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Farewell Kabul

From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong?Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life. Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan. Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth. With unparalleled access to all key decision-makers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, London and Washington, from heads of state and generals as well as soldiers on the ground, Farewell Kabul tells how this happened. In Afghanistan, Lamb has travelled far beyond Helmand - from the caves of Tora Bora in the south to the mountainous bad lands of Kunar in the east, from Herat, city of poets and minarets in the west, to the very poorest province of Samangan in the north. She went to Guantanamo, met Taliban in Quetta, visited jihadi camps in Pakistan and saw bin Laden's house just after he was killed. Saddest of all, she met women who had been made role models by the West and had then been shot, raped or forced to flee the country. This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thoughtout wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world.

Amul's India- Based On 50 Years Of Amul Advertisin

The Amul campaign tells the stories of India, one hoarding at a time. In this revised and updated edition of Amul's India, the much celebrated and best-selling book on fifty years of the Amul advertising campaign, new essays and ads have been added-on topics ranging from the NaMo phenomenon to women's safety and empowerment - to captivate all those who love their daily dose of the lovable little Amul girl in polka dots. This book celebrates the Amul girl's journey through the eyes of prominent writers, public figures and the subjects of hoardings themselves, offering a potted history of the country over fifty years.

Thought For The Day

In The Unlikely Event

The Real Life MBA

You can talk about theories, concepts and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy and everything in between. My boss is unbearable. I'm stuck in career purgatory. My team lacks enthusiasm. Our IT department is incompetent. We don't understand our Chinese partners. We're just not growing. Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into the world of business than ever before, traveling the world consulting to businesses of every size and in every industry, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley. Coupled with Jack's 20 years of iconic leadership at GE and Suzy's tenure as editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge infuses the pages of The Real Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions.

He Swam With Sharks For An Ice-Cream

To be wealthy and successful is the dream of everyone. To achieve this dream is given only to the very few. Yet, if one knew the secrets, the characteristics that these few people possessed, it might help others realize their dreams too. Many self-help books set out to teach readers how to achieve success in many aspects of life. This book is a self-help book that is a little different. It teaches its lessons through a story. The two protagonists are young corporate employees, Abhi and Dave. In their late twenties, they are just beginning to wear off the edges of their youthful enthusiasm with which they started their careers. One day, they are asked to meet a retired businessman, an old man who has over the course of his life managed to become a billionaire. The man has recorded his secrets in a diary which he is now willing to share with others. Haribhai learnt his lessons from Dhirubhai Ambani, the Indian industrialist who founded the Reliance group. The old man uses many incidents from Ambani's life and from other successful people like Ray Kroc, Ratan Tata and Bill Gates to impart valuable lessons. Abhi and Dave listen to Haribhai as he tells them about his own life and the business lessons he learnt. Over the course of the book, the readers also gain some wisdom on how to keep employees motivated, how to improve business profitability and how to plan well for business growth. The author refers to many successful people, but the main focus is on Ambani, an inspirational figure. A man from a humble background and with no financial backing, he built a business empire from scratch, through sheer determination, common sense and worldly wisdom. He Swam With Sharks For An Ice-Cream uses many quotes, parables and tales from around the world to illustrate many important points. The title itself is inspired by an incident that is said to have occurred in Ambani's life. Never a man to back down from challenges, he is once said to have swam through shark infested waters, just to win an ice-cream as a prize. The motivation was not the ice-cream, which he could easily have bought. It was the challenge itself that interested him.

One Shot

Jack Reacher is miles away from Indiana when a former army infantry sniper kills five apparently random people in a crowded public plaza. Reacher is living his nomadic life, and comes to Indiana the minute he sees the news on CNN. But Reacher forms his own conclusions as James Barr, the sniper, is beaten to the point of not remembering the shoot-out incident. Meanwhile, an NBC news reporter called Ann Yanni is set out to collect more information. Reacher lets her be a part of the investigation based on the deal that she later helps in public expose on the Barr case, and lets him use her car! Will they be able to find the actual reason for the massacre based in the evidences deliberately left behind by Barr?

