A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite. The story of motherhood is an endlessly rich one: it\"s one of love - and all the highs and lows that come with that world-turning emotion - and, in the purest sense, of life itself....

Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India\"s finest ever writers. To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara\"s visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition....

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai\"s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author....

\"Beautifully accomplished and memorable\" The Times Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city....

\"A remarkable piece of work. A magnificent novel\" Salman Rushdie, Observer Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India....

Famous psychologist and writer David J. Schwartz reflecting on the attitude by, “How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” From this one can easily infer the significance of attitude....

This book provides a review and a research of a special type of classification technique which is known as cost-sensitive data mining. Cost-sensitive data mining is an essential technique of data mining for applications like fraud-detection and loan-approval where the cost of misclassification of a sample is critical....

Knowledge has played a significant role on human activities. Data Mining is the process of knowledge discovery where knowledge is gained by analyzing the data store in very large repositories, which are analyzed from various perspectives and the result is summarized into useful information....

A story of survival set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay. Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work, Lila seems to be responsible for everything....

A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai\'s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement....

This series contains original, unsimplified short stories written by famous classic and modern writers....

To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara\'s visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is a renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape....

Clear Light of Day is both an examination of contemporary India and a family history in which two sisters, Bim and Tara, learn that although there will always be family scars, the ability to forgive and forget is a powerful ally against life\'s sorrows....

Book DescriptionIn her long, distinguished career, Anita Desai has focused her capacious vision on questions of culture and identity. Her mesmerizing new novel, The Zigzag Way, brings her fiction to an unexpected region of the world: mythical, lush Mexico....

Since the 1980s, regulation has been a dominant mantra in economic reforms in developed countries. The Government of India (GoI) too, in the wake of reforms in the 1990s, zealously appointed regulators as an alternative to the direct control of industries - in telecommunications, banking, capital markets, insurance, hydrocarbons and electricity....