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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Jawaharlal Nehru's life was closely intertwined with the history and destiny of modern India. His Autobiography, written between 1934 and 1935 when he was in prison, is more than the personal story of an individual—it is also an account of the political awakening of a nation, its struggle for freedom from British rule, and its search to reshape itself as a modern society, rid of the cultural and economic shackles of the past.
Through this narrative, written with extraordinary eloquence and honesty, and illuminated with vibrant descriptions of Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders of the national movement, emerges the portrait of the author himself—a complex and introspective personality with a brilliant and questing mind, a deep love of nature, an engaging zest for life and, above all, a passionate commitment to democracy and secularism.

CAPITAL GOODS INDUSTRY

The study aims to focus on the international competitiveness of these sectors in terms of benchmarking of costs, measuring cost effectiveness, productivity, marketing strategies, manpower development and R&D apart from looking at technology gaps and tariff protection required. In today’s scenario, just looking inward is no longer enough for survival. A presence in the export markets as a diversification strategy has become a must. The study has therefore looked at overseas business opportunities and tried to identify potential countries and projects.

EDUCATION

Future strategies: action now [Proceedings of the 3rd University Industry Council Symposium held on 21-22 November 2008 at Pondicherry University, Puducherry]

Proceedings of the 3rd University Industry Council Symposium held on 21-22 November 2008 at Pondicherry University, Puducherry]

EDUCATION

3rd University Industry Council Symposium [21-22 November 2008: Puducherry]

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

In Emotional Intelligence, Goleman persuasively argues for a new social model of intelligence drawn from the emerging field of social neuroscience. Describing what happens to our brains when we connect with others, Goleman demonstrates how relationships have the power to mold not only human experience but also human biology. In lucid prose he describes from a neurobiological perspective sexual attraction, marriage, parenting, psychopathic behaviors and the group dynamics of teachers and workers. Goleman frames his discussion in a critique of society's creeping disconnection in the age of the iPod, constant digital connectivity and multitasking. Vividly evoking the power of social interaction to influence mood and brain chemistry, Goleman discusses the "toxicity" of insult and unpleasant social experience as he warns of the dangers of self-absorption and poor attention and reveals the positive effects of feel-good neurochemicals that are released in loving relationships and in caregiving. Drawing on numerous studies, Goleman illuminates new theories about attachment, bonding, and the making and remaking of memory as he examines how our brains are wired for altruism, compassion, concern and rapport. The massive audience for Emotional Intelligence will revel in Goleman's latest passionately argued case for the benefits to society of empathetic social attunement.

ENVIRONMENT

The National Biodiversity Action Plan approved in November 2008 to augment natural resource base and its sustainable utilisation. The Plan draws from the principles of National Environment Policy, incorporates suggestions made by a consultative committee and proposes to design actions based on the assessment of current and future needs of conservation and sustainable utilization.
The process of preparing the National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) for India was carried out by the Ministry of Environment and Forests involving wide consultations and planning with various stakeholders across the country, including an externally aided project on ‘National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). On the basis of these action plans, a final technical report of NBSAP was prepared under the project. This NBAP document is broadly based on the evaluation of existing legislations, regulatory systems, implementation mechanisms, existing strategies, plans and programmes, using the report of NBSAP project as one of the inputs. It proposes to design actions based on the assessment of current and future needs of conservation and sustainable utilization, and of physical and fiscal instruments, with particular reference to implications and impact of such instruments on short and long term basis. Considering the multidisciplinary nature of biodiversity, the actions identified in the NBAP are aimed towards integration of the three objectives of the CBD into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programmes and policies.

FICTION

The Private Patient (2008) is a crime novel by English author P. D. James, the eighteenth in her popular Adam Dalgliesh series. In deepest Dorset, the once magnificent Cheverell Manor has been renovated and transformed into a plastic surgery, run by the famous cosmetic practitioner George Chandler-Powell. Two days after Rhoda Gradwyn, an investigative journalist, arrives in the hope of having her lifelong facial scar removed, she's savagely murdered and Powell finds his surgery under scrutiny from Dalgliesh and his team, who are soon caught in a race against time when another body shows up...

