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DEVADASI
0₹399.00About the Book
Devadasi’s colourful characters teeter on fault lines of race, sex, gender, religion and history. Devaki’s passionate personal story underpins wider concerns. Against the backdrop of the community’s historical role in preserving Bharatanatyam, does Devaki – a dancer who performs sexual services besides temple duties – find emotional outlet, individual expression or empowerment? Set in the Madras Presidency towards the end of the Victorian era, the narrative’s social arc contrasts Raj life and desi existence. An English civil servant, on official duty in a muffasil town near Devaki’s village, finds her a convenient time-pass. Love and relationships take many forms: Devaki’s adoration of Albert and her revulsion for her patron; the unusual emotional bond with her sexually indeterminate brother; devotion to the deity and her battle with herself weave a chiaroscuro of joys and sorrows that make up this ‘dedicated’ young woman’s life. The storyteller’s Gen Z audience raises perennial societal issues – sex, religion, caste, rural conditions – which frame how ‘choice’ governed and continues to govern lives in India.
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DEVICRAFT: EACH STITCH TELLS HER STORY
0₹2,500.00About the Book
DEVICRAFT is not about Durga worship only. It is about the culmination of a year long rehearsal for the biggest performative and installation art in a week-long carnival. It is about a slice of socio-economic life in Bengal, where seasons mark the almanac, with agriculture, food and livelihoods coming together in joyous bursts of celebration. We tell the story through visuals and text that traces the history of mother goddess worship down the ages. It is a time when people become both participants and spectators while deities become human. We celebrate women artisans particularly in a bid to preserve our cultural heritages and make it empowering in the days ahead..
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DIGITAL INDIA GOVERNANCE TRANSFORMATION
0₹795.00About the Book
Digital India is the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to governance at one plane. Easy governance, Effective governance and Economic governance are the key drivers. The Digital India programme was launched in 2014 to consolidate the successes of our e-Governance journey towards a Digital Democracy. Several pioneering and breakthrough enablers have been created by the Government of India in this pursuit. This book is an attempt to provide a conceptual foundation, practical tips and lessons from various projects in India and abroad.
- e-Governance principles and project life cycle.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Project planning, execution and monitoring
- Managing benefits and sustaining them.
- Managing change.
- Legal and contractual aspects.
- Technology evolution and its potential application in e-Governance.
- Moving towards Digital Democracy.
- Case studies from India and abroad, to showcase the learnings and application in.
projects while examining both Critical Success Factors (what to do or emulate) and Critical Failure Factors (what not to do).
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DIMINISHING INDIA: DECADES OF BRAZEN POLITICAL APATHY
0₹595.00About the Book
Seventy-five years after having achieved independence there are still millions of Indians who live, eat, beg, work, romance, marry, produce children, fall sick, and die without a shelter and without any inkling of where the next meal is going to come from. People are losing faith in the judiciary and the police are mere pawns, handcuffed by politicians and bureaucrats. Where did we go wrong? Would India have been a different country if it had a Presidential form of government rather than a Parliamentary one? Why was the Presidential form of government not debated in the Constituent Assembly in right earnestness? Was it because of a lack of understanding or sheer indifference or just an attempt to cater to vested interests? The authors, as conscientious citizens, have tried to look at these issues in an unbiased and objective manner. The uniqueness of this book lies not in the relevance of the issues but the practical solutions being offered. The title Diminishing India is meant to be a wake-up call and not an expression of doom or frustration.
