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VAZHICHENDA
Original price was: ₹1,895.00.₹1,516.00Current price is: ₹1,516.00.മനുഷ്യഭാവനയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ വലിയ സംഭവങ്ങളിലൊന്ന് ബൃഹത്തായ നോവലുകളുടെ രൂപപ്പെടലാണ്. എന്തുകൊണ്ടാണവ മനുഷ്യവംശത്തിന് പ്രധാനമായിത്തീരുന്നത്? ആധുനികസമൂഹത്തിന്റെ രൂപീകരണത്തോടൊപ്പം സംഭവിച്ച ഒരു പ്രധാന കാര്യം വലിയ ജനസഞ്ചയങ്ങളും അവയെ മുൻനിർത്തിയുള്ള ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ഗതിഭേദങ്ങളും സാഹിത്യഭാവനയുടെ കലാവിചാരത്തിലേക്ക് സൂക്ഷ്മഭേദങ്ങളെയും വിശദാംശങ്ങളെയും പ്രകാശിപ്പിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് കടന്നുവരാൻ തുടങ്ങി എന്നതാണ്. -സുനിൽ പി. ഇളയിടം
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O.N.V.yude Kavithakal (Volume 1 & 2)
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The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community
Original price was: ₹1,499.00.₹1,274.00Current price is: ₹1,274.00.Gujaratis are an uncommonly industrious and resourceful people. In India alone, there are some 55 million people who consider Gujarati to be their mother tongue, and possibly 6 million more of them abroad, on every continent, if not in every country. They are known for their entrepreneurial spirit, and their love of business and the profitable deal. After all, paiso bole chhe-money talks. No wonder then, that some of India’s greatest industrial houses-Tata, Reliance, Wipro, and scores of others-owe their existence to brilliant Gujarati businessmen. Beyond business, Gujaratis have made their mark in politics (Mahatma Gandhi was Gujarati as was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; there have also been two Gujarati prime ministers, Morarji Desai and Narendra Modi- three, if Rajiv Gandhi, whose father was Gujarati, is counted), science, culture, cricket, and many other fields of endeavour. Some of them have also become notorious as conmen, swindlers, and rioters-Gujarat ranks high among states in which communal riots have taken place. Gujaratis are renowned for their delicious vegetarian snacks (often mispronounced as ‘snakes’), stringent dietary restrictions, and love for the garba, natak nights, and sugam sangeet.
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RATAN TATA -A LIFE
Original price was: ₹1,499.00.₹1,274.00Current price is: ₹1,274.00.‘To create an Indian environment with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, nutritious food with no one left hungry, and a way to care for everyone’s health should be the priority for you and me.
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SHREEMAD VALMIKIRAMAYANAM
Original price was: ₹1,500.00.₹1,200.00Current price is: ₹1,200.00.ശ്രീമദ് വാല്മീകി രാമായണം
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VEERAYUGANAYAKAN VELPARI – 2 VOLUMES
Original price was: ₹1,499.00.₹1,199.00Current price is: ₹1,199.00.ഇതിഹാസതുല്യമായൊരു നോവൽ. കേരളഭൂമിയുൾപ്പെടുന്ന പ്രാചീന തമിഴകത്തിന്റെ സംസ്കൃതിയുടെയും ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെയും അടരുകൾ തേടിയുള്ള ഒരു ബൃഹദ്സഞ്ചാരം. ചേരനും ചോളനും പാണ്ഡ്യനും യവനന്മാരുമടങ്ങുന്ന മഹാസഖ്യത്തിനെതിരേ ഒറ്റയ്ക്കു പടപൊരുതിയ വേൾപാരി എന്ന വീരനായകന്റെ ചരിതം. നാമിന്നോളം കണ്ടിട്ടും കേട്ടിട്ടുമില്ലാത്ത സംഘകാലത്തെ വനലോകത്തിന്റെ ഹരിതദൃശ്യങ്ങളുടെ വിവരണം. പ്രകൃതിയുടെ ശ്രേഷ്ഠസമ്പത്തുകൾ കാത്തുരക്ഷിക്കാൻ, അതേ പ്രകൃതിയെ കൂട്ടുപിടിച്ച് മഹാസമ്രാട്ടുകളെ പരാജയപ്പെടുത്തിയ വീരയുഗനായകൻ വേൾപാരിയുടെ വിസ്മയാവഹമായ ഈ കഥ മലയാളിവായനക്കാർക്കും ഒരു നവ്യാനുഭവമായിരിക്കും. കാവൽക്കോട്ടം എന്ന കൃതിയിലൂടെ കേന്ദ്രസാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡ് നേടിയ സു. വെങ്കിടേശന്റെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച കൃതി. -
