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Rising 2.0
This collection of 20 stories brings you the account of the resilience and brilliance of iconic Indian women, who rose to be trailblazers and trendsetters against all odds. Even in this day and age, when conversations about women empowerment and equality are at the forefront, we are only scratching the surface when it comes to knowledge about women’s contribution. Whether it is in the field of science, defence, law or literature, the contributions of women have been undermined extensively. With Rising 2.0, Kiran Manral aims to continue the work of acknowledging the contribution of women that she had started with her previous book, Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India. Rising 2.0: 20 More Women Who Changed India brings you the stories of 20 exceptional Indian women, who tackled the tough circumstances of their time head on—whether through protest or perseverance—and rose to have a lasting impact on the world. With stories ranging from the pre-Independence era to the present day, this book explores the struggles of women who were army captains, botanists, lawyers, chefs, writers, performers and so much more. With exclusive interviews from some of the women and extensively researched pieces about others, Rising 2.0 brings you fascinating and inspiring stories of women like J. Jayalalithaa, Ismat Chughtai, Begum Akhtar, Dutee Chand, Mithali Raj, Kalpana Chawla, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Cornelia Sorabji, Anna Chandy, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Kavita Devi Bundelkhandi, Janaki Ammal, Tulasi Gowda, Seema Rao, Kamala Das, Garima Arora, Sindhutai Sapkal, Lakshmi Sahgal, Sarojini Naidu and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
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Because India Comes First
The essays in Because India Comes First discuss a range of issues that are at the heart of contemporary debates in India: democracy as the responsibility of the head of state, rule of law, peace and public order, Mahatma Gandhi and Gandhism, Ambedkar’s ideals, empowerment of women, Indian judiciary, the Ram Janmabhoomi case, abrogation of Article 370, the legacies of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Arun Jaitley, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s learnings in governance. This book also delves into the decisions made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government over the last few years, diplomatic relations with India’s neighbours and the confrontations with China. Madhav analyses India’s history of policymaking and asserts that, going ahead, it must put India first. He calls out liberal fascism, deconstructs our understanding of terrorism in India, argues that opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is intellectually dishonest, explores how learnings from Black Lives Matter can be applied in the Indian sphere and explains why protests should be rooted in Martin Luther King Jr’s non-violent approach and not anarchy. These essays weave a broad tapestry of India’s growth into a soft power, and predict how it will shape up over the next few decades. A must-read for those who believe in the new idea of India, and for those who accept that there are two sides to every debate.
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The Indian Reality
The Indian Reality: Changing Narratives, Shifting Perceptions is the story of the new reality that has overtaken countries and populations. The diversified agendas of altered societies call for newer understanding and discourses. This has also enthused a new wave of excitement in India too. The last decade was witness to a tectonic transformation in almost every walk of national life. Dr Madhav, through his essays on the new agendas of society, contemporary Hindutva, lessons from history, the idea of good governance and India’s outreach with the world, not only maps the journey of change but paints a forward-looking canvas of a society on the move. The Indian Reality is a must-read for those who want to get a bird’s eye view of what will interest the world as the twenty-first century paces ahead.
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The Fight Against Alzheimers
It is fast becoming a household disease, one that does not have a cure. It is a serpent in the grass, and when it finally decides to announce itself, the human brain has already turned into jelly. However, this poisonous attack can be thwarted before its fatal explosion. How can one anticipate and prevent Alzheimer’s before it becomes a full-blown disease? Are there precautions to take? How does one care for a loved one who falls prey to Alzheimer’s? How can a caregiver cope with the emotional upheavals when taking care of their loved one who does not even remember who, what and when they forgot? Can meditation help prevent dementia? In this book, internationally renowned physician and winner of the prestigious Nautilus Award Dr Shuvendu Sen addresses these pressing questions and concerns. Offering a brilliant, insightful and encircling embrace for both the patient and their caregiver, this book redefines the understanding of a disease that is the most common cause of dementia. It provides critical advice for caregivers and suggests ways to decelerate and even reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s.
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The Musical Maverick
This is the first and only definitive authorized biography of a talent that emerges once a century— Shankar Mahadevan. Extensively researched and packed with endearing incidents and enduring accounts from the life of an artist who has been hailed as one of the greatest of all time. This biography captures Shankar at his most multifaceted: singer, musician, composer, friend, family man, guru and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions. Drawing on many hundred hours of interviews with Shankar, this authorized biography paints the complete picture of a man who effortlessly glides into each of his facets with the same amount of passion and energy. Despite the fame and accolades, Shankar Mahadevan still identifies as a regular boy from Mumbai’s Chembur. His is a heartwarming tale of down-to-earth humanity, so typical of Mumbai. The candour and honesty with which Shankar narrates his journey is extremely rare for a man of his stardom. In The Musical Maverick, Shankar reveals that he trained to become a veena artiste in his childhood. While teaching him to play a kriti, his veena guru told him to also sing it in order to execute it well, thereby setting off his interest in singing. This eventually led to the formation of the legendary composer-trio: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. His singing career was no less spectacular, with songs like ‘Suno Gaur Sey Duniya Walo’, still a must at almost every event of national importance— sporting, cultural or otherwise. With a raga of everlasting friendship; sweet notes of an adorable childhood romance; and the drumroll for the success story of the boy who won the world with his music, this saga will leave you breathless.
