"कितने गाजी आए कितने गाजी गए" Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye (Hindi Version) Book In Hindi
लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल के.जे.एस. 'टाईनी' ढिल्लों राजपूताना राइफल्स के दिग्गज रहे हैं, जो लगभग चार दशकों की सैन्य सेवा में अनेक बार कश्मीर में पदस्थ रहे।
इस पुस्तक में ' टाईनी ' ढिल्लों उस बंद खिड़की को खोलते हैं, जो न केवल उनके जीवन में बल्कि कश्मीर में भी खुलती है। महज तीन साल की उम्र लेकर कश्मीर में अपने अनेक सेवा-वर्षों के दौरान उन्होंने जिन सबसे कठिन चुनौतियों का सामना किया, उनकी रोचक कहानियाँ हैं, जहाँ उन पर एक तरफ आतंकवाद-विरोधी अभियानों तो दूसरी तरफ सेना की उदारवादी शक्ति के बीच संतुलन बनाए रखने की जिम्मेदारी थी। एक युवा से लेकर चिनार के कोर कमांडर बनने तक की पूरी यात्रा को उन्होंने कलमबंद किया है, जिसमें कश्मीर इस कहानी का अभिन्न अंग है।
प्रत्यक्ष अनुभव पर आधारित इस पुस्तक में कश्मीरी पंडितों के पलायन; पुलवामा में भारतीय सुरक्षाबलों के काफिले पर हुए बर्बर हमले, जिसमें सीआरपीएफ के चालीस जवान वीरगति को प्राप्त हो गए थे; बालाकोट हवाई हमला और अनुच्छेद 370 को समाप्त करने के बाद सामाजिक-राजनीतिक-आर्थिक और कानून-व्यवस्था की स्थिति पर उसके प्रभावों समेत अनेक दूसरी घटनाओं के मिथकों, अर्ध-सत्यों, क्या और क्यों की चर्चा की गई है और उनके रहस्यों को सुलझाया गया है। यह पुस्तक जम्मू-कश्मीर के इतिहास में होनेवाली विभिन्न षड्यंत्रकारी घटनाओं की बारीकियों को बताती है।
छोटी-छोटी कहानियों से भरी, बेबाक और विचारोत्तेजक, ' कितने गाजी आए, कितने गाजी गए' पुस्तक सेना के इस दिग्गज के अपने जीवन की सच्ची कहानियों को सामने लाती है। यह सेना के एक सैनिक के निजी, पेशेवर और पारिवारिक जीवन पर केंद्रित है, जो उन चुनौतियों और संघर्षों की जानकारी देती है, जिनका सामना सैनिक और उनके परिजन करते हैं । बेहद रोचक यह पुस्तक सुधी पाठकों, विशेष रूप से सेना में जाने के इच्छुक युवाओं को भी प्रेरित करेगी ।
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My Country My Life ‘Advaniji Has Been My Friend And Comrade-In-Arms For Over Fifty Years. He Has Never Compromised On His Core Belief In Nationalism, And Yet Has Displayed Flexibility In Political Responses Whenever It Was Demanded By The Situation. He Has An Open Mind That Always Absorbs New Ideas From Diverse Sources. I Am Certain That My Country My Life Will Be Read Widely, And With Keen Interest, By People From Diverse Backgrounds. For Mirrored In It Is The Remarkable Journey Of A Sensitive Human Being And An Outstanding Leader Whose Best, I Hope And Pray, Is Yet To Come.’From The Foreword By Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister Of India (1998-2004) My Country My Life Is An Extraordinary Self-Portrait Of India S Leading Political Personality – L.K. Advani. As An Immigrant Who Was Forced To Abandon His Beloved Sindh, Which Became A Part Of Pakistan After India Was Partitioned In 1947, On The Basis Of The Communally Inspired Two Nation Theory , Advani Gives A Poignant First-Person Account Of That Tragedy. With A Career Spanning Six Decades As A Political Activist In Post-1947 India, During Which He Has Been A Ring-Side Viewer Of, And Participant In, Almost All The Major Socio-Political Developments In India, Advani Is Uniquely Qualified To Offer A Perspective On Independent India S Political Evolution. The Apogee Of Advani S Achievement Was His Seminal Contribution, Together With His Senior Colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee, To Ending The Congress Party S Dominance Over India S Polity By Building The Bharatiya Janata Party As A Viable Alternative For Governing India. The Book Provides A Riveting, Insightful And Assertive Account Of Advani S Fight For Democracy During The Emergency, His Ram Rath Yatra For The Reconstruction Of The Ram Temple At Ayodhya That Resulted In The Biggest Mass Movement In India Since Independence And Catalysed A Nationwide Debate On The True Meaning Of Secularism, And His Years As India S Deputy Prime Minister And Home Minister In The Vajpayee-Led Government Of The National Democratic Alliance Between 1998-2004. The Importance And Relevance Of The Publication Of His Memoirs Has Increased Considerably Since He Has Now Been Chosen By The Bjp-Led Nda To Lead The Multi-Party Alliance Into The Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections. My Country My Life Is A Testimony To What Advani S Admirers As Well As His Critics Have Always Known Him For: The Gift Of Clarity Of Thought, Strong Convictions And Forceful Articulation. This Is A Candid Reflection On Himself, His Party And His Nation That Is Likely To Engage Readers In A Tour De Force With India S Leading Statesman. In A Country Where Political Memoirs, Especially By Those Who Are Still Active In Politics, Are Rare, This Book Is A Landmark.
