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An endearing portrait of an Indian legend I told him that when I write a book, I would write about another side of him and not just historic events or business milestones. I would write about us and our adventures together, and how I saw him, colours and shades of him unknown to the world. Life...

The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC; a soldier who killed 11 terrorists in 10 days; a Navy officer who sailed into a treacherous port to rescue hundreds from an exploding war; a bleeding Air Force pilot who found himself...

Baba Cesare - l'asceta italiano protagonista di questo libro - dopo un'esistenza ordinaria si è avvicinato al mondo dei sadhu indiani. Il suo percorso è molto diverso da quello che potremmo immaginare noi occidentali. Folco Terzani ha riconosciuto in lui un autentico cercatore, intimamente libero: un uomo abitato da una sete di assoluto, capace di spogliarsi di tutto per seguire una chiamata.

From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity. A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of In Your Prime, written and read by India Knight. Our mothers' fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. There is no longer any sense of what is and isn't age appropriate, or even of whether...

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip...

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers, or in small towns and villages, he experienced the dusty enchantment of ordinary, real India on the smallest of budgets. There Are Other Rivers tells the story of the walk through an account of a single day as well as reflecting on the allure of difficult journeys and the eternal appeal of the open road.

ISRO: The Space Leader is a powerful and inspiring audiobook that takes you through the extraordinary journey of India’s space agency—the Indian Space Research Organisation. From launching its first rocket from a small church in Kerala to making history with Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan, ISRO’s story is one of determination, innovation, and national pride.

1800kalin India: 1800களன இநதய • Mark Twain மரக டவன | Translator Priya Ramkumar | பரய ரமகமர Produced by : Aurality மறறம சவசம பதபபகம Narrated by: Bhavani Anantharaman ‘Following the Equator’ எனகற பயண நல பகழபறற அமரகக எழததளர மரக டவனல (Mark Twain) எழதபபடடத. உலகன பல மககயப பகதகளகக 1895 • 1897கக இடய அவர பயணம சயதர. அநத அனபவஙகளன தகபப இநத நல. அநதப பததகததலளள இநதயப பயண அனபவஙகள மடடம இநதப பததகததல மழபயரககபபடடளளன. 1800களன இநதயவ இநத நல படமபடததக கடடகறத. இநதயவன பலவற கலசரஙகள, பழகக வழககஙகள, உட, உணவ, சமக அமபப, மழ, நலம, அனறய ஆஙகலயர ஆடசயளரகள என அனததப பறறயம சவரஸயமன, வசததரமன மறறம மககயமன கறபபகள இநத நல மழவதம வரவக கடககனறன.

'A schoolteacher who killed multiple paramours with cyanide; a mother who trained her daughters to kill children; a thug from the 1800s who slaughtered more than 900 people, a manservant who killed girls and devoured their body parts. If you thought serial killers was a Western phenomenon, think...

My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions is the life story of India's 11th President, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who started off as an insignificant little boy Rameswaram, but ended up becoming the president of the country, besides being a brilliant scientist as well. The book portrays the struggle that Dr. Kalam had to endure, as he climbed the ladder of success in life.

For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society “A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Sahitya Akademi...

What makes Virat Kohli the undisputed monarch of the cricket world today is not his iconic status in the sports hierarchy but that the highest praise comes from the opposition camp and past greats.

Virat Kohli, the undisputed monarch of the cricket world today, is no stranger to loss. His biggest support both on and off the field—his father Prem Kohli—succumbed to a cerebral stroke when Virat was only 18 years old. In a fitting tribute that would’ve made his father proud, Virat returned to the field to continue an innings just a few hours after his father passed away. In Driven, Vijay Lokapally recounts happier times in the journey of Virat’s rapid rise to international stardom—an account punctuated with little-known stories from fellow players, coaches, and intimates.

It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that his father has fled from the clutches of the Mughal badshah Aurangzeb and left him behind. He must now find his way back home with the help of strangers . . . Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the...

Alexander Frater spent the first six years of his life on a South Pacific island, where his father, the only doctor within a thousand square miles, encouraged his fascination with and respect for the volatile play of the elements. Frater brings this heritage to his observations on the monsoon, following it from its burst on the beaches of Trivandrum through Delhi and Calcutta, across Bangladesh, to its finale in the town of Cherrapunji, the "wettest place on Earth".

There are many intellectual biographies of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, but until now none has sought to reveal the personality of the man. They will tell you what he thought or what he wrote, but remain silent about who he actually was, his inner struggles, how he felt. They give information about...

Was Nandlal Kapur a traitor or a patriot? A true story, like no other. 1920s India. Flames of revolt against colonial rule had engulfed the country, making the British tense. They knew domestic spies were essential to track and quell the calls for independence. Nandlal Kapur, like many young...

For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country's former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi--Bhutto's birthplace and Pakistan's other great metropolis--Rafia Zakaria's family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death.

Basta decir que la historia lo conoce como El Chacal, y que es por aclamación el villano mayor en la galería de los presidentes de México. Sin embargo, es mucho más que eso: en su juventud, ese indígena huichol se convirtió en uno de los mejores astrónomos de su época y fue un brillante matemático, geógrafo, alpinista, cartógrafo y uno de los mejores militares mexicanos. Jamás perdió una batalla, algo único en la historia del país.