This riveting story of the Kohinoor, the world's most coveted gem, unearths fascinating new information as it moves from the Mughal court to Persia to Afghanistan; from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's durbar in Punjab to the Crown of the Queen of England. Shrouded in legend and superstition, the Kohinoor continues to arouse passion and controversy, as India, Pakistan and Afghanistan all claim the diamond and demand that Britain return it. A thrilling historical ...
India’s beauty queens did a hat trick in 2000, winning the titles of Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Asia-Pacific. Earlier winners like Aishwarya Rai had by then become household names. Coincident was the leap in the cosmetics industry, from Rs 2,311 crore (1990) to Rs 18,950 crore (2000). Beauty was big business outside the metros too. Looking good had not only become desirable but respectable. How did all this affect the middle-class city woman? Was a new, ...
This committed and critical collection of writings by women and men spanning three generations from the South and the North, presents the first in-one-place analysis of the World Social Forum. From political ideologies, social movements and processes of the old to present-day-reality, the views expressed in this volume converge on the significance of the World Social Forum. On the eve of the fourth World Social Forum, The Word Social Forum: Challenging Empires ...