“v s naravane”

This selection from the Panchatantra, Kadambari and Kathasaritsagara encompasses myth, legend, mystery and fantasy. Palace intrigues, power struggles, tragic schisms, resourceful stratagems are delineated with beauty ad power in the Panchatantra. Kadambari is studded with uplifting imagery, brillian... More

Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In "A Writer's People" he brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and ... More

V.S.Naipaul has gone back more than once to the illuminations of this startling and original book. It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative - about the New World, empire, Af... More

In Half A Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willies is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to th... More

'But bigger than them all was the house, his house. How terrible it would have been, at this time, to be without it: to have died among the Tulsis, amid the squalor of that large, disintegrating and indifferent family; to have left Shama and the children among them, in one room; worse, to have lived... More

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous account of the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Beginning in rich and evocative ... More

It is literally the last word on India today, witness within witness, a chain of voices that illustrates every phase of Indian life ... with a truthfulness and a subtlety that are a joy to read. Something like love enters the narrative - a real feeling for the land and its people' Paul Theroux, Lite... More

This book, Embedded Real Time Systems Programming, explores what an embedded system is, the various types of embedded systems, techniques to program them and major concepts that are required to be mastered for efficient design and implementation of embedded system software. Also it dwells on the pro... More