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This book is designed for pupils at the upper secondary level and the first year of undergraduate study. As a proficiency book, while covering basic components in a thorough and systematic way, it offers extended practice in areas of grammar and composition which present special difficulty to students...

For nearly thirty years from 1940, the Gemini Studios of Madras (Chennai) was the most influential film-producing organisation of India and its founder, the brilliant multi-faceted entrepreneur S.S.Vasan lent substance and quality to the rather fragile and unpredictable movie business.The Gemini emblem...

This book is an engagingly told cultural historical narrative of the island nation of the Maldive Islands from the earliest references in Indian and European classics. It also narrates the story of the settlement by people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their later conversion to Islam. The second...

M. S. Oberoi with his son P. R. S. Oberoi Born in a small Punjab village at the turn of the century, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi began his career in the industry on a fifty-rupee-a-month wage at Simla’s Cecil Hotel. But he was not destined to remain in his lowly position for long. With a combination...

Lahore, first published in 1993, is Pran Nevile’s tribute to the land of his birth. Grounded in memory and redolent with nostalgia, Nevile’s reminiscences transport the reader into the heart of Lahore as it was in the 1930s and 40s—a city bustling with activity where people coexisted harmoniously,...

Are the illustrious clans of the Mahabharata from Surya Vansh or Chandra Vansh? Which yuga does the Ramayana occur in and does it occur only once? What do haldi, kumkum, bhasm or chandan signify in a puja thali? After the sensational response to Season 1 of EPIC Channel’s Devlok with Devdutt Pattanaik,...

One of the first serious film studies in India. A contemporary analysis of the central issues contained in Indian films—issues which distinguish this cinema from films of other countries. The book argues that film in India is a genuine cultural expression carrying meaning. The special and valuable...

Keith Urban (Keith Lionel Urban) (English Keith Lionel Urban, sort. On October 26, 1967, New Zealand, Fangarei) — the Australian country singer, the composer and the guitarist, which commercial success mostly developed in the United States of America and Australia. Urban began the career in Brisbane,...

As an unborn son appears incognito to meet his parents in Time Travel, or XR-89 steps in from alien space to teleport human nervous systems, astral dimensions merge with curious fascination into living reality.In a collection of sixteen short stories, R.N. Sharma explores the paradoxes of the occult,...

Women of character and strength, reveal his failings, one by one. And, Sudhakaran runs; from village to town, from town to city and city to city. The city now is Varanasi. This ancient city reminds him of all that it stands for—dharma, lust and death—and that there is no place where one can hide...

A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual...

This collection of O. Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the uniqueness and sheer variety of one of the best and widely popular short story writers that America has produced. Though O. Henry was frequently thought of as a funny writer, he did address the darker side of life in some of his...

Four Chapters denounced terrorism when revolutionary terrorism was a symbol of courage, dedication, sacrifice and heroism. The main plot revolves around the story of two modern Bengali lovers. The revolutionary movement in Bengal provides a special dramatic setting to their love. The Hidden Treasure...

Four hundred years after science overthrew faith, science is itself proving to be a false god, leaving in its wake a disillusioned and despondent mankind. In Code Name God, Mani Bhaumik, renowned physicist and one of the pioneers of the LASIK eye surgery technology, draws on the field of quantum physics...