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DISCOVERING INDIA
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A young Polish woman embarks on a tour of India and falls in love with the country. What does she find? She finds that India is quite different from the way it is commonly perceived outside its borders. Isn’t it reckless to restrict India to common media stereotypes like cow, caste, rapes and slums without carefully examining and studying its lesser-known sides and its complex and delicate layers of reality? In an increasingly globalised and a data-driven world, isn’t it more sensible to have a broader evidence-based global perspective instead of jumping to reckless and oversimplified conclusions? Without neglecting India’s lesser-understood sides, from its economy to the environment, from its weaknesses to its strengths, from its spirituality to its unutilised soft power, as well as its culture, tourism and its upcoming challenges, Karolina Goswami has carefully attempted to diagnose India’s problems and seek their solutions. With the help of verifiable data, researches and logic, Karolina’s story of India may sound scholarly but can be easily grasped. Discovering India, therefore, is a handy, quick-glance reference source of information on India, for an insider as well as an outsider, for an average Indian who must know about India’s strengths and shortcomings, for the Indian diaspora who would like to keep themselves abreast, and for non-Indians who want to dig India deeper, beneath its stereotyped surface. It is a book that should be in the hands of everyone interested in India.
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DISCOVERING LIFE
0₹295.00About the Book
Discovering Life, a Poet Within is a beautiful flow of thoughts, observations and reflections about the mystery of life by a former senior army officer. His urge to unravel this mystery, so close to our hearts, yet so distant, deepened when he ventured to share his thoughts in his first book, Seasons of Life, Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Soldier.
Spurred by wide acceptance and readability of his first book, his quest continued with a renewed vigour and has now found an expression in this book. But this time in a totally new language, the preserve of the literary wizards, the forbidden domain, the artistic domain of poetry. This book is a collection of 100 poems, all on different topics, all about various facets of life, all with a subtle message and all in the first person. The author feels that, this was not done with a design, but has emerged to be so. Perhaps, instinctively.
The book traces the intricate web of emotions and various facets of life like, the sublime feeling of love, misery and pain in life, the dilemma of conflicting thoughts, the nature and its cosmic manifestations, stretch of his poetic imagination to crystal gaze into this world and the world beyond, and finally the memories, what these hold for us in store. Each of these themes has been expressed beautifully in many of his poems. The Author feels that there is a poet residing within each one of us, waiting for an opportune moment or a trigger to surface.
Overall, the frank and free flow of thoughts coming straight from the heart and expressed beautifully strikes a chord. There is so much to pick up from this book.
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DIVINITY UNFOLDED
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Rarely does a reader come across a beautiful collection of poems like this. With topics like Divinity and God, one is not sure what to expect. Each poem is written straight from the heart and so moves the reader deeply. From the unfolding of the cosmic drama to the dynamics of creation; from the all-pervasiveness of God to the quest of the Divine; from God as a great sculptor to life as a pilgrimage — the poems explore the mysteries of life and death and of mortality versus immortality.
It is not easy to write poems on such an elusive topic like Divinity, the invisible and the manifest. Yet, Prof Lal has accomplished this task very successfully. His command of the language and choice of words leaves the reader spellbound. Good literature blunts the dividing line between prose and poetry. Prof Lal’s poems do precisely this and therefore reach out to all readers — whether lovers of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
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DIVYANG LOGON KE PRERNADAYAK KAHANIYA
0₹299.00About the Book
ऐसा क्यों है कि हम विभिन्नता की सबसे महत्वपूर्ण अभिव्यक्तियों में एक, यानी क्षमताओं में भिन्नता का जश्न मनाना अमूमन भूल ही जाते हैं? मौजूदा वक़्त में दुनिया भर में दिव्यांगो को मुख्यधारा में लाने के लिए काफ़ी बेहतर काम हो रहे हैं, लेकिन भारत में अभी भी दिव्यांगों के ज़िन्दगी पहाड़ चढ़ने जितनी ही दुरुह है। इस समाज ने उन पर विकलांग नाम का लेबल चस्पा कर दिया है और वो आज भी उसी लेबल के साथ एक दोयम दर्जे की ज़िन्दगी जीने को मजबूर हैं। उनमें ज़्यादातर जमाने की तेज़ रफ़्तार चाल के सामने कहीं बहुत पीछे छूट गए हैं। विख्यात कृतियों ‘लेगेसी’ और ‘लीडिंग लेडीज़’ की लेखिका सुधा मेनन और SAP के सीनियर वाइस प्रेसिडेंट वी.आर फ़िरोज़ (प्रतिष्ठित इंडिया इन्क्लूज़न समिट के संस्थापक) के द्वारा लिखी गई ये किताब उन भारतीयों की दास्तान है, जो न तो किसी बड़ी कंपनी के सीईओ हैं और ना ही किसी प्रभावशाली लॉबी का हिस्सा हैं, लेकिन ये लोग अपने आप में बेहद खास और सम्पूर्ण हैं। ये असाधारण कहानियाँ हम सामान्य और शारीरिक रूप से सक्षम लोगों के लिए भी प्रेरणास्त्रोत हैं
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DOES INDIA NEED A DICTATOR
0₹595.00About The Book
This book is about India’s sustainability. It has been written with intent to provoke a debate across the country. It is an expression of the author’s feelings, personal observations and deep concerns about India’s very survival.
