Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
By Muhammad Yunus Rs720
Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus’s own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way--and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of ever human being. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.
Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and the Education of Nepali Girls
By Mary Anne Maslak Rs 495
Daughters of the Tharu identifies and examines the cultural conditions and circumstances that influence the process of educational decision making for girls in Nepal, recognizing and studying the significant, yet often forgotten, voices of women. By examining the process of educational participation with special reference to ethnic and religious culture, and linking macro-structural perimeters and micro-individual agency of attitudes and beliefs, this book paints a much broader and more nuanced picture of the varied forces that govern and influence girls’ participation in school.
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of Dharma
By Gurucharan Das Rs 1118
Most of us spend our lives wrestling with day-to-day questions of right and wrong that are either left unanswered or have no easy answers. The Difficulty of Being Good turns to the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ and discovers that the epic’s world of mural haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist age of moral certainty.
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