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Balan, growing up in the small cantonment towns of Ambala and Jammu in the 1960s, is the son of a junior army officer. His is a packed life, with tough schoolmasters, homework and games with playmates to keep him busy. And, above it all, is the strange species called adults, who have a curious understanding of life. The story follows Balan’s struggles as he grows up and enrols at IIM Ahmedabad. He is certain one of his fellow students is his childhood ...
The popular telling of the Mahabharata are about Duryodhana’s deviousness, obstinacy and greed for power that would bring about the battle of Kurukshetra between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, and his own downfall,
But was there more to him? Was he all black, or was it matter of shades of grey?
What was he?
True heir or pretender to the throne?
Arch villain or brave prince defending his rajadharma?
Ace strategist or wicked schemer?
History, they say, is ...
Take the way we go about buying a new car. We identify an auspicious date and time, then proceed to break a coconut, plonk a plastic deity of Ganesha on the dashboard, and zoom off at great speed, refusing to wear our seatbelts. Supposedly educated, smart and tech-savvy, Indians can be surprisingly unscientific in their daily lives. Think of the crores spent every year remodelling homes according to vaastu, in the hope of changing luck; and the continued horrors ...
The book presents the complete life sketch of Acharya Vinobha Bhave, a true Gandhian who dedicated his entire life for the upliftment of poor, downtrodden and landless people of our country. The book covers in brief the theories of Bhoodan Movement stared by him in the year 1951. the main thesis behind Vinobha’s Bhoodan and Gramdan concepts was to bring about a change in the economic and political set-up of the country and establish a new social order through ...