{"title":"Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore memoirs that offer personal perspectives on Indian life, history, culture, public service, literature, family, and society. 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These one hundred Letters from England now appear in a book form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese texts form a strand of cultural history.  No matter how topical and fleeting this strand may have seemed at the time, it is more than worthy of preservation in its totality, worthy of a place on one's bookshelf.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was not surprised when William told me that the Statesman had asked him to write a regular column. It was more than yet another feather in his cap. 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Zewail tried his femtosecond laser on literally everything that moved in the world of molecules. He turned his telescope towards the frontiers of science. We can now study the actual movements of atoms in molecules. We can speak of them in time and space in the same way that we imagine them. They are no longer invisible. \u003cbr\u003e-Professor Bengt Norden \u003cbr\u003eChairman of the Noble committee for chemistry, \u003cbr\u003eSwedish Academy of Sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Voyage is an enchanting and evocative tale. It traces the path taken by an inquisitive teenager, who liked roaming freely in the sprawling town in the Nile Delta where he was born, and who to become, within a few short decades, successor in California to the greatest chemist of the twentieth century, Linus Pauling. Like Pauling he also won the Nobel Prize in chemistry outright, for an achievement-the creation of femtochemistry as a powerful new sub-discipline-that is destined to shape much of the science of the twenty-first century. 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Both the watch and the ring were handed over to Benazir Bhutto the next morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 1: ON DEATH AND DYING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dalai Lama on Death\u003cbr\u003eFear of Dying: Acharya Rajneesh\u003cbr\u003eHave You Ever Thought of Death?\u003cbr\u003eBe Prepared\u003cbr\u003eOn the Hit List\u003cbr\u003eNearing Death: Old Age\u003cbr\u003eDeath as a Houseguest\u003cbr\u003eExperience of Death\u003cbr\u003eLearning from the Dead\u003cbr\u003eLife After Death\u003cbr\u003eCoping with the Death of a Loved One\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 2: AFTER LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZ A BHUTTO: From the Death Sentence to the Gallows\u003cbr\u003eSanjay Gandhi: Young Dictator\u003cbr\u003eTikka Khan: Butcher of Bangladesh\u003cbr\u003eM O Mathai: Nehru’s Nemesis\u003cbr\u003eMountbatten: Lord of Baloney\u003cbr\u003eRajni Patel: Marxist Millionaire\u003cbr\u003eGurcharan Singh Tohra: Be- Taaj Badshah\u003cbr\u003eDhiren Bhagat: Gone at 30\u003cbr\u003ePrabha Dutt: Boss’s Boss\u003cbr\u003eHardayal: A Tribute to the Great Revolutionary\u003cbr\u003eRGK: Paradigm of Self- effacement \u003cbr\u003eRemembering Mulk, the Pioneer\u003cbr\u003eThe One and Only Nirad Babu\u003cbr\u003eBalwant Gargi: The Nacked Triangle Fetched Him More Foes Than Friends\u003cbr\u003eR K Narayan: Malgudi No More\u003cbr\u003eAli Sardar Jafri: The Poetry of Burning\u003cbr\u003eFaiz Ahmed Faiz: Marxist, Lover and Poet\u003cbr\u003eG S Fraser: Poetry of the Adi Granth\u003cbr\u003eA Requiem to Domsky\u003cbr\u003eKishan Lal: Poetry with Dahi Bhallas\u003cbr\u003eYogi Bhajan: Khalsa Flag at Half Mast\u003cbr\u003eProtima Bedi: She Had a Lust for Life\u003cbr\u003eNargis Dutt: Mother India\u003cbr\u003eAmrita Shergil: Femme Fatale\u003cbr\u003eChetan Anand: On Losing a Friend\u003cbr\u003eDharma Kumar: Women Like Hr Do Not Die\u003cbr\u003eP C Lal: Air Chief Marshal (1917-1984)\u003cbr\u003eJack Wilberforce Burke Peel: My English Bhai\u003cbr\u003eManzur Qadir: The Role Model\u003cbr\u003eKnowing Bhisham Sahni\u003cbr\u003eThe Palam Air Crash: 1973\u003cbr\u003ePenny-pinching Zinkin\u003cbr\u003eDaadimaa: The Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003eChajjoo Ram Villa\u003cbr\u003eSimla: Family Favourite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph: Khushwant Singh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Khushwant Singh \/ Roli Books \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776338833577,"sku":"14637","price":26.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/14637_704f1697-aed6-45e2-8d44-d49305b7a7a5.jpg?v=1625524935"},{"product_id":"14978-ramkinkar-baij-self-portrait","title":"Ramkinkar Baij   -  Self-Portrait","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ramkinkar Baij\u003cbr\u003eSudipto Chakraborty\/\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s): Sudipto Chakraborty\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Monchasha\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2005\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): N\/A\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis slim book has explosive material within its covers, shrouded in profound aesthetic comprehension expressed in mundane dialogues and above all an overpowering aura of simple yet firm contentment of obtained from connecting with the inscrutable schemes of Nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not only an open window between Ramkinkar and us; it is truly a multilayered mine of rich deposits of human excellence, poised to be unfolded to the motivated and the connoisseur. 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