Author: Smarak Swain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 938986724X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How do tax havens and syndicates running shell companies help fraudsters escape the long arm of the law? How does the ambiguity of valuation in the start-up ecosystem increase its vulnerability to corporate fraud? How are manufacturers and exporters from China exploiting India's Free Trade Area (FTA) with other countries to dump goods at artificially low prices in the Indian market? What challenges does the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China pose for regulators of India? Why do people fall for Ponzi and pyramid schemes again and again? Serious frauds affect society and economy in damaging ways, belittling the common man's trust in the system. Yet, barely do we understand how these affect our lives. A first-of-its-kind, The Great Indian Fraud reveals how all such frauds result from the manipulation of complex financial transactions, involving simple mathematics and tricks, to deceive regulators, enforcers, business partners and customers. Drawing on his experience in the fields of forensic audit and financial investigation, author Smarak Swain explains the modus operandi behind some of the most notorious cases of fraud-Haridas Mundhra, Jayanti Dharma Teja, Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Hasan Ali Khan, B. Ramalinga Raju, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Nirmal Singh Bhangoo and many more-narrating the rise and fall of the greatest fraudsters of our times. Informative and skilfully narrated, The Great Indian Fraud is a must-read to understand how frauds happen, how law enforcement agencies handle crises, the sectors that witness maximum frauds as well as the emerging sectors that are at high risk.
The Great Indian Fraud
Author: Smarak Swain
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 938986724X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How do tax havens and syndicates running shell companies help fraudsters escape the long arm of the law? How does the ambiguity of valuation in the start-up ecosystem increase its vulnerability to corporate fraud? How are manufacturers and exporters from China exploiting India's Free Trade Area (FTA) with other countries to dump goods at artificially low prices in the Indian market? What challenges does the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China pose for regulators of India? Why do people fall for Ponzi and pyramid schemes again and again? Serious frauds affect society and economy in damaging ways, belittling the common man's trust in the system. Yet, barely do we understand how these affect our lives. A first-of-its-kind, The Great Indian Fraud reveals how all such frauds result from the manipulation of complex financial transactions, involving simple mathematics and tricks, to deceive regulators, enforcers, business partners and customers. Drawing on his experience in the fields of forensic audit and financial investigation, author Smarak Swain explains the modus operandi behind some of the most notorious cases of fraud-Haridas Mundhra, Jayanti Dharma Teja, Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Hasan Ali Khan, B. Ramalinga Raju, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Nirmal Singh Bhangoo and many more-narrating the rise and fall of the greatest fraudsters of our times. Informative and skilfully narrated, The Great Indian Fraud is a must-read to understand how frauds happen, how law enforcement agencies handle crises, the sectors that witness maximum frauds as well as the emerging sectors that are at high risk.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 938986724X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How do tax havens and syndicates running shell companies help fraudsters escape the long arm of the law? How does the ambiguity of valuation in the start-up ecosystem increase its vulnerability to corporate fraud? How are manufacturers and exporters from China exploiting India's Free Trade Area (FTA) with other countries to dump goods at artificially low prices in the Indian market? What challenges does the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China pose for regulators of India? Why do people fall for Ponzi and pyramid schemes again and again? Serious frauds affect society and economy in damaging ways, belittling the common man's trust in the system. Yet, barely do we understand how these affect our lives. A first-of-its-kind, The Great Indian Fraud reveals how all such frauds result from the manipulation of complex financial transactions, involving simple mathematics and tricks, to deceive regulators, enforcers, business partners and customers. Drawing on his experience in the fields of forensic audit and financial investigation, author Smarak Swain explains the modus operandi behind some of the most notorious cases of fraud-Haridas Mundhra, Jayanti Dharma Teja, Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Hasan Ali Khan, B. Ramalinga Raju, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Nirmal Singh Bhangoo and many more-narrating the rise and fall of the greatest fraudsters of our times. Informative and skilfully narrated, The Great Indian Fraud is a must-read to understand how frauds happen, how law enforcement agencies handle crises, the sectors that witness maximum frauds as well as the emerging sectors that are at high risk.
Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy
Author: Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194643368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For the past 25 years, Tamal Bandyopadhyay has been a keen student of Indian banking. A lifelong reporter and journalist, he is an award-winning national business columnist and a bestselling author. He is widely recognised for ‘Banker’s Trust’, a weekly column whose unerring ability to anticipate and dissect major policy decisions in India’s banking and finance has earned him a large print and digital audience around the world. The column won Tamal the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (commentary and interpretative writing) for 2017. Banker’s Trust now appears in Business Standard, where he is a Consulting Editor. Previously, Tamal has had stints with three other national business dailies in India, and was a founding member of Mint newspaper and Livemint.com. He is also a Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. Between 2014 and 2018, as an adviser on strategy for Bandhan Bank Ltd, he had a ringside view of the first-ever transformation of a microfinance institution in India into a universal bank. Author of five other books, Tamal is widely recognised as a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government. In 2019, LinkedIn named him as one of the ‘most influential voices in India’.
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8194643368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For the past 25 years, Tamal Bandyopadhyay has been a keen student of Indian banking. A lifelong reporter and journalist, he is an award-winning national business columnist and a bestselling author. He is widely recognised for ‘Banker’s Trust’, a weekly column whose unerring ability to anticipate and dissect major policy decisions in India’s banking and finance has earned him a large print and digital audience around the world. The column won Tamal the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (commentary and interpretative writing) for 2017. Banker’s Trust now appears in Business Standard, where he is a Consulting Editor. Previously, Tamal has had stints with three other national business dailies in India, and was a founding member of Mint newspaper and Livemint.com. He is also a Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. Between 2014 and 2018, as an adviser on strategy for Bandhan Bank Ltd, he had a ringside view of the first-ever transformation of a microfinance institution in India into a universal bank. Author of five other books, Tamal is widely recognised as a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government. In 2019, LinkedIn named him as one of the ‘most influential voices in India’.
The Great Indian Novel
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628721596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628721596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
The Great Indian Phone Book
Author: Assa Doron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
Ndtv Frauds
Author: Sree Iyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789383826322
Category : Commercial crimes
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book is a classic example of how media organizations misuse, violate laws in connivance with crony capitalists, pliant law firms and politicians to amass personal wealth. This is a narrative of how two Promoters of NDTV along with key top management colluded over the years with government functionaries and politicians to break laws, evade taxes and deceive shareholders of a public listed company. All this obviously through political patronage and "wheeling-and-dealing" as part of the Lutyens club and how they created a biased public discourse for a select elite class. In the minds of the Indian citizen, there is a space and respect for media. Using the halo of journalism and under the garb of Freedom of Press, media owners misuse their position and in the end, degrade the values of journalism. On several occasions media became the tool of false propaganda, blackmailing and illegal money making with the blessing of uncouth politicians and corporate icons with hidden agendas. This ought to be exposed and that is the reason for this book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789383826322
Category : Commercial crimes
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book is a classic example of how media organizations misuse, violate laws in connivance with crony capitalists, pliant law firms and politicians to amass personal wealth. This is a narrative of how two Promoters of NDTV along with key top management colluded over the years with government functionaries and politicians to break laws, evade taxes and deceive shareholders of a public listed company. All this obviously through political patronage and "wheeling-and-dealing" as part of the Lutyens club and how they created a biased public discourse for a select elite class. In the minds of the Indian citizen, there is a space and respect for media. Using the halo of journalism and under the garb of Freedom of Press, media owners misuse their position and in the end, degrade the values of journalism. On several occasions media became the tool of false propaganda, blackmailing and illegal money making with the blessing of uncouth politicians and corporate icons with hidden agendas. This ought to be exposed and that is the reason for this book.
