1. Ten Ways To Save The World
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Ten Technologies To Save The Planet, a new book by Chris Goodall, a businessman and climate-change commentator, has outlined 10 ways to save the world. According to a report in New Scientist, the

2. N-ultimatum To India In 1989?
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...mes reported. "The Indian decision makers were getting concerned about the whole situation, particularly after Pakistan Foreign Minister Yaqub Khan came to Delhi for a SAARC meeting and priv...

3. Origins Of Words And Phrases
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...hey are used in, and some have been changed to suit the dialect of the region, reports the Sun. Starting off the list of words was 'Balti', which in modern day is a type of curry popular in Birmi...

4. Will People Read Books Online?
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...etails are yet to be worked out, it's expected that users would have to pay fees to download and read particular titles while browsing and pre-views may be free. The Google revenue model states that m...

5. Another Book On Obama
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...uoted publisher Jamie Byng as saying: "We had high hopes, but this is fantastic. He is incredibly articulate, a real wordsmith. All this makes people more interested in reading him." (...

6. Reading Aloud
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...ong all those management and self help books, was an audio book version of Robert Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It was an abridged version, but still the discovery was exciting. ...

7. Rowling Donates A Million Pounds To Labour Party
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...uthor of best-selling books about boy wizard Harry Potter, has donated a million pounds to the Labour Party. According to The Telegraph, the Labour Party is struggling with debts totalling £17.8...

8. The Solitary Vice
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...felong observation of what reading seems to do for others) is that it is more complex than this. For starters, many friends I know who read a lot have unhappy marriages, smoke a lot, and don't own the...

9. The Good Parts Version
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...gnise it) had a gimmick in it that tickled us no end. The plot, the author informed you right at the start, was a retelling of a famous adventure book about pirates, swordfights and true love. Except ...

10. BOOK REVIEW: Welcome To The Urban Revolution
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...etter illustration of that than to watch the hysteria over a beautiful new sea link that connects two parts of the city but solves no problems, neither for those who prefer to drive to work nor for th...

11. BOOK REVIEW: The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work
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...uo;s going to change if you read Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work. You will start looking at your work as a journey to something more fruitful. Work will appear as a voyage th...

12. The Urban Planner
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Urbanisation in the Indian context (as well as the global milieu) is a much scrutinised phenomenon, particularly when analysing the dangers of population explosion — an inevitable and unwelcome

13. BOOK REVIEW: Soil Not Oil
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...obalised fossil-fuel addicted haves who have orchestrated the dance of destruction that is making the earth miserable for the have-nots. The attention grabbing environmentalist's take on the hottest t...

14. BOOK REVIEW: The Thing Around Your Neck
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...their lives’ twists, turns and depths; the plots are tantalizing and the writing is crafted so smartly that the reader sees both its modernity – in an openness about what should make up th...

15. BOOK REVIEW: Cyburbia
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..., social networking sites, search engines are so ubiquitous it almost appears as if life descended on Earth with them! But many of us do not know that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) t...

16. Keeping An Ear To The Ground
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...Mortensen, is an ode to empathy and makes a case for its role in business. It is divided into three parts — the first part tries to answer why empathy matters, how organisations lose sight of ...

17. Vendor Consolidation Will Prompt Revision Of Client Mix
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...e vendors depending on the specific publication, pricing and the degree of skill and capability for a particular need.   These were some of the points discussed at the executive briefing of ...

18. Seth's A Suitable Girl In 2013
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... the publication of A Suitable Boy, which was a worldwide sensation. The 1,350-page book sold over a quarter of a million copies in hardback and over a million copies in paperback. In 2013, Penguin wi...

19. BOOK REVIEW: Atlas Of Unknowns
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...etrayal, Anju plagiarises Linno’s works as hers and wins a scholarship to a prestigious New York arts school.   In New York, Anju’s past catches up with her thanks to Bird, a fri...

20. BOOK REVIEW: Whistling In The Dark
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... The interviewees range from 20-something to the 60-plus. There is a renowned architect, a painter, an art historian, and a film studies scholar. There is a clerk who is also a masseur, an autoricksha...

21. 'A Play Between Darkness And Light'
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...in the book is subtler and more interesting than the rough idea with which I began and which was only partially realised in the early drafts.   In the novel, Arzee views that world within Noo...

22. BOOK REVIEW: More Than You Know
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...search in complex systems theory. More Than You Know is one of those non-fiction books that you start reading on a Sunday for light reading, but realise that you can’t stop till you are fin...

23. BOOK REVIEW: Baulsphere
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...phere is one such book. To the baul (the free spirited wandering minstrel) the “wisdom is in the art” writes Mimlu Sen whose own story is as extraordinary as the woman herself. It is as if...

24. BOOK REVIEW: The Other Hand
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...hris Cleave’s second novel, is about the plight of refugees in general around the world, and in particular about the treatment meted out to them by Great Britain. These asylum seekers who are fl...

25. BOOK REVIEW: House Of Cards
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...d communism in that country. Communism disappeared since then, not only in Russia but also in large parts of the world. By the 1990s, capitalism dominated economic policy across the globe, and fina...

26. BOOK REVIEW: Redefining Leadership
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... like books which covertly try to promote an agenda. At least that is the impression that I got as I started out with this book. Primarily because the foreword to the book written by Heidrick & St...

27. The Legacy Of Amar Chitra Katha
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...nded it, and its present day incarnation. The book is colourfully illustrated with the original cover art of ACK’s best loved titles. An assistant professor of religion at Bucknell Unive...

28. BOOK REVIEW: The Next Available Operator
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...ation responsibility but also led to better management and efficiency in society. Unfortunately, the articles that form the core of The Next Available Operator fail to understand that Indians have ...

29. BOOK REVIEW: Dead On Time
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...drop — set in Britain — but then, that cannot be an excuse for using insipid writing, poor articulation and monologues on British political history. Far from being a political thriller, De...

30. BOOK REVIEW: From Poverty To Power
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...on. He was previously a senior policy adviser on trade and development at the UK government’s Department for International Development and a policy analyst on trade and globalisation at CAFOD, t...