Chanakya was the royal advisor to the first emperor of Maurya Dynasty, Chandragupta Maurya. He was a teacher, philosopher, economist and a master strategist. He is also known as Kautilya, who wrote the famous Sanskrit text, Arthashashtra, an ancient Indian text on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy. He helped Chandragupta to form a small army and enter Pataliputra, the capital of Magadha Kingdom to started a civil war. Using his intelligence Chandragupta eventually won over ...

The first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been born.The screen that we peer into will soon be within us.We could soon be taking happiness pills before breakfast.The perfect partner might need to be charged before bed.This is a new world we are walking into. And the man who began this journey won't be the man who ends this journey. Where Will Man Take Us? explores the changes technology is bringing about in us-as a society and as a species. ...

Running smoothly on oiled wheels, the prestigious Goal High School in the Emirates, is anything but talkworthy, till a string of deaths and disappearances catapults the school into public limelight. The macabre remains of the sturdy nightwatchman is believed to have been caused by a wild dog attack. While parents panic, the eleventh graders take it up as a challenge and venture into the school premises at night to retrieve a cap that had been placed in their classroom as the object of a da...

"The Greatest Story Ever ToldDispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins-the Pandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to...

"The Greatest Story Ever ToldDispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins-the Pandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to...

Everyone knows about the Ramsays – even those who have never watched a Ramsay film. But who were they really? Where did they come from? Why did they make the films they did? And how? How, really, did they pull it off? In India, the Ramsay name remains synonymous with horror movies. Still, all these decades later. Don't Disturb the Dead is the story of their cinema, their methods and madnesses, the people and the processes, arguments and agreements, about horror cinema as a business model, ...

Since he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And some of the most rewarding and lasting friendships he has known have been with animals, birds and plants—big and small; outgoing and shy. This collection focuses on these companions and brings together his finest essays and stories, both classic and new. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd.

One of the most enduring divas of Hindi cinema, a producer and director for films and television, dancer and choreographer par excellence, magazine editor, an active member of Parliament and now a singer, Hema Malini wears many hats with admirable ease. No other industry name comes close to matching the breadth of her achievements. In an industry where the male star has traditionally driven the commercial success of films, Hema was an exception, with her name alone sufficing to ensure a fi...

Will robots take over the world?When will we meet aliens?How are memories stored inside the brain? Join Dr A.P.J. Kalam on a fascinating quest to explore the realm of science and technology, its extraordinary achievements and its impact on our lives in the days to come.Co-written with Srijan Pal Singh, this book features exciting and cutting-edge career paths in areas such as robotics, aeronautics, neurosciences, pathology, paleontology and material sciences . . . in other words, careers t...

Bad ones get into the pants, whereas the good ones get friend-zoned.Bad ones have a blast and the good ones suffer. Bad boys take it all, while Nice Men Finish Last. Nandu pays an unfair price for being nice; he is dumped by his girlfriend. Depressed by the brutal break-up, he follows in the footsteps of his womanizer friend Sattu, who firmly believes that nothing good ever happens to a nice man. Duly brainwashed to shed his lovelorn avatar, along with the skin of the nice man, Nandu gets ...

We met a stranger on train on our way back home. I was returning to Calcutta with my relative after our trip during the Pooja holidays. His attire revealed that he was a Muslim hailing from Western parts. But we were more baffled as we heard him talk. He spoke on every subject with incredible authority. It seemed as though the God made each and every move only after consulting him. Until then we were living in absolute peace. As we were not aware about the disheartening events happening co...

"My five-year-old daughter Mini couldn't spend even one moment without talking. After her birth, she spent only one year in learning the language. And since then, she never kept quiet. Each of her wakeful moment she spent in talking. Often her mother would scold her to keep quiet. But I could never do it. Silent Mini was a very strange sight to imagine. I could never tolerate it for a long. And that is why she continued talking to me with a lot of eagerness." This has been translated from ...