Monthly Archives: January 2018

Steve Jobs

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries:

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Bhima: lone warrior

This is the story of Bhima, the second son, always second in line – a story never adequately told until one of India’s finest writers conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa’s narrative. M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s Bhima is a revelation:lonely; eager to succeed; treated with a mixture of affection and contempt by his Pandava

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Mullappooniramulla pakalukal

A twin novel surprise from Benyamin! ‘Al Arabian Novel Factory’ and ‘Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal’ are two novels set in the backdrop of Jasmine revolution that took place in Arabia. Both novels depict the same issue narrated by two different people from the same place but with different perspectives. This twin wonder is interconnected, and at

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Era of darkness : the British empire In India

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

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