Shuka Saptati: Seventy Tales of the Parrot

Shuka Saptati or Seventy Tales of the Parrot is a famous cycle of stories in Sanskrit literature. The tales are told by a pet parrot to its young mistress to distract her from going to a lover while her husband has gone abroad. These irreverent, sometimes ribald, always uninhibited accounts of illicit liaisons, ensuing complications and clever escapes are set amidst the common life of towns and villages in India as it then was.
Author: A.N.D. Haksar
ISBN: 9788129115164
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Briefings On Nuclear Technology In India

P.K. Iyenger started his research career in neutron scattering with Nobel Laureate B.N. Brockhouse in Conada, Contributing to path-breaking research on lattice dynamics. In India, he built up an internationally recognized neutron-scattering group; led the team that designed and built India’s fist plutonium fast-reachor, PURNIMA; and played a leading role, in the peaceful nuclear Explosion at Pokhran in 1974, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhusan.

Briefings on Nuclear Technology in India sketches the rapid growth of nuclear science that revealed the secrets of nature, and led to technologies for energy production and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his personal experiences over a lifetime, P.K. Iyengar elucidates the role of nuclear power in the country, and also provides deep insight into the complicated issues governing civil nuclear cooperation and its link to the non-proliferation regime.
ISBN: 9788129115294
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Mergers, Acquisitions And Corporate Restructuring

Prasad Godbole is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad. He holds PGDM in Finance from IIMA and AICWA degree from Institute of Cost & Works Accountants in India. Along with these, he also holds a LLB (Gen) degree from Mumbai University to his credit. He has not only been the CEO and CFO in a number of reputed firms but has also been the visiting faculty at management instuitutions like Mumbai Edutcational Trust, Mumbai, Chetana´s R K Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and management colleges of Sri Balaji Society, Pune. He is a highly accomplished professional with proven success of twenty-nine years in areas of strategic planning, financial and business restructuring, business process reengineering, corporate finance, commercial and statutory compliance across the tenures. Presently, he is running his own consultancy company focussing on strategic and financial consultancy, business processes reengineering and mergers and acquisitions.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring aims to give its readers a concise yet comprehensive coverage of the subject from all angles—strategic, legal, accounting, taxation, fund raising and valuation—a treatment which no other Indian book in the market has accomplished so far. The book not only caters to the syllabi of MBA students of most universities but also meets the needs of CA, CS and ICWA students. Given its holistic approach in the discussion of various issues, both students and practitioners would find this book of immense practical utility.
SALIENT FEATURES
Analyses all relevant Indian laws, regulations and accounting standards
Includes multiple interpretations of many provisions
Comprises over 60 numerical or situational illustrations to explain difficult concepts and legal provisions
Interprets and explains 4 comprehensive cases and 9 mini cases from the Indian corporate history and current affairs to enhance understanding
Contains latest SEBI delisting of equity shares regulations in a seperate chapter titled STOP PRESS!!!
Includes 21 appendices comprisign laws, rules and regulations related to mergers and acquisitions, making it a one stop reference for students
ISBN: 9788125931263
Published by: Vikas Pubishing House Pvt Ltd
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Acushla

Written at the age of 83, Acushla is Sudhira Bhagat's first and last book, inspired by the consistent encouragement of her older daughter, Lolita Mayadas. Diagnosed with terminal cancer the week after completing the first draft, and finding herself too weakened to revise it to her satisfaction, Sudhira Bhagat entrusted the task of editing it to her younger daughter, Shanti Varma.

Acushla is the love story of an Indian princess and an Englishman during the pre-Independence period. The duality and contradictions of the author''s spirit have found an eloquent voice in the character of Princess Gita (Acushla) and her conflicted search for personal freedom witin the context of India''s epic struggle for Independence.
ISBN: 9788129115034
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Yoga For Cancer

Bijoylaxmi Hota is a Yoga Therapist of repute, with almost two and a half decades of experience. She conducts yoga workshops within and outside India, has penned articles, written books, produced television programmes on the subject.

