Orient Blackswan Private Ltd : 8 books

The book presents excerpts from Nehrus major works such as An Autobiography, The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History as well as from his important speeches and statements. The purpose is to acquaint the reader with the many-faceted personalities of Nehru: the private man, the historian, the philosopher, the statesman, the lover of wildlife and adventure etc.

This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The...

RARE COLLECTORS ITEM. FIRST PUBLISHED-1916.  In India and the Far East, the story of Rama, Sita and Hanuman is not just an ancient  classic; it is a mystique and a myth that has provided inspiration for the entire cultural framework of southeast Asia for four millennia. At the beginning of this country,...

The worst of the economic crisis has passed, and the global financial system is picking through the wreckage of its reckless ambition. Recovery has started at different paces in different places, but it promises everywhere to be prolonged and uneven. What has the world learnt from the most severe financial...

This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. It was during this period that Dr Y.V. Reddy...

Indian iconography has chiefly been catalogued by historians; it has not been extensively subjected to the analytical scrutiny that is essential to its use as a source of knowledge about our historical past. The present volume is therefore a pioneering study in that it looks at iconography as an index...

With shaking hands Anand opened the right-hand drawer of the dressing table . . . . Anand didnt know what to do. How could he ever be happy again. His friend Rami, the gardeners grand-daughter, and the gardener had been sent away and it was all his fault. Maybe just maybe his and Ramis old rag doll Seethu could help him. For Seethu could think; she could talk; she was a wonder doll!

When Nasreen loses both her parents, she goes to live with her grandparents. Living a cloistered life, she has no friends and when away from school, spends most of her time in the library. And then she finds Bangaru, the magical cat, who is to change her life. From that day onwards she is lonely no more....