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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.
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THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, Rev. Ed
Original price was: ₹999.00.₹849.00Current price is: ₹849.00.More than one million hardcovers sold
Now available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham’s Timeless Wisdom for Today’s Market Conditions
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing” — which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies — has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham’s original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today’s market, draws parallels between Graham’s examples and today’s financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham’s principles.
Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
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KAUTILYANTE ARTHASHASTRAM
Original price was: ₹1,000.00.₹800.00Current price is: ₹800.00.കൗടില്യന്റെ ‘അർത്ഥശാസ്ത്ര’മാണ് ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ ആദ്യ ലിഖിത ഭരണഘടന. ഒരു രാഷ്ട്രത്തിനു ഭരണനിർവഹണം സാധ്യമാകുന്നത് പാരമ്പര്യത്തിൽനിന്ന് ചട്ടങ്ങളും നിബന്ധനകളും സ്വാംശീകരിച്ച ഒരു ആദർശഭരണഘടനയിലൂടെയണ്. അത്തരത്തിൽ സമസ്‌തഘടകങ്ങളും സ്വീകരിച്ച് തയ്യാറാക്കിയ ‘അർത്ഥശാസ്ത്രം’ എന്ന മഹദ് ഗ്രന്ഥത്ത വസ്‌തുനിഷ്‌ഠമായി, വിശദമായി പ്രതിപാദിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകം. ഇന്ത്യൻ സാമൂഹികശാസ്ത്ര ഗവേഷണ കൗൺസിലിനുവേണ്ടി നടത്തിയ ഗവേഷണത്തിൻ്റെ സംക്ഷിപ്‌തരൂപം.
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Athmakatha- Jawaharlal nehru
Original price was: ₹1,000.00.₹800.00Current price is: ₹800.00.നെഹ്റുവാണ് എന്റെ ആരാധ്യപുരുഷന്‍ -നെല്‍സണ്‍ മണ്ടേല
ഇന്ത്യയുടെ പ്രഥമ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി ജവഹര്‍ലാല്‍ നെഹ്റുവിന്റെ ആത്മകഥ. സ്വന്തം യുക്തിചിന്ത, വിജ്ഞാനവൈപുല്യം, മതനിരപേക്ഷവീക്ഷണം, സ്വന്തം ജനതയെ അടിച്ചമര്‍ത്തുന്നതിനെതിരായ ധാര്‍മ്മികരോഷം,രചനാശൈലിയിലെ ലളിതസുന്ദരവും സ്വച്ഛന്ദവുമായ ഒഴുക്ക് എന്നിവയാല്‍ ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ ലോകത്തില്‍ നാടിന്റെയും നെഹ്റുവിന്റെയും സ്ഥാനം സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തിയ പുസ്തകമാണിത്.
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Out Of StockThe Code Breaker
Original price was: ₹899.00.₹765.00Current price is: ₹765.00.In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA.
Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies.
But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids?
After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues.
The Code Breaker is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change – and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.
