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MOTHER INDIA
A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF INDIRA GANDHI By Pranay Gupte
Mother India is the fascinating story of independent India's most complex political figure: Indira Gandhi, the enigmatic and solitary daughter of the country's first prime minister, who rose to become prime minister herself. From being the reticent Indu in the Nehru family, she became one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. Pranay Gupte explores the life and times of 'Mrs G', who at the height of her career was often compared to Bharat Mata-Mother India. Her 'Garibi Hatao' call and her efforts at bringing about a Green Revolution endeared her to the electorate, but controversy and criticism, too, marked her years in and out of office. From the time she engineered a split in the Congress Party to emerge as its undisputed leader in the 1960s, through the triumphal aftermath of the 1971 war, the infamous Emergency, right up to Operation Bluestar which led to her brutal assassination on 31 October 1984, Mrs Gandhi's legacy is still being determined.
This comprehensive biography, reissued in a revised edition on Indira Gandhi's twenty-fifth deatn anniversary, not only explores her career and contradictions as a consummate politician, but also her relationships as daughter, wife and mother. Packed with lively anecdotes and cogent insights, this book is both a compelling portrait of Indira Gandhi and a trenchant analysis of the politics of twentieth-century India.
अँज आय सी ..............नेतृत्व आणि प्रशासन .....किरण बेदी
आपल्या स्पष्ट आणि निडर स्वभावाला अनुसरुन डॉ. किरण बेदी अनुभवाला आलेल्या अनेक आक्षेपार्ह बाबींवर, भावलेल्या विषयांवर कळकळीने लिहीत असतात. साध्या अनलंकृत शैलीतील हे लेखन सामाजिक अन् नैतिक विषयावरील त्यांची मते मांडत असते. या
विषयावर जनतेने जागृत होऊन विचार करावा, सजग व्हावे आणि एकत्र होऊन कृतिशील व्हावे हा हेतू मनात धरुन त्या लिहित असतात. देशातील सर्वसामान्यांना माहीत असलेल्या, नसलेल्या समस्यांवर लिहिलेले वाचताना, वाचकांना डॉ. किरण बेदींची एक संवेदनशील अधिकारी म्हणून ओळख होते. त्यांचे लिखाण वाचकांना सरकार,प्रशासन याबद्दल विचारप्रवृत्त करते.
WE MUST HAVE NO PRICE By Arun Shourie
How did India respond to the terrorist assault on Mumbai? Why does it never have any option when such assaults occur? How real is the threat from China. What should India do to brace itself for it? Will Pakistan deflect the terrorist it has spawned back into India? What should be the contours of our defence policy?
What can be done to speed up reforms? Do ‘dream teams’ delivers or do they just declare grand goals, fudge figures and rely on the short memory of the people? How may India’s official stance on environment be recast so as to convert a grave problem into a great opportunity? Should we open up higher education –to foreign institutions of excellence as much as to foreign institutions of excellence as much as to private entrepreneurs?
What has happened to our political parties, including the BJP? Are the present tussles in the BJP the result of the party having lost the elections? Or were they the cause –did the party lose because this has been the internal condition of the party? What must be done to salvage this party among others?
Who may bring about political reform when the decision to change is in the hands of person who would be the first to be dislocated were the change to come about?
What should a writer do in the face of calumny? What should he do when a society does not heed the facts he places before it?
Arun Shouri searing, revealing, troubling answers. Based on his first-hand experience in government, political, media, as well as his singularly wide ranging research.
The Genius of DNYANESHWAR by Ravin Thatte
According to tradition Dnyaneshwar was born in AD 1275 and passed away in the year 1296 at the age of 21. Little is known of him through ascertainable historical instruments except by way of what he narrated, in which there is very little or no mention of his personal life. But what he narrated had such an astounding quality that the material has survived and prospered, first through the oral tradition and later in print without even an iota of any marketing effort. His most well-known work is Dnyaneshwari, a huge composition in verse and is purportedly a commentary on the Geeta, the most well- known of India's religious/ philosophical texts. However, in all probability, Dnyaneshwari is an independent work which takes Geeta as a reference but unveils all Indian philosophical systems in great detail and in exquisite verse, in a local dialect. The Geeta is in Sanskrit, a classical language. This act of using a local dialect was as rebellious as it could ever get. History tells us that two centuries later an attempt at translating the new testament of the Bible from the original Greek into English led to persecution, imprisonment and a violent death of the translator in AD 1536.
In spite of the tribulations that his parents suffered at the hands of the then clergy, Dnyaneshwar did not become an archetypal rebel but was of a pragmatic mind and relied more on persuasion and evolution in social matters rather than being a revolutionary. His writing is full of great scholarship of the knowledge then extant. His reasoning is based on sound footing drawn mainly from the natural world, he is very astute when reading the human condition, is well informed about his natural and social environment, and intuitively speaks on matters scientific which would boggle the modern mind. But above all he was a visionary, a stoical yet a compassionate social philosopher with a great gift with words and it is believed by those who read his work that his mind was touched by the transcendental. This attempt at translating his main work into English has been made so that more of the world may acquaint itself with this great son of mankind.
