Shashi Tharoor
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In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith. He talks about the Great Souls of Hinduism, Adi Shankara, Patanjali, Ramanuja, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and many others who made major contributions to the essence of Hinduism. ...
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British-in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like ...
India’s Most Honest Authorised Biography on the Most Controversial Actor of Hindi Cinema & Indian Politics “Do not attempt to change him. Of the 1.25 crore people of India, he stands out as unique” – Amitabh Bachchan, superstar, Hindi cinema
“A person who joined the Jan Sangh or the BJP when it was in the ...
This has been a time of unprecedented change in the country. The transformation of India’s politics, economy, foreign policy, media, civil rights, governance and a myriad other aspects of our society and government has been swift and disruptive, sometimes brutally so. Narendra Modi, the nation’s new Prime Minister, and his Bharatiya Janata Party, dominate the political scene, as the Congress once did, and are attempting to change the way we work, ...
The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour.
Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor's late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent.
Rounding off the ...
The publication contains fifteen papers presented at an international seminar that study Indo-African ties, throwing light on the changing dynamics in the relations between the countries. The papers deal with trade, investment, development assistance, security and capacity building efforts between India and countries of the continent of Africa. They probe India’s relations with oil-rich Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, Libya, Angola among others, particularly its ...
A pictorial book about South India, about its devotion, architecture & design, the street, handwork, earth water, the people, and hotel resource guide.
South India is the repository of much that is valuable in India's heritage, but it is much less well-known. This book is an invaluable contribution to redressing this imbalance.
Shadows across the Playing Field tells the story of the turbulent cricketing relations between India and Pakistan through the eyes of two men - Shashi Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan - who bring to the task not only great love of the game but also deep knowledge of subcontinental politics and diplomacy. Shashi Tharoor, a former UN Under-Secretary-General and man of letters, is a passionate outsider, whose comprehensive, entertaining and hard-hitting analysis of sixty ...
This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical happenings, it tells the fascinating story of Jawaharlal Nehru's life. Finely portrayed is the unremarkable youth who found his calling in politics and followed Gandhi into British jails; the aristocrat born to privilege who was moved by the plight of peasants because of his ...
Shashi Tharoor began reading books-Enid Blyton’s Noddy series-when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when he read a book a day. And in the years since, he has published eight books an written for many Indian and foreign publications. Bookless in Baghdad brings together pieces written over the past decade by this ...
For more than four decades after gaining independence India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant seemed to wake up from its slumber and slowly being to change--until today, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, some have begun to see it morphing into a ...
This book is a collection of fourteen early stories and a Farce in two acts from the award-winning author of The Great Indian Novel. This collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, dishonor, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, family, honor, the exacting price of success and the astonishing power of ...