Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking (retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and expertise include more than 35 years of tough, innovative and welfare policing. She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She …

If you know something bores children, don’t do it unless you have to. And if you have to, try to find a way of doing it that’s less boring. The idea is that some things which need to be done in life are going to appear to be boring, at least when first encountered. The challenge is for you and …

Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons/Penguin Random House Pages: 448 Price: Rs 399 India, losing its patience over continuing acts of hostility emanating from its neighbour, and Pakistan, where jihadi elements are gaining primacy, seem to be drifting towards war and an audacious terror operation seems to make it a certainty. But is it just the inimical forces responsible for what is …

Publisher: Bloomsbury India Pages: 334 Price: Rs 499 Joining the Indian Air Force in 1939 as a Pilot Officer, Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh had joyously anticipated he would soon be in the air. However, a “fearsome” Indian sergeant, who was not only in charge of the technicians but also of the planes too, brought his expectations “crashing …

Famous English Quotes on Eyes: How will it be to live without eyesight for a day? I guess most of us don’t even want to think. We won’t be very happy if somebody locks us in a completely dark room for a long time. Even we won’t like if somebody ask us to close our eyes for a long time. …

Among the boldest lines in Hindi film songs from a landmark epic where an imperial courtesan, who has already dared the monarch with her declaration of loving without fear, goes on to question curbs on women — remember the bewitchingly defiant Madhubala ask “Parda nahi jab koi Khuda se, bandon se parda karna kya?” It comes from no radical revolutionary …

Publisher: Allen Lane/Penguin Pages: 349 Price: Rs. 899 ‘Crime doesn’t pay’ is something almost everyone is taught around the world, but proves to be less than true (at least in the short run, which is what the great masses of people are concerned with). But is this the only wrong belief about crime and criminals we have, or are our …

In 1963, when Mubarak Begum Shaikh’s soulful voice urged listeners “Mujhko apne gale laga lo…” few would have been able to resist the urge to hug their beloved. The famous duet between Mubarak Begum and the late Mohammed Rafi has enthralled music afficionados even five decades after it hit the Indian musical charts. Years later, in 2008 she gave a …

Dubai, UAE – May 17, 2016 – Employees from Majid Al Futtaim – the shopping mall, retail and leisure giant across the Middle East and North Africa – painted 930 wooden blocks in four hours – measuring 45.5 m2 (489.75 ft2), thus setting the new world record for the the largest painted wooden block mosaic. Photo: Employees from Majid Al …

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 …