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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Part One: Communalism/Secularism -- 1 'Narendra Modi's Star Is Falling': Arundhati Roy -- 2 'Kashmiris Feel Rejected by the Nation': Farooq Abdullah -- 3 'Article 370 Has Not Been "Abrogated". It Has Been De-operationalised.': Faizan Mustafa -- 4 Why the Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Void Article 370 Move: Harish Salve -- 5 'We Are Indian Muslims, Not Hindu Muslims': Najeeb Jung and S.Y. Quraishi -- 6 'Nobody Can Drag Me from My Home': Naseeruddin Shah -- Part Two: Economy -- 7 'India's Economic Situation Bleak': Pronab Sen -- 8 'The Vision of Our Founding Fathers': Raghuram Rajan -- 9 'Industrialists Must Criticise Government When Necessary': Naushad Forbes -- Part Three: 75 Years Of Independence -- 10 'I Don't Like Modi's India': Romila Thapar -- 11 'Largest Personality Cult in India': Ramachandra Guha -- 12 'India Today Is a Miracle … under Threat': Palanivel Thiaga Rajan -- 13 'Modi Has Profoundly Changed India': Swapan Dasgupta -- Part Four: India And China -- 14 India's Stand on China's Border Is Irrational: Avtar Singh Bhasin -- 15 Why India and China Cannot Be Friends: Kanti Bajpai -- Part Five: Personal History -- 16 The Man behind the Clipped British Accent: Shashi Tharoor -- 17 The CEO Who Sings the Beatles: Indra Nooyi -- 18 On Fiery Speeches and Journey into Politics: Mahua Moitra -- Part Six: Judiciary -- 19 The Evolution of the Indian Justice System: Madan B. Lokur -- 20 'SC Has Succumbed to Executive Control': A.P. Shah -- 21 In Politically Sensitive Matters, Justice Chandrachud Is Sometimes Disappointing: Dushyant Dave -- A Note on the Author.

Written by one of India s best-known public intellectuals,this book isessential reading for anyone interested in India s fascinating history as well as the direction in which the nation is headed. People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As Romila Thapar explores in her timely historical essay, however, dissent has a long history in the subcontinent, even if its forms have evolved through the centuries. In Voices of Dissent: An Essay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent and relates it to various pivotal moments throughout India s history. Beginning with Vedic times, she takes us from the second to the first millennium BCE, to the emergence of groups that were jointly called the Shramanas-the Jainas, Buddhists, and Ajivikas. Going forward in time, she also explores the views of the Bhakti sants and others of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and brings us to a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a free and democratic India: Mahatma Gandhi s satyagraha. Then Thapar places in context the recent peaceful protests against India s new, controversial citizenship law, maintaining that dissent in our time must be opposed to injustice and supportive of democratic rights so that society may change for the better

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Contents -- Chapter One: Nuts and Bolts of Leadership -- Chapter Two: Leadership Analysed -- Chapter Three: Different Kinds of Leadership -- Chapter Four: Positional Leadership -- Chapter Five: Relational Leadership -- Chapter Six: Positional and Relational Leadership -- Chapter Seven: Effective Leadership -- Chapter Eight: Candour -- Chapter Nine: Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.

Drawing on the latest research and interviews with experts, this refreshingly nuanced and beautifully written book interweaves the stories of a cast of characters at the sharp end of Britain's serious youth violence epidemic, with chapters on subjects such as social media, gentrification and criminal justice. Showing how we are all connected to this tragedy, Cut Short is a gripping, urgent, sympathetic and often painful portrait of a society fracturing along lines of race, class and postcode. It is a blueprint for positive change, and a book we desperately need --