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Shakuntala The Woman Wronged
The story of Shakuntala is well known-her upbringing in the ashram, her meeting with Dushyant, their marriage and subsequent separation due to a curse and their final joyous reunion. What is not so well known, however, is that the gentle, lovelorn Shakuntala immortalized by Kalidasa is very different from the original Shakuntala of the Mahabharata a strong, fiery woman who stood up for her rights when she was spurned by her beloved. In this thoughtful retelling of the story of Shakuntala, Utkarsh Patel brings to the fore the original heroine, the bold and beautiful daughter of Menaka and Vishwamitra who fights to get herself and her son the recognition they deserve. She does not surrender to anyone, not even the king of Hastinapur. Retold to suit the modern-day context, Shakuntala: The Woman Wronged is a must-read to understand one of the most powerful yet underrated female characters of the Mahabharata.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Nani A. Palkhivala
Nani A. Palkhivala, a multi-talented personality, played diverse roles in his life�lawyer, diplomat, orator, author, political and economic thinker, and social reformer. An advocate of civil liberties, he proactively defended the Constitution and the principles enshrined in it. This book contains select quotations classified subject-wise under various chapters from his writings and speeches over six decades of his working life. The book introduces the man through his thoughts and ideas with the aim of inspiring readers, particularly the youth.
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The Insider
What constitutes pressure? How does a batsman maintain concentration while batting? How does one define being in-form and out-of-form? How do cricketers prepare for different formats of the game? And how is it that certain teams revel under pressure while others choke? In the first-ever book on the craft, both psychological and physical of cricket, former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra lays bare every thought inside a cricketers head and brings alive what he thinks, how hes likely to react to certain situations in the game, and above all, why he reacts the way he does.From reading the bowler to reading the batsman, from playing the bouncer to fielding at short-leg, from technical aspects of the game to the mental, from the tangible to the abstract,The Insider is an important book that shuts out the noise and hysteria and lets every fan of the game understand what matters most: The game itself.
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The Success Sutra-An Indian Approach To Wealth
The Success Sutra is packed with unique and profound insights into how individuals can create wealth and achieve success in life by following Indian principles of strategic thinking and decision-making. Most human beings hunger after riches and success. There are any number of management books which provide theories and techniques on how to become rich and successful. All of them advise us to chase Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in order to make her our own. But the Indian approach to prosperity and fulfilment warns against the relentless pursuit of the goddess, writes noted thinker and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, as it will result in conflict. Rather, we have to give in order to get, we have to satisfy the hunger of others in order to satisfy our own. If we learn and practise this fundamental truth, Lakshmi will enter our homes and our lives. Derived from his acclaimed bestseller Business Sutra, this book is filled with lessons and insights into management, business and the creation of wealth and success.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
The girl with the dragon tattoo is back - Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in a continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. Written by Swedish novelist and journalist David Lagercrantz, this much anticipated continuation to one of the loved crime series of the last decade will be published in Sweden as Det som inte dodar oss (What Doesn't Kill You). David Lagercrantz - Ever since his ghost written autobiography of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, I am Zlatan, became a runaway bestseller in more than 20 countries and won the William Hill Sports book of the year, David Lagercrantz has had a steady stream of book offers. But none of them excited him until he was approached to write the continuation of the Millennium Trilogy. This was a commission he could not resist. His work on the fourth book in the series has been rigorously secretive, writing on a computer with no internet connection, delivering the manuscript to his publishers by hand. He is very aware and protective of Stieg Larsson's legacy. He says - 'Stieg Larsson was a master at creating complex stories with a lot of different plot-lines and that was something I was determined to live up to [His writing style] is down to earth and unaffected. But there is a kind of journalistic authoritativeness about his work. I realized early on how idiotic it would be for me just to imitate him. This is my own prose.'
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The Automobile Club of Egypt
Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work at the Automobile Club a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, but one where Egyptians may appear only as servants. Alku, the lifelong Nubian servant of Egypts corrupt king, runs the show in all but name. The servants, a squabbling, humorous, and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear : beaten for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alkus whims. When Abd el-Azizs pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, his death as much from shame as from his injuries after Alku has him beaten leaves his widow further impoverished and two of his sons obliged to work in the Club. As the family is drawn into the turbulent politics of Egypt public and private both servants and masters are subsumed by the countrys social upheaval. Soon, the Egyptians of the Automobile Club face a stark choice : to live safely but without dignity as servants, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
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Waiting For Doggo
No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. Come on...everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend...and an inspiration.
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Success is a Thief : Inspirational Convocation Spe
Success is at thief; failure is a fortune - R. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Tata Sons Ltd. Convocation is a magical time for graduates, it is liberating and petrifying in equal measure. It is tradition to invite a noted personality to deliver an address which can rouse the students to step into the real world with courage, motivation and enthusiasm. This book brings together twenty convocation speeches delivered at the greatest management institutes in this country by eminent personalities like A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Deepak Parekh, Subrato Bagchi, Indra Nooyi and Anand Mahindra. This book also offers reflections from experts who analyse these speeches and delves into the art of inspiring communication. Stimulating and inspiring, Success is a Thief is a must on every bookshelf.
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You're Trending in My Dreams
Four friends . . . four lives . . . one decision Four college students, who couldnt be more different from each other, move into a flat in Mumbai. While Varun is sloppy but lovable, Ahana is gutsy and reckless; Malvika is the groups selfie queen and Garima is the most reserved in the group. Yet, all four get along like a house on fire. Although each of them is battling personal demons, their commitment to the bond of friendship they have built over time holds them together. Things, however, take a turbulent turn when one of the four finds herself caught in a mess. Will they stick together or fall apart? Youre Trending in My Dreams is a true story that will reaffirm your faith in the magic of love and friendship.
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Are You Feeding Your Hunger or Your Emotions?
Bored-Spicy, Anxious-Crunchy, Sad-Desserts ! Do these combinations ring a bell? Are we all not guilty of feeding our emotions at some time or the other, if not mostly? Distilling and combining the best principles of Ayurvedic and New Age therapies, this book gives a wake-up call and asks a pertinent question, Are you feeding your hunger, or your emotions? Honest, intelligent and written by one of the most respected Indian weight-loss therapists, it cuts through the clutter and helps you uncover the blind spot in weight-loss advice.
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The Bridal Diet
Are you a bride-to-be? Do you want to get into fabulous shape before your wedding? As weddings in the country grow more and more glamorous each year, brides face immense pressure to look their best on the D-Day. But in the days leading up to the wedding, most brides get into a frenzy to shed the kilos fast, making them resort to heavy gym sessions and crash diets which ultimately leaves them with little time for anything else. So, what if there was a way to shed the kilos without feeling stressed, deprived or having sleepless nights over whether youll fit into your dress on time? From Delhis top dietician and the bestselling author of Lose a Kilo a Week comes another weight loss book that will outline a diet programme aimed at brides-to-be so that the days leading up to their wedding can be stress-free. And even if you arent getting hitched, you can still use this book to get in shape and get fit. From exclusive diet plans, workouts, recipes, strategies to avoid temptation, motivators and much more, The Bridal Diet contains everything you need to look and feel your best.
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Mrs Funnybones
Good morning, its 6 a.m. and I am wide awake because the man of the house has decided that he needs to perform a series of complex manoeuvres that involve him balancing on his left elbow. When I fell asleep last night, there was a baby lying next to me. Her smelly diaper is still wedged on my head but aside from this rather damp clue, I can't seem to find her anywhere. I could ask my mother-in-law if she has seen the baby, but she may just tell me that I need to fast on alternate Mondays and God will deliver the baby back to me . . Full of wit and delicious observations, Mrs Funnybones captures the life of the modern Indian womana woman who organizes dinner each evening, even as she goes to work all day, who runs her own life but has to listen to her Mummyji, who worries about her weight and the state of the country. Based on Twinkle Khannas super-hit column, Mrs Funnybones marks the debut of one of our funniest, most original voices.
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An Evening in Calcutta
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-87) was a prolific political commentator, short-story writer, novelist, scriptwriter and a film-maker who preferred to call himself a communicator. He published seventy-three books in English, Urdu and Hindi, including an engaging autobiography, I Am Not an Island and two semiautobiographical novels, Inquilab and The World Is My Village, detailing contemporary Indian history. His works have been translated into several Indian and foreign languages including Russian, German, Arabic, Italian and French. Abbas received several state and national honours, including the Padma Shri in 1969 and was involved in the making of sixty Hindi films. Suresh Kohli (born in 1947) is a poet, writer, translator, editor, literary critic and fi lm historian with more than thirty-five published works including five volumes of poetry and a novel. He is also a short and documentary film-maker, with over a hundred films to his credit that have been screened, apart from India, in Australia, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Nepal. He lives in Delhi and is currently working on a long abandoned novel and a collection of short stories.
