An Indian For All Seasons

This rich biography, coinciding with his death centenary, illuminates the remarkable journey of Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-“1909) situated at the cusp of two centuries and two world views. It traces Dutt's eventful life-from his running away to England at the age of twenty, and being an exemplary ICS officer (the second Indian in the service), to his early retirement and entry into politics, and becoming president of the Indian National Congress in 1899. Dutt's contribution as an economic historian, a translator of Sanskrit epics into English, and a novelist in Bengali, are elaborately discussed and the contradictions in his attitudes to language, to colonialism, and to religion acknowledged. Featuring Curzon, Naoroji, Vidyasagar, Bankimchandra, Gokhale, Sayaji Rao Gaekwad and other luminaries of the national movement, this meticulously researched and elegantly written book captures an extraordinary moment in modern Indian history and will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.

A former Deputy Director of the CIA provides a behind-the-scenes look at the American intelligence community, the Reagan administration's secret war against the Sandinistas, the covert operations he conceived, and the battle against world terrorism.

Traditional Native recipes featuring products from the land, sea and sky, symbols of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the nurturing land, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power food can have in our lives. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

A collection of traditional tales about gods and heroes in Hindu mythology, aranged in sequence as they might be told at religious festivals during the course of a Hindu calendar year.

An exciting new cookbook from the best-selling author of The Joy of Vegetarian Cooking In India, especially in those parts of it that enjoy a clear distinction between summer and winter, spring and monsoon, cuisines rely equally upon the seasonal availability of ingredients and received wisdom about what constitutes a healthy diet at a particular time of the year. In this unusual cookbook, Jasleen organizes her menus around the weather and shows us how to make the most of each season by using what is plentiful (and cheap) and creating tasty, low-fat dishes that are easy to prepare and far from time consuming. There are cool sharbets and soups for summer, sizzling kababs and grills for those cold winter nights, snacks and light picnic menus for spring, and a delectable selection of all-season menus that include recipes from different parts of the world including Egypt, Iran, the Far East and Europe, sometimes improvised to suit the Indian palate and the Indian kitchen.