“biswaroop rai”

‘I believe that the photographer’s job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him so cleanly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would continue to move without a stumble.’This lavish production of the finest black-and-white photographs taken ... More

"He has an individual way of seeing things and reproducing them as images on bromide paper which is unsurpassed by any photo journalist in the whole wide world."-Normal Hall, "The Times" (London)Raghu Rai was recommended for membership of the Magnum Photo Agency in 1973 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and... More

‘I believe that the photographer’s job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him so cleanly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would continue to move without a stumble.’This lavish production of the finest colour photographs taken by India’s most disting... More

' To be creative means the ability to remain thirsty and to want more, to never be content. You don't just tell yourself that you are going to remain thirsty...you keep on seeing, discovering and understanding the joy of creating.'... More

In this work of fiction the main plot deals with the Soviet takeover of India at the height of the cold war and how the forces of the free world fight back. The KGB does this with the help of a fast-rising politician, Raj Kamath, who visualises a new India of his dreams, without hunger and poverty a... More

A sensitive and touching study of a poor Muslim neighbourhood, whose fragile peace is rudely shattered, ironically, at the clamping of a sudden curfew in the city.... More

This is a remarkable work of scholarship which shows how Kashmir’s modern Muslim identity came into existence. In doing this, it demonstrates the complex manner in which politics can enforce the creation of religious identity. Kashmir is a hotbed of religious politics. Disputed between India and P... More

Brief yet thorough, this book provides an introduction to the concepts and theories of soil science. It explains in the simplest manner, the principles of soil formation, properties of soils, interrelationship between soil water, soil air, soil temperature and plant growth.... More

It's eight months since Sophie went missing after attending a summer music festival. The police search has led nowhere and Jit, Sophie's best friend and soulmate, is slowly going crazy not knowing what's happened to her. He has to DO something. So he begins a search that will take him all over Brita... More

Alok Rai recognises that George Orwell was both a political writer and a literary artist, and that any adequate study must do justice to both aspects of his work. Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing, including unpublished and previously unused material, Rai charts his progression from rebell... More