What does Marxism have to say about men's suffering? More than most people expect, and more than the Men's Rights Movement has ever managed to articulate.Men, Marx, and Misunderstanding: A Marxist Analysis of the Men's Rights Movement in India and Beyond is a rigorous, empathetic, and politically urgent examination of male alienation under capitalist patriarchy. Written by a former activist with the Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), with qualifications in law and the p...

Meditation has been practised for thousands of years. Now, advances in neuroscience, wearable technology, and artificial intelligence are creating an entirely new toolkit for supporting and understanding it: EEG headbands that translate brainwave patterns into real-time feedback, tDCS devices that prime the brain for focus, AI systems that generate personalised guided sessions on demand.This book is written from an unusual vantage point. The primary author holds a PhD in computer s...

Abuse of senior citizens is often an unspoken issue in India. Compared to other kinds of abuse, senior citizen abuse is unique in the fact that it often happens within the same household in which the senior citizens are staying, the abusers are family members on whom the person is dependent and most often the abuses go unreported.Even though traditionally Indian culture promotes respect for senior citizens, with the changing lifestyles and moving away from joint families and even n...

Patents are a key component of intellectual property and vital to the process of innovation. They serve multiple uses. One is to reward inventors and motivate them to create inventing for the betterment of society, inculcating a culture of innovation. Another is to protect inventors from getting their ideas stolen and profited from by unscrupulous people.In this book we introduce the laws related to patents and Intellectual property in India, as well as an overview of patenting and...

Sometimes we cannot avoid court cases. In India sometimes they can run formany months or years. We may have to attend the hearings in different cities. Combined with this are problems with handling a lawyer, cross examinations, unexpected surprises from the opposite party and other issues.Court cases can thus take a huge toll not only on our finances but also ourphysical and mental health. Sometimes we may feel helpless and fall into deep stress or depression.Ho...

Abuse of senior citizens is often an unspoken or largely ignored problem in India. With the changing lifestyles and moving away from joint families and even nuclear families, this has become a big issue, made worse due to the ongoing Covid pandemic. Much of the abuse often happens where the abusers are related to, or sometimes live close to or with the senior citizens being abused. This makes it especially difficult to report and detect.In this book, we consider the problem of seni...

The lake has several ghats. You have to go in.In 1886, the Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna claimed to have verified something extraordinary: that practising Islam, Christianity, and multiple Hindu paths each led him to the same luminous encounter with the divine. His conclusion -- যত মত, তত পথ, joto mot, toto path, as many opinions, so many paths -- is one of the most quietly radical statements in the history of comparative religion. It is also an empirical...

ChatGPT can say "I feel uncertain." It cannot feel anything. This book explains precisely why and precisely what would have to change.Building Consciousness brings together three bodies of knowledge that rarely appear in the same sentence: the phenomenological precision of Buddhist psychology (Abhidhamma, Madhyamaka, Dzogchen), the structural findings of contemporary neuroscience (predictive processing, integrated information, temporal binding), and the engineering constra...

Someone you love is dying. Or you have been given a diagnosis. Or you are sitting at a deathbed with no idea what to do, what to say, or whether any of it matters. Forty-Nine Days was written for that moment, and for the preparation that must begin long before the crisis arrives.Drawing on more than two decades of practice inside four Buddhist traditions, this book brings together what the traditions have learned about dying with what contemporary neuroscience is only beginning to ...

Artificial Intelligence is quietly reshaping the financial world. When you apply for a loan and receive a decision in seconds, when your bank flags a suspicious transaction, or when an app recommends where to invest your savings — AI is working in the background. But what happens to fairness, transparency, and accountability when machines make decisions that affect your money, your credit, and your future?Artificial Intelligence and Financial Law in India explores the lega...

Can one boy and a tiger, a lion, a turtle, and a bird save an entire jungle?When Arjun, a curious boy who loves exploring the forest near his home, meets Raja the tiger, Maya the Asiatic lion, Tara the olive ridley sea turtle, and Chintu the great Indian bustard, he discovers something alarming: their homes are in danger. Forests are shrinking, beaches are filling with plastic, and grasslands are vanishing — and time is running out.But Arjun refuses to give up. Together wit...

A fall. A forgotten prescription. A parent who seems a little lost in a conversation they would once have led. Suddenly, the roles have shifted—and you are the one who needs to figure out what to do next.For millions of adult children across India, this moment arrives without warning and without a roadmap. The joint family structures that once distributed this responsibility have, in many homes, given way to nuclear households, distant cities, and the relentless demands of modern l...