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Devdutt Pattanaik: Jaya by Pradip Bhattacharya How shall vibrant shoots of the future come forth unless we go to our roots? That is why Janamejaya, king of Hastinapura, requests Vyasa, his ancestor, to tell him about his lineage. Retellings of Indian mythology have been many but for the first time we have a medical doctor ministering to the spirit by evoking archetypal memories through his retellings. Of his work, the most significant is this attempt to re-tell the Mahabharata in a new way. Read On The Literary Venom of Anti-Brahminism in Maharashtra, India by Kedar Joshi The snake looks strong and venomous, the antivenin wee and feeble. Bring out a criticism of Shivaji – the most revered historical hero in Maharashtra – and even though it may be truthful, you risk being beaten up and jailed. Bring out an untruthful criticism of a Brahmin hero, and you largely secure praise. Read On Case for Iraq War Crimes Tribunal by K. Gajendra Singh In his recently published book “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, Mohamed El Baradei, former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), provides a wealth of information on the contentious issues of rogue nuclear diplomacy of western powers led by Washington. He also makes a compelling case for a War Crimes Tribunal to prosecute United States and British leaders who invaded Iraq in 2003 under blatantly false pretext of weapons of mass destruction. Read On If Music be The Food of Love… by Prof. Shubha Tiwari ‘An Equal Music’ by Vikram Seth is a classic in every sense of the word. An exceptional novel is often woven out of the lives of exceptional people. It is a novel of passionate individuals who are dedicated to music. Music has been presented in this novel as a noble addiction. Michael and Julia are musicians. They love playing violin and piano. The joys of creativity are for the reader to see and feel. Read On
Devdutt Pattanaik: Jaya by Pradip Bhattacharya The Literary Venom of Anti-Brahminism in Maharashtra, India by Kedar Joshi Case for Iraq War Crimes Tribunal by K. Gajendra Singh Narendra Modi: A Politician & a Performer by G Swaminathan Carpe Diem - Seize the Day by Michael Levy The Appu Papers by Sanjeev Chopra Jhumpa Lahiri: A Brilliant Story-Teller by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Labyrinths of Collective Memory by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Waking is Another Dream by Prof. Madhav Sarkunde If Music be The Food of Love… by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Azadi - Some Bitter Realities of Past by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Superficial Show by Devavratan Kaundinya Richard Wright as a Protest Writer: A Re-evaluation by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad The Fall-Albert Camus by Pramod Khilery A Basket of Flowers by Devi Nangrani Letter to an Imaginary Pen Friend by Prof. Dr. Shanta Acharya A Good Read by G Swaminathan All, all gone, the old familiar faces … This is not heaven! by Pradip Bhattacharya Unheard Melodies by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad How are the Mighty Fallen! by Pradip Bhattacharya A Journey into One’s Self by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad A Brainy Action-thriller by U Atreya Sarma The Love Poems of Rumi: An Appraisal by Prof. Shubha Tiwari A New Godman is Born by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Crazy America for Desi Indians by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Shades of Life in Usha K.R.'s ‘The Chosen’ by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Ashramavasika Parva of the Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya Money Matters by Devavratan Kaundinya Out of Place by Pramod Khilery Romantic than Revoultionary by G Swaminathan

