Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain

Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain PDF Author: Shantanu Guha Ray
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain charts the dynamic rise of one of India's most talented and charismatic cricketers and captains. From playing tennis-ball cricket in Ranchi and Kharagpur to his patented helicopter shot, Dhoni has come a long way with his grit and determination. With best ODI and Test records among all Indian captains to date, it is his simple and down-to-earth attitude that works wonders for the captain as well as the team.

Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain

Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain PDF Author: Shantanu Guha Ray
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain charts the dynamic rise of one of India's most talented and charismatic cricketers and captains. From playing tennis-ball cricket in Ranchi and Kharagpur to his patented helicopter shot, Dhoni has come a long way with his grit and determination. With best ODI and Test records among all Indian captains to date, it is his simple and down-to-earth attitude that works wonders for the captain as well as the team.

Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India's Most Famous

Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India's Most Famous PDF Author: Sunetra Choudhury
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940845
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Sunetra Choudhury started her career at The Indian Express in 1999, as a metro reporter. In 2000, as a recognition of her abilities she was sent for Japan’s Foreign Press Centre Fellowship by the paper. She became Indian Express’ youngest Deputy Chief Reporter at 24 and also brought out Newsline, the pull-out city section. In 2002, Sunetra joined the launch team of Star News, a 24-hour Hindi news channel. Within a year, she moved to NDTV. After the success of one of her assignments at NDTV, covering the 2009 election campaign, she authored Braking News. Sunetra anchors a daily, audience-based show called Agenda – the only out-of-studio show of its kind – and a primetime show on student leaders and elections. In April 2016, she got the Red Ink award for her story on how Indians were adopting disabled children.

Indian Videshinis: European Women in India

Indian Videshinis: European Women in India PDF Author: Ian H. Magedera
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8193626095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Ian H. Magedera is senior lecturer of modern languages and cultures at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

The Untold Story of Christian Michel and AugustaWestland

The Untold Story of Christian Michel and AugustaWestland PDF Author: Raju Santhanam
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194110963
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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A veteran journalist, Raju Santhanam has spent over forty years in journalism in print and television. A former head of Zee News and editor of the Statesman, Raju’s forte has been investigative journalism. He ran the Statesman’s Insight Investigative team for a number of years, and was well known for some of the best investigative stories in the eighties and subsequent years. Currently, Raju is focused on research-based projects that have a global impact on international audience.

A Soldier's Diary: Kargil the Inside Story

A Soldier's Diary: Kargil the Inside Story PDF Author: Harinder Baweja
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194110912
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Harinder Baweja, an Editor with Hindustan Times has earned a reputation as a fearless, committed reporter through her prolonged coverage of conflict zones. Her experience of covering the Kashmir crisis gave her access to a wide range of sources, particularly among the army units that were sent to Kargil. She covered the sharp, short war for India Today magazine, using her enviable range of sources to compile a definite account of the Kargil war. She has also edited and authored chapters for 26/11 Mumbai Attacked.

Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir - A Story of Passion, Commitment and a Search for Justice and Freedom

Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir - A Story of Passion, Commitment and a Search for Justice and Freedom PDF Author: Kobad Ghandy
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8195124852
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Mumbai Parsi household and educated at one of India’s finest schools, KOBAD GHANDY’S life and career could have scaled heights in the bustling world of corporate finance. Only it did not. Instead, he chose to become an activist working for the oppressed of the country. Shocked by the racism he witnessed in the UK as a student and learning of the horrors of colonial rule in India, he determined to serve those struck the harshest by the cruel inequalities of his country. Fractured Freedom takes you through the journey of an honest man and his partner, Anuradha’s, to a difficult destiny. Here is the story of two people who dedicated their lives in the service of the marginalized, and who believed that true revolution required direct action for a more human and just society. Part memoir, part prison diary, Ghandy bares it all looking back at their lives, love, loss and politics, so intrinsically tied together. Having languished in Indian prisons for over a decade, he tells of his long incarceration, of his fellow prisoners, and of the Kafkaesque experiences with the Indian legal system. This is the candid and unfiltered account of how an unjust system breaks the brave and bold-hearted. A story of life in extremes – the height of privilege and the depth of despair, a story of our times, of a path many would shy away from.

