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Mastaan -The Fallen Patriot of Delhi
An imperial monster masquerades as a mercantile company. From gunpowder to opium, the East India Company uses every weapon to bring an entire sub-continent to its knees. Even Tipu, the fearsome Tiger of Mysore, falls prey to British military might. As a century of deceit and cruelty unfolds - the oppressed thirst for retribution. Delhi is the first to drown in blood, as a violent sepoy uprising engulfs all of Hindustan. The seat of the crumbling Mughal empire emerges as the epicenter of the ghadar. An unforgettable poet laments the destruction of his beloved city and a senile Badshah?s eyes gleam with unreal hope, as both sides of the Laal Qila witness terrifying bloodshed and historical battles. And amidst all the cannon-roars, brutal duels, intoxicated mushairas, ravishing courtesans, haunted treasures and bloody battles ? unfolds the immortal story of the magnificent Mastaan Pandey. Did one man really change the course of history?s greatest war for freedom?
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Yoga For Diabetes
Mrs. Supriya Deshpande is CEO of “Honyaku Remedies”, a leading language translation agency in Mumbai. She is also an ardent Yoga lover and has been following Yoga practices for the last 32 years. She is living a happy and disease-free life with regular yoga practice. She wants to share her first-hand experience with yoga for diabetic people. She believes that this book will help them to control the disease and change their lifestyle and enjoy life. This ebook serves as a guide to those who want to live a healthy life. “Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavanti” is the motto behind writing this book
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The Two Kashmirs
There has been a steady and incessant campaign by Pakistan against India with effective use of the media and diplomacy. This has corrupted the imagination of impressionable minds in J&K and raised an architecture of violence, which some call the ‘terror industry.’ The Two Kashmirs is an attempt to compare Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) with the rest of Kashmir in India. It discusses the hypothesis advanced by advocates of violence and resistance in J&K about the state being on the receiving end as far as Indian economic and developmental policies are concerned. The data is collected and analysed on the indices of development—ranging from the very basic ones—like life-expectancy and literacy to healthcare and education.
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Government Doesn't Want You To Know This
From fraudulent forensic reports to dodgy Parliament replies, our Government has resorted to an array of dark maneuvers to block the truth about SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE’s fate. Now, powered by years of unrelenting research, CHANDRACHUR GHOSE and ANUJ DHAR bring you the cold truth. The man who freed India was alive long after his reported death, a victim of cruel circumstances. Here are the heartbreaking facts Government would not like you to know.
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Tribes Of India Realities And Representations
The term ‘tribe/tribal’ is at the heart of several contentious issues of contemporary Indian society. For centuries the tribal communities have been subjected to domination and control by the outsiders and been victims of cultural genocide. As a result, their relationship with forests has been violated, their lifestyle that epitomised harmony with Nature, stands denigrated causing colossal disruption of the everyday practices. Does the process of subjugation and assimilation imply a complete disintegration of tribal practices and tradition? What are the challenges posed by modernisation, sankritisation, and globalisation on linguistic realities and its effect on tribal identity and culture? What happens when the indigenous language faces threat from the outside world? Does it succumb to the pressure and becomes extinct? This book offers critical insights into questions that are fundamental as well as contemporary in the field of tribal research. From oral cultures and language issues to the radical aspects in tribal Ramayanas and Mahabharatas, to ethnographic studies on tribal monetary traditions, textile, and handicrafts, not to mention the chapters on literary studies of authors like Mamang Dai, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and Mahasweta Devi, the book encompasses a variety of research work that is multidisciplinary, heterogeneous in scope and yet, incisive in argumentation.
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Parents At War
Parents at War shares real-life stories of children caught up in the warfare between litigating parents, bringing to the fore the plight of children who bear the brunt of such contests and undergo deep trauma due to parental bickering and tug of war. The book also shares the predicament the judges face while balancing delicately the interests of all the stakeholders and ensuring the welfare of children. It brings to light how unknowingly, the parents, in their zeal to win custody, scar the children forever. Children not only suffer psychological trauma, but also have physical manifestations like stunted growth, obesity, nausea, aches and pain etc. Whether the mother lands the custody or the father, there is no winner here because it is the child who loses on love, affection, and care of a parent and also the extended family. The book also touches upon the issue of insincere custody litigation with hidden agenda.
