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MEMOIRS OF A POLICE SURGEON

By Umadathan. B ( Dr). Gautham Publishers 2012

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TODAY'S PAST : A MEMOIR

By Bhisham Sahni. Cyber City, Gurgaon, Haryana Penguin Books 2015 , Autobiography memoir of Bhisham Sahni, b. 1915, Hindi author 9780670086665

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CROSSING OVER From Mental Illness to Mental Wellness

By Mehta,Geetanjali. New Delhi Amaryllis 2014 9789381506554

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LOVE : THE SAINT AND THE SEEKER

By Stevens,Christina. Australia Hau House 2017 , "God will write through you." Those were almost the last private words Mother Teresa spoke to acclaimed filmmaker Christina Stevens urging her to share her story with the world. A similar calling had come months earlier, when Mother Teresa appeared to Christina in a dream, summoning her to India to film her message to the world. Without hesitation, she gathered a film crew and boarded a plane for Calcutta. Little did she know that when destiny beckons and a Saint to be takes your hand, startling events and profound discoveries are around every corner. Told through the lens of Christinas colorful youth, her mindexpanding adventure may prod you to recognize your own lifes calling, and that will lead you to the most powerful and transformative place in the cosmos love. 9789385827389

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AMAZING STORY OF THE MAN WHO CYCLED FROM INDIA TO EUROPE FOR LOVE

By Andersosn,Per J. London One World 2017 , Review “Swedish travel-journalist Andersson tells a story of adventure, transcendence, and, best of all, uncompromising love. Born under a rainbow, Pradyumna Kumar, known as PK, grew up poor but was prophesied for greatness in spite of the limitations of his caste. An astrologer foretold that PK would study, work with color, marry a girl not from the village, not even from India; that she would also be an artist, and would, improbably, own a jungle. Before beginning school, PK had no understanding of the caste system that both defined and excluded him. He and his family were Dalit, the so-called untouchables. After surviving many years of prejudice, PK attends art school in the 1970s, always pushed along by the prophecy. He earns acclaim drawing portraits in a park, which is where he meets a Swedish woman, Charlotte von Schendin. Love blooms quickly, but Lotta must return home. With nothing but his meager art supplies and his secondhand bicycle, PK sets out across Asia, bound for Sweden and the woman he loves. A beautiful, epic tale of love and perseverance.” 9781786072078

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GIVE A GIRL A KNIFE : a memoir /

By Thielen, Amy. New York Clarkson Potter 2017 , Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten—she grew up in a northern Minnesota town home to the nation’s largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking dripped with tenderness, drama, and an overabundance of butter. Inspired by her grandmother’s tales of cooking in the family farmhouse, Thielen moves north with her artist husband to a rustic, off-the-grid cabin deep in the woods. There, standing at the stove three times a day, she finds the seed of a growing food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New York’s top haute cuisine brigades. But, like a magnet, the foods of her youth draw her back home, where she comes face to face with her past and a curious truth: that beneath every foie gras sauce lies a rural foundation of potatoes and onions. Amy Thielen’s coming-of-age story pulses with energy, a cook’s eye for intimate detail, and a dose of dry Midwestern humor. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh, vivid view into New York’s high-end restaurants before returning Thielen to her roots, where she realizes that the marrow running through her bones is not demi-glace but gravy—thick with nostalgia and hard to resist. 9780307954909 (hard cover)

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RESHAPING INDIA : Hindustan Times Leadership Summit

By nil. New Delhi Lotus Collection 2015 , Contents Hindustan Times Leadership Summit Is this Afghanistan Moment of Reckoning Hamid Karzai Q&A : Barkha Dutt Public Private Partnerships : Why they Fail and How to Make them Work Christopher L Thompson Rana Kapoor Q&A : R.Sukumar Towards a Truly Peaceful, Non-Violent and Child-Friendly World Kailash Satyarthi Q&A : Sonia Singh Creaking Infrastructure, Rickety Development Nitin Gadkari Q&A : Vikram Chandra In Conversation with Riz Khan Francis Ford Coppola Q&A : Vikram Chandram Making India S Superpower : Hope or Fantasy Arun Jaitley Q&A : Sanjoy Narayan In Conversation with Karan Johar Aamir Khan Deepika Padukone Q&A : Sanjoy Narayan In Conversation with Karan Johar Aamir Khan Deepika Padukone Q&A : Karan Johar Muscle Beach to Hollywood to Governor of Clifornia A Wondrous, Surreal Trip ? Arnold Schwarzenegger Q&A : Riz Khan States Hold the Key to Indias Makeover Devendra Fadanvis Q&A : Barkha dutt Is Social Media Killing Big Media ? Katie Jacobs Stanton Sarah Sands Q&A : Harinder Baweja In Conversation with Soumya Bhattacharya Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Q&S : NIC Dawes Hitting Home : Why Securing India is a Difficult Job Rajnath Singh Q&A : Harinder Baweja In Conversation with Soumya Bhattacharya Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Q&A : Kanwal Sibal What is the Future of Food ? Rob Rhinehart Q&A : Riz Khan 9789351941569

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TODAY'S PAST : A MEMOIR

By Bhisham Sahni. Cyber City, Gurgaon, Haryana Penguin Books 2015 , Autobiography memoir of Bhisham Sahni, b. 1915, Hindi author 9780670086665

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SECRET LIFE : Three True Stories