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Entitled : The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Original price was: ₹899.00.₹764.00Current price is: ₹764.00.THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times‘The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’ THE OBSERVER‘This isn’t a book; it’s a case for revolution’ SUNDAY TIMES’Undoubtedly the most important book of the last year, if not the century’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘This book has changed the way its readers think. Possibly the most important book that touches on the British monarchy since the days of Thomas Payne’ WILL LLOYD‘As represented in the book’s pages, the royal family, with its appendages and penumbra, can be seen as an impossible entity, toxic to those in it and attached to it, and subtly contaminating the rest of us.’ DAVID AARONOVICH‘Surely has a claim to the title of book of the year, for its seismic impact’ FINANCIAL TIMESDrawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken out before, the book traces the lives of the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers, and royal and charitable activities.Having still lived together until their departure from Royal Lodge in 2025, they claimed to be “the happiest divorced couple in the world”. The book investigates the reality of their relationship and their love lives. It charts Andrew’s record in the Falklands, his business activities and reveals details of how the couple have been able financially to sustain their extravagant lifestyles. It also recounts the full story of their links with Jeffrey Epstein.Chronicling their lives in parallel, the picture that emerges is of a spoilt former prince unable to connect and a former duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eye-watering biography at its best.‘This isn’t just a royal biography. It’s a study in reputational collapse and the danger of unchecked power inside Britain’s most protected institution’ THE STANDARD‘A catalyst for Andrew’s de-princing’ THE TIMES
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WHY I AM A HINDU
Original price was: ₹899.00.₹764.00Current price is: ₹764.00.In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith. He talks about the Great Souls of Hinduism, Adi Shankara, Patanjali, Ramanuja, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and many others who made major contributions to the essence of Hinduism. He delves deep into Hinduism’s most important schools of thought (such as the Advaita Vedanta). He explains, in easily accessible language, important aspects and concepts of Hindu philosophy like the Purusharthas and Bhakti, masterfully summarizes the lessons of the Gita and Vivekananda’s ecumenism and explores with sympathy the ‘Hinduism of habit’ practised by ordinary believers. He looks at the myriad manifestations of political Hinduism in the modern era, including violence committed in the name of the faith by right-wing organizations and their adherents. He analyses Hindutva, explains its rise and dwells at length on the philosophy of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, its most significant ideologue. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremist ‘bhakts’ and unequivocal in his belief that everything that makes India a great and distinctive culture and country will be imperilled if religious ‘fundamentalists’ are allowed to take the upper hand. However, he also makes the point that it is precisely because Hindus form the majority that India has survived as a plural, secular democracy.
A book that will be read and debated now and in the future, Why I Am a Hindu is a revelatory and original masterwork -
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An Era of Darkness
Original price was: ₹899.00.₹764.00Current price is: ₹764.00.In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British—in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India’s share of world GDP was 23 per cent. When the British left it was just above 3 per cent. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. In 1757, under the command of Robert Clive, Company forces defeated the ruling Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey, through a combination of superior artillery and even more superior chicanery. A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company’s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India, ruling with a combination of extortion, double-dealing, and outright corruption backed by violence and superior force. This state of affairs continued until 1857, when large numbers of the Company’s Indian soldiers spearheaded the first major rebellion against colonial rule. After the rebels were defeated, the British Crown took over power and ruled the country ostensibly more benignly until 1947, when India won independence. In this explosive book, bestselling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India. Besides examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, ranging from the drain of national resources to Britain, the destruction of the Indian textile, steel-making and shipping industries, and the negative transformation of agriculture, he demolishes the arguments of Western and Indian apologists for Empire on the supposed benefits of British rule, including democracy and political freedom, the rule of law, and the railways. The few unarguable benefits—the English language, tea, and cricket—were never actually intended for the benefit of the colonized but introduced to serve the interests of the colonizers. Brilliantly narrated and passionately argued, An Era of Darkness will serve to correct many misconceptions about one of the most contested periods of Indian history.
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Out Of StockThe Greatest Secret
Original price was: ₹799.00.₹679.00Current price is: ₹679.00.The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the reader beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist. The book reflects Rhonda’s own journey, and shares the most direct way out for those experiencing hardship and the path to end pain and suffering endured by so many, and shines a light on a future without anxiety or fear. Filled with accessible practices that can be immediately put to use and profound revelations that take the reader on an incomparable journey, Rhonda’s discovery is reinforced throughout by the revelatory words of sages from around the world, past and present.
‘The Secret showed you how to create anything you want to be, do, or have. Nothing has changed – it is as true today as it ever was. This book reveals the greatest discovery a human being can ever make, and shows you the way out of negativity, problems, and what you don’t want, to a life of permanent happiness and bliss.’ – From The Greatest Secret
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Discovering Bengaluru: History | Neighbourhoods | Walks
Original price was: ₹795.00.₹676.00Current price is: ₹676.00.Discovering Bengaluru walks you through a past that is still present in Bengaluru. Packed with archival maps and photographs, the book is part history and part walking-guide. It tells the stories of the streets where people lived, where battles were fought, and where little marvels of architecture, culture or nature are still found around almost every corner. Whether you are a visitor to Bengaluru or a resident, this book is essential reading for you to discover and understand the city.
