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Adultery
Linda is in her thirties and is facing a crisis mentally and emotionally. She begins to question the void that was growing in her, the mundane, predictable days of her life. Although her life seemed perfect in everybody’s eyes – a contented marriage, adorable children and a successful career - she feels a keen sense of emptiness and displeasure. But it all drastically changes when she meets a prosperous politician who happens to be her high-school boyfriend from years ago. As Linda revives the passion that was absent in her life, she would have to make a life-altering choice. About Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. He had previously worked as a composer, journalist and as an author and director for the theatre, all of which happened before he dedicated his life to writing books. His works have been published in over 168 countries and have been translated into more than 80 other languages. Coelho’s major success, The Alchemist, remains to be the highest selling book ever written by a Brazilian. Paulo was chosen to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in the year 2002. In the year 2007, he was named as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Some his other notable works are Eleven Minutes, Veronika Decides to Die, Like the Flowing River, Manuscript Found in Accra, and Brida.
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Strictly personal:Manmohan & Gursharan
A daughter’s account, Strictly Personal - Manmohan and Gursharan by Daman Singh, is the untold story of Manmohan Singh, India’s thirteenth Prime Minister, and his wife. Summary of the Book The book is not about Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister but about Manmohan Singh, the family man whose life and loved ones were caught up in the maelstrom of history. The author reiterates the fact that other than Jawaharlal Nehru, no other Prime Minister has had such an influence on India and her economic policies as Manmohan Singh. She also tries to reconcile the intellectual picture she has of her father with his portrayal in the media and comes with a picture of great complexity. Daman Singh enlightens her readers about the life and struggle of her father – as a young boy, he lost his mother to eternity, and his family to the partition. He was brought up by his grandfather and was not very close to his father. She talks of an intellectual man who, after completing his studies at the Cambridge University, decided to return to his country. He then sacrifices everything to work for the government and eventually joined Indian politics. Pages have been devoted to bringing out the importance of his wife, Gursharan Kaur, in his life - she was from a similar background as him and she brought the concept of family and togetherness to his life. She supported him in every endeavour of his and is described as a beautiful and vivacious lady who lends her strength to contribute to her husband’s success. What Manmohan never got to experience as a child, Gursharan brought into the marriage - a family - and they had three little girls, Upinder, Daman and Amrit, to complete the family unit. The book also paints the picture of the life the author had with her two passionate sisters, a talented mother and a father who stepped into the limelight for the country, despite his aversion to it. Enthralling yet honest, this book reveals a never-before-seen side of Manmohan Singh.
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The Brave
Rachna Bisht Rawat takes us to the heart of war, chronicling the tales of twenty-one of Indias bravest soldiers. Talking to parents, siblings, children and comrades-in-arms to paint the most vivid character-portraits of these men and their conduct in battle and getting unprecedented access to the Indian Army, Rawat has written the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra. About the Author Rachna Bisht Rawat is a journalist, writer, mom to a precocious 12-year old and gypsy wife to an Army officer whose work has taken the Rawats to some of the quirkiest places in India. Rachna is a 2005 Harry Brittain fellow and winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Press Quarterlys Rolls Royce Award. Her first story, Munni Mausi, was a winner in the 200809 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. This is her first book.
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The Fall Of The Kingdom of The Punjab
A forgotten classic from Indias favourite storyteller. This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he had built was riven by intrigues, betrayals, assassinations and wars until the British finally annexed it, seizing the Kohinoor diamond and sending the young Maharaja Duleep Singh into exile in Britain. Khushwant Singh brings this turbulent period to vivid life in this page-turning account of the collapse of a once-mighty kingdom.