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Why Bharat Matters
Whether drawing strength from its heritage and culture or approaching challenges with the optimism of democracy and technology, this is certainly a New India—an India that is more Bharat. This is not just a tough world but also a turbulent and unpredictable one. It is marked by the impact of Covid, conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia, climate events, radicalization and terrorism. There is complex geopolitics at work, such as the rise of China, the changed posture of the United States, the strategy of Russia, the impact of globalization and the power of new technologies. India seeks to navigate these stormy seas without diluting its focus on becoming a leading power. As a vishwa mitra, it seeks the well-being of the Global South and to contribute to global good. India is more salient in global calculations and stands ready to embrace coming responsibilities and opportunities. Entering the Amrit Kaal, it visualizes an era of growth and development while staying true to its traditions and heritage. In Why Bharat Matters, S. Jaishankar argues that while rising powers seek stability most of all, India must plan to rise amidst serious unpredictability. This process is also exceptional as it represents the rejuvenation of a civilizational state. Simultaneously, he also explains why foreign policy in a globalized world matters increasingly to all citizens in their daily lives. This book is a must-read for every Indian to understand and seriously reflect on the reality of our times that is becoming clearer with each passing day—that India matters because it is Bharat.
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A Day With Influential American Personalities: Nei
Do you know the first human who stepped on the moon or the first African-American president of the United States of America? A Day With series features fascinating lives of some of the world's most influential personalities. Books in this series will take you back in time to meet inspiring individuals and discover how these trailblazers made a lasting impact on the world and continue to inspire generations today. Through vivid illustrations and engaging storytelling, this book will captivate young readers and teach them about the power of determination, innovation and compassion. This book is perfect for children who dream of making a difference and want to learn more about the heroes who paved the way.
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A Day With Great Inventors: Alexander Graham Bell,
Do you know who invented the telephone or the airplane? A Day With series features fascinating lives of some of the world's most influential personalities. Books in this series will take you back in time to meet inspiring individuals and discover how these trailblazers made a lasting impact on the world and continue to inspire generations today. Through vivid illustrations and engaging storytelling, this book will captivate young readers and teach them about the power of determination, innovation and compassion. This book is perfect for children who dream of making a difference and want to learn more about the heroes who paved the way.
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A Day With Iconic Scientists
Do you know the first woman who won a Nobel Prize or the scientist who save millions of lives? A Day With series features fascinating lives of some of the world's most influential personalities. Books in this series will take you back in time to meet inspiring individuals and discover how these trailblazers made a lasting impact on the world and continue to inspire generations today. Through vivid illustrations and engaging storytelling, this book will captivate young readers and teach them about the power of determination, innovation and compassion. This book is perfect for children who dream of making a difference and want to learn more about the heroes who paved the way.
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Old Roads,New Roads
‘I believe that the journey is more important than the destination. But, then, I have never really had a destination. The glory that comes from conquering the Himalayan peaks is not for me. My greatest pleasure lies in taking a path—any old path will do—and following it until it leads me to a forest glade or village or stream or windy hilltop.’ Is there a feeling better than being on the road, with the wind whipping through your hair? It is perhaps only matched by the anticipation of roaming around a town you have never visited before— meeting interesting people and wandering around unexplored mohallas. In Old Roads, New Roads, Ruskin Bond brings together some of his best travel writing, chronicling tales of his many journeys to and from the hills, across towns big and small, meeting wise and amusing people. This book promises to remind you of the joys of stepping out into the great outdoors, exploring old roads and new ones.
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A Day With Inspiring Leaders
Do you know who made South Africa a democracy or the man who led a non-violent revolution to free India from Great Britain? A Day With series features fascinating lives of some of the world's most influential personalities. Books in this series will take you back in time to meet inspiring individuals and discover how these trailblazers made a lasting impact on the world and continue to inspire generations today. Through vivid illustrations and engaging storytelling, this book will captivate young readers and teach them about the power of determination, innovation and compassion. This book is perfect for children who dream of making a difference and want to learn more about the heroes who paved the way.
