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Book Extract | Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper by Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan
By the late 1800s and first two decades of the twentieth century, several periodicals and newspapers came out in undivided India
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Book Extract |The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices by Thich Naht Hahn
We can practice loving speech in our writing as well. Many people now communicate by email and text messaging more than they do in person or on the telephone.
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Book Extract | A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Memory begins with Ba Má, their images like photographs, their story like a movie, the kind found in the black box of a VHS tape, in an era when I have long ago gotten rid of my VCR.
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Book Extract | Tea : A Global History (Edible Series) by Helen Saberi
India exports tea to more than 25 countries throughout the world. Russia, Iran, UAE, USA, the UK, Germany, and China are some of the major importers of tea from India.
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Book Extract | Speaking with Nature: The Origin of Indian Environmentalism by Ramachandra Guha
By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness.
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The Undying Light : A Personal History of Independent India by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
This remarkable memoir, and history of India after Independence, by one of India’s most distinguished public intellectuals, begins with his memories of the assassination of his paternal grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi.
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Book Extract | The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin
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Book Extract | The Indian Constitution: A Conversation in Power by Gautam Bhatia
The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Power takes a new approach in discussing the Constitution: as a document that creates, shapes, channels and constrains power.
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Book Extract | Crossing Paths in America and India: Memories Essays Reviews by Leonard A. Gordon
A memoir of learning, involvements, and teaching…Leonard Gordon tracks his connection to India beginning in the 1960s as he became an outsider/ insider in its society visiting often over six decades.
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Book Extract | The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life by Allison Fallon
Maybe, for now, it’s just the questions you write down. No answers at all. Maybe, over time, answers begin to come.
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Book Extract | GeoTechnoGraphy: Mapping Power and Identity in the Digital Age by Samir Saran and Anirban Sarma
With the advance of the twenty-first century, we have moved deeper into the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a tech-driven epoch that ‘builds on the digital revolution and combines multiple technologies’ leading to paradigm shifts in every sphere.
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Book Excerpt| Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India by Karan Madhok
Cannabis, or ganja, is practically as old as recorded Indian civilization, with references to the plant being found in some of India’s earliest written texts and myths.
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Book Extract: Now that I have your attention by Nicholas Hamilton
Nicolas Hamilton has been exceeding expectations since day one. He is the paternal half-brother of the legendary racing car driver Lewis Hamilton
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Book Extract: Akashvani - A Century of Stories from All India Radio
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Book Extract: Buffett’s Early Investments by Brett Gardner
Buffett's Early Investments investigates ten investments that legendary investor Warren Buffett made in the 1950s and 1960s – earning him his first million – and uncovers unique insights
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Book Extract: The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Perie
Many other respected sets of laws have been highly impractical in quite puzzling ways, including those developed by the authors of the Old Testament. Although inspired by the Mesopotamian tradition, where law was the work of kings, the Israelite priests were pursuing a distinctly religious project.
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Book Extract: The House of Huawei by Eva Duo
Book Extract: The House of Huawei by Eva Duo. Meng Wanzhou’s father— Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei— was a corporate legend in China.
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Book Extract |The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to live with uncertainty and think about yourself
This book takes those money lessons learned, really a series of frameworks, and makes them accessible for any reader who, like me years ago, has no clue how money works.
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Book Extract | My Head for a Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi
My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.
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Book Extract-Dr. Aditi Nerurkar The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience
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Book extract- David McWilliams Money: A Story of Humanity
Over the past 5,000 years, money has profoundly altered humanity and our relationships with each other and with the rest of the planet.
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Book Review: Flowers on a Kargil Cliff
Incorporating unpublished photographs of Point 5353 in Drass taken by Pakistani intrusive patrols in Oct 1998 during the Kargil build-up, Flowers on a Kargil Cliff establishes how 5353 and Bajrang Post were captured. Photos reveal Gen P. Musharraf and his entourage of generals across LoC in March '99.
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Book Extract | The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community
Gujaratis are known for their entrepreneurial spirit, and their love of business and the profitable deal.
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Book Review | Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World Sceptre by John Vaillant
Fire Weather is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.
