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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

Whole story of my father

पैसे बोहोत हैं इस वक्त मेरे पास, एक दौर था जब मैंने साइकल दुकान में काम करते हुए अपना शुरुआत किया था, हजारों ठोकर खा कर लोगो को समझा, उनके सोच को समझा, कस्टमर के साथ डील करना सीखा, कोई कह सकता था एक 8 वी पास लड़का इतना कुछ कर सकता है? हर कोई नकारता थ

Dedicated police officer, ACP Gautam Dhaliwal, takes it upon himself to root out the MAF, a major Naxal organisation based in the remote village of Bhagatpur, Bihar, as part of the Central Government-backed, Operation India One. However, as his inves

Women Scientists in India : Lives, Struggles and Achievements Read more

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

We got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly—some out of curiosity, others out of malice—whether we were men or women or ‘number nines’ or devadasis. Several men made bold to touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. Some attempted to grab our bre

Sufi is the story of two boys who grew up in Dongri, Mumbai. One of them, Iqbal Rupani, aided and abetted by a corrupt policeman, is drawn towards criminal activities in his teens. As he becomes powerful and influential as a racketeer and smuggler, h

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

Ahmedabad is today India’s seventh largest city and also one of the subcontinent’s few medieval cities which continues to be prosperous and important. Soon after it was established, the royal city of Ahmedabad became the commercial and cultural capit

A little girl, Manikarnika, with an uncanny sense of her own destiny, grew up to be none other than the brave queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai. Trained in horse riding and the martial arts from an early age, Manu was married to Gangadhar Rao, the Mah

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

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.

Born to a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied his tender age. Deeply suspicious of his spiritual precociousne

Cezanne is consumed with doubt about his success as an artist. Discover the ups and downs of cezanne’s artistic journey with Zola, cezanne’s best friend in this beautifully illustrated book on Paul Cezanne. Read more

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

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

Sanduk Ruit was born into the lowest rungs of society in a tiny, remote Himalayan village in Nepal. After long and difficult treks to attend boarding school in Darjeeling and, later, the best of Indian medical colleges, he met the remarkable visionar

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

In this landmark work of reportage, Aman Sethi sets out to understand the life of Mohammad Ashraf, a daily-wage worker in Delhi's Bara Tooti Chowk. Spending the greater part of five years in 'the largely empty space between the backpacker haven of Pa