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YOU ASKED FOR MORE CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOULSO HERE IT IS, FROM THE HEARTS OF JACK CANFIELD, MARK VICTOR HANSEN AND KIMBERLEY KIRBERGER. YOU LL FIND 101 MORE STORIES TO HELP YOU DEAL WITH A WORLD THAT SEEMS MORE DIFFICULT EVERY DAY. JACK, MARK AND KIMBERLEY S LATEST BATCH FOCUSES ON LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND TOUGH STUFF, ALONG WITH SOME GREAT TEENOLD TALES OF LEARNING LESSONS, MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND GROWING UP. LIKE IN THE FIRST VOLUME OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL, YOU LL FIND NO ADULTS PREACHING TO YOU ABOUT WHAT YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN T DO. INSTEAD, THIS BOOK IS FULL OF TEENS WHO YOU ARE, AND LOVING YOURSELFNO MATTER WHAT. THESE STORIES WILL SHOW YOU THAT NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT YOUR SITUATION MAY SEEM, YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THE TOUGH TIMES; AND THAT NO MATTER HOW LONELY YOU MAY FEEL, YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. आयुष्याच्या प्रवासात किशोरवय हा नाजूक टप्पा असतो. एकीकडे जाणिवा उमलत असतात; डोळ्यांत नवी स्वप्नं हसत असतात. त्याच वेळी व्यवहारी जगाचं करकरीत वास्तव समोर येतं. अशा वेळी मनाला सावरणाया, धीर देणाया, आधाराचा खंबीर हात देणाया, उमेद चेतवणाया, दुखावलेल्या मनावर हळुवार फुंकर घालणाया, रोवून ठाम उभं राहायला शिकवणाया या कथा... मनाशी अगदी हळुवार संवाद साधत निखळ मैत्रीची अनुभूती देतात. गालांवर हसू फुलवता फुलवता नकळत डोळ्यांच्या कडा ओल्या करतात.

WHEN DR. KALAM WAS ELECTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, WE INDIANS WERE IMMENSELY PROUD. A SCIENTIST FAMOUS WORLDWIDE WAS GOING TO BE THE PRESIDENT NOW. THE MERE THOUGHT WAS MESMERIZING. AFTER THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER DR. SARVAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN; DR. KALAM WAS GOING TO CHAIR THE PRESIDENTSHIP. OUR POLITICAL LEADERS HAD GIVEN US A WONDERFUL GIFT, A PLEASANT SURPRISE. DR. KALAM CHAIRED THE POST FOR ONE YEAR. THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE HE MAINTAINED A SIMPLE LIVING AND HIGH THINKING. HIS WORKING WAS DEVOID OF POMP AND SHOW. HE SOUGHT DISCIPLINE IN EVERYTHING HE PRACTISED. HE ALWAYS SOUGHT A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR INDEPENDENT INDIA. TO FULFILL HIS DREAM HE WOULD ALWAYS ENCOURAGE THE YOUTH AND STUDENTS OF INDIA. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION, HE ENTHUSIASTICALLY TRAVELLED THROUGHOUT INDIA AND REACHED ALL THE NICHES AND CORNERS. DURING EACH OF HIS PROGRAMS HE SPECIFICALLY RESERVED SOME TIME SLOT ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUTH AND SCHOOL CHILDREN. AT TIMES, HE DID NOT HESITATE TO KEEP THE POLITICAL DECORUM AT BAY. HIS PERSONALITY WAS A HARMONIOUS COMBINATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MIND INTERWOVEN WITH PRIDE FOR INDIA. HE WAS EXTREMELY AWARE OF THE CURRENT SCENARIO. AN IN DEPTH STUDY OF HIS BIOGRAPHY WILL SURELY HELP THE YOUTH OF INDIA. ONE CAN INCULCATE AS MANY GOOD QUALITIES FROM IT AS POSSIBLE. HE HAD SEEN A DREAM; HE HAD DEVELOPED A VISION TO WHICH WE ALL CAN CONTRIBUTE. THIS BOOKS AIMS AT THAT. डॉ. ए. पी. जे. अब्दुल कलाम यांची राष्ट्रपतिपदासाठी निवड करण्यात आली आणि सारा देश कधी नव्हे इतका हरखून गेला. एक जगद्विख्यात शास्त्रज्ञ, संशोधक देशाच्या सर्वोच्च पदावर बसणार ही कल्पनाच एका परीने अद्भुतरम्य होती. डॉ. सर्वपल्ली राधाकृष्णन यांच्यासारख्या एका थोर तत्त्वज्ञानंतर - डॉ. कलाम राष्ट्रपतीपद भूषवणार होते. राजकीय नेतृत्वाने भारतीयांना दिलेला तो एक अनपेक्षित आणि तरीही सुखद असा धक्काच होता. आपल्या एका वर्षाच्या कारकिर्दीत डॉ. कलाम या&

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS CHARACTER SKETCHES AS SEEN BY THE EXPERIENCED EYES OF SHRI. MORE. HE HAS MOSTLY INCLUDED PEOPLE FROM THE LOWERMOST LEVELS OF SOCIETY WHO HARDLY MAKE ANY IMPRESSION ON ANYBODY. THE PROFOUND INSIGHT OF THE AUTHOR HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE LIVES OF THESE SEEMINGLY TRIVIAL PERSONALITIES. TO EXPLORE THEIR LIVES HE USES BUT A FEW EPISODES. IT IS HIS INTENSE LANGUAGE THAT MAKES US LOOK BEYOND THE WORDS. HIS LIGHT STROKES HELP US TO REVEAL THE DEPTH OF SORROW, PAIN AND STRUGGLE IN THE PROCESS OF LIVING. AS ALSO, SOME POWERFUL STROKES EXPLORE THE CUNNINGNESS AND SHREWDNESS ALONG WITH THE INSINCERE FRAUDULENCE; A RESULTANT PRODUCT OF TOUGH LIVING CONDITIONS. SUCH IS THE POWER OF HIS DESCRIPTION THAT THE SKETCHES LINGER IN OUR MIND FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. ग्रामीण कथा-कादंबरीकार श्री. महादेव मोरे यांनी रेखाटलेल्या काही व्यक्तिचित्रांचा हा संग्रह. ही बहुतांशी समाजातील तळागाळाच्या वर्गातल्या, नगण्य ठरवणाऱ्या, परंतु वैशिष्ट्यपूर्ण अशा व्यक्तींची शब्दचित्रं आहेत. लेखकाच्या सिद्धहस्त लेखणीनं, जगाला दिसणाNया यांच्या चेहऱ्यामागील चेहऱ्यांच दर्शन यात घडवलं आहे. मोजक्या घटना-प्रसंगांच्या व व्यक्तिनुरूप भाषिक अभिव्यक्तीच्या फटकाऱ्यांनी रेखाटलेली ही व्यक्तिचित्रं वाचकाच्या मनाचा ठाव घेतात. यात जसं माणसांचं दु ख, वेदना, त्यांची जगण्याची धडपड, परिस्थितीनं होणारी होरपळ यांच्या विविध छटì

