Kw: 118 books
by Mr Yuvraj Khetan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book is an attempt to understand how the heinous act of murder can be considered “honourable.” In India, hundreds of young lovers are killed each year for the sake of family “honour.” This book explores the various aspects of “honour” killings to try to understand its continued existence...
Expert or Charlatan?: The Rise and Rise of Management Consulting
The Rise and Rise of Management Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The management consulting industry is a leading component of the world’s knowledge economy permeating every segment of industry, commerce and government service. A multi-billion dollar phenomenon, it has yielded its own body of knowledge and set of practices. Exponents do make a lot of money for...
Pakistan and Afghanistan: The (In)stability factor in India's neighbourhood?
The (In)stability factor in India's neighbourhood?
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The present volume comes out of a conference held by the IFPS in collaboration with CPWAS at Calcutta University in March 2012. The volume comprises of eight essays highlighting on various approaches to the question of instability in India’s western neighbourhood, and what it could mean for India....
IndiaChina Border Trade: A Case Study of Sikkim's Nathu La
A Case Study of Sikkim's Nathu La
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Border trade between India and China was closed shortly before the IndiaChina war of 1962. The growing tensions between the two countries due to border issues along with India’s stand to give refuge to the Dalai Lama added fuel to fire. There was about a decade and a half long Cold War like situation...
The India Collective: What India is Really all About
What India is Really all About
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Every successful country has an operating system, a value system on which the country’s socio economic institutions are built. India has had none and therefore the chaos and resultant failure to succeed in a globally competitive environment for capital and correlated wealth creation. The book analyzes...
by Mr Chris Pietersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The story of the investigation of the MIC toxic gas tragedy in Bhopal (more than 3,700 deaths)and the LPG disaster in Mexico City (500 fatalities), the difficult circumstances of the investigations and the results. Have we learned any lessons? Unique information like the original technical drawings...
India and European Union: Perceptions of the Indian Print Media and Elites
Perceptions of the Indian Print Media and Elites
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The rise of Asia has been touted to be an extremely significant global phenomenon. The EU has sought convergence on global issues, regional security matters as well as regulatory policy and other economic issues with the countries in the region especially India. A close and consistent approach towards...
Cyber Enigma: Unravelling the Terror in the Cyber World
Unravelling the Terror in the Cyber World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Cyber and its related technologies such as Internet was introduced to the world only in late 1980s, and today it is unimaginable to think of a life without these all pervasive technologies. Despite being ubiquitous around the world, cyber technology is still seen as an enigma by many, mainly due to...
India's Sentinel: Select Writings of Air Commodore Jasjit Singh AVSM, VrC, VM (Retd)
Select Writings of Air Commodore Jasjit Singh AVSM, VrC, VM (Retd)
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh was one of India’s foremost strategic analysts. The only constant for him in over three decades of research, analyses and writing was the centrality of national interest. Indeed, the man never let the nation down, whether as an air warrior or a strategist – ever ready...
Kurdistan: The Quest for Representation and Self-Determination
The Quest for Representation and Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Kurdistan, the name given to the Kurds’ historical homeland, is a landlocked region that lies at the crossroads of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. After the fall of Ottoman Empire the Kurdish people were promised independence by the treaty of Sevres in 1920. The Kurds are known as a nation without...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Containing thirteen chapters by Indian and European scholars and practitioners,this volume critically examines the multifarious domestic and external challenges that Pakistan confronts today. It discusses the vicissitudes of the European Union’s relations with Pakistan and the cultural, economic,...
by Dr Radharaman Chakrabarti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Product of a Post-doctoral research done at the University of Washington, (Seattle),USA, the present work is an attempt to conceptualise and analyse the postulates underlying India’s Foreign Policy from its formative years in the early fifties to its maturation in the early eighties of the last...
Productivity and Discipline: Victims of Misdirected Social Justice
Victims of Misdirected Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This is the first book of its kind in which an attempt has been made to brain-scan some of the judgments of the Supreme Court as well as of various high courts and then to link up the results with the objectives of planned development as enumerated in successive Five-Year Plans. The results of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Trans-boundary rivers between Nepal and India have long signified both cooperation and dispute. Though both countries are highly interested in mutual cooperation for the development of the shared rivers, their attempt to bring things to a successful solution has been hampered by debate. Several treaties...