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Chinaman
Retired sportswriter, W.G. Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, upsetting his wife, ignoring his son, and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, an elusive spin bowler he considers ‘the greatest cricketer to walk the earth’. On his quest to find this unsung genius, W.G. uncovers a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, an LTTE warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself. Ambitious, playful, and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka—and of Sri Lanka through its cricket. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction’, it is an astounding book.
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The Beauty Diet: Eat Your Way To A Fab New You
You don't have to be born with good looks-now you can eat our way to them Can eating make you look good? Yes, it's true. Diet provides nutrition but also makes you look beautiful by helping you lose weight, getting a proportionate body, making your skin glow and your hair and eyes shine. In The Beauty Diet, celebrity dietician Shonali Sabherwal, whose clients include Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia, Esha Deol, Hema Malini, Jacqueline Fernandez, Chitrangadha Singh, Shekhar Kapur, and Kabir Bedi among others, offers easy-to-follow and tried-and-tested diet advice for women of all ages to look younger and more stunning. She shows you how to: Do a basic detox to cleanse the body Make your skin glow, your hair shiny, and your teeth healthy Tuck that rebellious tummy in Get rid of fat thighs and flabby arms Eat to look younger Change your mood with the right food With diet charts, recipes, cooking techniques, illustrations, real life stories, and celeb experiences, The Beauty Diet redefines the purpose and formulas of eating. So get ready to welcome the fab new you!
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The Game Changers
20 Extraordinary Success Stories Of Entrepreneurs From IIT Kharagpur A one of a kind book about IITs most successful entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship is not about breaking free from the 9 to 5 humdrum, not about being your own boss, and definitely not glorious. The entrepreneur shuns the comfort of a cushy corporate job and six figure salaries to set sail on unchartered waters with a single minded zeal and only an idea as an anchor. But it is this idea and passion that makes all the difference and catapults them into a world of infinite possibilities. The Game Changers brings to you 20 success stories of IITians who went on to live the big dream. These include: Suhas Patil, Vijay Kumar, Vinod Gupta, Sam Dalal, Sridhar Mitta, Arjun Malhotra, Kiran Seth, Prabhakant Sinha, Ranbir Singh Gupta, Bikram Dasgupta founder of Globsyn, Praful Kulkarni, Sunil Gaitonde, Anand Deshpande, Arvind Kejriwal, Harish Hande, Anuradha Acharya, Venkata Subramanian, Bikash Barai, Vikram Kumar, and Krishna Mehra. With a foreword by Dr Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and introduction by Damodar Acharya, Director, IIT Karagpur, this book marks the 60 golden years of India s finest institute. Come, be a part of their journey, get inspired to dream and make your own story. About The Author Yuvnesh Modi is a 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing Mathematics and Computing. He has also been a National finalist at the Informatics Olympiad in the year 2007. He hails from the city of Kolkata. Rahul Kumar is a 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing Mathematics and Computing. His area of interest includes applied mathematics, Indian history, and sociology. He hails from Bokaro Thermal, a very small town in Jharkhand. Alok Kothari is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He graduated with an Integrated Masters in Mathematics and Computing in 2009. He was one of the founding members of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur and one of the first editors of The Entrepreneur. He currently works as a project associate at a research organisation in Germany and hails from the city of Pune.
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Death In Mumbai
A gripping account of the infamous Neeraj Grover killing that sent shockwaves through the nation. Three years ago, the brutal killing of a young TV producer called Neeraj Grover sent shockwaves through Mumbai. An alluring aspiring actress, Maria Susairaj, and her dashing naval officer boyfriend, Emile Jerome, were accused of killing him and hacking his body into pieces, before setting it on fire. The cast of characters was young, attractive, and upwardly mobile, the press hungry for a headline. As details of the case unravelled, the questions flew around—what had gone wrong? What made these young professionals turn to violent crime? Was it the savage pressure of the city, or was the motive even darker? This book will shock and inspire a much needed change in perception of celebrity culture and Bollywood. It’s about so much more than a contested killing case and will be a talking point for years to come. Aboout The Author Meenal Baghel is the editor of Mumbai Mirror. Baghel has been a journalist in India for 15 years, reporting for Asian Age and TheTimes of India, among others. Death in Mumbai is her first book.