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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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The Mavericks of Mussoorie
Author: Selected Speeches M. Venkaiah Naidu
Author: Publications DivisionPublisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN: 8123030207
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Languages : en
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This book comprises speeches delivered by the Honourable Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu since his assumption of office as the 13thVice President of India on the 11thof August 2017.The Vice President has, during the last one year, addressed more than 400 meetings covering a wide range of audiences on a variety of topics ranging from Education to National Security and from Agriculture and Culture to Science and Technology. He has addressed a number of convocations and has delivered keynote addresses and memorial lectures in all the States and Union Territories of our country.The book contains 92 speeches and is categorized into six broad sections - ‘Functioning of Legislatures’, ‘Nation and Nationalism’, ‘Polity and Governance’, ‘Economic Development’, ‘Media’ and ‘India and the World’.The speeches included in this volume provide an insight into the Vice President’s perspective and vision on a wide range of issues confronting the nation. They have been edited and compiled in a way that ensures stylistic continuity, flow, and ease of reading. Hence they deviate slightly from the version that was delivered.We hope that this collection of speeches delivered between September 2017 and August 2018 will make an interesting read and will act as an important source of reference and record.
Selected Speeches, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India
Author: M. Venkaiah NaiduPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Kim
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528791983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
“Kim” is a novel by English author Rudyard Kipling, originally published as a serial in McClure's Magazine between December 1900 and October 1901. The story revolves around the young Kim and aged priest Lama who together venture off on a mutual quest, although for very different reasons. Though now a controversial novel, “Kim” is considered Kipling's greatest literary accomplishment and offers poignant insights into the religious, social, and political issues of the time. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India. He innovated the art of short story writing and was one of the most popular writers in the U.K. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other notable works by this author include: “The Jungle Book” (1894), “The White Man's Burden” (1899), and “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888). Read & Co. Classics is republishing this classic story now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Maa, I've Become a Collector
Author: Rajesh PatilPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9353029600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Rajesh Patil was born to poor farm workers in the backward Khandesh region of Maharashtra. He worked as a child labourer picking cotton, selling bread, and doing small jobs. But what set him apart was that, unlike most of his peers, he was driven by an intense desire to improve his lot through education. Against great odds, he moved to Nashik for a B.Sc. and then to Pune for an M.Sc. in statistics - all this with the help of freeships, scholarships and the support of his teachers, friends and well-wishers. By dint of his hard work, he managed to get into the Indian Statistical Service, but the Indian Administrative Service was his goal. Unsuccessful at first, he persisted until eventually he cracked the competitive exams and qualified for the IAS. Maa, I've Become a Collector is the inspiring account of Rajesh's struggles that has been a bestseller in Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Odia and motivated thousands of students in India's hinterlands in their quest for a better life. At the same time, it is much more than one man's story - it is a riveting and revelatory account of rural India
Roads to Mussoorie
Author: Ruskin BondPublisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Ruskin Bond emerges again, with a delightful set of sketches set in and on the way to his beloved Mussoorie. With an endearing affection and nostalgia for his home of over forty years, Mr Bond describes his journeys to and from Mussoorie over the years, and then delves into the daily scandals surrounding his life and friends in the (not so) sleepy hill town. The pieces in this collection are characterised by an incorrigible sense of humour and an eye for ordinary-and most often unnoticed-details that are so essential to the geographic, social and cultural fabric of a place. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations, Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writer's surroundings and the role they have played in his work and life.
Reforming Urban Transport in India
Author: M RamachandranPublisher: COPAL Publishing Group
ISBN: 9383419296
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reforming Urban Transport in India is an attempt to take stock of the various issues our cities and towns are facing in the area of urban transport, efforts made and being made both at the policy level as well as the field level to address the problems, the ever increasing complexities of challenges in the area of urban mobility and some of the laudable initiatives on the ground to handle the problems. This book would be a valuable addition to the limited literature available on the subject of urban transport in India. The topic has not attained much prominence even in the broader discussions on the transport sector issues in the country. The fact that we address our urban transport issues in a casual manner but there is need to take them up in a focused and purposeful manner and this can no longer be delayed is probably the one loud message which is emerging out of this volume. The wealth of knowledge of the contributors, each one of them having huge experience behind them in this sector, makes the book a valuable addition to the literature and a helpful guide in policy discussions.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask
Author: T. R. RaghunandanPublisher: Penguin Enterprise
ISBN: 9780143442271
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Whatever its faults, the Indian bureaucracy cannot be accused of bias when it comes to confounding those who have to deal with it. Veteran insiders who return to it with their petitions after retirement are as clueless about how it functions as freshly minted supplicants. Outsiders in any case have little knowledge of who is responsible for what and why or how to navigate that critical proposal through the treacherous shoals of the secretariat. At the top of the heap is the fast-tracked elite civil servant, who belongs to a group of generalist and specialized services selected through a competitive examination. The aura of the Indian Administrative Service has remained intact over the years. Lack of awe, bordering on civilized disrespect, is a most effective learning tool. In this humorous, practical book, T.R. Raghunandan aims to deconstruct the structure of the bureaucracy and how it functions, for the understanding of the common person and replaces the anxiety that people feel when they step into a government office with a healthy dollop of irreverence.
Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-1895
Author: John KeayPublisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN: 9780719555763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Where men and mountains meet -- The Gilgit game.
Once Upon an IAS Exam
Author: K. VijayakarthikeyanPublisher: Rupa Publication
ISBN: 9789353045951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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