The author believes the current political infrastructure in India is inadequate in truly addressing the issues that seriously undermine the country–increasing population, dwindling liveability, environmental degradation, corruption, poor education of the masses, poverty etc. He believes a significant transformation in the political infrastructure is necessary to address those issues, for which an authoritarian government, headed by a benevolent dictator, is necessary for at least one generation. Kashmir has a special coverage in this book. The author believes a peaceful Kashmir is vital for India’s good health and integrity.
This book should be of interest to the policy makers in India and all those readers who are interested in political science and legislation, education, environment and sustainability of India.
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DON’T FORGET 2004: ADVERTISING SECRETS OF AN IMPOSSIBLE ELECTION VICTORY
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In December 2003, the Congress Party took a drubbing in three state elections. The India Shining slogan of the Vajpayee Government had taken everyone by storm. Finances were stretched thin, General Elections were preponed by eight months. The defeat was inevitable. Yet, in May 2004, the ultimate story was one of an absolute surprise. The Congress won the elections—making history. This book is the making of that History. After 17 years, Jayshree Sundar, who was instrumental in scripting this victory, finally unveils the chain of events that took place. In this memoir, Sundar reveals all—from getting the phone call from Congress’s office to the final victory. With a generous garnishing of real conversations with senior congress leaders and Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, Don’t forget 2004 is an inside story of the marketing and advertising campaign which dovetailed into the political strategy for the Congress party, bringing it back to power in May 2004.
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DREAM CHASERS : WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE SOUTH OF THE VINDHYAS
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The book starts with the fascinating journey of 74-year old Deborah Thiagarajan, who created DakshinaChitra and ends with 29-year old Likitha Bhanu of Terra Greens Organic. The others include Poonam Natarajan of Vidya Sagar, Vandana Gopikumar of The Banyan, Ranjini Manian of Global Adjustments, Nalini Shekar of Hasiru Dala and Padmashri Shanthi Ranganathan, whose name is synonymous with Asia’s first de-addiction centre, the TTK Hospital. Also featured are Sheela Kochouseph Chittilapally, who runs V-Star–a household name in Kerala, Radhika Menon of Tulika Publishers, Saloni Malhotra of DesiCrew, Svati Bhogle of Sustaintech India, Sreeja Arangottukara of Paatasala, transgender activist Kalki Subramaniam of Trans/Hearts and Sabriye Tenberken of kanthari. The remarkable stories of these entrepreneurs point to one thing: With dedication and hard work, anyone can achieve even the unachievable and that gender has no role to play in it. A must-read for all budding entrepreneurs.
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DREAMCHASERS ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE SOUTH OF THE VINDHYAS
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“I had not expected such thoughtful assemblage of the stories, which can be so enriching an experience for anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur tomorrow. It stands out amongst the plethora of books on startups that appear today. It gives entrepreneurship a context and a new meaning”, writes Padmashri Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, praising the book Dreamchasers: Entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas.
