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
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A Double Life

ISBN: 0140240713
Author: padamsee, Alyque
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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
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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
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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
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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
Author: Jagannath Prasad
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Ash and Tara and the Emerald Dagger

Jeanne Perrett has a BA Hons in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She has taught English for over twenty-five years and is the author of several international course books for children. Jeanne lives in Greece with her husband and their four children.

Magesh’s eyes snapped open. He raised his head, then with a terrible roar he tugged the cords from his hands and legs and leapt to his feet. He kicked Kirit and Bansi out of the way, hit Tara, sending her flying, and grabbed Ash from the back around the neck, holding the boy against his body. He held the emerald dagger to Ash’s soft throat…

It is the year 1568. Emperor Akbar is on the throne and all is well in Hindustan.

Or is it?

Meet Ash and Tara, two feisty kids who battle the vilest villains in Akbar’s court.

Devious minds are at work, planning to steal Akbar’s precious emerald dagger, which the emperor believes brings him good luck. Ash and Tara, twin brother and sister, growing up in a village across the Yamuna land up in Agra Fort and get to know of the conspiracy. Can they stop the ruthless Magesh and his accomplices from carrying out the plan? Or will they get framed for the theft and end up on the wrong side of the world’s most powerful monarch?

The breathless adventure twists and turns its way through the magnificent Agra Fort, the bylanes of medieval Agra and the dark, stormy forests across the Yamuna. Each story in the brand new Ash and Tara series will keep you engrossed till the final action-packed ending even as you get to know and love Akbar, Birbal, Ash, Tara and their friends like never before.

ISBN: 9780143330943
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape and Other Essays

Charles Correa is a major figure in contemporary architecture around the world. With his extraordinary and inspiring designs, he has played a pivotal role in the creation of an architecture for post-Independence India —from the serene Mahatma Gandhi Museum at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to the unique Kanchanjunga apartment tower in Mumbai, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and most recently, MIT’s elegant Brain and Cognitive Sciences Centre in Boston.

A pioneer in addressing issues of habitat and urbanization in the developing world, he has designed townships in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and other Indian cities. In 1970 he was appointed Chief Architect for Navi Mumbai and in 1985 Chairman of the first National Commission on Urbanization. From 2005 to 2008 he was Chairman of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission. He has taught at several universities in India and abroad, including Cambridge (UK), Berkeley and Harvard. He is currently the Bemis Professor at MIT. Correa has a wide spectrum of interests,including film-making, toy trains and music. He has received the highest honours of his profession, including the RIBA Gold Medal (1984), the UIA Gold Medal (1990), the Praemium Imperiale of Japan (1994) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1998). He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2007.

Indian cities are mechanisms for social engineering—more powerful than anything we have seen before. They will transform this country.

A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with our often hostile climate, to the metaphysical role of architecture as a Model of the Cosmos.

This reflective, provocative and consistently readable collection of essays argues that our habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources and that our physical environment should accommodate notions of inclusion and diversity, and that priceless quality of synergy which characterizes a city.

Charles Correa identifies the defining issues of the urbanization process that is so rapidly transforming India. He writes, ‘You cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture on the one hand and politics on the other.’ Tragically, over the last few decades, urban real estate has become the primary source of financing for political parties and the politicians who run them. But our towns and cities are assets too precious to be squandered in this manner. Like the wheat fields of Punjab and the coal fields of Bihar, cities are a crucial part of our national wealth. Their success—or their failure—will determine our future.

ISBN: 9780143068785
Published by: Penguin Books India
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The Rediscovery of India

Meghnad Desai is an economist by profession and taught at the London School of Economics for forty years. He is a keen observer of British politics and participates in it from his perch in the House of Lords. He has written books on economics, Marxism, Islamist terrorism, Ezra Pound and Bollywood. This is his first novel.

What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India’s colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades.

Rejecting much received wisdom, including narratives fashioned by India’s ruling establishment, Meghnad Desai goes back to the beginnings of the East–West encounter at the end of the fifteenth century. He tracks its impact on the cultures and politics of the present day, from the emergence of new classes under colonialism, the influence of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi on the idea of Indian nationhood, to the entirely parallel discourses that developed in North and South India. Yet this trajectory, this outcome, was not inevitable. Through a series of ‘Counterfactual Boxes’ Meghnad Desai analyses the accepted defining moments of India’s past and suggests alternative courses that history could so easily have taken.

Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India’s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India’s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state’s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai’s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India’s past and present.

ISBN: 9780670083008
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Marrying Anita

You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner conversation. You fear you will never marry. What do you do?

Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is just such a woman. Even her parents despair of her and have logged her details on to an Indian dating internet site. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there’s something in arranged marriages after all. It certainly can’t get any worse. So she’s travelling to India in search of a perfect husband.

Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising New India. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her nosy parents, aunts, uncles and cousins? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this dating worth the effort?


ISBN: 9780747583677
Author: Anita Jain
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Alexander The Great's Art Of Strategy

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was arguably the greatest military strategist, tactician and ruler in world history. By the time of his death, aged thirty-three, his armies had conquered virtually the entire known world, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the foothills of India. His achievements have inspired and influenced a great number of past and current military, political and business leaders. This book provides the wisdom and secrets of this great empire builder, demonstrating how they can be applied to conquer today's challenges. Blending insights from his years of business experience with his lifelong study of Alexander, Alexander The Great's Art Of Strategy interweaves a gripping biography with compelling analyses of the strategies, tactics and leadership approaches of successful institutions - including Dell, GE, Honda, IKEA, the Harvard Law School, and the East India Company - and individuals, such as Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bernard Montgomery, Gandhi, Jack Welch and Lou Gerstner.

ISBN: 014303197X
Author: Bose, Partha
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