Back To Health Through Yoga

Dr Ramesh Bijlani is the author of ten books, more than 200 research articles, and more than forty popular articles. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) in 2005, and conferred an honorary D.Sc. in Yoga by Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhan Samsthana, Bangalore in 2006.

Back to Health through Yoga does not seek to transplant a dozen yogic postures in modern medicine. It looks upon yoga as a precious tool in mind-body medicine. The postures, diet and sleep (called physical culture in yoga), meditation (as first aid for stress), and the yogic attitude (for long time relief from stress) are all part of yoga, and all these have a place in mind-body medicine. Mind-body medicine aims at correcting the faults in lifestyle responsible for the illness, and thereby creating the best conditions for reversal of the process which led to the illness. This book is meant for the intelligent and inquisitive reader who will use it to discover the roots of health and disease. Also included are reasonable guidelines for healthy lifestyles based on yoga. Stress management has been discussed on the basis of Patanjali’s enumeration of the sources of klesas. The major lifestyle disorders have also been discussed individually, bringing together to one place, our current understanding of these diseases and their prevention and management using an integrated approach that dissolves the barrier between modern science and ancient wisdom.

ISBN: 9788129113979
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Delhi Under Hammer:The Crisis of Sealing and Demolition

A.K. Jain, an architect – town planner, is a member of the UN Habitat Research Advisory Committee. He studied at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam and University of Birmingham. As Commissioner (Planning), he worked on the Master Plan for Delhi-2021, National Urban Housing Policy (2007) and National Urban Transport Policy (2006).

When in 2006, the Supreme Court directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to demolish certain illegal properties in Delhi, no one imagined that this would snowball into a major human and political crisis. It rattled the masses, the businessmen, the Parliament and the Assembly. There were unprecedented confrontations between the people, the judiciary and the government.

ISBN: 9788129115706
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The Scalpel:Game Beneath

Padmashree Dr H S Rissam's medi-fiction, The Scalpel, scientillates through different levels of enigmatic stories and solves the mystery of one of the most grand-scaled medical thriller written in recent times. 'When a doctor writes a novel about the medical community cavorting with the mafia, would it be a work of fiction or would it be an attempt to showcase reality without the risk of a backlash? Dr Rissam is the Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Cardiac Clinical Sciences.

It is the story of four people - a pretty princess, a dreaded don, a noble physician and an evil arch-rival. Painted across a wide canvas filled with multiple hues of love, lust, lies, greed, and scandals, the four characters criss-cross continents, touching cities like Delhi, Amritsar, New York, Chicago, Paris, Istanbul, Barcelone, Manila and Sydney.

ISBN: 9788129116024
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History And Heritage Of Indian Game Hunting

Sudipta Mitra is an aficionado of Indian wildlife and an avid wildlife photographer working with nature for the last twenty years. A doctor by profession, the author is a regular visitor and a keen observer of Indian wilderness. He is a regular columnist on wildlife and nautre and is also associated with many NGOs. His commitment to acquire first-hand and authentic knowledge on Indian Shikar history down the ages has evolved a remarkable facet, which was never discussed before. His other book, Gir Forest and the Saga of Asiatic Lion is a highly informative and useful guide for all wildlife enthusiasts.

History and Heritage of Hunting in India is a voyage that is more of an experience than expression. In essence, this story is a humble attempt to encapsulate the magic moments of Indian game hunting, punctuated by a tribute to the propounders of that art whose momentous labour of love have been completely lost in the passage of time.

ISBN: 9788129116246
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BUDDHIST HERITAGE SITES OF INDIA:Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

An intrepid travel journalist and amateur photographer, Sunita Dwivedi set out to explore the Buddhist cultural legacy with the ardour of a self-guided researcher and a pilgrim. The result is this unique account of travels to the Buddhist sites of India. This multi-focal travelogue takes the tourist and the pilgrim from the better known sites of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to the interiors of Sikkim, Arunachal, the precarious heights of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, and even across the borders to Nepal-the entire ''Dhamayatra'' of the Buddhist circuit.

ISBN: 8129107384
Author: Sunita Dwivedi
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1984

George Orwell (1903-1950) was the pen name of Eric Blair. He was born to Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limonzin as their second child in Motihari, Bengal (India) in 1903 where his father worked as a civil servant. He was taken to England at the age of one along with his mother and sister. After finishing his studies at Eton he joined The Indian Imperial Police at Burma (now Myanmer) as an assistant superintendent. Eventually his mounting dislike of imperial rule led him to resign from the post in 1928 and return to England. He was a confirmed anti-imperialist.