The Eye Of The Tiger

Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, now makes an honest living as a charter skipper fishing in the magnificent Indian Ocean. Until suddenly men from a world he has put behind him plunge once more into a deadly game. And he must play -- for an unknown prize against undeclared odds -- by the rules of violence and death which he once practiced as an art. For of one thing he is certain: to fail is to die...

Mindbend-The Soul Of Evil

Utterly chilling. Frighteningly plausible. A classic of medical horror that could come only from Robin Cook. When young dancer Jennifer Schonberg becomes pregnant by accident, her feelings are mixed—but her husband, Adam, is far more ambivalent. For Adam, a third-year medical student already in financial straits, the loss of Jennifer's income and the cost of the coming child mean he must drop out of medical school—on the eve of becoming a doctor. Against the advice of his teachers, his colleagues, and his wife most of all, Adam takes a job as a salesman for the vastly powerful drug company Arolen Pharmaceuticals, whose influence is known to penetrate deep into the physician's world. But just how awesome Arolen's control is over the medical profession Adam is yet to discover. It will become all too clear in a series of increasingly terrifying revelations: corruption old as greed itself; bizarre brutality searing as a futuristic vision of hell; the preservation of life turned to a deadly purpose. And awaiting him at the end of his violent odyssey is a confrontation grave beyond imagining, in which the survival of Jennifer's unborn child hangs in the balance as Adam fights to save his family—and the soul of medicine—from the overwhelming evil that is Mindbend. Moving from gleaming hospital corridors that shelter dark secrets to luxurious cruise ships that are not what they seem, from action-packed chases to scenes of spell-binding scientific terror, Mindbend will draw all those who read so much as a page into its web of irresistible suspense—and hold them fast.

Battle Cry

Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus. Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at war from a legendary American author. This is the story of enlisted men – Marines – at the beginning of World War II. They are a rough–and–ready tangle of guys from America's cities and farms and reservations. Led by a tough veteran sergeant, these soldiers band together to emerge as part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. With staggering realism and detail, we follow them into intense battles – Guadalcanal and Tarawa – and through exceptional moments of camaraderie and bravery. Battle Cry does not extol the glories of war, but proves itself to be one of the greatest war stories of all time.

Debt Of Honour

Jack Ryan defends the USA against economic sabotage from the East that escalates into war in Tom Clancy’s record-breaking Sunday Times No 1 bestseller – now reissued in a new cover. It begins with the murder of an American woman in the back streets of Tokyo. It ends in wa. Called out of retirement to serve as the new President’s National Security Adviser, Jack Ryan quickly realizes that the problems of peace are fully as complex as those of war. Enemies have become friends, friends enemies, and even the form of conflict has changed. When one of those new enemies readies a strike not only at America’s territory, but at the heart of her economy, it is Ryan who must somehow prepare an untested President to meet the challenge. For there is a debt of honour to be paid – and the price will be terrifyingly high

The Angels Weep

'They came at a run, side by side, seeming to wade through the thick swamp of mortar smoke and dust, and they appeared monstrous and inhuman in the stark light of the star shells. One of them was a huge Matabele. He had lost his helmet and his head was round and black as a cannon ball, his open mouth was a pink cave lined with ivory teeth, and his bull bellow rose above even that storm of gunfire. The other was a white man, the top of his battledress torn half off his body, exposing the pale flesh of his chest and shoulders, but his face was daubed with fiendish streaks of dark green and brown paint.' At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they have carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar the opponents for ever - and etch for them the same tragic legacy for generations to come...

The Bear And The Dragon

President Jack Ryan faces a crisis unlike any he has ever known..: Tired of the arrogance of the West and eager to fulfill their destiny, they are taking matters into their own hands .If they succeed, the world will never be the same. If they fail.. the consequences may be unthinkable.

