The Explorer's Quest.

05/02/2015

05/02/2015

This book examines the design of steel beam, plate girder and box girder components of bridges. It also provides an overview of the historical development of steel bridges of the behavior of

06/07/2014

What can you do without Knowledge?

03/11/2013

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

21/10/2013

The$ 100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

- by Chris Gullebeau

21/10/2013

Islam, South Asia & the Cold War

by A. G. Noorani

Islam, south Asia& the Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and published in various dailies and journals to which he has been a regular contributor, including Frontline, The Statesman, The Indian Express, The illustrated Weekly of India and the Islamabad quarterly Criterion. The Book is divided in three thematic sections Islam and Muslims, South Asian Themes and Ravages of the Cold War and provides interesting insights into the issues dealt with, from the perspective of a leading political commentator and legal expert of our times.

05/10/2013

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

22/09/2013

“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”
― Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra

22/09/2013

“Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or r***d, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

30/07/2013

Ten facts about Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president and a key figure in ending apartheid in South Africa.