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Shabd lists the best-published memoirs, of well-known personalities, following them from birth, continuing in roughly chronological order until their death. It deals with those experiences of people's lives and the most significant events.
Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Amitava Kumar

Bureaucratic in its convolutions and brutal in its deceptions, the war on terror has had an impact on our lives that we do not yet understand. We sense it. A growing claustrophobia, wariness, suspicion, the stickiness of constant surveillance. But fo

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Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Amitava Kumar

Bureaucratic in its convolutions and brutal in its deceptions, the war on terror has had an impact on our lives that we do not yet understand. We sense it. A growing claustrophobia, wariness, suspicion, the stickiness of constant surveillance. But fo

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On Love and Sex

On Love and Sex

Khushwant Singh

Over a career spanning upwards of six decades, Khushwant Singh has done more to puncture the humbug, hypocrisy and prudishness of Indian society with his frank and unabashed explorations of human sexuality than any other Indian writer writing in Engl

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On Love and Sex

On Love and Sex

Khushwant Singh

Over a career spanning upwards of six decades, Khushwant Singh has done more to puncture the humbug, hypocrisy and prudishness of Indian society with his frank and unabashed explorations of human sexuality than any other Indian writer writing in Engl

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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Shyam Selvadurai

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Shyam Selvadurai

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Arundhati Roy

In the winter of 2014, Arundhati Roy met Edward Snowden, along with the actor and writer John Cusack and Daniel Ellsberg, the Snowden of the 1960s. Their conversations touched on some of the great themes of our times ֠the nature of the state, surveil

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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Arundhati Roy

In the winter of 2014, Arundhati Roy met Edward Snowden, along with the actor and writer John Cusack and Daniel Ellsberg, the Snowden of the 1960s. Their conversations touched on some of the great themes of our times ֠the nature of the state, surveil

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Journey of life

Journey of life

Chauhan faizan

सबसे पहले में आप को इस कहानी के लोगो से परिचय करवाता हूं। **फैजान चौहान** इस घर का सबसे बड़ा बेटा हे।फैजान को अकेला रहना और चुपचाप रहना पसंद हे वो बोहत ही शर्मिला लड़का हे. **मोहसिन चौहान** इस घर का छोटा बेटा हे।वो थोड़ा शरारती और काफी डिमांडिं

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Journey of life

Journey of life

Chauhan faizan

सबसे पहले में आप को इस कहानी के लोगो से परिचय करवाता हूं। **फैजान चौहान** इस घर का सबसे बड़ा बेटा हे।फैजान को अकेला रहना और चुपचाप रहना पसंद हे वो बोहत ही शर्मिला लड़का हे. **मोहसिन चौहान** इस घर का छोटा बेटा हे।वो थोड़ा शरारती और काफी डिमांडिं

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Lekhi Danger Biography

Lekhi Danger Biography

Lekhi Danger

मैं जब से समझदार हुआ हु तब की बात है मैं अपनी स्कुल में सबसे अधिक बोलता था

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Lekhi Danger Biography

Lekhi Danger Biography

Lekhi Danger

मैं जब से समझदार हुआ हु तब की बात है मैं अपनी स्कुल में सबसे अधिक बोलता था

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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Sisir Kumar Bose

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was one of the foremost leaders of the Indian freedom movement. Unlike other popular leaders of the movement, he dreamt of freedom of the country by waging a war against the British and thus formed the Indian National Army.

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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Sisir Kumar Bose

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was one of the foremost leaders of the Indian freedom movement. Unlike other popular leaders of the movement, he dreamt of freedom of the country by waging a war against the British and thus formed the Indian National Army.

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Wild Wind - My Stormy Youth

Wild Wind - My Stormy Youth

Taslima Nasrin

Uttal Hawa , 'Wild Wind' in translation, is the second volume of Taslima Nasreen's autobiography. It depicts Taslima's tumultuous youth, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four, a period during which she not only pursues a long and strenuous MBBS

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Wild Wind - My Stormy Youth

Wild Wind - My Stormy Youth

Taslima Nasrin

Uttal Hawa , 'Wild Wind' in translation, is the second volume of Taslima Nasreen's autobiography. It depicts Taslima's tumultuous youth, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four, a period during which she not only pursues a long and strenuous MBBS

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The Clothing of Books

The Clothing of Books

Jhumpa Lahiri

How do we judge a book cover? Are book covers like the clothing that we choose to wear? What do they say about us? And what is it like to have your clothing selected for you? These are the questions at the heart of this thoughtful meditation on th

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The Clothing of Books

The Clothing of Books

Jhumpa Lahiri

How do we judge a book cover? Are book covers like the clothing that we choose to wear? What do they say about us? And what is it like to have your clothing selected for you? These are the questions at the heart of this thoughtful meditation on th

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Sargam

Sargam

Sargam

The most important thing is to that somethime we forget how to leave our lives. But when we some good character in Bible we found good lesson. This character will help to grow in the lord.