The Islamic State-A Brief Introduction

How did the Islamic State grow from regional terrorist group to a brutal multinational bureaucratic machine? What are its goals? How can it be stopped? In 2014, the Islamic State seemingly appeared out of nowhere, conquering Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and boldly announcing the establishment of a caliphate that seeks to eliminate all borders in the Middle East and to extend them as far as Central Asia and India. Today, it controls thousands of square miles, is attempting to govern millions of people and has gained notoriety for its indiscriminate and savage be headings. Charles R. Lister, visiting fellow at the Bookings Institution's Doha Center, traces the outfit's growth from the release of its notorious father figure, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, from a Jordanian prison in 1999 and the group's formation in Afghanistan, finally to its stunning maturation in Iraq and Syria more than a decade later. He helps us understand what to expect next and recommends a course of action to defeat the group. This is an excellent primer on an organization that threatens to unseat the al-Qaeda as the leader of transnational jihadism, not to mention the risk it poses to global security.

Hon'ble Minister Jagubhai

Gujarat MLA Jagubhai finds himself on the fast track to a coveted minister ship after a local newspaper lists his name amongst the probables. His base of supporters swells overnight. Officials, businessmen, supporters and even close family members, line up to remind him of old favors given and promises to be kept. Jagubhais nephew, Rajshekhar, an inconsequential government officer, joins his team as his self-styled personal secretary. As a political crisis brews, we see what a roller coaster ride a politicians life can be. Dramatic, humorous and full of intrigue, this novel is as real as it gets. It could well be the biography of any politician we read about in the papers every day.

The Colaba Conspiracy

Jeet Singhs ex-girlfriend Sushmitas rich industrialist husband is brutally stabbed to death. Her stepchildren destroy all evidence of her marriage to their slain father and implicate her in the case along with Jeet Singh. Known to be able to open any safe in the country, Jeet Singh takes it upon himself to clear their names and solve the murder mystery. Voted the most popular book of 2014 in Indian Writing , Colaba Conspiracy is a whodunit that will keep you guessing all the way.

Modi's World-Expanding India's Sphere Of Influence

Modi's World tells the story of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vigorous diplomacy and his aspiration to elevate India's place in the world. It offers insights into Modi's foreign policy inheritance, his efforts to build on the foundations laid by his recent predecessors, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, and set more ambitious international goals of his own for India. The book, based on Raja Mohan's columns for the Express, examines the new opportunities that Modi's energy and intensity have generated for India's relations with the major powers and its neighbours in the subcontinent, Asia and the Indian Ocean. Raja Mohan reviews India's new initiatives under Modi to put diplomacy at the service of economic development, deepen the ties with the diaspora, and develop a new vocabulary for Indian foreign policy. He takes a close look at Modi's attempts to end Delhi's defensiveness on the world stage, inject greater flexibility into India's positions on trade and climate change, discard past slogans like non-alignment, and construct a new framework of pragmatic internationalism. At the same time, Raja Mohan takes a critical look at some of the domestic constraints that could limit Modi's ambition to make India a 'leading power' in the world. Crisply argued and written, Modi's World provides the reader a sharp focus on an area of intense activity.

The Case Files of P.I.Pojo- The Killing Of MR Heat

Something smells fishy here and I don't mean Mr H's uneaten dinner. Meet Pojo Pande, aspiring private eye prowling the corridors of Heathcote International with a ready ear for eavesdropping and a nose for intrigue. And he's got two sidekicks-Radha Rao, a senior and the latest in a long line of Raos to skirt the school rules and Pops, a pesky junior who insists on being Pojo's protege. Together, they face the toughest case of their career yet-the killing of Mr Heathcote, the beloved school cat. Join Pojo on his adventures in this hugely funny, unputdownable book as he gets to the bottom of the killing of Mr Heathcote!.

