“biography of kiran walia”

In 1999 Umesh Aggarwal and his team started travelling the country in search of people who had the courage of conviction to step boldly beyond the boundaries of their ordinary lives and do something meaningful for others. The search resulted in a series of five-minute capsules aired on Doordarshan w... More

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006‘Kiran Desai is a terrific writer’ —Salman RushdieIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives and embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orp... More

The time is early 16th century. The Rajput kingdom of Mewar is at the height of its power. It is locked in war with the Sultanates of Delhi, Gujarat and Malwa. But there is another deadly battle being waged within Mewar itself. who will inherit the throne after the death of the Maharana? The course ... More

The premise of the book, he says, is to challenge the public perception that terrorists are "madrassa boys", who are depicted sitting, swaying back and forth learning the Koran or the Hadith. "My premise is that some of them don't come from that background as I discovered much later after I'd done a... More

This book is about Governance Initiatives carried out by way of economic and social reform, and rightsizing measures introduced in the state of Haryana, especially in those areas where the public is affected. Most of these initiatives were achieved after numerous brainstorming sessions, adopting a s... More