This 262-page book, organized into 22 chapters, offers a complete guide to understanding and overcoming loneliness in later life. Drawing on scientific research, clinical insights, and real-world experience, it takes readers from early recognition to practical pathways for healing and reconnection.It Explains✔ How loneliness differs from simply being alone, and how to recognize its subtle signs- especially in old age.

This book provides context, analyzes, and narrates the events of 1942, which shook British Rule of India and eventually led to the collapse of the British Empire.1942: Japanese armies reached the Northeast Borders of India after taking over Burma (Myanmar). Then, the Japanese bombed Madras, Vizag, and Calcutta.Ports on India’s East Coast were closed. Almost 100,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army and 400,000 civilians- disease-ridden and demoralized- came to In...

World War II. British India. A covert war beneath the surface of Empire.The Indian National Army of Subhas Chandra Bose is on the Indo-Burma border seeking to liberate India. The British Indian Army is engaged in war with Allied support to prevent this.A chain of events begins undermining the war efforts of the British Indian Army. Arsenals burn, army convoys are sabotaged, trains carrying aircraft parts explode, and senior colonial officials collapse witho...

In Smaller Citizens, Krishna Kumar explores the theme of citizenship by focusing on a key paradox of modern education: to encourage the young to think freely and apply their minds to the problems of our times, or, to train them to become loyal citizens, complying with and obeying the relevant authority representing the state. It's an old paradox, but it has acquired a new, sharper significance in our times.The politics of neo-nationalism and the demands for a compliant workforce arising fr...

This essay examines the history of the Indian subcontinent and the Partition of 1947 from a pedagogical perspective.How does education shape political rivalry and hostility? The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947—the violence that followed it, and its living legacy of rival nationalisms—has made a deep and pervasive impact on education in both India and Pakistan. In Learning to Live with the Past, educationist Krishna Kumar dwells on the complex ...

Originally published as a collection of Krishna Kumar's UGC national lectures, What is Worth Teaching? has acquired the status o f a popular analytical text on curriculum inquiry. The title essay poses the problem of curriculum design and content as an aspect of the relationship between education and society. The central theme of knowledge, its selection and representation is pursued in the book in the context of issues such as the teaching of reading, the use of the textbook, gender socia...

Self-discovery is a choice for everyone to know oneself. It starts with the awareness of the body and mind. In observing everything objectively, one gets to know ones conditioning due to the accumulation of knowledge and experience in life. Attention brings to consciousness, the connection between the self and society, as well. It also triggers one to look at the ideas which one forms about the link between the self and the unknown. The 3Ms - Mindfulness, Map of Consciousness and Meditatio...

In retracting from the popular view that India’s modern educational policy was shaped almost entirely by Macaulay, this incisive work reveals the complex ideological and institutional rubric of the colonial educational system. It examines its wide-ranging and lasting impact on curriculum, pedagogy, textbooks, teachers’ role and status, and indigenous forms of knowledge. Recounting the nationalist response to educational reforms, the book reinforces three major quests: justice as e...

This book aims at the following objectives:It is shown as to how the general motion under gravitational force can be formulated purely in electromagnetic and kinematic terms, thereby linking gravity and electromagnetism. That also means that “mass”, that is generally viewed as a “fundamental quantity” is also expressible in terms of electromagnetism.Bring out how the inertial force, centrifugal force, Coriolis force and Euler force are the byproducts of motion through the e...

This book represents the first attempt to conceptualize the social and cultural impact of transnational enterprises on host nations and to provide empirical and analytical material on the subject. Well-known social scientists focus on three critical areas: social inequalities, knowledge systems, and lifestyles and values. Collectively, they advance

A tale of love, struggle, and triumph, Against All Odds is a heartwarming story that proves true love always finds a way, no matter the obstacles. With passion, sacrifice, and perseverance, Mahir and Gauri prove that some love stories are written in destiny itself.

The Vengeance of Love is a dark historical drama set in 50 BC, where cunning, power, and bloodshed shape the fate of kingdoms.A story of love twisted by war, desire entangled with vengeance, and a mother-son duo carving their names into history through steel.