THE VASUDHIOTIC WORLD GOVERNMENT And THE GREAT INDIAN DREAM OF THE PARAMATANTRATAA
Author: Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee
Publisher: Raj
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The eBook contains material drawn from dreams that ordinary folks worldwide see in political frameworks such as the Indian democracy. It is up to governing authorities to actualize these innocent dreams into reality so as to usher in truly public-oriented welfare policies. The book is an extraordinary Work in history of non-fiction literature. It belongs to that rare category of books that appear once in a thousand years' time. It has been dubbed the 'Golden Book.' It has made tremendous positive impact on policy-makers, decision takers and political bosses of various governments including the Indian government. The present Golden eBook discusses diverse public issues threadbare without any Fear or Favour. In short, this is a fine piece of practical philosophical thinking. The book explores and helps broaden intellectual horizon in many diverse fields such as public governance and administration, sociology, politics, economics, political geography, economic geography, business administration, human psychology, international trade, international taxation, world governance, peace. The book is full of interesting unknown facts; answers curious questions in addition to setting out practical agenda for politicians and all other people who are interested in finding out practical solutions to problems of governance to make 21st century a century of peace, prosperity and progress by assuring democracy, human dignity, human rights, women's empowerment, gender parity and equality, free global humane trade, protection of girl child. Interestingly, many of golden suggestions given in instant book have been implemented by several governments worldwide. The book lays down pragmatic intellectual framework for future global world government. Many interesting questions that this eBook gives answers to Why are railway lines and road links from Karachi to north-east tip of Asia linking south Asian and east Asian countries useful? Why did rebel soldiers of Sikh regiments fail to march upon Delhi and capture Amritsar in Punjab in aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984? A former Indian prime minister was deep in smuggling? A popular Indian actress gold-courier for notorious smuggler Dawood Ibrahim? What are liberally conservative and conservatively liberal political ethos? Shouldn't Bharat Ratna be withdrawn from Sachin Tendulkar? Why was Bharat Ratna conferred upon Sachin Tendulkar? Why has Bharat Ratna become a big farce? Why did Vishwanath Pratap Singh, former Indian prime minister wish to be a Naxalite? Why did national poet Pradeep refuse to compose patriotic songs? Is secessionism a political crime or benign human craving for freedom? What is psychology and pathology of anti-secessionism? How can loss of Maanav lives and property due to secessionist military fights be stopped permanently peacefully? How can you eliminate extortion by passport issuing authorities in India? How can governance be completely controlled by common citizens? How can menace of paying forcible bribes for getting documents certified from government authorities be overcome? Whom do reservations in government jobs really benefit? What is ulterior political motive behind reserving a particular constituency for a certain community? How can multiple taxes be avoided? Can there ever be single taxation system throughout world? Which is fifth factor of production? What is no taxation without facilitation? How can e-governance effectively help make public governance transparent and corruption-free? How can Indian universities be made fully student-friendly? can there be one world government with flourishing free humane trade? What is Lootarchy, Welfarchy, who is Welfarechist? How is 'Paramatantrataa' better than 'Suraaj' and 'Swaraj'? What is the great Indian dream? Can food insecurity lead to overthrow of powerful regimes? Should India have one common civil code? Is there real danger of military coup and public-revolt against central regime in present India? Does India need be politically reconfigured? What is permanent solution to Kashmir problem faced by India and Pakistan? How can black money be brought back into India from abroad? What are technical and non-technical corruptions? How can inflation be controlled? What is ‘guided market price mechanism'? What is affirmative help? How can buyers be protected against builders-mafia? Should ownership of leased government land pass onto present occupants? Can BJP keep its promise of building ram mandir? Which is one world language, one world religion, one Vasudhiotic world government? What is united states of humanity and its flag? What is ideal age limit for being an elected member of various legislatures? What should be India's golden foreign policy? Should world government be conservatively liberal or liberally conservative? What is ideal approach to deal with human rights’ violation questions?
Publisher: Raj
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The eBook contains material drawn from dreams that ordinary folks worldwide see in political frameworks such as the Indian democracy. It is up to governing authorities to actualize these innocent dreams into reality so as to usher in truly public-oriented welfare policies. The book is an extraordinary Work in history of non-fiction literature. It belongs to that rare category of books that appear once in a thousand years' time. It has been dubbed the 'Golden Book.' It has made tremendous positive impact on policy-makers, decision takers and political bosses of various governments including the Indian government. The present Golden eBook discusses diverse public issues threadbare without any Fear or Favour. In short, this is a fine piece of practical philosophical thinking. The book explores and helps broaden intellectual horizon in many diverse fields such as public governance and administration, sociology, politics, economics, political geography, economic geography, business administration, human psychology, international trade, international taxation, world governance, peace. The book is full of interesting unknown facts; answers curious questions in addition to setting out practical agenda for politicians and all other people who are interested in finding out practical solutions to problems of governance to make 21st century a century of peace, prosperity and progress by assuring democracy, human dignity, human rights, women's empowerment, gender parity and equality, free global humane trade, protection of girl child. Interestingly, many of golden suggestions given in instant book have been implemented by several governments worldwide. The book lays down