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To Build A Fire And Other Stories
Jack London was a master storyteller, and in this collection of his most beloved tales, he weaves together a tapestry of adventure, courage and the indomitable human spirit. From the frozen tundra of the Yukon to the sun-baked plains of the American West, London’s characters face danger, hardship and the unforgiving forces of nature. Whether you are looking for action, adventure or a deep exploration of the human psyche, this collection of Jack London’s greatest stories has something for everyone. With its rich language, vivid imagery and unforgettable characters, it is a must-read for anyone who loves great literature and the thrill of an extraordinary story.
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Great American Short Stories
Featuring a wide range of genres, this hand-picked collection of short stories includes distinguished writers of the American short-story canon. The compilation begins with ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe, traversing through Hawthorne's ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ Melville's ‘Bartleby,’ Gilman's ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ Fitzgerald's ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair,’ and other stories to conclude at Chesnutt's ‘The Goophered Grapevine’. Brilliant for classroom use, this book of tales will be loved by fiction readers everywhere.
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Homi J. Bhabha A Life
Homi J. Bhabha: A Life is the first full-fledged biography of the theoretical physicist who founded India’s nuclear programme. A Renaissance man, Bhabha was also a lover of music and an accomplished painter. A scientist and aesthete who was equally at home in the world of science and the arts, he was both a visionary and a doer—a man of thought as well as a man of action. A great deal is known of his astonishing intellect, but less about his human side. This biography combines both aspects of him, presenting a more complete picture of the man.
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The Enlightened Entrepreneur
It is easy for an entrepreneur to look at data and charts to arrive at a business decision, but extremely difficult to look within his soul to find answers. Bhavarlal H. Jain happens to be someone who can do both with ease. He is the founder and chairman of Jain Irrigation, a $1 Billion company which was presented with 'The Good Company Award' by Forbes, in 2012. His is a company that nearly went bankrupt four times in the last thirty years of its existence, only to rise again. Despite these ups and down, however, Jain has not wavered from a business model that is based on Gandhi's notion of trusteeshipwherein wealth belongs not to an individual but is used for the benefit of the community. Which is a compilation of lectures that he has given over thirty years. Replete with instances and expositions of what constitutes 'enlightened entrepreneurship' a notion that, Jain iterates, must be embraced by each and every entrepreneur. This book provides invaluable insights into what successes and failures mean to a business-person, the tenets of effective leadership and transformational businesses.
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Golden Rules For Living Your Best Life
The untapped potential of every individual is the biggest tragedy of the human race. The primaryreason for this is our lack of awareness of the processes, tools and techniques needed to unleash it. While life is a do-it-yourself project, there is no user rule book that teaches us to deal with thecomplexities of human life. Would it not be nice if there were a manual for life as well? The Atharva Veda states: dve vidye veditavye … parā caivāparā ca(Mundakopanishad 1.1.4) ‘To triumph at life, one must possess both spiritual and material wisdom.’ Every successful person is either already blessed with this wisdom or has acquired it. This book notonly bridges this gap, but also equips you with the proper knowledge needed to effectively navigateyour life. Learning it will unleash your abilities and unlock your potential to thrive in your endeavours. In this book, Swami Mukundananda brings together a hundred gems of wisdom to constantlyelevate the quality of your life in five key areas—spiritual and emotional wellness, good healthand well-being, harmony in relationships, professional fulfilment and financial abundance. If youcan effectively manage these five dimensions of your life, all the other aspects are automaticallytransformed. This, in turn, will enable you to become the best you can be, today and every day,and win the game of life.
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Celebrating India
For India’s 75th birthday, we trace how our nation came about; what freedom, independence and democracy mean; and how we remain together building a stronger India day by day, through a collection of stories, activities, puzzles, facts, quotes that children can feel and relate to. 75 stories, puzzles, activities, facts and quotes on freedom, Constitution, heroes and festivities. This collector’s book is for every child who wants to understand India through feelings and emotions, one story at a time!
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INDRA-The Rise and Fall of a Hero
here was something unusual in the air. There was no sound, no breeze and time seemed to have stopped as the world waited with bated breath. The eerie silence was unnerving and unsettling. What was this anticipation for? What was the world waiting for? In the stillness of the infinite silence, a mother was waiting in anticipation to give the world its elements. Indra was about to be born. Indra, most popularly known for his power over the rains, has been considered to be a cosmic, dragon-killing hero and a warrior god. So, what makes this warrior hero fall from grace? What makes him insecure, powerless and given to lust and merriment in the post-Vedic era? Indra—the Rise and Fall of a Hero is an attempt to look closely at an erstwhile ‘human-hero’, much maligned in the later period due to the wheel of time, which doesn’t even spare the gods.
