India
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

So that winter I went down to Kaladhungi armed with a rifle, and without any anxiety about ammunition. The rifle the good Sergeant-Major had selected for me was dead accurate, ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Corbett, Jim

mother pressed the damp tip of her trunk on to the salt-impregnated dust, and then conveyed it to Iter mouth. The calf, taking advantage of its mother's preoccupation, inserted its ...
( Category: Wildlife September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:jim corbett

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( Category: Hunting September 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-06 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

Indira did not consult Kamaraj, the Congress President, about the ‘strong medicine’ of devaluation, knowing that he was vehemently opposed to it. As were a number of cabinet ministers when ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Rupa Viswanath [Viswanath, Rupa]

Government and Landholders as “Co-owners of Property” The debate over house sites would eventually be taken up in the lofty chambers of Madras’s Legislative Council. The structure of the government, ...
( Category: Church & State July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Vasant Moon [Moon, Vasant]

Chapter 15 POLITICS AND PIGEONS In 1942 the freedom struggle reached its height with the Quit India movement. Picketing closed down colleges and schools; police patrols increased. The boys of ...
( Category: India & South Asia July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Hugh

His concern is for the rest of he world, which he characterizes as humanity sunk in its ignorance. . . . Considering the far reaching crises of contemporary times, he ...
( Category: General July 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Nilekani, Nandan [Nilekani, Nandan]

Nevertheless, the government did have some advantages here that its predecessors did not. For instance, the only reason it was possible to get the states to the table to negotiate ...
( Category: India July 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Arundhati Roy [Roy, Arundhati]

For instance, from the early 1990s, we have seen the systematic dismantling of laws that protect workers’ rights and the fundamental rights of ordinary people (the right to shelter/health/education /water). ...
( Category: Democracy June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:B.R. Ambedkar [Roy, Arundhati]

3.6 But what is worthy of note is that the plebeians permitted themselves to be thus cheated because they too, like the patricians, held firmly the belief that the approval ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Dilip Hiro [Hiro, Dilip]

Proxy Wars on Track While the overtly conducted war games and diplomacy ended satisfactorily, the proxy war by India and Pakistan through RAW and the ISI intensified in 1987. In ...
( Category: History & Theory June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-18 | Author:Madhur Jaffrey [Jaffrey, Madhur]

NINETEEN Chicken Pox • Soup-Toast and Sewing • A Fancy-Dress Party The chicken pox lasted a good three weeks. I was convinced I that I would come out of it ...
( Category: Indian June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-22 | Author:Abraham Eraly [Eraly, Abraham]

NOTHING LASTS. THE FINAL result of every gain and achievement and of every happiness—“the short-lived pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened,” as the Dhammapada puts it—is ...
( Category: India June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

This classy poetry appeared to do the trick. People began piling out of the house: two daughters-in-law, several small children, some unmarried daughters, two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom. ...
( Category: General May 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Milton Osborne [Osborne, Milton]

Australian POWs in Changi Those allied soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during the war in Southeast Asia suffered terrible deprivation and often appalling brutality. The prisoners of war shown ...
( Category: Southeast May 26,2015 )