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India and the goal of $ 5 Trillion Economy: Do we just sigh at the present status or do something about it?

Newsroom24x7 Network Dr Aruna (Limaye) Sharma’s latest book “Dancing towards the $ 5 Trillion Economy on a Holistics Beat” is dot on time, especially when global economies are grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and are busy reformatting themselves to take on the challenges that lie ahead. This book, by a career bureaucrat, a 1982 batch… Read More India and the goal of $ 5 Trillion Economy: Do we just sigh at the present status or do something about it?

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De-mystifying Indian Cricket’s Myths

Harpal Singh Bedi MYTH-BUSTING: Indian Cricket Behind the Headlines By Gulu Ezekiel Price: Rs 295  Rupa Publications  There is a myth that Cricket in India  gained popularity after winning the 1983 World Cup as the victory  was directly  beamed to the drawing rooms of  millions of people back home and they felt elated and proud watching Kapil Dev and… Read More De-mystifying Indian Cricket’s Myths

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Know the Anti-Nationals: Book by RSN Singh

Book Review We live in an era of nation-states. Nationhood is predicated on shared sense of past and a common purpose of future. More than nation-state, India is a civilization, a complete civilization. To keep this civilization fresh and vibrant, winds from all directions are imperative for its nourishment. But, winds cannot be allowed to… Read More Know the Anti-Nationals: Book by RSN Singh

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Shuggie Bain is a deserving winner of the Booker

Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020 Guru Chahal Yesterday, I finally finished reading the Man Booker Prize 2020 winner – Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart’s first novel. It took me a month and a half to finish the 430-pager paperback… Read More Shuggie Bain is a deserving winner of the Booker

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Hindi version of Political Mirage launched

Newsroom24x7 Network राजनैतिक मृगतृष्णा, the Hindi version of Lalit Shastri’s book Political Mirage – 50 years after India became Republic, was launched on 1 Jan 2021. Political Mirage was released by former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee in June 2000. Lalit Shastri, Editor-in-chief, is a live-wire journalist with more than 35 years of experience in mainstream… Read More Hindi version of Political Mirage launched

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SPEED MERCHANTS – The Story Of Indian Pace Bowling

SPEED MERCHANTS – The Story Of Indian Pace Bowling (1880-2019) Authors:  Gulu Ezekiel and Vijay Lokapally Publisher: Bloomsbury Book Review: Harpal Singh Bedi The situation changed dramatically with the advent of Kapil Dev. The Floodgates really opened in the new millennium with Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan and Irfan Khan leading a revolution that today sees India’s pace… Read More SPEED MERCHANTS – The Story Of Indian Pace Bowling

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The Rise and fall of the Emerald Tigers by Raghu Chundawat

Ashok Anand Raghu Chundawat is a renowned conservation biologist whose main studies have been on snow leopards and tigers. Raghu’s pioneering ten-year research on the Panna tigers was  immortalized by BBC in the documentary – Tigers of the Emerald Forest. Raghu’s book on tiger of Panna – The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers –… Read More The Rise and fall of the Emerald Tigers by Raghu Chundawat

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“Who says there is no God”

Newsroom24x7 Staff Bhopal: Former top cop KS Dhillon released a book titled “कौन कहता है ईश्वर नही है’ (Who says there is no God) by retired IAS officer CS Chadha at a function organised today at National Sapre Museum in the State capital. Especially present on this occasion was the founder of Sapre Museum veteran… Read More “Who says there is no God”

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Manmohan Singh launches the book “Give Nonviolence a Chance”

Newsroom24x7 Staff New Delhi: Former Prime Minister and distinguished economist Manmohan Singh today released the book “Give Nonviolence a Chance -The Journey of Neelakanta Radhakrishnan”, edited by Dr Anoop Swarup, Vice Chancellor of Jagran Lake City University and a former top bureaucrat. Prominent personalities, including Dr Karan Singh and Dr Narendra Jadhav,  were present at… Read More Manmohan Singh launches the book “Give Nonviolence a Chance”

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“The Enabler Narendra Modi: Breaking Stereotypes”

Latest Book review by Newsroom24x7 It has been a year since Narendra Modi came to power after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide victory in the 2014 parliamentary election. Modi in a few months after his inauguration shut down the Planning Commission, which by default subverted the idea of India being a federal… Read More “The Enabler Narendra Modi: Breaking Stereotypes”

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