Countries of the Body (Poems)

Tishani Doshi

Tranquebar Press

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Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker

Biographies & Memoirs

Pavan K. Varma

Leaders & Notable People

<p>Smuggling, gun-running, drugs, terrorism for many decades, Mumbai has lived under the shadow of the Underworld. Dawood Ibrahim, Karim Lala, Varadara- jan Mudaliar: these are names that any Indian would recognise. Analysed in print, immortalised on film, their lives, their gangs, their 'businesses' are out there for anyone who wants the information. But there have been women, too, who have been part of this murky side of the city, walking along side, sometimes leading and manipulating men in the Underworld to run their own illegal businesses. Here, for the first time, crime journal- ists S. Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges explore the lives of some of these women, and how, in cold blood, they were able to make their way up in what was certainly a man's world. From Kamathipura to Dongri, from assassins to molls, this is a collection that tells the stories of women who have become legend in Mumbai's streets, lanes and back-alleys. Absorbingly told, impeccably researched, Mafia Queens of Mumbai reveals a side of Mumbai's Underworld that has never been seen before.</p>

Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands

Literature & Fiction

Zaidi, Hussain S.

Borges, Jane

World Literature

Churchill's Secret War

Madhusree Mukerjee

The novel's narrator, Shahbaz, is a young Pakistani from Paris who returns out of a 19-year exile to his home city in West Pakistan, to settle a family property dispute. He arrives in a 1970s Karachi preparing for democracy, seething with political machination, corruption and class tensions and, above all, facing the prospect of a changing power balance between the dominant West Pakistani establishment and the Bengalis of East Pakistan. The property dispute pits Shahbaz against his father's older sister, Mona Phuppi, a strong-willed woman with deep knowledge of Karachi and, unlike Shahbaz, certain of her place in it. More than defeating his aunt, Shahbaz wants to reclaim a place in a Karachi aristocracy he was once entitled to. He soon accepts the help of an old friend of his father's, a retired brigadier who runs a popular cabaret and is a close associate of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, slowly rising to political power.  Shahbaz's new prestige ensures him access to a world of cabaret dancers and general good living that he never had as an immigrant in Paris, and to powerbrokers who can deliver the family property to him. But the costs of the brigadier's continued patronage and Shahbaz's fear of losing that patronage escalate the more time Shahbaz spends in the city, particularly after he becomes acquainted with two members of the Jamaati- Islami, a religious party willing to go to extremes to keep a young country intact. When he is finally asked to betray his one true friend in Karachi, a charismatic Bengali taxi driver, Shahbaz faces something worse than not belonging to a nation: being complicit in its crimes.

Invitation

Shehryar Fazli

Literary

The 21st century dawned with capitalism on the ascendant across the world and communism and socialism fading out. Simultaneously, there was a realization that chronic problems of environmental degradation, persistent poverty, and inequity between those who have the means to have more and those who have not, must be addressed much more effectively.   Capitalism must now transform itself to provide the solutions. Business corporations are the growth engines and beneficiaries of capitalism. Therefore, it is up to business leaders to engage civil society and co-create the new models that will enable capitalism and corporations to improve the world for everyone.   Transforming Capitalism provides a collection of thought-pieces and stories to facilitate the dialogue between business managers and civil society that has become imperative. It is a field-book to assist business managers on their journey to discover their new role and develop the new management concepts they need.

Transforming Capitalism

Business & Money

Arun Maira

Management & Leadership

Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul: A Book of Miracles

Self-Help

Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Raksha Bharadia

Motivational

At a time of extraordinary ferment, when India is poised for Independence and Partition, young Rohini, the daughter of a wealthy Hindu silk-trader, dares to fall in love with Hanif, an ordinary Muslim musician. A relationship with Hanif comes with the dangers and thrills that Rohini has only read of in Western novels, with clandestine meetings in cinema halls and trysts at local train stations. Yet it also threatens to sever her from everything safe and familiar the sea-facing bungalow in Bombay, the security of familial love, the blessed ease of an arranged marriage to an affluent diamond merchant newly returned from South Africa. As India claims that dream of sovereignty, Rohini must opt for one of two lives. Will she embrace an existence that promises risk and happiness? Or choose one that comes with painless compromise, the kind her family had once made as traders in opium? Against the backdrop of an India transitioning from feudal aristocracy to industrial democracy, from colonial rule to Independence, Silk Fish Opium traces the journey of a girl from a land of imagination to one of vivid reality.

Silk Fish Opium: 1

Jaina Sanga

Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors. India convulses under the onslaught of a series of brutal battles. It's a war for the very soul of the nation. Many will die. But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the cost. In his desperation, he reaches out to the ones who have never offered any help to him: the Vayuputras.

Vayuputro Ki Shapath (Hindi Edition)

AMISH

While the nation s newspapers, journals, business magazines, TV channels and the internet continue to churn out reams, airtime and gigabytes of information about India s business houses India Inc. in this one-of-its kind book, Prof. R. Vaidyanathan delves deep into India Uninc. and presents a persuasive case for why the latter is really what is at the heart of our economy, and why any growth story about India is incomplete if that real engine of our growth is ignored.  The author argues that the real India story, over generations, lies with the many proprietorship and partnership firms, small manufacturing units, kirana stores, single entrepreneurs and household enterprises. That they are being finally given their due, in this important study, is the result of many years of cutting-edge research, which lays bare the lopsided viewpoints of policy-makers and experts , and urges a broader vision of the country s economy. The small entrepreneur says Prof. Vaidyanathan, should prevail over crony capitalism.  Scholarly yet accessible, and offering a wealth of information on an uncharted territory, India Uninc. is a must-read for anybody who aspires to understand the Indian economy as well as India itself.

India Uninc.

Prof Vaidyanathan, R

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