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The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...
The book describes Gandhi's childhood, his time spent in London and South Africa, and life in India until the 1920s, with a focus on the author's moral and religious development. [6] The 1948 American edition, published by Public Affairs Press, was the first edition of the full text to be published outside India. [5]
Siddhartha Gigoo is an Indian author and filmmaker. He studied English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.He is the author of two books of ...
By contrast, Gandhi is "given full credit for India's political identity as a tolerant, secular democracy." [363] Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is a national holiday in India, Gandhi Jayanti. His image also appears on paper currency of all denominations issued by Reserve Bank of India, except for the one rupee note. [364]
To realise Medieval India there is no better way than to dive into the eight volumes of the priceless History of India as Told by its Own Historians which Sir H. M. Elliot conceived and began and which Professor Dowson edited and completed with infinite labour and learning. It is a revelation of Indian life as seen through the eyes of the ...
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...
No two snowflakes are alike G enerations of primary school children have attempted to simulate nature in their classrooms in the run up to Christmas. They carefully cut out circles of white paper, fold them into halves, quarters and even eighths. They eagerly snip away at the edges with safety conscious round-ended scis - sors.
Vijaya Raje Scindia (12 October 1919 – 25 January 2001), born Lekha Divyeshwari Devi in Nepal and known popularly as the Rajmata of Gwalior in India, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj , as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior , Jivajirao Scindia , she ranked among the highest royal figures ...