Kumar: 1628 books

Six months in dreary and cold Brussels ? and no headway with her handsome colleague Luc ? has convinced systems analyst Seetha, brought up in `steamy? Madras, that she must move on. The British Government?s immigration laws allow writers and artists to be granted a visa even if they have no job, so...

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism. Interrogating the idea of an English nation, and of how that might...

Regional Rural Banks of India: Evolution, Performance and Management is a one-stop reference book on the genesis, growth, performance, and management of the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India. It is the first book of its kind, which comprehensively examines the development of modern banking in India...

In the present collection reputed scholars have probed and analysed Manju Kapurs feministic approach to life in her fiction. It is hoped that the present collection of papers will help to understand the fictional works of promising Indian English woman novelist Manju Kapur.

The present book is an anthology of critical research papers contributed by various teachers and scholars of English literature. The papers discussed in this book are related to the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, M.R. Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Salman...

Kajal Shreiyaa was born into a well-to-do family. Kajal is black kohl put on the eyes of women and is black in color, and Shreiyaa means beautiful and auspicious. This is the dark side and bright side of Kajal Shreiyaas life. You could say that she was fortunate, as she had everything as a young child...

`The mighty Airavata would stretch his trunks into water reservoirs, suck up the water and then spray it into the clouds?? He was the mighty white elephant, who could weave clouds and create rain. He was Lord Indra?s magnificent mount, who could make any demon quake in fear. First among all elephants,...

An elephant herd is a kind of republic, something like the United States of America, only much smaller and much simpler. So its leader is a sort of president. He is usually the wisest elephant in the herd.

This book is an in depth study of all the novels of R.P. Jhabvala. It examines many facets of her fiction-- society, real lives, emotional imbalances, sexist approaches, matrimonial crises, exploiation, in many ways leading to unemployment and thus it adds new dimensions to the volume of criticism on the works of Jhabvala.

The present book is an attempt to explore Ted Hughes' extraordinary abilities as a shamanic poet. He carries with him healing powers like a shaman and believes that a poet can lead his readers to a world of peace, happiness and bliss through the rhythms of his poetry. Hughes' endeavours, in this respect,...

Inspire, comfort, provoke- if an expression doesn’t perform either of these functions it’s not meant to reach out. The poems in this collection live up to this notion. Composed in simplest of words they relate with our emotions and experiences yet give us a glimpse of a less explored world which is always around us but remains unclaimed.

Akash is the son of a renowned businessman and Radhika is the daughter of a doctor. Akash and Radhika both fall in love during their school days. Then Akash breaks up with her. Radhika becomes insane. Then He joins engineering college and loves another girl named Maahi. Maahi uses him and ditches...

These are interesting times in the history of Indian cinema, particularly because the established aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry are being challenged, as are the boundaries between what is alternative and what is mainstream. This book is an attempt to contextualize...

We will be setting up a sample test scenario, then we'll walk through the features available to deploy tests.This book is for developers and testers who want to get to grips with Visual Studio 2012 and Test Manager for all testing activities and managing tests and results in Team Foundation Server. It...