This book is essential reading for those who want an insider’s understanding of the Afghan civil war.’―Literary Review The continuing turmoil in Afghanistan―and its repercussions in India, Pakistan and beyond―has its roots in the Cold War and the Soviet invasion of the country. One man who played a decisive role during that period was Ahmad Shah Massoud, ‘the Lion of Panjshir’. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the poorly equipped and organized resistance groups were no competition for the superpower―except Massoud. This nowlegendary military strategist and leader unified the mujahideen forces in north-eastern Afghanistan and led a series of dramatic victories against the Russian army. He also kept the Taliban in check, until his assassination―and twenty years later, in 2021, the National Resistance Front led by his son provided the last, fierce resistance to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US forces. The veteran journalist Sandy Gall reported from Afghanistan at length through the 1980s and ’90s, spending months with Massoud and his forces. He now draws on his own memories, exclusive excerpts from Massoud’s diaries, and interviews with the commander’s closest allies to provide an intimate portrait of the charismatic guerrilla leader. Afghan Napoleon casts fascinating new light not only on Massoud’s personal and military struggles, but also on political events over almost four decades in Afghanistan.
The theme of this book is Palestine and its history, and the displacement and exile of
its people. But it is, above all, a human story… My father’s story makes the basic point
that, like all people, the Palestinians are made of flesh and blood and their children feel
the agony of pain as strongly as they enjoy the warmth of happiness.’—Nada Tarbush
Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he
and his family were forced to evacuate their village together with its entire
population, after the Zionist victory that led to the establishment of the State
of Israel. Then as landless refugees in the West Bank, the family sank into
poverty. When, as a teenager, Tarbush left home one day under the pretext
of visiting relatives in Jordan, he in fact set off on a year-long hitchhiking
journey to Europe, where he would eventually become a highly successful
international banker and a key behind-the-scenes promoter of the Palestinian
cause.
In My Palestine, Mohammad Tarbush combines poignant personal memoir
with incisive political and economic commentary on the tumultuous events
that shaped the history of Israel, Palestine and the modern Middle East.
‘My Palestine portrays, with profound sympathy and knowledge,
the courage of the long-suffering Palestinian people as they cope
with the catastrophe that has befallen them. It is, above all, an
intimate and moving account of the resourcefulness of the human
spirit to endure.’—Abdulrazak Gurna
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A fascinating and wide-ranging account of what neurosurgery is really about – the past, present and future.’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm
Since its inception in the early twentieth century, brain surgery has maintained an air of mystery. As the saying ‘it’s not exactly brain surgery’ suggests, the specialty has become synonymous with a level of complexity and meticulousness rivalled only by, well, rocket science.
Warm, rigorous and deeply insightful, neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz reveals what it’s really like to get inside someone’s head – where every second can mean the difference between life or death. Drawing from Schwartz’s experience in one of New York’s busiest hospitals, Gray Matters explores the short but storied history of brain surgery. From the dark days of the lobotomy to the latest research into the long-term effects of contact sports on athletes’ cerebral health, Schwartz unfolds the fascinating story of how we came to understand this extraordinary, three-pound organ, which not only keeps us alive, but makes us who we are.
“Unique and haunting…. A mesmerizing and unforgettable meditation on a
stranger-than-fiction tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly
One month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot
in the head by his roommate and best friend.
At some point in the course of Paul and Mark’s friendship, Mark acquired—legally and
with required permits—five firearms. Those weapons lived with them in their college
apartment. It was a non-issue for the two best friends. They were inseparable. They
were twenty-two-year-old boys at the height of their college experience, unaware that
everything was about to change forever.