• Step beyond Bengaluru’s traffic and tech parks to discover a city shaped by over a thousand years of history, culture and architectural heritage.
• Explore Bengaluru through thoughtfully curated heritage walks that bring its neighbourhoods, monuments, streets and forgotten stories to life.
• Uncover the origins of familiar landmarks and place names, and discover the people and events that shaped the city’s identity.
• Journey through ancient inscriptions, temples, colonial-era buildings, historic bungalows and public spaces that reveal Bengaluru’s remarkable evolution.
• Learn how global influences, botanical treasures and diverse communities transformed Bengaluru into the celebrated Garden City.
• Witness a city where the old and the new coexist, celebrating its heritage without succumbing to nostalgia.
• Gain fresh perspectives on Bengaluru’s architecture, urban planning and cultural legacy, making every walk an exploration of the city’s living history.
• Perfect for residents, visitors, history enthusiasts, students and heritage lovers, this book is both an engaging guide and a lasting tribute to one of India’s most fascinating cities.
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Natya Shastram
Original price was: ₹750.00.₹600.00Current price is: ₹600.00.വിശ്വമാനവ സംസ്കൃതിക്ക് ഇന്ത്യ നല്‍കിയ മഹത്തായ കലാപാഠപുസ്തകമാണ് നാട്യശാസ്ത്രം. ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ക്ലാസിക്കല്‍ കലകളുടെ അടിസ്ഥാന പ്രമാണങ്ങള്‍ ശാസ്ത്രീയമായും സര്‍ഗ്ഗാത്മായും ഇതില്‍; അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. നൂറ്റാണ്ടുകളായി കലാസാഹിത്യസഞ്ചയത്തെ നിത്യ നൂതനമാക്കുന്ന സമ്പൂര്‍ണജ്ഞാനത്തിന്റെ ഊര്‍ജ്ജസ്ത്രോതസ്സാണ് നാട്യശാസ്ത്രം.
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Bhagavatha Kadhasagaram
Original price was: ₹750.00.₹600.00Current price is: ₹600.00.ഭക്തിയുടെ മാഹാത്മ്യത്തെ പന്ത്രണ്ട് സ്കന്ധങ്ങളിലായി പതിനെണ്ണായിരം ശ്ലോകങ്ങളിലൂടെ സർവാതിശായിയായി ഉയർത്തിക്കാട്ടുകയായിരുന്നു ഭാഗവതം. പുരാണങ്ങളിൽ ഏറെ കീർത്തിയും പ്രചാരവും വ്യാസവിരചിതമെന്നു വിവക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന മഹാഭാഗവതത്തിനു തന്നെ. ഭാരതേതിഹാസത്തിന്റെ രചനയാൽ തൃപ്തനാവാതെ, നാരദന്റെ ഉപദേശപ്രകാരം വേദവ്യാസൻ ചമച്ചതാണീ പുരാണമെന്നു പറയപ്പെടുന്നു. പ്രാപഞ്ചിക മോഹങ്ങളിൽനിന്നു മുക്തരായി, സമസ്ത ചരാചരങ്ങളും ഭഗവന്മയമെന്ന പ്രകാശം ഉള്ളിൽ നിറയുവാൻ ഭാഗവതപാരായണംപോലെ ഉതകുന്ന മറ്റൊന്നില്ല. അജ്ഞരേയും ജ്ഞാനികളേയും സക്തരേയും വിരക്തരേയും ഉണ്മയിലേക്കുണർത്തുന്ന പ്രശാന്തിയുടെ ഈ പുസ്തകത്തെ സരളമെങ്കിലും സാരഗർഭമായി, മൂലകൃതിയിൽനിന്ന് തെല്ലും വ്യതിചലിക്കാതെ ഗദ്യരൂപത്തിൽ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുകയാണ് കുഞ്ഞിക്കുട്ടൻ ഇളയത് ഇതിൽ. മനുജന്റെ ആപദ്ഗണമകറ്റുന്ന, അവനെ ജനിമരണങ്ങൾക്ക് അതീതനാക്കുന്ന സദ്ഗ്രന്ഥം.
