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By Nirmala Lakshman. Aleph Book Company 2013 , Summary: "This is a tale of two cities-Madras and Chennai. In this book, the author braids together the essential aspects of Madras and Chennai to give us an exquisite portrait of the iconic city on the Coromandel Coast. The story of Madras, founded by the British almost four hundred years ago, gives way to that of Chennai in 1996, but the two are so intertwined that it is impossible to tell them apart. The history of the city is populated with fascinating characters-writers, builders, thinkers; British traders, luminaries and rogues; freedom fighters and political leaders who changed the citys political milieu. In independent India, the political life of Madras was marked by battles for equality, the demolition of unjust caste structures, and a remarkable spirit of secularism, all of which the author brings to vivid life. But the citys unique flavour is not limited to its history and politics, it owes much to its rich cultural, religious, gastronomic and sporting heritage-highlights of which include the largest classical music festival in the world, a remarkable array of cuisines, both native and imported, from the crisp dosai to spicy Chicken 65, a passion for cricket, tennis and chess and the best filter coffee on the planet. Sharply observed, yet meditative and personal, Degree Coffee by the Yard brings a great city to rare and refreshing life. Interesting Facts : A tale of two cities-Madras and Chennai which expertly braids together the Sub category: Indian Writing, Travel Writing essential aspects of the two. Sharply observed, yet meditative and personal, Degree Coffee by the Yard brings a great city to rare and refreshing life. This book will appeal to all who love the city of Chennai and also to those who stand fascinated by its heritage."--Publisher's description.

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KINGS HARVEST: TWO NOVELLAS

By Chetan Raj Shrestha. Aleph Book Company 2013

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PUNJAB: A HISTORY FROM AURANGAZEB TO MOUNTBATTEN

By Rajmohan Gandhi. Aleph Book Company 2013

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PERPETUAL CITY: A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF DELHI

By Malvika Singh. Aleph Book Company 2013

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PUNJAB: A HISTORY FROM AURANGZEB TO MOUNTBATTEN

By Rajmohan Gandhi. Aleph Book Company 2013

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MYSTERIOUS AILMENT OF RUPI BASKEY

By Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. Aleph Book Company 2014

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KINGDOM AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD: JOURNEYS INTO BHUTAN

By Omair Ahmad. Aleph Book Company 2013

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TAJ: A STORY OF MUGHAL INDIA

By Timeri N. Murari. Aleph Book Company 2013

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EXOTIC ALIENS: THE LION AND THE CHEETAH IN INDIA

By Valmik Thapar. Aleph Book Company 2013

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KINGDOM AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD: JOURNEYS INTO BHUTAN

By Omair Ahmad. Aleph Book Company 2013

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PAST AS PRESENT: FORGING CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES THROUGH HISTORY

By Romila Thapar. Aleph Book Company 2013

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INDIA IN LOVE: MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

By Ira Trivedi. Aleph Book Company 2014

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PAST AS PRESENT: FORGING CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES THROUGH HISTORY

By Romila Thapar. Aleph Book Company 2014

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PAST AS PRESENT: FORGING CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES THROUGH HISTORY

By Romila Thapar. Aleph Book Company 2014

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CHANAKYA RETURNS

By Timeri N. Murari. Aleph Book Company 2014

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BATTLES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF NEPAL

By Prashant Jha. Aleph Book Company 2014

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY READER

By RABINDRANATH TAGORE. Aleph Book Company 2014

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SMALL WILD GOOSE PAGODA ( AN ALMANAC)

By Irwin Allan Sealy. Aleph Book Company 2014

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99 UNFORGETTABLE FICTION, NON FICTION, POETRY & HUMOUR

By Khushwant Singh. Aleph Book Company 2014

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BATTLES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF NEPAL