THE PRESENT BOOK A TALE OF KALPANA CHAWLA HAS BEEN PRINTED 10 EDITIONS SO FAR WHICH SHOWS THE POPULARITY OF THE BOOK AS WELL AS OF THE WRITER. BRINGING OUR DREAM INTO REALITY IS NOT AT ALL THAT EASY. IF REQUIRES A LOT OF PERSEVERANCE COURAGE AND MOST OF ALL INCESSANT ATTEMPT FOR THE INTRICATE. HERE IS A YOUNG LADY OF WHOM NOT ONLY KARNAL IN PANJAB (INDIA) BUT ALSO THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD BE PROUD OF. SHE IS NO OTHER THAN KALPANA CHAWLA! (KC AS SHE WAS POPULAR IN HER GROUP.) KALPANA IS THE FIRST INDIAN LADY ASTRONAUT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NASA S COLUMBIA EXPEDITION. THIS EVENT WAS FANTASTIC AS SHE WAS BORN IN A TRADITIONAL INDIAN FAMILY. HOWEVER, WITH ALL ODDS, SHE COMPLETED HER ENGINEERING WITH AERONAUTICS AS HER SPECIAL SUBJECT. LANDING IN USA FOR FURTHER EDUCATION WAS HER NEXT ACHIEVEMENT. THERE WAS NO OTHER MODEL BEFORE HER BUT SHE HERSELF BECAME A MODEL FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME! SHE HAD INDIRA GANDHI S DESIRE TO WIN, JRD TATA S TENACITY AND KIRAN BEDIE S SENSE OF DUTY! SHE HAS SET UP AN EXEMPLARY LIFE. STILL REMEMBER THAT ONE HAS TO CARRY ONE S OWN CROSS! AS SHE DID. SHE CREATED A NEW IDEAL BEFORE THOSE WHO SEE DREAMS AND TRY TO BRING THEM IN REALITY. IN HER LAST MESSAGE TO HER PROFESSOR DR. V. S. MALHOTRA SHE HAS RIGHTLY SAID, THERE DOES EXIST A WAY TO GO FROM A DREAM TO REALITY. THE ONLY THING THAT IS REQUIRED IS TO HAVE THE INSIGHT AND COURAGE IN YOU. SHE HAD ALL THAT! BORN IN KARNAL ON 1ST JULY 1961 SHE PASSED AWAY FROM THIS WORLD ON 1ST FEBRUARY 2003. IN A VERY SHORT SPAN OF 42 YEARS SHE ACHIEVED NAME AND FAME, WHICH IS INDESCRIBABLE. IN THE LAST EXPEDITION SHE FLASHED LIKE A METEOR AND SPREAD THE RAYS OF HOPE AMONGST MANY. THE BOOK SCREWS YOU FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO THE LAST. SUCH IS THE LANGUAGE! THE DETAILS OF HER LIFE ARE QUITE VIVIDLY PENNED. ANY ONE AND EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. तिच्यापुढे कुणी आदर्श नव्हता. इंदिरेची इर्षा, जे. आर्. डीं.ची जिद्द, किरण बेदीचा कर्मवाद एकएक प्रकाशकण वेचून तिनेच त्याचा धु्रवतारा बनवला. आणि त्याकडे पाहत ती पावले टाकत राहिली. एक नवी वाट निर्माण केली, मागच्यांसाठी आदर्श ठेवला. उल्केप्रमाणे ती क्षणार्धात अंतर्धान पावली... राख शरीराची होते. विचारांची, आदर्शांची राख करणारा अग्नि अजून जन्मला नाही. तिने असंख्यांच्या मê

GAHAN PADLELI TEKADI -A HILL MORTGAGED. ONE OF ITS OWN STYLE, THE SAID COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES IS BASED ON THE ADIVASI WOMEN. MARIJA SRES HAD STAYED WITH THOSE WOMEN SO AS TO BE ONE OF THEM. EACH OF HER STORY, THUS HAS THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE LIFE OF THOSE WOMEN. ITHE TAR HE NEHEMICHACH-THIS IS A COMMON THING HERE IS THE STORY OF LALI WHO HAS JUST ENTERED THE BLOSSOMING YOUTH BUT WHO FALLS PREY TO THE LUST OF THE CONTRACTOR AND SUPERVISOR. THEVALELI BAI-THE MISTRESS IS A STORY WHERE KHATAREES HUSBAND DIES. VERY RELUCTANTLY, SHE MARRIES ANOTHER MAN AND LATER COMES TO KNOW THAT HER NEW HUSBAND HAS A MISTRESS. THIS MAKES HER REBELLIOUS. DUBHATI GAAY- A MILCHING COW PICTURIZES THE VILLAGE SCENE WHERE MEERABEN TRIES TO FORM A MILK COLLECTION SOCIETY FOR THE ADIVASI WOMEN AND HAS TO FACE THE MALE CHAUVINISM. JO MAI AISA JANATI- ONLY IF I KNEW THIS IS A STORY OF MAKU. IN HER YOUTH, SHE HAD TAKEN A WRONG STEP. LATER, SHE TURNS A SINCERE HOUSEWIFE. BADALTYA KALACHI PAWALA - THE CHANGING TIMES TELLS US FULI. SHE SUFFERS A LOT MANY ATROCITIES AT THE HANDS OF HER HUSBAND AND HIS PEOPLE. SOMEHOW, SHE MANAGES TO RUN AWAY FROM THAT HOUSE. LATER, SHE MARRIES NANJI AND LEADS A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE. SHE AIMS TO DO CONSTRUCTIVE WORK FOR THE VILLAGE WOMEN. THIS WORLD OF ADIVASI WOMEN IS PENNED DOWN HERE. MANY OF THEM ARE EXPLOITED WHILE A FEW TRY TO REBEL. गहाण पडलेली टेकडी हा आदिवासी स्त्रियांच्या कहाण्यांचा संग्रह. या कहाण्या मारिजा स्रेस यांनी त्या अदिवासींमध्ये त्यांच्यापैकी एक होऊन, त्यांच्यात राहून लिहिल्या आहेत. 'इथं तर हे नेहमीचंच' या कथेतील मुकादम आणि ठेकेदाराच्या पाशवी वासनेला बळी पडून जीव गमवावी लागलेली नुकतीच वयात आलेली लाली...'ठेवलेली बाई' कथेतील पहिला नवरा गेल्यावर नाईलाजाने दुसरं लग्न करावं लागलेली आणि दुसऱ्या नवऱ्याने बाई ठेवली आहे, हे कळल्यावर बंड करू पाहणारी खातरी...'दुभती ग

THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE ESSAYS BY THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER AND NOVELIST OF BYGONE ERA, LATE VAMAN MALHAR JOSHI. HIS EXCELLENCE IN SEEMINGLY TWO DIFFERENT AREAS CREATED VALUABLE LITERATURE. HE IS CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITER AND CRITIQUE. A FEW OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS WRITINGS WERE IMPRESSIVE WRITING STYLE, FORCEFUL EXPRESSIONS, BEAUTIFUL ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS WOVEN INTO PERFECTLY SUITED WORDS. HE HAS EXPRESSED HIS THOUGHTS REGARDING PATRIOTISM. HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN FOR THE COMMON MAN. YET, APART FROM ALL THIS, HE COMES STRONGLY AS A THOUGHT-PROVOKER. HE SEEKS ULTIMATE TRUTH WHILE ALIGNING IT WITH CORE OF VALUES. HE HAS ARTISTICALLY WOVEN ASSIGNED TRUTH WITH CULTURES AND CUSTOMS. VERY RARELY, ONE POSSESSES SO MANY QUALITIES TOGETHER. THOUGH HE WAS CRITICIZED AS A PERSON WHO WOULD NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING BLINDLY, HIS CRITIQUE WOULD ALSO NOT HESITATE TO DECLARE HIM AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL THINKER AND SCHOLAR. मागच्या पिढीतील थोर तत्त्वचिंतक कादंबरीकार कै. वामन मल्हार जोशी यांच्या निवडक चौदा निबंधांचा श्री. वि. स. खांडेकरांनी संपादित केलेला हा संग्रह आहे. तत्त्वविवेचक व वाङ्मयविवेचक या दुहेरी भूमिकेत वामनरावांनी जे लेखन केले आहे, त्यामुळे मराठीतल्या पहिल्या प्रतीच्या निबंधकारांत आणि टीकाकारांत त्यांची सदैव गणना केली जाईल. त्यांच्या निबंधांचे बळ आकर्षक भाषाशैलीत, प्रचाराच्या तीव्रतेमुळे येणार्या आवेशात, सौंदर्याने मनाला मोहून सोडणार्या कल्पकतेत, देशभक्तीसारख्या वाचकाच्या एखाद्या आवडत्या भावनेला मì

FABIO AND NINA ARE WITH THEIR DAUGHTER WHEN FABIO DIES. OR DOES HE? AND IS NINA REALLY AS IN LOVE WITH HER HUSBAND OR IS SHE HAVING AN AFFAIR? ALL IS NOT WHAT IT AT FIRST SEEMS IN THIS NOVEL ABOUT LOVE AND BETRAYAL. विसाव्या शतकाच्या पूर्वार्धात इटलीतील नेपल्स शहराच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर सदर कथा घडते. उच्च श्रीमंत कुळात जन्मलेल्या कौंट पॅÂबिओ रोमानी आपल्या 'रोमानी व्हिला'त राहत होता. स्त्रियांविषयी विशेष आकर्षण नसलेल्या उच्च विचार बाळगणारा असा कौंट रोमानी होता. त्याचा एक गिडो केरारी नावाचा जिवलग मित्र होता. पेशाने चित्रकार पण रंगेल असणारा फेरारी कौंट रोमानीला नेहमीच त्याच्या सज्जन सभ्य स्वभावावरून चिडवत असे. अशा मनाने निर्मळ असणाऱ्या कौंट रोमानीला एक मुलगी आवडते आणि तो तिच्याशी विवाह करतो. लग्नाला साधारण तीन वर्षे होतात आणि कौंट रोमानी एका अत्यंत गोंडस कन्येचा पिता झालेला असतो. आपली पत्नी नीना व मुलीसह कौंट रोमानी आनंदात जीवन जगत असताना नेप

""A MOVING, SPLENDIDLY REALIZED STORY OF COURAGE AND GRIT IN MODERN-DAY KABUL." -VIKAS SWARUP, AUTHOR OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE A HARROWING YET TENDER NOVEL-BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM IN A BURKA-THE TALIBAN CRICKET CLUB IS A MOVING AND UNFORGETTABLE TALE OF ONE WOMAN'S COURAGE AND GUILE IN THE FACE OF TERROR AND TYRANNY. SET IN WAR-TORN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, THIS EXTRAORDINARY NEW FICTION BY TIMERI N. MURARI, ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, TAJ, IS A SWEEPING STORY OF LOVE, FAMILY, RESILIENCE, AND SURVIVAL, FEATURING AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE DETERMINED TO HELP HER LOVED ONES WIN THEIR FREEDOM WITH A BAT AND A BALL. " ही गोष्ट आहे रुख्साना नावाच्या तरुण पत्रकार मुलीची. ती काबूलमध्ये राहते. घरी कॅन्सरने आजारी म्हातारी आई आणि जहान नावाचा लहान भाऊ. तिचे आजोबा आणि वडील तालिबानने पेरलेल्या एका भूसुरुंगाच्या स्फोटात मारले गेलेले आहेत. या रुख्सानाला आपली नोकरी तालिबानच्या दादागिरीमुळे सोडावी लागली आहे. कारण 'स्त्रिया फक्त दोनच ठिकाणी असाव्यात- घर किंवा कबर, ' असं तालिबानचं मत आहे. स्त्रियांना एकटं घराबाहेर पडण्याची मुभा नाही. घरातली पुरुष व्यक्ती सोबत असायलाच हवी; नाहीतर फटके किंवा मृत्युदंड. अशा परिस्थितीत तालिबानचा कमांडर झोराक वाहिदी घोषणा करतो अफगाणिस्तानात क्रिकेट सामने भर

THIS BOOK CONTAINS THREE NOVELETTES. ALL OF THEM ARE BASED IN PARANORMAL PHENOMENA, GHOSTS, EXORCISM AND ALL. I BELIEVE THAT DESPITE THE MARCH OF SCIENCE, STORIES BASED ON GHOSTS, SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA, CRIME ARE TIMELESS. I PERSONALLY ENJOY STORIES WRITTEN BY THE STALWARTS LIKE STEPHEN KING, PETER STRAUB, IRA LEVIN, DAN SIMMONS. LOVE STORIES, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, ANTHOLOGIES, BIOGRAPHIES GET DATED AS SOON AS HUMAN GROUPS ADOPT NEW MORES AND NEW VALUES, NEW POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES, NEW POLITICAL PATRONS. SO SUCH BOOKS BECOME OUTDATED AS SOON AS THEY ARE WRITTEN. BUT THE SCARY LITERATURE OR A MASTERLY WRITTEN WHODUNNIT NEVER GOES OUT OF FASHION. YOUNG PEOPLE STILL READ AGATHA CHRISTIE. SINCE I ENJOY THIS GENRE OF LITERATURE, I TOOK THE BABY STEPS TO WRITE THE KIND OF 'LITERATURE' THAT I ENJOY, RIGHT IN MY COLLEGE DAYS. THE RATIONAL WAY IS TO LOOK AT THIS KIND OF 'LITERATURE' IS TO LOOK AT THE ENTERTAINMENT ANGLE AND NOT TO QUESTION THE BASIC PREMISES BEHIND THE STORY. MY BELIEF IS, ONCE THE BASIC PREMISE BEHIND THE STORY IS ESTABLISHED, THE INTERNAL LOGIC BASED ON THAT PREMISE SHOULD HOLD TRUE. I HAVE TRIED THAT. NONE OF THE NOVELETTES IN THIS BOOK ARE 'INSPIRED' OR TRANSLATED. AT THE SAME TIME A DISCLAIMER. I DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO ANY SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS. I AM AN ATHEIST. ON ANY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISORDER, ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE IS THE BEST COURSE. BUT SOMETIMES IT IS BETTER TO SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF AND JUST GO ALONG WITH THE STORY LINE. HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE NOVELETTES. अविचल...तंत्रविद्या कोळून प्यायलेला एक श्रीमंत तरुण...वामपंथीयांच्या तावडीत सापडलेल्यांची सुटका करण्याचं काम निरपेक्षपणे करणारा... श्रीनिवास...एका खेडेगावातील पुजाऱ्याचा तरुण मुलगा...प्रिया नावाच्या तरुण मुलीच्या माध्यमातून हंबीर नावाचा वामपंथी त्याच्यावर जाळं टाकतो...श्रीनिवास त्या जाळ्यात पुरेपूर अडकतो... अविचल त्याची त्या जाळ्यातून सुटका करतो...बाहेरची बाधा झालेल्या तनयाची बाधा उतरवायला एका गूढ वाड्यात अविचल जात

AKHERCHI LADHAI - THE LAST FIGHT BASED ON THE LIFE OF SAWAI MADHAVRAO PESHWA AND NANA PHADNAVISS LIFE, THIS NOVEL BRINGS IN LIGHT THE MANY INCIDENCES UNKNOWN. FOR ALMOST 24 YEARS, NANA PHADNAVIS WAS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE RULING DURING THE PESHWAS REGIME. BOTH PARENTS OF THE SAWAI MADHAVRAO PESHWA DIED UNTIMELY. THEREAFTER, THE YOUNG SAWAI MADHAVRAOS POSITION HAD BECOME QUITE VULNERABLE. IT WAS NANA WHO LOOKED AFTER HIM DURING THAT TESTING PERIOD. HE CONSIDERED THE YOUNGSTER AS HIS OWN SON BUT NEVER TOOK UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF HIS OWN POSITION. IN THE NAME OF SAWAI MADHAVRAO, NANA LOOKED AFTER THE REGIME. SEEKING THE OPPORTUNITY, THE NIZAM TRIED TO CONQUER THE REGION UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE MARATHA. NANA CALL IN FOR A WAR. HIS WITTINESS WAS AT THE BEST. HE WAS ALSO FAVOURED BY DESTINY FOR ONCE. NIZAM HAD TO ACCEPT DEFEAT AND SIGN THE TREATY AS PER NANAS CONDITIONS. NANA PHADNAVIS, THUS HAD TO FIGHT THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENEMIES SO AS TO PROTECT THE PESHWA AND HIS RULE. अखेरची लढाई ही कादंबरी सवाई माधवराव पेशवे आणि नाना फडणीसांच्या जीवनातील विविध घटना-प्रसंगांवर आधारित आहे. नाना फडणीस उणीपुरी दोन तपे पेशवाईच्या कारभारात होते. सवाई माधवराव पेशव्यांच्या माता-पित्याचे अकाली निधन झाल्यानंतर पेशवाईचा वारस म्हणून त्यांनी सवाई माधवरावांची डोळ्यांत तेल घालून काळजी घेतली. त्यांचा आपल्या पुत्राप्रमाणे सांभाळ केला. माधवराव लहान असल्याने नानाच पेशव्यांच्या वतीने सर्व निर्णय घेत आणि राज्यकारभार पाहात असत. याच कालावधीत मुजोर झालेल्या निजामाला अद्दल घडविण्यासाठी नानां

