A powerful story of tragedy and triumph and the forbidden love affair between a wealthy young man who is heir to his fathers cotton plantation in Alexandria and a beautiful young servant girl.
Jacques Lacan has been acknowledged as one of the giants of psychoanalysis, whose influence has spread far from the clinical psychology that his theories were rooted in, to become a touch point in English, social science, philosophy and perhaps most radically, feminism. Moreover, his key work on the constitution of identity and the recognition of […]
A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.????Sourav Ganguly, cricketer Brother kills brother using the plague bacteria as a murder weapon. A man is killed in his sleep and his body walled up in the […]
Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclear flashpoint. This Himalayan valley of water, mist and mountains was once one of Indias greatest tourist draws. In 1989 it exploded into insurgency. Kashmir became […]
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarians efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his […]
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen discusses Indias intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is “a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding […]
Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience??and accent management??they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the […]
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, ??No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.? Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last […]
In a distinguished career spanning sixty years, veteran journalist, political commentator and author Kudip Nayar has seen and reported it all. From his vantage point – at the forefront of every ground-breaking news event, in close proximity to the people in power – Kuldip Nayars articles are all the more interesting as they are first-hand […]
“Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more […]
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl […]
India??s struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra is your go to book for an in-depth and detailed overview on Indian independence movement . Indian freedom struggle is one of the most important parts of its history. A lot has been written and said about it, but there still remains a gap. Rarely do we get […]
Meet Chris Stark, a former player of American football who, as he himself is the first to accept, think pretty good but dont talk that great on account of playing too much football. Following the opportunities created by Liberalisation, his familys corporation has entered into a business collaboration with an Indian company, and this has […]
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits- the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ??Azaadi?? from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, […]
Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites […]