An Eye For Excellence

An Eye for Excellence is an inspiring chronicle of how a newly established institution – the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur – achieved pre-eminence in a short period of time, and how today, as it completes fifty years, it is poised for a quantum leap in its journey of excellence. Blessed with the support of India''s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and lucky to have a visionary founder-director, Dr P. K. Kelkar, IIT Kanpur was able to draw on the rich experience of nine famous US universities, backed by US government funds. Breaking loose from established educational patterns both in India and abroad, IIT Kanpur went in for an innovative broad-based curriculum with sciences and humanities and social sciences forming an essential component. It also introduced in India the concepts of the semester system, a continuous evaluation of students and letter grades. An open, participatory ambience transformed the students, representing the cream of India, into firebrands with a Midas touch. They went on to make a name for themselves, their alma mater and their country across a wide spectrum, even beyond their fields of specialization. From an important discovery about prime numbers(by Maninder Agarwal), to rising to be the head of the Reserve Bank of India (Duvvuri Subbarao), to selfless public service (Satyendra Dubey), to becoming icons of environment (Anil Agarwal) and entrepreneurship(N.R. Narayana Murthy in India and Umang Gupta in Silicon Valley), the students of IIT Kanpur have shown extraordinary versatility. What gave the faculty, the students and staff a deep sense of ''ownership'' of the institute was the fact that they pioneered a large number of exceptional activities, whether in computers or materials science education or a student-operated television studio. How the institute overcame the hurdles in its path is a heart-warming saga in itself. Today, as IIT Kanpur continues on its dynamic path, it is exhilarating to know that such ''Nalandas'' can indeed be built and sustained in modern India.

ISBN: 9788172237691
Author: E. C. Subbarao
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

50 Maestros 50 Performances: The Best of Indian Classicla Music

Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan represent the seventh generation of the Senia Bangash School of music. They have performed at concerts and festivals around the world and have crossed the bridge between pure classical and western fusion with their electronica and lounge albums. They have collaborated with various artists like guitarist Derek Trucks and percussionist Evelyn Glennie among others. They have also written a biography of their father, Abba: God’s Greatest Gift to Us (2002).

From Begum Akhtar to Bhimsen Joshi, Enayat Khan to Ravi Shankar, Bismillah Khan to Shiv Kumar Sharma, Indian classical music is as varied as it can be, from the pure traditional gharanas to more recent blends and fusions. Young sarod players Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan have grown up surrounded by music and musicians. In this tribute to the masters of Indian classical music, both instrumental and vocal, they take us through their encounters with fifty musicians from the twentieth century, exploring the world of both Hindustani and Carnatic music. Filled with personal anecdotes and musical appraisals, and accompanied by a CD selection of some of the finest recorded performances, this book takes you through the best of Indian classical music. Interspersed with some rare photographs from the authors'' personal collection as well as descriptions and details of every recording they have discussed, this book is a keepsake for the connoisseur and a comprehensive introduction to the beginner.

ISBN: 9788172239183
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Your Personal Horoscope 2010

Your complete one-volume guide to the year 2010. This fantastic and in depth book includes month-by-month forecasts for every sign and all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead.


Discover when your lucky days will fall and when it might be better just to stay in bed, with your complete one-volume, month-by-month guide to the year 2010 – the only horoscope you will ever need.


This bestselling guide gives you individual predictions for the year ahead and shows you how you, your friends, your family and lovers will fare. It includes:


• A month-by-month forecast for every sign


• A personality profile for each sign


• What to expect in terms of love, sex, work and money


• Detailed predictions of your best days and worst days – and the ideal days to attract love or money.


• Invaluable advice on exactly when to ask for that pay rise, what days you should be on the look out for exciting revalations and the days you should probably just stay in bed!

ISBN: 9780007281473
Author: Joseph Polansky
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

The Khoj Book

A definitive volume on contemporary Indian art practice covering the work of 101 artists.
This is a book of stunning visual appeal, which showcases the work of 101 contemporary Indian artists. It covers painting, sculpture, installations, video, live performances and other art forms. The Khoj Book has been edited and compiled by the Khoj International Artists'' Association, and leading artists have conducted interviews with other artists, speaking in a lively and informed manner. It is the first such volume, which extensively documents art practice from 1997 to 2007.