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Power Of A Common Man-Connecting Consumers The Srk
Power of a Common Man - Connecting with Consumers the SRK Way chronicles the journey and the rise to fame of one of the biggest celebrities of India has ever seen. Summary of the Book In Power of the Common Man, the author writes about Shah Rukh Khan and his extraordinary achievements as an actor, businessman, brand ambassador and cricket-team owner. The author chronicles his journey from being a boy-next-door to becoming a phenomenon, not only in India but also around the world. In this exhaustive work, author Koral Dasgupta takes the readers behind the scenes of Shah Rukh Khan’s life and career. She analyzes and examines the reasons for behind his success, his business moves and strategies and lauds his amazing connection with his audience. About Koral Dasgupta Koral Dasgupta is Indian author, management consultant and an editor. Her research papers have been published in leading journals of India. Koral is also a freelance painter and draws inspiration from Indian mythology.
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Subramaniyapuram : The Tamil Film In English Trans
A gritty tale of love, betrayal, and violence set in the South Indian temple city of Madurai in the early 1980s, Subramaniyapuram (2008) was one of the first in a wave of realist Tamil films that have caught the attention of filmmakers from around the world. This collectors volume contains the English translation of the screenplay, a gallery of stills and posters, essays by Baradwaj Rangan, Anand Pandian, Constantine Nakassis and Preminda Jacob on the film, its context in Tamil film history and the innovative publicity campaign that accompanied its release; and an exclusive interview with director M. Sasikumar about the making of the film.
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Chicken Soup For the soul : Just For Preteens
Youre growing up, your friends are changing, homework is harder and your life has more ups and downs than it used to. This support group in a group is just for you. You are not alone and youll find out why when you read these 101 stories about: feeling good about yourself True friends and new friends Embarrassing moments Mean girls and boys Bullies and bully payback Crushes Family issues Learning to do whats right And lots more stories about your preteen life
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India Uninc.
India Uninc. is a book on Indian Economic Development which examines the grown of the nation in relation with the smaller firms, shops and stores as opposed to large corporations. Summary of the Book Prof. R. Vaidyanathan examines how media and public perception of national growth is skewed in favor of large firms with higher capital and seemingly greater returns. Smaller firms, shops by the corner of streets selling groceries and bare necessities, he says, enjoy lesser attention. However they form the bulk of India's progress, catering to a larger bandwidth of the population. The common man's needs are fulfilled by smaller firms, which in turn give rise to the smaller jobs and roles. This book is a researched examination of Indian Economy. About R. Vaidyanathan R. Vaidyanathan is a Professor of Finance & Control at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He has also written: Indian Pension Systems Facing the Future and Pensions in Asia besides contributing to various other books. A graduate of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Prof. Vaidyanathan completed his Fellowship at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His research interests lie in: Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Risk Management and Pensions.
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Post Haste: Quintessential India
Post Haste: Quintessential India provides a definitive account of India penned down by B. G. Verghese, one of the foremost journalists of India. This book not only unfolds the country’s glorious history but also focuses on what is integral and significant to modern and post-independent India. Summary of the Book Post Haste: Quintessential India provides an incisive look into the rich cultural and ancient heritage of India. The author writes about things which are quintessentially Indian from the classical story chronicling the love of Shakuntala and Dushyanta and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who brought the Ganpati Puja out on the streets to the time when J R D Tata flew a single engine plane from Karachi to Bombay. In this book, the author provides a deep insight into India’s diverse customs and faith. This book will make for an interesting read for those interested in re-visiting the events that constitute India’s glorious past. About B. G. Verghese Boobli George Verghese is a senior Indian journalist and was the editor of the leading newspapers–The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express. Verghese started his career with The Times of India. He was honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding contribution to journalism in 1975. Verghese studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and pursued a Mater’s degree from Trinity College in Cambridge. He has authored several books including Waters of hope and Winning the future, among others.