By O'Hagan,Andrew . London Faber & Faber 2018 , In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O’Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the ‘real world’. Abstract: The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of self-hood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen -- and unforgettable -- consequences. 'The Invention of Ronnie Pinn' finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey into the deep web's darkest realms. And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a phrase from the tech world, 'disrupted'? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer. ‘Ghosting’ introduces us to the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite, with unforgettable consequences. ‘The Invention of Ronald Pinn’ finds O’Hagan using the identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one online, leading him on a journey into the deep web’s darkest realms. ‘The Satoshi Affair’ chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age, 2017 9780571335862

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MADONNA : Like an Icon

By O'Brien,Lucy . London Penguin 2018 , The definitive biography of one of the world’s most famous women. Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist in the world and one of our greatest living pop stars. With each pioneering album she has consistently reinvented her music and her image, transcending the world of pop to become a global cultural icon. In 2018, unbelievably, she is hitting her 60th birthday – yet she still remains as relevant as ever. Lucy O’Brien’s extensive and well-researched biography looks at Madonna the artist, offering a detailed analysis of her music with input from acclaimed musicians and producers, as well revealing interviews from her intimate inner circle. She follows Madonna from her difficult childhood and those frenetic early years in New York, through the shocks and scandals of the 1990s Sex era to her twenty-first-century incarnation as an outspoken activist. Providing a fascinating insight into her life, relationships and what motivates her as a woman and an artist, Madonna: Like an Icon is the definitive biography of one of the biggest stars in the world. 9780552176026

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BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS : What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living

By Suleika Jaouad. London Transworld Publishers 2021 , 'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.' TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated __________ We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what we can learn about life from a brush with death. At just twenty-two, on the cusp of adult life, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. For the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she now had no idea how to live. And so she set out to meet some of the many strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, 'Life Interrupted'. Between Two Kingdoms is the result. Drawing on Suleika's TED Talk, now with 4 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal and grow up, and what it means to begin again. 9781787630512

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DEAD MEN TELL TALES : Memoir of a Police Surgeon

By Umadathan. B ( Dr). . Uttar Pradesh Harper Collins Publishers 2010 , "Can the dead tell their stories? In the hands of a good forensic surgeon, they certainly can. First published in 2010 in Malayalam as Oru Police Surgeonte Ormakkurippukal, this is the bestselling memoir of Kerala’s most famous forensic surgeon, Dr B. Umadathan. Popularly known as the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Kerala’, Dr Umadathan revisits some of his strangest and most interesting cases, like the Chacko murder masterminded by Sukumara Kurup; the sensational Polakkulam case; and the baffling Panoor Soman case. Chilling, shocking and, at times, downright bizarre, Dead Men Tell Tales is unputdownable. ‘Real events that can be read with more curiosity and excitement than detective novels’–Benyamin ‘An absolutely brilliant book and an excellent translation’–K.R. Meera ‘You stay hooked till the last para’–N.S. Madhavan " 9789354224294

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CINEMA OF KRZYSZT OF KIESLOWSKI : Variations on Destiny and Chance

By Haltof, Marek. London Wallflower Press 2004 , Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy. In this new addition to the Directors'Cuts series, Marek Haltof provides a comprehensive study of Kieslowski's cinema, discussing industrial practices in Poland and stressing that the director did not fit the traditional image of a "great" East-Central European auteur. He draws a fascinating portrait of the stridently independent director's work, noting that Kieslowski was not afraid to express unpopular views in film or in life. Haltof also shows how the director's work remains unique in the context of Polish documentary and narrative cinema. 9781903364925

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SUPER-INFINITE : Transformations of John Donne

By Katherine Rundell. London Faber & Faber 2022 , "John Donne led myriad lives. He was a lawyer, a sea adventurer, a preacher, an MP, and a poet. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. He was also imprisoned for marrying a 16-year old girl without her father's consent; struggled to feed a family of twelve children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In a biography that marks the arrival of a huge non-fiction talent, Katherine Rundell uses a witty and spirited entry point, an 'act of evangelism' to unveil the man behind the words. Donne preached sermons that drew vast crowds; this was a man with a rhetorical power to which in response people would push forward as if at a football match: at one reading, two people were nearly crushed to death. He knew how to harness language into something new. Fleet-footed in style and deep-rooted in scholarly insight, Superinifinite is the portrait of John Donne that we need; a vivid excavation into his extraordinary life, his obsessions, his times, his work; and what his unique life can tell us about our lives now" 9780571345915

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DOWNFALL : Prigozhin and Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia

By Anna Arutunyan. London Ebury Press 2024 , "Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged? Drawing on years of research, this book traces the rise of Russia's most prominent non-state actor and examines the political climate that propelled a convicted gangster with no government office to the formidable role he came to occupy. An essential story of Russia's recent history, Downfall is also a compelling insight into its likely future" 9781529927368

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THREE AND THE WILD DOGS

By Zusak, Markus. London Macmillan 2024 , What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs--Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be believed. ... [This is a] memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty--but also the visceral truth of the natural world--straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever"-- Provided by publisher 97810350629

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CARELESS PEOPLE : Story of Where I Used To Work

By Sarah Wynn-Williams. London Macmillan 2025 , Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different. From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, Careless People exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite - and the consequences this has for all of us. Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, Careless People will change how you see the world."--Publisher's website 9781035065936

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LIFE IN STRUGGLE : Seven Decades on the Frontlines of Indisn Socialism

By Thampan Thomas. Carnet Books 2026 9788168238015

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