The book is a classic of Indian architectural literature, as it did, a manifesto of the international concerns of the 1960s about poverty, about environment, about sustainable growth with observations about the Indian city that were pithy, evocative and incisive. The contents of the book rooted the work of the first moderns in the realities of the country and described the broad based development of modernism as an appropriate style of architecture for India.

The essays examine the relationship between theory and practice and the major failings of Indian democracy. They provide a meaningful overview of critical issues facing India today, including the role of the judiciary in governance, the problematic functioning of the bureaucracy, the nexus between politics and organized crime, human development in a democratic context, the condition of indigenous peoples, the negative consequences of economic liberalization, and political violence.
 

This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to the field of risk theory. Coverage includes the origins of the concepts of risk and is often misunderstood cousin uncertainty. The volume also includes a selection of the most significant and influential works on risk.

This report identifies and develops national or municipal regulations and policies aimed at improving the operational efficiency of the urban informal economy and strengthening its income and employment enhancing effects on the urban poor. The proposed policies and recommendations contained in the report are based on detailed analyses of existing municipal by-laws and national policies on informal economic activities in selected developing country cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, namely Bangkok, Delhi, Durban, Mexico City and Nairobi.

This book is a choice selection of stories from Kottarathil Sankunni's Aithihyamala, the definitive resource of the myths and legends of Kerala published nearly a hundred years ago-gives us a glimpse of traditional Kerala society and culture.

In Bollywood, every cliche is true. The script doesn't matter, only a proposal does. The song and dance is everything. Packaging counts and marketing delivers. Everything revolves around a handful of stars. Much of the funding is from unorganized and sometimes even questionable sources. But Bollywood, a derivative name for the Hindi film industry that is a loose agglomeration of old-style film families and newly-established studios, of venerated stars and tough-talking directors, often defies the cliches it embodies. Since 1995, a fantastic year which saw three different genres of cinema -- Aditya Chopra's diaspora-meets-desis romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge; Ram Gopal Varma' s ironic comedy Rangeela’; and Mani Ratnam' s contentiously political Bombay there has been a tectonic cultural and commercial shift. A new breed of filmmakers has taken over, altering age-old artistic conventions and business norms. These three filmmakers are some of the characters who walk in and out of the frames of this guide to current Bollywood. The book explains: What drives -- and how they drive -- the multi-million-rupee industry, whose impact on society in India is as wide as its influence among the increasingly vocal diaspora.

The scholars examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Mumbai cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century.

This is a scintillating introduction to the latest thinking on the brain and the mind by the world's leading expert. Neuroscience can now begin to unlock the key to the self. Our knowledge of the brain has progressed so rapidly that it will change the way we think of ourselves as human beings. It will change our notion of understanding. This is a revolution, which will have impact on all our lives. Neuroscientists are gathering new empirical evidence about consciousness and human nature.

The book is the tale of our world's past and future as revealed by plants. Newly found clues in the fossil record show plants to be powerful agents of change, moulding the earth's climate and affecting the evolutionary path of life over the immensity of geological time. These clues reveal how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how forests once grew on Antarctica, and how giant insects flourished; they strengthen fascinating fossil evidence for an ancient ozone hole, and offer new explanations for past bouts of global warming.

This book introduces us to the fascinating world of trees. Each double page spread describes the forms, habits, and quirks of more than forty trees commonly found in India, using colour illustrations and photographs of the trees and their flowers, fruits, and seeds.

The book attempts to break the stereotype of policing as an obsession with guns, crime and criminals, it insists that even the cops have a penchant for humour. This book is based on the author's own experiences as a policeman for 35 years where he provides an insider's account of someone who has experienced everything at close quarters and can afford to be critical of the system as a whole. He recounts gripping stories about how policemen learn to survive under the axe of the media, politicians, common people and their own seniors.

The book describes the global dimensions of the decentralization movement. The book also examines the intersection of planning and decentralization from three perspectives; the central state, local government, and civil society and the community.

This volume contains the selected speeches of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh from May 2004 to May 2005. The speeches are on wide variety of subjects ranging from national affairs, knowledge economy, governance to economy and international affairs. 

This compilation of speeches of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on topics ranging from Bharat Nirman to the economic policy to our evolving foreign policy reflects the concerns and challenges of a resurgent India. 

This collection of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s speeches during 2006-07 captures various aspects of this change. It also analyses the challenges facing India on the domestic and international fronts. 

The present volume is a compilation of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s speeches during 2007-08. His speeches reflect how our nation which has always been a knowledge society can be transformed into a knowledge economy. The compilation further analyses that this challenge facing India could be met by using the nation’s human resources- a huge pool of young men and women, adequately skilled and nation’s greatest force for progress. 

This book presents a radical analysis of poverty that turns conventional understandings of the subject upside-down. It offers a radical reconsideration of the problem, resting on twin premises: the importance of distinguishing between enjoyment and relief (e.g., eating ice cream vs. taking aspirin for a headache), and acknowledging that these motivators/rewards have a different effect on the poor than they do the well-off. Author argues that while the middle and upper classes seek an even distribution of "pleasers" to increase "positive satisfaction" over the long-run, those acting from a position of insufficiency work for "relievers... goods that reduce pain, unhappiness, or misery" in the moment. As such, what is rational or efficient behavior for the poor is not so for the well-off, and vice-versa.