pragmatic intellectual framework for future global world government. Many interesting questions that this eBook gives answers to Why are railway lines and road links from Karachi to north-east tip of Asia linking south Asian and east Asian countries useful? Why did rebel soldiers of Sikh regiments fail to march upon Delhi and capture Amritsar in Punjab in aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984? A former Indian prime minister was deep in smuggling? A popular Indian actress gold-courier for notorious smuggler Dawood Ibrahim? What are liberally conservative and conservatively liberal political ethos? Shouldn't Bharat Ratna be withdrawn from Sachin Tendulkar? Why was Bharat Ratna conferred upon Sachin Tendulkar? Why has Bharat Ratna become a big farce? Why did Vishwanath Pratap Singh, former Indian prime minister wish to be a Naxalite? Why did national poet Pradeep refuse to compose patriotic songs? Is secessionism a political crime or benign human craving for freedom? What is psychology and pathology of anti-secessionism? How can loss of Maanav lives and property due to secessionist military fights be stopped permanently peacefully? How can you eliminate extortion by passport issuing authorities in India? How can governance be completely controlled by common citizens? How can menace of paying forcible bribes for getting documents certified from government authorities be overcome? Whom do reservations in government jobs really benefit? What is ulterior political motive behind reserving a particular constituency for a certain community? How can multiple taxes be avoided? Can there ever be single taxation system throughout world? Which is fifth factor of production? What is no taxation without facilitation? How can e-governance effectively help make public governance transparent and corruption-free? How can Indian universities be made fully student-friendly? can there be one world government with flourishing free humane trade? What is Lootarchy, Welfarchy, who is Welfarechist? How is 'Paramatantrataa' better than 'Suraaj' and 'Swaraj'? What is the great Indian dream? Can food insecurity lead to overthrow of powerful regimes? Should India have one common civil code? Is there real danger of military coup and public-revolt against central regime in present India? Does India need be politically reconfigured? What is permanent solution to Kashmir problem faced by India and Pakistan? How can black money be brought back into India from abroad? What are technical and non-technical corruptions? How can inflation be controlled? What is ‘guided market price mechanism'? What is affirmative help? How can buyers be protected against builders-mafia? Should ownership of leased government land pass onto present occupants? Can BJP keep its promise of building ram mandir? Which is one world language, one world religion, one Vasudhiotic world government? What is united states of humanity and its flag? What is ideal age limit for being an elected member of various legislatures? What should be India's golden foreign policy? Should world government be conservatively liberal or liberally conservative? What is ideal approach to deal with human rights’ violation questions?
Nineteenth-Century Colonialism and the Great Indian Revolt
Author: Amit Kumar Gupta
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131738668X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising of peasants, artisans and discontented aristocrats against the British. Tracing the rationale and consequences of this conflict, the monograph highlights how newly introduced political, economic and agrarian policies as part of industrial Britain’s colonial policy wreaked havoc, resulting in high land revenue assessment and its harsh mode of collection, rural indebtedness, steady immiseration of peasants, widespread land alienation, destitution and suicide. Using rare archival sources, this book will be an important intervention in the study of nineteenth-century India, and will deeply interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history and politics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131738668X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising of peasants, artisans and discontented aristocrats against the British. Tracing the rationale and consequences of this conflict, the monograph highlights how newly introduced political, economic and agrarian policies as part of industrial Britain’s colonial policy wreaked havoc, resulting in high land revenue assessment and its harsh mode of collection, rural indebtedness, steady immiseration of peasants, widespread land alienation, destitution and suicide. Using rare archival sources, this book will be an important intervention in the study of nineteenth-century India, and will deeply interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history and politics.
The World's Richest Indian
Author: Tanis C. Thorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195162331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In 1911, a self-trained geologist and oil speculator named Tom Slick arrived in Creek County, Oklahoma, convinced that under the ground beneath his feet lay an ocean of black gold. Within a year his instincts proved correct as he opened up what was to become the world-renowned Cushing Field, the source of the best high-grade crude west of the Alleghenies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195162331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In 1911, a self-trained geologist and oil speculator named Tom Slick arrived in Creek County, Oklahoma, convinced that under the ground beneath his feet lay an ocean of black gold. Within a year his instincts proved correct as he opened up what was to become the world-renowned Cushing Field, the source of the best high-grade crude west of the Alleghenies.
The Great Indian Railways
Author: Arup K. Chatterjee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9388414233
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9388414233
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor
Freudian Fraud
Author: Edwin Fuller Torrey
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
There may not be any more Freudians, but there seems no end to those who, like psychiatrist Torrey, would blame Freud and his theories for everything that is wrong with modernity, particularly in America. In its own malevolent way, quite interesting and thoroughly readable. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
There may not be any more Freudians, but there seems no end to those who, like psychiatrist Torrey, would blame Freud and his theories for everything that is wrong with modernity, particularly in America. In its own malevolent way, quite interesting and thoroughly readable. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR