The Billionaire's Apprentice

The Billionaire's Apprentice
Author: Anita Raghavan
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1455504033

Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now... The collapse of the Galleon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in assets--from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted prosecutor Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case was self-described King of Kings, Galleon's founder Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri-Lankan-born, Wharton-educated billionaire. But the most shocking allegation was that the éminence grise of Indian business, Rajat Gupta, was Rajaratnam's accomplice and mole. If not for Gupta's nose-to-the-grindstone rise to head up McKinsey & Co and a position on the Goldman Sachs board, men like Rajaratnam would have never made it to the top of America's moneyed elite. Author Anita Raghavan criss-crosses the globe from Wall Street boardrooms to Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology as she uncovers the secrets of this subculture--an incredible tale of triumph, temptation and tragedy.

Locating Home

Locating Home
Author: Karen Isaksen Leonard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804754422

This multisite ethnography examines the construction of personal and group identity in the diaspora by emigrants from Hyderabad, India, settling in Pakistan, the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, and the Gulf states of the Middle East at the end of the 20th century.

The Khan's Daughter

The Khan's Daughter
Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590483896

Hearing it foretold that he will marry the Khan's daughter someday, poor shepherd boy Mongke journeys to the Khan's court to prove himself worthy but is taught a lesson by the strong-minded princess that neither of them will forget.

Daughter of Xanadu

Daughter of Xanadu
Author: Dori Jones Yang
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375897275

Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin's determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting 'dragons' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.

The Frozen Sun

The Frozen Sun
Author: Priya Somaiya
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1637454732

The Frozen Sun is a personal and an intimate story of two families that lived in Srinagar as neighbours for decades. The legendary Jamshed Khan attempts to steer them through the ravages of terror and violence in the valley. The words and actions of many in the book reflect the historical anguish and pain, which Khan struggles to knit together while responding to lives and devastating times. Against the backdrop of the grand Himalayas, the Chinar forests and the gurgling Jhelum, the story unfolds to a reality that must matter to all.

The Bookseller Of Kabul

The Bookseller Of Kabul
Author: Åsne Seierstad
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748108521

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . . . compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMES For more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. A committed Muslim, Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship. Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there and the year after she lived with an Afghan family for several months. We learn of proposals and marriages, suppression and abuse of power, crime and punishment. The result is a gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history. 'Fascinating . . . A portrait of people struggling to survive in the most brutal circumstances' DAILY MAIL

The Persian Book of Kings

The Persian Book of Kings
Author: B W Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113687030X

The Shahnama, written in the tenth century by Firdawsi, is the national epic poem of Persia. It chronicles at great length (nine volumes in the full English translation, currently out of print) the reigns and deeds of the earliest Persian kings, over fifty of them, in four dynasties - the Pishdadians, Kayanians, Ashkanians, and Sasanians. This book, illustrated with early Persian paintings which depict the deeds described, presents in easily accessible language a summary and re-telling of the Shahnama. It covers the entire epic in one volume, includes an introduction, together with lists of kings and dynasties, and thereby provides a concise overview of, and introduction to, this key work.