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The Making of Exile : Sindhi Hindus and the Parti
To date, most books on partition have ignored or minimised the Sindhi Hindu experience, which was significantly different from the trials of minorities in Punjab or Bengal. The making of exile hopes to redress this, by turning a spotlight on the specific narratives of the Sindhi Hindu community. Post-partition, Sindh was relatively free of the inter-communal violence witnessed in Punjab, Bengal and other parts of north India. Consequently, in the first few months of Pakistans early life, Sindhi Hindus did not migrate and remained the most significant minority in west Pakistan. Starting with the announcement of the partition of India, the making of exile firmly traces the experiences of the community-that went from being a small but powerful minority to becoming the target of communal discrimination, practised by both the state as well as sections of Pakistani society. This climate of communal antipathy threw into sharp relief the help and sympathy extended to Sindhi Hindus by other Pakistani Muslims, both Sindhi and Muhajir. Finally, it was when they became victims of the Karachi pogrom of January 1948 that Sindhi Hindus felt compelled to migrate to India. The second segment of the book examines the resettlement of the community in India-their first brush with squalid refugee camps, their struggle to make sense of rapidly changing governmental policies and the spirit of determination and enterprise with which they rehabilitated themselves in their new homeland. Yet, not all Sindhi Hindus chose to migrate and the specific challenges of those who stayed on in Sindh, as well as the difficulties faced by Sindhi Muslims after the formation of Pakistan, have been sensitively documented in the final chapters. Weaving in a variety of narratives-diary entries and memoirs, press reportage, letters to editors and advertisements, legends and poetry, dozens of interviews and a wealth of academic literature - Nandita Bhavnanis the making of exile is one of the most comprehensive and multifaceted studies of the Sindhi experience of Partition.
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Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the
Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to reveal the foremost, critical cause of leadership failure. From the Arbinger Institute, a consortium of scholars, business leaders, and professionals, this book identifies self-deception as the disease at the core of all of the leadership shortcomings we see in today's organizations, and self-betrayal as the cause of the disease. It provides a new solution to the age-old problem of self-deception. This powerful solution shows that most people problems in organizations are the result of self-deceptiona problem that can be identified, isolated, and treated in a disciplined, results-oriented way. Through an entertaining and highly instructive story, this book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the nature of successful leadership, drawn from recent research and findings in philosophical psychology. It shows how self-betrayalthe act and then on-going state of going against one's ethical sense of what he or she should be doing for othersleads to self-deception, the central player in all leadership breakdowns, relationship issues, and performance problems in organizations. The book reveals how leaders who are self-deceived might as well be living in a boxtrapped, cut off from others, and blind to the truth. It illustrates how leaders trapped within this box cannot lead effectively no matter how hard they try and no matter how many skills and techniques they employ. Through vivid examples, the book shows what self-deception is, how it operates, and, most importantly, how it can be overcome. Leadership and Self-Deception demonstrates how when we understand self-deception we understand why its not enough to identify and treat leadership problems as if they were separate and distinct. Often that's what happens: we make an inventory of leadership skills and determine that a given leader doesn't provide enough feedback or doesn't take time to listen to people, or delegates without providing clear direction. But those who receive such feedback often fail to improve their leadership abilities. They may work to become more effective evaluators at one workshop, more practiced listeners at another, more directive leaders at another, and yet overlook completely the root cause of the problem. Frequently, they still are not transformed into leaders whom people want to follow. What will transform them? The authors assert that the key to leadership lies deeper than any particular behavior or skill. It lies in how we areour way of being. They reveal that, while we may behave in an infinite variety of ways, at the deep level of who we are, there are fundamentally two ways of being: the state of self-deception (like living in a box), and the state of being that is honest, straightforward, and genuine. The first is the source of leadership problems and the second the source of leadership success. While some books have identified the importance of state of being in leadership, this book shows how we come to enter one state or the other as leadersand how it is possible to change. Understanding and applying this principle is the key to leadership transformation; it is the key to becoming a consistent catalyst for success. Leadership and Self-Deception clearly demonstrates how people can stop undermining themselves and what amazing things happen when they dofreely and fully putting to work all the behavioral skills, systems, and techniques that will bring success to them and their organizations. While other books cover useful people skills, techniques, and systems of leadership, this one goes deeper, fully illuminating the source of what makes truly effective leadership.
