In #SwallowingTheSun, Lakshmi Puri skilfully blends imagination with history, both personal and national, to narrate the story of Malati and her sister Kamala against the backdrop of India’s independence struggle.
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In this deeply researched book, Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty digs deep into the past and present of her community to present an in-depth, insider view of the Assamese.
Get your copy here: https://t.co/YbwKxZ2XVC #TheAssamese@sangbarooahpish
Delighted to announce that my book is now available for pre-order on Amazon!
Anger Management is a study of the troubled diplomatic relationship between India and Pakistan. Pre-order your copy here: https://t.co/tzZaO5BXvA
Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri shares her insights on how the title of her book came into being.
Get your copy of #SwallowingTheSun here: https://t.co/fv5KHcxttk
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#WATCH | Delhi | On her book 'Swallowing the Sun', author and former UN Assistant Secretary-General Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri says, "I am very delighted that a story which was swirling within me for years, if not decades, has finally found expression in my debut novel, 'Swallowing the Sun'...This novel is about love, struggle and courage. It is an epic saga set against equally epic freedom struggle and freedom movement & how young people at that time interacted with their surroundings to reimagine themselves, their communities and their country..."
"Hasnain, in a straight-forward language, explains that Islamism emerged in the late 20th century and thrived in the 21st. He says that when nationalism ceased to be a powerful enough force in countries with a Muslim majority, they began to drift towards Islamism." #FaultLinesInTheFaith gets featured in The Tribune India. Read the complete review here: https://t.co/WuF7C06ygI
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"Surinder Singh Jodhka’s illuminating new book, The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century, is not a retelling of what we already know, but what we have been missing." Jaideep Hardikar reviews the #TheIndianVillage by Surinder S. Jodhka on The India Forum.
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Read here: https://t.co/6SgMVBpx43
प्रणब मुखर्जी की शादी की 57वीं सालगिरह पर लिखी डायरी से शर्मिष्ठा ने जाना पिता की लव मैरिज का एक राज
@Rupa_Books से प्रकाशित 'Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers' मे��� शर्मिष्ठा मुखर्जी ने अपने पिता प्रणब मुखर्जी की लव स्टोरी को भी लिखा है।
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Carpets adorn living spaces across the length and breadth of the country and are appreciated for many qualities—their design, their colours, their ‘feel’—but rarely their history. Yet, each carpet has a story hidden within its intricate details, and the value of a carpet is not only determined by what it costs, or by its technical and aesthetic qualities, but also by the story it carries. #OfIndianCarpetsAndCarpetwallahs by Jon Westborg
This is the first-ever rethink of how different India would have been, if not for the Congress party being at the helm for the most part of the last 80 years. More importantly, the book is also a roadmap to the India of tomorrow.
#WhatIfThereWasNoCongress by Priyam Gandhi Mody contains a raw, unbiased, unfiltered, historically accurate information about the impact of the Congress party on India.
Pre-order: https://t.co/enj1GhBHhU
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‘Once, a tigress, Baghini, on her deathbed told her husband, the tiger Bagh, “I am leaving behind two small cubs. Look after them well.”’
Read the complete excerpt from #TheCollectedStoriesOfUpendrakishoreRayChowdhury translated by Lopamudra Maitra on @scroll_in here :
https://t.co/XaY5fweoHw
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From making compromises to fulfil her divinely ordained purpose to ‘hopping on trends’, Tara knows how to do it all. #TarasTruce by Kavita Kané.
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'Pranab Mukherjee’s accent was mocked by elite Delhi. Keep a tutor, Indira Gandhi told him'
Read this excerpt from Sharmistha Mukherjee @Sharmistha_GK's ‘Pranab: My Father’, a @Rupa_Books publication, in ThePrint #PageTurner
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“Tejaswini Apte-Rahm isn’t afraid of taking a pause here and there; she lets her characters marinate in the events she cooks out from the vast entrails of history available at her disposal.”
Read the @purplepenciled ’s review of #TheSecretOfMore here: https://t.co/sC1NlKRHo7
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Taken together, the essays in On Citizenship provide the reader with clear, informed, compelling insights into the vexed issue of citizenship in India today. #OnCitizenship by Romila Thapar, N. Ram, Gautum Bhatia and Gautam Patel
“There is no question of me leaving the Congress or Indira Ji. She picked me from outside the Bangla Congress” - Sharmistha quoting from Pranab Mukherjee’s diary entries.
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Bharathidasan was a great poet of 20th century. He was endowed with remarkable creativity and fascination for poetry.He dreams of a ‘brave new world’ in which all people co-exist with peace and prosperity. #ABraveNewWorld#BharatiDasanSongs