Books

As I See It is a collection of blog posts written by one of India’s most influential politicians, Lal Krishna Advani. An analysis and discussion of volatile issues that have caused heated debates in recent times, such as the Lokpal bill, nuclear safety, the question of Indian currency being stored in Swiss banks, they reflect Advani’s fifty years of experience in active politics and his unique understanding of the functioning of Indian polity.

• Publisher: ‎ Rupa (1 August 2011)
• Language: ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 8129118769
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-8129118769

John Perkins has seen the signs of today’s economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines both as an observer and a perpetrator of events, once confined only to the third world, that have now sent the United States—and in fact the entire planet—spiraling toward disaster.

• Publisher: ‎ Currency; Reprint edition (1 November 2011)
• Language: ‎ English
• Paperback: ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0307589943
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307589941

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the organization will have established over 5,000 libraries and 400 schools, and awarded long-term scholarships to more than 3,000 girls, giving more than one million children the lifelong gift of education. If you have ever pondered abandoning your desk job for an adventure and an opportunity to give back, Wood’s story will inspire you. He offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to the world’s most pressing social problems.

• Publisher: ‎ Harper Business; Reprint edition (4 September 2007)
• Language: ‎ English
• Paperback : ‎ 304 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0061121088
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0061121081

This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of actual players and contemporary observers to illustrates how, both in India and in Pakistan, these past events are seen through radically different prisms, how history keeps resurfacing and has a resonance that cannot be avoided to this day. Apart from political, military and security issues, The People Next Door evokes other perspectives: divided families, peacemakers, war mongers, contrarian thinkers, intellectual and cultural associations, unwavering friendships, the footprint of Bollywood, cricket and literature: all of which are intrinsic parts of this most tangled of relationships.

• ASIN: ‎ 9352770900
• Publisher: ‎ HarperCollins; 1st edition (30 August 2017)
• Language: ‎ English
• Hardcover: ‎ 360 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9789352770908
• ISBN-13:  ‎ 978-9352770908