IC 814 Hijacked: The Inside Story

IC 814 Hijacked: The Inside Story PDF Author: Anil K. Jaggia
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8195124895
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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What was the intelligence failure that led to the hijacking of Indian Airlines’ flight IC-814 from Kathmandu on 24 December 1999? Could the aircraft have been stopped at Amritsar airport? Was a commando raid planned on the aircraft? How was Rupin Katyal killed? Was the plane’s destination always intended to be Kandahar? Was it merely prophetic that the hijackers had predicted the end of all negotiations on the millennium eve? These and other questions are answered in this blow-by-blow eyewitness account by Flt. Engineer Anil K. Jaggia, who breaks the silence around the hijacking with investigative journalist Saurabh Shukla of the Indian Express.

The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns

The Dark Hour - India Under Lockdowns PDF Author: Amir Peerzada
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8195256678
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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At a mere four hours’ notice, at 8.00 p.m., on March 24th 2020, the Indian Prime Minister Modi announced a lockdown to contain the spread of virus in order to jumpstart an already-crumbling healthcare system for one of the most devastating pandemics soon to envelop India. People stormed out to panic-buy ration stocks; India’s migrant working classes started walking back to the villages, left hungry and desolate without homes, work and wages - a scene not very short of an apocalypse. Over two summers, India woke up to similar headlines: a shortage of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines; a languishing economy; cases rising and falling; governments greenlighting Hindu religious, superspreader that compounded the second wave; misled unlocking schools, business and the social sphere, and reversed lockdowns when cases went up; underreporting of cases and deaths; lakhs dead to the virus and crores of people infected, and still counting. While the pandemic continues to rage on, notwithstanding its ebbs and flows, its real impact on society may start to be visible only much later. Over a year of tracking how the pandemic ravaged India’s society, economy, politics and culture, nine of finest India’s writers try and make sense of this difficult reality. The Dark Hour is a publisher’s anthology of specially commissioned long-form essays that unpack two dreadful summers of the pandemic that wreaked havoc on the many Indias within India.

Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer

Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer PDF Author: Sunil Gupta
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194295912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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What is life like inside Asia’s largest prison? What happens when a man is hanged, but his pulse refuses to give up even after two hours? Did Nirbhaya’s rapist, Ram Singh, commit suicide or was he murdered? For the first time we have a riveting account from an insider who has spent close to four decades as an officer at Tihar Jail during some of the most turbulent times in Indian political history. For the first time he breaks his silence about all he’s seen – from the first man he met in Tihar, Charles Sobhraj, to the controversies surrounding former CBI head, Alok Verma. Responsible for carrying out ‘Black Warrants’, Gupta witnessed 14 hangings, the most recent and his last, being that of Afzal Guru. Joining him is award-winning journalist Sunetra Choudhury whose recent book Behind Bars is a bestseller and took her deep inside the maze of prisons. Read this book for the most intimate and raw account of India’s judicial and criminal justice system.

Easier Said Than Done: A Life in Sport

Easier Said Than Done: A Life in Sport PDF Author: Alan Wilkins
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8193750128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Turning adversity on its head he embarked upon a career in broadcasting that began in South Africa with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), before returning to Cardiff in September 1987 to anchor BBC Wales’ portfolio of prime time sports programs. By the mid-1990s Alan had gone freelance and, following the end of apartheid, was reunited with the SABC to cover South Africa’s return to world sport with the 1994 cricket tour to England and the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He also began what would become a long association with Singapore-based ESPN Star Sports (ESS) by commentating on the 1996 Indian cricket tour of England. By 1997 Alan had joined the ESS commentary team in India for the One Day International series between India and Sri Lanka where he was part of the commentary team, with Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Harsha Bhogle and Geoffrey Boycott, otherwise known as A Few Good Men. In February 2000 he re-located to Singapore to work for ESS and for almost 16 years enjoyed broadcasting cricket, golf, rugby, tennis and a host of other sports across the Indian sub-continent. A return home to Wales in 2015 has reignited Alan’s love for rugby but as you’ll read in Easier Said Than Done, his love of sport means the shape or size of the ball is not an issue.