Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four-revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.Read More...Hide Pages: 349
What's Left? by Nick Cohen Nick Cohen investigates the confusing current status of his own political affiliates, the Left, in this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred survey. He searches for the seemingly impossible answers to such questions as: Why are apologies for a militant Islam which stands for everything the liberal-Left is against coming from the Left? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? And exactly who or what are the Left fighting for? With biting satire and sharp insight, this sprawling survey reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity, identifies the core tenets of modern liberal thought, and established a new, proactive definition of the Left.Read More...Hide Pages: 386
Political and Incorrect: The Real India Warts and All by Tavleen Singh The book captures the country's mood and its politics over the two decades, and highlights the things that do not change. Such as politicians and bureaucrats, and their self serving ways.... Pages: 312
My China Diary 1956-88 by K Natwar Singh In My China Diary 1956-88, K Natwar Singh recounts the events which occurred when he served as a diplomat in Bijing. He speaks of what transpired during Premier Chou En-lai's ill-fated visit to India in April 1960 and of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's path-breaking passage to China. The book offers new insights about the complexities of India-China bilateral relations between 1956 and 1988. With a fascinating overview, My China Diary 1956-88 is illuminating, provocative, stimulating and hard to put down.Read More...Hide Pages: 224
Audacity Of Hope by Barack Obama In this bestselling book, Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed.With intimacy and self-deprecating humour, Obama describes his experiences as a politician, about balancing his family life and his public vocation. His earch for consensus and his respect for the democratic process inform every sentence. A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a sceptic, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power that will inspire people the world over.Read More...Hide Pages: 250
An Ordinary Person' Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about "compassionate conservativism" and "the war on terror." Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the hypocrisy of the more-democratic-than-thou clan. But above all, she aims to remind us that we hold the essence of power and the foundation of genuine democracy-the power of the people to counter their self-appointed leaders' tyranny.Read More...Hide Pages: 432
Road to Raisinia by K P Singh Best friends Azim Khan and karan Nehru never considered politics as a career choice,but then fate decreed otherwise....Forced by circumstance to rethink their profesions, the two friends find themselves willy-nilly contesting the elections.Slowly but surely, Azim makes western Uttar Pardesh his electroal fiefdom and begins his journey to becoming the leaders of Muslims: Karan establish himself asd the overlord of eastern Uttar Pardesh and the adjoining states.....Together they make their way to top, never compromising theif friendship, until, finally , as a cabinet ministers in a shaky coalition govt. under the prime minstership of the wily congressman Y.K .Naidu...Read More...Hide Pages: 352
The Word and the Bomb by Hanif Kureishi This is a collection of Kureishi's most controversial and though-provoking writing on the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. Over the past 10 years, Hanif Kureishi has charted the gradual widening of the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. Starting with "The Black Album", Kureishi portrayed the ongoing argument between Islam and Western liberal values, between Islamic certainty and Western rational scepticism. By the time he was writing the short story, "My Son The Fanatic", the break was complete - there was no longer any attempt by the fundamentalists to find any common ground with Western culture. The outbreak of the Iraq war and its aftermath, plus the recent bombings in London, have stimulated Kureishi to write further about this great divide between the East and the West, and this volume collects Kureishi's writings from the past 10 years which have dealt with this subject, charting Islam's disengagement from dialogue with the West. The volume also contains a new piece, written especially for this book, which brings Kureishi's analysis of the situation right up to date.Read More...Hide Pages: 100
Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist by M.S. Aiyar In this book, Mani Shankar Aiyar, parliamentarian, commentator and crusader for a secular credo, calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of India's nationhood. In doing so, he revisits every dimension of India's secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by communal elements of all hues.Read More...Hide Pages: 290
Kashmir: The Untold Story by Humra Quraishi Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists, and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth'. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations, and the foreign hand, the human stories are often lost. In this book, journalist Humra Quraishi draws upon her extensive travels in the Valley and interactions with ordinary Kashmiris over two decades to try and understand what the long strife has done to them. She brings us heartrending stories of mothers waiting for their young sons who disappeared years ago, picked up by the army or by militants; minds undone by the constant uncertainty and fear and almost daily humiliation; old harmonies tragically undermined by the atmosphere of suspicion; an entire generation of young Kashmiris who have grown up with no concept of security; and individual families and a whole society falling apart under the strain of the seemingly endless turmoil.Read More...Hide Pages: 204
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