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Frontpage Publications Human Rights Voices of World's Young Activists
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Frontpage Publications The Real Thing: Coke's Bumpy Ride Through India
"The Real Thing: Coke's Bumpy Ride through India", is a non-fiction real life story of the Atlanta-based The Coca Cola Company's long troubled business journey, partly its own making and partly because of its wrong assessment of India's regulatory system and administrative framework. The content combines a painstaking research by the author into various aspects of the company's operations over a period of time and his insider's knowledge with a reporter's detachment. The chapters are constructed brick by brick to chronicle the company's and brand Coca-Cola's business moves in the sub-continent, following more of a hybrid than purely global or local standard. Entering India in 1991 after a 14-year exile, Coke's subsequent policies and practices have been mired in controversy. The pesticides in colas, the closure of the company's Kerala plant following its expose as a groundwater guzzler, and the company's constant fight with environmentalists, social activists and the government provided the impetus for writing this book. Having tracked Coke for over two decades, Nantoo Banerjee's book provides, possibly for the first time in India, a well-researched look into the operation of a major multinational - its managerial practices, especially some of the critical moves and decisions taken by its senior executives in Atlanta, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New Delhi, internal intrigue, customer care policies, external pressures and ruthless ambition. The book is brilliantly bold and lives up to the author's reputation as one of the country's best-known investigative business journalists.
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Frontpage Publications Gandhi's Dilemma in War and Independence
In the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit India movement, famine, partition and the civil war, the author draws our attention to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the Indian Independence Movement, who, as he puts it, 'symbolised the conflicts and paradoxes of that time of transition'. As one critically examines Gandhi's views during the period of India's passage to political independence on issues such as war, decolonisation, nationalist challenge, state sovereignty, problems of governance and so on, a pertinent question surfaces: was Gandhi as confident in his political agenda and methods as history has asserted to the present day? Gandhi, again a satyagrahi, an ardent propagator of non-violent resistance to injustice throughout his life, appears in the eyes of the Englishmen, as an extremist and saboteur of the Allied democratic cause in the World War II. Using his scholarly acumen, the author unveils a new dimension to Gandhi's towering personality with the suggestion that time was closing down on him. It was a situation of classic aporia, when exit from the problem that Gandhi struggled to escape from became impossible in its own terms.
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Frontpage Publications Globalisation, Democracy and Corruption an Indian Perspective
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Frontpage Publications Women's Encounter with Disaster
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Frontpage Publications Nation or the Empire Indian Civilians at the Crossroads
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Frontpage Publications Price When Bookkeeping Means Bookcooking
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Frontpage Publications The Picture of My Early Life
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Frontpage Publications Strangling Liberty Media in Distress in Pakistan
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Frontpage Publications Tagore's Best Short Stories
In commemoration of Rabindranath Tagore's [1861-1941] 150 years anniversary, this new collection of English translation of his selected short stories opens up the possibility of an English reading global audience discovering relevance in Tagore's creations more than a century after they were penned in India.
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Frontpage Publications Rediscovering Swami Vivekananda
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Frontpage Publications The Real Thing Coke's Bumpy Ride Through India
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Frontpage Publications A Voice out of Poverty: The Power to Achieve through Adversity
A Voice out of Poverty: The Power to Achieve through Adversity is an inspiring memoir that shows how beauty can be found in improbable places, and how achieving success is not just about making it through. Rather, it is the act of reaching back to bring others with you. As a young girl, Jillian Haslam, the author, saved a life. Herself tiny and aching from malnutrition, she stood for hours at a tea shop, begging for a ladle of milk to try and prevent her new-born sister from dying of starvation. This tenacious act was the first glimmer of a lifelong drive to empower others to rise from adversity. Now a renowned humanitarian and motivational speaker, Jillian Haslam, bestowed with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award, The True Legend Award from The Telegraph, the Asian Woman of the Year Award by The Independent (to name a few), shares her astonishing story to light the way for people to realise that their destiny is greater than their circumstances. Jillian offers talks on overcoming adversity to corporates, educational institutions and others to help achieve their set objectives.
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Frontpage Publications Forced Migration and Media Mirrors
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Frontpage Publications Indian National Evolution a Brief Survey of the Origin and Progress of the Indian National Congress
A rare first person observer's account of the history of the national congress chronicles the movements led to its birth in 1885 as well as the multifaceted growth achieved during the first three decages of its political journey till 1915.
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Frontpage Publications I Could Not Save Mahatma Gandhi: Untold Stories from a Witness's Diary
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