Confront the present with this book.
This collection brings together all of Ruskin Bond's tales of the paranormal written over five decades. It opens with perhaps his best-known story, the unforgettable, Á face in the dark', set in a pine forest outside Simla, and ends with the shockingly macabre 'Night of the Millennium', where the scene of the action is an abondoned cemetery.
A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing like she expected. Claire agrees to become a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers. Hired to entrap straying husbands, she must catch them on tape with their seductive propositions.The rules? Never hit on the mark directly....
भारत नेहरु के बाद दुनिया के विशलतम लोकतंत्र का इतिहास
Chanakya's Arthashastra is an unrivalled political treatise that has been used by scholars, academics and leaders across the world. In Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich, Radhakrishnan Pillai brings out the inherent lessons from Arthashastra to present a strategic and practical way of wealth creation. This is a holistic study, written for anyone and...
Ranji's team finds an unexpected opponent—a nosy crocodile—when they play a cricket match against the village boys. Annoyed at the swarms of boys crowding the riverbank and the alarming cricket balls plopping around his place of rest, Nakoo the crocodile decides to take his revenge.
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is he's innocent. Or at least sort of.
Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task.
Remember how I said that if some jerk caught me carrying a book with "diary on the cover, they were gonna the wrong idea? Well, that's exactly what happened today.
A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun…unless, of course, youre the Heffleys.
Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be?
In Fateful Triangle, Tanvi Madan argues that China's influence on the U.S.-India relationship is neither a recent nor a momentary phenomenon. Drawing on documents from India and the United States, she shows that American and Indian perceptions of and policy toward China significantly shaped U.S.-India relations in three crucial decades, from 1949 to 1979.
`Safety' for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of autonomy. To be `safe', women are told, they must allow themselves to be kept under constant surveillance. Their movement is restricted to specific spaces. Often homes and hostels. Extreme Levels of control are exercised to confine their mobility.
The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason to jump out of bed each morning. Discover the Japanese secret to a long and happy life with the internationally bestselling guide to Ikigai.
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people have moved-from, to and within India-the book embarks on a journey laced...
As ancient allies watch over him from the Himalayas, Anirudh moves to find the greatest weapon in the universe hidden in the fabled submerged palace of Dwarka.
In the highly anticipated Nyxia Triad series Finale, Emmett and the Genesis Team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they're to make it home alive.
Rajeeti mein neete hai, toh aneeti kyon? Ranath Singh
Was this what it was like to be a rock star? Except that pop singers were usually followed by people, not cats
Savarkar belived in the idea of a Hindu Rashtra He abvocated the Hindu cause and Hindutva Savarkar, a bundle of contradictions read this biography to negotiate with one of India's major freedom fighters Savarkar, a historian's enigma.
This anthology has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far.
Timeless Tales,Endless Humour,Everlasting Fun
Here is a compendium of knowledge that serves as an insightful introduction to the most important document of independent India.
"A heart-warming story of love and friendship Grandfather had brought home Timothy, the little tiger cub, from the forests of the Shiwaliks. Timothy grew up to be a friendly tiger, with a monkey and a mongrel for company. But some strange circumstances lead Grandfather to take Timothy away to a zoo. Will they ever meet again? "
One day the three discover a secret pool on the mountainside, and it is there that they plan their greatest escapade yet-a trek to the Pindari Glacier, where no one from their town has gone before. This newly illustrated edition of Bond's magical tale of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another generation of readers.
"For over five decades, Ruskin ond has written charming tales that have mesmerized readers of all ages. This collection brings together his finest stories for children in one volume. Published previously as A Treasury of Stories for Children, this attractive rejacketed edition includes two new stories, 'The Big Race' and...
The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
"In The Room on the Roof, Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, decides he has had enough of the tiny, diminishing European community and his tyrannical guardian, and runs away. To his delight, Rusty finds that life on the open road is packed with excitement and high adventure
In God we trust, the rest we monitor. A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, deconstructs the shadowy world of spies, from the Cold War era to the age of global jihad, from surveillance states to psy-war and cyberwarfare, from gathering information to turning it into credible intelligence. Vikram Sood...
A tale of sweet revenge Ruskin is keen to teach his scatterbrained uncle a lesson. After all, he put him on the wrong train! Armed with gifts from his new friend, the stationmaster-yummy rasgullas and a pair of beautiful white mice-Ruskin devises the perfect payback. Peppered with endearing characters and brought to life by delightful artwork, this is one...
`Whichever party is in office, the rich are usually in control. If you are wondering why, turn to Giridharadas
What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know about reality? In this brilliant, timely, and practical work, Chopra and Kafatos tell us that we’ve reached just such a point. In the coming era, the universe will be completely redefined as a “human universe” radically unlike the cold, empty void where...