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Out Of StockGANDHI – LOKATHE MATTIYA VARSHANGAL 1914 – 1948
Original price was: ₹1,399.00.₹1,119.00Current price is: ₹1,119.00.ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ മഹത്തായ ജീവിതങ്ങളിലൊന്നാണ് മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധി. ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് അധികാരത്തെ വെല്ലുവിളിക്കുകയും ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള വിപ്ലവ പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളെ സ്വാധീനിക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത ഗാന്ധിജിയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഏറ്റവും വിപുലമായ ജീവചരിത്രങ്ങളിലൊന്നാണ് ഗാന്ധി: ലോകത്തെ മാറ്റിമറിച്ച വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ 1914-1948. മഹാത്മാവിന്റെ കൊലപാതകത്തിന് മുമ്പുള്ള മൂന്ന് പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകളിലെ ഗാന്ധിയുടെ പോരാട്ടത്തെ, ജീവിതത്തെ ഈ പുസ്തകം തുറന്നു കാട്ടുന്നു. പുതിയ ഉള്‍ക്കാഴ്ചകളിലൂടെയും മുമ്പൊരിക്കലും കാണാത്ത സ്രോതസ്സുകളിലൂടെയും ഗാന്ധിയുടെ ചിന്തകളെ, ഉദ്ദേശ്യങ്ങളെ, സങ്കീര്‍ണ്ണതകളെ പ്രശസ്ത ചരിത്രകാരന്‍ രാമചന്ദ്ര ഗുഹ പിന്തുടരുന്നു.
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Out Of StockPathonpatham Noottandile Keralam
Original price was: ₹1,300.00.₹1,105.00Current price is: ₹1,105.00.പത്തൊമ്പതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ കേരളീയ ജിവിതത്തിന്റെ സ്വരൂപത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് വായനക്കാര്‍ക്ക് വിശദമായ ധാരണകള്‍ നല്‍കുന്നതിനുവേണ്ടി വസ്തുതകളെ പതിനാറ് ഭാഗങ്ങളളായി ശ്രീ. ഭാസ്കരനുണ്ണി വിഭജിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. ഭക്ഷണം, വസ്ത്രം, പാര്‍പ്പിടം, മുതലായ പ്രാധമികകാര്യങ്ങളുടെ ചിത്രമാണ് ആദ്യം അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്,. അവിടെ വച്ചു തന്നെ ആചാര വിശേഷങ്ങളും ജാതി വ്യവസ്ഥയുമായി നാം സന്ധിക്കുന്നു. അതുകൊണ്ട് തുടര്‍ന്നുള്ള ഭാഗങ്ങളിലേയ്ക്ക് ജിജ്ഞാസയോടെ നീങ്ങാന്‍ നാം പ്രേരിതരായിത്തീരുന്നു.
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Keralacharithram
Original price was: ₹1,250.00.₹1,000.00Current price is: ₹1,000.00.ചരിത്രം വളച്ചൊടിക്കപ്പെടുകയും തിരുത്തിയെഴുതപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന സാഹചര്യത്തിൽ, നമ്മുടെ ദേശം സഞ്ചരിച്ച വഴികളിലൂടെയും സംഭവവികാസങ്ങളിലൂടെയും വ്യക്തികളിലൂടെയും മുൻവിധികളോ പക്ഷപാതങ്ങളോ കൂടാതെയുള്ള ഒരു പിൻനടത്തം സാധ്യമാക്കുകയാണ് ഈ പുസ്തകം. നമ്മുടെ നാടിന്റെ സമഗ്രവും ആധികാരികവുമായ ഒരു ചരിത്രരേഖയായി മാറുകയാണ് ഈ ഗ്രന്ഥം.
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Belonging: A Journey of Love
Original price was: ₹1,299.00.₹999.00Current price is: ₹999.00.A SURPRISING, RICHLY TOLD MEMOIR THAT SEAMLESSLY WEAVES THE PERSONAL WITH THE POLITICAL TO TELL A RIVETING STORY: OF LOVE, OF FAMILY, AND OF AN ENDLESSLY FASCINATING COUNTRY, INDIA.
How did a girl from a small village in Italy rise as a politician in India and become known around the world?
Belonging begins in Cambridge, England, where in 1965 Sonia Maino, a nineteen-year-old student, falls in love at first sight with the handsome, dark-eyed young man she’s destined to marry: Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first Prime Minister.