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K File- The Conspiracy Of Silence
The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the biggest internal security challenges for the Indian state. 2001 saw over 4, 500 terror-related deaths in the state.This figure has steadily declined in the last 18 years, making the world wrongly believe this reduction in violence is a sign that Kashmir is moving towards conflict resolution., bashir assad argues, there is never going to be a resolution of conflict in Kashmir and return to peace unless all stakeholders --- The Kashmiris themselves, the Indian state and the political parties in Kashmir get together and negotiate peace with the militants.The ideology of holy jihad and the aspiration for the kingdom of God has now coopted women and teenagers as their strongest campaigner in Kashmir, turning paradise into hell. The change from a political problem to a religious matter needs to be understood and strategically challenged, the activist-journalist says in his brave book, K file-the conspiracy of silence.
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Only in darkness can you see the stars-Martin Luth
He called his India visit a ‘pilgrimage’ the American Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr spent one long month in India, calling it the land that demonstrated the efficacy of non-violence as a successful tool of resistance against bondage, injustice and the power of the gun. Gandhi was the world’s Guru who showed the way, leading the common man into contributing in a struggle out of colonialism. He made Civil disobedience a household word. Martin Luther King Jr gave Civil liberties a new meaning, ending apartheid in the USA, at a time when it became the world’s strongest nation. In the last 50 years, there has been no more powerful voice against war in the world, It is still Martin Luther king’s stand against American war on Vietnam that shines as an example against military might. He is the voice of American conscience, still reverberating. Only in darkness can you see the stars is an mlk biography reminding a young India that looks askance at non-violence, what a struggle America waged to give itself equal rights, including sitting rights and voting rights, not so long ago. King’s life is an example of what is doable at the time of utter darkness. That what Gautama Buddha taught India nearly 3, 000 years ago still holds good. At the end of Darkness is light.
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King Of Pride
She's his opposite in every way . . . and the greatest temptation he's ever known. Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos - and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the billionaire heir can't afford the distraction she brings. Isabella is everything he shouldn't want, but with every look and every touch, he's tempted to break all his rules . . . and claim her as his own. *** Bold, impulsive, and full of life, Isabella Valencia has never met a party she doesn't like or a man she couldn't charm . . . except for Kai Young. It shouldn't matter. He's not her type - the man translates classics into Latin for fun, and his membership at the exclusive club where she bartends means he's strictly off limits. But she can't deny that, beneath his cool exterior, is a man who could make her melt with just a touch. No matter how hard they try, they can't resist giving into their forbidden desires. Even if it costs them everything.
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Backfire In Nepal-How India Lost The Plot To China
Backfire in Nepal explores how China has become the ultimate beneficiary of India’s democracy-promotion agenda in Nepal. New Delhi had made a bold bet in 2005, but one that contained two mutually fortifying flaws: the abolition of the monarchy and the empowerment of the former Maoist rebels. The world’s only Hindu monarch and kingdom were bound to India in a special relationship that neither country needed to define or assert. True, Indians had been put off by successive Nepalese monarchs playing New Delhi off against Beijing. In retrospect, a little more compassion for Nepal’s compulsions might have put things into sharper relief. Nepalese Maoists, being communists first, were trained to denounce Indian ‘expansionism’ before American ‘imperialism’. Experience may have impelled the senior leadership to make practical compromises. It was a leap of faith for New Delhi to trust the leadership to rein in their cadres’ radicalism. More broadly, since India had also enlisted Western democracies, it needed to address their often-contradictory concerns throughout Nepal’s turbulent transition. The Chinese could act purely on their national interests. India continues to misread how Beijing sees Nepal – both in terms of China’s visions of the past and the future. This complicates the core trilateral challenge: ensuring that Nepal is not sucked deeper into the Sino-Indian vortex, only to be scorned for aggravating the Asian giants’ rivalry.
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Identity Politics In Jammu And Kashmir
Highlighting the internal dimensions of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, the book deals with overlapping, multi-layered and multiple identity politics of this state. While focusing on identity politics of Kashmir, which remains at the root of conflict, it goes beyond its homogenized exterior and points to various internal tensions. More importantly, it goes beyond the Kashmiri identity politics and focuses on various other manifestations of identities including religious, regional and sub-regional identity politics within the state. It seeks to draw attention to the sociocultural diversity and political divergence within Jammu and Kashmir and talks about multiple contexts of deprivation and neglect including those defined by the categories of gender, caste and tribe. The book is divided into five sections: identities and politics in Kashmir; religion, identities and inter-community relations; exodus and identity politics of Kashmiri pundits; identity politics of women and Dalits and; the other Kashmir.
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Brahmacharya Gandhi & His Women Associates
Brahmacharya Gandhi and His Women Associates is a psychobiography and study of man woman relationship involving one of the greatest men in world history. There was a definitive attration in Gandhiji that brought womenfolk close to him. And Mahatma Gandhi was not shy of speaking about his relationship with his women associates, except in a few cases. He wanted the world to know of his tryst with brahmacharya [celibacy]in which women constituted an integral part. He kept a meticulous record and tried to make the players keep the records too. However, most of them tried to either destroy the records or refused to disclose the intensity of their feelings. A construct is still possible based on Gandhiji's writings and on the basis of writings of some of them who were involved.It was the revulsion from sex that forced Gandhiji to take a vow of celibacy in in 1906. Then onwards, till the laboratory experiments in Noakhali, during the height of the Indian freedom movement,Gandhiji kept trying to find out if it was possible to overcome desire and remain a brahmachari[one who practices celibacy]. There were more than a dozen women who came to be closely associated with him at one time or the other. Some of them were foreigners - Millie Graham Polak, Sonja Schlesin, Esther Faering Nilla Cram Cook, Margarete Spiegel and Mirabehn.Gandhiji's closeness to women created a storm in the ashram and exposed him to public glare. However, the mahatma was sure of his actions.
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Battlefield India- 25 Years of Politricks and Econ
Battlefield India is a chronicle of the near past which tells us how the cycle of chaos repeats itself. The story starts in 1997 on the eve of India’s 50th year as an independent nation, and ends in 2022 as free India celebrates its 75th birthday. The political, economic, and social events of the last 25 years are recounted through the voices of people the author has interviewed over the years. These voices include many who shall go down in the history books as legends of this period in India’s long history: among others, the man behind the Green Revolution and a member of independent India’s Constituent Assembly C Subramaniam, the former President of India R. Venkataraman, the eminent agronomist Dr M S Swaminathan, the acerbic cartoonist Abu Abraham, the inimitable political commentator Cho Ramaswamy, and the ever eloquent MP Shashi Tharoor.
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23rd Midnight
'Smart characters, shocking twists' Lisa Gardner 'A compelling read with great set pieces and, most of all, that charismatic cast of characters' Sun 'I couldn't turn the pages quick enough' Heidi Perks 'Terrific, high-octane, really pacy' Jo Spain _________________________________ Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind bars. Now a new killer has recreated Burke's most infamous crimes-and disappeared without a trace. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas put Burke on the bestseller list, in her true-crime book about the case. An obsessed fan is studying every detail-and committing fresh horrors that carry Burke's signature. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, one who's penning a deadly playbook featuring Cindy's name in blood-red ink. _________________________________ Praise for James Patterson 'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Nobody does it better' Jeffrey Deaver 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin
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The Choice-The Dragon Heart Legacy Book 3
With Odran's defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal, his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has stalled - for now. But the terrible battle and heart-breaking losses have taken their toll. It's a time as painful as any Breen has ever known as she helps to treat the wounded, bring the dead home from blood-and ash-soaked battlegrounds and support her friends and family in their grief. With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed it is a time to recover but there is little time to rest. Soon the enemy's witches begin to appear to Breen in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting brutal destruction. It is time for Breen to seek out those in desperate need of rescue and confront the darkness with every weapon she has. An epic battle is coming. A battle Breen cannot afford to lose....
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Desiccated Land
"This is an extraordinary book." — Amitabh Mattoo, Padma Shri honoree, prominent author and columnist "This book is a vital document of the bravery of our colleagues in Kashmir." — Naresh Fernandes, award-winning journalist "One of the most objective and insightful accounts I've read of the lives of Kashmiri people." — Rahman Abbas, novelist & winner of India’s Sahitya Akademi Award You’ve never read a book like this. With its innovative narrative style, Desiccated Land paints a bracing picture of India’s most troubled region. American journalist David Lepeska’s first full-time reporting job was for Srinagar-based daily Kashmir Observer, and this book gathers his best KO work, details his personal journey and lessons learned as a foreign correspondent, and presents his sober assessment, years later, of the impact of Indian and US policies on the region. Yet the book’s focus is local. Media coverage of conflict often leaves out the long-term human toll, the eviscerating impact of decades of violence — on society, culture, education, justice, and well-being. Yet only by gauging what war has wrought can we know how to respond and, eventually, recover. Desiccated Land combines reportage, memoir, and travelogue to explore the reality of daily life in a war-torn land. The book catalogs Kashmiri suffering and its root causes and wonders when the Valley might be able to look toward the future with hope.
