SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Hay House India
- By : Richa Tilokani
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 228 pages
- Weight : 240 g
- Size : 13.9 x 2 x 21.5 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9388302591
- ISBN-13 : 978-9388302593
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The Bhagavad Gita, a treasure trove of divine wisdom, was shared by Lord Krishna with Arjuna, the Pandava prince, at the battlefield of Kurukshetra, right before the Mahabharata or the ‘Great War’ began. It comprises 700 Sanskrit shlokas translated into English, which inspire one to seek and understand the profound truths of life through the ancient principles of Karma Yoga (the art of work), Gyan Yoga (the art of knowledge) and Bhakti Yoga (the art of devotion). These eternal principles help to live life to the fullest, so that one can work better, think better and live better by tapping into higher consciousness, accessing the spiritual dimension and nurturing the pure self.The Teachings of Bhagavad Gita is a perfect source to discover the art of self-empowerment by exploring the various facets of this most sacred text and imbibing its all-encompassing wisdom to attain unending joy, peace and success.
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- Publisher : Westland
- By : Ravi Shanker Etteth
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 265 pages
- Weight : 449 g
- Size : 12.9 x 1.63 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386850710
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386850713
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It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming danger: the enigmatically named Brahmin, skilful spymaster and custodian of Magadha’s best-kept secrets.Lush with historical detail and unforgettable characters, The Brahmin is an intricately plotted novel that seeks to recreate a near-mythical period in India’s past.
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- Publisher : Harper Perennial
- By : Ranjit Desai & Vikrant Pande
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 592 pages
- Weight : 300 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789352774395
- ISBN-13 : 978-9352774395
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'The epic text of Ranjit Desai's Shriman Yogi finds new voice in Vikrant Pande's nuanced translation, an immersive narrative of the foundations of the Maratha empire and the saga of its charismatic founder.' - Namita Gokhale. Young Shivaji reaches Pune, a dying fort city, with his mother Jijabai and lights the first lamp within its ruins. While his father Shahaji Bhosle is away on deputation by the Adil Shah sultanate after having failed in a revolt against it, Shivaji learns how an empire is built from the ground up. Thus begins the life of the Great Maratha. What awaits Shivaji is nothing short of the vast scroll of history, and it takes him from Surat to Thanjavur and all the way to Aurangzeb's durbar in Agra. He dreams of freeing his land from the clutches of Mughal rule, and though he suffers many defeats and personal losses along the way he never gives up his vision of Hindavi Swaraj. Amidst political intrigue and a chain of skirmishes, Shivaji becomes a leader, a warrior and a tactician par excellence, driven by immense pride and love for his motherland.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Terry O'Brien
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2015
- Pages : 588 pages
- Weight : 358 g
- Size : 12.95 x 3.81 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8129137259
- ISBN-13 : 978-8129137258
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Greatest short stories is a selection from the best of the world’s short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters such as anton chekov, rudyard kipling, h.g. wells, charles dickens, virginia woolf, saki, o. henry, f. scott fitzgerald and guy de maupassant. each story is a classic, a testimony to the skills of its creator that make it resonate with readers even today. carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as ‘the gift of the magi’, ‘the lady with the dog’, ‘how the leopard got his spots’, ‘the man who could work miracles’, ‘the curious case of benjamin button’ and ‘mrs packletide’s tiger’, to name but a few. this outstanding and wideranging anthology of stories by great writers from britain, america, canada and europe is a collector’s item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world’s finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. anton chekov, charles dickens, katherine mansfield, guy de maupassant, f. scott fitzgerald, h. rider haggard, o. henry, rudyard kipling, w.w. jacobs, virginia woolf, d.h. lawrence, saki, jerome k. jerome, h.g. wells, kate chopin, ambrose bierce, jack london, frank stockton, edgar allan poe, stephen leacock, james joyce, bram stoker, joseph conrad, m.r. james, w. somerset maugham, r. l. stevenson.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2016
- Pages : 232 pages
- Weight : 120 g
- Size : 12.95 x 1.35 x 19.79 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8129142309
- ISBN-13 : 978-8129142306