FICTION

Devayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents’ death, ignoring the gently voiced disapproval of her family and friends. Teaching English, creating a garden and making friends with Rani, a former actress who settles in the town with her husband and three children, Devayani’s life is tranquil, imbued with a hardwon independence. Then she meets Ashok Chinappa, Rajnur’s new District Superintendent of Police, and they fall in love despite the fact that Ashok is much older, married, and—as both painfully acknowledge from the very beginning—it is a relationship without a future. Deshpande’s unflinching gaze tracks the suffering, evasions and lies that overtake those caught in the web of subterfuge.

FICTION

This terrific novel, the first volume in a projected trilogy, unfolds in north India and the Bay of Bengal in 1838 on the eve of the British attack on the Chinese ports known as the first opium war. In Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh assembles from different corners of the world sailors, marines and passengers for the Ibis, a slaving schooner now converted to the transport of coolies and opium. In bringing his troupe of characters to Calcutta and into the open water, Ghosh provides the reader with all manner of stories, and equips himself with the personnel to man and navigate an old-fashioned literary three-decker.

FICTION

FICTION

A novel of immense power and artistry, it is a remarkably true story of India's urban middle classes from 1942 to the Emergency.
This novel is the extraordinary chronicle - rich in passion and incident - of several generations of a Punjabi family. Bauji, a successful lawyer in Lyallpur, now in Pakistan, is forced to flee to India by the violence and instability unleashed by Partition. Bauji has lost everything in the transition, and when his daughter Tara gives birth to a son, Arjun, everyone's hopes are pinned on the child the revive the family's fortunes in an independent India.
Together the voices of the various generations tell the story of a fine family and a great country as both struggle to build a new future in difficult circumstances.

FICTION

Swarup's inventive debut traces the fortunes of Ram Mohammad Thomas from "Asia's biggest slum" to his sudden acquisition of enormous wealth as the biggest winner on the popular quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? A poor, uneducated waiter, Ram is arrested after the final episode in the belief that he must have cheated. In jail he shares his hardscrabble life with his lawyer: his abandonment at birth in a used clothing bin, the church orphanage where he was dubbed an "idiot orphan boy," the foster home where children were purposely crippled and forced to beg, the estate of an Australian diplomat who was really a spy, the home of an aging Bollywood actress, and his meager waiter job. Each chapter in Ram's life provided him with a correct answer on the show, as a la Forrest Gump, he has been in the right place at the right time. Ram's funny and poignant odyssey explores the causes of good and evil and illustrates how, with a little luck, the best man sometimes wins.

FICTION

The book portrays the fascinating life journey of a bureaucrat's wife through bewilderment and confusion; how she treads carefully and cautiously the scintillating corridors of power without stiffing her voice of conscience. And, in the process, she runs her full gamut of emotions, evolves and emerges stronger in her own right as an individual.

FICTION

A muscular, deeply incisive and deathly funny comment on twenty-first century India, The Story of My Assassins is a multi-layered novel that skillfully slashes through the subcontinent’s dubious spiritual serenity to lay bare every crippling divide of language, wealth and class. Trawling life and death in the dark underside, it inquires into the inexorable codes of power and wealth that propel societies. A triumph of disparate voices, unbearable realities, and impossible conundrums, this is a book that will forever change the way we look at the world around us.

FICTION

The story is about the feelings of the people of a village "Mano Majra" before and after the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. The agony and the reality of the people of naked Indian history while the partition was in process is elaborated with a painful toil.

HISTORY - INDIA

The Discovery of India was written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942-1946 at Ahmednagar in the Ahmednagar Fort. In this book Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru tries to study the history of India starting from the Indus Valley Civilization, and then covers the country's history from the arrival of the Aryans to government under the British Empire. The effect of these various people on Indian culture and their incorporation into Indian society is examined. This book also analyses in depth the philosophy of Indian life.

HISTORY - WORLD

Glimpses of World History, a book written by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind. It is a collection of 196 letters on world history written from various prisons in British India between 1930-1933. The letters were written to his young daughter Indira, and was meant to introduce her to world history.

