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Shame Travels
When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of sixteen as she so vividly related in her bestseller Shame - Jasvinder ran away from home to escape a forced marriage. Her parents disowned her. 'Shame travels...' her father told her. Although her mother took all her other daughters to meet the extended family in the Punjab, Jasvinder was never allowed to go. With her own daughter about to marry, Jasvinder decides to challenge thirty years of rejection by going to India herself. She wants to explore her roots and to see for herself the place her parents called home until the day they died. What Jasvinder finds in India and what she learns changes the way she sees the world, and has important lessons for all of us. Shame Travels is not only a gripping and revealing quest, but also an inspirational journey of the heart.
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The Secret Of The Nagas
Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. A kingdom is dying as it is held to ransom for a miracle drug. A crown prince is murdered. The Vasudevs – Shiva’s philosopher guides – betray his unquestioning faith as they take the aid of the dark side. Even the perfect empire, Meluha is riddled with a terrible secret in Maika, the city of births. Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game. In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries – only to find that nothing is what it seems. Fierce battles will be fought. Surprising alliances will be forged. Unbelievable secrets will be revealed in this second book of the Shiva Trilogy, the sequel to the #1 national bestseller, The Immortals of Meluha.
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If I Pretend I Am Sorry!
This is a story of three men. I was sitting in a room with four of the most dangerous men in Mumbai. All four had a gun in their hands. I has a single malt in mine. And I was the one who was going to dictate the terms.” Rajvir Singh “That day, I understood the importance of money. That day, I got a new reason to live. That day, I knew what I had to do in life and for what. I had to kill, and I had to kill for money.” Ranvijay Singh I felt relieved, I felt scared, I felt guilty. I had finally made the deal. I had paid for my first murder.” Viraj Singh
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Carolina Moon
When Tory Bodeen meets Hope Lavelle, she glimpses the family she’s always longed for. Growing up in a small, rundown house ruled by her father’s fist, her friendship with Hope offers refuge and protection. But Tory’s life is shattered when Hope is brutally killed - a murder which, sixteen years later, remains unsolved. Now, as Tory returns to her hometown to settle and start a business, she is determined to shed the scars of that terrible night. Forging a bond with Cade, Hope’s brother, she finally dares to look towards the future. But the past isn’t finished with her yet. Hope’s killer is still out there - and closer than she thinks . . .
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Few Things Left Unsaid
FEW THINGS LEFT UNSAID is a TRUE LOVE STORY of Aditya. Aditya is a an extrovert who never wanted to do engineering but landed up doing it. He met his true love Riya A girl next door. As their relation gets older and intimate their love seemed eternal. When he did not have love, he searched for it. When he discovered it, he did not know what to do with it. When he had it, he feared of loosing it. Now, he can’t talk to her anymore. He realized he can’t get Riya. He is not supposed to love her, care for her, and live his life wishing Riya was there. He is not supposed to wonder where Riya is or what she is doing, but he cannot help it,because he is in love with Riya. Aditya is playing with his lifeto end up no where. He is playing with his engineering to end up no where.. HOW EXACTLY ADITYA SCREWED UP HIS ENGINEERING? HOW EXACTLY DISCOURTEOUS BEHAVIOUR AND IMMATURED DECISIONS OF ADITYA CHANGES LIFE OF 2 PERSONS… RIYA and Aditya. SOME LOVE STORIES CANNOT BE PREDICTED
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Poor Economics
Imagine you have a few million dollars. You want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions about the poor and the world that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics through their award-winning Poverty Action Lab. They argue that by using randomized control trials, and more generally, by paying careful attention to the evidence, it is possible to make accurate—and often startling assessments—on what really impacts the poor and what doesn’t. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they attend school? Why do the poorest people in Maharashtra spend 5 percent of their total budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? Drawing on their research at the Poverty Action Lab and their fifteen years of fieldwork in India and across the world, the two economists ask many such questions and show why the poor, despite having the same desires and abilities as anyone else, end up with entirely different lives. Revelatory and impassioned, Poor Economics is a pathbreaking book that will help you to understand the real causes of poverty and how to end it.Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He has also received the inaugural Infosys Prize (2009) in Social Sciences and Economics. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Duflo has received numerous academic honours and prizes including most recently the John Bates Clark Medal (2010) and a MacArthur Fellowship (2009). She has also been featured in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40.
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The Best Of Speaking Tree Volume 6
The Speaking Tree by Times Editorial shares the wisdom contained in the revered Hindu scripture. The column began in 1995 and its open, non-denominational and unequivocal approach to spirituality has been widely read and appreciated. ‘The Speaking Tree’ has grown to become a place of retreat and contemplation amidst the violence, corruption, deceit and destruction that populates the rest of the newspaper. Articles in this column are timeless, and can be read anytime, anywhere. The content mainly pertains to issues and ideas that evoke our higher consciousness and so are eternal.
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The 25 P
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The Power Of Now : A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment.
Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness. Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson