 | The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain In The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of technology. Zittrain argues that today’s technological market is dominated by two contrasting business models: the generative and the non-generative. The generative models – the PCs, Windows and Macs of this world – allow third parties to build upon and share through them. The non-generative model is more restricted; appliances such as the xbox, iPod and tomtom might work well, but the only entity that can change the way they operate is the vendor. Pages : 342 HardBack List Price : Rs.695.00 Our Price : Rs.556.00 You Save: Rs.139 (20.00%) |
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 | Stopwatch Marketing: Take Charge of the Time When Your Customer Decides to Buy by John Rosen, Annamaria Turano Stopwatch Marketing unveils a systematic way to capitalize on four different types of shopping styles-Recreational, Painstaking, Impatient, and Reluctant. Rosen and Turano also share the stories of how America's top brands put the concept of Stopwatch Marketing to work for them. You'll learn how: Goodyear turned Assurance with TripleTred tires into a billion-dollar success story built on a shopping cycle that takes less than an hour. Roto-Rooter became the only legitimate brand in its category by controlling the typical Yellow Pages users' 50-second search pattern. Whole Foods reinvented the supermarket shopping experience to slow down their customers' clocks. Microsoft exploits shoppers' reluctance to spend time researching alternatives to their Office software. Pages : 243 HardBack List Price : $20.95 (Rs.947.00) Our Price : Rs.757.00 You Save: Rs.190 (20.00%) |
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 | The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila - Yacoobali Zamindar In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property. As a result, she reveals the surprising history of the making of the western Indo-Pak border, one of the most highly surveillanced in the world, which came to be instituted in response to this refugee crisis, in order to construct national difference where it was the most blurred. In particular, Zamindar examines the "Muslim question" at the heart of Partition. From the margins and silences of national histories, she draws out the resistance, bewilderment, and marginalization of north Indian Muslims as they came to be pushed out and divided by both emergent nation-states. It is here that Zamindar asks us to stretch our understanding of "Partition violence" to include this long, and in some sense ongoing, bureaucratic violence of postcolonial nationhood, and to place Partition at the heart of a twentieth century of border-making and nation-state formation. Pages : 288 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | Meanwhile, Upriver by Chatura Rao In the bylanes and ghats of Kashi, or Banaras, Yamini’s and Shiva’s stories unfold. Fat, sharp-tongued Yamini is thirty-eight and unmarried. By day she teaches maths in school. At night she leaves her obese self behind and takes to the skies, light as a bird in her dreams, dancing in the air above the ghats with the love of her life. The ghat is also where Shiva, now eleven years old, was found abandoned by his adoptive father, the charismatic and ambitious sadhu Bhyom Baba. Growing up in Baba’s ashram near Dashaswamedh Ghat, Shiva eavesdrops on the conversations of sadhus as they pass through the ashram, and hopes to some day find his mother among the women thronging the ghats. One day, Yamini meets Duncan, a researcher, who unlocks the romantic in her and suddenly she feels like the person from her dreams, light and loved. In another part of the city, Shiva is chosen to enact the role of chhota Hanuman in the Ramnagar Ramlila. There he befriends the shy, quiet Shantanu, who plays the part of Janaki, Ram’s wife. Against the backdrop of the Lila, where political battlelines have been drawn by the city’s rival ashram factions, the final horrific truth about Shiva’s life is revealed, and his story merges with Yamini’s. Meanwhile, Upriver is about two outsiders struggling to find the courage to swim upriver, till an unforeseen connection brings them together. Resonating with the sights and sounds of an ancient place in the heart of modern India, this remarkable debut novel tells a story that is at once poignant and captivating. Pages : 206 PaperBack List Price : Rs.250.00 Our Price : Rs.200.00 You Save: Rs.50 (20.00%) |
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 | Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India by Dileep Padgaonkar When he came to India in December 1956 Roberto Rossellini was an internationally renowned figure. Highly acclaimed as a director of Italian neo-realist films and married to Hollywood legend Ingrid Bergman, his was an ebullient yet intense personality that combined a fondness for flashy cars and lovely women with a passionately serious commitment to exploring the human condition and portraying it with unflinching and unvarnished honesty. Rossellini had come to India at the invitation of the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. His aim was to make a series of films which would capture the newly independent country as it came to grips with progress and development after centuries of colonialism. He deliberately eschewed the exotica which had beguiled all too many Western travellers. He refused to be distracted by the monuments, the spirituality and cultural bric-a-brac, preferring instead to fix his gaze on the actual moment, on the grand endeavours of industrialization, land reform and the then still fledging democratic spirit-- the India of Nehru’s vision. India changed Rossellini irrevocably. It was here that he encountered the dusky, doe-eyed Sonali Dasgupta, then 27 years-old, the wife of a documentary film-maker and the mother of two small children. Their connection scandalized Indian society and became the object of a sustained campaign by elements in the Indian press, instigated by the Bombay film industry which resented Nehru’s patronage of a foreign film-maker and Rossellini’s unconcealed contempt for their overblown, fantastical extravaganzas. Pages : 263 HardBack List Price : Rs.550.00 Our Price : Rs.440.00 You Save: Rs.110 (20.00%) |
