My Country My Life
10 best books like My Country My Life (L.K. Advani): Train to Pakistan, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Autobiography of a Yogi, Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, ONE LIFE IS NOT ENOUGH, Narendra Modi: A Political Biography, The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh), Worshipping False Gods: Ambedkar And The Facts Which Have Been Erased, Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining...
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
| Author | Keith Ferrazzi |
| ISBN | 0385512058 |
Do you want to get ahead in life?
Climb the ladder to personal success?
The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power...
| Author | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| ISBN | 0876120834 |
This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of our time. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda narrates the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints...
| Author | Ayesha Siddiqa |
| ISBN | 0745325459 |
Pakistan occupies a paradoxical, even contradictory place in American foreign policy. Nominally a strategic ally in the war on terror, it is the third-largest recipient of US aid in the world. At the same time, it is run by its military and intelligence service—whose goals certainly do not always...
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
| Author | Husain Haqqani |
| ISBN | 0870032143 |
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence...
A bureaucrat for over three decades—and then a vital player in Indian politics for over twenty years—K. Natwar Singh’s glittering career has been punctuated by the some of the most epochal events of independent India.
Initially attached to the Ministry of External Affairs as a diplomat,...
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography
Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, is powerful, popular and controversial. With the general elections due to conclude in May 2014, Modi’s campaign rallies have drawn unprecedented crowds. Yet, the man remains an enigma. His supporters regard him as the visionary, decisive...
The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh)
In 2004 Sanjaya Baru left a successful career as chief editor of the Financial Express to join Manmohan Singh as his media adviser. Singh and Baru had been close and Baru, a great admirer of the technocrat who had ushered in the 1991 reforms, saw this as an opportunity to help a man he admired lead India down...
Worshipping False Gods: Ambedkar And The Facts Which Have Been Erased
| Author | Arun Shourie |
| ISBN | 8129105799 |
This book is what I personally categorise as contrary literature, There is an aura about Ambedkar in India and lot of that is result of caste politics. After all every single politician in India no matter which side of spectrum he/she falls on, would line up to pay homage to this guy, for normal population...
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
| Author | Sanjeev Sanyal |
| ISBN | 0670086398 |
Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India?
The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0060198818 |
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...
| Author | Arvind Kejriwal |
| ISBN | 8172237677 |
The year 2011 was defined by the Anna Hazare-led agitation against corruption. The fakir from ralegaon siddhi shook the bastions of power in Delhi to their foundations. Even the middle class and the elite, who normally confine themselves to drawing room discussions on politics, joined the movement...
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
| ISBN | 0857502980 |
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went...
I picked up this book solely on the basis of the columns written by the journalist turned author Tavleen Singh. I don’t follow politics like a fanatic just as a normal citizen of India does. However, I do read articles to get an insight on the history of major political events and that’s how I stumbled...
The Modi Effect - Inside Narendra Modi's Campaign To Transform India
| Author | Lance Price |
| ISBN | 1473610893 |
How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India?
On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before.
Political parties in Britain, Australia...
Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal And The Multi Billion Dollar Battle For A Global Empire
| Author | Tim Bouquet |
| ISBN | 0349120978 |
An insight into the biggest steel conglomerate, the merger of all times. It's really fascinating and thrilling at the same time with morning in Luxembourg and evening in Paris/Brussels. Carry a dictionary and investopedia both, lot of new terms. Too many names to remember but thanks to the authors...
The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani
| Author | Hamish McDonald |
| ISBN | 1864484683 |
A fascinating biography of Indian textile tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, this book is the story of a rising capitalist group in post-independence India. In the 26 years since its foundation, Ambani's Reliance Group has risen to rival the dominant industrial houses, and by 1995 the group had 1.2 million...
Against All Odds: A Story Of Courage, Perseverance And Hope
| Author | Dhirubhai Ambani |
| ISBN | 0070077185 |
Against all odds:A story of courage,perseverance and hope by the MD of Mudra advertising firm AG Krishnamurthy takes you through the life of Dhirubhai Ambani concisely.The book is a brief synopsis of various life events of Dhirubhai Ambani and how he dealt with them.The book begins with a touching...
