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Romancing with Life: An Autobiography
Dev Anand
Dev Anand is something of a Bollywood institution. His romantic persona, dialogue delivery....
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Nuclear Weapons & Indian Security
Bharat Karnad
This book deals comprehensively with the evolution of Indian nuclear weapons strategy....
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Bal Keshav Thackeray
Raj Thackeray
A collection of over 800 pictures of Bal Thackeray, right from his childhood, covering almost all aspects of his public life and the growth of his party, the Shiv Sena.
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India and the World: A Blueprint for Partnership and Growth
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The Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative is an important intellectual landmark in the capital. Every year, the country's most respected newspaper gathers together key figures
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Parineeta
Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya
A timeless love story from the master storyteller of Bengal
Set in early twentieth century Kolkata, Parineeta (Espoused) is the unforgettable story of a child-woman’s....
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Death At My Doorstep
Khuswant Singh
For Khushwant Singh who wrote his own obituary in his twenties, death is not sacred but he reflects on it increasingly these days. In Death At My Doorstep, a collection of....
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My Days in Prison
Iftikhar Gilani
On 9 June 2002, at 4.30 a.m., Iftikhar Gilani, a journalist with Kashmir Times, was roused from sleep by loud knocks at the door. Groggily he opened it to find a posse of
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Diddi: My Mother's Voice
Ira Pande
‘Perhaps because we called our mother Diddi, elder sister, our relationship with her was always somewhat ambivalent. More than a mother she was for us a difficult sibling,....
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A Bunch of Old Letters: Being Mostly Written to Jawaharlal Nehru and Some Written by Him
Jawaharlal Nehru
The letters in this volume, written by some of the leading figures of our times, cover the three eventful decades leading up to India’s Independence in 1947. Evocative of....
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The Future of India: Economics, Politics and Governance
Bimal Jalan
As recently as a decade ago, the prospect of India becoming a developed country any time soon seemed a distant possibility. Since then, however, there has been a sea change
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Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India
Yoginder Sikand
A reasoned, objective examination of the role of madrasas.
The emergence of radical Islamist movements in various parts of the world, the rise and fall of the Taliban in....
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Ambani Vs Ambani- Storms in the Sea Wind
Alam Srinivas
Did Dhirubhai Ambani know about the tensions between his two sons, Mukesh and Anil?
Did the patriarch merge RIL and Reliance Petroleum to prevent a future split in the Reliance....
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Inside Story of Sardar Patel: The Diary of Maniben Patel
Dr. P.N. Chopra & Prabha Chopra
This is the first-ever publication of the hitherto unknown diary of Sardar Patel’s daughter. Maniben generally accompanied Patel everywhere and was present with the Sardar
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Mantras of Change: Reporting India in a Time of Flux
Daniel Lak
Daniel Lak’s foray into writing a book on India started with a non-image. When, towards the end of his three-year stint as a BBC correspondent in India, he was accused by....
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The Life Tree: Poems
A P J Abdul Kalam
In The Life Tree A.P.J. Abdul Kalam takes us on a walk, through anecdote and poetry, over the terrain of his life. Kalam’s world is one of simplicity and beauty......
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The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
Arundhati Roy
When India detonated a thermonuclear device in May 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The End of Imagination’. Since then she has written with clarity, precision and insight about
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Pundits From Pakistan
Rahul Bhattacharya
In early 2004, the Indian cricket team set out for Pakistan. With two nations put to the test against history, the atmosphere was charged; there was more at stake than....
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In Black and White
Chitrita Banerji
Guru Dutt was born on 9 July, 1925 into a Saraswat family of Mangalore and educated in the liberal climate of Calcutta. He started his own production company in 1954 with....
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Spouse: The Truth About Marriage
Shobhaa Dé
There’s no such thing as a ‘perfect marriage’ or a ‘perfect spouse.’ Come on, get real! Marriage is a flawed institution, if you buy into that theory.......
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The Idea of Pakistan
Stephen Philip Cohen
Now set to become the world's fourth most populous nation, Pakistan is all of several things: a client state of the United States yet deeply resentful of it......
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Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West
Kishore Mahbubani
Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the centuries-old dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization..