ISBN: 9788172236878
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

365 Nirvana Here And Now: Living Every Moment in Enlightenment

Author: Josh Baran
ISBN: 9780007200870
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

NATURE`S BABIES

Mike Dilger is an enthusiastic naturalist and freelance presenter. He spent four years as a research biologist in the tropics of Ecuador, Tanzania and Vietnam and is a regular presenter on nature programmes. Having birded, botanized and entomologised in a huge range of countries, he has accumulated an encyclopaedic knowledge of British and South American wildlife and a strong familiarity with the nature of Vietnam and Tanzania. Mike is also a member of many wildlife charities and has trained as a PADI open water diver.

There are few things more endearing than baby animals, but their charm belies their struggle for survival. From frolicking foxes to boisterous bears, lounging lions to zealous zebras, Nature''s Babies explores the lives of some of Nature''s most engaging offspring and reveals the ingenious ways they cope with growing up.

When it comes to ''bringing up baby'', Nature has an infinite variety of approaches, from parents who lovingly tend to their young for years to newborn babes who rough it on their own from day one. Nature''s Babies offers a rare insight into how young animals make it into this world and learn to fend for themselves.

Accompanied by beautiful photography throughout, Mike Dilger takes us on a journey of discovery through the intriguing world of Nature''s Babies

ISBN: 9780007279265
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

The Carrie Diaries

Candace Bushnell is the best-selling author of ‘Sex and the City’ – the global phenomenon that began as a column in the New York Observer and went on to become an HBO cult hit TV series, best-selling novel and a box office smash in 2008 (with a sequel currently being filmed for release May 2010). She is married and lives in Manhattan.

Meet Carrie Bradshaw before ‘Sex and the City!’

The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation.

Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She''s ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, and a friend''s betrayal makes her question everything.

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself, and evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious and poignant, we''ll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where her new life begins.

ISBN: 9780007371211
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Ali Abbas Story

This is the real-life story of Ali Abbas, published on the aniversary of the Iraqi War, with all profits going to The Limbless Association. Ali captured our hearts and the backing of the highest officials when he was air-lifted to the U.K. following an air-raid which left him an orphan and in which he lost both arms.

Ali Abbas became an international symbol of Iraqi suffering from the moment his photograph first appeared in the newspapers in the Iraq War of 2003. His father, pregnant mother and brother were killed by coalition bombs over Baghdad, while the 12-year old boy lost both his arms and suffered burns to his body in a bombing raid on Baghdad. He lay close to death before being airlifted to expert treatment in Kuwait.

For Ali, and many children like him, the Iraqi conflict will have life-long consequences, and this book will follow his story through each dramatic step. It is Ali''s courage and resilience that has drawn so many people to him, and now Ali, his family, friends and doctors speak about his life and recent events, as well as his hopes for the future.

Since the day his story became known, Ali''s progress has been closely monitored by press and public alike; from his dramatic airlift out of Iraq, to his travelling to the UK for expert care at Roehampton Rehabilitation Centre.

Produced with the full co-operation of the Limbless Association; all royalties of this book will go towards a fund for Ali.

ISBN: 9780007181315
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Soap! – Writing and Surviving Television in India

Venita Coelho has spent over 15 years in the busy world of Mumbai television, seeing it evolve from the days of the 13 episode Doordarshan serials, to the mad, mad world of the current daily soap opera. She has worked in various capacities of producer, writer and director in leading private channels, including Sony Entertainment Television and Cinevistaas. Currently she lives in an old Portuguese house in Bambordem, Goa, and continues her creative career in more inspired surroundings.

‘Coelho formalizes writing for television, explains the rules, and does her best to create a new generation of thinking writers. This book does a good job of teaching how to write – not just for television but for any medium. It has clear guidelines, a whole range of helpful tools and a practical approach. A must-read for those with any sort of writing ambitions.’
Siddharth Malhotra

Producer, Cinevistaas Pvt. Ltd – Sanjeevani, Dil Mil Gaye, Crime Patrol, Jersey No. Ten

‘A book like this would have saved me years of hard lessons and much angst. Not only does it explain the art of writing in a practical and lucid manner, at every step of the way Coelho pushes you to raise your standards and to write to your full potential. Writers of every sort would benefit from the experience, the wisdom and the advice that she hands out.’
Sandeep Shrivastava
Writer – New York, Ab Tak Chappan

ISBN: 9788172239411
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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Flaws in the Jewel - Challenging the Myths of British India

Roderick Matthews was born in London in 1956 and still lives there with his wife and two children. He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford and is now a freelance writer specializing in Indian history. He has written articles for the Times of India, and a biography of the British Raj to be published in 2011. In 1914, his great grandfather advised M.K. Gandhi, then staying in London, to return to India for his health, thus inadvertently precipitating the fall of the British Empire.

