 | THE HONEST ALWAYS STAND ALONE by CG Somiah Candid and outspoken, CG Somiah shares his experiences as an Indian Administrative Officer, from his first posting to Orissa as Assistant Collector to the more heady days of fighting terrorism in Punjab, keeping an eye on the country as Home Secretary and Central Vigilance Commissioner and, finally, a six-year tenure as Comptroller and Auditor General of India. His efforts to stem corruption resulted in a loss of promotion for two years. His colleagues were upset about his plight and some of them were of the view that it was not prudent to defy corrupt politicians who can harm one’s career. Somiah, however... | | |  | IN SEARCH OF YOUR AMERICA by Olga Mark Landsberg This reference book is intended for the use by students, immigrants and visitors to the United States of America.
It is a complete handbook for life in the United States of America, from application for visa, travelling arrangements through all the stages of life as an immigrant to life insurance policies.
The reader will find it helpful in all aspect of life in the USA.
It is intended to be a manual for all those who dream to settle in... | | |  | INDIAN PAINTINGS by B.N. Goswamy The paintings to which this volume serves as a catalogue belonged once to one or the other member of the Sarabhai family. But, compared to so many other distinguished collections which the family owned, and later gifted either to the Calico Museum of Textiles or the Sarabhai Foundation—of textiles, pichhwais, manuscripts, Jain artifacts, and south Indian bronzes, among them—they have remained little known till now.
There is no dominant theme that runs through the collection, and paintings may not, by themselves, have been a dominant passion in the life of the Sarabhais, but the works they collected reflect great discrimination and aesthetic sensibility. What is more, in the collection there is remarkable breadth and even the casual viewer would be struck by the well-rounded view it offers of the broad historical development of Indian painting. There are works here that come from as early as the... | | |  | THE GIRMITIYA SAGA Giriraj Kishore
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Prajapati Sah In May 1893, a young attorney arrived at Durban on a year’s girmit (contract) to fight a lawsuit for Dada Abdullah and Co. Thrown out of the train to Pretoria, he was to taste the racial discrimination that plagued the land at that time.
In Durban and Beyond, Giriraj Kishore retraces the socio-political background of the 19th and 20th- century South Africa, highlighting the importance of the young attorney’s actions in South Africa and their monumental significance for humanity as a whole.
A flesh-and-blood human being, Mohandas is an average man who finds himself, along with many others, in a particular socio-historical configuration that sets him off on a life-altering path—towards becoming the Mahatma… | | |
