lives in New Delhi
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have moved in the last decade.

In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and September 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks, among other things, about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest.

Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection. Through the conversations, Arundhati talks about the necessity of taking a stand, as also the dilemma of guarding the private space necessary for writing in a world that demands urgent, unequivocal intervention. And in the final interview, she discusses with uncommon candour her ambiguous feelings about success and both the pressures and the freedom that come with it.

ISBN: 9780143066545
Author: Arundhati Roy
Published by: Penguin Book India
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The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

His books for Penguin include The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World and War of the World.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history.

From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain''s war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today''s meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it''s never been told before.

Whether you''re scraping by or rolling in it, there''s no better time to understand the ascent of money.

ISBN: 9780141035482
Author: Niall Ferguson
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Soul Traders: The Truth About Marketing

Jonathan Gabay the founder of the consultancy firm Brand Forensics and is a much sought-after speaker and TV commentator (ITV and Sky). He teaches at the Chartered Institue of Marketing and has written several successful books about marketing.

A highly controversial, behind-the-scenes examination of marketing and how it has changed society and the world.

How do brands profit from war? When did brands endorse rascism? How do terrorists use the Web to recruit extremists? Who really controls the world''s greatest sports? How does business profit from ''green'' consumers? Where does the line between propaganda and marketing stop? You are about to discover that everything you ever suspected about spin doctors, corporations and politicians is in fact true! This controversial book is the missing volume in every business library and consumer''s home. As a social documentary, it reveals the fascinating untold stories behind the world''s most powerful social, commercial, religious and political branded organisations that have shaped the world. Decade-by-decade, Jonathan Gabay reveals the pyschological, cultural and business strategies used to make people crave goods, services and causes - to the extent of selling their very souls.

Marketing has been one of the dominant forces in business over the last century and has touched virtually everyone.

Thoroughly researched and sharply told, this is a compelling book about the dark side of marketing.

Includes untold and extraordinary stories of how marketing has been used to further the goals of various organisations.

ISBN: 9781905736515
Author: Jonathan Gabay
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Practical Meditation: Spiritual Yoga for the Mind

B. K. Jayanti is the European Director of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. She is the Brahma Kumaris Organization's representative to the United Nations, Geneva and has met with Mother Theresa and His Holiness Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. She has trained for more than 30 years with some of the world's most remarkable yogis and is also a much sought-after speaker around the world.

Meditation made easy! If you have 15 minutes to spare, you have enough time to do something that’s spirit-enhancing, energy-boosting, and life-balancing: practice Raja Yoga. This accessible guide by a dynamic, world-renowned yogi explains how—leading you through the simple steps needed to begin a transformational meditation program.

Unlike most forms of yoga, Raja Yoga focuses on the mind. It helps you bring together the scattered forces of your thoughts, allowing you to let go of negativity and fear in order to create inner peace and an enhanced sense of well-being. Once you begin to absorb the teachings in this book, you will begin to think on an elevated level. The result: a more positive attitude, less stress, increased self confidence, and an overall improved quality of life.

ISBN: 9781402766268
Author: B. K. Jayanti
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Places of Destiny: 50 Places Where History Was Made

Ben Dupre read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He was Children's Reference Publisher at Oxford University Press from 1992 until 2004 and, all told, has more than 20 years' experience of bringing complex and challenging concepts to the widest possible audience in an accessible but authoritative manner. A gifted performer on both harpsichord and viola da gamba, Ben lives in North Oxford with his family.

In Places of Destiny, Ben Dupre offers a rich selection of dramatic historical events and locations: the resistance of Leonidas'' Spartans, an enduring epic of last-ditch heroism, in the face of Xerxes'' Persians at the lonely pass of Thermopylae in 480 BC; the sack of Rome in AD 410 when the Visigothic army under the command of Alaric swarmed into Rome and subjected the Eternal City to three days of looting; the establishing of a settlement of courageous dissenters, harbinger of a great new nation, on Jamestown Island, Virginia, in 1607; the storming of a prison and the birth of modern republican politics in Paris on 14 July 1789; the extinction, senseless and bloody, of an entire generation of Western European manhood on the shattered plains of the Somme Valley in 1916; and the irruption of terror from the skies into a bright Manhattan morning on the most dreadful day of the infant 21st century. As well as retailing the extraordinary stories of the events associated with each site, Places of Destiny also examines how succeeding generations have commemorated and interpreted those events. Richly informative and deeply thought-provoking, and interspersed throughout with informative maps and colour illustrations, Places of Destiny offers an enthralling and often moving sequence of narratives that will appeal to anyone who enjoys top-notch popular historical writing.

ISBN: 9781847248336
Author: Ben Dupre
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Noon, with a View: Courage and Integrity

Known universally as ‘Noon’, Sir Gulam was born in Mumbai and assumed control of the family business at an early age, since when he has spent a lifetime in the food business. Moving to the UK he launched a range of authentic ethnic meals through Noon Products and despite major setbacks built a hugely successful business. In 1996 he was awarded an MBE in recognition of his work as as an employer and his charitable activities. He was knighted in 2002, and in addition to remaining active in business he sits on the boards of several government and charity organizations including the Advisory Board for Naturalisation and Integration.

Throughout his life, Sir Gulam, has made many friends and helped innumerable people, and when the Noon Products factory was destroyed by fire, both friends and clients were there to help him recover.

After selling the business to WT Foods, his own charitable institution, the Noon Foundation, was established, and for his many efforts in this sector he was awarded the MBE. Increasingly, his time was spent working with many different charities and, in 2002, the Queen honoured him with a knighthood.

A few years later Sir Gulam accepted nomination for a peerage but the ‘cash for honours’ storm erupted. He relates the incident from his personal perspective—his anger, humiliation, frustration and depression. He considers his relations with the police, the media, the Government, Tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party.

He also reflects upon the tough questions facing Britain today, such as education, immigration, terrorism and the role of the government and private citizens. He pulls no punches and his indomitable spirit commands respect—his story demands to be read.

ISBN: 9780670083619
Author: Sir Gulam Noon
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Listening to Grasshoppers

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing, The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, were published by Penguin India in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She lives in New Delhi Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing, The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, were published by Penguin India in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She lives in New Delhi

Combining brilliant political insight and razor-sharp prose, Arundhati Roy in these essays, takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world’s largest democracy, and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neoliberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unraveling in dangerous ways.

Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how ‘progress’ and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament; about the dangers of an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media. The collection ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. ‘The Briefing’, included as an appendix, is a fictional text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.

As it tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India’s precarious future, Listening to Grasshoppers asks fundamental questions about democracy itself, a political system that has, by virtue of being considered ‘the best available option’, been put beyond doubt and correction.

ISBN: 9780670083794
Author: Arundhati Roy
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Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction

Palash Krishna Mehrotra was born in Mumbai in 1975 and was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Delhi School of Economics and Balliol College, Oxford. The editor of Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays, he is also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and writes a regular column for Mail Today. Palash lives in Dehra Dun with his grandmother. He is currently working on a non-fiction book on young India, The Butterfly Generation.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes, cross dressers, murderers, drug addicts, students and stalkers, portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight, taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India.

Set in the murky underbelly of big cities and small towns, slums and dotcoms, college hostels and rented rooms, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction is a collection like no other. Gritty, grim and depraved, these are candid vignettes of an India most of us are afraid to acknowledge.

ISBN: 9780143099925
Author: Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War

Two wars––the 1857 Revolt in India and the American Civil War—seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite ends of the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they were both fought in a world still dominated by Great Britain and the battle cry in both conflicts was freedom.
Rajmohan Gandhi brings the drama of both wars to one stage in A Tale of Two Revolts. He deftly reconstructs events from the point of view of William Howard Russell—an Irishman who was also perhaps the world’s first war correspondent—and uncovers significant connections between the histories of the United States, Britain and India. The result is a tale of two revolts, three countries and one century. Into this fascinating story Rajmohan Gandhi weaves the choices of five extraordinary inhabitants of India—Sayyid Ahmed Khan, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Jotiba Phule, Allan Octavian Hume and Bankimchandra Chatterjee—and of three towering figures of world history—Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Abraham Lincoln—to show the continuities between the nineteenth century and the world we live in today.
Scholarly, insightful and gripping, A Tale of Two Revolts raises new questions about these wars that changed the world.

ISBN: 9780670083558
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
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Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction

Palash Krishna Mehrotra was born in Mumbai in 1975 and was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Delhi School of Economics and Balliol College, Oxford. The editor of Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays, he is also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and writes a regular column for Mail Today. Palash lives in Dehra Dun with his grandmother. He is currently working on a non-fiction book on young India, The Butterfly Generation.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes, cross dressers, murderers, drug addicts, students and stalkers, portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight, taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India.

Set in the murky underbelly of big cities and small towns, slums and dotcoms, college hostels and rented rooms, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction is a collection like no other. Gritty, grim and depraved, these are candid vignettes of an India most of us are afraid to acknowledge.

ISBN: 9780143099925
Author: Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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60 Indian Poets

60 Indian Poets spans fifty-five years of Indian poetry in English, bridging continents and generations, and seeks to expand the definition of 'Indianness'. Beginning in 1952 with selections from Nissim Ezekiel's first volume of poetry which was published in London, it honours the canonical writers who have come to define modern Indian poetry-influential craftsmen such as Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and Arun Kolatkar, who died within months of each other in 2004-and reinstates neglected or forgotten figures such as Lawrence Bantleman, Gopal Honnalgere, Srinivas Rayaprol and G.S. Sharat Chandra. The collection also introduces an astonishing range of contemporary poets who live and work in various parts of the world and in India. There are writers from Bombay and Berkeley, from New Delhi and New York, from Melbourne, Montana, Aarhus, Allahabad, Hong Kong, Sheffield, Connecticut and Itanagar, among other places-writers who have never shared a stage together but have more in common than their far-flung locations would suggest. This definitive anthology aims for 'verticality' rather than chronology. Exhaustive, and stunning in its scale and vitality, it represents a community 'separated by the sea' and connected too-in familial ways-by the unlikely histories of a shared English language.

ISBN: 9780143064428
Author: Thayil, Jeet
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Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction

Palash Krishna Mehrotra was born in Mumbai in 1975 and was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Delhi School of Economics and Balliol College, Oxford. The editor of Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays, he is also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and writes a regular column for Mail Today. Palash lives in Dehra Dun with his grandmother. He is currently working on a non-fiction book on young India, The Butterfly Generation.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes, cross dressers, murderers, drug addicts, students and stalkers, portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight, taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India.

Set in the murky underbelly of big cities and small towns, slums and dotcoms, college hostels and rented rooms, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction is a collection like no other. Gritty, grim and depraved, these are candid vignettes of an India most of us are afraid to acknowledge.

ISBN: 9780143099925
Author: Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War

A former parliamentarian in India, Rajmohan Gandhi

currently teaches in the USA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Apart from several biographies, his works include Understanding the Muslim Mind and Revenge and Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, both published by Penguin India .

Two wars––the 1857 Revolt in India and the American Civil War—seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite ends of the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they were both fought in a world still dominated by Great Britain and the battle cry in both conflicts was freedom.
Rajmohan Gandhi brings the drama of both wars to one stage in A Tale of Two Revolts. He deftly reconstructs events from the point of view of William Howard Russell—an Irishman who was also perhaps the world’s first war correspondent—and uncovers significant connections between the histories of the United States, Britain and India. The result is a tale of two revolts, three countries and one century. Into this fascinating story Rajmohan Gandhi weaves the choices of five extraordinary inhabitants of India—Sayyid Ahmed Khan, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Jotiba Phule, Allan Octavian Hume and Bankimchandra Chatterjee—and of three towering figures of world history—Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Abraham Lincoln—to show the continuities between the nineteenth century and the world we live in today.
Scholarly, insightful and gripping, A Tale of Two Revolts raises new questions about these wars that changed the world.

ISBN: 9780670083558

Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
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The New Centurions

Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant, is the bestselling author of sixteen prior works of fiction and nonfiction, including THE CHOIRBOYS and THE ONION FIELD. In 2004, he was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in southern California.

In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks, they''ll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In the months to come, they''ll learn that right and wrong aren''t always clearly black and white. Bad guys populate both sides of the law. Rules are subject to interpretation. Justice is slow and convoluted. And life is not fair. But for these men, these new centurions, time is an enemy. The year is 1960. The streets are burning with rage. And before they can grow old on this job, they''ll have to fight for their lives...

