On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, revisit its battlefields through stories of bravehearts from the army, navy and air force who fought for a cause that meant more to them than their own lives
Why do the Gorkha soldiers of 4/5 GR attack a heavily defended enemy post with just naked khukris in their hands?
Does Pakistan find out the real identity of the young pilot who, after having ejected from a burning plane, calls himself Flt Lt Mansoor Ali Khan?
What awaits the naval diver who cuts made-in-India labels off his clothes and crosses into East Pakistan with a machine gun slung across his back?
Why is a twenty-one-year-old Sikh paratrooper being taught to jump off a stool in a deserted hangar at Dum Dum airport with a Packet aircraft waiting nearby?
1971 is a deeply researched collection of true stories of extraordinary human grit and courage that shows you a side to war that few military histories do.
‘A brilliant compilation … Essential reading.’ —William Dalrymple
‘A string of gems’—Maria Aurora Couto
‘Insightful, witty, uplifting’—Eberhard Fischer
B.N. Goswamy, one of the most eminent art historians of our times, in this book opens a window to a wide range of subjects: all on or around the arts, which have immense potential to form aesthetic sensibility. From Ananda Coomaraswamy to the Art of Calligraphy, The Meaning of Silence to Farid-ud-din Attar’s great Sufi parable of the Conference of the Birds, among others, Goswamy invites the general, but generally interested and literate, readers to enter, through these pieces, the field of the arts and savour its pleasures: to take from them what they can, learn something fresh¾or view with freshness¾and expand their minds.
Definitive, engaging, and comprehensive, Conversations promises to be a truly accessible primer on art in India and South Asia.
Karnali Blues, by Buddhisagar, is the most widely read Nepali novel to have appeared in the last twenty years. As it recounts the evolution of a father-son relationship-a son’s search for approval, a father’s small acts of kindness and forgiveness, a son’s fears for his father’s dignity as his fortunes and faculties begin to fail-the reader is deeply drawn into young Brisha Bahadur’s world. His father is kind and idealistic; his mother, though she is kind too, is often frustrated and irascible. The characters in this book are some of the most carefully drawn and authentic in all of Nepali literature.
In a backwater district of a country about to undergo radical social, political and cultural change, Brisha’s dreams, his games and his mischief, his loves, his hopes and his fears come alive.
Translated from the Nepali by Michael Hutt, this highly original piece of work, with the simplicity of its language and its emotional range, holds the power to take your breath away. Its principal themes-the love between a son and his father, the joys and sorrows of childhood, the daily struggle for survival-are universal, and will resonate with readers the world over.
Treating your customers well is no longer enough. The new rule is: employees, too, have to be treated as well, if not better than the customers. Happy employees make happy customers, and happy customers tend to be loyal.
Do you spend money in advertising to create awareness about your product? You don’t need to do that any longer. The new rule is: invest in making your product so good that it does its own marketing.
New-age companies, such as Amazon, Flipkart, Uber, Ola and Netflix, among others, are dismantling the old rules of business and installing new ones in their place.
This book unfolds the mysteries of these new ways of doing business which most companies try to keep under wraps. Compellingly written with several anecdotes, this is a gripping book full of incredible insights.
There is an interesting story, which impression remains indelible on the heart. A struggling person does not stop fighting after failing in love, but the struggle became more tough in the wary of love. Actually this story inspires the do the struggle for the love.
Prem Vajpayee has attacked on the caste, varna and untouchability through love story in this novel. This is the matter of sorrow that untouchability is also on today. This love story leaves strong impact on the people.
The lovers never met in this story, they did love each other. Actually this love story make the people weep. The society have been the enemy of love.
There is not only the knowledge of religion and philosophy but the knowledge of whole world is given in this book. Objective type of thing is given in this book for all age category. Especially this book is very useful for children and students.
Kalank is the Hindi translation of the world famous novelist Nathaniel Hawthrone.
This historical romance story is based on a true incident that occurred in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony during the year 1942 to 1649. The story of Hester Prine is very touching and painful.
It is given in this book the life struggle of the King of Ujjain Vikrmaditya. It is shown in this book in very simple language the story of Vikram Samvat started and the victory of India in the whole world. This is an amazing book.
