Insatiable: my hunger for life

De, Shobhaa

ISBN: 9789356296008, 9356296006

In this book, Shobhaa reminds us of the many delights and disappointments that the banquet of life offers, even as she examiners the shared emotional hunger for happiness and love that binds us all.

A prattler's tale: Bengal, marxism, governance, tr. from the Bengali by Sipra Bhattacharya

Mitra, Ashok

ISBN: 9788185604800, 8185604800

Offering a thought-provoking, incisive analysis of Bengal and India, Ashok Mitra's memoirs, translated for the first time into English from Bengali, Apila-Chapila (Ananda, 2003), brings contemporary India alive. The author is an economist, political activist and essayist.

The hill of enchantment: the story of my life as a writer

Bond, Ruskin

ISBN: 9788119635887, 8119635884

Being Ritu: the unforgettable story of Ritu Nanda

Saran, Sathya

ISBN: 9789354891410, 9354891411

Being Ritu is the story of a woman who shed her shyness and stepped into the limelight, taking on a variety of roles-entrepreneur, insurance advisor, author, negotiator and pioneer.

Private memoirs of Moghul Emperor Humayun: Tezkereh Al Vakiat, comp. and ed. by Life Span Research Foundation

ISBN: 9788183690126, 8183690122

Written in Pensian by Jouher, a confidential domestic and translated by Major Charles Steward, this book is a immensely valuable original source for understanding and analysing the problems of the life and times of Emperor Humayun in proper historical perspective.

My home away from home: memoirs of a Tibetan-Canadian,

Mentuh, Lobsang

ISBN: 9788196718275, 8196718276

Lobsang Yonten Mentuh was born in the year of the Dragon (1939), in Dzongkar, Tibet. He was one of seven siblings which included three brothers and three sisters. Lobsang was approximately twenty years old when conditions forced him to flee Tibet without his family; he always hoped to reunite with them again in Nepal. He met and married his wife Chimi Dolma Phanche in Nepal, before deciding to ...

Barudmathi Udda

Thapa, Rameshwar

ISBN: 9789937928014, 993792801X

Proceedings symposium on palynology in fossil fuel exploration, ed. by N.C. Mehrotra et al.

ISBN: 9788185867885, 8185867887

Profiles and letters

Singh, K Natwar

ISBN: 9788129102355, 8129102358

Prison diaries,

Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur

ISBN: 9789840762323, 984076232X

Some indication of the many and difficult steps that had to be climbed to move from the Language Movement to independence is something that can be deduced from these diaries of prison life.

Her-stories-Indian women down the ages: thinkers, workers, rebels, queens

Mehrotra, Deepti Priya

ISBN: 9789355202031, 9355202032

Cutting across several regions of India and presented in chronological order from second millennium BCE, to the mid-nineteenth century India, these are the stories of women who have been thinkers, doers, movers and shakers who have subverted hierarchies, brought peace out of chaos and survived despite routine devaluation.

Amader Shantiniketan: delightful memories of Tagore's school from one of India's foremost Hindi writers

Shivani

ISBN: 9780670095247, 0670095249

This charming memoir is a loving homage to a grand institution and its legendary gurus. Written from the perspective of a child and young girl, it retains the freshness and innocence of an age when experimental education was not merely a trendy movement. Shivani's vivid pictures of the Ashram and portraits of her teachers and fellow students remain as alive as they seemed when she first wrote t...

Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi: Assamese echo from the hills of Arunachal

Das, Ratnottama

ISBN: 9789391878672, 9391878679

On the life and works of Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi.

Purdah to Piccadilly: a Muslim woman's struggle for identify

Bhatty, Zarina

ISBN: 9789352806652, 9352806654

Tracing the life of Zarina Bhatty, a Muslim woman born and brought up in pre-Partition India, this memoir narrates the experiences of a woman who strove to break out of the stereotypical roles imposed by the society of her times.

Rabindranath Tagore and Tripura, comp. and ed. by Suren Deb Barman

ISBN: 9788177150209, 8177150200

The present book comprises some historic documents in the form of letters, memoirs, lectures and other information about Tagore's prolonged association with the Maharajas and other royal dignitaries of the erstwhile princely state of Tripura spanning the long period of about 55 years (1886 to 1941).