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"Witness to Blunder" is a vivid description of the misadventure, launched by a group of four generals at Kargil. It reveals how ill-planned this operation was and how poorly it was executed without consulting the Corps Commanders and other services chiefs. These generals not only failed to correctly assess the enemy capabilities but also failed to cater for the needs of the troops. They were neither provided sufficient food nor the ammunition and ...
The translations in the following pages are the author's tribute to a great poet-- a treasure of India's heritage of literature. The English renderings and the footnotes have been done not only for the non-initiate-but-eager reader, but also for the reader who knows his Ghalib but may wish, like the author, to burnish his rusted recollection.
South Asian textiles have shaped British fashion and dress for hundreds of years, from the cotton fabrics and fashionable chintzes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the silk and Paisley patterns of the nineteenth century and the hippy fashions of 1960s bohemia.In the twenty-first century a new generation of British Asian fashion designers, stylists, photographers, film-makers and media entrepreneurs now influences contemporary British fashion, having ...
This book is a photographic rendering of Bhutan, a journey to the terra incognita of this Buddhist paradise of a virgin nature of the "laughing" people. Geography and deliberate political policy has closed Bhutan off from the outside world until recently. The people are passionate defenders of their ethnic identity and Independence and have been able to keep their rich traditions alive. Also unique is the way in which they understand the meaning of ...
Autobiography of a former Indian diplomat.
The Weight Loss Cookbook is a practical handbook to guide you into a healthy, hassle-free and enjoyable way of losing weight. Categorised into different chapters, this book will make it easy for you to understand what you are doing before getting to the delicious part of it-the recipes. Right from understanding the reasons for past failures of weight loss attempts, to having successful diets, maintaining the lost weight, to dealing with symptoms experienced while ...
Bharatanatyam is the soul of India. A sacred art that even three hundred years ago was as flourishing as it was three thousand years ago, had been left in ruins by the cultural patrons in India. Fortunately, there has been a revived interest in Bharatanatyam over the last fifty years that has taken both India and the West by storm. This revival and popularity springs from its eternal message that through dance each and every one of us can realise the divine ...
Vishnu, the Lord of preservation in the Hindu trinity, incarnates himself on earth to uplift the virtuous and vanquish the wicked. Each of his ten appearances came as the need of the hour and in response to the sincere yearning of pious souls. Through each and every avatar he revealed the deepest philosophy and practical guidelines on how to live well while fulfilling the destiny of an exalted human birth. These exemplary stories are not of a religious dogma but ...
The cosmos has been for the Jains, from the very earliest times, a gigantic theatre where souls play out their roles. The travel across the ocean of samsara, struggling, from the rebirth to anther, until the time comes when they are liberated, and finally win the spiritual perfection of the Siddhas. The Jains make no distinction between this vision of the transcendental world and the experience of life. Whatever is fated for the souls occurs in a world which has ...
The greatest monument to love, and the lost world of the Agra gardens and their characterful owners, re-created through superb scholarship and evocative illustrations.The Taj Mahal is the epitome of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet there have been few serious studies of it and no full analysis of its architecture and meaning.Ebba Koch is the only scholar who has been permitted to take measurements of the complex. She has been ...
This fabulous art book touches all aspects of Indian dance spanning from the traditional to the futuristic. It is a seminal volume with contributions from some of the most eminent names in their respective field of dance complemented by a rare portfolio of photographs of gurus and dancers - both past and present. This book recognizes the fact that within India a new generation of Yamini Krishnamurtys and Sonal Mansinghs has grown up. They juggle a serious ...
Dignity, courage and joy of living. Three good reasons for loving India which emerge form the daily encounters with men and women of all ages, of all walks of life, from meals and tea shared with them, from observing traditions and religious rituals that have come unscathed through the mists of time.