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Author : George Fernandes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book George Fernandes Speaks written by George Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected writings and speeches of an Indian politician, chiefly on Indian politics, 1964-1989.
Author : Rahul Ramagundam
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354925944
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of George Fernandes written by Rahul Ramagundam and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Militant Trade Union Leader. The Dauntless Political Rebel. The Passionate Socialist Dreamer. This is a biography of India's George Fernandes. George Fernandes (1930-2019)-a firebrand trade union leader, socialist politician and incredibly powerful orator-is popularly known for leading the All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) in May 1974 and calling upon its approximately 1.7 million employees to strike, which brought India to a halt for twenty days. Often described as a rebel, he pursued every cause he took up with passionate devotion, heedless of the many ups and downs in his life. From the early years of fighting for the rights of dock and municipal workers of Bombay (now Mumbai) through the Emergency, which he resisted by going underground, to his last private decade as a bed-ridden Alzheimer's patient, his fights were always persistent and single-handed. George could call Bombay to be shut down and rose from its streets to become India's Defence Minister. The Life and Times of George Fernandes chronicles the story of George, who rose from the streets of Bombay to stride the corridors of power. In this extraordinary biography, Rahul Ramagundam opens a window to George's political evolution and traces the course of the Socialist Party in India from its inception in 1930s to its dissolution into the Janata Party in the late 1970s. In the process, this book explores the trail of India's opposition parties that worked to displace the long-ruling Congress Party from its preeminent position. Comprehensive, evocative and fascinating, this first definitive biography of George Fernandes is an unputdownable tour de force.
Author : George Fernandes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book George Fernandes Speaks written by George Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected writings and speeches of an Indian politician, chiefly on Indian politics, 1964-1989.
Author : Shiri Ram Bakshi
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170249993
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Political Leadership in India: George Fernandes, Defence Minister of India written by Shiri Ram Bakshi and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaya Jaitly
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788129149091
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Life Among the Scorpions written by Jaya Jaitly and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman. Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly's political journey. From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party-a key ally in the erstwhile NDA Government, Jaitly's rise in Indian mainstream politics invited both awe and envy. But the going has been far from smooth. Trouble began with George Fernandes sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat in 1998. Jaitly became the target. She was soon hounded by Tehelka's stings-first concerning her son-in-law-to-be Ajay Jadeja and then herself in an alleged bribery case. Eventually, Fernandes had to resign as India's Defence Minister, despite being the best, and Jaitly quit as the Samata Party President. Meanwhile, she spiritedly fought booth capturing in Bihar as well as fellow party men's egos, intervened and ensured the installation of the Samata government in Manipur. All this, even as she continued her parallel fight for the livelihood of craftsmen on the one hand, and conceptualized and ensured establishment of the first Dilli Haat (crafts market place) in 1994 on the other. With all the backstories of major events in Indian politics between 1970-2000, including her experience of dealing with the Commission of Inquiry and courts regarding the Tehelka stings, the story of Jaya Jaitly makes for a riveting read. A powerful narrative on why being a woman in politics was for her akin to being surrounded by scorpions; this hard hitting memoir offers a perspective on the functioning of Indian politics from a woman's point of view.
Author : Amitava Kumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007192
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Every Day I Write the Book written by Amitava Kumar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumar's own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere.
Author : Ayub Syed
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121208048
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Twenty Tumultuous Years, Insights Into Indian Polity, 1973-1994 written by Ayub Syed and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two volumes the reliable work proves to be the contemporary chronicle of the major political events and political movements referred to as the history of modern Indian politics, and the personalities enacting events and movements, with top analysis and perspective to shape an insight to the most important years of Indian politics, norms trends and political truths ranks an excellence.
Author : Inder Kumar Gujral
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788184244182
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Viewpoint written by Inder Kumar Gujral and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199087776
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Forging Power written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the evolution of coalition politics in India, both at the national and provincial levels. It investigates the processes that led to coalition governments. It explores the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Janata Party experiment, and the Third Front experiments. The book highlights the growing importance of regional parties in national politics and argues that the very notion of representation in terms of ‘national’ and ‘local’ is being redefined in the context of the emerging significance of coalition politics. It also examines the role of cultural synergy and political expediency in coalition politics and discusses the inevitability of coalition government in India.
Author : Madhu Trehan
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369503
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth: Tehelka as Metaphor written by Madhu Trehan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, the biggest undercover news story in Indian journalism. Using spycams and masquerading as arms dealers, Tehelka's reporters infiltrated the Indian government, bribed army officers, gave money to the president of the ruling party and the defence minister's close colleague right in the defence minister's residence. This eventually forced both the ministers'resignations. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the Tehelka expose and its aftermath, Madhu Trehan does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villains of the story, and of how the system got back: by obfuscating, by attempting to destroy the investors without leaving any footprints. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and, of course, none of the stories tally. With exhaustive personal interviews, this is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand modern India - or even better, modern international journalism.
Author : Coomi Kapoor
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352141199
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)
Download or read book The Emergency written by Coomi Kapoor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing indictment of the suspension of democracy In June 1975, a state of Emergency was declared, where civil liberties were suspended and the press muzzled. In the dark days that followed, Coomi Kapoor, then a young journalist, personally experienced the full fury of the establishment. Meanwhile, Indira Gandhi, her son Sanjay and his coterie unleashed a reign of terror that saw forced sterilizations, brutal evictions in the thousands, and wanton imprisonment of many, including Opposition leaders. This gripping eyewitness account vividly recreates the drama, the horror, as well as the heroism of a few during those nineteen months when democracy was derailed.
Author : Lorenzo Angeloni
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228629
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)
Download or read book There's Something in the Air written by Lorenzo Angeloni and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Megan Fernandes
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793497
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Good Boys: Poems written by Megan Fernandes and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and bar stools of New York City. A child of the Indian Ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy.
Author : Aruna Ravikumar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9354886744
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book There I Was! : Media Musings written by Aruna Ravikumar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living through dramatic times as one of the first woman political journalists in the broadcast media in the undivided state of Andhra Pradesh when private television channels breezed through the regional landscape in the mid-nineties, Aruna Ravikumar witnessed momentous developments and historical events frozen in time. ‘There I Was’! Media Musings'’ is a compelling read about her foray into journalism which unwittingly began with her listening to interesting news discussions by fellow morning walkers when she accompanied her grandfather to Hyderabad’s famous tank bund, culminating in her moderating political debates in television studios. Political intrigues, destruction of cities, caste conflicts, faction politics, and naxalite violence are part of the mosaic of experiences chronicled here with historical perspective and personal observation. Sketches of select celebrities from hundreds of interviews over decades will inspire awe and admiration in a world woefully lacking role-models. The book essays learnings from the media taking in its sweep, crowning successes and glaring failures and a wide gamut of issues in between.
Author : George Yancy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538104067
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Backlash written by George Yancy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—and supporters rallying to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a “post-race” America, Yancy quickly discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.
Author : Aishwarya Pandit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000410676
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Claiming Citizenship and Nation written by Aishwarya Pandit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the ‘Congress heartland’ and the threat of revival of ‘Muslim communalism’, alongside issues of representation, property, language politics, rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused government and institutional files, private archives, interviews and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics and society. An important intervention, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of politics, Indian history, minority studies, law, political studies, nationalism, electoral politics, partition studies, political sociology, sociology and South Asian Studies.
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143068741
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Countdown written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later Pakistan tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited Kashmir as part of the defence minister s entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through Pakistan and Nepal. Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent.
