Ashok Sharma

Harinder S. Kohli

Anil Sood

This study, Asia 2050: Realizing the Asian Century, is aimed at key opinion makers to foster debate on a vision of and strategy for Asia's potentially historic rise among the global community of nations between now and 2050. It offers a long-term perspective of the Asia region as a whole as opposed to the more common approach that delivers a short- to medium-term perspective of selected countries, subregions or issues.

Realizing the Asian Century

Asia 2050

This book depicts vividly how energy security has become the prime driver for India's foreign policy and enabled the reshaping of our international relations.

Domestic Measures, Foreign Policy and Geopolitics

India's Pursuit of Energy Security

Shiv

Human and Machine Systems Analysis

The setting of Stone Gods & Naked Lovers is in the magical landscape of a fictional city called Narakanda near east coast of India, famous for its erotic temple sculptures as well as a growing reputation as a hi-tech center. The main protagonist is American Rahul Adam, manager of a multinational corporation and central motif is his doomed love affair with an Indian magazine reporter Rohini Rao. Story background includes some interesting Moslem characters, violence against Christians in India, and suicide of poor farmers in drought stricken region. The book with strong plotting of a suspense novel is about search for identity, corrupt power politics, love, monsoon rain and death.

Stone Gods & Naked Lovers

How lobbying by Indian Americans in the United States has influenced US foreign policy towards India Indian Lobbying and its Influence in US Decision Making looks at the ways in which Indian lobbying acts as a catalyst in transforming the US–India relationship in the post-Cold War era, the events that explain their formation, and factors that legitimize these groups as an institution in US politics.

Post-Cold War

Indian Lobbying and its Influence in US Decision Making

Harinder S Kohli

This book is based on the papers presented and discussions held at a high-level regional workshop organized by the Asian Development Bank in January 2010 to discuss the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on developing Asia. It provides a clear and thought-provoking analysis of the global economic crisis from the perspective of 19 Asian countries. The papers present concrete ways in which Asian economies and financial systems can be made more responsive and resilient. The book proposes that Asian economies can capitalize on the global economic crisis by using it as an opportunity to move from crisis management to gradually assuming global economic leadership. It spells out a general framework for strengthening recovery efforts, ensuring inclusive growth and open regionalism, rebalancing Asia's growth model, and creating greater regional cooperation for a prosperous and resilient Asia. This is perhaps the first ever book in the market to undertake an in-depth discussion about the impact and the long-term implications of the global financial crisis on economies in Asia.

From Crisis Management to Global Leadership

A Resilient Asia Amidst Global Financial Crisis

Indian Lobbying and Its Influence in US Decision Making

Asia is in the midst of a truly historic transformation. If it continues to grow on its recent trajectory, it could, by 2050, account for more than half of global GDP, trade and investment, and enjoy widespread affluence. Its per capita income could rise sixfold. It thus holds the promise of making some 4 billion Asians, hitherto commonly associated with poverty and deprivation, affluent by today's standards. This study, Asia 2050: Realizing the Asian Century, is aimed at key opinion makers to foster debate on a vision of and strategy for Asia's potentially historic rise among the global community of nations between now and 2050. It offers a long-term perspective of the Asia region as a whole as opposed to the more common approach that delivers a short- to medium-term perspective of selected countries, subregions or issues.

T. V. Rajan

C. P. Sharma

Heat Treatment : Principles and Techniques

When Ashok, a shy impressionable 18-year old Indian student from East Africa goes to England in 1967 with the ambition to become a medical doctor, his enormous challenges of British English comprehension and difficult pre-medical school studies are compounded by the adversity he faces from a tumultuous period in British politics, triggered by an apocalyptic-sounding speech, dubbed "The River of Blood," delivered by Enoch Powell, a prominent British politician, on April 20, 1968, harshly denouncing the immigration of non-white people from the new Commonwealth (Great Britain's ex-colonies) and demanding their repatriation. At the Woolwich College in London, he inadvertently befriends Norbert Eliumelu, a sly, immaculately dressed, smooth -talking Nigerian in his thirties, who is also completing his prerequisites for admission to medical school. Their deep friendship takes and ominous turn when Norbert suddenly abandons college at the end of the first year and resurfaces at the end of the second, the final college year to cajole, threaten and bribe Ashok into a highly nefarious and risky quid pro quo scheme to guarantee admission for both into medical school-a very onerous task for a foreign student in Great Britain 50 years ago.

Ashok Sharma

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