Shadow city: a woman walks Kabul

Khan, Taran N.

ISBN: 9780670090600, 0670090603

It is an account of author's expeditions, a personal and meditative portrait of a city, we know primarily in terms of conflict.

Netaji: living dangerously

Nag, Kingshuk

ISBN: 9788129142160, 8129142163

This book is a riveting account of the life of one of India's most charismatic leaders and an in-depth analysis of one of the world's best-kept secrets.

I've never been (un)happier, foreword by Mahesh Bhatt

Bhatt, Shaheen

ISBN: 9780143449126, 0143449125

In this emotionally arresting memoir, she reveals the daily experiences with depression.

Women, work and empowerment in rural India: study in a micro situation in Chhattisgarh

Chakrabarty, Kakali

The study highlights the condition of rural women, particularly those who suffer from poverty, social deprivation, discrimination and powerlessness.

Shehnaz: a tragic true story of royalty, glamour and heartbreak

Naz, Sophia

ISBN: 9780670091676, 0670091677

This book tells the story of Shehnaz who was a beautiful, erudite woman from the royal family of Bhopal and who was almost cast to play Anarkali in K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam, her daughter tells her story as she heard it from her.

The wonders of vilayet: being the memoir, originally in Persian, of a visit to France and Britain by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, an eighteenth century Indian gentleman, tr. by Ka...

ISBN: 9788180280320, 8180280322

...Haq.;This is the first book-length account of the West by an Indian. It is a unique historical document and a vastly entertaining travel narrative.

Working with Rajiv Gandhi: accords and discords

Pradhan, RD

ISBN: 9788186172360, 818617236X

Memoirs of a civil servant who had worked with Rajiv Gandhi in different capacities, while he was in the office and out of office of Prime Minister of India.

The world in our time: a memoir

Raychaudhuri, Tapan

ISBN: 9789350291320, 9350291320

Writing in an age of silence

Paretsky, Sara

This book is a beautiful, compelling exploration of the writer's art and the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today and the assault on civil liberties post- September 11.

Writing wrongs: the cultural construction of human rights in India

Nayar, Pramod K

ISBN: 9780415529082, 0415529085

This book examines the 'culture'of Human Right through autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, documentaries and literary texts which articulate discourses of victimhood, oppression and suffering, and constitute cultural apparatus of Human Rights in India.

Gulab Singh 1792-1858: founder of Kashmir

Panikkar, K M

ISBN: 9789383723713, 9383723718

This short memoir is meant to fill a gap in the history of India in the nineteenth century. Gulab Singh's name is known to students of Indian history only as an overgrown feudatory of the Lahore kingdom, who, taking advantage of the confusion which followed the death of Ranjit Singh, was able to carve out a State for himself. The establishment of the Jammu and Kashmir State by the treaty of 184...

Yad ho ki na yad ho, 5th rev. edn.

Simh, Kasinath

ISBN: 9788126728237, 812672823X

Yadon ki lakirein

Candel, Rupsinh

ISBN: 9788176672658, 8176672653

A years in the province: being the memoir of Jesus Sanchez Ventura

Marsh, Christopher

ISBN: 9781905636235, 1905636237

Yeh un dinon ki baat hai... Urdu memoirs of cinema legends, selected & tr. by Yasir Abbasi

ISBN: 9789387457768, 9387457761

Yester years: ramblings and reflections, of a former Indian Ambassador

Kapur, BK

ISBN: 9788172200497, 8172200498

Yours Guru Dutt: intimate letters of a great Indian filmmaker, presented by Nasreen Munni Kabir

ISBN: 9788174363886, 8174363882

`A' se lekara `ha' taka

Saksena, Virendra

ISBN: 9788188693405, 8188693405

Of colonial bungalows and piano lessons: an Indian woman's memoirs

Chanda, Monica

ISBN: 9789383166282, 9383166282

The memoir is based on Monica Chanda's recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal, holidays in Kashmir and in Europe. There is more than a whiff of a Victorian upbringing in the pages.

From the trenches

Singhvi, Abhishek

ISBN: 9789353450908, 935345090X

Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is a lawyer with the Teflon touch. This book is for both non-lawyers and lawmen. The diversity of causes that he has represented through the journey of these cases makes compulsive reading.