The Backbenchers-The Presidency Night

The Backbenchers are back! In this fourth instalment of the high-school young adult series, The Backbenchers are in for a surprise. After five long years, The Presidency Convent has decided to lift the ban on Presidency Night-the most awaited night to mark the end of school life of its senior-most students. The school is crackling with excitement, thebackbenchersare convinced that this is going to be a night to remember. But will their greatest night turn into their greatest nightmare? What will the night unfold, that will make them wish that the school had never broughtbackPresidency Night?

Bantaism 2-The Metaphysics Of Mainnu Ki

Oye Bante, Madrasi saare de saare kaale honde ne? Bhaji aistraan hai, uthhe loki baghair sunscreen lotion la ke saara din Sun TV, Surya TV de samne baithe rainde ne ais kar ke. With a fresh set of uproarious anecdotes, full of infectious humour, Banta Singh and his friends, including his perennial partner in crime, Santa Singh, are back. In this sequel to the ever-popular Bantaism, rib-tickling anecdotes of Bantas unique worldview, like MBA or Ainvay E?, Bill ki Baatein Kahi Nahin Jaati, Pran Jaaye Bin Button Dabaaye, among others, are sure to shake up many a smug certainty. Each joke is coupled with philosophies of its own, looking to strike a chord with deeper levels of meaning and life in general. And even as you chuckle at all the gaffes of Banta & Co. You cannot but identify with the universality of the penchant for blunder.'Hun assaan saare Bante haan (We are all Banta Singhs now) as proclaimed in Bantaism, is thunderously underscored in Bantaism-II. Je suis Banta.

Shit Called Board Exams And Terrorism

Akbar And Birbal-Tales Of Humour

Birbal, oh Birbal the emperor exclaimed. You are wiser than any philosopher. Stories about Mughal Emperor Akbar and his witty and intelligent prime minister, Birbal, have delighted readers since time immemorial. In this lively collection, learn how an ordinary young man, Mahesh Das, became the beloved Raja Birbal we all know today and how he uses his famous wit, time and again, to build a celestial palace for Emperor Akbar, order a census of crows, trap a thief using a magic bamboo and much more. Replete with wisdom and wit and brought to life by Tapas Guhas beautiful illustrations, this clever collection of stories also offers valuable life lessons hidden beneath its humor.

The Thirteenth Day-A Story Of The Kurukshetra War

There can be no peace with the Pandavas now. No hope of conciliation. Were doomed to kill our cousins, or die in the attempt. It is the tenth night of the great war between the Pandavas and Kauravas. Bhishma, the venerable patriarch of the families, lies fatally wounded on the plains of Kurukshetra. On his deathbed he offers Radheya, his nemesis, a chance to rule the Kuru kingdom by capturing Yudhishthira. In the Pandava camp, Yudhishthira, a reluctant warrior, tries desperately to hold his allies together and escape capture without appearing to be a coward. Meanwhile, his young and impulsive nephew, Abhimanyu, a warrior prince, dreams of glory and yearns for a chance to save the Pandava cause. The lives of these three warriors, Yudhisthira, Radheya and Abhimanyu, collide brutally on the thirteenth day. A story of how stories are created, how fact becomes fiction, how history becomes mythology and how men become legends, The Thirteenth Day re-imagines Indias greatest epic like never before.

A Good Girl

Raised to be a good girl, by her elderly uncle and aunt, Ellora Chatterjee lives by the rules of her orthodox society…until she falls in love at eighteen. The news of her romantic involvement with a debutant batsman playing for the Indian Cricket Team makes national headlines. Overnight, a shy Ellora turns into a sexy poster girl chased by the college hooligans, shunned by her prudish classmates and condemned by the parochial population of her provincial town. Set in India and America, A Good Girlis a heartrending story of a bright and beautiful young woman haunted by her scandalous past and caught up in a struggle to reinvent herself, after her whole life is turned upside down by one bad choice she had made as anaïve teenager. Now thirty-three, Ellora is once again facing a tough choice that will scandalize her community and hurt the people she cares for very deeply. Will she follow her heart this time?