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Who Killed Shastri?

The Tashkent Files

By: Vivek Agnihotri

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It was the time of the Cold War. After defeating Pakistan in the second biggest armed conflict since the Second World War, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri arrived in Tashkent, former USSR, to sign a peace accord. After days of extended negotiations, the peace agreement was signed between India and Pakistan in the presence of Alexei Kosygin, the USSR Premier. Hours later, at 1.32 AM, Shastri died in his dacha. Abruptly. Mysteriously. Soon after, his official Russian butler and the Indian cook attached to the Indian ambassador were arrested by the Ninth Directorate of the KGB under the suspicion of poisoning Shastri. No post-mortem was done. No confession was achieved. There was no judicial enquiry ever. It's been 50 years since his death, and we still don't know the truth. Was it really a heart attack? Was he poisoned? Did the CIA kill him? Was it the KGB? Was it a state-sponsored murder? Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his motley team of inexperienced assistants turned whistle-blowers investigate the mystery behind Shastri's death and find themselves in a mirror-world where all and everybody is suspect. But they cannot remain distant, for the painful story of India touches their own lives as they discover how the country was put up for sale.

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Who Killed Shastri?

The Tashkent Files

By: Vivek Agnihotri

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The Tashkent Files

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Solar Selective Absorbers

Materials, Coatings, and Applications

By: Belal Usmani,Ambesh Dixit,Vivek Vijay,Rahul Chhibber

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Solar Selective Absorbers

Materials, Coatings, and Applications

By: Belal Usmani,Ambesh Dixit,Vivek Vijay,Rahul Chhibber

Solar Selective Absorbers: Materials, Coatings, and Applications covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy, electromagnetic radiation including design principles, and different types of spectrally selective coatings. The book emphasizes experimental methods for synthesizing these coating structures and characterization techniques to quantify the absorber characteristics, suitable for solar thermal applications. It also provides a compact review of the literature on solar (spectrally) selective absorber materials and coatings. Summarizes the materials, deposition and characterization techniques, and applications of solar selective absorbers Introduces solar selective absorber materials and photothermal technology Explores electrodeposition techniques and their use in the development of solar selective absorber films Provides understanding of solar selective absorber materials and coating techniques in photothermal technology Explains sputtering techniques and their use in the development of ZrO2/ZrC-ZrN/Zr tandem structure-based solar selective absorber films The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in solar energy, solar thermal conversion, and materials science.

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189

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CRC Press

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104026168X

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9781040261682

Taxonomy and Ecology of Climbers: Climbing Plants of India

By: Vivek Pandi

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Taxonomy and Ecology of Climbers: Climbing Plants of India

By: Vivek Pandi

This book brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India. Climbing is one of the principal plant growth habits that have long attracted the interests of ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Climbing plants can add significantly to the species richness of many tropical forests ecosystems, yet they receive relatively lesser attention than trees in ecological studies. The difficulties in taxonomic assertions and lack of standard methodologies overlook climbers in plant inventories, resulting in the underrepresentation of climbers in regional floras. There is a growing consensus about the increasing abundance of climbers and their multifaceted role in tropical forests worldwide. Therefore, it is essential to understand the taxonomic diversity and ecology of climbers at the regional scale to substantiate our efforts towards constructing a global climber database, which serves as a reference for fundamental research in climber ecology and evolution. This book is of interest to biodiversity researchers, taxonomists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists. Field biologists, forest managers, and naturalists will also find this a useful read.

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Springer Nature

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9811986452

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Rainwater Management: Theory and Practice

By: M.L. Jat,O.P. Gill,B.S. Deora,Vivek Kumar

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Rainwater Management: Theory and Practice

By: M.L. Jat,O.P. Gill,B.S. Deora,Vivek Kumar

Rainwater Management: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive treatise on water management based on water harvesting techniques for management of storage water for irrigation purpose & irrigation water management. This book, primarily designed to cater to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of agricultural engineering, agricultural and soil & water engineering, research scholars, professionals and policy planners associated with rainwater management, dryland farming and irrigation water management. It covers major topics on water harvesting and design of water harvesting structures and recycling of harvested rainwater aspects. Entire content has been divided into the 22 chapters with solved examples and case studies. A sincere attempt has been made to compile and present the text in quickly understandable term, well drawn diagrams, understanding the rainwater management and livelihood security aspects of dryland and irrigated farmers. This book could be a text book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, a reference tool for professional and good teaching material for teachers in the field of rainwater management and irrigation management under dryland ecosystem and also for the scientists working in the field of rainwater and Irrigation water management.

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Scientific Publishers

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9387869857

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9789387869851

Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent

By: A.K. Jain,D.M. Banerjee,Vivek S. Kale

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Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent

By: A.K. Jain,D.M. Banerjee,Vivek S. Kale

This books documents the salient characters of the tectonic evolution of the Indian subcontinent. It showcases the well investigated subcontinent of Gondwana. The book is linked to an updated geological and tectonic map of this region on 1:12,000,000 in scale. The Indian subcontinent displays almost uninterrupted and unique the geological history since about Eo-Archean (~3800 Ma) to recent, with the development of many Proterozoic deformed and metamorphosed fold belts around Archean nuclei, and enormously thick undeformed platform deposits. After their stabilization during late Proterozoic, the subcontinent underwent Paleozoic rifting and deposition of coal-bearing thick sequences, followed by enormously-thick outpouring of Deccan volcanics as a consequence of huge mantle plume. The youngest event in its evolution is the Cenozoic Himalayan Orogenic Mountains, spanning the area between Nanga Parbat and Namcha Barwah; a part of which extends both in Pakistan and Myanmar.

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3030428451

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9783030428457

Life Is a Wordplay. Go. Win.

By: Vivek Gaurav

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Life Is a Wordplay. Go. Win.

By: Vivek Gaurav

“The Good News is I Have, sort of, Understood How Life Works And The Bad News is I have, sort of, Understood How Life Works!” I consider this as one of my most defining Quotes about the magical phenomenon called Life. And this very thought became a big reason behind penning down this book. The book is a collection of my original quotes, punchlines and one-liners, wherein I play around with words to bring out witty, yet deep insights into how various elements of life work. The book begins its roller coaster ride with quotes around Life, Philosophy and Experiences. As soon as the progression begins to sound logical by moving into Behaviour and Beliefs, it suddenly takes a sharp hair-pin turn into the world of Food, Fitness & Health. It, then, comes back to track and takes you to Self-Improvement & Motivation. As soon as you come out of this, you straight-away land yourself into Society & City-life, followed by Work-life & Office. It finally reaches Family & Married Life, via Technology and some fun around Change and Betterment. I hope you have a Wonderful Journey!

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Partridge Publishing

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1543704395

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Book's by Vivek Agnihotri

Who Killed Shastri?

Who Killed Shastri?

Who Killed Shastri?

Who Killed Shastri?

Solar Selective Absorbers

Solar Selective Absorbers

Taxonomy and Ecology of Climbers: Climbing Plants of India

Taxonomy and Ecology of Climbers: Climbing Plants of India

Rainwater Management: Theory and Practice

Rainwater Management: Theory and Practice

Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent

Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent

Life Is a Wordplay. Go. Win.

Life Is a Wordplay. Go. Win.

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