Mumbai has produced many dons-but perhaps none so colourful as Abu Salem. The flamboyant ex-aide of Dawood Ibrahim is best known for his involvement in the Mumbai blasts of 1993 and for the murder of music composer Gulshan Kumar. But he became equally famous for his relationship with actress Monica Bedi and his close connection […]
The boy known as Tor Baz??the black falcon ??wanders between tribes. He meets men who fight under different flags, and women who risk everything if they break their societys code of honour. Where has he come from, and where will destiny take him? Set in the decades before the rise of the Taliban, Jamil Ahmads […]
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider??s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; […]
1. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI The author, more famous for hunting man-eating tigers, finds in a wily panther a real challenger to his hunting acumen. 2. THE TIGER ROARS Hailed as the best of all of Andersons books, the celebrated author reminisces about the man-eating tigers he had tracked down, a ferocious panther fond […]
In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published “An Area of Darkness”, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write “India: A Wounded Civilization”, in which he casts a more analytical eye over Indian attitudes. In this work, he recapitulates and further investigates the feelings […]
This book dwells on the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society. Toffler??s look into the future in early 1970 is fascinating and his analysis of the impact that technology will wrought on society and individuals is as relevant today as it was then. Alvin Toffler may not […]
By a professional working in Mumbai film industry, director. a new novel reflecting her experiences, fun read and informative on Hindi film-making. Parvati has learnt her lesson late in life, but she has learnt it well all men are bastards. While working in an ad film company, she had met karan, her ??Mr Right??. Unfortunately, […]
This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such optimum use of available human and material […]
The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched […]
Night A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family…the death of his innocence…and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its […]
9 May 2017. Lt. Ummer Fayaz was brutally murdered by armed militants in Kashmir while he was back home, attending a wedding in the family. The death sent a nation into shock, and immortalised the memory of a young man with conviction beyond his years. In his brief, inspiring life, Ummer joined the army to […]
Reissue of the sequel to the massive worldwide bestseller Princess Readers of Princess Sultana??s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women??s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on […]
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“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow…. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, […]
The attack on Mumbai shocked the world. For three days terrorists wreaked havoc over multiple venues in India??s commercial capital, leaving a trail of blood, death and destruction. Reporters from Hindustan Times tracked the events as they unfolded at Cama Hospital, the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and followed the three-day siege at the Taj and Trident […]