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Ravelling in the twenty-first century is not only about check-ins, posting selfies or writing status messages with hashtags. It is about the visiting places one may have only read about, seen in movies or heard about; it’s about standing on a landmark and feeling something; it’s about refreshing memories and making new memories.Every Mile a Memory is not only a travelogue about monuments and landscapes. It is not only about famous cities like London, Paris and Rome, but it is also about a solitary walk on a village road on English countryside, about quiet boat-ride on the Ganga and about long train journeys to nowhere. It is sipping a cup of coffee in a café in Barcelona and yet it is also about enjoying chai from a kulhad on some half-forgotten railway station in Indian hinterland.As Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma travels a round the globe and his own motherland, all the events, sights, thoughts, memories and feelings form a complex kaleidoscope, which eventually crystallizes into words to give a unique perspective on places – Britain, continental Europe, Turkey, Morocco and of course, India.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury India
- By : Kushanava Choudhury
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 272 pages
- Weight : 590 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 938786393X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9387863934
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''Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum City is for Mumbai' William Dalrymple, Observer.When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to Calcutta, the city which his immigrant parents had abandoned. Taking a job at a newspaper, he found the streets of his childhood unchanged. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish sellers squatted on bazaar floors; and politics still meant barricades and bus burnings. The Epic City is a soulful, compelling and often hilarious account of this metropolis of fifteen million people that is truly a world unto itself.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : E.F. Knight
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 384 pages
- Weight : 380 g
- Size : 14 x 2.18 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9788129148193
- ISBN-13 : 978-8129148193
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n the spring of 1891, an intrepid Englishman set out on a year-long journey into the inhospitable region of Gilgit, near what used to be called ‘the roof of the world’, where the three great empires of that century the British, Russian and Chinese—came together on the map.etting out from the beautiful valley of Kashmir, E.F. Knight traversed the mountain tracts between the invincible ranges of Hindukush and Karakoram, interacting with locals and experiencing their way of life first-hand. He brings to his readers the sights and sounds of exotic lands—undivided Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and the lands beyond.A fascinating travelogue of colonial times, this book also brings out the geo-political significance of the region and the undercurrent of political strategizing at play amongst the three great empires. Knight’s visit to Ladakh and subsequent participation in Colonel Durand’s historic expedition against the raiding Hunza-Nagara stand out amongst the many adventures he has along the way.
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- Publisher : Hachette India
- By : Hugh Thomson
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 152 pages
- Weight : 160 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789351951964
- ISBN-13 : 978-9351951964
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The fascinating story of a journey to the source of a legend – the Nanda Devi Sanctuary – which has been described by explorers as ‘more inaccessible than the North Pole’.Until 1934 the hidden valley of the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, on the border between India and Tibet, had never been entered by human beings. Surrounded by 20,000-foot peaks, which effectively seal off Mt Nanda Devi at their centre, it remains virtually impenetrable even today.Many early explorers, drawn there by the idea of a ‘lost Eden’ in the Himalaya, could only gaze with longing at the Sanctuary – until the ‘terrible-twins’ of pre-Second World War mountaineering, Eric Shipton and Bill Tillman, solved the problem by forcing an entrance up a precipitous river gorge. Subsequent expeditions were beset by tragedy and concern that the fragile ecology of the Sanctuary might be damaged; until, for curious reasons involving the CIA- – which the first edition of this book revealed – the Indian government finally decided to ban all visitors. The Sanctuary was briefly reopened in 2000 for a special millennium expedition, of which Hugh Thomson was a part.Thomson weaves the story of this last journey to the Sanctuary together with those who have gone before him, and gives a tantalizing account of a place described by explorers as ‘more inaccessible than the North Pole’.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Sunita Dwivedi
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 336 pages
- Weight : 470 g
- Size : 14 x 2.08 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9389967430
- ISBN-13 : 978-9389967432
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Buddha in Gandhara is the saga of ancient Buddhist cities of Gandhara—a region that extended from north-western Pakistan to eastern and north-eastern Afghanistan. It tells stories of cities that once dotted the highroad connecting India with Central Asia and China. It traces the network of Asian trade routes that nourished these cities with goods, people and ideas. It also trains the spotlight on the magnificent art of Gandhara that still clings to the ruins of these heritage cities and also those that are showcased in the museums of Asia and Europe.
