90 Search Results for sanjeev chopra
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Treatise on Peace
Apart from the name, Shanti Parav: Treatise on Peace by Des Raj Kali, and translated by Neeti Singh is anything but a treatise on peace. It is an anti-novel set in the background of the twelfth Parav of the Mahabharat.... View Article
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Jumbos on the Edge
India is a country where most auspicious occasios are marked by an invocation to Lord Ganesa, and kings were called ‘Gajapatis’ !It is therefore ironic that Sanjeev Kumar Chadha’s ‘Jumbos on theEdge: The Future of Elephant Conservation in India’ serves... View Article
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Murder at Moonlight Cafe
Obviously ‘Murder at Moonlight Café , the signature story in this fine collection of eleven stories on a very wide spectra of themes – from whodunit to Aliya , a fashion DJs ‘asexuality’, the angst of a herpetologist and a... View Article
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Every Second Counts !
Every second counts ! One realizes this the minute when one flips through the pages of this extremely nuanced, eminently readable and well -illustrated book on the entire gamut of training In each of the twenty one chapters of this... View Article
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Every Second Counts !
Every second counts ! One realizes this the minute when one flips through the pages of this extremely nuanced, eminently readable and well -illustrated book on the entire gamut of training In each of the twenty one chapters of this... View Article
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Trifles make perfection!
This could have been the alternate title to Deepak Gupta’s autobiographical foray ‘Small Things Matter’ as he takes us on the journey of his personal and professional life in a frank and candid conversation which also captures the life of... View Article
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The Making of Telangana
I first became aware of Dr Gautam Pingle’s work when I was preparing a lecture on The State and Agriculture: From Arthashastra to Doubling Farmers’ Incomes. I knew that the Arthashastra had clearly laid down that the king’s legitimate share... View Article
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From my Bookshelf
Commander Anup Thomas is indeed a fine Boswell to Admiral R L Pereira whose biography ‘With Pride and Honour: A True Story of Inspiring Leadership’ is a remarkable documentation of the life and times of the Pereira family, as also... View Article
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Reflections: J&K and Beyond
This week both the books under review give a ‘non-mainstream’ perspective on J&K’s accession to India. Our generation (born in the first few decades after Independence) grew up with the understanding that it was the procrastination on the part of... View Article
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From my Bookshelf
Biographies of institutions are usually hagiographic accounts of the founders- and only talk about the excellent work done by them in their chosen mandate: communities, professions, nations, humanity, world peace. So on and so forth. The saving grace of the... View Article
