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
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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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