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Soft cover. Zustand: New. In the business world, only a small proportion of start-ups manage to survive, grow and become formidable enterprises. The overall domain environment of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is characterized by complexity which exacerbates the difficulty faced by any start-up. FPOs make up for limited capital of an individual farmer, whereby they learn to control their economic activities and tend to build a huge possibility of constructive can-do approach among themselves. Unlike privately owned start-ups, FPOs need to manage the social dynamics of their members which at times brings with it an inevitable incursion of politics in a democratic polity. The book attempts to identify the nature of challenges faced by FPOs and provides an understanding of factors that can boost sustained growth. This practical guide is useful for everyone who wishes to build viable FPOs as well as for the corporates, policy makers and academicians who can raise pertinent issues to ensure FPOs become financially viable.

Zustand: Fine. Gebrochener Buchrucken. Portraits of Courage in Indian and Russian Literature is about four writers from India and Russia. Alexander Pushkin, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore and Alexander Solzhenitsyn are separated by different ages, different societies, different races and creeds. They are united by a universality of purpose - of protest against injustice and oppression.All four could have led secure and comfortable lives but they chose danger, exile and even death to express their sympathy for the oppressed. All four upheld the grandeur of freedom. All four were men of courage.Leela Moulik and Bela Mazumdar were sisters who composed the monographs on Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath Tagore in chaste Bengali. Their daughter/niece Aloka Moulik Chatterjee, historian and translator, translated them into English. Her sister Achala M. Moulik wrote about Pushkin and Solzhenitsyn.While portraying the lives and works of the four authors the four gifted women have brought to life the tumult of other times.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Vikram Malhotra, Des Pardes' Michelin Star MasterChef is hated for the flamboyant callousness of both his pomposity and talent. There are many among Viki's kitchen staff who would like to see him stew and burn. Till, one day, Viki really is lying dead on his kitchen floor. The news of the MasterChef 's murder reaches Detective Madhav just as he has finished a light lunch of a mushroom-green-chilli-coriander omelette with thick-cut orange marmalade slathered on fresh rye toast. He rushes of with Manjari to unravel the mystery of Viki's killing. The clues that unpack are scant; and a confusingly mixed bag that include professional hostilities, sexual rivalries, espionage, and what was cooked, as also what is indeed cooking. Join Madhav and Manjari in the first of their thrilling food-and-gore sleuthing adventures.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Business tycoon Hardik Seth and his family have been under the scanner of the Income Tax Commissioner, Rakesh Bisht, for the longest time. His efforts to nab Seth for accumulation of wealth that is definitely not kosher have hit legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Seth's son, Rohan, meets the enchanting Eli in London and the mysterious Mr. Maduro in the British Virgin Islands, who introduce him to the business of money laundering in its newest form. With the advent of crypto-currency and blockchain technology it has become a herculean task for the authorities to trace, gather evidence and institute legal proceedings against the culprits. Bisht, his trusted deputy, Ajit Pandey, and rookie lawyer Saket Sharma are hot on the Seths' trail. It's almost impossible to track the elusive crypto-currency and the Seths, who are always a step ahead. Or are they ? Saurabh Bagaria's Money Gone is a great read, the best bang for your buck!

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The Wasted Years, is a series of essays that were originally blogs. These have been arranged not in a chronological sequence but under subject-heads, making them a cohesive commentary on the times we live in, in India, about which the author writes. While not a work of history, the book is instead the shout of a wounded civilisation. These essays will find place in the annals of India s evolution through the 21st century. Uncompromising in his analysis, the author studiously cites the dark clouds of political, social and economic failures, that seem to be without the proverbial silver lining.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. The two brothers had fought over many issues, but what sometimes got lost in the din of the battle cries was a simple fact: much of the tussle was over India's natural resources, about how the resources were intended to be mined, marketed and monetised.' Paranjoy Guha Thakurta shows how the simmering controversy over the rich natural gas reserves in the Krishna-Godavari Basin boiled over into a primetime storm on gas pricing involving the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas as well as the Prime Minister's Office, even as he introduces new dimensions to it. While many reasons have been attributed to the split in the powerful Indian business family, the Ambanis, this book argues that the battle between the Ambani brothers was largely about wresting control over reserves of natural gas that are below the ocean bed along the basin of the two greatest rivers of southern India. With painstaking research, a meticulous perusal of press reports, as well as a few surprising exclusives, Gas Wars highlights cases of crony capitalism that allowed the Reliance group to blatantly exploit loopholes which were consciously retained in the system to benefit it. Even as the book tells the story of how the country's largest corporate conglomerate has benefited from the way government policies are structured, it lays bare the alarming facts of a natural disaster waiting to happen due to the ruthless exploitation of the country's natural resources in order to swell the fortunes of a few.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. "Trust is a dangerous thing. Unconscious betrayal even more dangerous." The US has withdrawn from Afghanistansomething which both New Delhi and Rawalpindi had long anticipated. As both nations grapple to come to terms with its consequences, an unanticipated cold war between the heads of two notorious institutions in Pakistan's deep state, triggers a daring plan to frame an unsuspecting Indian to gain domestic political glory. It falls upon one man to execute a bold rescue mission, which leaves everyone stunned and grasping for an explanation Our Man in Balochistan.