ഡോ. പി.വി. കൃഷ്ണൻ നായരുടെ അവതാരിക
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Aithihyamaala
Original price was: ₹750.00.₹600.00Current price is: ₹600.00.ദേവീദേവന്മാരും രാജാക്കന്മാരും തപസ്വികളും കവികളും ഭിഷഗ്വരന്മാരും ഐന്ദ്രജാലികരും യക്ഷകിന്നരന്മാരും ഗജവീരന്മാരുമൊക്കെ ഇരമ്പിയാര്‍ക്കുന്ന ഐതിഹ്യകഥകളുടെ മഹാസാഗരം. പൗരാണികതയുടെ അറിവടയാളങ്ങള്‍ പേറുന്ന ക്ലാസിക്‌ കൃതി. ചിത്രീകരണം : സി.എന്‍. കരുണാകരന്‍
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: PARTYPOOPER
Original price was: ₹699.00.₹594.00Current price is: ₹594.00.It’s Greg’s birthday–and you’re invited to the chaos.
Greg Heffley is not a fan of surprises–especially when it comes to his birthday. But he never could have guessed the shocking surprise his family has in store for him this year.
When Greg’s epic party plans start to unravel, he holds out hope that he’ll get his one birthday wish–a rare trading card that’s worth a fortune. The problem is, everyone else is after it, too, and there’s no guarantee he’ll snag it first.
Will Greg’s birthday dreams come true? Or will he learn to be careful what you wish for?
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Out Of StockThe Ultimate Goal
Original price was: ₹699.00.₹594.00Current price is: ₹594.00.In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), explains ‘the narrative’ and how a country’s ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence agencies invariably play a critical role in this, an often-indispensable tool of statecraft.
A ‘narrative’ may not necessarily be based on truth, but it does need to be plausible, have a meaning and create a desired perception. During most of the twentieth century, intelligence agencies helped shape narratives favourable to their countries’ agendas through literature, history, drama, art, music and cinema. Today, social media has become crucial to manipulating, countering or disrupting narratives, with its ability to spread fake news disinformation, and provoke reactions.
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Pranayanombarangal
Original price was: ₹699.00.₹560.00Current price is: ₹560.00.ആധുനികത അതിവേഗത്തില്‍ മാറ്റിമറിച്ച തുര്‍ക്കിയുടെ ചരിതം പല കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളുടെ കാഴ്ചപ്പാടില്‍ പറയുന്ന നോവലാണ് നോബല്‍ സമ്മാനാര്‍ഹനായ ഓര്‍ഹന്‍ പാമുകിന്റെ പ്രണയനൊമ്പരം. ഇസ്താംബൂളില്‍ ഒരുകൊച്ചുകുട്ടിയായി എത്തിയ മെവ്‌ലൂത്ത് കരാത്താസിനെ അപ്രത്യക്ഷമായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന പുരാതന നഗരവും പണിതുയര്‍ത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന പുതിയ നഗരവും ഒരുപോലെ വശീകരിച്ചു. അച്ഛനെപ്പോലെ അവനും തെരുവില്‍ അലഞ്ഞത് പണമുണ്ടാക്കാം എന്ന പ്രതീക്ഷയിലാണ്. എന്നാല്‍ ഭാഗ്യം ഒരിക്കലും മെവ്‌ലൂതിനെ തുണച്ചില്ല. ഒരിയ്ക്കല്‍ മാത്രം കണ്ട പെണ്‍കുട്ടിക്ക് മൂന്നുകൊല്ലം പ്രണയലേഖനമെഴുതിയെങ്കിലും അബദ്ധത്തില്‍ അവളുടെ സഹോദരിയോടൊപ്പം ഒളിച്ചോടേണ്ടി വരുന്നു. ആധുനികത അതിവേഗത്തില്‍ മാറ്റിമറിച്ച തുര്‍ക്കിയുടെ ചരിതം പല കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളുടെ കാഴ്ചപ്പാടില്‍ പറയുന്ന നോവലാണ് നോബല്‍ സമ്മാനാര്‍ഹനായ ഓര്‍ഹന്‍ പാമുകിന്റെ പ്രണയനൊമ്പരം.