In the second world war, Kamala and her brother are removed from their parent's home in Calcutta to the safer environment of their village in Northern Kerel...
Nani A. Palkhivala's name is a byword in India's legal world. A man of many and varied parts, he has crossed with ease the law's narrow confines and...
Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, she built ...
Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin fami...
The ultimate, behind–the–scenes look at the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, as he prosecutes the sprawling war on terror and emerges as a fig...
The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us...
For the last two and a half decades—through war, oil crises, and global terrorism—the United States and Saudi Arabia have had a very special relatio...
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. U...
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles A...
The great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' For some of us answering that can keep you awake at night.
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The sketches of some of Gandhiji s close associates given in this book show how he brought out the best in all those who came to him and worked with him in the ...