Akbar's journalistic treatment combines the biography of Jawaharlal Nehru with the history of the Indian Independence Movement from 1890 to 1948. What results e...
"Slow, sustained concentration on these passages", says Eknath Easwaran, drives them deep into our minds and whatever we drive deep into consciousness...
Features correspondence between Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and includes various letters and family photographs. This book offers insights into N...
After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the wo...
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes o...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee, written by Jared Diamond, is a comprehensive study of human behaviour and its origins. This book analyses the relatio...
His principal interest was in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revolution, and where he h...
In 1965 Ernesto Guevara, one of the heroes of the Cuban Revolution, known throughout the world as "el Che", vanished. He eventually surfaced in the ne...
From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.
The major shifts in global po...
A fascinating account of the adventures of Marco Polo, who embarked on a two-year journey from China to reach Venice, his homeland via Hormuz. Immediately after...
White Mughals is the love story of lovers James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair un-Nissa, two people belonging to diverse cultures and races at a time when India...
It is 7th November 1862, Rangoon. A shrouded corpse is escorted by a motley crew of British soldiers. A nondescript grave is ready inside the prison premises. T...