A History Of Hindi Literature

ISBN: 8129101386
Author: Keay, F E
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A History Of Rajasthan

A History of Rajasthan uses various archival, epigraphical, numismatical, architectural, archaeological, and art-history related information as well as traditional narratives, and oral and written chronicles, to provide a general overview of aspects like literature, religion, art and architecture, position of women, socio-economic conditions, science and technology, as well as the subaltern, peoples' oriented, 'everyday' life of the 'average citizen'.

ISBN: 8129108909
Author: Hooja, Rima
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A Hundred Hues

ISBN: 8129100754
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Astronaut Sunita Williams

Astronaut Sunita Williams has captured the imagination and the hearts of millions worldwide during her sojourn in space that lasted over six months. She set a world record for women for Extravehicular Activity through four space walks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes. Here is the saga of an extraordinary woman who has shown enormous dedication, focus, competitive spirit and a can do attitude that has successfully transformed a child whose ambition was to become a veterinarian into an astronaut and now, an icon. Sunita has swum is seas, dived deep into oceans; flown in war and on humanitarian missions, blasted off into space, and glided back on earth-she is a living legend.

ISBN: 8129112088
Author: Sharma, Aradhika, Seshadri, S
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A Rights Royal Bastard

A Right Royal Bastard is a narrative compiled by Amelie, a French woman, about the life of Walidad, who is a descendent of a noble and aristocratic family. Enthralled by Waylard, as he his fondly called, Amelie traces and records the origins of his ancestry. The book is peppered with stories which takes the reader from the bloody battlegrounds of Tarain, through the wet west-coast of India , to the chic streets of Stratton and across the lazy English countryside. As Amelie probes deeper into Waylard's life, carefully-guarded royal secrets emerge which change their perspectives about life forever. A beautiful account of life, love and philosophy.

ISBN: 9788129113146
Author: Khan, Aminuddin
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A House In Ranikhet

ISBN: 8171679617
Author: Daruwalla, Keki N
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HANGING BY A TAIL

Leelawati Mohapatra went to St Joseph's Convent, Chandernagore, and Loreto College, Caleutta, before joining the Indian Revenue Service. She got married, chose not to have children, gave up her job, translated a few books and set out to write about her own topsy-turvy life. But halfway through the characters rebelled, became wholly fictional and told their own story.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with...? Monkey asks.

I know, I say. A single step.

Wrong.

I try not to blink.

Begins with a desire. Everything, everything begins here. He taps his head. It sounds like a green coconut full of water.

So begins for Amrita a dream- journey into the depths of her own mind. She sets out for the mythical Kalpataru, the wishing tree, to get what she truly desires.

The story of an inward journey, a yearning for the everlasting, living with dreams, surviving nighmares, Hanging by a Tail is all this and more.

ISBN: 9788129113825
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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
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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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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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Eternal Wisdom of India

Born on 19 April 1909, Swami Lokeswarananda was an eminent monk of the Ramakrishna order. He founded the famous Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur in Kolkata. He wrote and edited many books in Bengali and English. This book is a collection of the best of his writings and talks, compiled by young and profound Swami Chidrupananda.

Eternal Wisdom of India depicts the way religion has been seen through the ages and how it affects the whole structure of mankind. It reviews the ancient ideals, and points out how the power of religion has been abused. The book analyses religion and social tensions and also tells us how harmony should be maintained. It also emphasises on universal brotherhood and asks people to draw inspiration from Buddha, Mira Bai, Sri Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Chaitanya, The Holy Mother Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and many more.

ISBN: 9788129116253
Author: Swami Lokeswarananda
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AGAIN

Born in Kolkata, where he spent his young years as a poet, Pritish Nandy shifted to Mumbai in 1982 to join The Times of India as Publishing Director and Group Managing Editor. Between 1998 and 2004, he shared his time between Mumbai and New Delhi as a Member of Parliament. He lives in Mumbai with his books, his dogs, his family. You can meet him on twitter or at the occasional art show, a corner bookstore or at a movie premiere, usually his own. Else, he celebrates his solitude.

Pritish Nandy returns to poetry after a two decade hiatus. Once acclaimed as one of the most exciting Indian poets in English, with a following to die for, he suddenly stoppenly writing poetry one day. None of his 32 books of poems, some of them runaway bestsellers, were permitted to be reissued as he walked away from his literary pursuits and began his spectacular career in journalism and public life.
This is his first book of poems since then.

ISBN: 9788129115836
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Impressions

Dr. Najma Heptulla is a Parliamentarian, and was elected to the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament) in July 1980. She has the unique distinction of being elected as Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha four times, having served for seventeen years. She was also unanimously elected as President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1999 in Berlin, a body of 140 Parliaments of the world, she is the first lady and an Indian to hold the position.

When the mind wanders over a hundred lands, it weaves a thread of impressions; and a multitude of such impressions of varying shades and feelings form a pattern of words.

ISBN: 9788129115782
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