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Ruskin Bond is eighty-nine years old: long past sixty, the age at which one becomes a senior citizen; also the age around which it is said one should think of retiring from active life. As the years go by, his contentment with living the life he has chosen--keeping to himself, with his family...

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll.

தமிழ்த்தாத்தா டாக்டர் உ.வே.சா. அவர்கள் எழுதிய தன் வரலாற்று நூல் இது.

தமிழ்த்தாத்தா டாக்டர் உ.வே.சா. அவர்கள் எழுதிய தன் வரலாற்று நூல் இது.

Written with wit, humour and candour, Regrets, None is a rare memoir that is unafraid to bare it all. It follows veteran theatre personality Dolly Thakore's life and career -- growing up in Delhi and an assortment of Air Force stations, getting her start in theatre in college, her time in London...

Filósofo, místico y poeta indio, figura multifacética, Sri Aurobindo fue un tenaz activista y luchador por la independencia de la India, donde su mensaje caló muy hondo en toda la nación, al mismo nivel incluso, de Mahatma Gandhi. Su vida es un canto interminable a la resistencia.