Roderick Matthews re-examines British rule in India by concentrating on three central themes: its ability to defray the costs of its own maintenance; its impersonal and institutional qualities that gave it continuity and tenacity; and its commitment to a dual higher purpose – the uplift of the condition of the natives and the playing out of the superior moral character of the Englishman. At first, these ‘virtues’ gave the Raj viability, vitality and focus. But over time they also proved to be weaknesses that could not be remedied.

The Flaws in the Jewel shows how the British Raj was never able to overcome, or even properly to acknowledge, its many deficiencies. As a result, British rule developed into an uncomfortable amalgam of imperial economics, military autocracy and unfulfilled liberal aspirations.

ISBN: 9788172239367
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

How to Salsa in a Sari

Dona Sarkar was born in Kathmandu and moved to Detroit, Michigan at a young age. She spent her college days scribbling stories about Indian vampires converting innocent bystanders to Hinduism instead of taking notes during Computer Science class. After doing the standard South Asian thing of getting a ‘real’ job Dona began taking writing classes found her true voice in young adult stories. How to Salsa in a Sari is her first novel.

Issa Mazumder, a nerdy half Indian, half African teenage girl who lives in the US with her single mother, has just been utterly destroyed because the gorgeous Cat Morena, Latina princess, Issa''s worst enemy and the most popular girl in school, has stolen Issa''s equally nerdy boyfriend Adam. And there''s worse to come – Issa''s mother announces that she and Cat''s father are getting married. And they are moving into Cat''s huge mansion.

Cat has no respect for Issa''s traditions and makes Issa''s life hell. But Issa gets some tough advice: if she wants Cat Morena to welcome her traditions, Issa had better learn to salsa in a sari!

ISBN: 9788172239633
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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India China – Neighbours Strangers

Ira Pande worked as a university teacher for 15 years, and then as an editor at Seminar, Biblio, Dorling Kindersley and Roli Books. She is currently Chief Editor, IIC Publications. She is the author of Diddi: My Mother's Voice, published by Penguin Books India.

An invaluable guide to understanding Indo-Chinese relations and its ramifications for the world

Even as the balance of power shifts from the West to the East, the relationship between India and China becomes increasingly significant. It is a relationship that will determine to a large extent the political and economic landscape of not only Asia but of the world as a whole. Yet, it is a relationship fraught with ambiguities and mistrust.

It is time then to examine the mutual points of convergence and difference. This volume of essays, photographs and illustrations attempts to do just that, creating a kaleidoscope of responses to two ancient civilizations learning to cope with the pulls and pressures of modernity and with each other.

ISBN: 9788172239602
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Serious Men

Manu Joseph is a journalist based in Mumbai. Serious Men, his first novel, is being published simultaneously in India, Britain and the US. It has also been translated into Dutch, German, French and Serbian. The author was listed among the top new novelists of 2010 by the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

Ayyan Mani appears to be just another man in Mumbai, stranded in the rot of a good marriage, an unremarkable life and a dead-end job as personal assistant to an insufferable astronomer called Arvind Acharya at the Institute of Theory and Research. To entertain himself and to give his wife the hope that they are heading towards a spectacular future, Ayyan embarks upon a secret game, weaving an outrageous fiction around his ten-yearold son. As he builds the small plots to promote the myth, he sets in motion a chain of events that soon threatens to overtake him. When the formidable reputation of Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with the theory that microscopic extraterrestrials are falling on Earth all the time, plummets after a major scandal, and he is rocked by the vicious office politics in the institute, Ayyan sees in the crisis an opportunity to further his own game and make his son a national celebrity. But in the exhilaration of the game lurks danger…

Alternately funny and poignant, Serious Men is a savage satire on class, love, relationships, and our veneration of science.

ISBN: 9788172238520
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Buddha Book: 50 Buddhas, Blessings Prayers and Rituals to Grant You Love, Wisdom and Healing

Inspired by the teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Buddha Box introduces the reader to the most important and well-known Buddhist deities. Comprises 45 beautifully illustrated cards, presenting each Buddha along with their major characteristics, and an accompanying book, explaining the history of the Buddhas.