In this book, the once famously reticent Sonia Gandhi opens up with warmth and candour to tell the story of her remarkable life, from her childhood in post-war Veneto; to the romance that brings her to India; to the shattering losses that will reshape not only her own future but also that of her adopted home.
We witness Sonia’s introduction to her formidable mother-in-law, Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi, India’s first female Prime Minister. We see Sonia gain confidence by Rajiv’s side, as she adjusts to the sounds and sights of her new home – learning to speak Hindi, to wear saris, to relish spicy cuisine.
Rajiv Gandhi begins work as a commercial airline pilot, and they raise their two children in the Prime Minister’s house in Delhi. But everything changes when Rajiv’s brother, Sanjay, also a pilot, is killed in a crash, and when, in 1984, Indira Gandhi is brutally assassinated by her security guards in the garden of her home. In the wake of his mother’s death, and despite Sonia’s fears, Rajiv steps into the role of Prime Minister. The couple travel across India and the world. Then, through Sonia’s wrenching retelling, we feel the full force of the tragedy when seven years later Rajiv, too, is assassinated, by a suicide bomber while on the campaign trail.
Brushing aside the advice of her Italian family to return, Sonia heeds the call within her to stay in India. She is drawn into politics, becoming the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress. We see how, though once regarded as a foreign-born outsider, she comes to earn the trust and affection of millions. Yet when after a key election, the Congress Party selects her to become Prime Minister, she makes a rare decision – declining her country’s highest office, choosing instead to lead her Party in an alliance that will govern India for a decade.
This dramatic account, at once epic and intimate, gives readers a unique lens on India – its tumultuous post-independence history and its present political struggles – offering an insider’s keen perspective on the country’s enormous political, economic and social changes over fifty years. Movingly, the book goes behind the scenes of a renowned political family. Most revelatory of all is the portrait of Sonia herself as she invites readers into her private joys and travails, as well as the people and events that shaped her. In a voice at once perceptive and modest, she shares her insights into identity, duty, and the meaning of home. Belonging is at heart one courageous woman’s story of falling in love with a man and a country, of finding the strength to remake her life and to serve India, the place where she belongs.
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Hope – The Autobiography
Original price was: ₹1,099.00.₹934.00Current price is: ₹934.00.Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.
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Out Of Stock1962: The War That Wasn’t
Original price was: ₹999.00.₹850.00Current price is: ₹850.00.Shiv Kunal Verma’s book ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’ is an unrivalled attempt at unravelling the mystery that surrounds India’s most shameful defeat at the hands of the People’s Liberation Army of China. This was a conflict between India and China across India’s Himalayan frontiers in the north and the East. It was a conflict that was never formally declared and several accounts have been written dedicated to this matter; however, none is as deterrent as the account given by Shiv Kunal Verma. He talks of the plight of the Indian solders across the northern border, all the way from Nam ka Chu in the eastern sector to Ladakh on the Western front. He talks about the horror that would have happened had the Chinese army not decided unilaterally to cease fire and stop its vicious campaign on the Indian soil. This was a conflict that saw massacre on both lands injuring over four thousand soldiers.
The book is based on several accounts from soldiers who were present in the line of fire and were able enough to give a vivid first person account on what actually took place in that unfortunate year of 1962. ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’ is an account of India’s horrific escape from disaster in young Independent existence. The book is un-nerving to the extent of sending chills down your spine by citing riveting intricacies of shocking developments. The book is a result of over two decades worth of research and interviews by the author. He personally sat down with officers and soldiers from the war. The book features a deep analysis on India’s border issues with China at the time.
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Arguments with Gandhi
Original price was: ₹999.00.₹849.00Current price is: ₹849.00.In Arguments with Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha uses the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi to present a moral and political history of the modern world.
The Gandhi of this book is a compelling as well as controversial figure, whose ideas on non-violence, social justice, religious harmony and economic policy have elicited a wide range of responses, affirmative as well as critical. As Guha demonstrates, Gandhi’s debates with his contemporaries, and the arguments of later generations with him, foreground some of the vital questions of human existence that we still confront:
How do we best resist political tyranny? How do we mitigate discrimination on the basis of caste, gender and race? And how do we achieve freedom from poverty and deprivation without destroying the planet?
With Gandhi as its pivot, this book features an array of major historical figures who engaged with his ideas, among them B.R. Ambedkar, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and V.D. Savarkar.
Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Arguments with Gandhi is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Gandhi’s legacy in the context of the challenges the world faces today.
