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On the life and works of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, b. 1941, Malayalam film director.

The predatory neo-liberal capitalism that has become the norm in India over the last two decades raises many uncomfortable questions. Today, consumption defines what we are. And with the western capitalist model reigning supreme, all of us seem to have been reduced to being just consumers in the eyes of the government. The effect on India s peasantry has been tremendous. The recent tragic stories played out in Kalinganagar, Singur and Nandigra...

Autobiography of a woman college professor, historian, and vice-chancellor from Calcutta, India.

On 1 September 1965, Pakistan invaded Chamb district in Jammu and Kashmir, triggering a series of tank battles, operations and counter-operations. It was only the bravery and well-executed strategic decisions of the soldiers of the Indian Army that countered the very real threat of losing Kashmir to Pakistan. Recounting the battles fought by five different regiments, the narrative reconstructs the events of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war, outlinin...

The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore. Most of India Divided was written in prison and it was published in 1946, a year before India was partitioned. It specifically examines the theory that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two nations, and concludes that the solution for the Hindu Muslim issue should ...

After the catastrophic World War III that nearly destroys the human race, the future is now Pangea, run according to The Principles: 'We will survive as one world, one country, one race'. True harmony can only exist if everyone genuinely believes in the Pangean way. So, anyone who holds deviant beliefs is 'washed' of their memories and implanted with a more Pangean disposition. Seventeen-year old Suni is about to begin the perfect Pangean life...

And then finally I felt sadness, aided perhapsby those futile notes, by the dust that keeps thickening, by the untouchable past, the inevitable future, and by everything else that pushesus around.' Ib lives with his schizophrenic father and his 'nice' mother negotiating life, not knowing what to do, steered by uncaring winds and pushy people. From his slimy, unmiraculous birth to the tragic death of a loved one, Ib wanders the city, from one t...

Not very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic 'Chandu and the Bissyaar', one of eighteen evocative stories in Neelum Saran Gour's third book of fiction. The making and unmaking of a poet is described in 'A Lane in Lucknow', two old men find solace in 'Winter Companions', and a nurse examines the quality of her faith in 'The Knitting Needle'. In a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic ...

Each story in this collection illuminates a particular universe, completely authentic in texture and detail, giving us writing that is not only pleasurable, but finely-crafted as well'-Indian Review of Books In 'A New Year's Party', Geoffrey finds all his attempts to throw a successful party come to naught as his inappropriately chose guests make their dislike for each other very vocal, the wonderful camaraderie that can exist between a four-y...

A timeless adventure story that will keep generations of readers in thrall... Journey into a land of fantasy and adventure with a master storyteller. Bogey and his sister rumu are agonizing over the disappearance of a beloved pet when they find solace and understanding from an unexpected quarter-their wise servant Jhogru. From the yellow bird whose feather has turned their dog into a little boy, to the existence of the mythical winged horse, t...

Sometimes, a little nudge from the universe pushes one to find his raison d'etre in life. If actor Sonu Sood had given in to the celebrity syndrome of sitting in his ivory tower and expressing his generosity by remote control, he would have never come face to face with the trauma of India's migrant labourers or understood that a food packet was a woefully inadequate substitute for a ride back home. During the nationwide lockdown, imposed in th...

Customer to Human stems from Murali Balraman's extensive experience in customer experience and customer centricity. Murali took a pledge to give back his life's lessons many years ago and this book marks a step in that direction. It is filled with stories and experiences, to evoke the reader's interest and ideas that impact an organization or business. Every business has a customer, big or small, and that customer is the business's most import...

Sources of Indian Traditions is an indispensable and essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947 and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. Divided thematically, it begins with a ...

The World Wide Web is a gratifying nexus of social courtesies. But does it make relationships easier to build or destroy? Do we relish theanonymity of social media more than its congeniality? And do we feel less accomplished if a day goes by without a comment here or a swipe there? These are some of the questions that the fifteen short stories in Buffering Love explore. The central theme of each revolves around how technology, for better or wo...

You don't simply read a man like Vivekananda. In reading him, you meet him. And if you don't meet him and feel him contemporaneously, you can understand little of the meaning of what he is saying.' In the course of a short life of thirty-nine years, Swami Vivekananda came to be regarded as the patriot - saint of modern India. Despite all that has been written about his life and his epoch-making address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago...

Why be good? What exactly is Dharma? How does one practise it, and to what effect? Gurcharan Das's superb exposition of the dilemmas and ambiguities inherent in the Mahabharata shows us how we can come to terms with the uncertain ethics of the world today, a world that is uncannily similar to that of the great epic.

This book tells the stories of ten Indian conservationists working in diverse ways to save the world from human destructiveness, often facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Romulus Whitaker Parineeta Dandekar Rohan Arthur Vidya Athreya Aparajita Datta Jay Mazoomdaar Minal Pathak Rohan Chakravarty Kavitha Kuruganti Lakshmi Kamble Bijal Vachharajani and Radha Rangarajan write about the inspiring lives of people who are striving to solve the most...

An under-strength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Army's first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines, defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength. Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid, forcing the Pakistani government in Dhaka to capitulate and surrender. Four battle casualties become close friends at the Artificial Limb Centre in Pune in the war's aftermath. In this ...

A great library is freedom. And that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, and that's everyone, when they need it, and that's always.'--Ursula le Guin Libraries. We love them. Tyrants tremble before them. There are children in the world desperate for them, and people who are willing to put their own lives at risk to save them. In this book, you'll discover the oldest libraries, and the largest ones. You'll f...

A key question today is whether India and the United States can or should develop ever-closer ties as a way of countering China's desire to be the dominant power in the broader Asian region. In Fateful Triangle, Tanvi Madan argues that history shows that such a partnership is neither inevitable nor impossible. Drawing on documents from India and the US, Fateful Triangle contends that China's influence on the US-India relationship is not a rece...