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Audiobooks Narrated by Vikrant Chaturvedi
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"There may be no hotter company on the planet than Xiaomi. In less than a decade, the company has gone from being a Chinese start-up to a global player in the smartphone market. Driven by the philosophy of 'Innovation for all', Xiaomi has a cult fan following; after all, it offers high-end features at relatively low prices.
Besides, it does not only sell phones. It also sells earphones, bluetooth speakers, televisions, fitness bands, weighing scales, power banks and air purifiers, among other products. Each one of them offering the best possible value for money.
How did a small Chinese start-up become so big in a matter of years? How has it managed a cult following in such a short time period when a company like Apple took decades? What's the secret behind Xiaomi's success? Such are the answers this book will provide at length."
"भारत महान् राष्ट्र है, जहाँ समृद्ध विरासत एवं ज्ञान का ऐसा भंडार है, जिसमें पूरे विश्व को बदलने की संभावनाएँ निहित हैं। पिछले हजारों वर्षों से इस देश की संस्कृति, वैज्ञानिक प्रतिभाओं तथा सभ्यता पर लगातार आक्रमण होते रहे। औद्योगिक क्रांति के प्रति उदासीनता, कृषि की खराब स्थिति, संसाधनों के कुप्रबंधन तथा बढ़ती आबादी से महान् राष्ट्र की समृद्धि का हृस होता रहा। इस राष्ट्र के महान् नेताओं ने भारत की स्वाधीनता का सपना देखा तथा राष्ट्र की प्रगति के लिए रोडमैप तैयार किया। विशाल प्राकृतिक संसाधन, जैव विविधता और मानव संसाधन होने के बावजूद भारत को अभी भी अपने अतीत का गौरव प्राप्त करना है। इस दिशा में महान् वैज्ञानिकों ने कार्य योजना के साथ टेक्नोलॉजी 2020 विजन तैयार किया, ताकि वर्ष 2020 तक आर्थिक स्तर पर भारत विश्व की महाशक्ति के रूप में उभर सके। विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी की गहन समझ तथा इस क्षेत्र में आत्मनिर्भरता के लिए योजनाएँ तैयार करके ही राष्ट्र सुदृढ बन पाएगा। यदि हम अपनी सोच बदल लें तो निश्चित रूप से भारत को इस ज्ञान के युग में ग्लोबल लीडर बनने का अवसर मिलेगा। स्वप्नदर्शी डॉ. कलाम का एक ही मिशन था 'मिशन इंडिया', जिसके अंतर्गत वे एक विकसित भारत के स्वप्न को साकार होते देखना चाहते थे। यह पुस्तक उसी भविष्य के भारत का दिग्दर्शन कराती है।"
"How do we make sense of the Muslims of India?
Do they form a political community?
Does the imagined conflict between Islam and modernity affect the Muslims' political behaviour in this country?
Are Muslim religious institutions-mosques and madrasas-directly involved in politics?
Do they instruct the community to vote strategically in all elections?
What are 'Muslim issues'?
Is it only about triple talaq?
Are Muslims truly nationalists? Or do they continue to remain just an 'other' in India?
While these questions intrigue us, we seldom debate to find pragmatic answers to these queries. Examining the everydayness of Muslims in contemporary India, Hilal Ahmed offers an evocative story of politics and Islam in India, which goes beyond the given narratives of Muslim victimhood and Islamic separation."
"The first definitive natural history of the Indian subcontinent.
Did you know that the exquisite caves of Ellora were hewn from rock formed in the greatest lava floods the world has known-eruptions so enormous that they may well have obliterated dinosaurs? Or that Bengaluru owes its unique climate to a tectonic event that took place 88 million years ago? That the Ganga and Brahmaputra sequester nearly 20 per cent of global carbon, and their sediments over millions of years have etched submarine canyons in the Bay of Bengal that are larger than the Grand Canyon? Ever heard of Rajasaurus, an Indian dinosaur which was perhaps more ferocious than T rex? Many such amazing facts and discoveries-from 70-million-year-old crocodile eggs in Mumbai to the nesting ground of dinosaurs near Ahmedabad-are a part of Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent.
Researching across wide-ranging scientific disciplines and travelling with scientists all over the country, biochemist Pranay Lal has woven together the first compelling narrative of India's deep natural history, filled with fierce reptiles, fantastic dinosaurs, gargantuan mammals and amazing plants. This story, which includes a rare collection of images, illustrations and maps, starts at the very beginning-from the time when a galactic swirl of dust coalesced to become our life-giving planet-and ends with the arrival of our ancestors on the banks of the Indus. Pranay Lal tells this story with verve, lucidity and an infectious enthusiasm that comes from his deep, abiding love of nature."
"The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was much more than an ordinary electoral phenomenon: it brought to the fore two contrasting views of nationhood: between those who saw modern India in terms of secular republicanism and on the other hand were those who sought to blend technological modernity with the country's Hindu inheritance. The Right's ascendancy and the debates that accompanied it, anticipated many of the concerns that find reflection today in the United States and Europe.
The phenomenon of Hindu nationalism was also a profound intellectual challenge to the loose Left-liberal consensus that had prevailed in India since Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister in 1947. The idea of Hindutva and the political character of the BJP have been closely scrutinised by scholars, and the impulse has been to view India's Right-wing politics as either a variant of fascism or merely a collection of sectarian prejudices.
In fact, the inspiration for the Right in India has come from multiple and often contradictory sources, including the influence of individuals such as Sarvarkar, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, not to mention the Arya Samaj movement.