IN THE BASEBALL DRAFT OF 1971, RON WILLIAMSON WAS THE FIRST PLAYER CHOSEN FROM OKLAHOMA. SIGNING WITH OAKLAND, HE SAID GOODBYE TO HIS SMALL HOME TOWN AND LEFT FOR CALIFORNIA TO PURSUE HIS DREAMS OF GLORY. SIX YEARS LATER HE WAS BACK, HIS DREAMS BROKEN BY A BAD ARM AND BAD HABITS - DRINKING, DRUGS AND WOMEN. HE BEGAN TO SHOW SIGNS OF MENTAL ILLNESS. UNABLE TO KEEP A JOB, HE MOVED IN WITH HIS MOTHER AND SLEPT 20 HOURS A DAY ON HER SOFA. IN 1982, A 21 YEAR-OLD COCKTAIL WAITRESS, DEBRA SUE CARTER, WAS RAPED AND MURDERED, AND FOR FIVE YEARS THE CRIME WENT UNSOLVED. FINALLY, DESPERATE FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME, POLICE CAME TO SUSPECT RON WILLIAMSON AND HIS FRIEND DENNIS FRITZ. THE TWO WERE FINALLY ARRESTED IN 1987 AND CHARGED WITH MURDER. WITH NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, THE PROSECUTION S CASE WAS BUILT ON JUNK SCIENCE AND THE TESTIMONY OF JAILHOUSE SNITCHES AND CONVICTS. DENNIS FRITZ WAS FOUND GUILTY AND GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE. RON WILLIAMSON WAS SENT TO DEATH ROW. BUT AS GRISHAM METHODICALLY LAYS OUT, THERE WAS NO CASE AGAINST HIM. RON WILLIAMSON WAS WRONGLY CONDEMNED TO DIE. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT IN AMERICA YOU ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, THIS BOOK WILL SHOCK YOU. IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE DEATH PENALTY, THIS BOOK WILL DISTURB YOU. IF YOU BELIEVE THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAIR, THIS BOOK WILL INFURIATE YOU. अडा या ओक्लाहोमाच्या छोट्या गावातील रॉन विल्यमसन... बेसबॉलमध्ये उज्ज्वल भविष्य असताना दारू आणि अमली पदार्थांच्या आहारी गेलेला, विचित्र वागणारा, आईबरोबर राहणारा एक बेरोजगार, घटस्फोटित, मानसिक विकारांनी त्रस्त तरुण.. नाइट क्लबमध्ये काम करणाऱ्या डेबी कार्टर या कॉकटेल वेट्रेसवर अमानुष बलात्कार करून तिचा खून करण्यात येतो... खुनाच्या आदल्या रात्री ग्लेन गोअर या माणसाबरोबर तिला पाहिल्याचं बNयाच साक्षीदारांनी सांगूनही रॉन विल्यमसनवर या खुनाचा आळ येतो...

A TALE OF --------------- DEFECUT FOR THE ALLIED FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE INDOMITABLE JUNGLES OF MALAYA. A ------ PLAN TO BUILD A RAILWAY ACROSS AN INPOSSIBLE GEOGRAPHY. THE UNTOLD HORORS OF THE PRIONESS OF WAR. AN INDIVIDUAL S JOURNEY ANFOLDING THE TRIBULATIONS OF AN ERA ----------------- INTO HISTORY. मलाया-सियामच्या निबिड जंगलात जपान्यांनी बलाढ्य ब्रिटिश सैन्याला शह दिला. अतिशय दुष्टप्राप्य खडतर अशा रेल्वे मार्गाच्या उभारणीचा चंग जपानी सैन्याने बांधला व त्यासाठी तब्बल २,००,००० दोस्त राष्ट्रांच्या ब्रिटिश, ऑस्ट्रेलियन व कॅनेडियन सैनिकांना युद्धबंदी बनवून त्यांच्याकडून हया रेल्वेमार्गाची उभारणी केली. वैयक्तिक पातळीवर ही अमानुषता अनुभवलेल्या एका सैनिकाची ही प्रथमपुरुषी कहाणी, परंतु एका विशिष्ट कालखंडाच्या इतिहासाचे दर्शन घडविणारी अद्भुत कथा.

SHANGHAI, 1937. PEARL AND MAY ARE TWO SISTERS FROM A BOURGEOIS FAMILY. THOUGH THEIR PERSONALITIES ARE VERY DIFFERENT - PEARL IS A DRAGON SIGN, STRONG AND STUBBORN, WHILE MAY IS A TRUE SHEEP, ADORABLE AND PLACID - THEY ARE INSEPARABLE BEST FRIENDS. BOTH ARE BEAUTIFUL, MODERN AND LIVING A CAREFREE LIFE UNTIL THE DAY THEIR FATHER TELLS THEM THAT HE HAS GAMBLED AWAY THE FAMILY S WEALTH, AND THAT IN ORDER TO REPAY HIS DEBTS HE MUST SELL THE GIRLS AS WIVES TO TWO GOLD MOUNTAIN MEN: AMERICANS. AS JAPANESE BOMBS FALL ON THEIR BELOVED CITY, THE TWO SISTERS SET OUT ON THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME, ONE THAT WILL TAKE THEM THROUGH THE VILLAGES OF SOUTHERN CHINA, IN AND OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF BRUTAL SOLDIERS, AND EVEN ACROSS THE OCEAN, THROUGH THE HUMILIATION OF AN ANTI-CHINESE DETENTION CENTRE TO A NEW, MARRIED LIFE IN LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN. HERE THEY BEGIN A FRESH CHAPTER, DESPITE THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND ANTI-COMMUNIST PARANOIA, BECAUSE NOW THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO STRIVE FOR: A YOUNG, AMERICAN-BORN DAUGHTER, JOY. ALONG THE WAY THERE ARE TERRIBLE SACRIFICES, IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES AND ONE DEVASTATING, LIFE-CHANGING SECRET, BUT THROUGH IT ALL THE TWO HEROINES OF THIS ASTOUNDING NEW NOVEL BY LISA SEE HOLD FAST TO WHO THEY ARE - SHANGHAI GIRLS. शांघाय शहरातील पर्ल व मे या दोघी तरुण बहिणी... जुगारात हरल्यानंतर त्यांचे वडील या दोघींनाही लॉस एंजलिसला स्थायिक झालेल्या लुई नावाच्या मूळ चिनी माणसाच्या दोन मुलांच्या वधू म्हणून विकतात...त्या दोघींचा चीन ते अमेरिका असा खडतर प्रवास, लुईच्या कुटुंबात गेल्यानंतरचं त्यांचं आयुष्य आणि कालांतराने परिस्थितीवश या दोघींमध्ये उभी राहिलेली भिंत...स्थलांतराच्या अनेक पैलूंचं दर्शन घडवणारं, मनाला चटका लावणारं भावनाट्य

WEVE ALL HEARD THE STATISTIC: FIFTY PERCENT OF MARRIAGES END IN DIVORCE. ITS ENOUGH TO MAKE MANY COUPLES GIVE UP WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH, THINKING THATS WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES. BUT WHAT IF IT WERENT TRUE? WHAT IF, IN FACT, ITS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT OFTEN EASIER THAN YOU THINK TO SAVE A SEEMINGLY TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP? THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS TARA PARKER-POPE ASKED HERSELF AFTER HER OWN DIVORCE. AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ON THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS BEAT, SHE TURNED TO SOME OF THE TOP BIOLOGISTS, NEUROSCIENTISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND OTHER SCIENTISTS FOR THE FACTS ABOUT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. THOSE FACTS WERE MORE POSITIVE AND PROVOCATIVE THAN SHED EVER EXPECTED, AND FOR BETTER OFFERS PAGE AFTER PAGE OF ASTONISHING, EYE-OPENING GOOD NEWS. PARKER-POPE PRESENTS THE SCIENCE BEHIND WHY SOME MARRIAGES WORK AND OTHERS DONT; THE BIOLOGY BEHIND WHY SOME SPOUSES CHEAT AND OTHERS REMAIN FAITHFUL; THE BEST DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS CREATED BY THE MOST CUTTING-EDGE PSYCHOLOGISTS TO ASSESS THE PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS IN GETTING MARRIED, STAYING MARRIED, OR REMARRYING. THERE ARE QUESTIONNAIRES TO UNCOVER POTENTIALLY DAMAGING HIDDEN ATTITUDES TOWARD SPOUSES. THERE ARE TOOLS TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF ROUTINE, FRESH ACTIVITY AND HOW SMALL ADJUSTMENTS CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. TARA PARKER- POPES GENIUS IS FOR EXPLORING THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE BIG ISSUES THAT AFFECT OUR LIVES EVERY DAY AND TRANSLATING THAT SCIENCE INTO ADVICE THAT WE CAN USE-EVERY DAY. FOR BETTER IS THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE MOST PROFOUND RELATIONSHIP OF OUR LIVES. पति-पत्नी ही संसाररथाची दोन चाके आहेत. काही वेळा वाद, मतभेद, भांडण यामुळे ही चाके कुरकूर करू लागली तरी प्रेम, सामंजस्य यांचं वंगण घालून ती चाकं चालती ठेवणं महत्त्वाचं. वाद, मतभेद टोकाला जाऊ न देण्यासाठी काय करावं, याचं मार्गदर्शन करणारं, वैवाहिक नात्यात निर्माण होणाऱ्या समस्या, त्यांचे परिणाम यांचा विचार करतानाच त्यावरील उपाययोजना सुचवणारं, सुखी वैवाहिक जीवनाचा मूलमंत्र देणारं पुस्तक.