By Prashant Jha. Aleph Book Company 2014

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GATHERING OF FRIENDS : MY FAVOURITE STORIES

By Ruskin Bond. Aleph Book Company 2015 9789383064793

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ME, THE JOKERMAN : ENTHUSIASMS, RANTS AND OBSESSIONS

By Khushwant Singh. Aleph Book Company 2016 , When Khushwant Singh died at the age of ninety-nine in 2014, he had over a hundred books to his name and was widely regarded as one of India s greatest writers. The hallmarks of his finest work were courage, honesty, style, humour, simplicity and great storytelling. Me, The Jokerman assembles over fifty essays, most of them unpublished in book form, in the categories that he had made his own religion, nature, sex, autobiography, and, above all, humour,simplicity and great Storytellin. Me, The Jokerman assembles over fifty essays, most of them unpublished in book form, in the categories that he had made his won religion, nature, sex, autobiogrphy and above all, humour Entertaining, insightful as well as laugh-out-loud funny, this is a book that will delight Khushwant Singh s legions of admirers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Born in Punjab s Hadali village (now in Pakistan) in 1915, Khushwant Singh was among India s best known and most widely read authors and journalists. He was founder-editor of Yojana, and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, National Herald and Hindustan Times. He published six novels Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, Delhi: A Novel, The Company of Women, Burial at Sea and The Sunset Club as well as several books of short stories which were published together as The Portrait of a Lady. Among his other books are 99: Unforgettable Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry & Humour, The Freethinker s Prayerbook, A History of the Sikhs; an autobiography, Truth, Love & a Little Malice; a biography, Ranjit Singh: Maharaja of the Punjab; and a book of non-fiction, The Return of Indira Gandhi. In addition, he published translations of Hindi and Urdu novels, short stories and poetry, notably Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa, Rajinder Singh Bedi s I Take This Woman and Iqbal s Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa . Khushwant Singh was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974; he returned the award in 1984 to protest the siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army. In 2007, he was awarded India s second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan. Khushwant died in 2014 9789384067519

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SMALL TOWNS , BIG STORIES

By Bond,Ruskin. Delhi Aleph Book Company 2017 , Small Towns, Big Stories showcases twenty-one stories of small-town life by the country's greatest living chronicler of the Indian heartland. Ruskin Bond has been writing evocative stories about the dusty towns and settlements in the hinterland for decades but this is the first time his finest stories on the theme have been brought together in a single volume. Timeless classics like 'Time Stops at Shamli', 'Bus Stop, Pipalnagar' and 'The Night Train at Deoli' rub shoulders with brilliant new stories that have never been published before like 'Strychnine in the Cognac', 'The Horseshoe' and 'When the Clock Strikes Thirteen'. Vibrant, poignant, beautiful and tragic, these stories show a master storyteller at the height of his powers. 9789382277545

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HERO INES : Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

By Mukhoty , Ira . Delhi Aleph Book Company 2017 , The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery. Women's heroism has tended to be of a very different nature, less easily categorized. All the women portrayed-Draupadi, Radha, Ambapali, Raziya Sultan, Meerabai, Jahanara, Laxmibai and Hazrat Mahal-share an unassailable belief in a cause, for which they are willing to fightto the death if need be. In every case this belief leads them to confrontation with a horrified patriarchy. In the book we meet lotus-eyed, dark-skinned Draupadi, dharma queen, whose story emerges almost three millennia ago; the goddess Radha who sacrificed societal respectability for a love that transgressed convention; Ambapali, a courtesan, who stepped out of the luxurious trappings of Vaishali to follow the Buddha and wrote a single, haunting poem on the evanescence of beauty and youth. Raziya, the battle-scarred warrior, who proudly claimed the title of Sultan, refusing its fragile feminine counterpart, Sultana; the courageous Meerabai who repudiated her patriarchal destiny as cloistered daughter-in-law of a Rajput clan; the gentle Mughal princess Jahanara: who claims the blessings of both Allah and the Prophet Muhammad and wishes 'never to be forgotten'; Laxmibai, widow, patriot and martyr, who rides into legend and immortality fighting for her adopted son's birthright; and Hazrat Mahal, courtesan, begum and rebel queen, resolute till the very end in defying British attempts to seize her ex-husband's kingdom.In these engrossing portraits, mythological characters from thousands of years ago walk companionably besides historical figures from more recent times. They rise to reclaim their rightful place in history. Daughters, wives, courtesans, mothers, queens, goddesses, warriors-heroines. 9789384067496

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TALKING OF JUSTICE : People's Rights in Modern India

