In India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our most distinguished scientist, and close associate Y.S. Rajan examine India??s strengths??and weaknesses??to offer a vision of how India can be among the world??s first five economic powers in the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that […]
Welcome to Kittur, India. Its on Indias southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. Its blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and its been around for centuries. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And […]
What makes a model father murder his estranged wife, then go on TV pleading for her to come home? How does a devoted wife and mother walk into a beauty salon and shoot her ex-husbands pregnant lover in cold blood? No one ever knows what really goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage […]
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldnt sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself – and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise […]
Portrait of India presents Ved Mehtas impressions of his native land—his first-hand report on Indias villages and cities, its religions, politics, and wars, its poets, philosophers, maharajas, and priests. Published in 1970 to great acclaim and now reissued with a new preface by its renowned author, the book has a singular power to evoke the […]
Nothing can be as Crazy…touches upon some interesting facets of the urban middle-class as it takes us through a tour of some fragments of Sureshs life. Suresh: the protagonist and the naive bank officer whom destiny makes sure to leave at crossroads! He has his own set of moral norms, and though he himself indulges […]
In this controversial study Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) applies the theories and evidence of his psychoanalytic investigations to the study of aboriginal peoples and, by extension, to the earliest cultural stages of the human species before the rise of large-scale civilizations. Freud points out the striking parallels between the cultural practices of native tribal groups and […]
This powerful New Age guide allows the reader to enter an extraordinary experience–the presence of previous incarnations. Based on the Sleeping Prophets words, past life experiences can be used to benefit present life. Original
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesnt want much — just to be free and to find the perfect, guiltless, “zipless” sexual encounter. Pursuing this ideal across two continents, she discovers just how hard it can be to make ones dreams come true.
Superb photography, descriptive text, and 27 charming color drawings present ideas and how-tos for creating wreaths, cones, swags, roping, and other holiday decorations for mantels, stairways, windows, and tables. The Best American Short Stories 1981 by Hortense Calisher (Editor), Shannon Ravenel Short Stories by Ann Beattie, John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Louis D. Rubin, Mavis Gallant, […]
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography, by Alex Ferguson, is his second autobiography and it presents his experiences and journey as the manager of the football team, Manchester United, from 2000 to 2013. Alex has been the part of Manchester United??s journey from their initial days to their heights of glory and this book is highlights his […]
The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to ??live in interesting times.? Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment??of ethnic Chinese who had settled for many years in northern India. […]
If people have lost their lives in a storm, it is a different matter; but how can a massacre be forgotten? Especially when theres been no justice? The three days of 1984, when over 3000 Sikhs were slaughtered, have indelibly marked the lives of thousands more who continue to exist in a twilight of bitterness […]
How can extreme suffering be so commonplace if there is a God who knows everything, who is all-powerful and also compassionate? How do the scriptures of our religions explain the existence of suffering? Do these explanations stand up to examination? Does our experience testify to a God? Or do the two demons time and chance […]
In order to remain in power through this period of fundamental and far reaching transformations, the Chinese communist party must walk a tight rope, balancing and mediating the conflicting needs, desires and aspirations of its various constituencies.