1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell''s prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of ''''negative utopia'' - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel''s hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

ISBN: 9788129116116
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Tusker Tales

Ruskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well-known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His Tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The Blue Umbrella, A Long Walk for Bina and Hanuman to the Rescue are also available in Rupa paperback. The Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghost Stories from the Raj, The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure, The Rupa Book of Himalayan Tales and The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories are some of his recent books for Rupa.

World''s one of the most amazing and largest mammal to live on land-Elephants, are known to have a very close bond to the most able species of the world - the Human Beings. A trunk in front, a tail behind and a daunting size, an elephant is an immediate attraction to children of all ages.
Tusker Tales, is an amalgamation of stories that revolves around this beautiful band between the most intelligent and one of the most majestic species on this face of earth. The mammal being loved by humans of all age group, the various stories in the book carefully sketches out words from the Elephant''s silence. It also talks about how our young ones share a special bond with one of the largest domesticated animal.

ISBN: 9788129116369
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Buddha`s Orphans

Samrat Upadhyay was born and raised in Kathmandu and came to the United States at age twenty-one. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best of the Fiction Workshops. He lives with his wife and daughter near Cleveland, where he teaches at Baldwin-Wallace College.

Buddha’s Orphans is a novel permeated with the sense of how we are irreparably connected to the mothers who birthed us and of the way events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. But most of all it is an engrossing, unconventional love story and a seductive, transporting read.

ISBN: 9788129116178
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Facing My Phantoms

A scion of Nepal’s erstwhile royal family, Sheeba Shah is married to the nephew of the slain king Birendra and his wife Aishwarya. The only member of the former first family of Nepal opting to become a full-time fiction writer, Sheeba’s writing is marked by her determination to tackle subjects that are both fascinating and taboo. She is also the author of Beyond the Illusion and Loyals of the Crown. She lives in Kathmandu with her husband and two daughters.

Facing My Phantoms is a fictional rendering of the most tumultuous period of Nepalese history from the 1930s till the present day. Through the eyes of Sanjeevani, the story describes an ongoing socio-economic and political process that has been on since over half a century. It draws upon the painful transformation from a feudal society into a hopefully more egalitarian one.

ISBN: 9788129116291
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Numerology For Lovers

P.Khurrana has pursued the science of Astrology, Mantrism and Vastu and a performer on Zee TV Punjabi in an Astro based programme Sitare Ki Kehde Ne.

Numerology influences your love and sex life: your birth number reveals a mysterious aspect of your basic traits and plays a vital role in determining your compatibility with the other numbers. Are you a bold or a shy lover? Every number is responsible for a refined; romantic or a violent passion of expressing love. Your love can bring a joyous union or it can prove detrimental; it all depends on your equation with the other numbers. Noted astrologer and television personality, P. Khurrana has thrown a good deal of light on the complexities of love and sexual life which can lead to sympathetic understanding between lovers. Are you looking for a right partner? Read this book and spot your lover spontaneously.

ISBN: 9788129116260
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1857 The Oral Tradition

Pankaj Rag is an IAS officer from the 1990 batch. He is a renowned poet, and author of a widely acclaimed book on Hindi film music directors, Dhuno Ki Yaatra. He has written extensively on archaeology of Madhya Pradesh. Presently, he is the Director of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

1857: The Oral Tradition is a unique work, largely using the sources of oral history in various parts of the country to reconstruct aspects of the great uprising of 1857. Through an exploration and analysis of folk songs, folk takes and contemporary regional literature, it examines the contours of the massive revolt in parts of Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bundelkhand, the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh and Awadh.

ISBN: 9788129116222
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Corporate Softskills

This book provides fresh insight on topics such as business communication skills, time management, leadership skills, negotiation skills and building and maintaining successful relationships with customers/colleagues, and effective ways of dealing with stress. It teaches you all the skills you need for a successful career, to develop your personality and succeed in your chosen field at work..

ISBN: 8129108941
Author: Gulati, Sarvesh
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Jaswant Singh has come a long way from his home in the desert districts of Rajasthan. Commissioned in the Indian Army when barely nineteen, he went through two wars whilst in service (1962 and 1965) before resigning his commission to pursue a political career. He has served seven terms in Parliament, and, in the BJP-led governments of 1996 and 1998-2004, held charge of six ministries of the Government of India, including External Affairs, Defence and Finance. Regarded as an authority on Indian foreign policy and national security, Jaswant Singh is among the most respected names in the country's public life, and in the world of diplomacy. He is deservedly given credit for dexterously steering India out of the turbulent diplomatic seas encountered in the aftermath of the nuclear tests of

