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• Product Code :5401
• Material :Brass
• Size :3.25"H x 2.25"W x 3.12"D
• Weight :390 gm.

Description

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The bestselling vision document for the future from one of India s most eminent scientists and thinkers
In this ground-breaking vision document, first published in 1998, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan offer a blueprint for India to be counted among the world s top five economic powers by the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not unrealistic. Past successes the green revolution and satellite-based communication linking remote regions of the country, for instance bear them out. The same sense of purpose can make us a prosperous, strong nation in a matter of years, assert Kalam and Rajan.

This is a book that every citizen who hopes for a better India must read.

About the Author
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is one of India s most distinguished scientists. He was responsible for the development of India s first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3, and the development and operationalization of strategic missiles. As chairman of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council, he pioneered India Vision 2020, a road map for transforming India into an economically developed nation by 2020, focusing on PURA as a development system for countrywide implementation.

The President of India between 2002 and 2007, Kalam has been awarded honorary doctorates from thirty-eight universities and the country s three highest civilian honours Padma Bhushan (1981), Padma Vibhushan (1990) and Bharat Ratna (1997).

Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan is a well-recognized authority and a thought leader on technology development, business management and society linkages. He held various positions of responsibility related to science and technology between 1988 and 2002, and has shaped key policies and implemented several successful R&D projects with industry participation.

He was responsible for creating a series of documents related to Technology Vision 2020. After a thirty-year stint with the government, he joined the Confederation of Indian Industry in 1996, where he was principal adviser from 2004 to 2010. Currently an honorary distinguished professor at ISRO, Bangalore, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2012.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
• By : Wilhelm Halbfass
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2013
• Pages : 621
• Weight : 950 gm.
• Size : 8 x 10 x 1.8 inches
• ISBN-10: 8120807367
• ISBN-13: 978-8120807365

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Alvaro Enterria
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : April 30, 2010
• Pages : 588
• Weight : 800 gm.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 818656991X
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569917
• Product Code : BK14201

Description:

Indian society is manifold and extremely complex. The richness of the Indian subcontinent defies and exceeds all facile explanations or generalizations, and cannot be adequately interpreted through Western concepts.
This book tries to clear a path towards an understanding of this immense ountry, home to a civilization that has endured without interruption or millennia. In this small encyclopaedia of India, the author explains the roots and foundations of Indian civilization, covering almost every spect of indian culture; its broad topics include History, Religion, Society, Arts, the State, and Travel. Offering an illuminating selection of information concerning many aspects of India, this is surely among the most complete cultural guides about this country and its varied cultures.

About Author:

Since his first travel in 1981, Alvaro Enterria has made the knowledge of India his passion. He has lived and worked in India since 1989. He is a partner of the book company Indica Books, and lives in Varanasi with his wife from Orissa and their two children.
Alvaro Enterria has translated from Hindi and English into Spanish various short stories of modern Indian literature, which formed the book La aldea y la ciudad. Antologia de relatos cortos de la literatura contemporanea de la India (1998), and several short stories of the renowned Hindi writer Premchand, published under the name Premchand: Antologia de cuentos (2002).
In 2006 he published in Spanish La India por dentro. Una guia cultural para el viajero, a cultural guide trying to explain in depth to tourists and visitors many aspects of Indian culture and society which are generally bad known or misunderstood. The guide was well received and became a classic book on India. The present publication is an English translation of that book, of which an Italian edition has also appeared.
Mark Tully is well known in India. He was born in Calcutta and educated in England. He spent over twnety years of his life as BBC Delhi Correspondent and covered many of the major events in South Asia, inclulding the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency, the trial and hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Operation Blue Star, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque, and the Bhopal gas disaster. After leaving the BBC he continued to live in Delhi with his partner Gillian Wright and work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist and writer. He has written several books on India.