Country Public Limited (CPL) was a public sector enterprise in India. It manufactured electric equipments and had a strong customer-base in India and overseas. It had witnessed a major setback in 2012 in the form of de-growth of 25% in comparison to the previous year. Rising attrition of young talented employees had added to the dismay. Perturbed by the current state of affairs at CPL, Raghav Dutta, the General Manager for its Delhi division asked for the assistance of his consultant friend Gayatri Sharma. Gayatri attempted to get to the root of the problem. Her analysis based on thorough discussions with employees and managers threw up many horrifying facts about the performance management system at CPL.

This is an epic oral history of Vietnam's bloodiest campaign, fought for seven months in a series of battles, most of them within four miles of each other, along Route 534. Staring in October 1967, orders came down to the 2nd North Vietnamese Army Division commanding them to join with the local Viet Cong and seize the city of Danang in the Tet Offensive. After fighting for seven months in the Que Son Valley, the division was so battered that it failed to carry out its mission, with only one platoon making it inside the city limits. This is the true-life accounts of what fighting was like in that narrow, bloody valley from the veteran's own mouths, and how that saved Danang from suffering the same fate as Hue City

Breaking new ground in the historiography of the overseas Chinese and British colonialism, this book focuses on two areas largely ignored by students of the period—opium and the economic role of the group of institutions known as kongsi, or secret societies.