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Book Review : Rs. 17 to billionaire – A saga of determination

He set off for Delhi from his home in Hissar with Rs. 17 in his pocket at the age of 17. The flourishing...

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Book Review : Indian values, English sensibilities

CAUGHT by the Police, a biography of Anandswarup Gupta, a 1939-batch Indian police officer who served as the Founder-Director of the Bureau of...

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Book Review : Making of a mass leader

THESE three opening sentences of the book sum up the entire life of the man. Born to a woman of tremendous force and...

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Book Review : Roles and responsibilities

AT the Service of a Billion Plus is a recently published, very insightful and interesting book on Group ‘A’ Civil Services (CS), particularly...

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Book Review : Modi -The Man of the Moment

Shireen-tar az hikayate-e-maa neest qissa-e Tareekh-e-roozgar sarapa navishta em. No story is as sweet as mine, I have written all history from beginning...

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Book Review : Uninspiring account

AT the time when I was finishing my reading of the book under review, for the second time in a fortnight, a top...

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Book Review : Without Bitterness

REMEMBER that the vicissitudes of covering a story do not make a story!” Nikhil Chakravartty of Mainstream fame used to tell us during...

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Book Review : ‘Me too’ syndrome

THE author was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the Tamil Nadu cadre from 1968 to 2005. The book deals...

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Book Review Parliament : A political institution and not merely a debating club

THE genesis of the United Front (multi-party alliance) politics in India and the strategy to successfully manage the dialectic associated with such eventuality...

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Book Review : From Kak Bhushundi to Kaw

IT is believed that, during his wanderings in the Himalaya after renouncing the world, Sant Tulsidas met Kak Bhushundi, the mythical sacred crow...