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'My boy,' Ravanan said, 'You can do nothing about your birth. But whether you live in that shame and die the same way, like your parents did, is something that you and you alone shall decide... The moment you decide to change all this, it is only a question of time. You will find the right people. A godfather. Right friends. Everything will take you to just where you want to be.' Mohanan has nightly visions of the ten-headed demon-god. They began shortly after desperate poverty forced his father to throw himself before an oncoming train and his mother's subsequent suicide. Now, a grown man, the demon still calls to him to relentlessly climb the echelons of power and stamp out those standing ...
This book explores buffer states' agency beyond being highly interactive spaces for the competing strategic and security interests of larger powers. Analyzing 21 political events, the author offers a new conceptual framework for the buffer state, which emphasizes strategic utility and agency. Applying this to the case study of Nepal as a buffer state between India and China, he offers a systematic analysis of Sino-Indian interests in the wider region, and Nepal’s interactions with and reactions to them, and argues that the buffer state in contemporary international relations is characterized by intense competitive overtures from its contending neighboring states. However, the buffer state ...
A gripping white-collar crime thriller - when the hopes of three men wrongfully interned in prison are suddenly raised by promise of an early release - only to find it rudely snatched away by powerful hands - can three young girls make the impossible happen? Especially when it is about raising more money than they can imagine? Not to forget the vengeance they badly hope for. "Follow the Walls" carries on from where "Maze of Deceit" (published in 2018) pauses.
This book deals with a wide range of issues related to rural-urban migration in the context of neoliberal economic development in India. Focusing on three core areas, first it traces state discourses on rural-urban migration in India since the 1930s critically analysing its industrial, labour, rural and urban programmes, and policies. Second, through data on longitudinal surveys undertaken in rural Bihar in 1999, 2011 and 2016, it examines changes in patterns of migration and sources of income; estimates determinants and impacts of migration. Third, based on fieldwork in the village and the city, it presents an in-depth account of a rural-urban migration stream in contemporary India. It show...
The Crux of the Love is a fiction about college, hostel life and romance. It prevails sophisticated behaviour that evolves in your surroundings. It also narrates to encounter the challenge undergoing in love. Narayan, a nonchalant guy, enrolls in BHU, Varanasi, a renowned resident university in UP. He experiences the best of hostel life when he meets four odd fellows. Narayan is entrapped in his attraction to Shivi. They enjoy varsity romance with full gusto. Their separation leads him to trauma. He struggles to overcome his negativity and illness. Narayan recovers from the deep darkness on his own. He engages with another girl Prerna during his profession. His prior love returns again but he has to choose one of them.
Jaipur, the glorious Pink City of India, sets many a hearts aflutter with visions of grandeur, valour, romance and beauty. This heritage city’s inherent historic charm has always been a major source of attraction. Travellers, poets and philosophers have lavished praise on it, and perhaps no other place is imbued with the richness of ritual and ceremony across the country, as Jaipur is. Among its numerous architectural wonders, the city’s Jantar Mantar (observatory) and Amber Fort have been included in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s list of world heritage sites. The book elaborates on the lesser known aspects that have contributed to its coveted statu...
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