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Turning Points : A Journey Through Challenges
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. I had delivered a lecture Vision to Mission and the session got extended from one hour to two. I had lunch with a group of research students and went back to class. As I was returning to my rooms in the evening the vice- chancellor,...
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Turning Points : A Journey Through Challenges |
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. I had delivered a lecture Vision to Mission and the session got extended from one hour to two. I had lunch with a group of research students and went back to class. As I was returning to my rooms in the evening the vice- chancellor,...
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Dreams From My Father
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Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has ...
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Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has ...
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of inv...
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David Copperfield |
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Charles Dickens
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Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of inv...
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S. Ramanujan: The Mathematical Genius
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Dilip M Salwi
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All that mattered to him was the magic and mystery of numbers. The world of numbers was the sole reality for S.Ramanujan, Indias most famous mathematician of the twentieth century. Born in a poor family of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a child prodigy but it took years of struggle for him to gain recogn...
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Dilip M Salwi
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All that mattered to him was the magic and mystery of numbers. The world of numbers was the sole reality for S.Ramanujan, Indias most famous mathematician of the twentieth century. Born in a poor family of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a child prodigy but it took years of struggle for him to gain recogn...
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Gandhi The Man
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Eknath Easwaran
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In 1892 Monads Gandhi left India for South Africa at the age of 23 - a shy, tounge-tied, average little man whose past was full of failure.
Ten years later, called a saint even by those who opposed him, he was the leader of 100,000 people in one of the most remarkable experiments in history: "saty...
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Gandhi The Man |
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Eknath Easwaran
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In 1892 Monads Gandhi left India for South Africa at the age of 23 - a shy, tounge-tied, average little man whose past was full of failure.
Ten years later, called a saint even by those who opposed him, he was the leader of 100,000 people in one of the most remarkable experiments in history: "saty...
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Does He know a mothers heart?
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Arun Shourie
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A child is in agony. Is it because God does not have the power to prevent suffering? Or, though He has the power, He does not know? Or that He knows and has the power but doesnt care?
Why is the child suffering? It must be because of the childs karma, we are told. But how do we know he did some w...
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Arun Shourie
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A child is in agony. Is it because God does not have the power to prevent suffering? Or, though He has the power, He does not know? Or that He knows and has the power but doesnt care?
Why is the child suffering? It must be because of the childs karma, we are told. But how do we know he did some w...
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The Outsider |
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Frederick Forsyth
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Business Maharajas
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Gita Piramal
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The golden age of Indian industry, as it now seems in retrospect, lasted from 1951 to62, and industrialists of the time were not afraid to think ahead and plan big. Among the entrepreneurs who led this industrial resurgence, four were particularly outstanding: G.D.Birla, Walchand Hirachand, Kasturbh...
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Gita Piramal
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The golden age of Indian industry, as it now seems in retrospect, lasted from 1951 to62, and industrialists of the time were not afraid to think ahead and plan big. Among the entrepreneurs who led this industrial resurgence, four were particularly outstanding: G.D.Birla, Walchand Hirachand, Kasturbh...
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Letters From A Father To His Daughter
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Letters from a father to his daughter, and the foreword written by the grand-daughter. When I first saw this book, which is a collection of letters that Nehru wrote to Indira Priyadarshini, I thought this must be having the same standard as that of “Glimpses of World history” or “Discovery of India”...
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Letters From A Father To His Daughter |
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Letters from a father to his daughter, and the foreword written by the grand-daughter. When I first saw this book, which is a collection of letters that Nehru wrote to Indira Priyadarshini, I thought this must be having the same standard as that of “Glimpses of World history” or “Discovery of India”...
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Love in a Torn Land
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Jean Sasson
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Sasson, author of Princess: A True Story of Life behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (1992) and ayada: Daughter of Iraq (2003), focuses on the story of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain, a Kurdish woman living in Iraq, to tell the broader story of ethnic tensions between the Kurds, Iraqis, Turks, Iranians, and S...
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Love in a Torn Land |
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Jean Sasson
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Sasson, author of Princess: A True Story of Life behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (1992) and ayada: Daughter of Iraq (2003), focuses on the story of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain, a Kurdish woman living in Iraq, to tell the broader story of ethnic tensions between the Kurds, Iraqis, Turks, Iranians, and S...
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