Contents:
• Included in this edition are the Historical Buddha, Shakyamuni; the Five Dhyani Buddhas; the Purification Buddha; the Healing Buddhas; the Compassionate Buddhas; the Longevity Buddhas; the Mother Goddess; the Wealth Buddhas; and the Buddha of the Future.

• Each card represents a separate Buddha along with the prayers, meditations, visualizations, and special rituals and blessings associated with each.

• In the Buddhist tradition each deity represents different aspects of the enlightened mind. This pack shows how meditating with a particular Buddha on a daily basis can bring healing, compassion and hope into our lives.

• The accompanying book describes the historical background of the Buddhas in a clear and concise way and explains how you can integrate the Buddhist faith into your life.

ISBN: 9780007174867
Auhtor: Lillian Too
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Dead on Time

Meghnad Desai is an economist by profession and taught at the London School of Economics for forty years. He is a keen observer of British politics and participates in it from his perch in the House of Lords. He has written books on economics, Marxism, Islamist terrorism, Ezra Pound and Bollywood. This is his first novel.

For the Right Honourable Harry White, Britain''s charismatic and politically savvy prime minister, it is a busy day like any other at 10 Downing Street. Every minute is packed with politics, people and policies, and the odd flirtation.

There is a peremptory invitation to lunch with megalomaniac media lord Matt Drummond, a parliamentary rebellion to be batted away, an urgent call from the White House about a crisis in the Middle East. Until, finally, Harry White and his entourage are ready to fly to Glasgow for the last item on their schedule: the Old Firm game between Rangers and Celtic, the traditional Scottish rivals.

It is a game that Harry has little interest in, but there are at least two men who have waited many years for exactly this moment. Will they be able to realize their plans? Will blood flow between the Catholic and Protestant fans as their teams battle for supremacy on the ground? Will the day end well for Harry White and his new conquest Sarah? Or will the events of this single day transform the political face of England for ever?

An unexpected first novel by the well-known economist and political commentator, Dead on Time is a delightful mix of action, humour and realpolitik. The author brilliantly renders recognizable characters and situations in a manner that blurs fact and fiction to give us a racy behind-the-scenes take on politics and politicians, journalists and media planners, and all those who shape the way we perceive the world today.

ISBN: 9788172238292
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Extreme American Makeover

Mitali Perkins was born in Kolkata, then lived in Cameroon, Ghana, Mexico, London and New York before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied political science at Stanford University and public policy at U.C. Berkeley. Her books include Monsoon Summer, The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen, Rickshaw Girl, The Secret Keeper and Bamboo People. She now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband and sons, and ruminates about life,

She’s short, she’s spunky, she’s just a regular girl

Sameera—Sparrow to her friends—is used to feeling invisible. But all that is about to change. As her father’s presidential campaign heats up, Sameera trades in her summer vacation for a crash course in becoming a celebrity. Step 1: Fabulous Makeover, of course!

As it turns out, the makeover is amazing. But some of the campaign staff aren’t content with a trendy haircut, stilettos and designer outfits. They’ve decided to package Pakistan-born, plain-speaking Sameera as ‘Sammy’ Righton—a giggly, carefree, all-American girl. No more wearing comfy jeans and sneakers, dancing the bhangra or blogging from the heart—in other words, Sameera must forget about being herself.

What they don’t know is that Sameera has a mind of her own. And plenty to say. Not to mention a gutsy, straight-talking blog that could go live to millions…

ISBN: 9788172239657
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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Potato Chips

Currently battling his way through St Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata, Anshuman Mohan makes the ‘watch out’ list wherever he goes. His interests range from sports to spelling bee, writing to organizing Facebook movements. A finalist at the HDFC Standard Life’s Spell Bee 2009, Anshuman is expecting to travel to Dublin on a students’ exchange programme in summer 2010. The idea for Potato Chips, he says, was conceived while wrestling with friends over treats at the school canteen.

We students are like potatoes… Only the finest of us will get made into chips!’

When Aman Malhotra is made to change schools, he knows that his goose is well and truly cooked. From the easygoing, friendly atmosphere of Akshar, he is thrust into the big, bad world of St Xavier’s. The reason, according to his parents: a big school prepares you much better for your future, i.e., IIT. Things, Aman realizes, are about to change and not for the better. The progress graph of his life plunges downwards in a sudden freefall—his grades suffer, his classmates snicker at him, his teachers think he is a brat.