ISBN: 9781847245731
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
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Amitabh

The book provides remarkable insights into the films and times of India''s greatest star-actor by tracing the world-view that has shaped the films of Amitabh Bachchan over the years..

ISBN: 0143062034
Author: Dasgupta, Susmita
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The Bumper Book Of Cricket

Calling all cricket fans: settle back in a deckchair, pour yourself a refreshing pint of hoppy English ale, and prepare to savour summer''s timeless symphony of leather on willow in the congenial company of Barry Norman (not just one of Britain''s best-loved broadcasters, but also a self-confessed cricket obsessive - ''Cricket is my great passion, right up there with the movies!'').

Barry Norman''s Book of Cricket delivers a wealth of information about every aspect of the world''s most popular summer game: how its rules developed from its 18th-century beginnings; its pre-World War I ''golden age'' and international expansion in step with the onward march of Britain''s empire; the growth of test match cricket (and of Anglo-Australian ''Ashes'' rivalry in particular); the emergence of the English county championship and of Australia''s state competition; profiles of great players past and present; the modern phenomenon of one-day cricket and the cricket World Cup; legendary matches (from attritional test match classics to limited-overs thrillers); cricket crises and controversies (from Bodyline to Muralitharan and from chucking to sledging); bizarre facts and records; cricket''s rich and intriguing vocabulary of words and phrases (from Yorker to doosra); memorable cricket quotes (including, of course, ''the bowler''s Holding, the batsman''s Willey'').

And beyond this sumptuous feast of cricket history, facts and feats - enlivened by anecdotes, jokes, quotes and quizzes - Barry Norman''s Book of Cricket provides practical guidance on how to become a cricketer. Elegantly designed, gorgeously illustrated, and wryly but affectionately written by an author with a genuine passion for and deep knowledge of the game, Barry Norman''s Book of Cricket is a cricket book for all seasons, presented in the same style and spirit as Quercus''s best-selling Bumper Book of Football.

As appealing to the boy or girl who is anxious to find out more about the game as it is to the seasoned fan looking for a cricketing gift book or memento, it looks set to be the must-have cricket book of 2009.

ISBN: 9781847248442
Author: Barry Norman
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A.R. Rahman

Kamini Mathai was born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She completed her graduation in English from Women’s Christian College, Chennai and a post-graduation degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Madras. She started her career in journalism as a features writer for the New Indian Express in 1998 where she continued to work for around ten years. She now works with the Times of India. She lives in Chennai with her husband Philip and son Adiv. This is her first book.

With his Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA wins for

Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman has become an international celebrity: they’re calling him ‘the Mozart of the East’. In India, however, Rahman has been an iconic superstar for seventeen long years, ever since his first film Roja. Over the past two decades, he has produced unforgettable music for movies like Kadhalan, Bombay, Rangeela, Dil Se, Taal, Alaipayuthey, Zubeidaa, Lagaan, Rang De Basanti and Jodhaa Akbar, to name only a few, in addition to the stage musical Bombay Dreams and his acclaimed non-film album Vande Mataram.claim to know the man behind the music. Rahman shies away from the public eye. He is fiercely protective of his privacy, and prefers to be known only through his music.

For the very first time, this book tells A.R. Rahman’s incredible story: the tragic death of his father R.K. Sekhar, a talented music arranger, when Rahman—then Dileep—was nine; Dileep’s desperate efforts as a teenager to keep the family afloat by playing sessions, missing school; his reasons for embracing Islam and turning to Sufism; his

‘discovery’ by Mani Ratnam and his subsequent ascent to fame; his abiding popularity in the new millennium and his constant endeavour to break new ground. It also takes us straight into Rahman’s inimitable world: the composing and recording sessions that run through the night; his compulsive need to ‘get it right’, which can cause directors to wait months for a song; his continuing fascination with electronic equipment; his relationship with his mother, his inspiration; and above all his religiosity, which is at the root of his being and his music.

His name is legend, but what is A.R. Rahman all about? Very few can

ISBN: 9780670083718
Author: Kamini Mathai
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Refuge

Gopal Krishna Gandhi was born in 1945 and did his master’s in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 and served in Tamil Nadu. He served with the Vice-President and the President of India before taking voluntary retirement in 1992.

Thereafter, Gandhi saw diplomatic service in London and was head of India’s diplomatic missions in South Africa, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, Norway and Iceland. He was Secretary to President K.R. Narayanan from 1997 to 2000. He was Governor of West Bengal from December 2004 to December 2009. He is married to Tara and they have two married daughters.

Set in the tea estates of Sri Lanka, Refuge evokes the plight of the downtrodden Tamil labourers working on them. Their lives are a sharp contrast to the lives of the urbane, whisky-drinking managers in their clubs and mansions.
Slender, doe-eyed Valliamma, a Tamil labourer on one plantation, is in love with Soma, a Sinhala fish vendor and the father of her illegitimate son. Valliamma is exploited by individuals, a brutal social and economic system and, ultimately, the politics of a state. Her fate symbolizes the dilemma and tragedy of her community, the so-called ‘Indian’ Tamils of Sri Lanka. Struggling for a place in the land of her birth and that of her child, caught between issues of race and language, Valliamma is denied the shelter and refuge she seeks there. The novel ends as a journey begins, once more in search of refuge.

‘This sensitive, disturbing novel compels one’s concern for individual human tragedies being played out in Sri Lanka . . . A moving novel’ —The Independent

ISBN: 9780143068532
Author: Gopal Krishna Gandhi
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Young Samurai: The Ring of Earth

JACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUN

With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home...

But the Shogun''s samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the mountains, Jack has no means of escape.

The only question is who will kill him first - the ninja or samurai?

ISBN: 9780141332536
Author: Chris Bradford
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The Postmaster

For Sale In : All Countries Short Description:-The author''s quaint and charming prose traces a man''s journey from the alleyways of Old Delhi of the early 1900s to post-Partition Pakistan, seamlessly weaving into the text a series of memorable vignettes and characters: Ghulam Rasool''s first infatuation; his lifelong friendship with Ahmad, the son of the Imam, who falls in love with a courtesan and distinguishes himself in the First World War; his marriage to Sara which leaves him intellectually unfulfilled; and, finally, his one magnificent obsession - Kiran, the Hindu wife of his subordinate - which threatens to undo everything that he has achieved in his lifetime...

