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The respected Times of India journalist reveals the truths and consequences of the country’s unprecedented COVID-19 lockdown. On March 24, 2020, with approximately five hundred reported COVID-19 cases reported and only hours notice, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the most stringent national lockdown the world has ever seen. Two months later, Modi announced the fourth phase of national lockdown with some relaxations. Now in phase five of lockdown—and as restrictions are loosened even more—all everyone knows for sure is what is unknown: What happens to the virus as India reopens? What happens to the Indian economy? And what happens to Modi? Lockdown brings you inside an event that will affect the world around us perhaps for decades to come.

Some people ask God for temporal gifts. In the author's case, he has never asked God for anything. But being a devout Hindu for twenty years was only bringing misery, disease, poverty, hunger, and social ostracization in his life. There had to be a better path for him to follow. In his forties he started to engage with the Light--Christ--that he had done so in his formative years. He just asked for his will to be done in his life. He found more solace and less confusion and more clarity with God. This book relates the author's journey, an ongoing one, towards Jesus Christ, his One and Only LORD and Savior now.

What would be the cost to the US of a nuke explosion in a city like New York? It could be in the trillions of dollars. 9/11 itself has led to America wasting trillions just in lost wars. A nuke explosion is coming. How should America prevent it?Bin Laden had a bounty of $25 million on his head. Three people are believed to have outed him. A Pakistani polio doctor, a retired brigadier of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and believe it or not, the then-Pakistani army chief, Ashfaq Kayani.The polio doctor rots in jail in Pakistan today. The retired ISI brigadier got his cut and moved to the US with his family under America's witness protection program. The army chief got the lion's share. Without betraying Bin Laden, upon retirement from the army, the army chief would anyway have led a lord's life in Pakistan.But he took his booty and decamped to Australia where he lives like a king.Now the head of Al Qaeda is Al Zawahiri. Zawahiri believes, rightly or wrongly, that the US has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for between five and ten million Muslims dying after 9/11. The figure of five million seems more accurate; ten million seems to be somewhat of an exaggeration. Still, Zawahiri wants revenge for even those five million deaths.He wants to nuke America. He is 68. This is his last wish before he folds his eyes, as he says.Zawahiri has been pursuing a nuclear bomb project for years. Now he's got everything in place. He was struggling to get the bomb material. The Pakistanis have deployed tactical nukes called Nasrs in the field against India. There are between 300-500 Nasrs in the field, all under the operational control of field commanders.The Pakistani army's raison d'etre is to destroy India. But it also seethes against America. After the Soviets quit Afghanistan in 1989, the Americans discarded their collaborators, the Pakistanis, like a used condom. After 9/11, Pakistan was forced to become an ally of America against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but it did so reluctantly.The Pakistani army has practically been the foster parent of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Now, after 9/11, the same Pakistani army was being asked to desert them. There was severe blowback in terms of Talibani terrorism in Pakistan. Pakistani army officers started hating America even more.The Pakistani ISI, a wing of the army, protected Bin Laden. Now it is protecting Zawahiri. It wants Zawahiri to prise Kashmir from India's grasp. Zawahiri has little to no interest in going after India. It is America that he wants to hurt.The ISI tells him that if you don't focus on India, we will out you. So Zawahiri has opened up a wing called Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. There's then this constant tension between the ISI and Zawahiri. Zawahiri is shrewd. He says that he will attack both the US and India. The ISI is comfortable with that scenario.Zawahiri has got his hands on one or more of Pakistan's Nasrs. Each Nasr comes with an electronic lock called a Permissive Action Link, or PAL. The key to the lock is with the field commander. A jihadi commander or commanders have given a PAL (or PALs) with Zawahiri. Even without the PAL, Zawahiri can cut open the Nasr to get his hands on its fissile material.Zawahiri knows how to transport the material and the other bomb parts to the US. It will be as cargo on a ship, well hidden in a consignment of say deliciously smelling mangoes. Which sniffer dog is going to be able to pick out the bomb parts?Zawahiri has trained sleeper cells in place in the US to assemble the bomb and then to blast it in a place of his choosing.Why hasn't he done this earlier? Well, the Pakistani tactical nukes are a relatively recent development. Creating sleeper cells and training them takes time.So then how to prevent the nuclear strike? The Pakistani army is a state within a state. The ISI is a state within a state within a state.

Although Arabs had started invading India at the beginning of the eighth century, they came to the subcontinent mainly to plunder, spread their Islamic faith, and then retreat. The Arabs converted the Central Asians to Islam, who in turn converted the Afghans. The Afghans were traditionally Hindus and had then become Buddhist. The Buddhas of Bamiyan, monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the sides of a cliff in Afghanistan in the sixth century AD, were evidence of how much Buddhism had spread in Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed these statues in 2001.The Afghans started invading the Indian Subcontinent, but it was not until circa 1200 AD that their rule was firmly established in Delhi. The Afghans had become fanatical Muslims by then. This time though the Muslims did not come to India just to loot and proselytize and then leave. They came to stay. The Afghans ruled India for three hundred consecutive years. No Hindu king could topple them. Ironically, they were toppled by another type of Muslims, Central Asians of Mongol descent, who came to be known as the Mughals.

Presents the advice of over 40 renowned Indian environmentalists and scientists concerned with how climate change is affecting the various regions of India, the degree of the threat and how it can be alleviated if not eliminated. The collection covers almost every imminent risk the country faces.

“The poignant memoir of two brothers raised under the dark shadow of Indian Partition” before one becomes a Los Angeles cop and the other a terrorist (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Sunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. He was also a biologist and a translator of classic Indian poetry. But before that, he was a refugee of the genocidal violence that followed the Partition of India. While Sunil eventually escaped to a new life, his brother Raju took a different path. Raju was arrested, fled the law, and became a fugitive. Then he became a terrorist. Later in life, facing Stage IV lung cancer, Sunil tried to understand how he and his brother found themselves on such radically different paths. In Stealing Green Mangoes, Dutta takes us from his childhood home in Rajasthan to the streets of southeastern Los Angeles, attempting to uncover what it was that tore him and Raju apart. A memoir with sweeping, spiritual ambitions, Stealing Green Mangoes asks probing questions about surviving trauma, crossing borders, and how we become who we are.

Winner of the 2020 Tata Literature Live! Business Book Award From the bylanes of Kamalia and the rugged landscapes of Quetta in India of the 1940s which later became Pakistan, they escaped to the Partition-ravaged cities of Amritsar, Agra, Delhi and finally settled in Ludhiana with little more than the shirts on their backs. From here, four of the six Munjal brothers built their business, part by part. There was no grand vision of building a world-scale enterprise; their aim was simply to survive and provide for their families. Hero began with trading in and then manufacturing bicycle parts, evolved into bicycles, mopeds, automotive parts, motorcycles and scooters, and today the restructured group also encompasses service businesses and infrastructure.In 1986, thirty years after its inception, Hero Cycles became the largest bicycle maker in the world. In the next fifteen years, the motorcycle venture Hero Honda also became the largest in the world, and both pole positions are held firmly even today. This is an authentic 'Make in India' story about overcoming many odds: labyrinthine red tape, tepid economic growth and later, global competition. It follows the lives and times of the four Munjal brothers who lived together and scripted a dramatic revolution on two wheels without any formal education or resources. In parallel, it's also the story of how an agrarian economy like India, with limited means of transportation, took wing on the back of this two-wheel revolution.Driven by family values and Indian ethos, yet wholly contemporary and pioneering in their thinking and best practices, Hero firms today are renowned for putting mutually beneficial relationships at the very core of their business philosophy. The book goes deep inside the 'family spirit' that brought employees, customers, channel partners, suppliers and local communities together to create success, welfare and well-being for millions over the past seven decades. A rare story that proves how a principle-driven organization can create exceptional value for society.

I am intoxicated with love: why should I be conscious of forms? I crave freedom from this world, what attachment have I to the world? They who are separated from their Beloved wander aimlessly from door to door: My friend dwells within me, there is no waiting for me anymore ! The entire creation doth crackle much of its head for Fame. For me, the Name of my Lord is True: what attachment have I to the world? Not for a moment the Beloved forsakes me: nor I can leave the Dear one. I am in love with Him: There is no restlessness for me. Intoxicated with love, dispel thou the duality from thy heart. Delicate is the path thou hast to tread; why carry a heavy burden on the head? So says Kabir Das.

"When going gets tough, tough gets going." Life's journey is as easy as we think and vice versa. Winning becomes very simple if we adore the traits those are essential. When we have it, everything seems possible and the adverse is true even. Motivating a person is tailor-made, Winner's Mirror will provide the assistance on the success journey and will keep on inspiring us throughout our personal and professional life.

"Living on the 'Adge' in JhandeWalan Thompson is the story of a metropolitan Indian's career through a modern profession: advertising. That's a bit like saying P.G. Wodehouse bore witness to the habits of the English upper classes: true enough, but it leaves out the lunatic pleasure of the enterprise. This is the funniest book written by a "desi" in years: if the HTA office in Jhandewalan was Delhi's Drones Club, Sunil Gupta was its Bingo Little. Buy it" - Mukul Kesavan "Disproving Jerry Della Femina's dictum that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on, industry veteran Sunil Gupta bares all in this racy, anecdote-packed romp through the realm of the not-so hidden persuaders. Industry insiders will love it for the who-did-what-to-whom-and-why revelations; lay readers will be rewarded by the many insights the author provides into the workings of the ad, ad, ad, ad world" - Jug Suraiya Living on the 'Adge' in Jhande Walan Thompson is a Bill Bryson-esque tale of Sunil Gupta's twenty-three-year-long expedition through the looking glass in the madcap Wonderland of Indian Advertising. A delightful and quirky narrative with a wonderful cast of characters and companies (a virtual who's who of advertising and marketing), inimitable description and hilarious episodes, it represents a valuable and irreverent history of the growth and development of an increasingly important and yet largely unknown sector of the industry. Sunil's gift of observation and portraiture and his orginial use of language and metaphor are truly remarkable. Dig in and discover how Sunil likes his coffee without any sweetener. You won't find any aspartame in his writing either. And you'll find a lot to laugh about, admire and ponder over along the way.