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Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press archives, Kalyan now has a circulation of over 200,000, and its English counterpart, Kaylana-Kalpataru, of over 100,000. Gita Press created an empire that spoke in a militant Hindu nationalist voice and imagined a quantifiable, reward-based piety. Almost every notable leader and prominent voice, including Mahatma Gandhi, was roped in to speak for the cause. Cow slaughter, Hindi as national language and the rejection of Hindustani, the Hindu Code Bill, the creation of Pakistan, India's secular Constitution: Kalyan and Kalyana-Kalpataru were the spokespersons of the Hindu position on these and other matters. The ideas articulated by Gita Press and its publications played a critical role in the formation of a Hindu political consciousness, indeed a Hindu public sphere. This history provides new insights into the complicated and contested rise to political pre-eminence of the Hindu Right. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India is an original, eminently readable and deeply researched account of one of the most influential publishing enterprises in the history of modern India. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters - buccaneering entrepreneurs and hustling editors, nationalist ideologues and religious fanatics - this is essential (and exciting) reading for our times.
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Did I Mention I Love You?
Did I Mention I Love You? is first in the sensational DIMILY trilogy, which follows sixteen-year-old Eden Munro as she travels from Portland to begrudgingly spend the summer with her father in the beachfront city of Santa Monica, California. Eden's parents are divorced and have gone their separate ways and now her father has a brand new family. For Eden, this means she's about to meet three new step-brothers. The eldest of the three is Tyler Bruce, a troubled teenager with a short temper and a huge ego. Complete polar opposites, Eden quickly finds herself thrust into a world full of new experiences as Tyler's group of friends take her under their wing. But the one thing she just can't understand is Tyler and the more she presses to figure out the truth about him, the more she finds herself falling for the one person she shouldn't - her step-brother.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin..
Left to his own devices as a child in a poor family, young Ben Franklin found solace in books and his curiosity. He was constantly questioning the way things worked around him, trying to understand the world. He left home at an early age and journeyed to Philadelphia where he would become a clerk. He eventually became shopkeeper and bookkeeper, but it was his constant inquisitiveness and his writings that would lead him to become known as a man of letters. In this unfinished account of his life, Franklin writes of how he encountered the very men who would join him in drafting the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. A versatile genius and one of the most intelligent men of his time, the First American takes readers on a journey through his life, a magical journey that has immortalized his name in physics and politics forever.
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You
When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars.As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness? At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No one could have committed such an atrocity alone. It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator and the Traveller is born. As he makes his way across a country gripped by fear, hes searching for his next victim.
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The Girl with Seven Names A North Korean Defectors
Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told the best on the planet?Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.She could not return, since rumours of her escape were spreading, and she and her family could incur the punishments of the government authorities - involving imprisonment, torture, and possible public execution. Hyeonseo instead remained in China and rapidly learned Chinese in an effort to adapt and survive. Twelve years and two lifetimes later, she would return to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea, on one of the most arduous, costly and dangerous journeys imaginable.This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseos escape from the darkness into the light, but also of her coming of age,education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life, first in China, then in South Korea.
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The Wellness Sense : A Practical Guide to Your Phy
Why do certain foods harm some people and help others? How come the results of a weight loss programme varies from individual to individual? And why do some people fall sick more often than others? The science of Ayurveda holds answers to these questions and many more. Its scriptures took a holistic approach to health by combining our lifestyle with our natural tendencies (which vary from one person to another). This groundbreaking new work from Om Swami combines the yogic view of food as sattvic, rajasic and tamasic with Ayurvedic perspective, and further relates it to the modern view of foods as acidic and alkaline. This is also the first time that Ayurvedic prakriti (vata, pitta and kapha) has been discussed in the context of yogic prakriti (sattvic, rajasic and tamasic) in a truly cohesive fashion. The Wellness Sense extracts the essence of Ayurveda, yoga and tantra to combine it with modern medicine in this simple, step-by-step handbook on how to take better care of yourself. Accessibly written, deeply researched and distilled from Om Swami's own lived experience, The Wellness Sense puts your health and happiness in your hands.