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- Publisher : Tranquebar
- By : Bishwanath Ghosh
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 264 pages
- Weight : 200 g
- Size : 14 x 1.68 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9389152003
- ISBN-13 : 978-9389152005
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While cremating his mother at the famed Manikarnika Ghat, Bishwanath Ghosh pretended he was a writer collecting material for a future book rather than a grieving son—his way of dealing with the last rites. A few years later, he returns to Banaras to write that book.Plunging into its timeless aura, he roams its ghats and galis, sails through the cool breeze of the Ganga, walks through the heat of funeral pyres. One moment he is observing a sadhu show off his penile strength, in the next he is on a boat with a young woman who has been prophesied to marry seven times; one moment he is in conversation with the celebrated writer Kashinath Singh, who is an atheist, and in the next he is having tea with a globe- trotting priest and a god-fearing doctor ... Ghosh finds a story in every bend as he engages with quintessential Banarasis—their paan-stuffed mouths spouting expletives and wisdom with equal flair—and discovers why they are among the happiest people on earth.Then one evening at Manikarnika, as he emerges from a temple, wearing ash from the cremation ground on his forehead, he finds a bit of Banaras in himself.Aimless in Banaras is not only a sensuous portrait of India’s holiest city but also a meditation on life—and death.
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- Publisher : Penguin
- By : Robert Macfarlane
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 496 pages
- Weight : 393 g
- Size : 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0141030577
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141030579
DESCRIPTION:
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : HarperCollins India
- By : Samrat Choudhary
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 424 pages
- Weight : 390 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 939032758X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390327584
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The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red light district in Bangladesh. Along the way, he meets suspicious Indian spies, gets packed off on the back of a cement truck by soldiers, visit a shelter home for baby rhino and elephant orphans in Kaziranga, and hops from river island to riverside town meeting the locals. The tales of these encounters spice up a story that weaves in the history of the emergence of the border between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh, the formation of the Assamese identity -- a matter of great contemporary relevance owing to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act -- and the ecological challenges posed by proposed dams.This is a genre-bending book that touches upon several hot-button issues -- environmental, military and political -- as it blends travel, memoir and history with the present.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins India
- By : Vikrant Pande & Neelesh Kulkarni
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 272 pages
- Weight : 370 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9354226388
- ISBN-13 : 978-9354226380
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Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni's quest to retrace the trail of Rama's fabled travels during his years in exile began with their trying to locate Chitrakoot on the map and realizing that they had little idea where it might be. Curious about the places mentioned in the Ramayana, they set off on a journey of their own, following Rama's route from Ayodhya to the Dandakaranya forest and Panchavati (near Nashik) and on to Kishkindhya (close to Hampi), Rameshwaram and Sri Lanka.Along the way they would discover how closely the narrative of the Ramayana is linked to local folklore, and how the stories of the Ramayana and the moral framework that binds them together still speaks to the people who live in the land across which Rama, Sita and Lakshman made their journey.For the armchair traveller as well as the enthusiast for epic tales, this is a wonderful book with which to revisit the world of the Ramayana.
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- Publisher : Niyogi Books
- By : Rabindranath Tagore
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 260 pages
- Weight : 449 g
- Size : 24 x 18 x 1 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386906104
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386906106
DESCRIPTION:
It is not possible to surmise when exactly Tagore started writing Jibonsmriti(My Reminiscences). It is generally believed that after the publication of the play Raja (King, 1910), he was going through the first draft of Jibonsmriti.Jibonsmriti, was translated into English by Tagore’s nephew, Surendranath Tagore, though retouched and slightly changed by Rabindranath himself. It was serialised in RamanandaChattopadhyay’s The Modern Review under the title My Reminiscences from January to December, 1916. To thwart the attempt by any foreign publisher to publish it, all the issues of The Modern Review carried the declaration, ‘All Rights Reserved. Copyrighted in the United States of America’. Interestingly, Rabindranath himself advised Ramananda Chattopadhyay to mail one copy each of the issues of The Modern Review carrying My Reminiscences to W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. In April, 1917, it was published as a book by MacMillan, New York, with a colour portrait by Sasi Kumar Hesh as the frontispiece, apart from 12 paintings by GagnendranathTagore.This book Rabindranath has etched in words many of his primary experiences about his future poetry, plays and novels. A surging passion for being one with Nature, a sense of imagination-filled solitariness even in the midst of a crowd, a consciousness of the concrete and yet non-recognition of its weight—all these aspects of the book inform his later creations. In that sense, My Reminiscences can be called an introduction to the entire Tagorean canon.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- By : William Dalrymple
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 404 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9385936549
- ISBN-13 : 978-9385936548
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The result of a decade of travels through the Indian subcontinent, the Age of Kali is a collection of essays ranging in scope from the widows of Vrindavan to rap stars in Bombay, the temples as old as the Parthenon in Madurai, the socialite author Shobhaa De, the remnants of the kingdom of Avadh, and meetings with then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan. Stylish, witty and bristling with insight, these jewel-like essays string together to create a captivating and enduringly relevant portrait of the subcontinent.
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- Publisher : Rajkamal Prakashan
- By : Ali Sardar Zafari
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Hindi
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 434 pages
- Weight : 440 g
- Size : 21.5 x 14 x 3 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8126705272
- ISBN-13 : 978-8126705276
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : Juggernaut
- By : Twinkle Khanna
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2016
- Pages : 256 pages
- Weight : 299 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789386228055
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386228055
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A collection of utterly magical stories that will leave you crying, laughing and wholly enchanted.A gangly young girl transforms her village with a revolutionary idea. Sixty-eight-year-old Noni Appa finds herself drawn to a married man - 'Why do people have to define relationships, underline each word till the paper gives way beneath,' she wonders. Bablu Tripathi becomes obsessed with sanitary napkins much to his family's horror, and a young woman keeps checking the weather forecast as she meticulously plans each of her five weddings. Funny, observant and wise, this is storytelling at its most irresistible.
SPECIFICATION:
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- By : Tina M Wykes
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 260 pages
- Weight : 295 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9353573580
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353573584
DESCRIPTION:
Anyone who's tried Theobroma brownies knows that they are literally food for the gods. What most people don't know is that the recipe was born in a small Colaba kitchen, on a neighbour's request.Baking a Dream: The Theobroma Story is the story of a 'food-obsessed' family that made their culinary dreams come true. Theobroma founders Kainaz and Tina Messman tell the story of how their ambitious and slightly eccentric Parsi family grew a home catering business into a multi-million business venture. From a single cafe with just four tables, Theobroma has today grown into a chain of 50 outlets across the country. The Messman sisters offer a no-holds-barred look at the challenges of working with family and offer tips on how to turn a passion for baking into a profitable career.Sharing their stumbles and successes, the book also serves as a guide to other entrepreneurs looking to scale their ventures.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications
- By : Devdutt Patnayak
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Hindi
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 280 pages
- Weight : 180 g
- Size : 12.7 x 1.6 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9788129144836
- ISBN-13 : 978-8129144836
DESCRIPTION:
In Meri Gita , acclaimed mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik demystifies The Bhagavad Gita for the contemporary reader. His unique approach—thematic rather than verse-by-verse—makes the ancient treatise eminently accessible, combined as it is with his trademark illustrations and simple diagrams.In a world that seems spellbound by argument over dialogue, vi-vaad over sam-vaad, Devdutt highlights how Krishna nudges Arjuna to understand rather than judge his relationships. This becomes relevant today when we are increasingly indulging and isolating the self (self-improvement, self-actualization, self-realization—even selfies!).We forget that we live in an ecosystem of others, where we can nourish each other with food, love and meaning, even when we fight.
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- Publisher : Westland
- By : Sri M.
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 232 pages
- Weight : 180 g
- Size : 14 x 1.47 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8193655605
- ISBN-13 : 978-8193655603
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Saami—as they call him—settles into a small cottage in the backyard of the local toddy shop. Here he spins parables, blesses, curses, drinks endless glasses of black tea and lives in total freedom. On rare occasions, he plays soul-stirring melodies on his old, bamboo-reed flute.Then, just as mysteriously as he arrived, Shunya vanishes, setting the path for a new avadhuta, a new era.This first novel by Sri M is a meditation on the void which collapses the wall between reality and make-believe, the limited and the infinite. With its spare storytelling and profound wisdom, it leads us into the realm of ‘shunya’, the nothingness of profound and lasting peace, the beginning and end of all things.
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- Publisher : Westland
- By : Ashwin Sanghi
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 489 pages
- Weight : 260 g
- Size : 12.9 x 3 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9381626812
- ISBN-13 : 978-9381626818
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Based on the principles and story of the legendry Chanakya, the book, 'Chanakya's Chant’ presents a gripping tale of wisdom, wit and mind boggling political strategies. The novel has two parts. In the first part, it takes readers to ancient India where a simple but extraordinarily smart Brahmin helps an Indian ruler to combat 'Alexander, the great'; while the second half is set in contemporary India. This book is written by famous historical fiction author Ashwin Sanghi who is known for his minute detailing and charming story telling style. It is published by Westland publication and within two months, it became an Indian national bestseller. This book received the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Popular Choice Award.India during 340 BC was a land divided between numerous regional rulers who had limited power and were no match for their foreign counterparts. Alexander the great, in his quest of conquering the world, reaches the Indian frontier and the Indian rulers are set to bend their knees in front of this great ruler. However, one ruler, Chandragupta Maurya provides resistance and is successful in stopping Alexander’s invasion and establishes the mighty Mauryan Dynasty.It is the brain of Chankaya, the smart political strategist which helps Chandragupta in his conquest. Chankaya with his shrewd tactics and unbelievable brilliance becomes the most powerful political strategist the land had ever seen. They say that history repeats itself and now, Chankaya is born again, two and a half millennia later in modern India as Gangasagar Mishra. Being a Brahmin teacher, he has the same dream to become the most powerful person of this country. However, this time his challenges are bigger than before.India has adopted a democratic system but Gangasagar Mishra is optimistic of conning the system through greed, corruption, venality and sexual deviance. On his side is an ambitious, beautiful and a powerful slum child.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury India
- By : William Dalrymple
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 360 pages
- Weight : 259 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9385936557
- ISBN-13 : 978-9385936555
DESCRIPTION:
Delhi is a city like no other, one which, in spite of being as old as time, is culturally dominated by relatively new dwellers. Interspersed with accounts of meeting assorted Delhiwallahs including Sufis, eunuchs, Persian scholars and an Englishwoman who stays behind after the Raj's hasty exit, City of Djinns seeks out the essence of this ancient town in a travelogue like no other. Moving, profoundly insightful and compulsively readable, City of Djinns is a loving exploration by one of the great historians of our time of the city he choses to call home.
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- Publisher : Harper Collins
- By : Amitav Ghosh
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2016
- Pages : 400 pages
- Weight : 476 g
- Size : 13.5 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8172236131
- ISBN-13 : 978-8172236137
DESCRIPTION:
From the author of the Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal.An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh’s new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator.And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society.
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- Publisher : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors
- By : P.V. Laxmiprasad
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 260 pages
- Weight : 430 g
- ISBN-10 : 812692943X
- ISBN-13 : 978-8126929436
DESCRIPTION:
The Writings of Amitav Ghosh: Exploration of Multiple Worlds deals with the critical perspectives of Ghosh's oeuvre of fictional and non-fictional works. A meticulously researched volume, it focuses on the important dimensions of Ghosh's writing from Travel and Diaspora, History and Political Struggles, Identity Crisis and South East Asian Population, Autobiographical Elements and finally Post-colonial and Post-modern Existence beyond the countries, continents and oceans. These are the themes on which the book moves around with first-hand research by eminent scholars and critics.