Cancer is no longer necessarily seen as a fatal disease, but as one that is either curable, or like heart disease and diabetes, manageable as a chronic condition. Cancer can be caused by toxins, stress, parasites, wrong food, negative past impressions, or karma and affect every aspect of the sufferer. Yoga for Cancer contains effective remedies to deal with each case. Appropriate for both beginners and experts, it recommends various conventional and unconventional techniques that can help cure cancer.
ISBN: 9788129115188
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Financial Services and Markets has been written to meet the requirements of MBA M.Com and MFA students of various universities. Financial services and markets are becoming more complex over the years, building up or pulling down economies. This book presents the subject in the light of contemporary financial scenario and highlights the significance assumed by financial services in the present context. The book presents a comprehensive view of financial services and markets in a student-friendly manner. Appropriate solved numerical problems and case studies have been added to explain the concepts.
Author: Punithavathy Pandian
ISBN: 9788125931201
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Spoken English: A Hand-On-Guide To English Conversation Practice

M C Sreevalsan has worked as senior teacher and Head, Department of English, Medhane Alem Comprehensive Secondary School in Ethiopia. He has also worked as resource person, State Institute of Education, Kerala, to organise and conduct seminars and courses for secondary school teachers of English and as Senior Lecturer of Communication Skills, Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training under the Ministry of Higher Education—Science and Technology, Republic of Zambia. Since the retirement, he has been conducting Spoken English classes for college students and others in various walks of life. He has published articles in the Ethiopian Herald and has also co-authored a book titled Exercises in English for higher secondary school students.

Spoken English provides a lot of material for conversation practice from everyday situations and familiar topics. It includes a variety of sentence patterns and helps the learner read and repeat to gain fluency.

The third edition is much richer in expressions and dialogues on new kinds of situations besides having the regular pronunciation guide and short notes on stress and rhythm. It now provides complete material for developing English speaking skills and would make the reader more comfortable, confident and fluent.
ISBN: 9788125931218
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Flickering Hope

Sharat Sabharwal, a career diplomat, has served in the Indian Foreign Service since 1975. He has held diplomatic assignments in the Indian missions in Switzerland, Madagascar, France, Mauritius, and Pakistan. The important assignments held by him include: deputy high commissioner to Pakistan, duputy permanent representative to the UN Offices in Geneva, and ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Even as science has expanded the frontiers of human knowledge, it has also slowly chipped away at the nation of human beings as the supreme creation of the Supreme Being. Science threatens to reduce the human and lesser forms of life to a delicate balance of substances occurring in nature, coming together accidentally in pre-biotic times and brought to its current state through billions of years of evolution.
ISBN: 9788129115027
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Mussoorie Across The Ages

Ganesh Saili has had a lifelong love affair with the Himalayas. For thirty years and more, he has researched and trekked the high mountains, capturing in words and film the awe-inspiring beauty of these regions. Numerous periodicals, journals, magazines, films, books and national awards are a testimony to this love for his roots. Settled in Mussoorie, he teaches English and American literature at the local post-graduate college.

In Mussoorie Across the Ages, Ganesh Saili weaves together the memories, personal recollections, and surprises that he and other travellers have encountered in this exquisite hill station. He brings together the stories and narratives by Fanny Parkers, Emily Eden and Fanny Eden, Andrew Wilson, and others who have seen the place evolve. He maps this incredible journey from khuds to roads, from ponies to cars, and from the sahibs to the babus in a fascinationg way. A quintessential free bird, he weaves a mesmerising tapestry in thoughts and words of the world of Mussoorie, what it is and what it has always been.
ISBN: 9788129114655
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SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are faculty at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They are authors of two major books – Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001) and Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (Rupa & Co., 2006)


Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary is a unique way of looking at Mumbai’s terrain and the history of its making. It presents an alternative visualisation of Mumbai’s landscape with extraordinary artistic and design expertise.
ISBN: 9788129114801
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God & Destiny: The Supreme Knowledge

Vivake Pathak has taken a keen interest in philosophical, spiritual, and religious topics from his childhood. Steadily, the highest spiritual state become his aim, and at fourteen he started trying to achieve it sincerely. During his efforts he experimented with meditation, truth, desire, ego, selfless work, doubt, feelings, and so on. Through these efforts and experimentation, aided by his aptitude in science, he realised the absolute predestinedness of future when he turned twenty-one and found God by the age of twenty-five.