History, World history

INDIA

A unique collection of thoughts, ideas, views and vision of some of the brightest brains and most respected individuals—from senior cabinet ministers to role model captains of industry; from internationally acclaimed economists to diplomats par excellence and think-tank honchos; from IT innovators to provocative journalists—all jostle together in this volume sharing glimpses of India of their dreams.

INDIA AND CHINA

This book investigates how the dynamics in the agricultural sector can help not only these two countries but all economies in transition. It shows how institutional reforms relating to land use and price policies can lead to high agricultural growth.

INFRASTRUCTURE

This book showcases the performance and investment plans of some of India's leading infrastructure companies. It also covers numerous development initiatives and proposed investments by the government in various segments of infrastructure facilities in the country over the next five years.

INNOVATION

This monograph aims to work out a strategy and consequent action plan that enables India to become an innovate society. 

INNOVATION

The Second Global Innovation Index 2008 - 2009 (GII) jointly published by Confederation of Indian Industry and INSEAD Business School , has once again placed United States at the top of the Global Innovation Rankings. India , on the other hand, is ranked a lowly 41. The GII that has studied 130 countries has ranked Germany in the second position, followed by Sweden , the United Kingdom and Singapore . The European economies, including the Nordic ones, continued to do well in 2008. Switzerland , Denmark and the Netherlands figured in the top 10 apart from Germany , Sweden and UK that figure in the top 5. However, France was the biggest loser slipping from the 5th to 19th position. Singapore and South Korea are two Asian countries figuring in the top 10. However, Japan has slipped to the 9th position from the 4th and India its last year’s ranking of 23rd to the 41st position. With China ranked at 37th, most BRIC countries have been ranked lower than last time. Israel and Qatar from West Asia and Middle East find places in the top 25. There are other countries from the Middle East just below this quartile. The GII results have revealed that innovation is correlated with income levels in a country. For example, the innovation levels in the OECD countries are much more than non-OECD countries. There are few countries from Africa that are included in the rankings with only South Africa coming in at the 43rd position.

INVESTMENT

International Investment rule-making: stocktaking, challenges and the way forward

This report provides a comprehensive review of sixty years of international investment rulemaking and identifies main trends in current treaty practice. It also identifies the core characteristics of the existing universe of international investment agreements (IIAs) at the beginning of the 21st century and the main challenges arising thereof, and provides a brief outlook concerning the future evolution of the IIA universe.

Investment policy, International investment policy, International investment agreements

INVESTMENT CLIMATE - INDIA

India has emerged in the past few years as one of the world s fastest growing economies. While a high level of investment and domestic private consumption continue to drive growth, it is necessary to address the bottlenecks that prevent sustainable economic growth in the future. India s Investment Climate: Voices of Indian Business identifies key investment climate bottlenecks that slow down growth and poverty reduction. Investment climate refers to factors that influence day-to-day decisions by firms on how to invest. It includes macroeconomic policies, governance, institutions, and infrastructure. In particular this book aims to answer the following three questions insofar as they relate to the investment climate: 1. How can productivity be improved? 2. How can employment generation be increased? 3. How can inequality among states be reduced? India s Investment Climate highlights the significance of the challenges facing India and demonstrates how investment climate improvements in key sectors will assist the Indian economy in overcoming these three challenges. It provides national and local policy makers a number of recommendations based upon well-researched analysis backed by sound economic theory.

Indian economy, Manufacturing investment, Unorganised manufacturing, Retail sector, Software and ITES sector, Reducing inequalities, Investment climate surveys, 

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Industrial Development Report 2009

MARKETING

This book contains one-stop source for all the data to know about the Indian markets. The book looks at the trends in India’s consumer markets – covering everything from household consumption assets, the dynamics of India’s FMCG and durable markets, consumer psychographics, access to media and its consumption. Apart from that, the book also provides perspectives on emerging consumer markets such as retail, telecom, insurance, entertainment and healthcare. And finally, it offers an updated contact list with addresses of all marketing and media services providers. Book also includes rural marketing service providers in the contacts and listings section.

