Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Dipesh Chakrabarty s eagerly anticipated book examines the politics of history through the careerand in many ways tragic fateof the distinguished historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1957). One of the most important scholars in India during the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and is still the only Indian historian to have ever been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Historical Association. He was a universalizing and scientific historian, highly influential during much of his career, but, by the end of his lifetime, he became marginalized by the history establishment in India. History, Chakrabarty writes, sometimes plays truant with historians: by the 1970swhen Chakrabarty himself was a novice historianSarkar was almost completely forgotten. Through Sarkar s story, Chakrabarty explores the role of historical scholarship in India s colonial modernity and throws new light on the ways that postcolonial Indian historians embraced a more partisan idea of truth in the name of democratic and anti-colonial politics."

This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry. Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the experiences of Indian women call centre workers and the role of women’s participation in the global labour market. The author uses social, cultural, and historical factors to create a framework for examining the processes of identity construction. Within this framework, the book explores the impact of the call centre labour process on the social landscape of urban centres in India and the way in which this has impacted upon transformations and shifts in society with relation to gendered, sexual, and generational relationships. Highlighting the significance of identity in a globalised world, the author argues that identity acts as one of the most powerful constructs in transforming global ‘scapes’ and flows of culture and economics. This book will be of interest to academics working on South Asia, gender and labour studies and issues of globalization, identity and social change.

“India Towards 100: A Call for Reset? Require a Missionary Zeal”, beyond examining the challenges that India faces and proposing several “breakthrough moves” the nation must undertake, reflects at a fundamental level upon several critical issues our civilization must address; and in turn offers a few path-finding guidelines that in unison could influence a more enlightened global economic dynamic. It is our hope this book will guide current and future leaders of nations both in developed and developing environments to reset the dynamics of socio-economic progress. The author argues that the new dynamics for the advancement of civilization should be based on: (i) the fusion of ancient philosophies, underscoring the importance of enriching the planet’s natural and human (with the divine conscience at work within) capital that must transcend conventional debates on the location of the power of resource allocation (market versus government) towards debates that focus on how best to orchestrate the forces of self-expression and self-determination of communities in harmony with nature, (ii) reimagining the discipline of economics as more “biological and relational,” as opposed to mechanistic and transactional, such that policymakers consider shifting their attention from ‘financial engineering’ towards ‘human or social engineering,’ (iii) a strategic approach that nations must embrace by consciously instilling a “central economic nervous system” that dynamically links the vision of a nation with strategic priorities and grassroots programs that are inclusive and globally competitive, and (iv) the enhanced “fluidity of global IQ” across borders, such that it complements the “liquidity of capital” through the strategic application of Artificial Intelligence/5G — not by making humans redundant, but by making them more empowered so that society as a whole is more productive and enlightened, enabling an active network among “economic cells” or what the author calls “cellularism” – beyond capitalism and socialism Accordingly, the book envisions an alternative socioeconomic model that India should consider developing. It celebrates the fundamental principles of Vedic philosophy, enables a village- centric cellular economic dynamic and adopts a strategic approach in developing a globally competitive economy. The book envisions that the nation in the next 25 years to build a socioeconomic dynamic by its 100th anniversary of its independence, which is programed to pave a road that India could take in the second half of the 21st century, similar to the experience of Japan in the second half of the 20th century.

Himalaya Calling: The Origins of China and India will take the reader through a journey through the periods of time and places starting from the beginning of civilization from the Himalayas and extending into the Himalaya Sphere. The chapters in the book enable the reader to view the dynamics of China and India from the geo-civilizational paradigm of the Himalaya Sphere. Among the other new concepts introduced is a new understanding of the Buddhist tryst with China's developing process as a super-state and the interaction of the dynamics of ‘wandering ascetics’ from India and ‘householder’ in China. It conveys the message of two ‘civilization-states’ as akin to oases in the desert of modern ‘nation-states’ and advocates the Indian spiritual goal of ‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ (the whole world is one single family) and the Chinese spiritual goal of ‘tianxia datong 天下大同’ (grand harmony all-under-Heaven).The book is a must-read for all the leaders and policy makers of China and India. It is a culmination of decades of learning by the author who has lived in both the countries. The reader will begin to understand the shared origins of China and India and how the civilizations have been linked through the ages. The book is timely as it coincides with the commemoration of the diamond jubilee (50th anniversary) of the Panchsheel (Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence) in 2014.