A Basket of Flowers by Devi Nangrani A Book on Alternative Schooling in India by Frederick Noronha A Brainy Action-thriller by U Atreya Sarma A First Step in Understanding IT Services by Papri Sri Raman A Gallery of Failures by Deepti Priya Mehrotra A Good Read by G Swaminathan A Guzzling Guide for Budding Entrepreneurs by Nayanima Basu A Journey into One’s Self by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad A Look At The Army: From a Different Angle by Azera Rahman A Make-up Mission by Aunohita Mojumdar A Meeting of Streams by Dr. G.A. Ghanshyam Iyengar A New Godman is Born by Prof. Shubha Tiwari A Passionate Cry for Human Dignity by V. Sundaram A Princely Imposter? by Pradip Bhattacharya A Remembrance and a Review by Dr. Amitabh Mitra A Slow Train to Gwalior - review by Dr. Amitabh Mitra A Slow Train to Gwalior - review by Dr. Amitabh Mitra A Tale of How Television Changed India by Madhusree Chatterjee A Tale of Real Love by G Swaminathan A Tear Jerking Gay Love Story by G Swaminathan A Unique, Entertaining Graphic Novel about Self Discovery by Samini Philip A Veritable Cornucopia by Pradip Bhattacharya A Zero-Sum Game: Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night by Pradip Bhattacharya Absolute Khushwant by Thara D'Souza Aditi in Wonderland by Uma Aldous Huxley: Novelist & Thinker by Prof. R. K. Bhushan All, all gone, the old familiar faces … This is not heaven! by Pradip Bhattacharya Along the Journey -Ejaz Rahim by Devi Nangrani Aminuddin Khan: A Hyderabadi Writer Par Excellence by Dr. Amitabh Mitra An Absorbing Partition Saga Through the Eyes of An American by M. R. Narayan Swamy An Offering of Payasam by Pradip Bhattacharya Anand Mahadevan's Novel Inspired by 1987 Train Siege by Madhusree Chatterjee And the Way Up is the Way Down ... by Pradip Bhattacharya Anvil by Roger W. Harrington by Dr. Santosh Kumar Apurv Agarwal's "A Night's Sail" by Dr. Shaleen Singh Ashramavasika Parva of the Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya Asomiya: Handpicked Fictions by Prof. Dr. Jennifer Marie Bayer Azadi - Some Bitter Realities of Past by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Bankim's Krishna-Charita by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Being Indian by G Swaminathan Belong by Fazle Hasnayen Bengali Riddles by Prof. Dr. Jennifer Marie Bayer Beyond the Caricature by Gautam Bhan Bitter Sweet Truth by Bish Mukherjee Black & White: A Biography of a Banker by Tejinder Sharma Black Tongue - Gives a Taste of Bengal by Shinie Antony Bolo! Bolo! - An Anthology by Rajender Krishan Brand India’s Ambassador Shashi Tharoor’s Ganesh Cellphones & Tigers by Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines by Dr. Prema Nandakumar Brushing Up the Years: RK Laxman by G Swaminathan Capturing India of 1990s with Potboiler of a Book by Madhusree Chatterjee Capturing the Essence of Emerging Markets by Papri Sri Raman Carnatic Summer by G Swaminathan Carpe Diem - Seize the Day by Michael Levy Case for Iraq War Crimes Tribunal by K. Gajendra Singh Celebrated Women by Amreeta Sen Celebrating Our Bodies, Ourselves by Radhika Chandiramani Chetan Bhagat's 2 States review by G Swaminathan China's Security Ties with Pakistan A Cause of Mistrust by News Features Chronicling the Quiet Revolution Ushered in by ISRO by Joydeep Gupta Cinderella of the Ancient World* by Pradip Bhattacharya City of Love author Blends 16th Century Spice and Spirituality by Madhusree Chatterjee Column Pinches by Aditi Bhaduri Common People Green the Commons by Deepti Priya Mehrotra Compassionate, Inclusive, Amartya Sen's Model of Justice by Madhusree Chatterjee Crazy America for Desi Indians by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Creative Writing Critique: The White Tiger by Satis Shroff Dalai Lama: The man, Monk and Mystic by Ashok Easwaran Delightfully Unique by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Devdutt Pattanaik: Jaya by Pradip Bhattacharya Dialectics of Man’s Evolution : Viswambhara – A Modern Epic by Dr. T. S. Chandra Mouli Die Erfindung des Lebens by Satis Shroff Dimensions of Creativity by V. Sundaram Down Memory Lane – Ravi Govender by Dr. Amitabh Mitra Dr. Leo Rebello's Aids and Alternative Medicine by Bernardo Nigrini Draupadi Svayamvara Katha by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Einstein’s Timeless Universe: The Foundation for Cosmic Religiousness by Prof. Dr. Katarina Habe Epic Threads by Pradip Bhattacharya Exposing Academic Hinduphobia by Prof. V.V. Raman Famous Faces Famous Speeches by Bhushan Parulekar Faraaz Kazi: Truly, Madly, Deeply! by Priya Vaswani Fateful Triangle by Kalam Babu Father's Love Robbed by Death: Otto Frank's story by JT Nguyen Father, Son and The Unholy Mission by Ram Puniyani