ISBN: 014303152X
Author: Ashraf, Saad
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The Long Road to Siachen The Question Why

Kunal Verma A filmmaker and a writer, he has been professionally associated with the Armed Forces for over two decades. Having flown in every fighter type, sailed on virtually every warship and operated with the Army in every nook and corner of the country, he has had an amazing ringside view of some of the most dramatic events.

Rajiv Williams As a company commander in 8 Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry, he participated in the most famous battle that was fought on the Siachen Glacier. He subsequently went on to commond the same battalion after which he was a part of the Indian Army’s Liaison Cell that coordinated with the media during and after the Kargil conflict.

This extensively researched book, amazing in both its scope and style, breaks just about every existing mould as it races through unexplored and uncharted areas to weave together a fascinating story that needed to be told. Superbly illustrated with breathtaking photographs, it''s almost like watching a film in the form of a book.

ISBN: 9788129116468
Author: Kunal Verma & Rajiv Williams
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Shobhaa at Sixty: Secrets of Getting It Right

The obsessive-compulsive writer of fifteen books, Shobhaa De has spent the last three years in the pursuit of her first vocation, journalism. Her columns are ubiquitous, appearing in nearly every newspaper and magazine of note. They carry her customarily edgy observations on matters of politics, the economy, business and commerce, the heart and the hearth.

Best-selling author, jet-setting commentator and honest critic, she is most at home in Mumbai--a city which is also a recurrent ‘character’ in much of her work—living there with her husband Dilip and (when they’re around) their six children

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From India’s most widely read writer You’ve got nothing left to prove ... remember, life begins at 60! For most of us who have crossed the sixtieth milestone in the journey of life, there’s a tendency to consider oneself as ‘over the hill’, a ‘has-been’, or an ‘old fogey’. But for the irrepressible and exuberant Shobhaa Dé, that’s certainly not the case – life only begins at sixty!

Declaring sixty the new forty, she comes up with a potent elixir to rejuvenate life, and provides practical tips on how to cope with the physical and emotional downslides commonly experienced by the post-sixty generation. Whether it’s the flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa provides the perfect antidote.

She lays great emphasis on family values and ties, and underlines the importance of a spiritual quest – all of which make each passing decade more meaningful and enriching. Drawing up a ‘road map’, which enables the reader to chalk out a future course, Shobhaa shows us how life is so very beautiful and just how much we have to look forward to!

ISBN: 9789380480497
Author: De Shobhaa
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Road to Commonwealth Games

Sunil Yash Kalra has served Indian sports in different capacities for over a decade. As a sports filmmaker, he created India’s first docudrama on women’s cricket, Poor Cousins of Million Dollar Babies. He is also the author of a coffee table book, Commonwealth Journey from Melbourne to New Delhi.

The Commonwealth Games hold out many promises—they will firmly establish Delhi’s identity as a global city, promote sports among Indians, create job opportunities, increase tourism . . . But what is the reality behind these claims?

Come October, when India hosts the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, the country will unite in celebrating the biggest sports extravaganza in its history. The whole nation will share the emotions of sportspersons in their moments of triumph and failure during these twelve exciting days. The Games will impact on many different aspects of our lives, and the buzz has already begun.

The book lays bare Delhi’s level of preparedness for the Commonwealth Games 2010 by analyzing important indicators including the physical infrastructure, tourism, security arrangements, the creation of employment and the impact on the environment. Extensively researched, it provides readers with an interpretative and insightful account of the various aspects related to the Games—from sports legacy to corporate sponsorship; from the socio-cultural impact of the Games to their effect on employment. The book also includes a survey of over 5,000 employers across the country on the long- and short-term impact that the Games will have on work opportunities in India.

ISBN: 9780143415251
Author: Sunil Yash Kalra
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Eat Pray Love: Film tie-in edition

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award) and a book of non fiction, The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Her most recent book, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia is an international bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. The audio edition, published in November 2008, is read by the author.

The Last American Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2009, and rereleased in paperback in August 2009, is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. Stern Men, re-issued by Bloomsbury in March 2009, is her debut novel and Pilgrims, also re-issued in March 2009, is a collection of short stories of memorable individuals pursuing their own American pilgrimage

A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman''s search for happiness - now a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem.

It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

ISBN: 9781408809365
Author: Gilbert Elizabeth
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Beautiful from this Angle

Maha Khan Phillips was born in Karachi in 1976, and attended the Karachi American School. She moved to London in 1994 where she works as a financial journalist. She has a BA in politics and international relations and an MA in international conflict analysis from the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 2006, she graduated with a first class degree from City University London’s inaugural MA in creative writing programme. The novel was written on that course. Maha is arried and has one son. She divides her time between London and Karachi, and is the author of The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby.

Dishing up the dirt on the bold, the beautiful and the downright ugly from Karachi’s hottest page 3 parties!

Amynah Farooqui writes ‘Party Queen on the Scene’, a weekly anonymous gossip column for a Karachi magazine. Amynah, who makes no apologies for her life of casual sex and recreational drugs, is the polar opposite of her best friends, Mumtaz and Henna, whom she wishes would lighten up—especially Mumtaz, who is too uptight to be the daughter of a drug baron.

When party regular Monty Mohsin starts raking in the moolah producing a reality TV show called Who Wants to Be a Terrorist? Mumtaz decides to cash in on the trend by making a documentary on violence against women in Pakistan. And the ever-resourceful Amynah finds the perfect subject in Nilofer, Henna’s childhood friend from the village. As filming begins, it becomes obvious that each of them has their own agenda—including Nilofer, who’s not as helpless and innocent as she seems. The stress of the project, along with pressure from Henna’s politician father, draws the friends apart. Then tragedy strikes and changes their lives forever.

Maha Khan Phillips’s Beautiful from This Angle is a sensational debut that serves up a cocktail of Chanel and cocaine, fundoos and feudalism, while on the search for love and happiness among Pakistan’s swish set.

ISBN: 9780143068761
Author: Maha Khan
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Bengal Divided

In Bengal Divided, the author brings alive the personalities that dominated politics in the years that followed, throwing new light on historical facts and events in the turbulent pre-independence period. He dissects the process by which two separate identities were forged, culminating in the creation of East Pakistan in 1947 and Bangladesh in 1971. As the tale unfolds, so do the roles of personalities such as Chittaranjan Das, Subhas Chandra Bose, Nazrul Islam, Fazlul Huq, H.S. Suhrawardy and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. The underlying sentiment of the book is a desire to see—even if political separation continues—much greater interaction in terms of common culture, shared history and geography and economic complementarity.

ISBN: 067099913X
Author: Sengupta, Nitish
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Blue Heaven

The award-winning, adreneline-fueled follow-up to C.J. Box''s breakout bestseller THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE: A 12-year-old girl and her younger brother run for their lives in the deep woods of North Idaho

THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, NOW THEY''RE RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES

If twelve-year-old Annie hadn''t been angry with her mother, she would never have taken her younger brother William on a secret fishing trip deep into the North Idaho woods and they would never have witnessed the execution nor looked straight into the eyes of the four executioners.

Now they''re running for their lives.

They can''t go home: the killers know exactly who they are. And where they live.
They can''t turn to the law: the killers are four respected Los Angeles policemen.
There''s nowhere for William and Annie to hide. And no one they can trust.

Until they meet Jess Rawlins.

Rawlins, an old-school rancher, knows something is wrong with the law in Blue Heaven. But he is only one against four men who will stop at nothing to silence their

ISBN: 9781848874749
Author: C.J. Box
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Dark Goddess

Sarwat Chadda is a qualified engineer and lives in London. He won an Undiscovered Voices writing competition in 2007, which brought him to the attention of several publishers and resulted in a hotly contested auction for Devil’s Kiss – which Puffin won.

After the death of her soulmate Kay by her very own sword, Billi SanGreal has thrown herself into the brutal regime of Templar duties with utter abandon. There is no room for feelings any more - her life is now about hunting down the Unholy.

But when Billi and another Knight Templar are caught at the heart of a savage werewolf attack, only Billi survives - except for a young girl at the scene who Billi unthinkingly drags away with her as they escape. But Vasalisa is no ordinary girl. She is an avatar with an uncontrollable power - and it''s not only the werewolves who want her.

Billi has to flee to the frosty climes of Russia, with a human timebomb who, it seems, could destroy the world . . .

ISBN: 9780141325880
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Trees Of Delhi : A Field Guide

ISBN: 9780144000708
Author: Pradip Krishen
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Flavours Of Delhi

Just as each ruler left his architectural mark on Delhi, so each bequeathed to it a culinary legacy.

Flavours of Delhi: A Food Lover’s Guide tells the story of Delhi through its food. It explores the city’s culinary history beginning with Indraprastha, taking us through the Sultanate period, Mughal rule and the British raj, and bringing us right up to the present.

Professional chef and food writer Charmaine O’Brien’s love for Delhi and its culinary delights is evident. She tells us not only what to eat, but also where to eat it. From paranthas in the galis of Chandni Chowk to kakori kababs at the fancy Dum Pukht, from chaat at a roadside stall to appams at Keraleeyam, from fresh fruit and vegetables at INA Market to fish at Chittaranjan Park, O’Brien takes us on a guided tour through the capital, encouraging us to sample and savour as we see.

History comes alive as the recipes in this book allow us to recreate the varied flavours of the city in our kitchens. The result of extensive travel and research, and lavishly illustrated with photographs taken by Kirsten Grant, Flavours of Delhi is a fascinating read that whets the reader’s interest and appetite.

ISBN: 9780143029366
Author: Brien, Charmaine O
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A Vengeful Longing

Born in Manchester in 1960, R.N. Morris now lives in North London with his wife and two young children. A Vengeful Longing follows A Gentle Axe in a series of St. Petersburg novels revolving around the character of Porfiry Petrovich. Taking Comfort was published by Macmillan under the name Roger Morris in 2006.

A Vengeful Longing is the sequel to R. N. Morris''s highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, once again featuring the brilliant detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment in another gripping, atmospheric murder story.

It is the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor''s wife and son die suddenly - and in excruciating pain. The doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. As investigator Porfiry Petrovich concedes, in such cases the obvious solution often turns out to be the correct one. And in the city''s stifling, stinking atmosphere, even he lacks the energy to look any deeper. But when further (and apparently unconnected) murders occur, something like a pattern seems to emerge. Porfiry is forced to reassess his assumptions and follow a tenuous, uncertain trail that takes him into the hidden, squalid heart of the city and brings him face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty.

ISBN: 9780571239559
Author: R.N. Morris
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A Variety Of Absences

ISBN: 0143030167
Author: Moraes, Dom
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A User's Guide To The Brain

ISBN: 0349112967
Author: Ratey, John
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A Touch Of Greatness

ISBN: 014100519X
Author: Lala, R M
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A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century

Mani Shankar Aiyar looks back to the changes that have taken place during the ‘Time of Transition’ —the two decades since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left office after the Lok Sabha elections of November 1989.

Rajiv Gandhi was the fourth prime minister of India in four decades of independence, but the last twenty years have seen as many as eight prime ministers and several more governments. Accompanying the change from single-party governance to the instability of coalition politics are major transformations in the pace, trajectory and even the goals of nation-building. It is these contentious transitions that are reflected in the five major themes of this volume: Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Nonalignment, and Neighbourhood Policy.
Mani Shankar Aiyar was both a witness to, and a reluctant participant in, these processes of change: as joint secretary in Rajiv Gandhi’s prime minister’s office, as an MP since 1991, and today as a cabinet minister in the United Progressive Alliance government. His columns for the Indian Express are analytical and vivid commentaries on their times, written in the author’s inimitable style. This collection sheds light on a critically significant era in contemporary India.

ISBN: 9780670082759
Author: Mani Shankar Aiyar
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A Time Elsewhere

J.P. (Jagannath Prasad) Das is an eminent poet, playwright, fiction writer and critic.

His books have been widely translated into Hindi, English and other Indian languages and his plays have been performed in many languages in different parts of India. A Ph.D.
in Art History, he has authored several books on Oriya art. He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, but left it to devote himself to full-time research and writing. He is a recpient of the Sahitya Akademi award and the Saraswati Samman. Born in 1936 in Orissa, he lives and works in New Delhi.

‘[J.P. Das is] the quintessential raconteur with an instinctive mastery of form’—The Hindu

In A Time Elsewhere, fiction and history come together in a sweeping narrative spanning fifty years to create a minutely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century Orissa.

The novel revolves around the fortunes of the ruling family of Puri. It traces Divyasingh Dev’s career as he inherits the throne, becomes a debauch and, ultimately, a murderer who is banished to the Andaman Islands for life. As Divyasingh spirals out of control, his mother Suryamani, the rani of Puri, emerges from behind her veil as the real ruler, shrewdly and gracefully negotiating the pressures brought to bear by the Empire.

