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This latest anthology of poems written over the last three months is very different from the previous collections. The author has moved beyond his distress and pain and into the world beyond mortal life. This collection reflects his thoughts of the mystery of our existence. The descriptions of divinity go beyond the constraints of religion and focus instead on the personal connection between the earthly and the divine. Many of the poems will show the influence of ...
With the advancement of medical science and research over the years, many communicable diseases have been wiped out. However, the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases like Diabetes, Heart disease and Cancer to name a few, have shown a rapid increase chiefly due to increasing risk associated with changes in lifestyle and urbanization. The scope of this book is to bring to light some valiant aspects of Diabetes, with the intention of reaching out to the general ...
In this book the author has developed the concept of the Indian mindset required for India to modernize as an innovative global economy cum military power that matches the requirements of playing a role on the global scene. For this purpose, he advocates a new ideology of the modern right which is based on the concept of a national identity rooted in Hindutva; and which identity defining characteristic is culled from a clear perception of the correct history of ...
Sex-Selective Abortion and the State: Policies, laws and Institutions in India is an incisive analysis of the countering of gender discrimination by the Indian State. The selective elimination of female foetuses due to not wanting a female child has led to an imbalance in the child sex ratio of India. The Census of India 2011 has revealed that there are only 919 girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age group. The book critically examines the policies, programmes, laws ...
This book is a biovel, a novelized biographic story which narrates the author’s visit to Colorado USA in the nineteen eighties and his investigations of the forces that shape, move and control American society.The book reveals that America’s long standing high level interest in esotericism came of age when some of its ruling elites came into contact with what they could only regard as the Supernatural. That is perhaps the greatest secret that has been ...
The images and words in this work are the result of a voyage, a journey undertaken in the land of elephants, of gypsies and gurus, and of mountain monasteries.It was an inner journey that spanned Himalayan heights, travelled the dirt roads and plains of Delhi, the deserts and lakes of Rajasthan. The author believes that no matter what happens, no external entity is punishing us. The cosmos is God, is Buddha, is Rama, is Christ, is Allah, and it moves to bring ...
The book deals with contemporary role of political leadership of women in South Asia. In view of the changing role of women leaders and the challenges they confront, it makes such a study not only fill in a gap but it may actually contribute to the restoration of democracy, the democratization process and development in new and emerging South Asia.
Color Outside Lines is a self-instrcuction to disregard instructions. The collection of poems comes our of attempts to understand tolerance and awareness society, sprinkled with some enquiry and some disregard for prejudiced notions.
In this absorbing first book of stories, Salahdin Imam displays a profound imagination, one schooled by a life that has taken him across the globe, from elite educational institutions to battlefields to the world’s powerful banks. His stories effortlessly inhabit the lives and probe the secret motivations of men and women of all classes and backgrounds, characters placed by fate in difficult, and often dangerous situations. With clear-sighted compassion his ...
This important book provides a new perspective on the decline of the Mughal Empire,departing from the existing appraisement of Aurangzeb,the functioning of the Mughal nobility and the crisis of the jagirdari system.It re-examines in detail the first half of the eighteenth century, which was a period of party struggle and political controversies.This was the phase in which struggle for liberal and orthodox policies identified as the policies of Akbar and Aurangzeb ...
The work aims to study the issues and problems of Regionalism in the Indian context with special reference to North-East India. Regionalism, being a controversial concept, reqired both an indepth study and a critical assessment. The book, therefore, seeks to identify its important features as well as understand both its negative and positive aspects.
India is considered a major mining country, but in terms of the availabilityand distribution of minerals, exploration of mineral reserves and production of mineral commodities there are issues that have been shaped by its geography, politics, governance style and business behaviour which need careful analysis.The book, in that context, examines the political economy in which mining operated in India. The book concludes with a set of proposals for reform.
Shakti Power (Mahabharata) is a welcome addition to that already rich corpus. It is wonderful to read and one shouldn't from the impression that it is onlyabout the characters mentioned.
Prof. Manohar Lal Sondhi was one of the foremost thinkers of his generation on indian foreign policy. Though his political activism is widely known, his academic works have not got the kind of recognition they deserve. His writings on Indian foreign policy speak to several key themes in India's external relations today,the role of non-alignment to the ahanging balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
The book is set against the backdrop of the dawn of a New Millennium, the 21st century, and takes a sweeping and kaleidoscopic view of the world as it is likely to evolve over a 50-year horizon. While it is futuristic in its premise, it attempts to build scenarios based on historical facts, illustrations and deep personal perspective of evolving international relations; it is a study of the emerging challenges and geopolitical equations, showcasing shifting ...
The Emergency: An Unpopular History gives a glimpse of the debates that took place in parliament and the arguments that were made in the Supreme Court about fundamental rights during that period. It brings to light the reflections of Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan on the Emergency. The book incorporates details about the state of the economy that prevailed then in the country and in the world.
My Kabul Story is the result of a journal, which the author had maintained during her assignment as CEO for the only International Bank in Afghanistan. From the author's perspective, the book is also a reflection of the magical side of kabul; its warm and loving people like her driver Fareed, her maid Mursel and her cook Govi, who she learnt to rely on.
Celebrated Somali diplomat Michael Marco is the executor of the Will of his Indian friend Baldev Vaccher, and accompanies Baldev's daughter Tatiana to Sweden, where unexplained deaths occur in a university town. Returning to an India wracked by terrorist attacks which bear Pakistan’s imprint, Marco is reluctant to be enlisted by the Indian Prime Minister to act as a mediator with Pakistan. Deeply troubled by his own rootlessness and personal loss, but ...
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 ...