“padmanabhan nairdeepak kumar”

Water is at the root of life. While it is seen as a free resource, the supply, distribution and maintenance of water require management. This book also discusses to the inter-basin transfer of water and water harvesting. The book looks at water management, from a macro as well as a micro perspective... More

The financing of infrastructure projects has traditionally been the responsibility of the government. However, with the realization of infrastructure development in a nation’s economic growth, a majority of the countries has encouraged the effective utilization of the various financial avenues to ... More

This book looks at a few indicative aspects of rural infrastructure facilities in India without which the dream of achieving a sustainable economic development will not be achieved. The objective of this book is to take a long and hard look at rural infrastructure in all its aspects and to present e... More

‘Chandra Padmanabhan has come out with a winner' — The Hindu From the best-selling author of Dakshin comes a new book on South Indian cuisine containing a hundred authentic recipes from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Familiar dishes such as appam, dosai, vada and poriyal as w... More

South Indian vegetarian cuisine is subtly flavoured, yet rich in variety. The spices are so delicately and judiciously blended together that the best South Indian food always retains the basic essence of its flavour. Therein lies its speciality. From the nutritional point of view, the food is perfec... More

Born into a conservative family in a provincial town in Haryana, Kalpana Chawla dreamt of the stars. And through sheer hard work, indomitable intelligence and immense faith in herself, she became the first Indian woman to travel to space, and even more remarkably, to travel twice. In this well-r... More