Far from being fluffy sentiments, acts of kindness – whether given, received or witnessed – are potent elixirs that have a profound and lasting impact on our mental and physical health.
From boosting happiness to soothing the soul, kindness isn’t just a feel-good notion – it’s a powerhouse. It relaxes your nerves, lowers blood pressure, reduces inflammation and even slows down ageing at the genetic level.
This book serves as a beacon of light, urging you to spread kindness like wildfire. Because in a world where apathy reigns, giving a f*ck is revolutionary. And when we do, we not only enrich ourselves but bring joy into our communities and the wider world.
Do you always show up for everyone else, get praised for your strength, and look like you have it all together while secretly experiencing intense worry, self-doubt, or fear of failure? Do you work hard to please others while feeling disconnected from the ‘real you’?
People with high-functioning anxiety (HFA) often appear competent and accomplished on the outside, but internally, it’s a very different story. HFA is rooted in fear – the fear of others seeing the ‘real’ us – and can lead to a cycle of overworking, overthinking, and self-criticism.
Award-winning psychologist Dr Lalitaa is here to tell you that you don’t have to live like this anymore. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and case studies, Dr Lalitaa offers a five-step plan that will radically shift how you see yourself. You’ll discover:
• the main symptoms of high-functioning anxiety and how they emerge in daily behaviour
•the two sides of high-functioning anxiety: how you see yourself vs. how you present yourself to the world
•how to release old modes of thinking and habitual thought patterns and replace them with healthy attitudes
•practical methods for creating and sustaining long-term lifestyle changes, so that you can calm the inner panic, find balance, and thrive
This transformational book will show you how to break the toxic cycle of high-functioning anxiety – for good.
In today’s hyperconnected world, our lives have become increasingly intertwined with the technology we interact with. While innovations like smartphones and the Internet have brought unprecedented convenience and connectivity, they have also introduced new risks and challenges.
In The Human Algorithm, Dr Robin K. Mathew takes readers on an eye-opening exploration of the complex digital landscape and our ever-evolving engagement with it. With chapters delving into smartphone addiction, the impact of technology on cognitive development, threats such as cyberbullying, online predators, and the dark web, this book shines a revelatory light on the often-overlooked aspects of our online existence. This comprehensive work also dedicates chapters to the internet’s role in fuelling anxiety and hypochondria, the emergence of cyber dating and romance, and the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), among other crucial topics.
All in all, this richly researched and compellingly argued compendium will equip you with the knowledge and insights to navigate the digital age with awareness and resilience.
From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and fulfillment.
Dr. Tony Nader, a renowned Vedic scholar and neuroscientist, offers a direct path to peace for ourselves and our world that anyone can obtain—simply by delving into our own Consciousness. Dr. Nader provides the methods, tools, and guidance for connecting with our authentic inner nature and understanding how Consciousness is the essence of all existence, including addressing such fundamental questions as:
• What is the key to a well-lived, flourishing life in which we can all coexist in peace?
• Can freedom be compatible with law and order?
• How can we meet all our challenges as individuals and a society, including the environment, genetic engineering, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence?
True wellness is a state of profound clarity, peace, and contentment, resulting from connection with our pure Consciousness. By enlivening our coherence between our Consciousness and the external world, we can find our happiest and highest states of ourselves.
“Consciousness Is All There Is will open doors of perception for you to a new and profound understanding of life.”
— Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Happy for No Reason
Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family’s social status and power over villagers on their land is absolute. Krishna and Ranga, brothers, are the sons of a widowed servant in the Deshmukh household.
When Vijaya and Krishna meet, they forge an intense bond that is beautiful and dangerous. But after an innocent attempt to hunt down a man-eating tiger in the jungle goes wrong, what happens between the two of them is disastrous, the consequences reverberating through their lives into young adulthood.
Years later, when violent uprisings rip across the countryside and the Marxist, ultra-left Naxalite movement arrives in Irumi, Vijaya and Krishna are forced to navigate the insurmountable differences of land ownership and class warfare in a country that is burning from the inside out—while being irresistibly drawn back to each other, their childhood bond now full of possibilities neither of them are willing to admit.
The Fertile Earth is a vast, ambitious debut that is equal parts historical, political, and human, with the enduring ties of love and family loyalty at its heart. Who can be loved? What are the costs of transgressions? How can justice be measured, and who will be alive to bear witness?
An unnamed narrator takes it upon himself to discover the truth behind the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman—who led Bangladesh’s independence movement from Pakistan, which was achieved in 1971—and his entire family. With literary greats for company, the narrator negotiates his complicated personal life and his philosophical and literary musings even as he locates a gun to shoot the assassins who are still alive. Hallucinatory, flitting between reality and dreams, and traversing the length and breadth of Dhaka, this is a fever dream of a novel—an individual’s quest while navigating the scarred and traumatized mind of a nation.
A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public.
Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralyzed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans. And there’s Daddu, Sharad’s father, a beacon of hope in the growing darkness. As they each grapple with thoughts of speaking the unspeakable, an unnamed narrator takes on the urgent task of bearing witness.
First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorization—it’s a time capsule, a warning siren and a desperate plea. Geetanjali Shree’s shimmering prose, in Daisy Rockwell’s nuanced and consummate translation, takes us into a fever dream of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences, mirroring the disjointed reality of a city under siege. Readers will find themselves haunted long after the final page, grappling with questions that echo far beyond India’s borders.
In the Hindu Trinity, Lord Shiva is a multifaceted deity. Fierce and benevolent, Lord shiva is the symbol of duality of life. Central to Shaivism is the worship of Shivalingam and the twelve sacred Jyotirlingams that have from time immemorial being holy shrines of pilgrimage. Through a series of personal narratives and scholarly research, Amit Kapoor, Bibek Debroy, Vibhav Kapoor and Conor Martin captures Jyotirlingams through a literal and metaphorical journey. Viewed from diverse perspectives, this book is a unique amalgamation of the western, spiritual, artistic and the mythological.
Think creatively like a human. Solve problems efficiently like a computer.
Our everyday lives are filled with inefficient and ineffective decision making and solutions. Being overwhelmed by the magnitude of our problems makes it hard to think clearly. We procrastinate and overthink. Our thoughts are tainted with biases. By applying computer algorithms to everyday life, you
can simplify your decision-making and problem-solving process and get satisfying, consistent results!
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, learning how to combine human skills with technical knowledge is important to enhance your professional skillsets and set you apart in the job market.
Learn what algorithms are and use them for better decision making, problem-solving, and staying on track with your plans.
Become more productive, organized, finish what you start, and make better decisions. If you feel that you’re not living up to your potential, struggle with being consistent about your habits, and would like to walk
in pace with the changing times, this book is for you!
Mortal danger follows the Pandavas and Panchali into exile.
Back in Hastinapur, the bloody-minded Kauravas continue to scheme for total domination.
Both Arjuna and Duryodhana approach Krishna for help.
Is war between the cousins inevitable? Or will the elders manage to avert it?
The Book of Discoveries is the eagerly awaited second instalment of the Mahabharata trilogy, which began explosively with The Book of Vows. Imagined afresh and composed in a style that captures the power, charm and ambiguity of Vyasa’s Mahabharata, this book dramatizes the stunning prelude to war—one that is full of thrilling adventures, fateful encounters and life-altering revelations.
Grounding his telling in the original Sanskrit version, Majmudar has recreated the ancient epic for a contemporary audience. His finest work yet, this is one of the most accessible, magical and unputdownable retellings of the Mahabharata. The Book of Discoveries will be followed by The Book of Killings.