God and Destiny is the first book which tells correctly and exactly what God is and reveals his true attributes and influence. In the process it also shows that whatever has to happen in the universe in the future, including whatever has to happen in our lives in the future, is predestined and absolutely unchangeable. In the light of the knowledge of God, it brings out the truth from and behind the key beliefs of the major theistic religions.
ISBN: 9788129113870
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Ocean Of Melody: Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama

Lhasang Tsering, author of TOMORROW and Other Poems, has achieved a translation which maintains the poetry of the original Tibetan without compromising on the meaning in any way.

With Ocean of Melody, we bring to you a translation of the timeless and beautiful songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama which does justice to his poetry. These short poems open up a vista of love and anguish of a man who was chosen to lead millions . . .
ISBN: 9788129114990
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star(New)

Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man''s journey. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is ''the saddest of pleasures''.

Auhor: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780141041056
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Family Planning

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi. A graduate of Stanford University, he now lives in New York City.

A hilarious and terrifying account of the moral bankruptcy of our political leaders, Family Planning is the story of Mr Ahuja, Minister for Urban Development, who cannot stop having children and of a modern city, New Delhi, that is crowded beyond belief.

Following Mr Ahuja and his innumerable children as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of a megalopolis, Karan Mahajan brilliantly juggles the cultural and political worlds of India’s capital city to create a moving and fast-moving portrait of modern family life.

ISBN: 9788129114853
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Delightful Dozen

The translator, ANIRBAN BASU, is a software professional who writes in both English as well as Bengali. His short stories have been published in eminent publications like The Sunday statesman magazines like Anandamela and Sandesh. His previous works include Rhashyamay Robo, The Big Bang and Other Stories and Reverso Rahashya and Akidaar Adventure.

Delightful Dozen is an attempt to recreate that magic for the readers of English prose. While Upendrakisor''s stories are simple and enchanting folk tales of Bengal, his son''s stories are set in the background of a school in rural Bengal. The uniqueness of the book lies in the fact that it brings together for the first time the father and son in one volume.
ISBN: 9788129114938
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100 GREAT LIVES

H.D. Sharma was educated in the Universities of Punjab, Delhi and Michigan. He was the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship twice. He has worked as a librarian and taught library science in universities in India and abroad. He has also authored or edited a number of books.

This is a well-documented set of a hundred short biographics of people who have left their footprints on the sands of Indian history, in different ways. The figures inluded lived in the last two hundred years, and are no longer alive. Included are persons from almost every field of activity-writers, artists, scientists, social reformers, educationalists, politicians and freedom fighters. Several Britishers who spent a major part of their adult lives in India and contributed in a major way to the country are also included.
ISBN: 8129109654
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Narendra Modi

M.V. Kamath has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004, he is presently director of the Manipal Institute of Communication and has served as chairman of Vigyan Prasar and Prasar Bharathi.

A scholar of high repute, Dr Kalindi Randeri is the founder principal of the P.V. Polytechnic of the S.N.D.T. Women's University in Mumbai.

Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, is one of the most misunderstood chief ministers that India has seen ever since Independence. He has frequently been criticised following the torching of the coaches of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra and the riots that occurred as a result. The book encapsulates the journey of this man from the time when he was an RSS pracharak, always ready and willing to give up power to serve his country. By channelising government revenue and understanding the landscape and people of Gujarat more closely, Modi has made a place in the hearts of many. The book traces Narendra Modi’s career and the manner in which he has turned the state into India’s number one industrial state in the bare space of about half-a-decade.
ISBN: 9788129114686
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India And China: The Next Decade

S.D. Muni is a senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, Singapore. He was the Director Research (International) at ORF (2006-2007). He has also served as India's special envoy and was the ambassador to Laos.
Suranjan Das has been professor in the Department of History of the University of Calcutta, and is currently the vice-chancellor of the same.

