Sweet Chillies

Balaraj Khanna

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Author's travel impressions of some cities and towns in India.

Where the streets lead

Travel

Sarayu Ahuja

Asia

Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom

VED MEHTA

Are dam s political symbols?  With its 18 October 2000 judgment, the Supreme Court allowed construction to resume on the Sardar Sarovar dam. But controversy still rages around the dam and any chance of debate between the widely differing opinions on it is drowned in angry rhetoric. Where does that leave the common man in the affected states, or even elsewhere in the country? Seeking answers, activist and journalist Dilip D Souza searches beyond polemics for an understanding of the Narmada project.  Analysing documents put out by the dam authorities themselves; the author builds his simple thesis--that regardless of conflicting feelings on the dam, the way it has been conceived and is being built should be a matter of grave, general concern. He finds a pervasive haziness in the way key issues recurring in this material are addressed the statements of aims (the lifeline of Kutch and Saurashtra the numbers of people displaced, the benefits claimed for the dam. Besides, there are innumerable contradictions in the figures presented. Further, D Souza s first-hand experiences among affected people only underline this gap between paper and fact, and the inescapable conclusion he reaches is that dams are being built less for solving the problems of water, floods and power, and more for the sake of politics.  Such findings in themselves, besides the alternative strategies described, constitute the strongest case against dams like the Sardar Sarovar. Passionate and incisive, this book becomes a searing indictment of the type of development we have pursued since Independence.

Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development

Politics & Social Sciences

D'Souza, Dilip

Politics & Government

Yellow Hisbiscus

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

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The Veil of Illusion

Rebecca Ryman

Language: EnglishPages: 324 (40 B/W Illustrations)About The Author Navin Chawla was educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, and went on to read History at St Stephens College, Delhi University. He took another degree in History at London University, and also obtained a diploma in Social Administration from the London School of Economics. Later, he was a visiting fellow at Queen Elizabeth House at Oxford University.He joined the IAS in 1969 and rose to become Secretary to the Government of India. He was appointed Election Commissioner in 2005 and Chief Election Commissioner in April 2009, when he conducted the General Elections in India in May 2009.During the course of his interesting and varied career, he met Mother Teresa in 1975 and remained closely associated with her till her death in 1997. Mother Teresa inspired him to take up the cause of the poor and marginalized, including the leprosy affected in India. In 1997, he wrote a report on the leprosy situation in India, which, not surprisingly, was released by Mother Teresa herself in New Delhi in October 1997. Since then, the author has continued to espouse the cause of the disabled and leprosy affected in India.In 1992, he wrote this widely acknowledged biography of Mother Teresa, which has since been translated into fourteen languages and the proceeds of which go mainly to charity. He is married to the well known art conservator and writer Rupika Chawla. They have two daughters. PrologueIt was twenty-seven years ago in 1975 at a brief ceremony held in Nirmal Hriday-the Home for the Pure Heart-in Delhi, that I first met Mother Teresa. She had invited the Lieutenant Governor to inaugurate a small rehabilitation centre for elderly inmates as she was eager for Delhi hospit

Mother Teresa: The Centenary Edition

Navin, Chawla

Happiness and Other Disorders

Saidullah, Ahmad

<p>Shashi deshpande's novel is about the secret lives of men and women who love, hate, plot and debate with an intensity that will absorb every reader it is a story that begins, conventionally enough, with a woman's discovery of her father's diary as manjari unlocks the past through its pages, rescuing old memories and recasting events and responses, the present makes its own demands: a rebellious daughter, devious property sharks and a lover who threatens to throw her life out of gear again the ensuing struggle to reconcile nostalgia with reality and the fire of the body with the desire for companionship races to an unexpected resolution, twisting and turning through complex emotional landscapes in moving on shashi deshpande explodes the stereotypes of familial bonds with an uncanny insight into the nature of human relationships and an equally unerring eye for detail</p>

Moving On

Shashi, Deshpande

Sadia shepard grew up just outside of boston, in a home where cultures intertwined-her father a white american protestant and her mother, a muslim from pakistan one day, when she was thirteen, she learned that nana, her beloved maternal grandmother, was not a muslim like the rest of her pakistani family but had begun her life as rachel jacobs, a member of a tiny jewish community in india that believes it is descended from one of the lost tribes of israel, shipwrecked in india over two thousand years ago before nana died, sadia promised her grandmother that she would return to her birthplace to learn about the life and the faith that nana had left behind armed with a suitcase of camera equipment, sadia arrives in bombay, where she finds herself struggling to document the bene israel's unique traditions and make sense of her complicated cultural inheritance in the course of her remarkable journey she unearths long-buried family secrets, learns that love is sometimes found in unusual places, and is forced to examine what it means to both lose and seek a homeland

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and Forgotten Histories

Sadia Shepard

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