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Modi's North East Story
India’s northeastern states bore the brunt of the horribly miscalculated 1962 war with China, which resulted in many problems. While losing territory to China was one of them, the deep-rooted emotional scars and alienation of the northeastern states due to repeated neglect by successive central governments was tougher to heal. After Prime Minister (PM) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had made an earnest attempt to bridge the divide between the Northeast and the rest of India during his tenure, PM Narendra Modi was the first to take the task of uplifting the Northeast with a rare visionary zeal with his Act East Policy. Ten years later, the results are all too visible.
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Of Love And Politics
Tuhin A Sinha of Love and Politics [paperback] SINHA [Jan 01, 2012] Readings and activities designed to help students improve their comprehension and response skills. Classroom–tested lessons include brief reading selections followed by constructed response and multiple–choice questions and thinking and writing activities. Reading Comprehension Boosters is flexible and can be used as a core or supplemental program, as test prep, or for intervention with individual students or groups.
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Let The Reason Be Love
What makes strangers fall in love? This remains a conundrum - one that neither technological breakthroughs, nor the most passionate of lovers has managed to unravel. While some may attribute attraction to shared sensibilities or even a karmic connection, the fact remains that love comes without simple answers, it�s damn complicated! Rishaan and Kiara, both incurable romantics, recovering from their respective heartbreaks, fall in love with one another (or so they think!). Soon, they are in a relationship, their affair is as blissful as it is chaotic. Then, in an unexpected turn of events, the bohemian Kiara proposes marriage. But Rishaan is not so sure, and things get especially problematic when Rishaan realizes that it�s Kiara�s best friend he could be falling for! Written in Tuhin A. Sinha�s impassioned and disturbingly honest narrative-style, Let the Reason Be Love is the author�s second exclusive romantic offering after his 2006 debut bestseller, That Thing Called Love.
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Daddy
"With gender dynamics changing the world over, parenting is a key area where this change is most perceptible. Modern dads today have no inhibitions in changing their baby's diapers, spending sleepless nights catering to their newborn or looking after the baby while the mother is at work. They often tend to be more patient and indulgent with the baby, a marked shift from the way Indian fathers used to be a few decades ago. Daddy, a first of its kind Indian book, provides a rare parenting insight from a fathers perspective, and looks at issues, concerns and joys that every new father goes through. Combining personal narrative, with stories from new fathers and leading medical practitioners, the book brings together ideas on involved fatherhood and explores the changing relationship dynamic between a couple after the baby arrives. In more ways than one, it celebrates the spirit of new age fatherhood. PRAISE ON 'DADDY' Fatherhood has been the most amazing life altering experience for me..Daddy is a one of its kind book that celebrates the emotion of being a father, besides being a ready handbook for all new fathers as well as those planning to go the family way. VIVEK OBEROI, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR. 'Daddy' proves that fatherhood is an inner calling and a passion! It shows how you can find time to be a hands-on father despite all your professional commitments- MANOJ BAJPAYEE, BOLLYWOOD ACTOR. The book is an excellent combination of profound paternal emotions and some very practical guidance tips for new fathers. Loved it..you will! TARUN KATIAL, CEO, RELIANCE BROADCAST NETWORK LTD. Tuhin's book comes with a bright ray of hope, providing beautiful and meaningful insights for fathers to raise their children in a healthy environment, which will enhance a child's life holistically. SEEMA HINGORRANY, PSYCHOLOGIST
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The Edge of Power
The heinous gang-rape of Nirbhaya has jolted the Indian nation out of its apathy. But rape and violence against women are only symptomatic of a deeper malaise that ails the nation: the total collapse of governance under the weak and vacillating PM, Devender Singh. Ironically, aiding the PM and his Indian Democratic Party (IDP)s cling to power is a casual and largely indifferent Opposition led by the venal Ravi Nehra. A ray of hope finally emerges when ex-journalist and RTI activist Daivik Verma and the gorgeous Catherine Khan, a leading Bollywood film-star with a mysterious lineage, decide to challenge the existing system by floating a new political party. But lack of funds and cadre support thwarts their efforts, their only recourse being Shruti Ranjan, who had sworn off politics three years ago. Will Nirbhayas gruesome rape and her subsequent death bring a disillusioned Shruti Ranjan back into the political fray, dominated by crime lords and bankrolled by industrial barons? Will the trio manage to stage a coup and dethrone Indias worst regime? Will the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, finally get a dynamic Prime Minister she so badly needs? A racy political thriller, The Edge of Power is a powerful inquiry into the underbelly of Indian politics. It raises important questions over the funding of Indian political parties, while presenting Shruti Ranjan, the immensely popular protagonist of The Edge of Desire, in a refreshingly new, resurgent avatar
