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They Go to Sleep
A young widow of a drug overdose victim disappears from Goa. Three years later, a British National claims to know her whereabouts minutes before departing for London Heathrow. The Police of two states is pressed into a joint manhunt. ‘They Go to Sleep’ is a racy thriller on police procedure and criminal psychology. In the year 2043, when nobody sends a letter anymore, an unlikely candidate decides to write about his springtime memories that are soon going to be erased. When his identity gets revealed, the impact on several individuals and the society at large assumes epic proportions. ‘A Man of Letters’ is a science fiction with humane emotions at its core. A promising poet meets his...
T R A N S F O R M A T I O N
“The author, Dasarathi Mishra, a veteran central banker and bank supervisor and a leading champion for financial education, has comprehensively captured the critical role played by the central bank in the financial sector reforms. Mr Mishra’s book is a good addition to the literature on post reforms Indian financial system whose robustness and resilience remains critical to strong, sustained, and inclusive economic growth of the country.” — Harun R Khan, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Roller Coaster
Beyond Debit & Credit: The Untold Story of Indian Bankers Do you know what it meant when bankers said “Chinese cuisine”, “Punjabi food”, or “Gujarati thali”? An RBI governor let down his hair at his farewell dinner to swing to “Lungi Dance” from the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Chennai Express. The chairman of a financial institution relied on “signals” from the idol of a goddess kept in his cabin for clearing loan proposals. A public sector bank chairman liked to munch hot chilies with his lunch. A kitchen help was deputed to mop up the sweat from his bald head! Roller Coaster is a string of such stories and revelations from the country’s foremost banking journalist's affair...
I Promise to Pay…
Paper currency has been part of our lives for well over a century. Despite handling it frequently, we know so little about it. This book demystifies paper currency in a short and simple narrative. This is a story of how currency notes come into existence, lead eventful lives and ultimately leave this world, just as we humans do. It also tells how the notes have been changing over time. While doing so, it unravels many interesting facets of paper currency. For instance, do you know that the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of India did not sign any banknotes? Or that if a note is torn or a portion thereof is missing, you can still get full value for it from your bank? Or that the One Thousand Rupee note has been demonetised three times? Or that the numerical value in words of an Indian currency note is mentioned on it in 17 languages? And many, many more! Today, when currency is getting a new avatar in the form of digital currency, it is time to look back and enjoy the fascinating life and times of paper currency in India. For those embarking on this journey, here’s wishing them Bon Voyage!
Banking Reforms and Globalisation
Contributed articles with reference to India.
Mercantile Bombay
This volume reclaims Mumbai’s legacy as a global financial centre of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century. It shows how Mumbai, or erstwhile Bombay, once served as a central node in global networks of trade, finance, commercial institutions and most importantly trading communities. In doing so it highlights that this city more than any other Indian city still possesses all these virtuous elements making it an appropriate location for a financial special economic zone (SEZ) – an idea shelved temporarily. The book explores how the city flourished in its heyday as a trading, financial, commercial and manufacturing hub in a globalised colonial world. While the city’s importance a...
Gender, Culture, and Performance
This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, theatre and film studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies as well as the interested general reader.
Modern Things on Trial
In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices and values, proponents and critics wondered what to outlaw and what to permit. In this book, Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He focuses on the communications of an entrepreneurial S...