CHINA HAS 130 MILLION MIGRANT WORKERS-THE LARGEST MIGRATION IN HUMAN HISTORY. IN FACTORY GIRLS, LESLIE T. CHANG, A FORMER CORRESPONDENT FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL IN BEIJING, TELLS THE STORY OF THESE WORKERS PRIMARILY THROUGH THE LIVES OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN, WHOM SHE FOLLOWS OVER THE COURSE OF THREE YEARS AS THEY ATTEMPT TO RISE FROM THE ASSEMBLY LINES OF DONGGUAN, AN INDUSTRIAL CITY IN CHINAS PEARL RIVER DELTA. AS SHE TRACKS THEIR LIVES, CHANG PAINTS A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PICTURE OF MIGRANT LIFE-A WORLD WHERE NEARLY EVERYONE IS UNDER THIRTY; WHERE YOU CAN LOSE YOUR BOYFRIEND AND YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE LOSS OF A MOBILE PHONE; WHERE A FEW COMPUTER OR ENGLISH LESSONS CAN CATAPULT YOU INTO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SOCIAL CLASS. CHANG TAKES US INSIDE A SNEAKER FACTORY SO LARGE THAT IT HAS ITS OWN HOSPITAL, MOVIE THEATER, AND FIRE DEPARTMENT; TO POSH KARAOKE BARS THAT ARE FRONTS FOR PROSTITUTION; TO MAKESHIFT ENGLISH CLASSES WHERE STUDENTS SHAVE THEIR HEADS IN MONKLIKE DEVOTION AND SIT DAY AFTER DAY IN FRONT OF MACHINES WATCHING ENGLISH WORDS FLASH BY; AND BACK TO A FARMING VILLAGE FOR THE CHINESE NEW YEAR, REVEALING THE POVERTY AND IDLENESS OF RURAL LIFE THAT DRIVE YOUNG GIRLS TO LEAVE HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE. THROUGHOUT THIS RIVETING PORTRAIT, CHANG ALSO INTERWEAVES THE STORY OF HER OWN FAMILY'S MIGRATIONS, WITHIN CHINA AND TO THE WEST, PROVIDING HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL FRAMES OF REFERENCE FOR HER INVESTIGATION. A BOOK OF GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE THAT PROVIDES NEW INSIGHT INTO CHINA, FACTORY GIRLS DEMONSTRATES HOW THE MASS MOVEMENT FROM RURAL VILLAGES TO CITIES IS REMAKING INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND TRANSFORMING CHINESE SOCIETY, MUCH AS IMMIGRATION TO AMERICAS SHORES REMADE OUR OWN COUNTRY A CENTURY AGO. छांग यांनी त्यांच्या कुटुंबाच्या चीनअंतर्गत स्थलांतराची आणि त्यानंतर पश्चिमेकडच्या स्थलांतराची कहाणी कुशलतेनं गुंफली आहे. चीनमध्ये अंदाजे १३ कोटी स्थलांतरित कामगार आहेत. त्यांपैकी जवळजवळ सगळेच तिशीच्या आतले आहेत. फॅक्टरी गर्ल्स पुस्तकामध्ये लेस्ली टी. छांग यांनी प्रामुख्याने दोन तरुणींची जीवनकथा उलगडून या कामगारांची कहाणी मांडली आहे. तोंगकुआन या औद्योगिक शहरामध्ये या दोघ

THE WORD RUJWAI LITERALLY MEANS INCULCATION. THE STORY RUJWAI PARTICULARLY TALKS ABOUT IMPLANTING GOOD VALUES IN THE NEXT GENERATION. EVERY STORY HEREIN IS LIKE A FRESH BREEZE OF A GOOD THOUGHT. IN THIS EVER-CHANGING WORLD, EMOTIONS AND RELATIONS ARE STILL VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR LIVES. THESE LOVELY BONDS OF RELATIONS COMPLETE THE FAMILY AND THE VIVID EMOTIONS MAKE OUR LIVES COLORFUL. SOME OF THE STORIES ALSO TALK ABOUT WOMENS CHANGING PERSPECTIVE. THE DEVOTION FOR THE LIFE PARTNER, THE LOVING CARE FOR HER KIDS, THE RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS HER FAMILY - THESE ARE ALL THE INNATE QUALITIES OF A WOMAN. DESPITE ALL HER DEDICATION, IF AND WHEN SHE REALIZES ABOUT HER EXPLOITATION, SHE FIGHTS BACK FOR HER JUSTICE INDEPENDENTLY. ALL IN ALL RUJWAI IS A COLORFUL PALLET OF DIFFERENT SHADES OF HUMAN COEXISTENCE. नकळत्या वयात संजूला हेतुतः दुर्लक्षित करणाNया मानसीची योगायोगाने त्याच्याशी भेट होते आणि जुन्या ऋणानुबंधा जाणीव ठेवत त्याने केलेली पाठराखण तिला स्पर्शून जाते. मुकुंदाची आई ही प्रतिकूल परिस्थितीशी झगडून मुलाला मोठे करते; पण सून आल्यावर या आईवर बेघर होण्याची वेळ येते; मात्र तिचा कसा कायापालट होतो, ते सांगते कायापालट ही कथा. नातिचरामि कथेतील माधवीने एका कलंदर कलाकाराच्या प्रेमात पडून पस्तीस वर्षे त्याला मनापासून साथ दिली. आयुष्याच्या उतरणीवर त्यानेही खुल्या मनाने त्याचे श्रेय तिला दिले, पण एक अबोध अदृश्य सल तिला सतत खुपत होता... मानë

KARNALOK, IS THE STORY OF REJECTED, ABANDONED, HOMELESS ORPHANS AND THE WORLD THAT THEY INHABIT. THOUGH AUTHOR DHRUV BHATT BASES HIS NOVEL ON THE SYMBOLIC REFERENCE TO KARNAS IDENTITY OF ABANDONED AT BIRTH, THE NOVEL IS NOT CONFINED ONLY TO THAT SINGULAR MYTHOLOGICAL REFERENCE. DAIVAYATTAM KULE JANMAM WAS KARNAS SIGNATURE LINE. WITHOUT BEING A CONCRETE PRESENCE IN THE NOVEL, KARNA IS OMNISCIENTLY PRESENT THROUGHOUT, REMINDING THE READER OF HIS SIGNATURE. BHATT EXPLORES THE WORLD OF INNOCENT CHILDHOODS IN ORPHANAGES AND THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF EXTREME PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL CONFINEMENT, WITH A VISION THAT IS BROAD, DEEP AND COMPREHENSIVE. 'KARNALOK' HANDLES THE THEME OF MOTHERHOOD IN VARIOUS FORMS, FROM UNSOLICITED AND UNWARRANTED PREGNANCIES, TO MODERN DAY SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF SURROGACY, THEREBY ALLOWING BHATT TO FULLY EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF 'BIRTH'. आपलं कुळ, गोत्र, पूर्वजांच्या सात पिढ्यांची नावं घडाघडा बोलून दाखवू शकणारा; पण ज्याचं स्वतःचं नाव कादंबरीत कुठेच येत नाही असा नायक. विचित्र परिस्थितीच्या कचाट्यात सापडल्यामुळे, स्वतःचं नसलेलं घर सोडून जातो. 'अनाथ शब्दाची चीड असलेला हा बारा-चौदा वर्षांचा मुलगा योगायोगानं नेमका अनाथालयाशीच जोडला जातो. मी 'त्यांच्यातला नाही हे स्वतःला आणि जगाला बजावत असतानाच नकळत 'त्यांच्या सुखदुःखांशी बांधला जातो. कुळ, वंश, जात या शब्दांचा अर्थ शोधतच मोठा होतो. केवळ शब्दातच अडकलेल्या अर्थाची निरर्थकता आणि साक्षात अनुभवातून सापडणारी ज

