At last ??the long-awaited follow-up to the 1.2 million-copy bestseller! Filled with relevant, inspiring and fun stories written mostly by kids, this new volume features a unique, innovative chapter, “Rockin Our World”, that highlights real kids achieving real dreams, helping less fortunate people, starting your own business, and utilizing your unique abilities. For a young […]
Godaan is one of the most celebrated novels of Munshi Premchand. Set in pre-independence India, the novel captures social and economic conflict in a north Indian village. The story revolves around Horiram, a poor village farmer, and the struggle of his family to survive and maintain their self-respect. Horiram does everything in his capacity to […]
Our plucky heroines cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable wife — a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry poor, plain, hapless Jonkers? As our heroine social-climbs her way […]
The Indian military setback against the Chinese attack in 1962 was high time for an honest soul-searching. Quite a few books written by Army officers have tried to tell their version of the untold story. Brig. Dalvis account of the Sino-Indian War is by far the most remarkable and authentic. He was present in the […]
Nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. Atul Gawande??s gripping stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, delivery rooms in Boston, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms in the US. He discusses the ethical dilemma of lethal […]
Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how??and how well??people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in […]
In his book, celebrated Bollywood and theatre actor Anupam Kher talks about his lifes lessons and experiences, and the benefits of looking at our fast-paced modern lives through a positive lens. Kher motivates his readers by sharing his inspiring success story from humble beginnings, the insights hes gained from surviving in a cut-throat industry, and […]
When the younger players in Indias cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results […]
For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country??s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi??Bhutto??s birthplace and Pakistan??s other great metropolis??Rafia Zakaria??s family was suffering […]
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet […]
For most of his childhood, Rahul Bhatt did not know a father??s unconditional love ?? a vacuum that the advent of David Coleman Headley filled for a while. David Headley: the dashing, intriguing Pakistani with one brown and one green eye, a man who could pass himself off as an American quite easily, a charmer […]
These are difficult days in our worlds history. 1.75 billion people are desperately poor, natural disasters are gouging entire nations, and economic uncertainty still reigns across the globe. But you and I have been given an opportunity to make a big difference. What if we did? What if we rocked the world with hope? Infiltrated […]
What is life like inside Asia??s largest prison? What happens when a man is hanged, but his pulse refuses to give up even after two hours? Did Nirbhaya??s rapist, Ram Singh, commit suicide or was he murdered? For the first time we have a riveting account from an insider who has spent close to four […]