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1.The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan
1.The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan
- Neil Jordan won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game.
- The book was in news because it exposes how millions of people were killed by a series of disastrous Western interventions in West Asia.
- The book recounts the visit by ex-ISI chief General Pasha to Washington on 24 and 25 December 2008, where he made the startling admission.
- Shashi Kapoor - the Householder, the Star is the first biography of the veteran actor.
- The book contains the author’s conversations with an anonymous army officer. It narrates the staged encounters in India's northeast and explains how awards and citations are linked to a body count.
- The making of India: The untold story of British Enterprises is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure.
- The memoir will offer a glimpse of Scott’s journey to space and his life aboard the ISS. He will also recount the obstacles he encountered along the way, his early struggles in school, his training as a Navy test pilot, and the work required to become an astronaut and live in space for one year.
- The book explores a subject of immense global significance of Pakistan and its relations with remaining World including India.
- The book narrates the story of Emraan’s life when his family dealt with the horrific struggle as his six-year-old son Ayaan battled his way through cancer.
- The book describes film actor Shatrughan Sinha’s journey from Patna to Film Institute of India (now FTII) in Poona and then to his tryst with the celluloid.
- The books covers all the important aspects of Mahatma Gandhi’s life – early marriage in Kathiawar, his college days in London, employment in South Africa, train ride in Pietermaritzburg, etc.
- The book delved into underbelly of cricket, analysed the spot-fixing and nexus of bookies and punters with those in the corridors of power, mysterious deaths and issues that threatened the gentleman's game.
- The book focuses on historic evidences which are mostly ignored or overshadowed by other historic adventures of Shivaji.
- Kingdom for his Love is the second novel under ACK’s novel imprint 'ACK Stories Alive', its first book titled 'Counter Theft' in 2015.
- The book narrates the story of Nathuram Vinayakrao Godse who died an untimely death and his brother suffered a life of immense mental torture.
- In this book, he reminisced about crucial events of his political life including Indira Gandhi's assassination, Babri Masjid demolition, operation Blue Star and his ouster from Rajiv Gandhi's Cabinet.
- The book is the autobiography of the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group Subhash Chandra
- The book was edited by Prof Alexander and with contributions from eminent persons like Justice K T Thomas, Dr Rajan Kurukkal, Dr B Vivekanandan, M G Radhakrishnan and others.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 January 2016 released a book titled “MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT “(My India Noble India) written by Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj.
- Around 1.6 million copies of the book were sold in the USA since it was published in July 2015.
- The book, written by a member of the Bose family, brings to light previously unpublished material on Netaji and Sarat Chandra Bose.
- He, in his autobiography ‘Life On My Terms’, has provided a detailed account of the reason which helped in creation of rough patches in his relation with Rajiv Gandhi.
- The book provides three prominent theories of Bose’s death zeroing in on what has come to be known as the Faizabad angle of the Bose mystery.
- The book suggests that India, one of the world’s youngest countries, may fail to become a global powerhouse, if it fails to resolve the contradictions and bridge gaps that distort our society.
- The book based on a comprehensive research explains the social, economic and commercial significance of inter-linking of rivers in the country.
- It is an autobiography of Sam Pitroda who is considered as the father of Indian telecom revolution.
- The book launched on Smita Patil’s 60th birth anniversary acquaints the readers with a remarkable journey of the short-lived actress and offers a sharp analysis of some best movies of the New Indian Cinema.
- The book recounts and explains the worst financial crisis and economic slump in America since the Great Depression, providing an insider’s account of the policy response.
- The authors through the book claim that Hillary Clinton has a long history of being domestically violent with Bill Clinton.
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