The book is also an engaging portrayal of the great intellectual and cultural ferment that marked the clash of the east and the west as figures from Oriya history who played crucial roles in culture and politics during that tumultuous time are brought to life. Fakir Mohan Senapati and Radhanath Ray, educationists and writers, lead the charge against the hegemony of the English and Bengali languages. Gourishankar Ray, who helped set up the first Oriya printing press, publishes the Utkal Dipika, a periodical which quickly becomes the conscience keeper for Orissa, and Pyari Mohan Acharya, expelled from school for defying the British authorities, writes Orissa Itihas, a history of Orissa.

Lucidly translated from the original Oriya best-seller Desh Kaal Patra, A Time Elsewhere is a riveting account of a half century in the life of a people. It will fascinate both the student of history and the general reader.

ISBN: 9780143065593
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A Tiger at Twilight and Cyclones

‘Manoj Das . . . [will] take a place on my shelves beside the stories of Narayan’—Graham Greene

This volume presents two celebrated novels by Manoj Das, one of India’s most illustrious authors, who has been writing in English and Oriya for over six decades.

In A Tiger at Twilight the erstwhile raja of Samargarh returns to his abandoned palace in Nijanpur, after years of self-exile, with his sick daughter and his supposed half-sister, and immediately assumes the responsibility of killing a man-eating tiger. Assisting him are a few noted men of the valley including Dev the owner and manager of a resort. But as the hunt intensifies Dev realizes that things aren’t as they seem: Heera, the raja’s sister, has an inexplicable power over the men in the hunting party and a strange connection with the tiger. As the men get closer to killing the beast, bizarre things begin to happen, hinting at the influence of the supernatural.

Cyclones is set in Kusumpur, a small coastal village, during the struggle for Independence. The village is devastated by a cyclone and Sandip, the scion of the zamindari family, helps restore it. The war-time colonial government, though, wants to turn the sleepy hamlet into a busy port town. They plan to fill up the river that flows by it, in the process angering all the villagers, including Sandip. But when the contractor for the project is found murdered, Sandip is accused of the crime, forcing him to flee from the authorities. This is the start of a series of adventures that take him from a remote ashram in a forest to the city where communal violence is rife. Cyclones is a powerful novel about the metaphorical storms that gripped the nation during the most turbulent period of its modern history.

ISBN: 9780143068556
Author: Manoj Das
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A Taste of Life: The Last Days of U.G. Krishnamurti

‘Those who talk about death don’t want to die. I don’t want to go and I don’t want to stay.’ —U.G. Krishnamurti

U.G. Krishnamurti famously described enlightenment as a neurobiological state of being with no religious, psychological or mystical implications. He did not lecture, did not set up organizations, held no gatherings and professed to have no message for mankind.

Known as the ‘anti-guru’, the ‘raging sage’ and the ‘thinker who shuns thought’, U.G. spent his life destroying accepted beliefs in science, god, mind, soul, religion, love and relationships—all the props man uses to live life. Having taken away all support systems from those who came to him, he refused to replace them with those of his own; always insisting that each must find his own truth.

And when U.G. knew that it was time for him go, he refused all attempts to prolong life with medical help. He let nature, and his body, take their course.

On the afternoon of 22 March 2007, U.G. Krishnamurti passed away in Vallecrosia, Italy.

ISBN: 9780143067160
Author: Mahesh Bhatt
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A Summer Of Discontent

ISBN: 075153238X
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A Suitable Boy

The novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, it takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.

ISBN: 0140230335
Author: Seth, Vikram
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A Blue Hand

ISBN: 9780670082285
Author: Baker, Deborah
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A Bias For Action

In this book the authors show that the most effective managers succeed not because they posses unique characteristics or excel at motivating others -- but because they harness personal willpower through a potent combination of energy and focus. This willpower is what helps productive managers achieve their goals in spite of the inevitable barriers, setbacks, and distractions that are a mainstay of managerial life..

ISBN: 0143061887
Author: Bruch, Heike, Ghoshal, Sumantra
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A Bear For Felicia

I am brown with a nubbly coat, red button eyes and a black nose, and this is my true story. My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown, with a fringe, a tendency to lose crayons, and a playground of crazy games in her head. Felicia got me from her mother Stella who got me from her mother Lavinia, so I am actually very old. But Felicia never minded that. Living with Felicia and her toys Tassikia Magintripp Scopittle the electric blue bear, Amaranita Sarsaparilla Gloriosus the doll and Thunderbox Permusin Peterkar the wind-up mouse was going just honey-smooth for me. Then things started to go wrong at home. Very wrong. And then, horror of horrors, Felicia's father Elroy wanted to sell me off to a strange foreign long-legged woman called Urbanie Jenovefa Balaclava because he found out that I am worth a lot of money. So much money that you would need more than a thousand fingers to count it! Would you like to be pulled away from your friends and be sold off, or sent to a musty-fusty museum, however old you are and however much you cost? There was nothing I could do. There was nothing anybody could do. Nobody could save me -- nobody! BUT. SOMEBODY. DID. Who was it? What did they do? Why did they do it? And how, how, HOW? Read my story that Pinto Bear wrote down...

ISBN: 9780143330653
Author: Pinto, Jerry
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80 Ways To Prosperity With Feng Shui

The ancient Chinese art of feng shui is increasingly being adopted by many in their quest for personal peace and prosperity. Literally meaning `wind' and `water', it is a system of laws governing spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of positive and negative energies (chi). Although an elaborate art, it is not difficult to grasp when presented systematically. 80 Ways To Prosperity With Feng Shui sets out the principles and rules of feng shui, step-by-step, with practical applications and relevant examples focussed on the current time cycle (Period 8) which began in February 2004.

