Surendra Kumar
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after accepting tumultuous reception in MSG by 18,000 plus Indian Americans including 40 US Congressmen and Senators chanting Modi Modi, doing some plain speaking at CFR in New York (publicly advising Obama not to withdraw from Afghanistan in hurry) rubbing shoulders with Hollywood Rock stars like Hugh Jackman at the Global Citizens Festival in the Central park before 64,000 strong audience, making a style statement by donning different colours of Jackets and ...
Make in India, Digital India, Start-up India; Stand up India, Smart cities, Swachh Bharat...there is a new force harnessing the nation’s aspirations, a new energy accelerating the country’s potential. No wonder that India has become the fastest growing economy when the world is slowing down. It is bound to be transformed beyond recognition if it continues growing at a similar and slightly higher rate for the next ten years.
Yet the challenges are ...
The Portuguese presence on the Arabian Sea coast of the Deccan dates from the beginning of the 16th century, with the establisment of Goa as the capital of a rapidly expanding maritime rnterprise that eventually encompassed much of Asia. In and around Goa, and further up the coast of what is now Maharashtra.
This guidebook is the first to showcase the vestiges of the Portugese sea forts of the Deccan, drawing attention to their surviving battlemented ramparts and ...
This guidebook is the first to showcase the magnificent monuments of the twin cities of Golconda and Hyderabad, the successive capitals of the Qutb Shahi sultans and the Asaf Jahis, the latter usually referred to by their title as the Nizams. Golconda’s massive fortifications and defensive gateways, as well as its decaying palaces, pavilions, stores and barracks give the best possible idea of one of India’s wealthiest and grandest royal cities in the ...
This volume of Marg is dedicated to the architectural and artistic heritage of Rayalaseema, the Royal Realm, a name given to the region encompassing Kurnool, Anantapur, Cuddapah and Chittoor districts in present-day Andhra Pradesh. This legacy may be traced back more than 2,000 years, as evidenced by the ancient, enigmatic stone figural lingam at Gudimallam. During the 14th–17th centuries Rayalaseema enjoyed unprecedented political and economic importance. ...
The town of Badami, the nearby villages of Aihole and Pattadakal, and the pilgrimage site of Mahakuta, in the Malprabha valley of central Karnataka, are celebrated for their magnificent rock-cut shrines and structural temples. These Hindu and Jain monuments are associated with the Early Chalukyas who reigned over this part of the Deccan during the 6th–8th centuries. Together with a profusion of magnificent sculptures, mostly found in situ, these shrines and ...
The early Chalukyas of Badami (c. 6th-8th centuries) are known to have built a large number of rock-cut and structural temples, scattered over the entire Karnataka. In this south Indian state, their distinctive monuments can be seen in Aihole, Badami, Pattadakal, Mahakuta, and a few other places. By the end of the 6th century, they had also excavated highly impressive rock-cut temples at Badami and Aihole. These Early Chalukyan monuments are of special interest ...
This book is an account of the roller coaster journey of trials and tribulations, high and lows, moments of sheer exhilaration and deep desperation of a diplomatic nomad expressed in simple language without any diplomatic dilemmas.
Our agrarian economy is facing grave crisis. Some of the crises are natural and some are man-made. Our agriculture is still a gamble with monsoon even after completion of ten five year plans. Flood devastations, drought and fall in rainfall are natural calamities whereas absentee landlordism, defective tenurial system; arbitrary fixation of rent, disparity in the ownership of land; paucity of financial resources, illiteracy and ignorance among farmers, partial ...
After obtaining Master's degree in History from Allahabad University in 1969, Surendra Kumar has been footloose for the last three decades. The nomadic life of an Indian diplomat has offered him a fascinating opportunity of learning about different cultures, traditions, beliefs, likes and dislikes and numerous other things, big and small, which connect us all. He was surprised to know that how powerful the impact of cinema, today, has on our lives. He feels, it ...
In Kokila’s story are interwoven living myths, beliefs, customs, traditions and superstitions of rural Northern India… there is joi de vivre side by side the eerie silence of death. There is ecstasy, cut short by a sudden avalanche of tragedies. There is simplicity traumatized by barbaric cruelty and swift execution of justice on the basis of the dictum: might is right! Kokila’s story presents the grim reality of rural India of early 40s and 50s in its ...
A unique collection of thoughts, ideas, views and vision of some of the brightest brains and most respected individuals-from senior cabinet ministers to role model captains of industry; from internationally acclaimed economists to diplomats par excellence and think-tank honchos; from IT innovators to provocative journalists-all jostle together in this volume sharing glimpses of India of their dreams. Sheer diversity of subjects, strength of arguments, force ...