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The Art of Coconut Craft 0
Though india has a large number of unemployed and partially employed people, many of whom are educated, there has been a dearth of opportunities to earn a fair living. The government can offer a limited number of jobs, and increasingly private companies are very selective about choosing the person they employ, limiting opportunities for older people. India also does not offer support to unemployed people in most states. However, in India there is very little information about metal work, crafting, tailoring, food processing or other DIY which could be used by a person with free time to earn some money to cover expenses.
While fiction books are good for entertainment and getting sleep , and business, politics books provide information, these do not help to pay the bills, especially if infinite indian tax payer money has been wasted to ensure that the harmless innocent person does not earn a fair living online and correspondence allegedly diverted to call girls who sleep with powerful officials and well connected good looking cheaters.
The Art of Coconut Craft is a very useful book for anyone who would be interested in learning about the different applications of coconut or making a living creating and selling coconut craft items. Coconut trees are an integral part of the life of any person living along the west coast of India and many would be interested in knowing how to earn a living from the coconut and leaves of the coconut tree.
Often non fiction books are written by a person who has a superficial knowledge of the subject, this book for a change has been written by a master craftsman Vijaydatta Lotlikar who has many years experience making coconut shell craft, He has provided very detailed information on coconut craft, the different types of coconut available, quality of coconut shell from goa and kerala . Guidelines on how to make craft items from coconut shells have also been provided, the tools required and the methods to be used. It also provides information about the incentives offered to craftsmen, for example at the Aparant Maand held in two different places in Goa, artisans who participate are given Rs 100 per day as DA.
The book has been published with the help of the grant of Rs 25000 from the Goa Government’s Directorate of Art and culture under the scheme to provide financial help to Goan Authors and Publishers. In addition to useful content, the book has extensive internet links related to coconut craft and also photos of the various coconut shell items
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Review : Liberty Blouse and Punjabi dresses 0
Review : Liberty Blouse and Punjabi dresses
There are a lot of novels and non fiction books available in India, yet there is little useful information available online and offline which could help a person earn a living.
Most of the craft, hobby and DIY books available in Indian book stores and book exhibitions are written by foreign authors and the methods and materials are not easily available or applicable today in India.
The writer of the book Dilip Karampuri runs the Liberty institute of Fashion technology.
The aim of the book is to help women and others start their small business to be self employed as there will always be demand for custom stitched clothes for indian women.
There are no major ethnic wear brands for women in India which are well designed and affordable, hence most women will need a good tailor if they cannot stitch clothes themselves.
Trial and error can be expensive, especially if the cloth material is costly.
The book is fairly comprehensive with drawings for all the cutting to be made.
A wide range of designs for blouses, kurta, salwars are provided for reference
Dimensions and cutting instructions are also included.
In india offline usually the metric system of metres and centimeters will be used for measurement, in this case, the imperial system has been used.
For more information on
Tailoring to earn money from home, tailoring work at home, check http://wahp.in
Fashion, garment, textile, trends, demand in India check http://fgt.in
Other books from the author like Liberty Gown are available only in Marathi More DIY books for Indians will always be in demand.
Book: Liberty Blouse & Punjabi Dresses
Author : Dilip Karampuri
Publisher : Liberty Publication, Pune, Maharashtra
Review : Handbook of Civil Engineering 0
Most engineering colleges teach all students the basics of electrical and mechanical engineering, they have at least one course on the same.
However, civil engineering has far more wider application today, especially if a person has to handle the maintenance of his or her house alone and there are no compulsory course online for engineers in other subjects.
The Handbook of Civil Engineering has some basic information on civil engineering for daily applications like
Building construction
Concrete technology
Public health engineering
Soil mechanics and foundation engineering
Irrigation
Transport engineering
RCC design
Strength of materials
This book will be useful for those answering entrance examinations for various companies and for colleges, polytechnics or someone interested in learning for practical applications.
A more comprehensive book at a similar price would be appreciated.
Academic’s Hand book of Civil Engineering
Written by: Subhash Mehta
Revised and edited by: R.S Arora
Academic (India) Publishers, New Delhi
Review : Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat 0
As the top selling author for pulp fiction in India, books by Chetan Bhagat are widely publicized in the media before being released. “Half Girlfriend” is the latest book from Chetan Bhagat and is the story of a student from Dumraon in Bihar, Madhav and the rich girl from a Delhi business family Riya Somani he meets in St Stephens college while trying to get admission under the sports quota. As Madhav is a state level basketball player he easily manages to get admission though he is not very proficient in English. After getting admission to St Stephen’s college they keep each other company despite their very different background.
