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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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Great Speeches
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Abraham Lincoln
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Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, ...
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Abraham Lincoln
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Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, ...
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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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Heart To Heart - Natwar Singh
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K Natwar Singh
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K. Natwar Singh's erudition and literary style make these essays absorbing, lively, provocative and entertaining. The author has an astonishing range of illuminating experiences. Here you have him playing host to Rajaji in New York, asking Han Suyin to order his breakfast, regaling heads of state wi...
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Heart To Heart - Natwar Singh |
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K Natwar Singh
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K. Natwar Singh's erudition and literary style make these essays absorbing, lively, provocative and entertaining. The author has an astonishing range of illuminating experiences. Here you have him playing host to Rajaji in New York, asking Han Suyin to order his breakfast, regaling heads of state wi...
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India Of My Dreams
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M K Gandhi
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ahatma Gandhi is the most influential Indian of the twentieth century whose shadow continues to loom large over the country even sixty years after his death. He struggled and dreamt of a India free not only from the yoke of British rule but also free from the evils of poverty, illiteracy, untouchabi...
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India Of My Dreams |
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M K Gandhi
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ahatma Gandhi is the most influential Indian of the twentieth century whose shadow continues to loom large over the country even sixty years after his death. He struggled and dreamt of a India free not only from the yoke of British rule but also free from the evils of poverty, illiteracy, untouchabi...
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Nehru : The Invention Of India
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Shashi Tharoor
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This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical happenings, it tells the fascinating story of Jawaharlal Nehru's life. Finely portrayed is the unremarkable youth ...
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Nehru : The Invention Of India |
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Shashi Tharoor
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This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical happenings, it tells the fascinating story of Jawaharlal Nehru's life. Finely portrayed is the unremarkable youth ...
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Bal Thackeray & the Rise of the Shiv Sena
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Vaibhav Purandare
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How did a quiet, unassuming cartoonist at one of Indias leading newspapers transform into the fire-breathing chief of a militant political outfit? How did his essentially sons-of-the-soil movement take Mumbai by storm in the 1960s with its demands for the Marathi peoples employment rights and attack...
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Bal Thackeray & the Rise of the Shiv Sena |
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Vaibhav Purandare
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How did a quiet, unassuming cartoonist at one of Indias leading newspapers transform into the fire-breathing chief of a militant political outfit? How did his essentially sons-of-the-soil movement take Mumbai by storm in the 1960s with its demands for the Marathi peoples employment rights and attack...
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Patel : A Life |
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Rajmohan Gandhi
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Patricia Cronin
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma (‘great soul') Gandhi, is revered worldwide for his non violent action in freeing India from British rule. Discover his journey from family and home in the provinces to an early arranged marriage, his solo sojourn in England towards a career in law, and his tra...
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Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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Patricia Cronin
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma (‘great soul') Gandhi, is revered worldwide for his non violent action in freeing India from British rule. Discover his journey from family and home in the provinces to an early arranged marriage, his solo sojourn in England towards a career in law, and his tra...
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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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