Struggling to make sense of his new, high-pressure surroundings, Aman casts his net far and wide for friends and finds Shubho, a boy with a crafty drop-shot and a mean backhand. As Aman gets to know Shubho and tries to help him out, he also begins to get his own life back on track. A hero, he finally understands, comes in the most unlikely of guises and isn’t necessarily the most popular kid in school.

An honest, in-your-face story of school life and adolescence—the highs, the lows, the pranks, the exams, the friendships, the fights—Potato Chips is crisp and smart, fresh and funny.

ISBN: 9788172239640
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The Art of Healing – The Healing Breath

François Gautier is a French journalist who has been the South Asia correspondent for the largest French daily, Le Figaro, for over ten years. He is the author of a number of books and has written regular columns for publications such as Outlook and The Indian Express. Namrita Gautier is a textile designer and an Art of Living teacher who writes books for children.

Breathing has the power to rejuvenate and revitalize the body.

Recognizing the power of the breath, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar revived and popularized the ancient art of pranayama and created sudarshan kriya— techniques of effective breathing that help unlock the power that lies within all of us. Sri Sri and the Art of Living Foundation seek to use these techniques to spread peace and harmony throughout the world. Modern living is fraught with stress and suffering and Sri Sri helps transform the negative emotions that come with that lifestyle into positive energy. This book tries to understand how the science of breath, along with meditation, can offer a healing touch amidst the chaos of modern life.

The Art of Healing: The Healing Breath is an attempt at unravelling the enigma that is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and spreading the message of peace that the Art of Living Foundation propagates. It would prove to be an invaluable guide for followers of Sri Sri, for those who wish to understand the good work being done by his disciples in areas where people are afflicted and affected by disease, trauma and disasters, and for those who wish to understand the crisis of modern living and the way out of it.

ISBN: 9788172238087
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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and Pran: A Biography

The following book is a riveting life story of Indian cinema''s most memorable villain. For the better part of the twentieth century, he was recognized as the eponymous ''bad man'' of Indian cinema. Whether a sadistic despot or a malicious village bully, a dissolute city animal or a wicked anti-national, Pran portrayed the infinite shades of evil with consummate ease. Such was the impact that, if for centuries, not a single person has been name Ravana, then for over three decades after Independence, almost no male child was named Pran, because he was ''branded'' as the personification of evil.

While Pran perfected the art of portraying evil in all its dimensions, he also immortalized the ''good'' image in some of the most memorable characterizations ever seen on the Indian screen. Whatever the role, each performance was suffused with originality and imagination. By his use of highly stylized mannerisms, unusual get-ups, realistic make-up and different accents, Pran succeeded in rising above the ordinary, in turning stereotypes into unforgettable characters.

This biography unveils the life and times of one of India''s most important actors. Not only does it bring to light a career that spans more than six decades and 350 films, but it also presents an intimate portrait of the man behind the image.

ISBN: 9788172234669
Author: Bunny Reuben
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Captured in Miniature: Mughal Lives Through Mughal Art

With their passion for nature and art, the Mughal emperors laid out verdant gardens, built splendid monuments - and commissioned beautiful books.

Books were precious to the Mughal kings. Expensive and laborious to produce, they were symbols of royal wealth, power and intelligence. At the height of Mughal power, the imperial studios hummed with the activity of hundreds of papermakers, calligraphers, painters and bookbinders, all producing books for the royal libraries. Many manuscripts were illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings, in which the Mughals took a special delight.

Today these books and paintings, treasured by museums around the world, offer us unique perspectives into Mughal lives.

Captured in Miniature unveils the secrets of miniature painting, allowing children (and adults) to experience thejoy of their creation and interpretation.

ISBN: 9788172236229
Author: SUHAG SHIRODKAR
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Chinese Astrology

A fascinating introduction to the signs of the Chinese zodiac, now completely redesigned in full colour.

Along with Eastern philosophies, Chinese astrology has recently become popular in the West. Despite being complex in its analysis, it is easy for the novice to access, as all you need is your date of birth. Collins Gem Chinese Astrology describes the 12 animal symbols and interprets their meanings in a clear and entertaining fashion.

