Edité par RainLight, 2006
ISBN 10 : 8129102048 ISBN 13 : 9788129102041
Vendeur : HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Rupa/Rainlight Publications, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129132737 ISBN 13 : 9788129132734
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.87.
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Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8189132601 ISBN 13 : 9788189132606
Vendeur : PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Royaume-Uni
PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129130998 ISBN 13 : 9788129130990
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : NEW. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Velan saw the shape of a man in the dark, but not the machete gripped in his hand Set in a small town in South India in the early 1970s, Murder in Melur is the story of Vijayan, a confused idealist who is buffeted by the politics of the period-the Rationalist, Dravidian and Communist movements in the Tamil country as well as the incipient civil war in Sri Lanka. His idealism, however, is frustrated not only by social convention and injustice but also by his own inertia and self-absorption. But when his friend Velan, a political activist, is mysteriously murdered, it gives Vijayan an opportunity to put his ideas into practice but also leads him into a chilling web of deceit and political intrigue from which it seems he cannot escape. As he digs deeper into Velan's life to look for answers, Velan's murderer lurks in the background and appears to be following Vijayan. But the questions keep piling up as the suspense builds. Why did Velan have to die? Is his killer the mysterious stranger with the limp? Or could it be someone closer home? Taut and well-paced, Murder in Melur knits together the lives of ordinary people, including folklore with the larger social and political issues of the day.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 812913098X ISBN 13 : 9788129130983
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. This book focuses on the current Muslim mood in India, particularly that of the youth who are trying to move the community into a new-more positive-direction. Despite a marked increase in religiosity and an assertion of Muslim identity, young Muslims are more secular and forward-looking than the older generation. They also have a strong sense of belonging to India, and see no contradiction between being proud Indians and proud Muslims at the same time. Keen to draw a line under the past, they are harbingers of India's equivalent of 'Muslim spring'.
Edité par Rainlight, 2015
ISBN 10 : 8129134888 ISBN 13 : 9788129134882
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. If India is described in conflicting and exaggerated terms-a growth miracle, yet a poverty stricken country-Breaking Through creates a more nuanced portrait of the nation. It presents an India that is at the cusp of change, attempting to emerge from poverty. In Breaking Through, this India is exemplified through individual, representational stories of innovation, endeavour, struggle and 'success'. We meet poor and orphaned Neelu, who becomes a serial house owner in the capital; health-worker Santosh, who strives to meet her own health needs; penurious Nazma, who is concerned about the quality of her children's education; underprivileged entrepreneurs Shan and Dhan, who wrest the rich dividends of growth. These narratives highlight a complex journey. They present the roadblocks that hinder the entry of the poor into economic life (markets, or credit and infrastructure, or businesses governed by transparency) and obstruct their capacity to seize the basic entitlements of health, education and political participation. This makes social or economic transition difficult, circuitous and sometimes, rife with danger. Breaking Through reminds us that to look past these stories of struggle, energy and drive-these narratives of people emerging from poverty-is to miss the vibrancy and complexity of India and her growth story.
Edité par Rainlight, 2012
ISBN 10 : 8129120941 ISBN 13 : 9788129120946
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. In an age when the idea of the religious community is determined by stereotypes and old fault lines, Saba Naqvi takes a journey across the country in search of her own identity among people, communities and shrines that challenge our predetermined notions of what makes a Muslim or a Hindu. Along the way, she finds places and people on the periphery of absolute identities, culling out a unique space for themselves in an orthodox, exclusivist society. In Good Faith is a journalistic account of the discovery of an India that at times defies belief the India of faraway shrines in quaint little places, and of communities and individuals who reach out to a common God. From the Muslim forest goddess of Bengal to an unknown facet of the Shivaji legend in Maharashtra; from the disputed origins of the Shirdi Sai Baba to shrines across the land that are both temple and dargah this book shows how, in these little pockets, the idea of a tolerant India still survives. These neglected ground realities, argues the author, these little islands of pluralism, music, art and culture, may yet provide a counter to fundamentalism.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129134519 ISBN 13 : 9788129134516
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : NEW. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Eight hundred years ago Baba Farid, the great Sufi saint of the Chisti order, visited Jerusalem, freshly wrested back for Islam from the Crusaders by Saladin and meditated there for forty days in an underground room. Later, an Indian Hospice was born through a waqf endowment around that room and has welcomed Indian pilgrims-and soldiers-to Jerusalem ever since. For close to a century, through the tumultuous years of the British Mandate, the Second World War, the birth of Israel and the ensuing decades of conflict, the Hospice has been looked after by an Indian family-first by Sheikh Nazir Hasan Ansari, a police inspector's son from Saharanpur, and then by his eldest son, Sheikh Munir Ansari. Following in the tradition of literary travellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux, Navtej Sarna wanders through the timeless narrow lanes of Old Jerusalem, sifting through fact and fable to tease out the unique story of the Indian Hospice and the Ansari family. What starts off as a personal conversation becomes a deeply researched but lightly told account that weaves historical narrative with telling personal detail.