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. "We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails." When the dust settles on the hype around Ai, the world is likely to remain wildly unpredictable. Use this book as a starting point for understanding the human quest for truth, and creating technologies wisely to make our lives richer and the world a better place. YOGAi is the result of the author's professional experience, embellished by interactions with Dr. Karan Singh, Ervin Laszlo, Satish Kumar, John Maeda, Salim Ismail and other luminaries, making it a well-rounded treatise on the interplays of Yoga and Ai. YOGAi makes Ai approachable by contextualising the evolution of technology. These technologies have crept upon us, even without our noticing, and yet when it comes to leveraging them, we still have a tendency to shy away. Technologies with broad, general applications in their early stages take an inordinate amount of time to emerge, but eventually their power becomes self-evident, and they take hold over society in disruptive ways. Another goal of YOGAi is to make you accessible to yourself by contextualising the evolution of the human mind. Attention is brought to Yoga, narrowly understood as physical exercises from India, which in fact are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Yoga serves as a powerful tool for self-discovery, enabling individuals to explore their innermost selves and cultivate a deeper understanding of their identities, purpose, and connections to the world. Ultimately, the convergence of Yoga and Ai represents a pathway towards realising human potential and creating a more equitable and sustainable world for all.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Challenging Caste reads the violence at Bhima Koregaon as a clash between two worldviews one striving to flatten the social hierarchy, the other justifying and perpetuating it. The book deep dives into the songs and the play performed at the Elgar Parishad, controversially critiquing Brahminism and Prime Minister Narendra Modi; furnishes archival records in support of the claim that Govind Gopal, a Mahar, and not Bapuji Buva and Padmavati, a Maratha couple, was linked to the cremation of Chhatrapati Sambhaji; provides a rare glimpse of the world of hate over which Sambhaji Bhide presides; depicts the impact James Laine's book had on Maharashtra's anti-Brahmin consciousness; and recreates the scenes as Bhima Koregaon erupted on 1 January 2018. Following the script laid out by Milind Ekbote and a right-wing think tank, the Pune police and the National Investigating Agency blamed the violence at Bhima Koregaon on a conspiracy hatched between sixteen people anti-caste, civil and human rights activists, intellectuals and lawyers and the Maoists. This book rips apart the Maoist conspiracy theory and the Urban Naxal narrative. It points out the ironies underlying the State's charges against the sixteen, and the flimsiness of the evidence that is said to have been planted on their hacked computers. The conspiracy against the sixteen that inflicted untold miseries on their families is retold here in their voices. An unequal social order, the author argues, can only produce a democracy with broken wings and a political culture enabling the elite to prey upon the weak.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnWhile the rest of the world reels under a severe financial crisis, India s microfinance sector enjoys an unprecedented boom. Why on earth are people investing such huge amounts of money in an obscure industry, especially at the ti.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the rest of the world reels under a severe financial crisis, India's microfinance sector enjoys an unprecedented boom. Why on earth are people investing such huge amounts of money in an obscure industry, especially at the time of global recession And why is Wall Street suddenly so interested in India's poor That is exactly what Robert Bradlee, senior correspondent with The New York Post, sets off to investigate, along with his journalist friend, Chandresh. Little does he know that his search for a scoop would lead him through a complex multi-pronged web of deceit, fraud, manipulation and financial crime, remote controlled from distant lands by an entire chain of financial sector stakeholders.Gripping, racy and meticulously researched, this financial thriller weaves in and out of the affluent world of high-powered boardrooms and the gruelling poverty of the remotest villages of India, to reveal the devastating truths that often lurk behind 'good intentions'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essays in Calcutta Diary first appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly during the infamous 21-month Emergency imposed in India between June 1975 and March 1977. Interestingly, Ashok Mitra had worked with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had imposed the Emergency. The essays recount aspects of a unique and particularly difficult phase in contemporary Indian history.This new edition includes a foreword by eminent social scientist, Partha Chatterjee, and a concluding commentary by the celebrated historian of South Asia, Ranajit Guha. It offers an unparalleled portrait of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in all its grime and glory in a way few writers have been able to capture life and longing in this infuriatingly memorable metropolis in eastern India.Ashok Mitra has been Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Chairman of the Indian Agricultural Prices Commission. He is the author of The Share of Wages in National Income, has edited a volume of essays, Economic Theory and Planning, and his most recent book is Terms of Trade and Class Relations.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. A vegetarian's delight, this book uniquely shares delectable recipes with complex flavours, easy and simple cooking methods with basic ingredients. The freshness and contemporary style of plating exemplifies the culinary skills of Chef Anuj Sood. His distinctive panache and personal touch to create colourful, flavourful and delicious dishes has been highly appreciated. His aromatic and scrumptious dishes have won him many awards and accolades, both nationally and internationally. This book will inspire young chefs to think of artistic ways to use rich and colourful ingredients and spices in different ways to present Indian food in an innovative, chic style.