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Sargam

Sargam

Sargam

The most important thing is to that somethime we forget how to leave our lives. But when we some good character in Bible we found good lesson. This character will help to grow in the lord.

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The kargil war

The kargil war

Anand Kumar Gupta

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The kargil war

The kargil war

Anand Kumar Gupta

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Voice of the Veena - S Balachander

Voice of the Veena - S Balachander

Vikram Sampath

Of all the stars in the Carnatic music galaxy from the 1930s through the 1980s, there was one star that outshone the brilliance of the rest: the irrepressible genius, S. Balachander, who stormed into the prim Madras music scene with a panache and ecc

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Voice of the Veena - S Balachander

Voice of the Veena - S Balachander

Vikram Sampath

Of all the stars in the Carnatic music galaxy from the 1930s through the 1980s, there was one star that outshone the brilliance of the rest: the irrepressible genius, S. Balachander, who stormed into the prim Madras music scene with a panache and ecc

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दोस्ती

दोस्ती

anju

 Poems फ्रेंडशिप पर कविताएँ By  Rahul Singh Tanwar Poem on Friendship in Hindi: नमस्कार दोस्तों, फ्रेंड्स तो सबके होते है, मेरे भी है और आपके भी होंगे। परन्तु एक अच्छा और सच्चा मित्र किस्मत वालों को ही मिलता है। दोस्ती का रिश्ता इस दुनिया का एक

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दोस्ती

दोस्ती

anju

 Poems फ्रेंडशिप पर कविताएँ By  Rahul Singh Tanwar Poem on Friendship in Hindi: नमस्कार दोस्तों, फ्रेंड्स तो सबके होते है, मेरे भी है और आपके भी होंगे। परन्तु एक अच्छा और सच्चा मित्र किस्मत वालों को ही मिलता है। दोस्ती का रिश्ता इस दुनिया का एक

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Nehru: The Invention of India

Nehru: The Invention of India

Shashi Tharoor

An incisive new biography of the great secularist who —alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi— led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would o

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Nehru: The Invention of India

Nehru: The Invention of India

Shashi Tharoor

An incisive new biography of the great secularist who —alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi— led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would o

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The Book of Psalm & King David as a Talented Musician

The Book of Psalm & King David as a Talented Musician

Ritesh Bhalchandra Suryawanshi

It is biography of King David.He who wrote the book of psalm.He is a worship leader and Sheperd.

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The Book of Psalm & King David as a Talented Musician

The Book of Psalm & King David as a Talented Musician

Ritesh Bhalchandra Suryawanshi

It is biography of King David.He who wrote the book of psalm.He is a worship leader and Sheperd.

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Ready for Revolution

Ready for Revolution

Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael ultimately sided with those calling for the expulsion of whites. He said that whites should organize poor white southern communities, of which there were plenty, while SNCC focused on promoting African-American self-reliance through Black

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Ready for Revolution

Ready for Revolution

Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael ultimately sided with those calling for the expulsion of whites. He said that whites should organize poor white southern communities, of which there were plenty, while SNCC focused on promoting African-American self-reliance through Black

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Love a Little Stronger

Love a Little Stronger

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a collection of moments, some memorable and some mundane. Often it is the tiniest things that bring the greatest joy, even though at that time, we have no idea that what we are witnessing may be magical, something that we will talk about and

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Love a Little Stronger

Love a Little Stronger

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a collection of moments, some memorable and some mundane. Often it is the tiniest things that bring the greatest joy, even though at that time, we have no idea that what we are witnessing may be magical, something that we will talk about and

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In Other Words

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri

On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in he

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In Other Words

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri

On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in he

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The Last Queen

The Last Queen

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.' While we have all heard tales of Rani Lakshmi Bai and Padmavati, not many of us are familiar with another Indian queen. Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the bea

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The Last Queen

The Last Queen

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.' While we have all heard tales of Rani Lakshmi Bai and Padmavati, not many of us are familiar with another Indian queen. Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the bea

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WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

VrC Dhirendra Singh Jafa

When the Country Calls is an inspiring saga of a patriotic soldier who left no stone unturned in serving mother India and the struggles of a prisoner-of-war and his fellow colleagues in enemy captivity, while upholding their pride in being Indians an

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WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

VrC Dhirendra Singh Jafa

When the Country Calls is an inspiring saga of a patriotic soldier who left no stone unturned in serving mother India and the struggles of a prisoner-of-war and his fellow colleagues in enemy captivity, while upholding their pride in being Indians an

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