A PLANET IN PERIL

Prem Shankar Jha did his postgradution in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford in 1961. Between 1961 and 1968, he worked for the U.N. He has been Assistant Editor, and then Economic Editor of The Times of India (1968-86) and a correspondent.

Against a background of growing evidence that the world might be headed not for a gradual warming of the air and a rise in sea levels, but abrupt climate change-which could make most of the world unliveable in a matter of decades-the author explores the technological and economic feasibility of shifting the energy base of society from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.
ISBN: 9788129115386
Published by: Rupa & Co

Rani Padmini:The Heroine of Chittor

B.K. Karkra has had the privilege of putting on four different uniforms in his career - the olive green of the Indian Army, the khaki of the Indian police, the grey of the National Security Guards (better known as the Black Cat Commondos), and the black of an advocate. Besides this, he is also a freelance journalist and has contributed hundreds of articles on wide-ranging subjects to several national and regional dailies.

Rani Padmini: The Heroine of Chittor is an insightful account of the life and times of a queen about whom not much is known. Over the centuries, Padmini has emerged as an icon of national honour. The book offers fascinating vignettes of her life and the times she lived in. The politics of her times and the danger and humiliation that the queens were exposed to is mirrored in the book.
ISBN: 9788129115270
Published by: Rupa & Co

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of Firth of Forth. He is the author of five books of history and travel, including the highly acclaimed best-seller City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His previous book, White Mughals, garnered a range of prizes, including the prestigious Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. It was also shortlisted for the PEN History Award, the Kiriyama Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A stage version by Christopher Hampton has been co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Tamasha Theatre Company.

A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as a deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison.
An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi - or temple prostitute - initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling.
Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple''s first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the region''s rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales
ISBN: 9781408800614
Published by: Penguin Book India

Yoga For Cancer

Bijoylaxmi Hota is a Yoga Therapist of repute, with almost two and a half decades of experience. She conducts yoga workshops within and outside India, has penned articles, written books, produced television programmes on the subject.

Cancer is no longer necessarily seen as a fatal disease, but as one that is either curable, or like heart disease and diabetes, manageable as a chronic condition. Cancer can be caused by toxins, stress, parasites, wrong food, negative past impressions, or karma and affect every aspect of the sufferer. Yoga for Cancer contains effective remedies to deal with each case. Appropriate for both beginners and experts, it recommends various conventional and unconventional techniques that can help cure cancer.
ISBN: 9788129115188
Published by: Rupa & Co

INDIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM

The third edition of Indian Financial System presents an empirical analysis of the principles and practices in money market, capital market and foreign exchange market and the financial intermediaries operating in them. The system has undergone a constant review during the past fifteen years by the ever-watchful regulators — RBI, SEBI and the Government of India — to implement best practices, impart transparency and facilitate liquidity ‘pass through’ all of which have been analysed in this book.
SALIENT FEATURES
The book has been rewritten including the newest regulations and latest available data. It studies the following topics in detail: • Savings process, financial intermediation and the payment and settlement system • Role of commercial banks as managers of risk, and facilitators of transmission of monetary policies • Development of capital market to finance investment in industry and infrastructure • Promotion and development of the debt market for corporate and government securities • Functioning of the derivatives market whose volumes exceed the cash market, revealing that it has found favour with arbitrageurs and speculators who are known to resort to unsustainable leverage • Developments in micro finance and the imposition of an obligation for financial inclusion for extension of special privilege to banks to create credit.
CONTENTS
1. An Introduction to Indian Financial System; 2. Savings and Financial Intermediation; 3. Commercial Banking; 4. Reserve Bank of India — Central Banking; 5. Regional Rural Banks; 6. Cooperative Credit; 7. Development Banking; 8. Non-Bank Financial Companies; 9. Investment Banking; 10. Merchant Banking; 11. Mutual Funds; 12. SEBI and Regulation of Primary and Secondary Markets; 13. Money Market; 14. Foreign Exchange Market; 15. Primary Market; 16. Secondary Market: Stock Exchanges; 17. Foreign Investment and its Regulations; 18. Accessing International Capital Markets; 19. The Indian Fiscal System; Index
Author: H R Machiraju
ISBN: 9788125924012
Published by: Vikas Pubishing House Pvt Ltd

Fourteen: The Enemy

When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult - felt ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.
Only children under fourteen remain, and they''re fighting to survive.
Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown ups lie in wait.
BUT CAN THEY MAKE IT THERE - ALIVE?
The first incredibly gripping adventure in a heart-stopping new series.
ISBN: 9780141325026
Author: Charlie Higson
Published by: Penguin Book India

Shuka Saptati: Seventy Tales of the Parrot

Shuka Saptati or Seventy Tales of the Parrot is a famous cycle of stories in Sanskrit literature. The tales are told by a pet parrot to its young mistress to distract her from going to a lover while her husband has gone abroad. These irreverent, sometimes ribald, always uninhibited accounts of illicit liaisons, ensuing complications and clever escapes are set amidst the common life of towns and villages in India as it then was.
ISBN: 9788129115164
Author: A.N.D. Haksar
Published by: Rupa & Co