HOW S THAT! IS A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY SUPRIYA VAKIL, IN LIGHTER VEIN, WHICH IS A FUN TREAT FOR THE READERS. IT IS THE SECOND BOOK BY AUTHOR AFTER HER AWARD-WINNING BOOK POPCORN . IN THIS COLLECTION SHE HAS CAUGHT DIFFERENT COLOURS AND SHADES OF LIFE, WITH HER SUBTLE OBSERVATION, WHICH THE READERS WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE AND MAKE THEM LAUGH WITH THE FUN ELEMENT. THE LAST SEGMENT OF THE BOOK NAMED MALIKAYAN IS ABOUT DAILY SOAPS AND ITS CHARACTERS, EXPRESSED IN FUNNY WAY. ALL IN ALL, HOW S THAT IS PURE FUN, AN ELEGANT SIXER IN LIGHTER VEIN!! 'पॉपकॉर्न'नंतर, सुप्रिया वकील यांचा 'हाऊज दॅट!' हा दुसरा विनोदी ललित गद्य संग्रह. आपल्या अवतीभवती घडणाNया गोष्टी, होणारे बदल, स्वभावविशेष, जीवनातील विविध रंग टिपत, खुसखुशीत शैलीत लिहिलेले हे लेख वाचकांना आपलेसे वाटतील आणि खळखळून हसवतील. सूक्ष्म निरीक्षणातून जीवनातील गंमत टिपताना, त्यांची लेखणी कुठेही कडवट न होता निखळ विनोद पुÂलवते. अनुवादक म्हणून सुपरिचित असलेल्या सुप्रिया वकील यांचे हे स्वतंत्र लेखनही वाचकांना नक्की आवडेल.

'TREAT ALL FAIRLY, OR THEY WILL SEEK REVENGE.' A GREAT WORDS FROM CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI FORMS THE BASELINE FOR THE NOVEL. THE NOVEL IS BASICALLY A HISTORICAL EVENTS BASED REVENGE STORY, BUT DON'T GET MISUNDERSTOOD OVER HERE. IT IS NOT A PERSONAL REVENGE STORY, IT IS A NATIONAL REVENGE STORY. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A COUNTRY WHOSE HISTORICAL HERITAGE HAS ENRICHED WITH NUMBER OF STORIES AND THE PLOT OF NOVEL IS ONE OF THESE STORIES. WE ALL KNOW THE BLOODY CARNAGE HAPPENED AT JALIANWALABAGH. 13 APRIL, 1919 WAS THAT STAR CROSSED DAY. GENERAL DYER HAS SET UP FIRING ON NUMBERS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO HAD GATHERED UP IN JALIANWALABAGH. BUT WHAT WAS THE REASON BEHIND THIS CARNAGE? WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED OVER THERE? DOES THIS INCIDENT IS LIMITED FOR THIS CARNAGE ONLY? OR THERE ARE MANY INCIDENTS WHICH LEADS TO THIS BLOODSHED AND FURTHER MORE HAPPENINGS? DOES THIS STORY ENDS WITH MASSACRE? THE NOVEL GIVES ANSWER FOR THESE QUESTIONS. THIS IS A STORY OF IDEALIST WHO HAS TAKEN OATH TO AVENGE THIS INHUMAN TREATMENT GIVEN TO INDIANS. THIS IS A STORY OF A CONTUMACIOUS HERO WHO NEVER LOSE HOPE. इंग्रजांच्या विरोधात पंजाबात १९०७मध्ये घडून आलेली 'पगडी संभाल जट्टा चळवळ आणि १९१४मधील गदर उत्थान चळवळ यामुळे इंग्रज सरकारने सुरू केलेली दडपशाही... त्यामुळे पेटून उठलेली पंजाबी जनता... ब्रिटिशांनी लागू केलेला रौलट कायदा, ज्यानुसार सरकारने राज्यकत्र्यांना मनमानी कामकाज करण्याचा दिलेला परवाना... त्याची परिणती म्हणून १३ एप्रिल, १९१९ या दिवशी ब्रिटिश सरकारने जालियनवाला बागेत बैसाखी निमित्त जमलेल्या शीख समुदायावर केलेला बेछूट गोळीबार... या गोळीबारातून वाचलेला एक विशीचा तरुण राम मोहम&

CONNECT THE DOTS IS THE STORY OF 20 ENTERPRISING INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT MBAS WHO STARTED THEIR OWN VENTURES. THEY WERE DRIVEN BY THE DESIRE TO PROVE THEMSELVES. TO LEAD INTERESTING, PASSIONATE, MEANINGFUL LIVES. THEIR STORIES SAY ONE THING LOUD AND CLEAR: YOU DON T NEED A FANCY DEGREE OR A RICH DADDY TO DREAM BIG AND MAKE IT HAPPEN. IT S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, YOUR HEART, YOUR HANDS. एमबीएची व्यावसायिक पदवी नसतानाही ज्या उद्योजकांनी उद्योग जगतात स्वतःचं स्वतंत्र स्थान निर्माण केलं, अशा 20 प्रेरणादायी व्यक्तिमत्त्वांचा प्रवास हे पुस्तक उलगडतं. इच्छाशक्तीने प्रेरित या उद्योजकांनी स्वतःचा स्वतंत्र मार्ग निर्माण केला आणि आपलं जीवन अर्थपूर्ण केलं. जुगाड, जुनून आणि जुबान या तीन विभागात हे पुस्तक विभागलेलं आहे. भांडी घासण्याचं काम करणाऱ्या प्रेम गणपती यांनी उभारलेला डोसा प्लाझाचा व्यवसाय असो, की खर्च भागवण्यासाठी ट्यूशन्स घेणाऱ्या हणमंत गायकवाड यांनी उभारलेला 300 कोटींचा भारत विकास ग्रुपचा व्यवसाय असो, या पुस्तकातील अशा अनेक कथा तुमच्यात प्रेरणेचं हमखास बीज पेरतात.

MANIBHADRA A SMART BOY FROM A RURAL AREA HAS A PHD EAGER TO GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FUTURE DHARMAGURU OF KATYAYINI MATH COMES TO HIM AND HE ACCEPTS IT BUT BECAUSE OF THAT HE HAS TO REMAIN A CELIBATE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE ग्रामीण भागातील हुशार मुलगा मणिभद्र यास पीएच.डी. मिळवण्याचा ध्यास... कात्यायिनी मठाचा भावी धर्मगुरू होण्याची संधी त्याच्याकडे चालून येते आणि तो ती स्वीकारतो...मात्र त्यामुळे त्याला आजन्म ब्रह्मचारी राहावं लागणार असतं...डॉ. नभा महंती ही तरुण अध्यापिका तिच्या प्रकल्पासाठी सहायक म्हणून मणिभद्रची निवड करते...ती त्याच्या प्रेमात पडते...सुरुवातीला तिच्या या भावनेपासून अनभिज्ञ असलेल्या मणिभद्रला तिची भावना कळते...मात्र धर्मशास्त्रातील आणि शिक्षणशास्त्रातील यशाच्या पायNया चढलेला मणिभद्र नभाचं प्रेम स्वीकारू शकत नाही...वासनारहित, आत्मिक प्रेमाची महती मणिभद्र नभाला सांगू पाहतो...धर्मातील अनिष्ट रूढी-परंपरा दूर करून समाजाला विधायक मा

