ECHOES AND ELOQUENCES: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF GULZAR

Saibal chatterjee An independent New Delhi-based film and media critic who has worked on the staff of leading Indian publications like The Telegraph, Kolkata, The times of India, New Delhi, and Outlook newsweekly, besides the website of The Hindustan Times. In a career spanning two decades, he has covered entertainment-related events in different parts of the world and tracked Indian and international cinema with a critical eye. He won the President’s Gold Medal for the Best Film board of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema, published in 2003.

Whether he is conjuring up exquisite lyrics, authoring delightful screenplays or directing profoundly moving celluloid odes, Gulzar, peerless poet, sensitive writer and outstanding filmmaker, is a consummate master of his craft. The world that the man behind the genius inhabits is as magical as his inimitable creative output. This book is more than a mere record of a life lived and a career pursued because a simple biography cannot do justice to the range literature and cinema. It represents an attempt to grasp some of the truths, values, influences and artistic cornerstones that constitute the vision of a colossus who remains one of Mumbai cinema’s last active links with its golden era.

ISBN: 9788129112354
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E.M. FORSTER: A TRIBUTE:With Selectionsn from His Writings on India

K. Natwar Singh was born in 1931. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, St. Stephen's College, Delhi and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1953 and resigned from it in 1984, thereafter he joined the Congress Party. At present, he is a member of the Congress Working Committee.

E.M. Forster was a remarkable personality whose life and works have helped bridge the gap between the cultures of the East and the West. In this book published in 1964--- the year that marked both Forester''s 85th birthday as also the 40th anniversary of the publication of his A Pass to India

ISBN: 817167772X
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Cricket World Cup

Around the World... in Seventy-and-a-half days showcases the memorable 253 matches that have been played in cricket''s premier event from 1975 to 2003. It features matches that went down to the wire, and others that were hopelessly one-sided. Some games were shaped by extraordinary performances, while others were transformed through teamwork. Some matches were forgotten a few days after they were played, while a handful were so significant that they altered the history of not only the tournament of which they were a part, but the sport itself. The book brings the reader face-to-face with some riveting cricket action, choreographed by some of the greatest cricketers in history. The book has all the usual suspects - all eight World Cup finals, several semi-finals, Kapil''s destruction of Zimbabwe, Gilmour''s heroics against England, Walsh''s sportsman spirit against Pakistan, the two cliffhangers between Australia and South Africa in 1999 Plus there are some ''surprise'' selections and also some ''forgotten gems''

ISBN: 812910993X
Author: Prabhudesai, Devendra
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CONFLICT AND DIPLOMACY EAST PAKISTAN BECOMES BANGLADESH

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
Author: Jaswant Singh
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FIVE POINT SOMEONE

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.

Set in IIT, in the early ''90s, Five Point Someone portrays the lives of the protagonist Hari and his two friends Ryan and Alok. It explores the darker side of IIT, one in which students- having worked for years to make it into the institute-struggle to maintain their grades, keep their friends and have some kind of life outside studies.Funny, dark and non-stop, Five Point Someone is the story of three friends whose measly five-point something GPAs come in the way of everything-their friendship, their love life, their future. Will they make it?

ISBN: 8129104598
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Naturally Beautiful

This book will help you pamper yourself with simple recipes and potions made from nature''s bounty. Make beauty care a part of your daily regime. The best part is that you need not look any further than your own kitchen to discover perfect means of having a radiant face, lustrous hair and flawless skin -- so that you feel naturally beautiful.

ISBN: 812910542X
Author: Manchanda, Ambika
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Five Survivors And Other Stories

Five Survivors and Other Stories, a collection of short stories, showcases the budding literary talent of India. It is the product of an annual nationwide talent search-the Classmate Young Author Contest organised since 2003 by ITC Ltd. Edited by Ruskin Bond, the stories bring to the fore the creative, imaginative and versatile genius of our country''s promising young adults. The sixteen stories that form part of this milieu were shortlisted by an eminent national jury headed by Ruskin Bond. Just as the writers come from different cities and varied backgrounds the stories too form an electric mix of flavours.

ISBN: 8129111883
Auhtor: Bond, Ruskin
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VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS: Contemporary Wildlife Writings

Prerna Singh Bindra is India’s leading environmental journalist and travel writer. She has worked for various newspapers and magazines where she has documented the ongoing crisis of India’s wildlife. Currently she works for the Pioneer and Darpan. She lives in Delhi but is mostly found wandering in far-flung forests of India.

Voices in the Wilderness: Contemporary Wildlife Writings brings together over twenty distinguished figures in the field—naturalists, scientists, and authors, whose writings paint a vivid picture of India’s amazing wildlife, from the charismatic tiger to the ‘lowly’ caterpillar. The spectrum of articles and essays is as varied as the country’s biodiversity, reflecting a deep knowledge of and love for the subject. The collection carries an undertone of conservation, but is essentially a celebration of India’s fascinating wildlife that will appeal not just to wildlife enthusiasts but also acquaint the uninitiated to the joys and mysteries of nature.

ISBN: 9788129116017
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