MEDICINAL PLANTS

A summary of the overall findings of this research, based on a comparison of information available for each of the seven species, is presented (MULLIKEN & SCHIPPMANN), followed by detailed assessments for the individual species. The individual species accounts begin with information on the species’ taxonomy, description, distribution, status and threats. This is followed by a review of available information on the species’ medicinal and other uses, harvest and processing, cultivation, national markets and international trade. Available information on illegal trade is presented, followed by a discussion of national and international trade controls for the species. A brief overall analysis of the situation with regard to the species’ status and trade is provided as concluding text, followed by possible next steps that might be taken by governments, particularly within range States, to address concerns identified. A list of country codes and of abbreviations used to describe the origin of trade names are provided as annexes.

POVERTY

The India: Urban Poverty Report 2009 identifies the problems faced by the poor and focuses on the systemic changes that are needed.  It looks at the process of globalization and the development strategy in the country, and asks why the poor exist in urban India and how they are being physically and economically absorbed into the system.  It analyses the processes of urbanization, migration, changes in the economic structure, and the pattern of infrastructural investment, highlighting how these impact on the well-being of the poor. The central concerns of this report include:

• trends and patterns of migration;
• dynamics of urban land and capital market;
• marginalization of the poor to the urban periphery;
• changes in urban governance;
• gender dimensions of urban poverty;
• unorganized workforce and the informal sector;
• provision of and access to basic services and amenities indicating quality of life; and
• appalling conditions in slums.

PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES

The Central Public Sector Enterprises contribute significantly to the Indian economy and are a large employer of all collar jobs. CII recognizes the importance of the PSEs in the prevailing economic scenario and feels that there is a need for empowerment that would enable the enterprises to strengthen themselves to compete in the globalized environment.

RETAIL

This report is intended to address some of the common questions that existing retailers and potential new entrants have on Indian retailing, viz: Which segments and formats have the maximum potential? What is the right format for India? ; Are multiple formats necessary for success? ; Where are we today on supply chain practices and IT usage? ; How good is the support infrastructure in terms of supplier maturity, real estate space availability, financing etc? ; Where are we on personnel availability and capability?
In addition to finding the answers to these and other questions, relevant industry best-practice examples from international retailers and the experiences of other countries have been highlighted to indicate directions that Indian retailers may want to look at to address some of the challenges in the Indian marketplace.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Unleashing skilled India: transforming ITI’s together

This Blue Book is a reference for upgrading and running an Industrial Training Institute, ITI. The Blue Book is structured as a series of books that will be developed in a sequence. The current book of the series, Getting Started , is targeted at the strategic issues faced by IMC members from the Industry. The second and the third book will address the operational and medium term planning issues. The overall purpose of the Blue Book is to support ITI’s towards the following objectives:

• Optimum allocation of funding.
• Operational excellence of IMC.
• Leveraging best practices across ITI’s
• Localized ITI Strategic Organizational Assessment (SOA) diagnostic
• Strategic Contribution Forum for International Experts.

SOCIAL JUSTICE

This study shows how judges seek legitimacy for their decisions by negotiating with four elements that constrain or expand choices before them—laws, institutional norms/ experience/ rules, political preferences, and public concerns. It applies probability analysis on the higher judiciary’s decisions in anti-terror, health, and education cases from 1950–2006. This work represents the first time such an approach has been used to study the Indian Supreme Court.

STATISTICS - INDIA

CSO, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India, New Delhi, 2008

The present issue of the publication is the 43rd edition of the series. It contains time series data for national aggregates generally from 1990-91 and onwards up to the latest available year. The national aggregates are followed by State-wise data for the latest year so as to reflect the comparative development in the States/Union Territories. 

Statistics, India, Area and population, National product, Prices, Agriculture, Livestock and fisheries, Forest, Sericulture, Irrigation, Rainfall, Mining, Industry, Power, Trade, Balance of payment, Indian railways, Motor vehicles, Roads, Shipping, Civil aviation, Post and communication, Newspapers and Periodicals, Banks, Insurance, Housing, Joint stock companies, National finance, Currency, Income tax, Crime statistics, Accidents, Education, Public health statistics, Tourism, Local bodies, Electoral statistics, Labour, Trade unions, Co-operative societies, Five year plans