This book provides a unique perspective on Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) through the keen observations and first-hand insights of an active AAP volunteer and close personal friend of Kejriwal from his undergraduate days at IIT Kharagpur. They re-connected more than a decade after IIT at UC Berkeley when Kejriwal was on a visit while still actively running his NGO, Parivartan, and have remained in contact ever since. The book captures Kejriwal `s transition from a social activist to becoming the brain behind the India Against corruption movement, to the founding of AAP, its dramatic rise to power, the sudden resignation, and its sweeping return to power in 2015, up until the recent internal power struggle within AAP. The book describes the extensive use of technology by the party with first hand details of how some of the most brilliant minds in the business contributed valuable time, energy and knowhow to the party, entirely on a voluntary basis. It addresses in detail the role of NRIs in AAP, the role of AAP's army of volunteers, and the associated challenges in managing their expectations and streamlining their efforts. The book covers several interesting anecdotes from private meetings in Berkeley, Goa, NY and Dubai that Kejriwal attended with friends, and provides rare insights and explodes popular myths about his leadership, his frequent references to God, and his personality in general. Through the book, the author draws upon his entrepreneurial and management experience to establish parallels between the AAP and happenings in startup companies. Finally, it looks at the aftermath of AAP's most recent power struggle, and the road ahead for AAP and its role in Indian politics.
जहां दूसरे लोग देश को एक जड़ वस्तु, कुछ मैदान, जंगल, पहाड़ और नदी समझते हैं, वहां मैं अपने देश को अपनी माता मानता हूं। मैं उसकी पूजा करता हूं और मां की भांति उसकी भक्ति करता हूं। जब कोई राक्षस मां की छाती पर बैठ कर उसका खून चूस रहा हो तो उस समय उसका पुत्र क्या करेगा ? क्या वह चुपचाप अपने खान-पान में लगा रहेगा और अपने परिवार के साथ मौज मनाता रहेगा? या इसके बदले में मां को बचाने के लिए दौड़ पड़ेगा ? मैं जानता हूं कि इस पतित जाति को उठा सकने की सामर्थ्य मुझमें है। यह कोई शारीरिक सामर्थ्य नहीं, और मैं तलवार या बन्दूक लेकर भी लड़ने नहीं जा रहा, यह तो ज्ञान की शक्ति है। क्षत्र तेज ही शक्ति का एकमात्र तेज नहीं है, ब्रह्म तेज भी है, वह तेज ज्ञान के ऊपर प्रतिष्ठित है।
Pragmatics is concerned with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves. This type of study involves the interpretation of what people mean in a particular context and how context influences what is said. The advantage of studying language via pragmatics is that one can talk about people's intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals and the kinds of actions that they are performing when they speak. Last Man in Tower has finely presented the conflicts between the what should we have and what should not we have. It is a struggle between individual and collective willpower as well as the between principle and greed. This fiction provides the locale of Mumbai and various Indian words and slangs have been used in it skilfully. Mrs. Shakuntala has applied The Speech Act Theory to Arvind Adiga's Last Man in Tower.
An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.
Deliver microservices architecture, step-by-step: from defining business problems through development, deployment, and monitoring Increasingly, organizations are modernizing application development by integrating open source technologies into a holistic architecture for delivering high-quality workloads to the cloud. This is a complete, step-by-step guide to building flexible microservices architecture by leveraging Microsoft Azure cloud services, together with key open source technologies such as Java, Node.JS, .NET Core and Angular. Through a realistic case study project, expert Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka guide you through every step of technical implementation required to achieve value: establishing end-to-end infrastructure, developing cloud-native applications, automating deployments, monitoring operations, and more. Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka show how to: Define application features and business requirements, and map them onto microservices using modeling techniquesDesign microservices solution architecture that enables high-quality workloadsDevelop an application front-end, and build microservices with open source technologiesLeverage Azure Kubernetes Services for Docker container orchestrationUse various patterns to build reliable and resilient microservicesEnforce microservices app security, and use Azure AD B2C for user authentication/authorizationEstablish an API gateway that provides a unified “front door” to back-end microservicesSet up continuous integration and deployment with Azure DevOpsMonitor microservices with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights About This Book For everyone interested in developing microservices, including architects, engineers, and consultants Will help IT professionals build new applications, modernize existing systems, migrate workloads, improve app management, and more.
