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Jisha Menon's book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan.
The Vantage Point is a collection of slice-of-life short stories, dealing with contemporary themes, relationships, and angst of human existence. The protagonists break the proverbial glass ceilings. The characters fight and survive all odds. Issues of familial bonding are captured within the evolving social milieu. The Elephant Ride is a charming story of a young couple and their child, who is suffering a serious health issue. Shanta’s World is a story of determination of a village belle, who fights serious odds to make her place under the sun. The Winning Hand is a poignant story of Pia and her elder sister Ria, who out of habit usurps everything that Pia likes, until she faces the day of reckoning.
The present volume comes out of a conference held by the IFPS in collaboration with CPWAS at Calcutta University in March 2012. The volume comprises of eight essays highlighting on various approaches to the question of instability in India’s western neighbourhood, and what it could mean for India. The issues covered include the domestic dynamics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, the extent to which these have a bearing on the foreign policy of the Government of India, and the economic and social cost extracted by the aura of instability that has come to characterise the neighbourhood.
From anxiety about Muslim immigrants in Western Europe to concerns about undocumented workers and cross-border security threats in the United States, disputes over immigration have proliferated and intensified in recent years. These debates are among the most contentious facing constitutional democracies, and they show little sign of fading away. Edited and with an introduction by political scientist Rogers M. Smith, Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs brings together essays by leading international scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the economic, cultural, political, and normative aspects of comparative immigration policies. In the first section, contributors go beyond f...
If you are appearing for any Government Recruitment Exam, it is important that you are familiar with the happenings around the world. Current Affairs is an important part of your syllabus apart from English, Quantitative Aptitude or Logical Reasoning! Thus, we bring you the Important General Awareness in Google Play. This book covers a wide range of topics like current issues – national as well as international affairs in the diverse areas of Polity, Economy, Environment and Wildlife, Defence, Science & Technology, etc. which are of immense significance from examination point of view. The book is designed to address the needs of Civil Services, State Services, SSC, Engineering Services and any other competitive examinations.
Introducing the new Bengali detective-aide duo, Saranya Shankar Sen and Shankhajit Basu, both college professors by profession, engaged in bringing about a solution to a killing of the most intriguing kind, Red-Rum muR-deR is sure to test the readers’ logical acumen and speculative deftness. With debauchery hidden behind aestheticism, hypocrisy wrapped in poetry and sensuality in the guise of erudition, the book, a murder mystery by genre, incorporates palindromes to hurl the readers into the whirls of an enigma.
Since 2001, Afghanistan has provided New Delhi an opportunity to underline its role as a regional power. In the rapidly evolving geo-strategic scenario, India was forced to reconstitute and reassess its policies towards Afghanistan. India-Afghanistan Cooperation took a leap forward after the defeat of the Taliban and the installation of an Interim Authority. India’s main focus has been to support the Afghan government and the political process in the country mandated under the Bonn Agreement of 2001. In the past decade, India pursued a policy of high-level engagement with Afghanistan through wide-ranging humanitarian, financial and infrastructural project assistance, as well as participati...
This book is an enthralling journey through time, exploring the Golden Age, the rise of Bollywood, the Parallel Cinema movement, global acclaim, and technological advancements that shaped one of the world's most prolific film industries.
An empire that stretches from coast to coast is not enough for the son of Chandragupta. All he desires: to conquer the untamable oceans beyond. 338 CE. A young ruler defeats the Naga kings of the north before claiming Kanchi in a powerful attack none had anticipated. It is his latest conquest that brings him closer to the ocean he seeks to control - and to Angai: a young woman unlike any he has ever known. Sharp-witted, with an even sharper tongue, she has the conqueror's ear ... and his heart. With her by his side, he prepares to do what even his father could not have dreamed of. To ensure the world would never forget the name Samudragupta. The final book in the enthralling Gupta Empire trilogy, The Ocean's Own tells the story of a king who dared to take his sword to the seas.
The book has been committed to promulgate the destined culture of an organization, society, and education. As in my agreeable vision, the culture navigates the root to be determined. Therefore, any cultural radiance is one of the pivotal attributes to sketch the destiny, which is summarily connected with self-desire, self-esteem, and self-belief respectively. Most notably, this book has fundamentalized the needful organizational leaders, who are the indelible pathfinders to cooperate for the best organizational goal to achieve through words and wisdom. Moreover, they do have their spectacular charm for an everlasting organizational welfare, which is firmly propitious for an occupational discernment. This book has conceptualized the age of educational stratagem, which is going to be the most dynamic move to sustain in this real competitive field of vision because education is an encyclopedic stride to entrench the cultural metamorphosis in a befitting manner. In other words, this book has thrown a light on the natural nicety of ecosystem along with the destructive occurrence in deed.