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Nature Cure For common diseases
All the intellifent and wise people of the world have recognised the superiority and simplicity of maturopathy. In this book, Dr Gala has systematically presented various modes of naturopathy. Equipped with a mastery of Nature Cure methods, through this book one will be able to treat not only one's ailments, but also live a healthy life.
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QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing
In today\'s business culture, the lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization - or individual - can achieve its goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill its vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. The solution is an entirely new approach - characterized by new thinking and behaviors - where we no longer give lip service to teamwork, but ask, \"What can I do to contribute?\" and \"How can I make a difference?\" John G. Miller helps us make this happen. This new, hard-hitting book from the author of Personal Accountability shows us all how to become more effective and successful. Using succinct, lighthearted stories and easy-to-read chapters, Miller gives us a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action, which can bring astonishing results: Problems get solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change more quickly. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller presents a winning handbook you\'ll want to keep close by for situations requiring personal accountability. It\'s a terrific resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous value to our organizations and our lives by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination.
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The Game of Life : A Philosophy for Living in the
What is your philosophy of life? What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What are your gifts? Where does confidence come from? The Game of Life challenges you to ask such questions and find your own answers as you read through. The book is about psychology, philosophy and behavior change. It's a thrilling intellectual journey that summarizes and synthesizes five thousand years of exploration and research by brilliant philosophers, psychologists and social scientists to present a contemporary philosophy for living in the 21st century.
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The Princes In Black !
The Taj Mahal is going to be blown off and with it the visiting ex - President of USA. Or so has been impeccably planned by Major Salim Khan, an undercover ISI operative. The only clue that the intelligence agencies have is the enigmatic Object No. 27, a rare Mughal relic that they don't have much information about. History Professor Narayan Shastri, along with the best men from Indian Intelligence, try to unlock the code. And then there is Saima, the mysterious beauty who found Object No 27 in the first place. She and Professor Shastri travel through the annals of a history rich with deceit-bloody battles of conquests, the satin veil of treachery and even the elegant, imperious walls built of red sandstone and white marble-to know more of the impending attack and each other more deeply. Can they stop Major Khan from unleashing his act of terror on the marble monument of love? Precious hands of time are ticking away - Tick. Tick. Tick.
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The Hidden Letters
She is a successful author, a loving wife and the worlds best mom. Her doctor husband dotes on her, her teenage daughter idolizes her and her readers yearn for her writing. Shouldn't all that respect and love make her happy? Yet, she is devoid of inner peace. In the wee hours of the night, her slumber is disturbed by horrifying nightmares. All her harmony is abducted and lost amidst the bunch of hidden letters kept in her cupboard. Those letters were written long back by her cousin, presently a patient at a mental asylum in kolkata. Haunted by her inner demons and tired by the long-time secrecy, she decides to put end to her misery by surrendering to her husband and daughter, The hidden letters. Will she lose her husbands love and daughters respect? Can she forgive herself for her own selfishness which rendered her cousins fate malignant?
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www.Marryaghost.com
You Cannot go without me! I Know you are tired, but come, This is the way. - Rumi Maahi has lost her way. The tired, desperate young soul who remembers nothing except dying next to sea waves and a strange golden-haired man. Veru is a young, happy-go-lucky entrepreneur who creates WWW.Marry A Ghost.Com and gets pulled into an adventure when Maahi registers as the first ghost. Asmita Burman is an old, half-blind professor who finds Maahi inexplicably, can hear and see ghosts and knows way too much about them. And then theres DMello, a five-hundred-year-old ghost of a Portuguese nobleman also searching for Maahi, mysteriously appearing and disappearing. Who will help Maahi get freedom by finding her golden-haired beloved in fourteen days before she gets trapped on earth, may be forever? Joint the age-old battle between good and evil-a race between time, freedom and love that will eventually put the entire wold in danger.