India and China have emerged as two of the most critical players not only in Asia but the world as a whole. Their mutual engagement during the coming decade will significantly influence the defining of strategic economic relations in Asia and beyond. While China has been accepted as an observer in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, India has also made a place for itself in the East Asia Summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Both India and China have issues of common concern in world politics related to energy security, climate change, terrorism, uni-polarity and global financial instability.
ISBN: 9788129114648
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ON THE SALT MARCH: The Historiography of Mahatma Gandhi`s March to Dandi

Thomas Weber teaches Politics and Peace Studies at Melbourne's La Trobe University. He has been researching and writing on Gandhi's life and thoughts for almost twenty years. Among his other published Gandhi-related works are: Hugging the Trees: The story of the Chipko Movement, Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics, and Gandhi's Peace Army, The Shanti Sena and Unarmed Peacekeeping.

This book provides the definitive account of the most celebrated campaign of history''s most important nonviolent campaigner.

Gandhi''s 1930 Salt March to the seaside village of Dandi, and the following Civil Disobedience of the British Empire, are among the most significant events in contemporary Indian political history, yet precious little has been written about the actual March itself. The published texts generally confine themselves to a few paragraphs reporting that on 12 March Gandhi and his selected followers (with considerable confusion as to their actual number) left the Mahatma''s Sabarmati Ashram, walked for three weeks (again with much confusion as to the distance and route) and then broke the iniquitous salt laws on 6 April. None of the sources bring the central event to life. There is nothing of the exploits or intrigues that occurred during those weeks, no glimpse into the day-to-day workings of Gandhi''s mind, and no attempt to tell the story of the great adventure that the event actually was.
ISBN: 9788129113856
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Office Intelligence.Com

Christine Quadras has worked with some of the leading multinational and Indian corporates in a career spanning over twenty years. Through her experiences in companies such as AIG, Lehman Brothers, BPL Mobile and Sunshield Chemicals, she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge of what goes into making an office efficient. In Office Intelligence.com, she brings out both her passion and perspective behind maintaining an office that speaks highly about the person occupying the office and the one sustaining it.

A first-of-a-kind book, Office Intelligence.com attempts to distill office management excellence, not through academics, but nearly a quarter of a century of rigorous practice, with some of the most demanding practitioners and leaders of corporate India. The book provides executives a dossier for setting up and running an efficient office.

ISBN: 9788129114778
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MUGHAL-E-AZAM

Shakil Warsi has been associated with the television entertainment industry for over fifteen years. He has been associated in the direction, production, and stage management of many successful plays including Adaa, Bin Aaye na Bane and Shabana. Warsi later joined UTV as video editor in the early 1990s and edited India’s first daily soap Shanti.

This book is a tribute to the imagination, hard work and determination that went into the making of the classic film Mughal-e-Azam - a legendary masterpiece, an epic love story, and a cinematic gem. It charts the legendary journey of this historic film right from its inception to its re-release in the coloured version.

ISBN: 9788129113214
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An Immortal Story

A writer, healer and yogi, M. Sreekumar, 52, was born in kerala, India. After completing his education, he worked as a journalist, editor and publisher. Soon afterwards, he took the path to spirituality and also became well versed in Ayurveda, Astrology, Tantra and Kundalini Yoga (Eternal Yoga). His earlier literary works include a novel Anna, two biographical works for children and several short stories in Malayalam.