This collection is an attempt to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Many of the concerns that drive the Indian Right are located in the country's nationalist culture. In trying to locate some of the ideas, attitudes and beliefs that define the Indian Right, Awakening Bharat Mata also seeks to identify the nature of Indian conservatism and identify its similarities and differences with political thought in the West.
This book is not about Hindu nationalism in power but as a social and political movement and its aim is to encourage a more informed understanding of an idea that will remain relevant in Indian life far beyond victories and defeats in elections."
"Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a 'poorly imagined country'. Indeed, Pakistan has meant different things to different people since its birth seventy years ago. Armed with nuclear weapons and dominated by the military and militants, it is variously described around the world as 'dangerous', 'unstable', 'a terrorist incubator' and 'the land of the intolerant'. Much of Pakistan's dysfunction is attributable to an ideology tied to religion and to hostility with the country out of which it was carved out – India. But 95 per cent of Pakistan's 210 million people were born after Partition, as Pakistanis, and cannot easily give up on their home. In his new book, Husain Haqqani, one of the most important commentators on Pakistan in the world today, calls for a bold re-conceptualization of the country. Reimagining Pakistan offers a candid discussion of Pakistan's origins and its current failings, with suggestions for reconsidering its ideology, and identifies a national purpose greater than the rivalry with India."
"A brilliant biography of one of India's greatest poets
Mirza Mohammad Asadullah Khan Ghalib began writing poetry in Persian at the age of nine and the pre-eminent poet of the time, Mir, predicted a great future for the precocious genius when he was shown his verse. But success and material rewards did not come to Ghalib easily, for the times were against him, and he did not suffer fools gladly even if they occupied positions of importance.
Ghalib was at the height of his powers when events took a turn for the worse. First came the decline of the Mughal court, then the rise of the British Empire and, finally, the Revolt of 1857. Though Ghalib lived through the upheavals and purges of the Revolt, in which many of his contemporaries and friends died and his beloved Delhi was irrevocably changed, he was a broken man and longed for death. When he died, on 15 February 1869, he left behind some of the most vivid accounts of the events of the period ever written. In this illuminating biography Pavan K. Varma evocatively captures the spirit of the man and the essence of the times he lived in."
"'Krishnamurthy's leadership has shown that he can achieve stupendous tasks. If for any reason at all he fails, virtually the entire public sector will have to be written off for the next twenty years,' noted the panel that chose V. Krishnamurthy as the Business India Businessman of the Year in 1987. Management of a business enterprise in India is more difficult than in other countries. There are far more uncertainties that an Indian manager has to encounter while performing his tasks-even more so in state-owned companies than in private ones. But Krishnamurthy, through his exemplary stewardship of three major enterprises, changed the rules of the game in the 1970s and 1980s. At Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, he saved the company from imminent disintegration and dispelled Indira Gandhi's impression that Indian managers did not have the ability to manage large organizations. At Maruti, he was given the responsibility of not just manufacturing a car but of modernizing the automobile industry itself. Steel Authority of India Limited was almost a sunset company when he took over, but he shook up the organization from its very foundations and put it back in a leadership position. At the Helm is the story of how a boy from the small village of Karuveli in Tamil Nadu starts out as a technician at airfields during the Second World War but goes on to script the biggest success stories of young India's fledgling public sector over the next five decades."
"अग्निपुंज: शहीद चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद असहयोग आन्दोलन गांधीजी का बिल्कुल अनूठा और नया प्रयोग था। असहयोग की लहर में पूरा देश बह गया था। एक 14 वर्षीय छात्र ने भी इसमें अपनी आहुति दी। चन्द्रशेखर नाम के इस किशोर ने अदालत में अपना नाम 'आज़ाद' बताया। तब से वह आज़ाद ही रहा। एक किशोर असहयोगी से भारतीय क्रान्तिकारी दल के अजेय सेनापति बनने तक की आज़ाद की महागाथा अत्यन्त रोमांचकारी है। वे बहुत गरीब और रूढ़िवादी ब्राह्मण परिवार में जन्मे मगर विद्रोही व्यक्तित्व के कारण उससे जल्दी ही मुक्ति पा ली। शुरुआती दौर में वे असहयोगी बने लेकिन तेजी से छलाँग लगाकर क्रान्तिकारी पार्टी की सदस्यता ले ली और थोड़े ही समय बाद उसके 'कमांडर-इन-चीफ' नियुक्त हो गए। वे पुलिस की आँखों में लगातार धूल झोंककर बड़े करतब करते रहे। आज़ाद जीते-जी किंवदन्ती बन गए थे। जनता में वे बेहद लोकप्रिय थे। उन पर अनेक लोकगीत रचे और गाए गए। मगर आज़ाद की स्मृति-रक्षा के लिए सरकार की ओर से कोई प्रयास नहीं किए गए। उनका जन्मस्थान भावरा (मध्य प्रदेश) तथा पैतृक घर बदरका (उन्नाव) में आज भी उनकी यादों को सँजोए खामोश खड़ा है। उनकी माताजी श्रीमती जगरानी देवी ने स्वतन्त्र भारत में अपने अन्तिम दिन अत्यन्त दयनीय स्थितियों में गुजारे। हम उन्हें एक राष्ट्रीय शहीद की माँ का दर्जा और सम्मान नहीं दे पाए। आज आज़ाद का कोई क्रान्तिकारी साथी जीवित नहीं है। स्वतन्त्र भारत में उनके सारे साथियों की एक-एक कर मौत होती रही और किसी ने नहीं जाना। वे सब गुमनाम चले गए जिनके न रहने पर किसी ने आँसू नहीं बहाए, न कोई मातमी धुन बजी। किसी को पता ही न लगा कि ज़मीं उन आस्माओं को कब कहाँ निगल गई..."
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