ISBN: 0143031260
Author: Lama, Arun
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60 Indian Poets

60 Indian Poets spans fifty-five years of Indian poetry in English, bridging continents and generations, and seeks to expand the definition of 'Indianness'. Beginning in 1952 with selections from Nissim Ezekiel's first volume of poetry which was published in London, it honours the canonical writers who have come to define modern Indian poetry-influential craftsmen such as Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and Arun Kolatkar, who died within months of each other in 2004-and reinstates neglected or forgotten figures such as Lawrence Bantleman, Gopal Honnalgere, Srinivas Rayaprol and G.S. Sharat Chandra. The collection also introduces an astonishing range of contemporary poets who live and work in various parts of the world and in India. There are writers from Bombay and Berkeley, from New Delhi and New York, from Melbourne, Montana, Aarhus, Allahabad, Hong Kong, Sheffield, Connecticut and Itanagar, among other places-writers who have never shared a stage together but have more in common than their far-flung locations would suggest. This definitive anthology aims for 'verticality' rather than chronology. Exhaustive, and stunning in its scale and vitality, it represents a community 'separated by the sea' and connected too-in familial ways-by the unlikely histories of a shared English language.

ISBN: 9780143064428
Author: Thayil, Jeet
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3, Zakia Mansion

Shaheen's world turns upside down the year she turns nineteen. Thrust abruptly into adulthood by a string of unimaginable events, she witnesses the gradual fraying of the family fabric. Even as she grapples with new realities and struggles to make a different life for herself-first as a wife, then as a mother-contentment continues to prove elusive. Hurtling from one heartbreak to another, she steels herself to live with her sense of loss, in the process distancing herself from everything that is real and precious. It is only when her young daughter is estranged from her and when the gentle Manas comes into her life that Shaheen comes to terms with the burden of her memories, realizing the need to let go of her troubled inheritance and accept the past so that she can embrace the present. Gouri Dange's debut novel creates a poignant portrait of family betrayals, the comfort of strangers and the innate human desire to belong. 3, Zakia Mansion is a deeply felt meditation on the themes of drifting, dropping anchor in the wrong places and ultimately learning to journey on without maps.

ISBN: 9780143104230
Author: Dange, Gouri
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13 Dec - A Reader

On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by five-some say six-heavily armed men. Five years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, one man, Mohammad Afzal, has been sentenced to death by hanging to 'satisfy' the 'collective conscience of society'. This reader brings together fifteen essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and raise serious questions about the investigations and the trial. The contributors include: A.G. Noorani, Arundhati Roy, Ashok Mitra, Indira Jaising, Jawed Naqvi, Mihir Srivastava, Nandita Haksar, Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Praful Bidwai, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sonia Jabbar, Syed Bismillah Geelani, Tripta Wahi. They show how there is hardly a single piece of evidence that stands up to scrutiny, and emphasize the urgent need for an impartial, transparent inquiry into the parliament attack and its aftermath.

ISBN: 014310182X
Author: Noorani, A G, Roy, Arundhati, Mitra, Ashok & Others
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10 Secrets Of Time Management For Salespeople

ISBN: 0143030027
Author: Kahle, Dave
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Why Smart People Do Stupid Things with Money: Overcoming Financial Dysfunction

Bert Whitehead, MBA, JD, has been a fee-only personal financial advisor since 1972. In 1995, he founded Cambridge Advisors, a growing group of advisors who share his belief in unbiased independent financial advice and consumer advocacy. He is often quoted in leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Kiplinger’s, Newsweek, and Consumer Reports Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. In addition to being the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, he is a best-selling author whose books have sold approximately 10 million copies. Dr. Weil is also editorial director of www.drweil.com, writes for Prevention and TIME, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live, Oprah, and Today.

Bert Whitehead, named one of the “Best 60 Financial Advisors in America” by Worth magazine, has a unique “behavioral finance” approach that goes beyond mere number crunching to help people understand and overcome the complex psychological baggage they bring to their financial decisions. Tested and confirmed by hundreds of Bert’s clients—including celebrities such as Andrew Weil, MD, who wrote the foreword for the book—this system shows readers how to identify areas of financial dysfunction, and offers specific strategies designed to help different personality types achieve financial freedom by working with their own natural inclinations.

ISBN: 9781402766893
Author: Bert Whitehead
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A Lady Of Distinction

ISBN: 0425196569
Author: Simmons, Deborah
Published by: Berkley/Penguin USA
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Alive And Well In Pakistan

This powerful report offers vivid descriptions of life in Lahore and humanizes the nation's struggles by delving into every dimension of the Pakistani experience, including domestic politics ethnic, regional, and sectarian fault lines; anti-Western and anti-Indian sentiments; and the border issues between Kashmir and Afghanistan. An engaging work, the findings connect this volatile nation to its precarious place in the international realm.

ISBN: 0144000075
Author: Casey, Ethan
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A Bear For Felicia

I am brown with a nubbly coat, red button eyes and a black nose, and this is my true story. My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown, with a fringe, a tendency to lose crayons, and a playground of crazy games in her head. Felicia got me from her mother Stella who got me from her mother Lavinia, so I am actually very old. But Felicia never minded that. Living with Felicia and her toys Tassikia Magintripp Scopittle the electric blue bear, Amaranita Sarsaparilla Gloriosus the doll and Thunderbox Permusin Peterkar the wind-up mouse was going just honey-smooth for me. Then things started to go wrong at home. Very wrong. And then, horror of horrors, Felicia's father Elroy wanted to sell me off to a strange foreign long-legged woman called Urbanie Jenovefa Balaclava because he found out that I am worth a lot of money. So much money that you would need more than a thousand fingers to count it! Would you like to be pulled away from your friends and be sold off, or sent to a musty-fusty museum, however old you are and however much you cost? There was nothing I could do. There was nothing anybody could do. Nobody could save me -- nobody! BUT. SOMEBODY. DID. Who was it? What did they do? Why did they do it? And how, how, HOW? Read my story that Pinto Bear wrote down...

ISBN: 9780143330653
Author: Pinto, Jerry
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A Shadow In Eternity

A Shadow in Eternity is a story about a twelve-year-old girl called Maya Subramaniam who has to make such a choice. Maya used to think that Hindi homework and a troublesome older brother were about as complicated life could get. Till she met Noah Jarryd -- freakishly tall, deathly pale and icily bland. And nothing was ever the same again..

ISBN: 8189013386
Author: Dhar, Payal
Published by: Penguin Books India/Young Zubaan/Puffin
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A Flag, A Song And A Pinch Of Salt

Police batons, prison sentences or the hangman's noose-nothing could stop them. They stood up against the biggest colonial empire in the world and all they had was their courage and passion for freedom. They were the builders of independent India, the strategists of democracy, the soldiers of liberty. They were an extraordinary band of lawyers, poets, businessmen, teachers and philosophers who became the founders of a free, democratic and modern India. This volume brings together the extraordinary lives of freedom fighters from Mahatma Gandhi to Birsa Munda, Sarojini Naidu to Bhagat Singh, Aurobindo Ghose to Subhas Chandra Bose-life stories that recount little-told events, capture their personalities and remind us of their role in our nationalist movement.