Feminism in the Muslim World by Aditi Bhaduri Fibromyalgia is Real by Dr. Kevin P. White, MD, Phd Five Point Someone by G Swaminathan Flatulence of English by G Swaminathan For Whom The Bell Tolls? by Pradip Bhattacharya Forest Interludes by Pradip Bhattacharya French Culture in India by Attreyee Roy Chowdhury Fresh Retellings of The Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya Fugitive Histories As Fiction by Noor Zaheer Gandhi's Private Life by Deepti Priya Mehrotra Gently Flows the Seine by Shinie Antony Glimpses of Memory Lane by Devi Nangrani Globalization & The Girl Next Door by Angana Parekh Globalization and its Discontents by Aruni Mukherjee God Without Religion by Satya Chaitanya Goddess as Virgin and Great Mother by Pradip Bhattacharya Good Old Values* by Pradip Bhattacharya Goodbye America? Not yet by Manish Chand Goodbye US Hegemony, Welcome China, Europe by Manish Chand Graham Vivian Lancaster, South African Poetry at its Best by Geoffrey Jackson He Pens Tales of India's Urban Underbelly by Madhusree Chatterjee Hindu Nationalism by Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta History and Mythology by Pradip Bhattacharya Hitchhiker by Ainslie T.Embree How are the Mighty Fallen! by Pradip Bhattacharya How Green is the Doon Valley? by Shinie Antony Hua Hu Ching: The Other Wisdom Book of Lao Tzu by Satya Chaitanya Hudson View’ Carves a Niche for itself in the World of Poetry by Glory Sasikala Franklin Hush, Don’t Say Anything to God by Shahram Shiva I am Myself Alone by Pradip Bhattacharya I Don't Write to Titillate: Abby Lee by Gagandeep Kaur I Was Born for Valour, I Was Born to Achieve Glory by Pradip Bhattacharya Idea of Hinduism: An Imperial-Missionary Imagination by News Features Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Aruni Mukherjee If : A collection of Short Stories by G Swaminathan If God was a Banker by G Swaminathan If Music be The Food of Love… by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Imagining Multilingual Schools by Prof. Dr. Jennifer Marie Bayer Immigrant Experiences by Prof. Dr. Ram Sharma Imprints, Colours of Life by Ravi Sidula In Defense of Globalization by Aruni Mukherjee In Good Taste by G Swaminathan In Quest by Prof. Lakhbir Kaur In search of self ... by Dr. Sangeeta Sahajwani India has New Generation that can Take On the World by Madhusree Chatterjee India Inc. Differs in Corporate Strategies by Madhusree Chatterjee Indian Novel in English by Dr. T. S. Chandra Mouli Indo-Pak Conflict: 'Ripe' Enough to Resolve? by Manjari Sewak Indo-Pak Conflict: 'Ripe' Enough to Resolve? by Manjari Sewak Interlude-in-Incognito and the Gathering Storm by Pradip Bhattacharya Internet in the Jungle and Other Stories by Ramendra Kumar Interpreter of Maladies by Subhajit Ghosh Invest with a Genius by Heinz Riehl Iraq, the Current Oil Crisis and American Mismanagement by Shubha Singh Iraqi 'Anne Frank' Blog: Bombs, Courage and Humor by Riverbend Is Anybody Listening? by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Is the Goddess a feminist? by Pradip Bhattacharya It's all in Timing by Jagdish C. Maheshri Janet K. Brenan’s Healing Power by Dr. Santosh Kumar Jatakamala by Pradip Bhattacharya Jhumpa Lahiri Refines her Fiction of Arrival by Manish Chand Jhumpa Lahiri: A Brilliant Story-Teller by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Jon McGregor's – So Many Ways to Begin by Swapna Chakrabarti JRD, A Man with Values of Steel by Shinie Antony Just Another Love Story by G Swaminathan Kaikeyi That Horrible Woman Understood At Last * by Pradip Bhattacharya Kathmandu Blues: The Inheritance of Loss and Intercultural Competence by Satis Shroff Kevin McGrath's Stri: Women in Epic Mahabharata - Review by Pradip Bhattacharya Key to the Locked Doors by Devi Nangrani King of Bollywood: Intimate and Crisp Account of SRK's Life by Anupama Chopra Knowing Thy Neighbor… by Alok Bhatnagar Kootiyattam: The Oldest Living Theatre Tradition by Satya Chaitanya Labyrinths of Collective Memory by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Leadership and Power Ethical Explorations by Dr. Prema Nandakumar Letter to an Imaginary Pen Friend by Prof. Dr. Shanta Acharya Lies Like Beauty, Depend Upon the Eye of the Beholder by Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta Life Enrichment through Self Empowerment by Vickram Sahai Local Democracy in India: Interpreting Decentralization by Dr. Girish Bhaskar Love and Longing in Blood Soaked Sri Lanka by M. R. Narayan Swamy Love Poems by Monima Chaudhury by Dr. Shaleen Singh Love Stories from Mahabhara by Amreeta Sen Mahabharata by Smith, DebRoy by Pradip Bhattacharya Mahabharata Traditions & Variations by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Making of a Reluctant Fundamentalist by Manish Chand Manjul Bajaj's Come, Before Evening Falls - Review by Julia Dutta Marketing is all About Understanding Instincts by Nayanima Basu Mattering To India by P. Ravindran Nayar Measuring Hitler's Mind through the Story of His Life by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Memories of Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi by G. Venkatesh Money Matters by Devavratan Kaundinya More About the Land-Man Construct by A. R. Bandopadhyay More Light… by Sanjukta Dasgupta by Amit Shankar Saha Mortal Remains of an Indian Conscience by Dr. Amitabh Mitra Mutiny or Upheaval, 1857 Undoubtedly heralded Nationalism by Nayanima Basu My Country My Life by Lata Jagtiani My Life and The Message of Mahabharata by Dr. Prema Nandakumar My Love Never Faked …. Trust me I still Love You by News Features My Temporary Son by G Swaminathan Myriad Shades of Love by G Swaminathan Mythic Resurgence by Pradip Bhattacharya Mythic Resurgence 3 by Pradip Bhattacharya Mythic Resurgence 2 by Pradip Bhattacharya Mythic Resurgence 4 by Pradip Bhattacharya Narendra Modi: A Politician & a Performer by G Swaminathan Natural Resources Conservation Law by Dr. Ahana Lakshmi Nature of Human Thought by S. C. Daniel Negotiating the Nakasendo by Gemini Yadav Never Victorious, Never Defeated by Amreeta Sen New Book Brings Alive Women Fighters in Indian National Army by Nirmala George Not A Happy Homecoming for Indentured Workers by Shubha Singh Of Spices and Magical Realism by Rajgopal Nidamboor Oh Zaperetta! by Dr. Santosh Kumar One Night @ The Call Center by G Swaminathan Out of Place by Pramod Khilery Overcome Your Fears, Get the Life You Want by Nayanima Basu Pakistani Politician Father, Indian Mother - A Son Tells All by News Features Pamela Lothspeich: Epic Nation by Pradip Bhattacharya Panch-Kanya The Five Virgins of Indian Epics by Ratna Roy Perennial Wisdom: It Happens by Itself by Satya Chaitanya Personality Development by Dr. C.S. Shah Poems for the Third Millennium by Hillol Ray Powell's Collected Poems and Stories by Dr. Santosh Kumar Pravasini ke Bol by Devi Nangrani Protection of Himalayan Bio-Diversity by Dr. Ahana Lakshmi Questioning Ramayanas by Pradip Bhattacharya Rajasuya - The Apple of Eris by Pradip Bhattacharya Ramayana Review by Pradip Bhattacharya Rapture: Endings of Space and Time by Dr. Santosh Kumar Rare Values, Rarest Insight – Revisiting Our Time with Shri P.S. Appu by Anita Agnihotri Realities of Gay Life by G Swaminathan Reconciliation, Reversals and Realization by Pradip Bhattacharya Reflections on 'Leadership & Power' by Pravir Malik Remaking India: One Country One Destiny by V. Sundaram Representing India: Des and Pardes by Ruchika Mohan Rethinking the Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya Revealing and Concealing 'Eunuch' by Zahira Rahman Revitalizing the State by Pradip Bhattacharya Richard Wright as a Protest Writer: A Re-evaluation by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad Romantic than Revoultionary by G Swaminathan Sachar Committee: Conspiracy to Divide the Nation? by Saurav Basu Sam's Story': A Look into Ravaged Sri lanka by Madhusree Chatterjee Samudra-Manthana by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Seeing History-laden Hyderabad Through Many Eyes by Madhusree Chatterjee Sehmat, The Secular Spy who Fought a Silent War for India by Madhusree Chatterjee Shades of Life in Usha K.R.'s ‘The Chosen’ by Prof. Shubha Tiwari Shaleen Kumar Singh's The Proprietary Pains by Prof. Dr. Sunil Sharma Shashi Misra's Beyond Ethics: An Inquiry Into the Values for the Business of Life by S. K. Chakraborty Sita's Kitchen The Relevance of Mythmaking by Pradip Bhattacharya Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup by G Swaminathan Slumdog Millionaire * by G Swaminathan Southern Spice by G Swaminathan Speaking for Her Security by Deepti Priya Mehrotra Sri Lanka Peace Process R.I.P. by M. R. Narayan Swamy Sriram V: The Devadasi and the Saint review by G Swaminathan Stiff Upper Lip by Pradip Bhattacharya Superficial Show by Devavratan Kaundinya Surprised by Joy by Pradip Bhattacharya Tales and Teachings of Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya Tales with a Twist by Lekshmy Rajeev Ten Years after ‘GOST’ by Rajgopal Nidamboor Thakur: Life of Sri Ramakrishna by Dr. C.S. Shah That Takes Ovaries by Sharmistha Choudhury That Thing Called Love by Tuhin Sinha The Appu Papers by Sanjeev Chopra The Architecture of Me: Selected Poems by William Sovern by Dr. Santosh Kumar The Autumn of Love by Satis Shroff The Banyan, Not the Oak: Polycentric Hinduism by Pradip Bhattacharya The Book Of Change by Deepti Priya Mehrotra The Book of Women from the Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya The Boyfriend by G Swaminathan The Coming Collapse of China by Aruni Mukherjee The Complete Sauptika Parva of Vyasa's Mahabharata by Pradip Bhattacharya The Corporate Conspiracies by G Swaminathan The Doomsday Epic Condensed by Pradip Bhattacharya The Fall-Albert Camus by Pramod Khilery The Great Indian Novel by Pradip Bhattacharya The greatest treasure by Demi by Devi Nangrani The Importance of Living by Vikram Karve The Journey by Dr. Rajam Natarajan Pillai The Last Mughal by Kusum Choppra The Life We Are Given by Satya Chaitanya The Literary Venom of Anti-Brahminism in Maharashtra, India by Kedar Joshi The Lively Adventures of an Indian Diplomat by Shubha Singh The Love Poems of Rumi: An Appraisal by Prof. Shubha Tiwari The Mad Scientist and Other Stories by Ramendra Kumar The Making of Sholay by Satish Nair The Nala-Damayanti Katha in Vyasa’s Mahabharata by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen The Novel As Epic by Pradip Bhattacharya The Poetic Qualities of Barbara Elizabeth Mercer by Dr. Santosh Kumar The Pritish Nandy Collection, Poetry Again by Dr. Amitabh Mitra The Quest for an Indian Paradigm of Management by Pradip Bhattacharya The Real Wealth of Nations by Mehru Jaffer The Road to Serfdom by Aruni Mukherjee The Salt Has Lost Its Savour! by Pradip Bhattacharya The Sikh Diaspora The Search for Statehood by Shreeram Vidyarthi The Silent Raga: A Finely Told Story of Everyday Humiliation by Papri Sri Raman The Sinful Splendour in Lahore by Prof. R. K. Bhushan The Story's the Thing by Pradip Bhattacharya The Sunset Club - Khushwant Singh by Thara D'Souza The Transmogrification of Myth by Pradip Bhattacharya The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by K. Bharati The Wheel of Law by Aruni Mukherjee The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga by Thara D'Souza The Will To Win by Ramendra Kumar The Woman shaped by Mother by Deepti Priya Mehrotra The World of Pakistani Women by Aditi Bhaduri The World of Tamil Politics by G Swaminathan Three Disciples Katha by Maj. Gen. Shekhar Sen Three Makes a Crowd by G Swaminathan TKC – Till Khatiya Comes by Pradip Bhattacharya Traversing the Indian Mindscape by Rajesh Talwar Turn These Pages for Some Water Wisdom by Papri Sri Raman Twice Born by Leela Soma by Suzan Abrams Two Can Play this Game by Dr. Santosh Kumar Two Mirrors at the Ashram by G Swaminathan Two women in Olive Green by Priyadarshini Sur UK Historian Sheds New Light On South Asian Diaspora by Shubha Singh Understanding The Minds of Indian Shoppers by Nayanima Basu Unheard Melodies by Prof. Dr. Anil K. Prasad Unwanted by Esther Mary Lyons Value of Life by G Swaminathan Vastu: Directional Influences on Human Affairs by V. S. Karnic Victoria, Abdul And Shrabani by Shree Venkatram Vidur's Mother, Pritha's First and Duryodhan by Pradip Bhattacharya Vivid Tale of Guyana and its Nostalgic Indians by Shubha Singh Vyasa's Mahabharata: The Complete Shalya Parva by Pradip Bhattacharya Waking is Another Dream by Prof. Madhav Sarkunde Was Hinduism Invented? by Aruni Mukherjee We can Pull it Off by Vipin Gulati Weaving in Skilled Unmindfulness by Pradip Bhattacharya Who is a Brahmin? by Attreyee Roy Chowdhury Words for Princes* by Pradip Bhattacharya Yaks and Yetis by Satis Shroff Zia's Murder Mystery Comes in New Mango Flavor by Manish Chand
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