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N o w O n S a l e
ORPHAN OF ISLAM
Alexander Khan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007444786
Price: Rs. 350.00
Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father
and an English mother, Alexander Khan
spent his early years as a Muslim in the
north of England. But at the age of three his
family was torn apart when his father took
him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries,
that were the last he saw of his mother – he
was told she had walked out and abandoned
them; many years later he learned she was
told he’d died in a car crash in Pakistan.
Three years on Alex is brought back to
England, but kept hidden at all times. His
father disappears to Pakistan again, leaving
Alex in the care of a stepmother and her
cruel brother. And it is then that his
troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by
both the white kids and the Pakistani kids,
Alex is lost and alone. When his father dies
unexpectedly, Alex is sent back to Pakistan to
stay with his ‘family’ and learn to behave like
a ‘good Muslim’.
Now alone in a strange, hostile country, with
nobody to protect him, Alex realizes what it
is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen.
No one would help. And no one cared when
he was kidnapped by men from his own
family and sent to a fundamentalist
Madrassa on the Afghanistan border.
A fascinating and compelling account of
young boy caught between two cultures, this
book tells the true story of a child
desperately searching for his place in the
world; the tale of a boy, lost and alone,
trying to find a way to repair a life shattered
by the shocking event he witnessed through
a crack in the door of a house in an isolated
village in Pakistan.
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N o w O n S a l e
NATURAL DISASTERS AND INDIAN HISTORY
Tirthankar Roy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198075375
Price: Rs. 195.00
The Oxford India Short Introductions are
concise, stimulating, and accessible guides
to different aspects of India. Combining
authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse
perspectives, they discuss subjects which are
topical yet enduring, as also emerging areas
of study and debate.
This short and exploratory study is the first
to engage with a social and economic history
of natural disasters in India. Based on the
study of a number of events that occurred in
colonial India between 1770 and 1935, the
author argues that the impact of natural
disasters requires a graded sense of time.
The book draws on three themes-market,
politics, and knowledge, roughly
corresponding to three time scales-the
short, the medium, and the long run,
respectively. These frame the case studies of
famines, earthquakes, and storms covered in
the book.
These studies illustrate that disasters
become devastating events by impairing the
capacity of the state and civil society; they
create gainers and losers; and they destroy
cooperation. Yet, as the author points out,
disasters have also enabled new
understandings of nature, state, and society,
on the basis of which useful new knowledge
could grow.
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N o w O n S a l e
MINISTRY OF HURT SENTIMENTS
Altaf Tyrewala
Publisher: Harper Collins India
ISBN: 9789350293393
Price: Rs. 299.00
From the author of No God in Sight comes
another genrebending work of far-reaching
literary consequence. With its all-
encompassing narrative and startling
imagery, Ministry of Hurt Sentiments
celebrates the dystopia that is modernday
Mumbai.
This is a genre-breaking work that tells a
story in verse, unlike anything else done
before in India. Altaf Tyrewala is one of the
most prominent authors writing in India
today and the book, set in modern-day
Mumbai, gets its strength from the fact that
it is his vision
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N o w O n S a l e
Discusses a wide range of applications of
probability theory in science, economics,
and a variety of other contexts.
PROBABILITY: A Very Short Introduction
John Haigh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199588480
Price: Rs. 165.00
Making good decisions under conditions of
uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a
sound appreciation of the way random
chance works. As analysis and modelling of
most aspects of the world, and all
measurement, are necessarily imprecise and
involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the
understanding and management of
probabilities is central to much work in the
sciences and economics.
In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh
introduces the ideas of probability and
different philosophical approaches to
probability, and gives a brief account of the
history of development of probability theory,
from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace,
Poisson, and Markov.
He describes the basic probability
distributions, and goes on to discuss a wide
range of applications in science, economics,
and a variety of other contexts such as
games and betting. He concludes with an
intriguing discussion of coincidences and
some curious paradoxes.
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N o w O n S a l e
GREAT GAME EAST:
India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most
Volatile Frontier
Bertil Lintner
Publisher: Harper Collins India
ISBN: 9789350293454
Price: Rs. 699.00
There was the 'Great Game', the complex
political machinations of Victorian Britain
and Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth century;
and there was the 'New Great Game', the
conflict between the Western powers and
Russia and China over Central Asia's oil and
natural resources. But there is another Great
Game that's playing out in Asia one that will
significantly impact the course of global
politics. Bertil Lintner calls it the 'Great Game
East'.
On the eastern fringes of the Indian
subcontinent, the rivalry between India and
China grows ever warmer. The call of the
Nehruvian era, Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai, was
drowned out by the resistance in Tibet and
the unrest in India's northeast, and the role
the two countries played in these. The rivalry
resulted in an on-the-ground battle in 1962,
and an undeclared war since. Spies and
agents from both countries have been
stirring up trouble in the volatile frontier
areas all these years.
Besides, intelligence agencies of various
other countries (the United States, among
them) have also been keeping a sharp eye on
the developments in the region, particularly
India's northeast. Strategically located at the
crossroads of the Indian subcontinent, China
and Southeast Asia, the northeastern states
of India and the continuing armed strife in
that sector hold the key to understanding
the true complexity of the hostilities and
political ambitions that Asia's two giants
harbour.
In the Great Game East: India, China and the
Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier,
Bertil Lintner - acknowledged as one of the
foremost experts on insurgencies in the
region - unpacks the layers and layers of
complex political intrigues and spy networks
that define the Great Game East. A must-
read for anyone who wishes to understand
the political future of a continent, or indeed
the world.
::
Bertil Lintner was a senior writer for the Far
Eastern Economic Review for more than
twenty years, covering Burma and related
issues. He now writes for Asia Times Online
and the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
Lintner has numerous books to his credit
and is a recognized expert on Burmese
issues as well as ethnic minorities,
insurgencies and narcotics in Southeast and
South Asia
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J u s t A r r i v e d !
A compelling and frank account of one of the
most extraordinary stories in recent literary
history: Salman Rushdie and the fatwa.
JOSEPH ANTON: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224093972
Price: 799.00
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day,
Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC
journalist and told that he had been
“sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah
Khomeini. For the first time he heard the
word fatwa. His crime? To have written a
novel called The Satanic Verses, which was
accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet
and the Quran.”
So begins the extraordinary story of how a
writer was forced underground, moving from
house to house, with the constant presence
of an armed police protection team. He was
asked to choose an alias that the police
could call him by. He thought of writers he
loved and combinations of their names; then
it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—
Joseph Anton.
How do a writer and his family live with the
threat of murder for more than nine years?
How does he go on working? How does he
fall in and out of love? How does despair
shape his thoughts and actions, how and
why does he stumble, how does he learn to
fight back?
In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that
story for the first time; the story of one of
the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom
of speech. He talks about the sometimes
grim, sometimes comic realities of living with
armed policemen, and of the close bonds he
formed with his protectors; of his struggle
for support and understanding from
governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers,
journalists, and fellow writers; and of how
he regained his freedom.
It is a book of exceptional frankness and
honesty, compelling, provocative, moving,
and of vital importance. Because what
happened to Salman Rushdie was the first
act of a drama that is still unfolding
somewhere in the world every day.
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