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The Edge Of Desire
When journalist Shruti Ranjan, newly-wed wife of the Deputy Commissioner of Kishanganj in the lawless Bihar of the 1990s is brutally raped by a ‘politically sheltered local goon’ all of her attempts at getting justice are crushed by a corrupt and complicit state government. That’s when the charismatic Sharad Malviya, a leading member of the Opposition party, offers her an unlikely solution: his party’s ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Left with little to choose from, Shruti agrees, only to realize that being catapulted to an enviable position of power in an all-man’s world comes at a price. Caught between her mentor and her spouse – both upright but ultimately flawed men – and a host of envious others who continue to cast aspersions on her character, she struggles to address the larger problems of the country. Taunted for being a ‘Draupadi’ she makes the curse her identity and resolutely fights her fate…
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The Captain
As Mayank grapples with myriad emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India s abysmal showing at the ODI World Cup a year earlier. He revisits a damning no-holds-barred report that he had prepared, citing the reasons for India s defeat. Reasons that ranged from ball-tampering to drugs, from philandering to betting. Haunted by these memories, with the T20 World Cup looming before him, Mayank must find out whether the match has been fixed, ease underlying tensions, keep team morale up and play the best cricket of his life. The chronicle of one man s journey through the fickleness that is life and cricket, The Captain is an unputdownable thriller. About the author Tuhin A. Sinha is an author, columnist and scriptwriter based in Mumbai. His other two books That Thing Called Love and Of Love and Politics were well received. Tuhin has also scripted several TV shows, apart from having worked as a story/script/creative consultant with leading film and TV production houses. As a columnist, he writes regularly for The Times of India and other leading publications. Tuhin is presently working on his fourth book and a movie script
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22 Yards
It’s exactly twenty-five years after India’s spectacular World Cup victory at Lords, and Indian cricket captain Mayank Pradhan is preparing for the match of his life: the Twenty20 World Cup final.While an entire nation waits for the finals with bated breath, Mayank learns that some of his team mates have been bought by bookies. As Mayank grapples with myraid emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India’s abysmal showing at the ODI World Cup a year earlier. He revisits a damning no-holds-barred report that he had prepared, citing the reasons for India’s defeat. Reasons that ranged from ball-tampering to drugs, from philandering to betting. Hunted by these memories, with the Twenty20 World Cup looming before him, Mayank must find out whether the match has been fixed, ease underlying tensions, keep team morale up – and play the best cricket of his life. The chronicle of one’s man journey through the fickleness that is life and cricket, 22 yards is an unputdownable thriller.
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That thing called love
A male chauvinist who derives a strange kick out of cheating on his wife; A dutiful husband who waits patiently for his wife to shed her emotional baggage from a past relationship; A coquettish office receptionist who is actually a call girl; An adventourous gay who is always on the prowl for soft targets... Such indeed are some of the characters around Mayank sahai, 29, the ad-sales manager of a leading matrimony website thematchmaker.com. Mayank thus lives in disillusionment, aspiring, with diminishing hope, to fall in love in all Utopian earnestness and with his'perfect woman'. The irony eventually arises when he identifies the image of his 'perfect woman' in an older happily married woman. The dreamer in him sets aside ground realities to flow with natural impulses, leading to a dangerously complicated relationship between the woman and him. That Mayank's relationship with Revathi unfolds during the course of one Mumbai monsoon, the first that an anticipating Mayank, experiences of the city, only makes this utopia an even more surreal experience. Will Mayank's romance ever strike a balance between chimera and actuality? that thing called love is Tuhin's first novel.It explores relatioships in the contemporary, urban set-up of mumbai, in the backdrop of changing moralities... www.tuhin.in