ISBN: 014333042X
Author: Gupta, Subhadra Sen
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A Letter From India

For Sale In : All Countries Short Description:-A Letter From India brings together the best short fiction by some of the most important voices of Pakistani literature. Refreshing in their style and diverse in their themes, these stores - in English, and translated from Urdu and Punjabi - reflect a move away from nationalism and parochialism as they examine issues of identity, sexuality, individual freedom and interpersonal relationships. If Intizar Husian's A Letter from India presents us with an insight into the psyche of a family torn apart by Partition (and the consequent loss of a family tree), in Asad Mohammad Khan's The Squatter we discover pure and simple human love that doesn't lend legitimacy to religious barriers. In Nadir Ali's Feeqa's Death the protagonist's dream becomes a device to reflect on sudden tragedies wrought upon a community by outside forces, while Zubair's The Door is Open manipulates dreams to deconstruct personal fear and family tyranny. Sorayya Khan's and Azra Waqar's stories speak of the lingering pain and guilt that seep into individual lives from national tragedies left unquestioned and unexplored. And while Spots humanizes social outcasts, Ashu Lal's Mangoes in the Time of Winter critiques the decadence of exclusive sub-cultures. Bold, sensitive and intricate, this collection is a timely reminder of the rich diversity of Pakistan's multi-ethnic society.

ISBN: 0143030493
Author: Sheikh, Moazzam
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A Life Less Ordinary

This is the story of Baby Halder, a young woman working as a domestic in a home in Delhi. Hurriedly married off at the age of twelve, a mother by the time she was fourteen, Baby writes movingly and evocatively of her life as a young girl, and later as a young woman. The long absences of her father, the hardships faced by her mother, and her decision to walk out of her marriage, leaving Baby and her sister to manage the household, were the realities that shaped Baby's early life. When marriage came, Baby, still a child, yearned to play and study, but was burdened with the responsibility of being wife and mother while facing considerable violence from her husband. Escape finally came many years later, by which time the still young Baby was a mother of three, and she fled to the city in the hope of finding a job. Working in Delhi as a domestic help, Baby was lucky enough to come across an employer who encouraged her to read-which she did voraciously-and then to write. The story of Baby's life is a lesson in courage and survival.

ISBN: 818901367X
Author: Halder, Baby
Published by: Penguin Books India/Zubaan
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A Life Lived Later

In his first collection of verse, Anurag Mathur looks back on varied life experiences, weaving his words around themes that are intensely personal, yet universal.

ISBN: 0143033514
Author: Mathur, Anurag
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Matter Of Taste

For Sale In : All Countries Short Description:-A delectable collection of writing on food and its place in our lives that brings together some of the most significant Indian voices over the last century. From lavish meals, modern diets and cooking lessons that serve as a rite of passage to fake fasts and real ones, fish, feni, and fiery meals that smack of revenge, this book has something to satisfy every palate. As much about food as it is about good writing, this book serves up a veritable feast for the senses and food for thought to sample or devour, as one pleases.

ISBN: 0143031481
Author: Roy, Nilanjana S
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Death In Vienna

Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is more terrible than he could have ever imagined - a portrait of evil stretching across 60 years and thousands of lives into his own personal nightmares.

ISBN: 0141019085
Author: Silva, Daniel
Published by: Penguin/Penguin Group UK
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A Mission In Kashmir

Attempts to establish how the Kashmir dispute first erupted have been obscured and impeded by competing nationalisms. Retrieving stories of attackers and survivors, looters and looted, fighters and civilians, Andrew Whitehead sets out to write a full and impartial account of how Kashmir became a theatre of war. He has gathered a remarks range of first-hand testimonies of the most notorious episode in the invasion-the desecration of a convent and mission hospital in the riverside town of Baramulla-including one written by a missionary priest and never consulted before. Apart from making brilliant use of oral history, Andrew Whitehead has uncovered archive documents which challenge both Indian and Pakistani accounts of the genesis of the Kashmir dispute. Also unearthed is a letter from Kashmir's last maharaja, written at the height of the crisis, requesting immediate accession to India. Rigorously researched and immensely readable, this book not only explains how the Kashmir conflict started but also why it has proved so difficult to solve.

ISBN: 0670081272
Author: Whitehead, Andrew
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Double Life

ISBN: 0140240713
Author: padamsee, Alyque
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Naturalist On The Prowl (Reprint)

Ruskin Bond reintroduces one of his favourite authors to readers in this beautiful new edition. One of the most popular naturalist-writers of his time, EHA (1851-1909) was one of the founding members of the Bombay Natural History Society. A Naturalist on the Prowl is full of delightful observations on the flora and fauna of the Western Ghats.

ISBN: 0670081159
Author: Bond, Ruskin
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Place To Live

Innumerable strands of ethnic, regional and universal experiences are woven together in A Place To Live, a collection of fine short fiction spanning four decades - 1960-1990 - in which the short story emerged as the definitive genre of modern Tamil literature. Twenty-nine famous names are represented here - from Rajanarayanan to Paavannan and many others who have encapsulated the joys, sorrows and peculiar challenges of life in Tamil Nadu. Taken together, these stories represent a certain world view in which old ideas of honour and prestige, and the attitude of resignation - to fate and to social hierarchies - are yielding place to an ethic of struggle and strategic compromise. The language itself is transformed in the process, churning up a new idiom that loses none of its freshness or vitality in translation. dilip kumar vasantha surya.htm

ISBN: 0143031597
Author: Kumar, Dilip
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Poem For CRY

A Poem for CRY is a collection of the favourite poems of ninety-one famous Indians from around the globe. The sweep of contributors-politicians, writers, sportspersons, actors, industrialists and musicians-and the range of poems they have selected, some perennial favourites, others not-so-well-known, most in English, a few from Indian languages, make this an eclectic and stimulating collection. The poems are also a reflection of the 'commitments and priorities' of the people who have chosen them.

ISBN: 0670049980
Author: Maluste, Avanti & Doshi, Sudeep
Published by: Penguin Books India
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