Edité par Rainlight, 2013
ISBN 10 : 8129129019 ISBN 13 : 9788129129017
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Leaving home on 17 October 2011, Nandita Haksar and her husband, Sebastian Hongray, drove across Nepal to reach the Chicken Neck, the slim strip of land which connects the Northeast to the rest of India. From the Chicken Neck, they went up to the one of the easternmost towns of the country, Mayodia in Arunachal Pradesh. Making a U-turn in Mayodia, they swept south to the town of Moreh, a busy centre of trade (both legal and illegal) on the border between India and Myanmar. Turning back from Moreh, they travelled to the Manas National Park on the Indo-Bhutan border. They then drove back to Delhi via Nepal. In all, the couple covered 15,000-plus kilometres in four months and traversed areas affected by more than fifteen separate insurgencieseach of which is being waged by people seeking homelands and identities for themselves. Over the course of their journey, Nandita met and spoke with friends, relatives and strangers, and found that almost all the individual histories of the tribes and races of the region have become subsumed into narratives imposed either by the State or by the dominant Hindu religion. And it is the reclamation of these individual identities, she says, that has given rise to the numerous movements for self-determination. In Across the Chicken Neck, Nandita uses mythology, history, sociology, political analysis and anecdote to create an exhaustive, nuanced portrait of Northeast India. This is a book to be read, not only to understand the many schisms of a fractured land, but also for its telling of a rousing adventure.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129124858 ISBN 13 : 9788129124852
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Named for the revolutionary Trotsky by a missing communist father he never saw, Leon Ali is a Kashmiri born in Britain and brought up by a single mother in Delhi. Keya Raina is a Kashmiri scholar of exile, an insecure immigrant, who collects other people's stories. Marked by the oppressive history of Kashmir, they meet in Berlin, the city of Cold War partitions, and begin a journey of discovery, which reveals to them the story of Shula Farid, the bohemian wife of a staid Bengali diplomat. Through their travels, these two young Kashmiris outside Kashmir find startling truths about themselves in the midst of unwitting identities and multiple belongings-the residue of shared human emotions. A riveting exploration of mobility and affinity across the borders of nation and faith, Residue provides fascinating glimpses of class-stratified urban India, divided Berlin and complications of identity in England. It is a remarkable novel about divided lands and fortress continents, lines inked in blood and memory and the absences they create in people's lives and imaginations.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129129272 ISBN 13 : 9788129129277
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Calcutta's wealth is not in ancient monuments, medieval courtrooms or modern skyscrapers. It is in its stories. Perhaps no city in India has inspired the responses of love and disgust as sharply as Calcutta, now Kolkata, where the old and the new, the beautiful and the squalid coexist side by side. Once a global city second only to London, it has often been written off as a dying city. But despite - perhaps because of - all its problems, Calcutta's love the city with the illogical passion of true love. In his 1971 book on the city, Geoffrey Moor house wondered why Calcutta is so strangely beloved. This collection of writings brings out the essence of the attractions this city has to offer - its food, music, theatre, art, politics - by weaving together history and personal experience, social commentary and political critique. Sharing the experiences of renowned writers and poets, academics and historians, who have all loved the life of this city, Strangely Beloved provides a rare and heart-warming glimpse into the heart, mind and soul of one of the greatest cities in the world.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129123916 ISBN 13 : 9788129123916
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Ram Jethmalani, respected and feared for his candour in matters political, remains an enigma to many. As a public figure a politician always in demand, the highest rated criminal lawyer in the country and an international legal authority he is held in high esteem. In over fifty years of being an active politician, he has never allowed political allegiance to compromise his values. Controversy therefore neither leaves him, nor intimidates him. This volume is a compilation of the author's insights into the state of Indian politics today, expressed with clarity and frankness, laying bare the cover ups and deception that have come to plague India's body politic. Jethmalani's arguments are incisive, often explosive, but above all, they cannot be set aside. Some of the burning issues discussed in this book are black money, governance, corruption, Kashmir, China and Pakistan, fundamentalism and the rise of terror. Maverick Unchanged, Unrepentant is a searing critique of the disease inherent in government.