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The Future of Knowledge and Culture
Vinay Lal, Ashis Nandy
The twentieth century was for the most part an unfolding of the nineteenth, but the twenty-first century is a time of open-ended transition......
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The Ranbaxy Story: The Rise of an Indian Multinational
Bhupesh Bhandari
It took a sleeping pill a get a somnolent company up and running. The drug was Calmpose—Ranbaxy’s answer to Roche’s Valium—and its launch in 1969..
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Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist
Mani Shankar Iyer
Ever since 1986, when the locks on the gates of the makeshift Ram Lalla temple within the precincts of the Babri Masjid were opened, the debate over secularism and communalism....
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Governance
Arun Shourie
Improving governance is the reform we need. But how is reform to be brought about when every proposal - whether it be electoral reform or getting the Government out of running....
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REMAKING INDIA: One Country, One Destiny
Arun Maira
Remaking India is an impassioned critique of India’s current economic and social situation and argues ...
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A Biography and Pran
Bunny Reuben
For the better part of the twentieth century, he was recognized as the eponymous 'bad man' of Indian cinema.......
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Mira and the Mahatma
Sudhir Kakkar
It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of communal...
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later, having lived in Paris, London and New York's East Village, he returned to .......
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Eyewitness Travel Guides: India
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From the heights of the Himalayas to the majesty of the Taj Mahal enjoy the Eastern delights of India with this essential guide. Unique cutaways and 3D pictures take you on....
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Marketing as Strategy
Nirmalya Kumar
Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO's Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation
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Law of Business Process Outsourcing
Pavan Duggal
India's foremost authority on Cyberlaw. Pavan Duggal has written a detailed treatise on the subject of Business Process Outsourcing Law in India. ....
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J.R.D.TATA - Letters & Keynote
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By confining the thoughts of J R D Tata within a single volume, by bringing before the mind's eye his ......
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Bhutan-Kingdom in the Himalaya
Sanjay Acharya
Bhutan, a country of dreams, dragons and legends, lies on India's north-eastern border.
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India's Captains From Nayudu to Ganguly
Partab Ramchand
The captain of the Indian cricket team has to be a man of a different breed. Cricket evokes such tremendous passion ......
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Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and the Making of the Modern Indian Mind
Reba Som
This intellectual history of twentieth-century Indian nationalist thought examines the relationship between .......
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Husband of A Fanatic
Amitava Kumar
Kargil War was being fought, Amitava Kumar married a Pakistani Muslim. That event led to a process of discovery that made Kumar examine the ...
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Homij Bhabha – Architect of Nuclear India
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Born in a rich Parsee family of Bombay, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, was destined to carve a niche for himself in the field of nuclear science.......
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Band of Soldiers: A Year on the Road with Shivaji
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
When sixteen-year-old Sadashiv is forced to leave his village, he has no idea that he will shortly become part of a legendary band of soldiers, united under the most inspiring....
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I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
Khuswant Singh
I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, Khushwant Singh's second novel, is set in Amritsar during the height of India's freedom movement...
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Paradise and Other Stories
Khuswant Singh
India's best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles?......
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Chronicle of an Impossible Election
James Michael Lyngdoh
The Election Commission and the 2002 Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections
A book of this kind is, at the very least, a useful chronicle of the Jammu and Kashmir elections,....
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His Sacred Burden: The Life of Bhagat Puran Singh
Reema Ananad
Known by many as the `Father Teresa of Punjab', Bhagat Puran Singh (1904_92) was an epitome of love and compassion whose contribution to society is indeed comparable to that
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Mistress
Anita Nair
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radha’s uncle and a famous kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and....
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For the Love of India: The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata
R M Lala
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born in 1839, and in his lifetime India remained firmly under British rule. Yet the projects he envisioned laid the foundation for the nation’s....
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The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva and Beyond
Achyut Yagnik, Suchitra Sheth
A probing look beyond Hindutva to get to the heart of Gujarat.
Many aspects of modern Gujarati society and polity appear puzzling. A society which for centuries absorbed
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The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas from the 19th to the 21st Century
R M Lala
When Jamsetji Tata started a trading firm in 1868 few could have guessed ......
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Amartya Sen
India is a large and very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints.....
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