By Leila Seth. Delhi Aleph Book Company 2014 , In Talking of Justice, eminent jurist Leila Seth discusses several critical issues that she has engaged with in a legal career spanning over fifty years violence against women; the nurture of the girl child; the need for a uniform civil code; women s rights; prisoners rights; gender sensitization of the judiciary; and judicial administration, among others. From the landmark Justice Verma Committee (2012-2013), on which she suggested amendments to the law as well as speedier trials and more effective punishment for all those accused of sexual assault and violence against women, to her experience as a member of the 15th Law Commission of India (1997-2000), to her appointment as the one-member commission to enquire into the custodial death of Rajan Pillai (1995-1997), Leila Seth shares her insights on some of the most substantive and contentious matters facing the nation today. Keenly observed and elegantly argued, Talking of Justice goes deep into the laws of the land that need to be reviewed and revised, and offers suggestions for protecting the rights of the people, especially those who are marginalized and vulnerable. 9789382277965

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LIVING WITH TIGERS

By Valmik Thapar. Delhi Aleph Book Company 2016 , Born in the Cincinnati Zoo, two Bengal tiger cubs-Ron and Julie-have spent the last three years being taught how to hunt and live in the wild of South Africa. If they can be successfully integrated into the wild, they could be the forerunners of an audacious plan to help save the world's population of wild tigers. 9789384067502

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SPELL OF THE TIGER : The Man Eaters Of Sundarbans

By Montgomery,Sy. Delhi Aleph Book Company 2016 9789382277415

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UNBOUND : 2,000 Years of Indian Women's Writing

By Zaidi,Annie (ed.) . Delhi Aleph Book Company 2016 9789383064168

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UNBOUND : 2,000 Years of Indian Women's Writing

By Zaidi,Annie (ed.) . Delhi Aleph Book Company 2016 9789383064168

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BUSINESS SUTRA: A VERY INDIAN APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT

By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2013 9788192328072

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HOW I BECAME A TREE...

By Sumana Roy. New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2017 , In this remarkable and often unsettling book, Sumana Roy gives us a new vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Increasingly disturbed by the violence, hate, insincerity, greed and selfishness of her kind, the author is drawn to the idea of becoming a tree. 'I was tired of speed, she writes, 'I wanted to live to tree time. Besides wanting to emulate the spacious, relaxed rhythm of trees, she is drawn to their non-violent ways of being, how they tread lightly upon the earth, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, the unselfishness with which they give freely of themselves and much more. She gives us new readings of the works of writers, painters, photographers and poets (Rabindranath Tagore and D. H. Lawrence among them) to show how trees and plants have always fascinated us. She studies the work of remarkable scientists like Jagadish Chandra Bose and key spiritual figures like the Buddha to gain even deeper insights into the world of trees. She writes of those who have wondered what it would be like to have sex with a tree, looks into why people marry trees, explores the death and rebirth of trees and tells us why a tree was thought by forest-dwellers to be equal to ten sons. Mixing memoir, literary history, nature studies, spiritual philosophies and botanical research, How I Became a Tree is a book that will prompt readers to think of themselves and the natural world that they are an intrinsic part of, in fresh ways. It is that rarest of things - A truly original work of art. How I Became A Tree

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BUSINESS SUTRA : a very Indian approach to management /

By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2015 , Includes index 9788192328072

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EXTRAORDINARY INDIANS : Book Of Profiles

By Khushwant Singh. New Delhi Aleph book company 2017 , Extraordinary indians is a collection of profiles of fifty eminent indians (and one pakistani) from a variety of backgrounds and professions. published on the seventieth anniversary of indias independence, it is intended to provide the reader with a glimpse of the kind of people who have made this country great. over the course of a long and prolific career, khushwant singh met and wrote about hundreds of people. the people in this book are those he admired deeply for their integrity, talent, generosity, vision and leadership. included here are towering politicians like mahatma gandhi, jawaharlal nehru, maulana azad, indira gandhi and others memorable characters from his family and circle of friends spiritual teachers like acharya rajneesh and guru nanak writers and artists like ghalib, dom moraes, qurratulain hyder and mulk raj anand industrialists like j. r. d. tata and g. d. birla and actors like protima bedi and nargis dutt. in contrast, there are profiles of two people whom khushwant singh admired but ultimately felt let down by l. k. advani and sanjay gandhi. at a time when false prophets and men and women with feet of clay are being exalted, this is a book that reminds us who indias true heroes and heroines are. 9789383064731

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