After a disagreement , Riya Somani gets married to a rich businessman from London Rohan who has the approval of her family. After graduation Madhav does not take up a well paying job offer from a foreign bank, instead opting to return to his native place Dumraon in Bihar to help his mother from the erstwhile royal family in running the village school. As the school does not get any grant from the government it is difficult to provide good facilities. To get a grant from the Microsoft foundation madhav joins an english course in Patna, and he again meets Riya who has taken up a job with a multinational. Her extremely wealthy husband did not treat her properly so Riya got divorced after a one and a half year.
After Madhav introduced Riya somani to his mother, she realize that Madhav’s mother did not like her. So after the Microsoft visit to the school, Riya disappears. Remembering that Riya always dreamt of singing in New York, Madhav plans a trip to New York. He spends time searching for Riya with the little information he has. Finally he managed to find her and like most Chetan Bhagat novels this book too has a happy ending. Easy to read book in simple language targetting the majority of youth in India who are not very fluent in English.
Author : Chetan Bhagat
Published by : Rupa Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2014
Review : Lucknow Boy a memoir 0
The official autobiography of Vinod Mehta, currently the editor of the weekly magazine Outlook, which was started to take on the monopoly of India Today.
An excellent guide for journalists, those interested in media. It indicates how the government of the day irrespective of the ruling party will censor free press in india, ensure that there is no unfavorable coverage of the government and officials who matter. The author provides a glimpse of his life, right from his family migrating from Pakistan to Lucknow in India , working and living in England, Mumbai and Delhi.
He has started or worked with a number of periodicals including newspapers, magazines such as Debonair, Indian Post, Independent, Pioneer, often resigning or being sacked because of his disagreement with the proprietor over the content of the periodical. The business interests of the proprietor have often been adversely affected due to the negative coverage, with nationwide raids for harassing the business owner.
The editor will realize that negative coverage of a large business group like Tata or Reliance can adversely affect the financial performance of the magazine or newspaper, as these groups will ensure that the media house does not get any advertising, essential for survival. Even a small negative story like worms in cadbury chocolates are not covered in the media due to the clout which cadbury has with the media in india. Powerful people in India are extremely sensitive to even the smallest negative stories and take it personally.
Often the editor will have to make the uneviable choice of only carrying positive stories which are boring and adversely affect the circulation, or sensational negative stories, which often help increase the circulation of the magazine/newspaper and wide receive publicity . However, the magazine as well as the proprietor will often be punished for the negative stories. Thus though Outlook has excellent content, it has comparatively fewer advertisement compared to other less honest magazines,
Author : Vinod Mehta
Steel King Laxmi Niwas Mittal by Mithilesh Gautam 0
The book Steel King Laxmi Niwas Mittal by Mithilesh Gautam is a autobiographical book of one of the wealthiest indians in the world. While his name has been mentioned often in the media, his background has not been described in great detail. It provides a rare glimpse of how his father started Steel India using scrap iron, and how L.N Mittal chose to give up his stake in steel India to focus on the world market where conditions were less hostile.
The informative book also describes how he has flourished abroad specializing in taking over sick and poor managed steel mills, analyzing their deficiencies and then making the necessary changes to make the steel mill profitable. This would mean making management changes, improving the technology used to reduce production cost or investing money in equipment. He has often faced opposition as politicians feared the loss of jobs after takeover and racism abroad, yet he has managed to overcome it over a period of time. Any profitable business will always be beneficial for the area in which it will be located, as it will generate jobs and other opportunities for people.
The widely publicized wedding of his children Aditya and Vanisha are also described in some detail in this book. The writing style of the author differs from typical indian writers. An informative book, providing an interesting glimpse of the meteoric rise of one of the most high profile and wealthiest indians in the world
Steel King Laxmi Niwas Mittal by Mithilesh Gautam
Pages : 143
Publisher : Manoj Publications
Review : Innocence to Irony 0
The book Innocence to Irony is a collection of short stories about life in india. It reflects the male dominated indian society, where women have a second class status having to adjust to her husband. In particular, the status of women in the supposedly high tech indian internet sector is especially poor. Offline, at least a woman will be acknowledged for her experience, honesty, hardwork online in india today only mediocre lazy liar frauds flourish, as cheating skills, evil nature are most important today to the powerful officials and large companies like GOOGLE.
In many stories, the fact that the charm of a woman decreases as she grows older has been clearly bought out. When the dancers are young, they have many loyal fans, and when they grow older, these fans will then switch to younger more good looking women. Hence women should diversify into sectors where their income will not depend on their appearance. Many stories are set in rural india and cover women from a variety of backgrounds,.
The indian internet sector today appears to be completely devoid of humanity, honesty, morals unlike offline, where people can distinguish between good and evil. The final story Irony shows how in the real world, people will go out of their way to protect honest hardworking Savitri who killed her evil husband, Murugan and ensure that she will go scot free.