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Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129134683 ISBN 13 : 9788129134684
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Birder, naturalist and writer, Zafar Futehally was born in 1920 into a business family of Bombay. He grew up in Andheri, then one of the greenest areas of the city and went on to join the family trade. However, it was with Salim Ali, the famed ornithologist also known as the Birdman of India, that Zafar found his true calling. Zafar accompanied Salim Ali on his expeditions and helped him ring birds, collect specimens and take notes. On these field trips, he came in contact with some of the world's foremost naturalists and conservationists - Dillon Ripley, Loke Wan Tho, Richard Fitter and Sir Peter Scott amongst others. These associations helped Zafar develop a nuanced, far-ranging understanding of ornithology as well as of the natural world. This, together with his diplomatic skills, made him a vital consensus-builder on matters relating to conservation. Zafar Futehally spearheaded the conservation movement in India and played a key role in transforming it from a fringe concern of the middle-class to a matter of National importance. Zafar held key posts in all the important conservation organizations and initiatives in India and abroad - BNHS, IUCN, WWF - India and Project Tiger. Witty, humble and deeply thoughtful, The Song of the Magpie Robin is a vibrant portrait of a man of principle, who spent his entire life striving to find a balance between development and nature conservation.
Edité par Rainlight Rupa, 2012
ISBN 10 : 8129120496 ISBN 13 : 9788129120496
Vendeur : Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Etat : New.
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Edité par Rainlight Press, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0989520307 ISBN 13 : 9780989520300
Vendeur : Bingo Used Books, Vancouver, WA, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : Good. Trade paperback in good plus condition. Inside is clean. Some creasing to covers. Small note on front end page.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129129906 ISBN 13 : 9788129129901
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : NEW. 328 pages. 8.74x5.83x1.02 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Rainlight, 2013
ISBN 10 : 8129123967 ISBN 13 : 9788129123961
Vendeur : Xendurance Llc, Omaha, NE, Etats-Unis
PaperBack. Etat : Brand New. New Fast Delivery Paperback, International edition and ship within 24-48 hours. Deliver by FedEx and Dhl, & Aramex, UPS, & USPS and we do accept APO and PO BOX Addresses. Order can be delivered worldwide within 08-10 days.
Edité par Rainlight / Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 2017, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129131250 ISBN 13 : 9788129131256
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Etat : new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2014). (1960) 2017 reprint of 2014 new edition. 8vo (135 x 205mm). Ppxviii,213. Not illustrated. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. "After being discharged from the British Armed Forces at the end of the Second World War, Hugh Allen - and his widowed sister Babs - decided on impulse to settle down on an estate in Mandikhera, an obscure village in central India, hoping to live the quiet life of a farmer. But even as his crops flourished, they suffered the attentions of the hungry denizens of the surrounding forest. Allen was thus compelled to take up arms to defend his crops and, occasionally, the villagers of Mandikhera. The Lonely Tiger recounts Allen's encounters with animals of all kinds: snappish tigers in heat; a wounded, angry leopard; a surly, murderous boar; chattering, helpful monkeys; an enraged she-bear protecting her cubs; and a melancholy tiger that has lost his family to poachers. Hugh Allen narrates his adventures in spare, taut and thrilling prose which brings the jungle-and the hunt-to pulsating life. And while The Lonely Tiger is one of the best shikar books to have been ever written, it is also one of the earliest appeals to conserve India's rapidly vanishing wildlife. Appearing in print after a hiatus of more than half a century, The Lonely Tiger is a must read." Chapters include:- The odd chance; The third kill; Eight annas a tail; The laughing leopard; The Kharnta tiger; Joe; Never be too sure; Death in sixty-five minutes; The lonely tiger; Midnight encounter; Tigers' trap; Monkey's folly; The three bears; Tiger in a typhoon; Epilogue. "This book is a treasure house of wild and unique encounters that the author had with wildlife in the very heart of India between 1950 and '60. An account of a life lived with tigers, leopards and other wildlife at the edge of the Satpura Mountains, The Lonely Tiger is essential reading for those who love the wilderness." (Valmik Thapar). .
