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The Emergency (1975-77) clamped by Indira Gandhi when she was the Prime Minister was one of the darkest periods in Independent India. This book is an account of that agonising time when thousands were jailed, and countless Indians fought the shackles of the Emergency at great risk to themselves and their families. At that time, the author was a student leader in Kerala.

The legendary conversation between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagsena is believed to have taken place after Alexander’s campaign in India. This edition features a modern English translation of one of the most renowned works of ancient Buddhist philosophy, alongside the original Pali text. The dialogue is regarded as one of the most revered texts in Theravada Buddhism.

Two nuclear-armed rivals played sophisticated mind games with each other, locked in a moment of high-stakes brinkmanship, turning their air defence grids into chessboards… Rich with real-world incidents, human dilemmas, and the split-second decisions that define life and death, this is a primer not just on technology, but on the people and thinking that hold the sky. Air defence isn’t just about what launches. It’s about what doesn’t land.