Born into an eminent merchant family in Ladakh in 1918, Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu, often described as ‘the last caravaneer of Tibet and Central Asia’...
Raised by her widowed mother in a Tamil village in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Sandy, born Pooranam Elayathamby, grew up in poverty with her five sisters...
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‘Full of fascinating information about TM, its founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and the celebrities who followed him, Susan Shumsky’s book Maharishi a...
The extraordinary story of an Englishwoman who became Indian; a person born and raised at the heart of Empire who went to jail because she believed in a free In...
Foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi
‘Those in India or elsewhere who would like to get to know Nagas and their history cannot do much better than to read Visie...
In this extraordinary book, Nandita Haksar recounts her culinary journey in search of answers to the fundamental questions posed by the recent controversies ove...
No other living individual could draw the sweeping historical picture that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit has given us in her memoir, making it a book of rare significan...
About the author
Praveen P. Gopinath, 32, graduated in history from Annamalai University and is an astrologer of repute. He is popular in Facebook as Mr Mall...