Edité par Rainlight Press, 2017
ISBN 10 : 0989520366 ISBN 13 : 9780989520362
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 634 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.43 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Rainlight, 2012
ISBN 10 : 8129120836 ISBN 13 : 9788129120830
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Poet, storyteller, director, scriptwriter and lyricist, Gulzar is a towering figure of contemporary Indian literature and cinema. Ever since he wrote his first song the unforgettable Mora gora ang lai le for Bimal Roys Bandini (1963) he has won countless admirers with his nuanced, sensitive and quietly innovative work. From the endearing Lakdi ki kaathi, that a generation grew up singing, to the Oscar-winning Jai ho his songs have enthralled millions. His unique and much acclaimed contribution to the world of poetry continues to reflect our changing times, with fresh idiom and delicate turn of phrase. In this book of conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir, Gulzar speaks with insight, candour and gentle humour about his life and work: his school days in Old Delhi, where he wrote his early poems; working in a garage in Mumbai before entering films; his association with legends such as Bimal Roy, Balraj Sahni, Sahir Ludhianvi, Meena Kumari, Shailendra, S. D. Burman, Hemant Kumar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Lata Mangeshkar and R. D. Burman among others; his love of tennis; and his deep connection with his wife, the legendary Raakhee, his daughter Meghna and his grandson Samay.
Edité par Rainlight, 2013
ISBN 10 : 8129124602 ISBN 13 : 9788129124609
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Is democracy driven by citizens or by the citizen elite? Acclaimed sociologist and author Dipankar Gupta argues that at every historical juncture when democracy made significant advances, it was the citizen elite, or the elite of calling, who led the charge, often going against the grain of popular demands and sentiments. At its best, democracy does not reflect reality as much as it shapes and changes it. This requires active intervention by the citizen elite, who are not concerned with short-term electoral calculations but have a vision for strengthening democracy. They are the ones who set the agenda that the masses follow, thereby taking the country forward on the path of true democracy. As India has not delivered meaningfully in terms of universal health, education and livelihood, it too needs a band of citizen elite to initiate change. Dipankar Gupta argues that this change cannot be contemplated through the short-term rationality of elections, and needs visionaries to push it through change can only be effected by revolution from above. Incisive and relevant, this book provides empirical evidence to show how urgent it is to take democracy forward, and explains how best to accomplish it in the light of international historical evidence.
Edité par Rainlight, 2014
ISBN 10 : 8129131269 ISBN 13 : 9788129131263
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Institutions and institutional processes provide stability are a means to progress and thus fulfil the needs of society. This functionality, however, has been lost in recent times, and citizens around the world are losing confidence in institutions of government and democracy, free markets and capitalism. Reforming institutions has thus become the most urgent task for leaders across the world. Not an easy task: it is as risky as redesigning an aeroplane while flying in it; it shakes up the foundations of stability. This insightful book, penned by a member of India's Planning Commission, looks at how India, the world's largest democracy, which embraced capitalism twenty years ago, has become the principal laboratory for institutional reform. It provides new ways to think about institutions and the process of reforming them, and explains how we should go about reformation as a nation. The principles given in this book apply to institutions of government and business in all countries. Timely and incisive, Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying addresses the most essential need of the hour.