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Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap. From the oldest rocks, formed three billion years ago in Karnataka, to the arrival of our ancestors 50, 000 years ago on the banks of the Indus, the author meticulously sifts through wideranging scientific disciplines and through the ...
Is Shahrukh Khan an effective actor? Is Naresh Trehan an effective doctor? Was A.P.J. Abdul Kalam an effective nation builder? Are you an effective person? In this book, bestselling author T.V. Rao studies and analyses effective doctors, actors, civil servants, social workers, educationists, nation builders and entrepreneurs. Some of them seem to go beyond the tenets of effectiveness and shine out as what the author calls Very Effective People and Super Effective ...
Unmatched in scope, clarity and insight into Bhutan of yesterday for understanding it today. it demonstrates how superb Buddhist learning complements Western scholarship Dasho karma Ura, president of the centre for Bhatan Studies.
This book will stand for years to come as both the standard history of Bhutan and as the standard against which future such books will be measured. This is a book we have been waiting for – Mark Mancall, Professor of History, ...
A prince once gave up everything to attain inner peace, creating the world’s most treasured and well-known to coming-of-age story: Siddhartha’s journey to Enlightenment; his transformation from a mere mortal to an enlightened soul. Join Siddhartha, the ‘brooding dove’, as he wins Yashodhara’s hand in marriage, challenges his father-in-law, celebrates with wine and festivities and then, to everyone’s surprise and consternation, ...
Most of us want to be fit and healthy, but get stuck in a rut we just don t have the will power to get up and move. What is the incentive for you to get off that couch and work out when you have all three seasons of Game of Thrones waiting for you? Almost everyone wants to be fit, but they just can t muster up the effort to do so. If you are like them, then this book is for you. The Lazy Girl s Guide to Being Fit is about the first few steps you need to take to ...
Do you know which business leader plays a game of Sudoku every night before going to bed? Never uses a computer to write important thoughts? Likes to stand and work? In Working Out of the Box Aparna Piramal Raje gives us an intimate peek into the lives of 40 progressive leaders by exploring the connections between their work spaces and their work styles. Capturing quirks, individual styles of working, motivations, and leadership traits, and tracing the patterns ...
Contemporary dilemmas, whether in business or politics, bear uncanny resemblance to the predicaments witnessed in the ever-timely epic Mahabharata. Who else but Bhishma Pitamah then to the rescue of the modern-day manager, politician or bureaucrat when morality, greed and societal welfare vie with each other for primacy? In the epic, Bhishma is the upholder of truth and dharma, his life shaped by the difficult choices he makes. Of course, he isn't always ...
Sikander Bansi, an unlikely political heir in Delhi, secretly records politicians in Parliament as they haggle to become cabinet ministers, bag defense contracts, dodge criminal charges and collect corporate largesse. Among them is a rising leader of the People's Party, Nalan Malik, whose success has come through unscrupulous means. When Sikander suddenly disappears, Mira Mouli, a newspaper journalist with an unusual gift of knowing people's thoughts, receives ...
The volume presents an account of the Kashmiri Pandits. In this deeply personal account, the author Rahul Pandita deals with issues of history, home and loss of the Kashmiri Pandits. He reminisces about his childhood and life in Kashmir and presents details of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 in the context of violence and strife in Kashmir. He details the sufferings of the Pandits and the scenario of violence in Kashmir. The author provides his ...
The true story of the daring escape of three POWs from a prison in Rawalpindi during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 When Flight Lieutenant Dilip Parulkar was shot down over Pakistan on 10 December 1971, he quickly turned that catastrophe into the greatest adventure of his life. On 13 August 1972, Parulkar, along with Malvinder Singh Grewal and Harish Sinhji, escaped from a POW camp in Rawalpindi. Four Miles to Freedom is their story.
Based on interviews with eight ...
Thomas Macaulay is most famous for having introduced the English language as a medium for learning in India, creating a class of westernized Indians who are sometimes derisively referred to as 'Macaulay's children'. Was this an act of cultural imperialism or a modernizing move far before its time.
Macaulay has always inspired both admiration and hostility in India. Ever since he served on the Supreme Council of India in the 1830s, his thinking and policies have ...
