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 …

रेगिस्तान में लगे इस विशाल शिविर के बीचों-बीच एक खाली स्थान में कई तरह के खेल व अन्य पारम्परिक कार्यक्रम आयोजन होते हैं। इनमें घोड़ों पर होने वाली रोमांचक दौड़ तथा पारम्परिक युद्ध कौशल का प्रदर्शन भी शामिल हैं। मोरक्को के तान-तान नामक स्थान पर हर वर्ष विशाल सहारा रेगिस्तान के अलग-अलग स्थानों पर रहने वाले खानाबदोश एक विशेष उत्सव …

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in …

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Publisher: Straits Times Press Pages: 368 Price: NA In March 2013, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon called Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president’s brother who ran the war against the Tamil Tigers. Menon promised Indian support at the UN human rights vote in Geneva and wanted to know which countries may vote against Sri Lanka so that he may persuade …

Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 305 Price: Rs. 599 This is a fascinating story of the Indian revolutionary movement, focussing mainly on the charismatic Bhagat Singh and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) and how the group influenced and radicalized the Congress, speeding up the race for independence. In contrast to popular belief that the revolutionary movement and the Congress struggle …