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Before the global financial meltdown of 2008, India's economy was thriving and its GDP growth was cruising at an impressive 8.8 per cent. The economic boom impacted a large section of Indians, even if unequally. With sustained high growth over an extended period, India could have achieved what...

Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive who is the CEO of Google and it's parent company Alphabet. Sundar, who did metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, has an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton School. He joined Google as a management executive in 2004...

Swami Vivekananda was a young Hindu monk who brought the glory of Indian culture and spirituality to the world. His speech at the World Religion Conference held in Chicago in the year 1893 is still remembered. He created a unique identity of India through that speech. From the age of 25...

Satya Narayan Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft in 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Prior to becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise Group, to build and run the company's...

Ratan Tata was the Chairman of Tata Group from 1991 to 2012. During his 21-year tenure, he made major changes to the group and became part of Tata group's international brands like Tetley, Chorus and Jaguar-Land-Rover. He was also the main force behind creating the cheapest car in the world...

Cooking healthy meals can be creative, easy and downright fun! In The Everyday Healthy Vegetarian, Dr Nandita Iyer, trained nutritionist and self-taught celebrity chef, provides a fantastic combination of myth-busting nutritional advice and simple, fuss-free vegetarian recipes using everyday ingredients from the Indian kitchen. In over 100 delectable recipes spread across four sections, she guides you through interesting ways of preparing the same old vegetables and fruits, while upping the protein content of your diet.

Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and are looking for the real deal to settle down with. When a 30-something woman signs up on a dating website for people looking to get married, she realizes just how delightful, vexing, amusing and befuddling...

From Amartya Sen to Aamir Khan, Raghuram Rajan, Sachin Tendulkar, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitharaman and Sania Mirza among others, in this book eminent journalist Sonia Singh opens a window to the myriad worlds of these stalwarts, who share...

Aditya and Ayesha are a picture perfect couple. He's handsome, young and successful, while she's beautiful, caring and devoted. Aditya's content, but also bored, until he stumbles upon the rabbit-hole that is partner-swapping, and drags her into it with him. When they meet Viren, a charming and poetic man and his bored and frivolous wife Saumya, Aditya begins to fear that he's bitten off more than his ego can chew. It's a question of who has the last laugh, as the swappers battle with the boundaries of possession in a marriage thrown wide open...

The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself...

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known...

An 1898 western short story by American author Stephen Crane. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride. Potter's nemesis, the gunslinger Scratchy Wilson, drunkenly plans to accost the sheriff after he...