It is evident that some of the most powerful brands are deeply embedded in our unconscious emotions and memories. The purpose of this book is to develop an understanding of the link between the human brain and brand management principles as well as activities. It will educate readers about brain-operating principles and their impact on how humans perceive brands. The book also analyzes how modern brands are created by leveraging brain functioning. In a nutshell, the book explains the indispensable role that the human brain plays in creating, sustaining and rejuvenating brands.
Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing countries such as India. Given the clear benefits trade openness has brought everywhere, this is a surprising development. The benefits of free trade are especially great for emerging market economies. FreeTrade and Prosperityoffers the first full-scale defense of pro-free-trade policies with developing countries at its center. Arvind Panagariya, a professor at Columbia University and former top economic advisor to the government of India, supplies a historically informed analysis of many longstanding but flawed arguments for protection. He starts with an insightful overview of the positive case for free trade, and then closely examines the various contentions of protectionists. One protectionist argument is that "infant" industries need time to grow and become competitive, and thus should be sheltered. Other arguments are that emerging markets are especially prone to coordination failures, they are in need of diversification of their production structures, and they suffer from market imperfections. The panoply of protectionist arguments, including those for import substitution industrialization, fails when subject to close logical and empirical scrutiny. Free trade and outward-oriented policies are preconditions to both sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Panagariya provides compelling evidence demonstrating the failures of protectionism and the promise of free trade using detailed case studies of successful countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China and India. Low or declining barriers to free trade and high or rising shares of trade in total income have been key elements in the sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in these countries and many others. Free trade is like oxygen: the benefits are ubiquitous and not noticed until they are no longer there. This important book is an essential reminder of the costs of protectionism.
Designed to provide a firm grounding in mathematical methods for chemical engineering practitioners in academic institutions and industry, this volume builds on the reader's previous knowledge of calculus, differential equations and linear algebra. Varma and Morbidelli offer an integrated treatment of linear operator theory from determinants through partial differential equations, and feature extensive chapters on both ordinary differential equations and perturbation methods. Numerous high-quality diagrams and examples from chemical engineering illustrate the textual material and enhance the reader's understanding of complex mathematical systems.
With a GDP that just reached $2.6 trillion, India is poised to become the world's third largest economy in less than a decade. In doing so, it will have moved one step closer to reclaiming its pre-industrial glory when it accounted for one-sixth of the global output and ranked second in economic size. This rapid movement in the absolute size of the economy will be insufficient, however, to bring prosperity to India's vast population. Today, 44% of the country's workforce remains in agriculture and another 42% in small enterprises with fewer than twenty workers. Labor productivity of both sets of workers remains low and they live overwhelmingly on subsistence-level incomes. In New India: Reclaiming the Lost Glory, Arvind Panagariya outlines a concise strategy to transform India from a primarily rural and agricultural economy to an urban and industrial economy with well-paid jobs for those with limited skills. Panagariya argues that the creation of good jobs requires the emergence of medium and large enterprises in industry and services, especially labor-intensive sectors such as apparel, footwear, and other light manufactures. He explains that India needs policies conducive to the growth of firms from small to medium, medium to large, and large to larger still. Such policies include greater outward orientation; more flexible land, labor, and capital markets; concerted effort to improve the quality of higher education; faster urbanization; and improved governance at all levels. Written by a preeminent authority on the Indian economy, New India: Reclaiming the Lost Glory provides a data-driven and persuasive roadmap for India to eliminate abject poverty, accelerate economic growth, and return to its historically prominent position in the global economy.
India's economic model underwent transformational change following independence in 1947. The country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, embarked upon two foundational projects to build modern India: a political project aimed at establishing democracy with universal suffrage, and an economic one aimed at ending poverty. Three-quarters of a century later, his political project is a resounding success, but the opposite is true of the economic one. The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting Impact examines the evolution of Nehru's economic philosophy with socialism, self-sufficiency, and heavy-industry development at its core. Through extensive archival research, Arvind Panagariya reconstructs and reinterprets this history, paying particular attention to the administrative processes deployed to implement policies, contemporary economic thought, and important historical events not adequately covered in the existing literature. He assesses the evolution of Nehru's own political beliefs and the construction of the Nehru development model, the resulting regime and exclusionary nature of economic growth, and the lasting intellectual legacy of the Nehru-era socialism on politicians, civil servants, policy analysts, and businesspeople in the six decades since Nehru's death. This book is the fascinating tale of a model with the near-unanimous approval of experts from all around the world at its inception and the impact of its failure.
