Barack Obamas first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a […]
??We students are like potatoes?? Only the finest of us will get made into chips!?? When Aman Malhotra is made to change schools, he knows that his goose is well and truly cooked. From the easygoing, friendly atmosphere of Akshar, he is thrust into the big, bad world of St Xavier??s. The reason, according to […]
This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky–heretofore known more for his poetry and translations–into the forefront of the “Third Wave” of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted […]
n December 1971 Bangladesh was born. Its birthing was among the most painful of any new nation: it had suffered a brutal genocide conducted by its former countrymen from West Pakistan, and a war for liberation fought between the indigenous Mukti Bahini (Liberation Army) and the Indian Armed Forces on one side, and the West […]
For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelists eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept traditional Muslim mores, and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. […]
From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians […]
Now is their chance: the Roman governor has marched his legions west, leaving his capital and a vital port undefended.There is no going back. But to crush her enemies for all time, the Boudica must do more than lead her army in the greatest rebellion Britain has ever known. She must find healing for herself, […]
Ostensibly a discussion of the nature of justice,?ÿThe Republic?ÿpresents Platos vision of the ideal state, covering a wide range of topics: social, educational, psychological, moral, and philosophical. It also includes some of Platos most important writing on the nature of reality and the theory of the “forms.”?ÿ Translated with an Introduction by Desmond Lee
Life is a kaleidoscope of sun and shade of hues of white and black with many shades of grey. Life is for living, ?iving each moment fully and completely. Each moment brings new unseen challenges and experiences and its share of joys and sorrows. The quotations in this book will guide and inspire you to ?ive your ?ife […]
Did it really start with the burning of a train? Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat asserts the existence of a much larger politics of violence, and tells the story of a disaster in Hindutva??s laboratory which etched deep faults in Gujarat??s social landscape. While capturing the predicament of the Sabarmati Express survivors, Scarred is […]
Born into a privileged family in India, Kiranjit Ahluwalia came to England in 1979 to be married to a man she hardly knew. The next ten years were to be a nightmare of almost daily, physical, mental and sexual violence at the hands of her husband. There was no one she could turn to for […]