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The Kamin's Daughter
Two seemingly unrelated deadly incidents. A deadly methane blast kills several workers in the Chirimiri coal mines. A suicide bomber attacks the Delhi CM's house and blows it up. Both cases land on Koena's lap, a journalist at the TNN network. Sharp as a whip, clever, and with an eye on the top job at her network, Koena decides to get to the bottom of both the cases. Married to a celebrity chef, Shom, Koena has the world at her feet. Along with her colleague, Sagar, she hurries to unravel the truth behind the two cases. Will Koena find answers before it is too late?
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Win Before You Begin
Life brings with it all the contradictions,to teach us lessons that eventually mould us in to who we are,And we all have our destined share of what is thrown at us ! sharing what we receive as experiences ia a "pay it forward' to the society. if others can learn from our sufferings and our personal choices sometimes becime stumbling blocks that do not allow us to succeed This book is simple and honest attempt to weave a tapestry of all the good that can be done ,just by motivating and supporting self and others.adversities bow down against purpose,backed by an aspiration to excel Its Said that ;When life throws lemonsat you,make a lemonadel!'
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Keep Moving 2
Recuperating from his injury separated shoulder,the famous footballer,Glen Tenove said,"God,make it as tough as you can,but make it possible,If it is possible I will maakeit happen". while glean had tenacity,manyneed guidance from people like and me to know what is possible and make it happen we created 'Life school Foundation' to return a bit of this tenacity and guidance which we have been blessed in abundance by life Through 'Life school Foundation' , We plan to build a World class school for children who would be 'Forces of Goodness 'to the society Through this school and through the work of our parent organisation,life school ,we assume responsibility to play our part and make this world a better place to live in. The entire profit from the sale of 'Keep moving" will be used to develope the school.
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Keep Moving
Recuperating from his injury separated shoulder,the famous footballer,Glen Tenove said,"God,make it as tough as you can,but make it possible,If it is possible I will maakeit happen". while glean had tenacity,manyneed guidance from people like and me to know what is possible and make it happen we created 'Life school Foundation' to return a bit of this tenacity and guidance which we have been blessed in abundance by life Through 'Life school Foundation' , We plan to build a World class school for children who would be 'Forces of Goodness 'to the society Through this school and through the work of our parent organisation,life school ,we assume responsibility to play our part and make this world a better place to live in. The entire profit from the sale of 'Keep moving" will be used to develope the school.
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The Storyteller
As a mother, a woman and a retired police officer, Prasanna Killedar thinks of murder as the ultimate agent of chaos. And she knows chaos punishes women disproportionately. That’s why whenever the police seek help, she finds it impossible to say no. The stakes become all the more personal when the victim is Shraddha, her daughter’s childhood friend, and the eldest daughter of a thug politician. Prasanna and investigating officer, Yogini Sawant soon realize that to catch the killer, they have to first enter the seedy underbelly of internet and the world of online roleplaying. As the investigation leads into new corners of internet as well as the human mind, Prasanna realizes she will have to set up her own game to stop this cycle of terror and violence. A game where the predator will become the prey. However, when you are entering the virtual world where only evil is real, baiting a damaged mind is the kind of high-stakes game that may end with devastating consequences.
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Chhatrapati Shree Shivarai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is one of the most eminent names in the history to be born in Maharashtra. His short reign of 50 years has been nothing but historic. Even after 350 years, there isn't a single village in Maharashtra where people do not sing his praises. This book is an effort to review his exemplary reign with evidence. This book tells the truth and gives information to the people based on the evidence. As people learn the truth, they start seeing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a new light and a new viewpoint; and they feel even more proud of him. Everyone who wants to learn about the true history of the Legendary Shivchatrapati must read this biography with all heart!
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Why Did I Ever Get Married?
"How can he not see why I am upset?"... "Why do women take so much time to get dressed?"... "Why can't he just stop and ask for directions?"... "Why does she keep asking me if I love her?" Men and women may have reached the outer space, but it's no secret that when it comes to decoding each other's behaviour, signs and language, we are as clueless and lost as Alice in Wonderland! 'Why Did I Ever Get Married!' is a book that provides a ringside view of the 'new age' marriages where couples grapple with some 'old issues' and some contemporary ones, for which they were never given a "how to" manual. These could be about a transition from being a "double income to single income couple" or coping with "libido fluctuations" in their married life or fighting over "bed-side manners" and "addictions" or even coming to terms with a "quasi spouse" at work!
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Ravana -The king Of Rakshasas
Ravan the king of rakshsas is the story of a king of lanka who chivarlic, scholar,great devotees of shiva.