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The book Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century, written by an Indian author Shashi Tharoor, is an emphasis on the Indian diplomacy and its role in the global world. The book gives us an insightful and an interesting coverage of India's foreign policies and how the policies affect the common man. It also explains that in Indian politics why policies are important to an India focused on domestic transformation. Shashi Tharoor surve...

The British came to India in search of wealth and power. But it was a man's world and women, especially English women, were few. An English bride for long remained an expensive proposition, costing a small fortune to bring to Calcutta, and was quite out of the reach of young career-minded officers and civil servants. Driven by loneliness, lust or just plain longing, many looked foe companionship among Indian women, or where the more rakish amo...

Trading is the hardest way to make easy money! New traders are often led to believe that trading must be easy, which is true to some extent, it has certainly never been easier to trade. Barriers to entry are low, and you have unlimited earning power.

Perhaps the most lively and exuberant of Kalidasa's extant works, Ritusamharam is a glorious ode to nature's bounty and the enduring emotional response it evokes in mankind as a whole. Recounted as a celebration of the passing seasons, it is a feast for the senses, capturing the myriad facets of love and longing in a kaleidoscope of sumptuous imagery: the mischievous moonlight that, like a pining lover, steals glances at sleeping maidens, the ...

The Learning Factory is a book full of anecdotal stories that offers different teachings and lessons for students, business professionals, as well as those curious about the Tata way of business. This firsthand narration of interactions and incidents with Tata leaders gives a new insight into the group's leadership and strategy and helps better understand its value-driven business.' - Ratan Tata Founded in 1868 by Jamshetji Tata, the Tata Grou...

The art of bitfulness helps create healthy boundaries between you and the floodgates of the internet. it offers new strategies to reclaim your time, privacy and attention. This book is all about how to live with tech, not how to live without it. The goal is not to spend less time on your devices, it is to spend your time on your devices better. This book also talks about how we got here in the first place. Why does our technology limit us, rat...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz is widely regarded as the greatest Urdu poet of the twentieth century and the iconic voice of a generation. Although he is best remembered for his revolutionary verses that decried tyranny and called for justice, his oeuvre also extended to scintillating, soulful poems of love. In this remarkable selection of Faiz's most memorable poems and ghazals, readers will be able to experience a new dimension of the great poet's genius. ...

Did Mohammad Ali Jinnah's wife, Ruttie, impact the creation of Pakistan? Did she have a posthumous influence on Pakistan's polity? Does her legacy still affect Indo-Pak relations? Ruttie Jinnah was a fierce nationalist in her own right and a proactive political companion to her husband. According to Jinnah's contemporary political leader Sarojini Naidu, Ruttie was the only one with whom he could truly be himself. Much to the dismay of her fami...

The chant of Azadi! Urdu for Freedom -is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for freedom-a chasm or a bridge?-the streets fell silent. Not only in India but all over the world. Covid-19 brought wit...

Once deemed the most handsome man in Bollywood, Sanjay Khan's tryst with fame and stardom led him to many adventures across the world. He is best remembered for his performances in films like Ek Phool Do Mali and Humsafar as well as his portrayal of the great Tipu Sultan on television. In this exclusive autobiography he bares the details of a life full of action, excitement, drama, tragedy and, above all, courage. Written in a witty and engagi...

As punishment for failing in his duty, an unnamed yaksha is cursed by the god Kubera to endure a hard year in exile. Thus separated from his beloved wife, he longs to send her word of his undying love and the pain he suffers over their parting. Unable to do so himself, the lovelorn yaksha implores a passing cloud to act as his messenger. And so entrusted with this impassioned message, the cloud must travel a vast distance to the city of Alaka ...

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey, one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his...

The Great Game raged through the wilds of Central Asia during the nineteenth century, as Imperial Russia and Great Britain jostled for power. Tsarist armies gobbled up large tracts of Turkestan, advancing inexorably towards their ultimate prize, India. These rivals understood well that the first need of an army in a strange land is a reliable map, prompting desperate efforts to explore and chart out uncharted regions. Two distinct groups would...

The Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relationship the US has shared with Pakistan since the early 1950s has been nothing less than a roller coaster ride. Today, surrounded by hostile neighbours, with Afghanistan on its way to becoming an Indian satellite, Pakistan does not wish to break ties with the US. But will their missteps in the Obama years prove too costly? And how will the Trump admi...

The book Discovering the Heritage of Assam takes a comprehensive look at the nature, culture and traditions that symbolize the true essence of the Indian state of Assam. The history of the state, beginning from the Paleolithic age to the British era, is well supported by innumerable ruins, interesting shrines, incredible wildlife, and a variety of living heritage, some of which are now part of the UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. The Aho...

In the winter of 1978, Siddharth meets Sudhir in a friend's friend's room at college. He falls instantly in love. Siddharth becomes a full time lover over the next seven years ans stubbornly pursues the object of his lust and affection.

Discover the WAIS ways of Mrs Neri Miranda If you have enjoyed and learned from the snippets of my life as a ' Wais Na Misis', through my Instagram and Facebook posts, you'll most certainly get a kick out of the untold stories you'll find in the pages of this book. It wasn't always easy for me, but when life threw me lemons I didn't dodge or flinch. Instinctively, I caught every piece and turned the bunch into lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lem...

The daughter was too young and innocent to understand either her adolescence or her destiny. Having been brought up as a son for years, she now considered herself a man. She believed that she would grow a moustache when she got married. Folktales are the collective memories of people, handed down from one generation to another. But often, this process of handing down stops the evolution of these folktales. Vijai Dan Detha, one of India's most ...

A witty and poignant account of an extraordinary adventure with India's most dreaded bandit, Veerappan and his Companions Veerappan responded in a soft voice: It has been many years since I killed elephants. But no one believes me if I say so. In a comic case of mistaken identity, wildlife photographers Krupakar and Senani were kidnapped one night from their home at the edge of the Bandipur National Park by Veerappan, India's most dreaded band...

As everyone knows by now, I m homosexual. To write this sentence and to speak it publicly, which is a great liberation, is why I write. Provocative and percipient, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a collection of lyric essays on the self that flaunts itself as autobiographical fiction. In the words of its writer: The art of living is the art of creating life-fictions. The first and second sections of the autobiography take us through the garden o...