'I HAVE A DREAM' BY RASHMI BANSAL IS A BOOK ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP. HAVING AUTHORED THE BESTSELLERS 'STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH' AND 'CONNECT THE DOTS', THE AUTHOR WRITES ON A SIMILAR THEME AND INCORPORATES THE ELEMENT OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HER LATEST. AKIN TO HER PREVIOUS BOOKS, 'I HAVE A DREAM' IS CENTERED ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. IT IS A STORY OF 20 IDEALISTS THAT THINK AND ACT LIKE ENTREPRENEURS. THEY ARE DEDICATED TO VARIOUS CAUSES WITH ONE COMMON FACTOR: THE BELIEF IN THE PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND ITS OPTIMAL USE TO ACHIEVE GREATER COMMON GOOD. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT CHANGE IS CONSTANT AND THE ONLY PERSON TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE IS YOURSELF, RASHMI BANSAL S BOOK WILL ENTHRALL YOU. THE BOOK EXUDES THE TRUE MEANING OF CHANGE. IT DELVES UPON THE FACT THAT CHANGE IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY SOMEONE LIKE YOU, SO MUCH SO, THAT IT COULD EVEN BE A PERSON NEXT DOOR. IT ENCOURAGES THE ORDINARY MIND TO THINK OF IDEAS EXTRAORDINAIRE. रश्मी बन्सल यांच्या उद्योजकतेवरील लोकप्रिय पुस्तकांमधील एक म्हणजे, 'आय हॅव अ ड्रीम'. सामाजिक उद्योजकतेला वाहिलेल्या वीस उद्योजकांची यशोगाथा यात समाविष्ट आहे. हे वीस जण विभिन्न कार्यक्षेत्रात कार्यरत असले तरी त्यांचे समाज कल्याणाचे उद्दिष्ट समान आहे. रेनमेकर्स, चेंजमेकर्स आणि स्पिरिच्युअल कॅपिटॅलिस्ट अशा तीन भागात विभागलेल्या या पुस्तकात सुलभ चळवळीचे सर्वेसर्वा बिंदेश्वर पाठक यांच्यापासून सेल्कोचे हरिष हांडे, विज्ञाननिष्ठ समाजसेवक माधव चव्हाण, माहिती हक्क चळवळीला पाठबळ देणारे दिल्लीचे मुख्यमंत्र

WHEN TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CHETNA GRDDHA MULLICK IS APPOINTED THE FIRST WOMAN EXECUTIONER IN INDIA, ASSISTANT AND SUCCESSOR TO HER FATHER, HER LIFE EXPLODES UNDER THE HARSH LIGHTS OF TELEVISION CAMERAS. WHEN THE DAY OF THE EXECUTION ARRIVES, WILL SHE BRING HERSELF TO TAKE A LIFE? जल्लाद...हा शब्दही अंगावर शहारे आणणारा. स्त्रियांच्या नाजूक स्वभावाकडे पाहता हे काम कुणी स्त्री करू शकेल, याबाबत क्वचितच कुणाला विश्वास बसेल. पण बावीस वर्षीय चेतना मुल्लीक वर जल्लाद या वडिलोपार्जित कामाची जबाबदारी येते. आणि तिचं संपूर्ण आयुष्यचं नवं वळण घेतं. सामाजिक गृहितकांंना धक्का देत वेगळ्या वाटा धुंटाळणारी ही चेतनाची कहाणी अनेक अर्थ्यांनी वाचकांसाठी उत्कंठावर्धक आहे.

COCK-TALE CARNIVAL IS A CELEBRATION OF STORIES TO TICKLE YOUR LITERARY BONE. A SCRUMPTIOUS FEAST, WHERE YOU ARE BOUND TO EXPERIENCE THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF EMOTIONS...FROM AMUSEMENT TO INTRIGUE, FROM PATHOS TO AROUSAL TO SURPRISE - AN ORDER, FAIRLY UNPREDICTABLE! कॉकटेल कार्निव्हल हा तुमच्या साहित्यिक अभिरुचीला साद घालणार्या कथांचा एक उत्सव आहे, एक रुचकर मेजवानी आहे. यात अनेक रस चाखायला मिळतात - मनोरंजनापासून ते कुतूहलापर्यंत, कारुण्यापासून ते विस्मयापर्यंत - कुठला रस केव्हा पुढे ठाकेल याची पूर्वकल्पना न देता. ज्याला विविध प्रकारच्या निमंत्रितांच्यात मिसळायला आवडेल अश्या वाचनवेड्यांसाठी ही जत्रा.

THIS IS THE DRAMATIC AND YET POIGNANT STORY OF THAT BACKSTAGE LIFE WHICH STARTED AND ENDED IN NAGASAKI. WE LIVE CHO CHO SAN'S LIFE FROM A TEA HOUSE HOSTESS WHO MORPHED INTO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT GEISHA OF MARUYAMA LANE AND CAUGHT THE EYE OF AN AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER BENJAMIN PINKERTON. WERE THEY EVER MARRIED? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO CHO CHO AFTER PINKERTON LEFT HER TO RETURN TO AMERICA? AND WHAT OF THE SON KEN PINKERTON SHE BORE HIM? DECADES LATER, A NEWLY ARRIVED KIND HEARTED MIDWEST AMERICAN WOMAN WHO HAD NEVER FACED A DAY OF COMPLICATED SITUATIONS IN HER LIFE THUS FAR LISTENED TO THE STORY OF CHO CHO SAN, MESMERIZED. ही गोष्ट आहे जपानच्या एका फुलपाखरासारख्या नाजूक मदाम, च्यो-च्योची. 20व्या शतकाच्या पूर्वार्धातील अमेरिकी प्रभावातल्या जपानी वातावरणातलं हे कथाबीज. स्वयंभू, आत्मनिर्भर च्यो-च्यो कष्टाळू जपानी स्त्रीचं मूर्तिमंत उदाहरण.. एका अमेरिकी माणसासोबत ती प्रेमानं संसार थाटते. पण आयुष्यातले कष्ट कमी होण्याऐवजी तिच्या आयुष्यात नव्या प्रश्नांची भर पडते. जीवनातल्या चढउतारांना कणखरपणे सामोरं जाणारी च्यो च्यो ती सारी आव्हाने पेलते. पण या फुलपाखराला जणू दुर्दैवाचा शापच असतो. तिचा अमेरिकी नवरा पुन्हा नवं वादळ घेऊन तिच्या आयुष्यात येतो..आणि आयुष्याची घटी पुन्हा विस्कटते. आत

NO NOT NEVER IS A STORY OF TWO VILLAGE GIRLS RANI & MANKI WHO ARE SHIFTED TO THE CITY FOR ENGINEERING STUDIES. RANI IS STUDIOUS BUT POOR GIRL WHERE MANKI IS RICH, STUBBORN GIRL WHO BELIEVES ONLY IN ENJOYMENT. UNCONTROLLABLE BEHAVIOR OF MANKI PUTS RANI IS A CHALLENGING SITUATIONS ALL THE TIME, BUT HER SINCERE AND CALM ATTITUDE GIVES HER STRENGTH TO TACKLE ALL THE HURDLES. ही कहाणी आहे वNहाड विदर्भातल्या दोन मुलींची. गुणी, सोज्वळ आणि गरीब राणीची आणि श्रीमंत कुटुंबातल्या हटखोर मंकीची. राणीच्या घरची परिस्थिती नसतानाही मंकीच्या वडिलांच्या दयेमुळे तिला पुढील शिक्षणाची संधी मिळते. बारावीनंतर इंजिनिअरिंग करण्यासाठी या दोघी पुण्यासारख्या महानगरात दाखल होतात. या महानगराचे रागरंग, इंजिनिअरिंग महाविद्यालयातील खळबळजनक वातावरण आणि दोघींचा परस्परविरोधी स्वभाव यातून या कथानकाला वेगवेगळी वळणं मिळत जातात. स्वैर, उच्छृंखल मंकी आपल्या अनिर्बंध जगण्यासाठी वेळोवेळी राणीला वेठीस धरते. आणि राणीचं पुण्यातलं जगणं आव्हानांनी भरून जातं. तरुणाईची मानसिकता आणि मोकळ्या अवकाशात मिळालेल

