• General

    Posted on July 25th, 2008

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    A Call to Honour : In Service of Emergent India by Jaswant Singh

    A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India by Jaswant Singh is a redolent account about a critical time in the history of India. After the Nehruvian period of socialism, India redefined its goals and character according to the demands of the world after the Cold War.
    The government responded to the issues with a vision for India. Jaswant Singh played a key role in the transformation of the foreign policy, economic planning and defense policy in India. He managed several important issues that the country faced. Security needs of India were internationally recognized after 1998.
    This Indian book by Jaswant Singh hits a somber note as he takes the reader along for the ride throughout the Kargil conflict of 1999 and looks at the crucial environment before and after the notorious war. A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India is quite a narrative and offers the reader deep look at many important events that altered the way the world saw the country of India. At the change of the millennia, India changed as well. This is a story about a part of that incredible journey.



  • General

    Posted on July 18th, 2008

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    The Best Travel Books

    Maybe you are planning a trip to one of the exciting destinations around the world, or perhaps you are just interested in reading about them. Either way, you can find all the information you need by reading on of the available travel books. So put down those creepy old horror books you have been reading and let us get started.

    One of the most popular travel books available today are the Frommer’s travel guides. Frommer’s helps you explore destinations as if you were a local. It does not matter if you are traveling near or far, it does not matter if you have an expendable budget or a tight budget Frommer’s provides the most reliable information in their travel books.

    Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger, published in 1959, is a wonderful read. This books cover the territories of Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates. This great work spans over the course of Thesiger’s five-year expedition across the region of the Middle East before the time of oil. Wilfred Thesiger writes beautifully about a time and place that are now gone with an insightful admiration of the desert itself to create on of the best travel books of all time.

  • General

    Posted on July 18th, 2008

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    A Puffin History

    Puffin Books was derived more than sixty years ago from Penguin Books, which came from the great mind of Allen Lane. In 1935, Allen Lane created the paperback from which came Penguin Books and grew into Puffin Books, which has since changed the world of childrens poetry as well as children’s books for good.

    In 1939, Noel Carrington proposed the idea of a series of non-fiction childrens books to Allen Lane. He liked the idea and thus began Puffin Books and the future of children’s books. The first of the Puffin Books was a story about a man who had broomsticks for arms.

    In the beginning, it was difficult for Puffin Books to get up and running. Paper was being rationed due to the ongoing war and the libraries only wanted hardback children’s books. Therefore, the editor of Puffin Books, Eleanor Graham, vowed to turn children on to reading and came up with her own Puffin Books title list.

    The fifties was the decade of children’s books, with great Puffin Books like C.S Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden as well as E. B. White’s favored Charlotte’s Web.

    Even still to this day, you can rely on Puffin Books for the best children’s books.

  • Technology

    Posted on June 18th, 2008

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    The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings

    The Horse That Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings by Chidanand Rajghatta is a greatly appealing book about the history of the growth of the industry of information technology in India and the significant influence of immigrants that are Indian-American to the information technology industry of America. The writer, Chidanand Rajghatta, is an experienced journalist. He is the correspondent for Washington for the biggest daily circulation of the English-language paper, The Times of India.

    The first chapter, “The Mouse That Roared”, zeros in on the growth of the information technology industry of India and its rise from a mere $50 million in the early nineties to an astounding $6 billion just a decade later. The first half of the decade of growth is mostly due to hard work for prime companies from America such as Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments.

    In the next chapter, “The Cats That Stalked”, is an outline of Indian information technology professional’s history, such as who was first to come to San Francisco in the early sixties.

    In the book, the author selects four superstar Indian-American entrepreneurs from the eighties and nineties and devotes a chapter to each one of them.

  • History, Travel

    Posted on June 10th, 2008

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    Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma

    This book by Amitav Ghosh was published right around the same time as the death of Pol Pot. The news of the death brought back to the minds of the public the images of the ruthless extermination of one fourth of the population of Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 through 1979. Even with the national consciousness of the East Asian countries in India, news of the death made the front page. Ironically, only about twenty people were in attendance at the funeral of the man that was the mastermind behind the most methodical insolvencies of the country’s whole middle class.

    However, the statistics and facts are left to the newspapers. With an understanding of the individual personal lives, Amitav Ghosh writes an awe-inspiring human account by combining stories from real survivors from Cambodia who are coping with the past to rebuild their lives.

    Each book by Amitav Ghosh is somewhat different from the one before it. In the book Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma, Amitav Ghosh weaves together the political reportage, history, travel and cultural commentary into each other, the result ruminates on pain, power, freedom and violence. More geographies and histories are brought to life in a way to which the reader can relate through this work.

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