Each animal sign features the following information:

The lunar years ruled by that animal

The positive and negative aspects of the animal sign

The characteristics of the male, female and child animal

The animal at home and work, its preferences and compatibility with the other Chinese signs

The animal in love, its health, leisure interests and the links between its sign and those of Western astrology

ISBN: 9780007178490
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Johnny Gone Down

Karan Bajaj is a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Washington D.C. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 2002 where he was selected as one of the top ten young business leaders of India by the Aditya Birla Foundation. Karan has earlier worked as a Brand Manager for Procter & Gamble in India, the Philippines, Singapore and the U.S., and was nominated a 'Top 40 under 40 marketer in the U.S.' by Advertising Age in 2007. Born in 1979 into an Army family, Karan studied in various schools in Delhi, Shimla, Ranchi, Jabalpur, Lucknow and Assam. His interests in backpacking, hiking, reading and philosophy are key writing inspirations.

Nikhil Arya has fallen.
Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless, and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust.
It wasn''t meant to be this way.
An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil become first a genocide survivor, then a Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul and a deadly game fighter. Now, twenty years later, Nikhil aka Johnny is tired of running. With the Colombian mafia on his trail and his abandoned wife and son ten thousand miles away, he prepares for his final act, aware that he will have lost even if he wins.
Or will he? Is there any greater victory than living a life that knows no limits, a world that has seen no boundaries?
From the bestselling author of Keep Off the Grass comes the once-in-a-lifetime story of an ordinary man fighting an extraordinary destiny. Can he pick up the pieces one last time or will Nikhil, now Johnny, go down for good?

ISBN: 9788172237868
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Kargil: A True Story

General V.P. Malik was the Chief of the Army Staff (India) from 1 October 1997 to 30 September 2000. Concurrently, he was chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, from 1 January 1999 to 30 September 2000. in both these posts, he played a vital role in planning, coordinating and overseeing the military operations that enabled India to evict the Pakistani intruders in Kargil and thus turn the tables on Pakistan.

A graduate from the Defence Services Staff College and Madras University, General Malik is an alumnus of the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has been a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and has delivered lectures in many prestigious civil and military institutions in India and abroad. Currently, he heads the Institute of Security Studies in the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

An incisive and hard-hitting narrative that reveals the behind-the-scenes activities affecting the Kargil war.

In the garb of jehadi militants, Pakistan Army personnel infiltrated into the Indian Territory of Kargil and triggered off a limited conventional war between the world''s newest nuclear weapon states.The Pakistan Army achieved a tactical surprise but failed at the strategic level. The outbreak of war in Kargil also revealed that Pakistani political leadership was out of synch with the thinking and planning of its military brass. The author seeks to analyse the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army''s strategy and tactics and also focuses on the people responsible.

This volume seeks to answer questions such as: What was the rationale for India''s grand strategy of restraint despite being a victim of aggression? How was the war managed? How were battles planned, and executed, to recapture the strategically important high altitude mountaintops?

ISBN: 9788172236359
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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50 Indian Film Classic

M.K. Raghavendra is a film researcher, scholar and critic. He has written extensively on world cinema for Indian and international periodicals. He received the national award for Best Film Critic in 1997, which cited his ‘provocative and iconoclastic writing, which inspires debate and discussion, so rare in film criticism today’. His book Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2008) was acknowledged by India Today as among the best books on movies.

An eclectic collection of essays by the winner of the National Award Swarna Kamal for Best Film Critic 1997 With more than a thousand films produced annually in over fifteen languages India is acknowledged as the largest producer of motion pictures in the world.50 Indian Film Classics provides detailed critical accounts of the most important Indian films beginning with Prem Sanyas (1925) to Rang De Basanti (2006) in languages ranging from Bengali and Hindi to Manipuri and Malayalam and representing a whole gamut of themes: from the 1930s mythological Sant Tukaram to the politically radical Calcutta ''71, from art-house favourites like Uski Roti and Mukhamukham to blockbusters like Sholay and Lagaan. These perceptive essays introduce the reader to the many moods that inform Indian cinema, the austerity of Pather Panchali, the lavishness of Hum Aapke Hain Koun…!, the solemnity of Samskara and the fun and frolic of Amar Akbar Anthony.Illustrated with rare posters and stills this is an invaluable guide to the most significant cinema India has ever produced.

ISBN: 9788172238667
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India