A MUST-READ FOR OUR TIMES. A MUST FOR STRENGTHENING THE COUNTRY. ON WHAT ASSUMPTIONS WAS PANDIT NEHRU CONFIDENT THAT CHINA WOULD NOT INVADE INDIA IN 1962? WHY AND ON WHAT BASIS DID HE SCOTCH ALL WARNINGS IN TIBET AND OUR ENTIRE BORDER? WHAT DID HE DO WHEN THOSE ASSUMPTIONS PROVED WRONG? WHAT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE DEBACLE OF 1962? ARE THE SAME DELUSIONS AND MISTAKES NOT BEING REPEATED NOW? WHY WILL THE CONSEQUENCES BE ANY DIFFERENT? THIS IS A DEVASTATING ANALYSIS AND WARNING ON INDIA S POLICY AND APPROACH REGARDING CHINA, BASED ON NEHRU S NOTES TO HIS OFFICERS, HIS CORRESPONDENCE, INCLUDING LETTERS TO CHIEF MINISTERS AND HIS SPEECHES IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT. 'सेल्फ डिसेप्शन' (आत्मवंचना) या पुस्तकात पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू यांनी भारत-चीन संदर्भात केलेला पत्रव्यवहार आणि त्या संदर्भात केलेली भाषणे यांचा आढावा घेऊन त्यावर अरुण शौरींनी भाष्य केलं आहे. त्यातून भारत-चीन संदर्भात नेहरूंचं धोरण कसं होतं, त्या धोरणांचे परिणाम काय झाले, तत्कालीन राजदूतांची भारत-चीन संदर्भातील मते, या प्रश्नाच्या संदर्भात माध्यमं काय करतात इ. मुद्द्यांकडे लक्ष वेधण्याचा प्रयत्न त्यांनीR केला आहे. 'साधी वस्तुाQस्थती ही आहे की सुरुवातीपासूनच चीनचा आपल्या प्रदेशावर डोळा होता; आक्रमण करण्यासाठी त्यांनी उघड उघड आपली स्थिती बळकट केली; पंडितजी आ

HE WAS BORN IN AN ORPHANAGE, WAS BROUGHT UP IN A REMAND HOME. HE HAD NO RELATIONS, NO FATHER, NO MOTHER, NO CASTE, NO RELIGION, NO CULTURE, AND NO ANCESTRY, NOTHING TO CLAIM HIM. HE HAD NO TRADITIONAL MARKINGS TO PROVE HIS BEING INTO EXISTENCE. HE WAS BORN WITH NAME NOT KNOWN . HE HAD NO NAME; HE JUST HAD A NUMBER, JUST LIKE THE PRISONERS. HIS CHILDHOOD WAS FULL OF QUESTIONS. HIS ADOLESCENCE WAS SPOILED, HIS YOUTH WAS SNUBBED. WHEN HE GREW INTO ADULTHOOD, HIS QUESTION ALSO GREW WITH HIM. THESE QUESTIONS MADE HIM AN ADULT. THEY SHOULDERED HIS PARENTING. THEY TAUGHT HIM, THEY HELPED HIM TO RECOVER. TODAY, HE IS AT SUCH A STAGE WHERE LIFE UNFOLDS BEAUTIFULLY IN FRONT OF HIM. THIS IS A STORY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EVERYTHING YET WHO DO NOT STOP COMPLAINING AND ARE EXTREMELY INCOMPETENT. अनाथाश्रमात जन्मलेला, रिमांड होममध्ये वाढलेला तो. त्यास आई-वडील नव्हते. जात, धर्म, कुल, गोत्र, वंश, नातेवाईक अशा पारंपरिक अस्तित्वाच्या कसल्याही खुणा न घेता, जन्मलेला तो एक 'नेम नॉट नोन' होता. त्याला नाव नव्हतं. होता, एक नंबर. (वैÂद्याला असतो तसा!) त्याचं बालपण प्रश्नग्रस्त होतं. कौमार्य कुस्करलेलं. तारुण्य अव्हेरलं गेलेलं. तो वयात आला तसे त्याचे प्रश्नही वयात आले. प्रश्नांनी त्याला प्रौढ केलं. प्रश्नांनीच त्याचं पालकत्त्व पेललं. प्रश्नांनीच तो शिकला-सवरला नि सावरलाही! आज त्याच्या पुढे आहे पर्यायांच्या प्राजक्तांचा सडा! सर्व काही असताना काही न क

AN IMPRISONED MAN IS CERTAIN THAT HIS SUPPOSED MURDER VICTIM IS VERY MUCH ALIVE . . . A FEMALE DRIVER IS PURSUED RELENTLESSLY BY A MENACING FIGURE IN ANOTHER VEHICLE . . . A YOUNG ARTIST GETS THE BIGGEST BREAK OF HER CAREER . . . A RESTLESS BEAUTY MANAGES THE PERFECT BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION . . . AN ESCAPED IRAQI ON SADDAM HUSSEIN S DEATH LIST PAYS AN INVOLUNTARY VISIT TO HIS HOMELAND . . . HOW WILL THEY REACT? HOW WOULD YOU? TWELVE RED HERRINGS IS THE THIRD COLLECTION OF IRRESISTIBLE SHORT STORIES FROM MASTER STORYTELLER, JEFFREY ARCHER. CLEVERLY STYLED, WITH RICHLY DRAWN CHARACTERS AND INGENIOUSLY PLOTTED STORY LINES, EACH OF THE TWELVE TALES ENDS WITH A DELIGHTFULLY UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS. तुरुंगात खितपत पडलेल्या एका कैद्याची खात्री असते की, ज्याच्या खुनाचा त्याच्यावर आरोप आहे, तो माणूस जिवंत आहे... एक चंचल सुंदरी चतुराईनं नवरा आणि नवीन धनिक सावजाकडून वाढदिवसाची भेट मिळवते... वडिलांच्या सांगण्याप्रमाणे नौकानयनपटूने बोटक्लब हाउसला भेट म्हणून दिलेल्या ऐतिहासिक वस्तूचीच चोरी होते... कथा-कादंबरी लेखकाला स्तंभलेखन करणारा त्याचा मित्र भोजनादरम्यान जी कल्पना ऐकवतो त्यावर लेखकाने आधीच कादंबरी लिहिलेली असते... एक धोकादायक वाटणारा माणूस एका महिला-ड्रायव्हरचा हायवेवर पाठलाग करतो... एका तरुण कलावतीला आयुष्यातली सर्वांत मोठी संधी मिळते... चतुर मा

ON 19 MAY 2014, AS SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD RESHMA QURESHI LEFT HOME FOR THE EXAMINATION CENTRE, EVERYTHING HAPPENED IN A FLASH. THE MEN RUSHED TOWARDS HER. GRABBED HER. TUGGED AT HER HAIR. POURED ACID ON HER FACE. SOON SHE STARTED TO BURN LIKE A LIVING CORPSE. THE ACID ATE THROUGH HER SKIN AND AIMED FOR HER BONES, BUT IT COULD NOT QUELL THE FIRE IN HER HEART. RISING FROM FROM TRAGEDY AND SUFFERING, RESHMA SOON MADE GLOBAL HEADLINES BY BECOMING THE FIRST ACID-ATTACK SURVIVOR TO WALK THE RUNWAY AT THE NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. NOW AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-ACID-SALE ACTIVIST, VLOGGER, MODEL, AND THE FACE OF MAKE LOVE NOT SCARS, RESHMA WORKS TIRELESSLY TOWARDS EMPOWERING OTHER ACID-ATTACK SURVIVORS LIKE HERSELF AND HAS BECOME A BEACON OF HOPE FOR MILLIONS. INSPIRING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING, BEING RESHMA IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THIS YOUNG GIRL FROM THE SLUMS OF MUMBAI, WHO OVERCAME INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS IN AN UNJUST WORLD AND DARED TO CHANGE IT. सतरा वर्षांच्या नाजूक देखण्या रेश्मा कुरेशीला तिच्या एका नातलगानं भर रस्त्यात पकडून जमिनीवर पाडून तिच्या चेहऱ्यावर अ]ॅसिड ओतलं. जिवंत प्रेताप्रमाणे काही क्षणांतच तिचं शरीर जळू लागलं. पण ते अ]ॅसिड तिच्या हृदयातील जगण्याची ठिणगी मात्र विझवू शकलं नाही. दुर्दैवाच्या गर्तेतून रेश्माने झेप घेतली ते थेट जागतिक सन्मानाच्या पातळीवर. न्यू यॉर्क फॅशन वीकमध्ये रॅम्पवॉक करणारी, अ]ॅसिड हल्ल्यातून वाचलेली पहिली मुलगी म्हणून तिचं नाव जगभरात गाजलं. रेश्माच्या जिद्दीची प्रेरणादायी आणि सकारात्मक जीवनसंदेश देणारी ही कहा