In this book, the author Yehuda Shinar presents a set of winning behaviour principles that can be adapted and applied to any sphere of life. Using practical advice, quizzes, tests and real-life case studies Yehuda shows how to transform the thought patterns so that whoever you are and whatever you want to achieve, you’ll be one of life’s winners. From conquering one's self-defeating thoughts and winning the respect of others to clinching that promotion at work or winning in love, money and health, this book will give the advantage over other people, equipping with the tools one needs to be successful. 

This handbook highlights many administrative reforms, which can be brought about through an effective implementation of the RTI Act. The author strongly believes that the Public Information Officers can become the harbingers of administrative reforms in their own respective organizations. 

This annual issue, 19th in the series is a compilation of data on selected key socio-economic and demographic parameters of people living in the rural areas. The achievements on rural development/anti-poverty programmes implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development are highlighted. The performance of various states/UTs in regard to development issues such as poverty and unemployment can be gleaned from this publication.

The author guides us through the latest concepts emerging in theoretical physics that together could form the ingredients of a theory of everything, from the M-theory of superstrings, and speculations about the world as a computer program, to novel ideas of self-organisation and new forms of complexity. He shows how many rich and illuminating theories and questions arise from the pursuit of a theory of everything, and what these may mean for our understanding of the cosmos and our own place within it.

This UNESCO report incorporates substantive inputs from institutions involved in science, technology, gender studies and policy. The report aims to spur serious discussion and action in national and international scientific and academic communities, especially regarding the pressing needs to increase women's participation in Science and Technology careers and enable sex-disaggregated data collection and rigorous research development, along with increasing public awareness of gender issues.

This book develops a theory of fairness incorporating a concern for personal responsibility, opportunities and freedom. With a critical perspective, it makes accessible the recent developments in economics and philosophy that define social justice in terms of equal opportunities. It also proposes new perspectives and original ideas.

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The autobiography is the narration of various incidents, episodes, social issues and historical developments which author has experienced personally and in which she could not possibly have used her imagination or skill as a writer of fiction. This is in reality a subtle, complex and moving account of the growth of a writer.

The poems in this volume span responses to memories old and young. The poet takes us from Auschwitz to Bamiyan to the earthquakes in Gujarat. The agonies of childhood and the pangs of an adult's world that seems to fall apart in the midst of societal and political events creates responses in the poet's words.

The author navigates us to various destinations across the horizons and let us experience the life and cultures of the different people wandering in unknown alleys and interacting with cross-section of people inspite of language barriers. She shares her inner-self and her uniquely felt experiences with them.

This book will help the readers traverse some of the empyrean pieces of Central and South America. All the countries reviewed in the book are simply unmatched in their elegance and grandeur. The Central American countries offer almost an infinite number of beaches for tourist enjoyment inviting them to surf, swim, snorkel or just relax in the warm, tropical sun.

This is a fictional account of a woman who comes in conflict with societal ordains. It describes an absorbing tale of Indian living and human emotions.

The book is a Punjabi novel. 

The author's writing brings to mind an often sad, often mysterious or desolate, Indian version of The X-Files. She takes the seemingly ordinary fabric of life and tears it a little, raises a corner, or just shows us that we wrap ourselves in falsity and in grossly inadequate social garments. These stories explore the complexity that is modern India: past and present, tradition and change, city and small town, idealism and greed, duty and individuality. 

The book is a Hindi poetry. 

The book is a collection of pencil sketches, especially of youth-Aabha, Vinnia or mother, her being remains youthful and vibrant of desires, even though time is a powerful factor to bring about change. 

The author takes an unflinching look at the still-widespread Indian social practice of widow abuse. Tapasi, the young girl is forced into marriage and then, a few months on, when her ailing groom succumbs to disease, finds herself dazed and bewildered, in Vrindavan-India’s dumping ground for widowed women who are deemed superfluous after their husbands’ deaths. 

The book aims to preserve for posterity the business-biographies of five of the most successful leaders of the real estate industry in India-KP Singh of DLF, Niranjan Hiranandani of Hiranandani Constructions, Sushil Ansal of Ansal API, Shapoor Pallonji Mistry of Shapoorj Pallonji & Co Ltd and Irfan Razack of Prestige Group. The book examines their lives closely and reveals how they overcame obstacles, forged their own management philosophies and revolutionized the business world. The book traces the growth including the highs and lows of the Indian estate market.

'Fool's paradise' is an explosive mixture of essays, poems and anecdotes, reflecting the author's often-tumultuous inner and outer journeys through life and its ingredients. The book provokes the original thinking and pleas to move ahead even if the rest of the world objects.

Environmental degradation poses a great threat to the human society. Nature is generous and tolerant, but when the limits are overstepped, it retaliates with vigour many times more destructive than the initial assault upon it. International Journal of Environmental Consumerism (IJEC) is published to foster a new framework for sustainable development and sustainable consumption. In the post Earth Summit era sustainable development and consumption have become a potential slogan as every one is having faith in ‘saving the planet’.

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