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MIS (S) ADVENTURES OF A SALESGIRL
An entertaining plot peppered with quirky characters.' —Tanushree Podder, Author and travel writer ‘Aashisha takes readers on a delightful, hilarious and hard-hitting journey of a saleswoman who manages to make her voice heard amongst the sales pros in the corporate domain.’ —Harshali Singh, author, consumer court judge, academician and painter Life is rosy at twenty-five, with love in the air and red-hot ambition flowing through the veins. Or is it? Ask twenty-five-year-old Enakshi Chatterji, who is uprooted from Delhi and sent to Chennai to work as an intern in the fiercely competitive and heavily male-dominated territory of sales with no place for a city-bred sophisticated girl. Add to that the fact that she doesn’t speak a word of Tamil, and you get a heady cocktail of events that promises to take you on a rollercoaster ride. When a twenty-five-year-old family secret comes back to haunt her, she starts on a course of selfdestruction with a weekend getaway with her stalker, a movie date with her boss and a quest to uncover an old family secret. Will Enakshi be able to battle all the sexual advances, language barriers, male chauvinism, hygiene complications and the scorching Chennai sun, and emerge victorious? Will she finally unearth the truth about her mother? Find out in this thrilling, fast-paced and tumultuous journey how Enakshi learns the hard truths about relationships, life and work while trying to prove herself.
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The Yellow Umbrella
‘What should he be like, this lost man? A romantic, a man with a dream, a man with brown skin and blue eyes, living in a hut on a snowy mountaintop… a man who owed allegiance to no one… who was his own master, who lived at one with nature knowing no fear. But that was not Major Roberts—that was the man I wanted to be.’ It is believed that the foundation of every good relationship—platonic or otherwise—is friendship. The familiarity and ease that grow in friendships is what get many of us through a hard day. But it is not just the long-lasting associations that help us through life; it is also the acquaintances that we collect along the way. People are a sum of parts—of ephemeral yet significant encounters, and enduring and monumental intimacies. What makes a person whole is all the parts of themselves— good, wonderful, bad, ugly. In The Yellow Umbrella, with the story titled the same that has never appeared in print before, Ruskin Bond takes us down memory lane with nuggets from his past. The parts that made him who he is: unattainable love, intriguing friends, sturdy companions and books that help us through a rainy day.
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Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan Volume-3
No Tamil book or novel has been as grandly celebrated and fondly remembered as Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil literature. This is a story of Prince Arulmolivarman, alias Ponniyin Selvan, who later on ascended the Chola throne. A story of romance, wit and wisdom, suspense, thrill, sacrifice, twists and turns and plots within plots, it has been the most widely read historical fiction. Dr M. Rajaram’s masterly English translation has made it possible for all non-Tamilian speakers to perceive and enjoy this perennial Tamil classic.
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Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan Volume-2
No Tamil book or novel has been as grandly celebrated and fondly remembered as Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil literature. This is a story of Prince Arulmolivarman, alias Ponniyin Selvan, who later on ascended the Chola throne. A story of romance, wit and wisdom, suspense, thrill, sacrifice, twists and turns and plots within plots, it has been the most widely read historical fiction. Dr M. Rajaram’s masterly English translation has made it possible for all non-Tamilian speakers to perceive and enjoy this perennial Tamil classic.
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Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan Volume-1
No Tamil book or novel has been as grandly celebrated and fondly remembered as Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil literature. This is a story of Prince Arulmolivarman, alias Ponniyin Selvan, who later on ascended the Chola throne. A story of romance, wit and wisdom, suspense, thrill, sacrifice, twists and turns and plots within plots, it has been the most widely read historical fiction. Dr M. Rajaram’s masterly English translation has made it possible for all non-Tamilian speakers to perceive and enjoy this perennial Tamil classic.
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Dr Sushil Shah-Dare to Make a Change
In 1981, a young Sushil Shah fostered a vision far bigger than anyone could ever imagine. Having returned from the US after completing his fellowship at Cornell University, he set out to fulfil his dream of creating one of the biggest diagnostic labs in India. Today, Metropolis Healthcare Limited boasts a widespread network of outlets spread across 20 states in India and also in seven countries across the world. Under his inspiring leadership, Metropolis has gained a strong foothold in both national and international markets. Dare to Make a Change is the biography of Dr Sushil Shah, the founder and chairman of Metropolis Healthcare Limited. His vision and zeal to be the best and to serve relentlessly in the healthcare industry led him to undertake a mammoth challenge. He has overcome several obstacles to become a market leader in the pathology sector. With his younger daughter, MD and CEO Ameera Shah currently ensconced at the helm, Metropolis has reached greater heights. Author Maya Bathija takes us on Dr Shah’s journey, giving us a sneak peek into his life and the vision and foresight that made Metropolis possible. Dare to Make a Change offers an in-depth account of the man behind Metropolis, and his struggle to reach the top while maintaining honesty and integrity.