Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 292 Price: Rs. 350 A dozen “ordinary” men relate their impressions of their wives. “A wonderful wife is a unique creation.” So begins the book. But a perusal of “A Wonderful Wife” appears to indicate that “wonderful wives” may not be such a rarity after all. Barring an exception or two, all the men in this collection …

Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 160 Price: Rs. 225 No other political or social belief has ever been so proudly owned to or so savagely disparaged by both conservatives and radicals, aspired to or misappropriated as much as liberalism. But what is it, what are its principles, is it synonymous with democracy, can it and nationalism co-exist, and how is …

महाभारत में आदर्श जीवन से संबंधित बहुत सारी नीतियों का वर्णन किया गया है। जिनको अपने जीवन में अपनाने से वैभव संपन्न जीवन का यापन किया जा सकता है। महाभारत के एक श्लोक अनुसार 5 ऐसे लोग हैं जिन्हें खाना खिलाने से शुभ लाभ के साथ-साथ बहुत सारे पुण्य प्राप्त होते हैं। श्लोक: पितृन् देवानृषीन् विप्रानतिथींश्च निराश्रयान्। यो नरः प्रीणयत्यन्नैस्तस्य …

Paris, France – May 2, 2016 – Franky Zapata sets a new World Record for farthest hoverboard flight, after flying his Flyboard Air for a distance of 2,252 meters at an event in Sausset-les-Pins, France. Photo: Frenchman and champion jet skier Franky Zapata covered the 1.4-mile distance over Sausset-Les-Pins using a hoverboard, and literally blow the previous Guinness World Records world …

सोना यानि गोल्ड धरती पर पाई जाने वाली पवित्र और मूल्यवान धातुओं में से एक है। इसके बहुत सारे शुभ-अशुभ प्रभाव हैं जिनसे भाग्य के द्वार खुलते भी हैं और बंद भी हो जाते हैं। सोने का खोना और पाना दोनों ही अच्छा नहीं माना जाता। ज्योतिष में इसे बहुत सारे ग्रहों के साथ जोड़ा जाता है लेकिन मुख्य रूप …

Publisher: Collins Business Pages: 324 Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the past decade, but this lady dared to delve into such a mission — a domain dominated by men even today — more than three decades ago. The fact that she will be different from her peers was also evident rather early. For …

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 449 Price: Rs.499 In 1969, the Wellesley College for women, near Boston, agreed to have a student speaker at its graduation ceremony – and the very first one abandoned most of her prepared text for an impromptu, impassioned rebuttal of the chief guest’s (a Massachusetts senator) address, and to outline her generation’s divergent goals and vision of …

Publisher: Notion Press Pages: 90 Price: Rs. 199 Imagine you are on a treadmill and don’t have a pause button or you are driving a car that has no brakes in it. For the individual in either of the situations, death or being seriously hurt is guaranteed. Dr. Gaurav Nigam’s first book, “Devil Inside My Mind”, reflects this roller-coaster ride …

Publisher: Portobello Books Pages: 240 Price: Rs. 499 The 2008 global financial crisis still casts a baleful shadow, but most of the world still follows the same economic theories without too many questions. But as Christine Lagarde, before she became IMF chief, once quipped: Would Lehman Brothers – whose bankruptcy was among the causes of the crisis – have gone …

मुझे बचा लो, माँ मुझे बचा लो! माँ, मुझे डर लगता है। माँ, चौखट से निकलते ही दादा, चाचा के अंदर आने से, सिहर जाती हूँ। राहों में घूमती निगाहों से, मैं सिमट जाती हूँ। हँस कर बात करते हर मानव से, मैं संभल जाती हूँ। पुरुष के झूठे अभियान से, मैं सहम जाती हूँ। सिहर-सिहर, सहम-सहम कर जीना नहीं …