India
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Arundhati Roy

Habba Khatun Poems by a Queen of Kashmir Translated by Nilla Cram Crook Habba Khatun I left my home for play Nor yet again Returned, although the day Sank in ...
( Category: Asian March 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Edna Fernandes

The raj proved pivotal in the fortunes of all the Jews of India. The rise of Bombay under the British led to Cochin’s eventual demise as the premier trading port ...
( Category: Travel March 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Alice Albinia [Albinia, Alice]

327 BCE ‘The Indus is bigger than any river in Europe…This was the river which Alexander crossed with his army, and so entered India.’ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, c. 145 CE ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Stephen Tankel [Tankel, Stephen]

Pakistan’s Gas Stove Although Pakistan was clamping down on militancy, eliminating its proxy capability would rob the state of what some in the army and ISI perceived to be a ...
( Category: Asian December 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-24 | Author:Balaji Viswanathan

* * * Chapter 9: The First Female Dictator The President has proclaimed a state of emergency. This is nothing to panic about. -- Indira Gandhi on All India Radio ...
( Category: India November 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:V.S. Naipaul

PART THREE Not Ideas, but Obsessions 5. A Defect of Vision 1 IN 1888, WHEN he was nineteen, and already married for six years, Gandhi went to England to study ...
( Category: General November 26,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Yasmin Khan

7 Blood on the Tracks By August 1947 all the ingredients were in place for ethnic cleansing in Punjab: a feeble and polarised police force, the steady withdrawal of British ...
( Category: Asian November 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-03 | Author:Saul David [David, Saul]

* Notably the Greenways, the leading mercantile family of Cawnpore, headed by the formidable matriarch Rose Greenway. She, her son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were kept alive in Savada House ...
( Category: India November 24,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Khan, Yasmin

15 Scorched Earth Ironically, 1943 was a year that saw little fighting for Indian and Allied soldiers in South Asia. Divisions fought in Sicily and in Naples but in India ...
( Category: India November 18,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:R M Lala [Lala, R M]

However, two committees to look into the details of the institute were formed in the years to come and the final place selected was Bangalore. The next step was to ...
( Category: India & South Asia October 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Basharat Peer [Peer, Basharat]

Srinagar is a medieval city dying of a modern war. It is empty streets, locked shops, angry soldiers, and boys with stones. It is several thousand military bunkers, four golf ...
( Category: India & South Asia October 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Brian Cloughley

There was no need for this sort of pietistic stuff (although there may have been chuckles about‘our military aggression’) and Washington considered its tone inappropriate. (A US diplomat in Washington ...
( Category: India October 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:T A Heathcote

However, in India, the C-in-C: ‘takes his seat on the bench with the judges, to decide in his own cause. If the application he has made is not accepted–and it ...
( Category: India October 11,2015 )