Online in the indian internet sector today, almost everyone will support a greedy ungrateful scammer husband and wife hathwar couple who looted a single woman of more than Rs 1,1 lakh of her hard earned money to build a new house in bangalore and even reward the cheater housewife with an important government job for her frauds
Thus honest hardworking people should avoid an online career if they do not want to be cheated of their hard earned money as people are more honest offline. A well written and easy to read book.
Review The Quest for Nothing by Anurag Anand 0
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Unlike most novels available, which are based mainly on relationships,the story The Quest for Nothing by Anurag Anand is set in modern day corporate India. It traces the career of Aakash, an MBA from his first job to a situation where he faced the end of his career. Like most career conscious individuals, he hops from one job to another for a better position and salary, marries a wife Deepali he met at work, works both at Gurgaon as well as Mumbai, depending on the opportunities available.
However, his life is turned upside down when his boss accuses him of leaking some very confidential information related to the insurance purchased by their customers. He flatly denies this allegation since he has never indulged in such an activity since it could destroy his career, which he has worked so hard for. However, his boss has proof that the data was accessed from his laptop alone for stealing and storing on the CD.
He is about to lose his job, when his wife does some detective work, and finds out that the actual theft of data was commited by a young girl Monisha on whom Akash had a crush on. Since Akash was infatuated with Monisha, he allowed her unlimited access to the laptop. With the help of her real boyfriend, Monisha stole the data and released it to the public, resulting in loss of reputation to the company.
In this story Monisha and her boyfriend are caught and punished, but in the indian internet industry scammers and frauds are role models for powerful officials who worship these criminals
This story reflects the reality in the indian internet industry where extremely powerful officials are infatuated with young cheater women like siddhi mandrekar, sunaina, kalpita n. , nayanshree hathwar, riddhi caro, asmita patel, ruchika kinger, and commit great blunders because of their blind infatuation with young women in their early twenties. Unfortunately in the poorly governed Indian internet sector, no one loses their jobs for indulging in these scams.
Instead the fraud companies Google and Tata ensure that the scammer women are rewarded for their cheating, fraud with fake references of experience, permanent positions in the government with a very good salary and pension as reward for cheating a single woman engineer of her hard earned money.
In reality in India well connected frauds and cheaters, especially in the internet sector will attain great positions of power, due to rampant corruption, nepotism, ruthlessness, greed and cruelty of powerful officials and their young cheater criminal girlfriends, with kim kardashian look alike siddhi mandrekar easily winning the title of MISS CHEATER INDIA, and cheater nayanshree . a close runner up in looting single woman.
Review: The Mark of Vishnu by Khushwant Singh 0
The book Mark of Vishnu by Khushwant Singh is a collection of his most popular short stories. Though Khushwant Singh, who passed away recently was well known as a journalist and novelist, he first made his mark as a short story writer. His short stories are extremely well written and cover different aspect of life in North India. The Mark of Vishnu is the story of the king cobra Kala Nag who was fed with milk daily by Gunga ram. One day he is attacked by school boys who think they have killed the snake and take him to school as a specimen for their biology lab. However, the snake though battered is still alive, and escapes, but not before attacking Gunga Ram.
Another interesting story in the book is about Zora Singh the foreign educated engineer who rose to become the chief engineer through his knowledge, hard work, people skills and by remaining in the good books of the powerful ministers in the government. After retirement, Zora Singh is rewarded with a membership of the Upper house by the minister who trusts him. This story gives a glimpse of life in the country after independence.
A well written collection of short stories, ideal for a bed time read.
The Mark of Vishnu stories
by Khushwant Singh
Penguin Books
Selection first published in 2011
Pages :154
India’s Politics By Bimal Jalan 0
India’s Politics – A view from the Backbench is an insider’s account of the functioning of India’s democracy. Though the Indian constitution has some of the most idealistic regulations to protect an individuals rights and the growth of the country, the reality in India is very different.Fighting elections is very expensive, and is one of the major causes of corruption. The elected representatives ultimately have the most decision making power, and sometimes misuse the power to accumulate funds for future elections as well as personal gain. Though large amounts are allocated to different poverty alleviation programs, only a fraction reaches the intended beneficiary due to the leakages in the system, and a large amount is cornered by middlemen and officials incharge of implementing the program. Unfortunately, there is little incentive for honest and competent officials who implement the programs efficiently. For elected representatives, the perks are multiplied manifold when they are promoted to a position in the council of ministers. To avoid the loss of power, many MLA’s are willing to make any kind of compromise. In an era of coalition politics, many small political parties hold the balance of power, despite controlling only a small number of MPs or MLAs.
Also many bills which have a far reaching effect on India’s economy and social life are often passed without adequate discussion.
A good read which provides a realistic glimpse of India’s politics.
India’s Politics
A view from the Backbench
By Bimal Jalan
First published in Viking by Penguin Books India 2007
Pages 248