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 | The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birth right, remaining at their sides through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husband's most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods and the ever manipulating hands of fate. Pages : 362 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami The Arabian Nights of the Mughal world in its definitive English translation - here is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, adventurer and uncle of prophet Muhammed, who travels to exotic lands, defeats many enemies and encounters along the way warriors and kings, tricksters and fairies, courtesans and magical creatures. Pages : 950 PaperBack List Price : Rs.750.00 Our Price : Rs.600.00 You Save: Rs.150 (20.00%) |
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 | The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie The Enchanteress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily withquestions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual. florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And it he's a liar, must he die? Pages : 358 HardBack List Price : Rs.595.00 Our Price : Rs.476.00 You Save: Rs.119 (20.00%) |
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 | Physics of The Impossible by Michio Kaku A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. Pages : 332 HardBack List Price : $26.95 (Rs.1219.00) Our Price : Rs.675.00 You Save: Rs.544 (44.62%) |
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 | Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth returns to the terrain - the heart of family life and the immigrant experience - that Jhumpa Lahiri has made utterly hers, but her themes, this time around, have darkened and deepened. Poised, nuanced, deeply moving, here is a superb collection - the finest she has written yet. Pages : 334 HardBack List Price : Rs.450.00 Our Price : Rs.360.00 You Save: Rs.90 (20.00%) |
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 | My Country My LIfe by L. K. Advani My Country My Life is an extraordinary self-portrait of India's leading political personality - L. K. Advani. As an immigrant who was forced to abandon his beloved Sindh, which became a part of Pakistan after India was partitioned in 1947 on the basis of the communally inspired 'Two Nation' theory, Advani gives a poignant first-person account of that tragedy. With a career spanning six decades as a political activist in post-1947 India, during which he has been a ring-side viewer of, and participant in, almost all the major socio-political developments in India, Advani is uniquely qualified to offer a perspective on Independent India's political evolution. The book provides a riveting, insightful and assertive account of Advani's fight for democracy during the Emergency, his Ram Rath Yatra for the reconstruction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya that resulted in the biggest mass movement in Independent India since Independence and catalysed a nationwide debate on the true meaning of secularism, and his years as India's Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister in the Vajpayee-led government of the National Democratic Alliance between 1998-2008. Pages : 986 HardBack List Price : Rs.595.00 Our Price : Rs.476.00 You Save: Rs.119 (20.00%) |
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 | Red Sun: Travels Naxalite Country by Sudeep Chakravarti In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country: Chhattisgarh (home to the controversial state-sponsored Salwa Judum programme to contain Naxalism), Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (where a serving chief minister was nearly killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the Naxalites). He meets Maoist leaders and sympathizers, policemen, bureaucrats, politicians, security analysts, development workers, farmers and tribals—people, big and small, who comprise the actors and the audience in this war being fought in jungles and impoverished villages across India. What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society, and the dangers that lie ahead for India. Pages : 352 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | The Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu An Indian man writes to a Japanese woman. She writes back. The pen-friends fall in love and exchange their vows over letters, then live as man and wife without ever setting eyes on each other – their intimacy of words tested finally by life's miraculous upheavals. The twelve stories in this collection are about the unexpected. An American professor visits India with the purpose of committing suicide, and goes on a desert journey with the daughter of a snakecharmer. A honeymooning Indian couple is caught up in the Tiananmen Square unrest. A Russian prostitute discovers her roots in the company of Calcutta revolutionaries. A holocaust victim stands tall among strangers in a landscape of hate. These are chronicles of memory and dreams born at the crossroads of civilizations. They parade a cast of angels and demons rubbing shoulders with those whose lives are never quite as ordinary as they seem. Pages : 206 HardBack List Price : Rs.395.00 Our Price : Rs.316.00 You Save: Rs.79 (20.00%) |
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