Conflict and Diplomacy: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh delineates East Bengal’s long, complicated, and agonising journey from being an integral part of India to East Pakistan, finally to Bangladesh. This reordering of human lives tightly compressed in time inevitably culminated in trauma, generating several new geo-political stress lines of enormous power in the subcontinent. The authors, Jaswant Singh and Maj. S.P. Bhatia, lead the readers along this twisted and torturous path of the birth of Bangladesh under Indian midwifery, intrigued by West Pakistani and the US diplomacy. The declassified US documents provide revealingly informative aspects of the US diplomacy during this challenging period. The excerpts of diplomatic exchanges between Delhi – Washington – Dhaka, Dhaka – Washington, Islamabad – Washington, and the off-guard internal conversations of the political and diplomatic string pullers are sure to fascinate and interest the readers.

ISBN: 9788129113351
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HARAPPAN ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

Jagat Pati Joshi obtained his graduate and master’s degrees from Lucknow University. He did his Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology in 1961 from the school of Archaeology of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). He joined the ASI in 1956 and retired as its director general in 1990. He has been associated with several exploration, excavation and conservation projects of the ASI. He specializes in the Indian Bronze Age and excavations of sites of the Harappan Culture. Among his many contributions to Indian archaeology are the discovery of the land routes of the Harappans in Kachchh; the overlap of cultures of the Late Harappan period and the Painted Grey Ware in Punjab, Haryana and J&K.

For the first time ever, this book gives a full view of Harappan architecture and engineering. It begins with the history of the discovery of the Indus Civilisation, from Alexander Cunninghan, through Marshall to Wheeler and recent excavators. It delineates the genesis and growth of urban architecture of the Harappans through the various discoveries from about twenty sites in the Indian subcontinent. It discusses the Harappan settlement pattern, its distribution in different ecological zones, and the regional variation in their architectural edifices. The architectural genius of the Harappans has been elucidated by a thorough treatment of the various aspects of town planning, fortification, gateways, streets, lanes, houses, drainage system, bathing floors, platforms for houses. The outstanding buildings such as the Great Bath, the granaries at Mohenjodaro and Harappa and the College Building at Mohenjodaro have been discussed in great detail.

ISBN: 9788129110838
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Beyond the Blues: A Cricket Season Like No Other

When Aakash Chopra started to write his diary in September 2007, he had no idea that it was going to be an extraordinary year, both for him personally, and for the game of cricket. It began with a great run in the Ranji, culminating in Delhi''s victory. Delhi also went on to become North Zone champions, the North Zone won the Duleep Trophy, and in almost every game, Aakash was among the runs. He ended the season with 1339 runs from fifteen games, with five centuries that included three double centuries. Then came the IPL, with its glamorous tie-in with Bollywood. And Aakash found himself on the most talked about side of them all: the Kolkata Knight Riders.A view from within of all that made 2007 such an exciting year for cricketers and cricket lovers, this fast-paced and often tongue-in-cheek account takes us behind the scenes with an honesty and forthrightness uncommon to Indian sport.

ISBN: 9788172237752
Author: Aakash Chopra
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A P J Abdul Kalam

Author: Chaturvedi, Atulindra Nath
ISBN: 8171679978
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Chetan Bhagat Combo Of 3 Books

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.

The 3 Mistakes of My Life

In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accomodate his friends Ish and Omi''s passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind''s wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabiltiies and just wants to be with his friends. However, nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realize their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, earthquakes, riots, unacceptable love and above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual''s dreams overcome the nightmares offered by real life? Can we succeed despite a few mistakes?

Five Point Someone

Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope.

The book starts with a disclaimer, ''This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don''t think straight.''Three hostelmates - Alok, Hari and Ryan get off to a bad start in IIT - they screw up the first class quiz. And while they try to make amends, things only get worse. It takes them a while to realize- If you try and screw with the IIT system, it comes back to double screw you. Before they know it, they are at the lowest echelons of IIT society. They have a five-point-something GPA out of ten, ranking near the end of their class. This GPA is a tattoo that will remain with them, and come in the way of anything else that matters - their friendship, their future, their love life. While the world expects IITians to conquer the world, these guys are struggling to survive.

One Night At The Call Center

The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in Connexions call center in the Delhi suburb of Gurgaon in Haryana. It is filled with a lot of drama with unpleasant things happening to all of the leading characters. The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn when they get a phone call from God.

The novel has also been adapted into a movie.

ISBN: 011110000X
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CALCUTTAS EDIFICE:The Buildings of a Great City

Brian Paul Bach was born in Wisconsin, USA in 1954, and is keenly interested in most subjects pertaining to the subcontinent. He has been a factory worker, stagehand, carpenter, and is a librarian, filmmaker, artist and writer. He lives with his wife in Washington State, USA

Calcutta, the Star of the East, is a great city, a City of Palaces, of people and of ''Joy''. Calcutta''s buildings are entertaining in a compelling sense, akin to a great epic drama, and so they are, in a serious pictorial sense as well - a grand display gallery. Because of its political and economic history, the city and its background have been lavishly documented. As a matter of record it has sufficient awareness of its own architectural heritage. Calcutta''s Edifice allows these buildings to ''speak for themselves''. Illustrated by the author, this book strives to achieve a point of view not of a foreigner but of an appreciator. With notes of the past and seductive speculations of the future, it examines the architectural and associated apparatuses of Calcutta as it is.

ISBN: 8129104156
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BPO-SUTRA: The Stories from Inside India`s BPOs & Call Centres

Sudhindra Mokhasi was vice president with one of India's leading IT-BPO companies. In 2007, he founded e-Sutra Chronicles and is presently the CEO. He is an avid traveller, traveloguer and award winning photoprapher. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Aparna.

Inside, you will find over 150 true stories. Most of them funny, many thought provoking, some touching, but all of them together attempting to provide an insight into the life and times of people working in India''s BPO and Call Centres.

ISBN: 9788129114358
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GLIMPSES OF ARCHITECTURE IN KERALA: Temples and Palaces

Ramu Katakam studied architecture at Cambridge, and has been a practicing architect for the past thirty years. He gave up practice some time ago to do research on traditional Indian architecture and has been travelling in Kerala for the past three years.

Kerala has been termed ''God''s own country'' in recent years. Its landscape and waterways are quite magnificent. However, little has been seen of its masterpieces of temple architecture. This book attempts to capture the style and design of these timber building and also illustrate the quality of space around them. Indian temples are to be seen with their surroundings in unity with the sky and the low-lying landscape or with the sky and the hills around. Architecture of the past in India attempts to create an experience with a sense of longing-something to fill the void within. The masters of design in an earlier era were concerned with the balance of a building and how it could please the eye. Glimpses of Architecture in Kerala is a beginning in trying to examine these intentions.

ISBN: 8171677487
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Seance On A Sunday Afternoon

Howling at the moon, slitting a vein, cyber sex…there are only so many ways to cope with private hells. In high-rise solitude, modern man has begun to redefine his need for society. A hundred voices are trapped in his cell phone, but there''s no head upon his pillow. Aching for love and teal Jimmy Choos, the spirit is calling out, no, not to the dead, but the living. Here in these twenty-something tales are the things that go bump in the mind.

ISBN: 9788129113290
Author: Antony, Shinie
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SEX IN CINEMA: A History of Female Sexuality in Indian Films

Fareed Kazmi is a professor of Political Science at the University of Allahabad and has long been associated with the study of Indian cinema and its changing facets over the years. Apart from a number of papers, he has also published the The Polotics of India's Conventional Cinema: Imaging a Universe, Subverting the Multiverse, a book that provides an interface between politics, society and mass media.

Sex in Cinema: A History of Female Sexuality in Indian Films is a brave forthright and well-researched book that analyses, and puts into perspective, the portrayal of women in Hindi films. It is an objective representation of women on celluloid through the generations, from the early films like Pyaasa to the more contemporary, Salaam Namaste.

ISBN: 9788129116215
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BELOVED OF THE GODS: A Story of Ashoka the Great

Emmanuel Sumitra Modak is one of the very last surviving officers of the (Imperial) Indian police (IP). He Still remains the youngest ever IP officer to be awaded the Indian Police medal. He started his career in 1941 as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Satara District, one of two districts in India most affected by violent opposition to British rule. A distinguished 37-year career that followed saw him serve as Poona's first ever Police Commissioner, Inspector General of Police of Jammu & Kashmir and Commissioner of Police, Mumbai.

This well-researched work of fiction is based on the life of Ashoka Maurya, arguable the greatest monarch to rule India. This epic tale begins as prime Ashoka, Viceroy of Takshashila, fights his half-brother, Sushim to claim the throne. He then conquers Kalinga, the last remaining independent kingdom in Jambudvipa (India).

ISBN: 9788129116307
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INDIAN NAMES: From Classical to Contemporary

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.

This is a reference book for parents to name children, authors to name characters, property developers, manufacturers to name products, advertisers to name whatever they undertake to advertise, information technologists to name mushrooming websites... in fact, for anyone to name anything.

ISBN: 9788129115737
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