An Immortal Story by M. Sreekumar is a many-layered work. This work covers the whole gamut of experiences – mundane, psychic and spiritual. The characters that people the world of the novel are human, divine and demonic at once. Their journey takes place in time, space and at different levels of consciousness. Apart from being an eminently readable novel, it is a fine and no-nonsense introduction to various much misunderstood aspects of tantra. In the many-hued world of this rare work, every reader can find his/her own share of joy, wisdom, healing and enlightenment. The novel also constitutes a daring voyage into the dark realms of human sexuality, which is depicted with sensitiveness, free from sensationalism. The author has succeeded in transforming a profound study of one of the most intractable areas of human reality into an immensely enjoyable work of fiction.
ISBN: 9788129114624
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ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER (Film Tie-in Edition)

Chetan Bhagat is the author of two blockbuster novels- Five Point Someone (2004) and one night @call center (2005)-which continue to top bestseller lists. In March 2008, the New York Times called him the ‘biggest-selling English-language novelist in India’s history’. Both his books have inspired major Bollywood films. One night @ the call center is an international success having been published in the UK, US, and translated into French, Italian, Dutch and Russian.

In winter 2004, a writer met a young girl on an overnight train journey. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. He hesitated, but asked what the story was about. The girl said the story was about six people working in a call center, set in one night. She said it was the night they got a phone call. That phone call was from God. Welcome to One Night@ the Call Center is another witty dark novel from the award winning author of the national bestseller Five Point Someone. Are you ready to take the call?

"...The biggest selling Indian novelist writing in English."

ISBN: 9788129108180
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MY COUNTRY MY LIFE

Lal Krishna Advani’s political journey began in 1951, when Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Jana Sangh. The party’s ideologue and Chief Organiser, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, was a major influence on his ideology and idealism. Advani was elected President of the Jana Sangh in 1973 and incarcerated in jail for nineteen months during the Emergency. Advani was the Information & Broadcasting Minister in the Janata Party government in 1977-1979 and has served as the President of the BJP for the longest period. He was India’s Home Minister (1998-2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2002-2004) in the Vajpayee government. A Member of Parliament since 1970, and recepient of the ‘Award for Outstanding Parliamentarian’, he is currently Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

'Advaniji has been my friend and comrade-in-arms for over fifty years. He has never compromised on his core belief in nationalism, and yet has displayed flexibility in political responses whenever it was demanded by the situation. He has an open mind that always absorbs new ideas from diverse sources. I am certain that My Country My Life will be read widely, and with keen interest, by people from diverse backgrounds. For mirrored in it is the remarkable journey of a sensitive human being and an outstanding leader whose best, I hope and pray, is yet to come.''

From the Foreword by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1998-2004)

My Country My Life is an extraordinary self-portrait of India’s leading political personality - L.K. Advani. As an immigrant who was forced to abandon his beloved Sindh, which became a part of Pakistan after India was partitioned in 1947, on the basis of the communally inspired ‘Two Nation Theory’, Advani gives a poignant first-person account of that tragedy. With a career spanning six decades as a political activist in post-1947 India, during which he has been a ring-side viewer of, and participant in, almost all the major socio-political developments in India, Advani is uniquely qualified to offer a perspective on independent India’s political evolution. The apogee of Advani’s achievement was his seminal contribution, together with his senior colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to ending the Congress party’s dominance over India’s polity by building the Bharatiya Janata Party as a viable alternative for governing India. The book provides a riveting, insightful and assertive account of Advani’s fight for democracy during the Emergency, his Ram Rath Yatra for the reconstruction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya that resulted in the biggest mass movement in India since Independence and catalysed a nationwide debate on the true meaning of secularism, and his years as India’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister in the Vajpayee-led government of the National Democratic Alliance between 1998-2004. The importance and relevance of the publication of his memoirs has increased considerably since he has now been chosen by the BJP-led NDA to lead the multi-party alliance into the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

My Country My Life is a testimony to what Advani’s admirers as well as his critics have always known him for: the gift of clarity of thought, strong convictions and forceful articulation. This is a candid reflection on himself, his party and his nation that is likely to engage readers in a tour de force with India’s leading statesman. In a country where political memoirs, especially by those who are still active in politics, are rare, this book is a landmark.
ISBN: 9788129113634
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