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Out Of StockBORN A MUSLIM: Some Truths About Islam in India
Original price was: ₹999.00.₹849.00Current price is: ₹849.00.Who are the Indian Muslims? Are they a monolithic community practising a faith alien to India? Or are they a diverse people, geographically rooted in the cultural ethos of the land? Is there an ‘Indian Islam’, a religion that grew out of Arabia but was nurtured in India and influenced by local traditions and customs? Has the power of Islam declined over the centuries because the faithful have forgotten the spirit of the religion, and are sticking to dogma and rigid rules instead? Born a Muslim: some truths about Islam in India attempts to answer these questions by taking a hard look at how the world’s second largest religion is practised in the country. The book tracks the history of the religion from its revelation in Arabia in the seventh century to its spread through many parts of the world. It arrived in India by multiple routes—in the South, in the eighth and ninth centuries CE, with traders from Arabia, and in the North, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, with invaders, rulers, and mystics, largely from central Asia. Once it was established in India, It morphed and evolved through the centuries until it took on the distinctive contours of the religion that is practised here at present. The author takes a clear-eyed look at every aspect of Islam in India today. She examines the factors that have stalled the socio-economic and intellectual growth of Indian Muslims and attributes both internal factors—such as a disproportionate reliance on the ulema—as well as external ones that have contributed to the backwardness of the community. She shows at length, and with great empathy and understanding, what it is like to live as a Muslim in India and provides suggestions on how their lot might be improved. Weaving together personal memoir, history, reportage, scholarship, and interviews with a wide variety of people, the author highlights how an apathetic and sometimes hostile government attitude and prejudice at all levels of society have contributed to Muslim vulnerability and insecurity. Born a Muslim goes beyond stereotypes and news headlines to present an extraordinarily compelling and illuminating portrait of one of the largest and most diverse communities in India.
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Out Of StockRESTLESS AS MERCURY: My Life As a Young Man Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Original price was: ₹999.00.₹849.00Current price is: ₹849.00.M. K. Gandhi’s autobiography, the story of My experiments with truth, is famously incomplete, stopping abruptly in 1920. But while he gave up writing his memoirs, Gandhi continued to speak and write about his life, family, work, colleagues, those who opposed and Venerated him, his hopes, anxieties, challenges, fasts, many jail stints, his Enthusiasms, and disappointments. When knitted together, these autobiographical observations, scattered over several pages of the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as in some works that were published in his lifetime under his gaze, make for a gripping and powerful story. ‘Restless as Mercury’, is how his only sister, raliyat, described the young Mohandas and her stunningly accurate characterization of her brother provides the title of this work, which Gopalkrishna Gandhi has reconstructed from Gandhian own words. The account is divided into six sections: book I starts with Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and focuses on his early years in Gujarat, his schooling, immediate family, and marriage to Kasturba. In book II, we see him away from his home and family in a new environment—england—where he goes to study law. He continues his commitment to vegetarianism and engages in a brief flirtation with becoming an English gentleman. He then makes a quick visit home to Rajkot before going to South Africa to practise law. There, he experiences racial prejudice and struggles to balance the demands of home and public life. In book III, we see Gandhi being drawn into two Wars in South Africa—The anglo–boer war (1899–1902) and the bambatha rebellion (1906). he sets up the ambulance Corps with other Indians, becomes politically engaged, and starts fighting for the rights of Indians in South Africa. It is during this period that he starts his journal, Indian opinion, and his first ashram in durban—the Phoenix settlement. As his ethics and values firm up, he finds himself in a battle at home with his wife, Kasturba. In book IV, as Gandhian politics come under assault by all three major sections of South African population—the ruling European, the majority African, and the minority asian—his belief in non-violent struggle becomes stronger and his idea of satyagraha comes to the fore. He begins courting imprisonment and encourages his friends, family, and fellow Indians to do so as well. In book V we see that his deep and constantly renewed bonds with the family have to reckon with his commitment to the larger cause. It is in this period that Gandhi sets up Tolstoy farm for the families of the satyagrahis. Book VI sees him leading disciplined mass movements the likes of which have not been seen before. When all the demands of the South African satyagraha are conceded, Gandhi decides the time has come for him to return to India. Accompanied by Kasturba, he leaves South Africa for India in 1914 for the great appointment with history that awaits him in the motherland. Restless as Mercury is a candid and unflinching account of the struggles, experiences, and philosophies that informed and influenced the young Mohandas. It also shows how Gandhi kept, not without Stumbling, his love of family in step with his sense of his public duties.