The bullet ripped through two walls before it struck Paul’s skull. Mark had accidentally
pulled the trigger while in the other room and—frightened for his own future—delayed
getting treatment for Paul, who miraculously remained conscious the entire time. In
vivid detail, Friendly Fire brings us into the world of both the shooting itself and its
surgical counterpoint—the dark spaces of survival in the face of a traumatic brain
injury and into the paranoid, isolating, dehumanizing maw of personal injury cases.
Friendly Fire is the story of a friendship—both its formation and its destruction.
Through phenomenal writing and gripping detail, Paul reveals a compelling and
inspirational story that speaks to much of contemporary American life.
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The remarkable true story of a young immigrant from Venezuela who had a
dream to change the world, a talent for entertaining, and a determined spirit
to build a new life, taking as many as possible with him on the journey.
An American Story is the stirring memoir by actor, producer, and activist Wilmer
Valderrama, delving into his upbringing in Venezuela where he was raised by two hard
working parents as they navigated their family through a rapidly changing country and
the rise of Hugo Chavez. With the economy crashing around them and their livelihood
disappearing, the family decides to flee the country. Suddenly, the young boy who had
loved riding his horse and dreaming of being Zorro from his favorite black and white tv
show had to grow up quickly, journeying as a teenager from a tiny little pueblo in
Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles.
After being cast in a school theatre production, Valderrama knew he had found his
calling, and began thinking of ways to help support his struggling family. He would
attempt the impossible: find work in Hollywood as an unproven Latino actor. Following
countless auditions and frequent criticisms of his accent, he created the personality
that would eventually land him the role as Fez on the hit series That 70s Show, which
catapulted him to stardom.
Over the coming years, he would create the smash show, Yo Mamma, voice the lead
character in Disney’s Encanto, and so much more, culminating in his joining the cast of
the hit show NCIS in 2016.
It was through service to others and his first USO trip, however, where Valderrama
found his expanded calling, entertaining and encouraging U.S. troops around the world.
He has since traveled with the USO a multitude of times, having participated in almost
50 tours domestically and internationally and was recently named USO Global
Ambassador.
Through his work, Valderrama hopes to demonstrate his love and gratitude for the
country that changed his life. An American Story weaves Valderrama’s personal stories
with those of the remarkable people he’s met along his philanthropic journey. This isn’t
just Valderrama’s story, though. It’s a view of America through an immigrant’s eyes, in
both its stunning unmatched wonders and all its native challenges. It is the profound
and gripping story of someone who found the way and is now inviting as many as
possible to join him on the adventure.
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Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic
abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans
who live with eating disorders, it isn’t just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a
lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape
from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory
thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping
countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.
Melding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent
and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about body shape and fatness,
“emotional eating” and our disorders with food—Jennifer Weiner, Marisa Meltzer, Virgie
Tovar, Sabrina Imbler, Leslie Jamison, and others—Emma Specter explores binge-
eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please she
provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more
than you’ll allow yourself to have.
Abhinav Bindra’s journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemption, a scientist who would try anything to win at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This revised edition brings the story up to date, including what happened at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Closely involved in telling this remarkable story is sportswriter Rohit Brijnath, who gets into Bindra’s mind to help produce one of the finest autobiographies written yet of an Indian sportsman.
The life and work of K.K. Kochu, one of the foremost Dalit thinkers in Kerala, challenges dominant narratives—of the Congress as well as the Communists—that exclude the Dalit experience. Among his most significant works, his autobiography is not merely a gritty story of the life of an individual, but also a thought-provoking history of modern Kerala, from a subaltern perspective.
Growing up in a village called Madhuraveli in a flood-prone region of Kottayam district, fishing in the clear waters of nearby canals and eating wild fruit, Kochu was also a promising student, reading everything he could lay his hands on. Even as a boy, troubled by the unquestioning submission of his Pulaya community to their Namboodiri landlords, he distinguished himself by his curiosity, keenly observing the present and preserving in his young mind precious oral histories of Pulaya life. His thirst for knowledge would sustain him through the long years of tragedy for the family, and periods of unemployment. It would also lead him to study—and work towards ending—the marginalization of the lower-castes and the erasure of their contributions to society. Starting his political activism in college with the Naxalites, he would go on to form a Communist Youth Forum, sympathetic though not affiliated to them. Working with leading figures in the cultural and political space, as well as many that rarely find mention in written histories, he would later move from a Maoist to an Ambedkarite path of anti-caste struggle—a perspective that would guide him in subsequent efforts to build unity among Dalits, Adivasis and minority groups.
Dalithan is a work of scholarship as much as it is an autobiography. By combining a view from below of raw life with an account of the broader socio-cultural, economic and intellectual trajectories in Kerala, it stands out as a unique contribution to Dalit life-writing in Malayalam, available for the first time to an English readership in a brilliant and faithful translation.
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