Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a good poet, a dignified journalist, an excellent parliamentarian and the most beloved Prime Minister of India. He was a role model for one and all. People of India have been in highly unturned love for him. He had several specific characteristics that could bring him close to people's heart. Shri Vajpayee was a towering figure in Indian national life. Throughout his life, he stood for the upkeep of democratic values. He maintained his commitment in all times whether as a parliamentarian, a Cabinet Minister, or the PM. He was a spell-binding orator, a leader of great vision and a patriot to the core for whom the national interest was paramount. He was a journalist, a statesman and more than anything a true son of India. His ideas, views and simplicity will always inspire the Indians and the people of the world. About the Book The book contains details of his life and achievements, political career, apt leadership, motivating quotes, etc. It contains elaborate description of his poetic excellence during his life span. The book contains chapters like this: 1. Introduction 2. Political Career 3. Atal as the Father of RSS 4. A Constructive Parliamentarian 5. Atal's Views on Different Issues 6. Atal as the Prime Minister 7. Deft Foreign Policy 8. Dealing with Pakistan 9. Excellence beyond Politics 10. Books by Atal Bihari Vajpayee 11. Quotes by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and 12. Awards and Achievements. The book is useful for the students, teachers, journalists and other intellectuals. The youth aspiring to be leaders must read this book.

Reminiscing events and circumstances that shaped the history of Poonch through the ages up to 1947-48. This book contains narratives of– • Invasions on Poonch & Invincibility of Poonch • Dynasties that ruled Poonch • Saga of the Dogra Dynasty of Poonch • Impromptu saving of Srinagar • Salvaging the ravaged and plundered Baramulla • Securing the beleagured Naushera and Jhangar • Recapture of the badly mauled, massacred Rajouri • Liberation of the besieged Poonch Saving Srinagar in the face of invaders and recapture of Baramulla, Uri enabled defeating the siege of Poonch. Link up with Poonch in 1948 was achieved only after recapture of Naushera, Jhangar and Rajouri. A thorough and a befitting account of Indian Armed Forces quickest reaction – The giant leap that saved Kashmir in 1947-48. A Well researched and lucidly written book!!

I was reading Nishankji's stories. Short stories, touching stories, touching life, seem to touch rural, hilly areas. If you delve into them now, you will get pain and it will leave so many questions behind. When I read the list of Nishankji's compositions, I am not talking about reading the compositions, then I acknowledged his calibre. Writing is a spiritual practice, if the feelings have been put into words, then it should be understood that it is an original form, and has taken concrete form, wants some shape, so the journey ahead begins. I congratulate Nishankji. But the sensation, which is of heart, should not die and when a person feels his sensation as the sensation of the whole country and society, then a change happens. (Excerpts of Atal's speech on the inauguration of Nisbankji's book- 'Khade Hut Prashn', a collection of stories, on 22" May 2007)

@In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@@

How the 1967 uprising at Naxalbari inspired a generation of resistance across India and the South Asian subcontinent Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance? Bernard D’Mello’s fascinating narrative answers this question by tracing the circumstances that gave rise to India’s “1968”decade of revolutionary humanism and those that led to the triumph of the “1989” era of appallingly unequal growth condoned by Hindutva-nationalism, the Indian variant of Nazism. Will what remain of India’s continuing “1968” bring twenty-first-century “New Democracy” to the collective agenda? Or will the ongoing regression of “1989” lead the way to full-blown semi-fascism and sub-imperialism? India after Naxalbari is far more than a simple history of the ongoing Naxalite/Maoist resistance; it is a deeply passionate and informed work that not only captures the essence of modern Indian history but also tries to comprehend the present in the context of that history – so that the oppressed can exercise their power to influence its shape and outcome.