This is a book on startups narrated through the stories of entrepreneurs from the 1970s, ’80s till now in three sections, The Trendsetters, The Next Wave and The New Generation. Some of the success stories featured in the book are that of Dilip Kapur of Hidesign, CK Ranganathan of CavinKare, Dr P Srinivasan of Jeevan Blood Bank, Patricia Thomas of Sandeepha Restaurant, Arun Jain of Polaris, Kalpathi S Suresh of SSI and M Mahadevan of Hot Breads. Their stories are so inspirational that they can be treated as study material for upcoming young entrepreneurs. Each story in the book epitomises the power and potential of the human spirit and the impact their efforts has on society.
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DURAND LINE: DID INDIA FAIL FRONTIER GANDHI?
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‘You have thrown us to the wolves!’ These words by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan will continue to haunt the nation for decades to come. In the story of India’s Freedom Struggle, he was one of the bravest. A martyr. Yet he and his Pakhtun brothers were betrayed without a second thought. His dream of an undivided India was crushed when the Partition plan was accepted by the Congress without even consulting him. The newly formed Pakistan government considered him a traitor and threw him into jail several times, even in his old age, forcing him into exile in Afghanistan. Ghaffar Khan was a man who lived, sacrificed, suffered and died for his people. To his followers, he was their uncrowned king, ‘Badshah’ Khan, while the rest of the world will remember him as the ‘greatest non-violent soldier of Islam’. For those of the new generation, this book is an opportunity to revisit this chapter of India’s history and give this iconic son his due respect and love.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT : UNIVERSAL PERSPECTIVES BY GLOBAL EXPERTS
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This book gives a deep insight into early childhood development; how children learn best in their early years, and the role of parents and educators in this stage. The contributors of the book are global experts working in the domain and bring a wealth of knowledge and practical experience with them. The readers will find newer perspectives into the world of early childhood development and understand how learning can be maximized in these crucial years of a child’s life.
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ECHOES FROM THE SKY – TALES FROM THE AIR FORCE
0₹450.00About the Book
The blue of the sky, infinity on the horizon, a supersonic flying machine; a dark night, missile streams spitting fire and mayhem on battlefields – contrary to the expectations of discovering only raw courage and grim grit of a steely heart, the stories in Echoes From The Sky project a panoramic view of myriad events, characters and situations seen from an Air Force Officer’s peripheral vision. Starting from a snapshot of a young cadet in the entirely male dominion of the National Defence Academy who discovers the meaning of motherly care, the narrative moves on to a distant future in which the first lot of young women joining the Air Force as combat pilots today will have matured professionally. Will they find themselves entangled in a web of feminine emotions they thought they had overcome after their baptism by fire in the male bastion? There are pleasant memories that make the soldier smile thinking of all the tomfoolery he indulged in as a greenhorn in the Services. These stories touch many a chord when read by uniformed men and women and will open up a hitherto mysterious world for those in the civvy street.
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ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY: THE NEHRU YEARS (1947-64)
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Several books have been written on the foreign policy of India, particularly of the Nehru period. Some authors have also discussed in detail the determining factors and fundamental principles of this policy. However, few have emphasised predominance of the economic factor as a determinant, which plays the most important part in determining foreign policy not only of India but of other countries as well.
The essence of this book is to stress the paramount importance of this factor which determined the material as well as the intellectual life of the country at that time and found expression in internal and the external policies of the country. While emphasising the significance of the economic factor, the importance of other factors has not been ignored.
The author has chosen to limit himself to the Nehru period because it was then that our foreign policy was shaped, formulated and implemented. India, inspite of her other weaknesses, commanded respect and eminence in world affairs and was one of the prominent leaders of emerging Afro-Asian countries. The policy that Nehru propounded and enforced was followed by his immediate successors Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi. From 1991 onwards, the change in the economic fundamentals started taking shape, resulting in basic changes in the foreign policy also.