संवाद तरुणाईशीः तरुण पिढीच्या पालकत्वाविषयी – रेणू दांडेकर
पालकत्व म्हटल्यावर आपण फक्त लहान मुलांच्या पालकत्वाबद्दल बोलत आलोय. लहान मुलांबरोबर जगताना लहान व्हांव लागतं, तसं तरुणाईबरोबर जगताना मनांन तरुण व्हावं लागतं. इथं आपण तरुण मुलांच्या पालकत्वाबद्दल बोलणार आहोत. म्हणजे त्यांच्याशी बोलणं वागणं, त्यांना समजून घेणं.....मुलांबरोबर आपण मोठे होतो नि पालकत्वाची भूमिकाही बदलते. तरुणाई म्हणजे साधारण १६ ते २७ वयोगटातीलं मुलं- कॉलेजमध्ये प्रवेश केलेली नि शिक्षण पूर्ण करुन जगात बाहेर पडलेली मुलं. हे वय हळवं, आत्ममग्न, स्वतःला काहीतरी विशेषमानू लागलेलं, व्यक्तिमत्वानं आकार घेऊ लागलेलं, भविष्याबद्दल काही स्वप्न पाहणांर, अशा वयातल्या आपल्या मुलांबरोबर वागताना अनेक प्रश्न दोघांनाही पडतात, ताणतणाव निर्माण होतात, वाद होतात. असं नको घडालयला. म्हणून तर या वयातल्या पालकत्वाचा विचार या लेखातून केला आहे. ही अनुभवांची देवाण घेवाण आहे. बदलत्या काळाची बदलती आव्हांन अन् बदलती तरुणाई, हे सारं आपण समजून घेऊन समंजस जीवन जगायलान हवं.
राष्ट्रपती प्रतिभाताई पाटील वैयक्तिक व राजकीय जीवनप्रवासाचा मागोवा - डॉ. छाया पाटील
आपल्या लोकशाही देशाचं सर्वोच्चपद भूषविणा-या श्रीमती प्रतिभा देवींसह पाटील या पहिल्या महिला ‘राष्ट्रपती’ ठरल्या. या पुस्तकाचं महत्वाच वैशिष्ट्य हे की, प्रतिभाताई राष्ट्रपती होण्यापूर्वी म्हणजे त्या राजस्थानच्या राज्यपालपदी असतानाच लेखिका डॉ. छाया महाजन यांनी त्यांच्या व्यक्तिमत्वातील वेगळेपण जाणवून सतत दोन वर्ष प्रतिभाताईंशी व त्यांच्या निकटवर्तीयांशी संवाद साधला. अशी प्रत्यक्ष बातचीत करुन मिळालेल्या माहितीवरुनच त्यांनी हे पुस्तक साकार केलं. या पुस्तकाच लेखन पूर्णत्वाच्या मार्गावर असतानाच प्रतिभाताई राष्ट्रपती होण्याचा सुवर्णयोग जुळून आला.
प्रतिभाताईंच समग्र व्यक्तित्व वाचकांच्या डोळ्यांसमोर उभं राहवं या दृष्टीने त्यांच बालपण, शालेय जीवन, महाविद्यालयीन दिवस, कौटुंबिक आयुष्य, राजकारणात त्यांनी टाकलेलं पहिल पाऊल, राजकीय कारकीर्दीतील त्यांची प्रगती- अशा विविध टप्प्यांचा या पुस्तकात मागोवा घेतला आहे.
प्रतिभाताईंची राजकीय क्षेत्रातील वाटचाल आणि वैयक्तिक जीवनाचा प्रवास-दोन्हींचा सर्वांगीण मागोवा घेणांर हे पुस्तक ताईंच्या व्यक्तित्वाच्या निकट जाण्यास मदत करेते.
गणिताची अपूर्वाई-डॉ. विवेक पाटकर
गणिताची सुरुवात गणना व मोजदाद करणे या माणसाच्या प्राथमिक गरजेपासून झाली. मात्र त्याचा विस्तार आता अथांग समुद्राप्रमाणे झाला असून त्यात किती अमोल रत्ने दडलेली आहेत याची कल्पना करणे देखिल कठीण आहे. आपल्या दैनंदिन व्यवहारापासून ते उच्च तंत्रज्ञान विकसित करण्यापर्यंत सर्व बाबीत गणिताचा सहभाग अनिवार्य झाला आहे. निसर्गाची उर्वरीत रहस्ये उलगडणे आणि अखिल ब्रम्हांडात भरारी मारणे अशा आपल्या स्वप्नाची पूर्ती गणिताच्या पुढील प्रगतीवरच अवलंबून आहे यात शंका नाही.
आपल्या शैक्षणिक अभ्यासक्रमात गणिताचे अमूर्त रुप व तार्किक तांत्रिकता यांवर अधिक भर दिल्यामुळे सर्वसामान्यपणे गणिताबाबत गैरसमज किंवा भीती आढळते. मात्र गणिताचे आणखी अनेक पैलू आहेत व रंजक उपयोगही आहेत याबाबत माहिती असणे गरजेचे वाटते. त्या दृष्टीने या पुस्तकात गणिताच्या विविध छटा आणि उपयोजितेचा व्यापक आवाका सोप्या भाषेत तसेच उदाहरणासह मांडला आहे. गणिताची ही ओळख सर्वांना आवडेल व गणिताची नवीन दालने उघडण्यास मदत करेल असा विश्वास वाटतो.