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One Life Is Not Enough
Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service and served as a bureaucrat for 31 years. He joined the Congress Party in 1984, and became a Minister of State in the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s council with the portfolios of steel, agriculture, and coal and mines in 1985. In this much-awaited autobiography, the former cabinet minister talks justly about his experiences and services in various ministries. Singh has played a significant role in Indian politics for more than twenty years and has been a part of some of the most epochal events of independent India, including Indo-China talks and the formation of Bangladesh. In 2002, when the Congress party came back to power, Natwar Singh was appointed as the Minister for External Affairs. But his eventful career saw its end with the Volcker Report in the year 2005. His name appearing in the Iraqi food-for-oil scam forced him to resign from the cabinet and eventually from the Congress party. Singh talks about all these events and the ups and downs of the Congress party in One Life Is Not Enough, an account of an insider. His association with the party allowed him to observe some of the historical events closely, and he talks about Pakistan in the 1980s, under the rule of President Zia-ul-Haq, Indo-Chinese and Indo-USSR relations among other sensitive developments.
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The Radiance Of Ashes
Award-winning author Cyrus Mistrys first novel Drifter, dropout, dreamer Jingo believes he has rejected any form of class privilege in a hideously unequal society. Making a meagre living as a part-time door-to-door market researcher, he jots down notes on characters and insights for a novel. Is he serious about his self-professed vocation? Or just too laid-back, just too fond of getting high? As the story moves effortlessly from a middle-class Parsi housing colony to a far-flung slum on the outskirts of the city, memories of a bitter love affair continue to haunt Jingo, but its only when his other romance-with the city-erupts in a nightmare of horror that he realizes hed better wake up before its too late. The Radiance of Ashes is a beautifully described tale of desire, duty and dreams. It is also a story about families, about the truths we hold and the lies we tell, about the fires that burn in each of us-what is left once the flames have died away.
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99 : Unforgettable Fiction, Non - Fiction, Poetry
The definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers. 99 collects in a single volume the finest pieces Khushwant Singh published over the course of a long and prodigiously creative life. The essays, extracts, stories and poems (one for each year of his life) have been chosen for their excellence or because they represent an aspect of the authors versatility and range. Some of the selections are well known. Others have never been published in book form. The book is divided into fifteen sections and showcases his exceptional achievement as a writer. Family Matters contains extracts from his autobiography and some personal narratives, My Beloved Country has some extraordinary writing about India. The Sikhs comprises excerpts from his books A History of the Sikhs and Ranjit Singh and essays on the community and translations of the Sikh hymns. The Uses and Abuses of Religion features his articles on the dangers of communalism and a sublime meditation on religion, Khushwant Singhs accounts of Pakistan and Pakistanis (including one of the most dazzling examples of journalism in our time, The Hanging of Bhutto) are included in Passage to Pakistan, he wrote interestingly about famous people all his life and twelve of his profiles feature in Singular People, a self-taught naturalist, he was passionate about the world of nature-The Ferocity & Flamboyance of Nature has writings on this theme. All About Sex contains some entertaining ruminations on sex, one of the subjects that he was most associated with in the popular imagination. As with sex, so with humour-a few of his funniest jokes find a place in A Merry Heart. Enthusiasms, Rants & Soliloquies has a fair representation of his electrifying polemics on a variety of subjects. A wise and honest man, his most insightful pieces on life, dealing with adversity, ageing and death find a place in How to Live, How to Die. As a novelist, he was superlative-selections from the six novels he published are to be found in The Novels, Portrait of a Lady and Other Stories features the eponymous story along with a few others, a great admirer of writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi, he translated many of their works, some of which can be found in Exchange of Lunatics - Fiction in Translation and A Passion for Poetry. Published on the anniversary of Khushwant Singhs birth, this is the definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers-it will offer the reader page after page of thought-provoking pleasure.