Today’s generation dreams big and wants to lead a rich and happy life. But how does one make it big? How can one achieve success in their professional and personal lives? What should one do to create wealth? Does the accumulation of wealth lead to happiness? What is the purpose of life? The 100X Formula attempts to answer these and many such questions.
This book reveals the magic formula that the authors have developed after years of research in equity markets. The formula not only helps one achieve stupendous success in the stock market but also helps one find ways to win in life in general. With lessons in investing, entrepreneurship and relationships, the book is the ultimate resource for surviving and thriving in a highly competitive world. Read this book and find your purpose in life!
In his sparkling memoir, M.K. Raina documents the many lives he has lived. From sharing the stage with some of the most celebrated actors in India to his journey as a young man witnessing the violence and horrors rampant through the streets of Kashmir, an entire history of northern India is painted with subtle elegance.
Brimming with delightful anecdotes as well as poignant, painful memories of a region that once was, this book is a tour de force.
Is there a moment, so pliant, that we can nudge it towards any future we desire?
Sometimes I believe that there is such a moment. In a lifetime, once.
In an unnamed nation that’s about to rupture, Priyamvada (Poppy), a Hindu and Tariq, a Muslim are in love. In a few hours, Tariq intends to propose; Poppy intends to say yes. Both assume that they’ll fend off political blowback. For, surely, their privilege will protect them.
But will it? Will Poppy and Tariq sustain a love so wholesome, so cossetted, that it remains impervious to a dystopian state? Or will the two be rent apart by chance and circumstance? What will their lives look like as they plunge into a brave new future, together or apart?
Written in alternating chapters, Like Being Alive Twice trails fact and possibility—the tale as-it-was and the tale as-it-could-have-been-if-only—arranging and rearranging, tweaking and nudging; hoping to find a lasting peace in one or the other story; hoping, above all else, that such peace will prevail over murderous times.
Politically urgent, stylistically intrepid, and relentless in its commitment to scrutinizing love, loss and the language of privilege, Like Being Alive Twice tells of the frantic pursuit of life piled upon life, even as a bloodied world closes in.
Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged Aghori—a Shiva devotee—Om
Shastri, who was last traced more than 200 years ago, before he was captured and sent to a high-tech facility. When a team of specialists drugged and hypnotized the Aghori for interrogation, he claimed to have witnessed all the four yugas (epochs in Hinduism) and to have even played a part in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
The first battle is lost. What seemed to be the end of all wars was just the beginning of an incredible journey in search of a hidden verse. Om is still incomplete without the knowledge of his past, but he is not alone anymore. Two of the mightiest warriors of all time stand by his side. Two mysterious warriors stand unconditionally with Nagendra too or is there a hidden agendas behind all the allies?
Who are LSD and Parimal? Will Om finally know about his past? Who is Devdhwaja: Nagendra or Om? Where are the remaining words hidden? Will Nagendra find them all and complete the verse, or will the immortals be able to stop him?
Unravel the unexpected mystery of the doomed immortals running out of time.
‘A great man in Indian politics’
—Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on Dr Ambedkar
Dr Ambedkar’s role in the cause of social emancipation has been researched and written about extensively. His part in the drafting of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 has also received considerable attention.
In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document since 1919. These stages bear the imprint of his contribution and role.
This book seeks to focus on Dr Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919, when he entered public life, until the actual writing of the Constitution and even beyond. Covering the different constitutional moments as and when they happened, it highlights Dr Ambedkar’s role in those moments.
A seminal work of intellectual and constitutional history, this volume demonstrates why Dr Ambedkar is rightly called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’.
How do you be a gentle parent and still set boundaries?
How do you remain calm and prepare your child to face the real world?
How do you face the new parenting challenges that come up almost every day?
This book holds the answers to the most asked questions and the most confounding dilemmas that parents today find themselves confronted with.
Through Power to the Parent, Dr Ishinna B. Sadana talks to parents to understand their most vulnerable doubts and fears, provides them with a safe space without judgement or preconceived notions, empowers them to deal with their children in different situations and connects with them in a positive way.
Using Dr Ishinna’s practical ways of dealing with kids, many parents have seen transformational results in their relationship with their children. She writes with clarity and simplicity, using real-life examples and case studies so that parents can start applying the lessons they take from the book immediately and see the changes.
Ultimately, Power to the Parent enables parents everywhere not only to raise happy and resilient children, but also to become happier and more confident parents.
THE ALGEBRA OF INFINITE JUSTICE brings together Arundhati Roy’s early political essays, from the iconic ‘The End of Imagination’ and ‘The Greater Common Good’ about India’s nuclear tests and the dam industry to the equally influential ‘The Algebra of Infinite Justice’ about the 9/11 attacks and the US government’s War Against Terror.
The essays in AN ORDINARY PERSON’S GUIDE TO EMPIRE draw the thread of empire through seemingly unconnected arenas, uncovering the links between America’s War on Terror, the growing threat of corporate power, the response of nation states to resistance movements, the role of NGOs, caste and communal politics in India, and the perverse machinery of an increasingly corporatized mass media.
THE SHAPE OF THE BEAST is a collection of fourteen interviews, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, that examine the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking.
In eleven powerful, and closely argued, linked essays, LISTENING TO GRASSHOPPERS takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world’s largest democracy.
BROKEN REPUBLIC consists of four essays including ‘Walking with the Comrades’, a travelogue that reports on the conflict in the forested heartland of India where indigenous peoples’ lands have been handed over to corporate companies, and the widely read ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story’ about the complex ways in which modern Capitalism works.
THE DOCTOR AND THE SAINT is about the debate between two of India’s most beloved and iconic figures, Dr B.R Ambedkar and Mohandas Gandhi.
अगर इतिहास को सरल तरीके से, रोचकता के साथ प्रस्तुत किया जाए तो हर पाठक दिलचस्प के साथ पढ सकता है, क्योंकि उसे युद्धों और संधियों की तिथियाँ याद रखने में कोई दिलचस्पी न होगी। इसी सिलसिले में आचार्य चतुरसेन शास्त्री जी की रचना ’लाल किला’ एक पठनीय रचना के रूप में में उपलब्ध है। उन्होंने इतिहास को बहुत रोचक तरीके से प्रस्तुत किया है। हालांकि यह इतिहास लाल किले को आधार बना कर लिखा गया है, जिसमें हुमायूँ से लेकर अंतिम मुगल शासक बहादुर शाह जफर तक का वर्णन मिलता है, परंतु यह मुगल काल का अनछुआ इतिहास है।
लाल किला सदियों से भारत की आन-बान-शान का प्रतीक रहा है। लाल किला में रहकर सारे हिन्दुस्तान पर शासन चलाने वाले मुग़ल बादशाहों की रोचक और मार्मिक दास्तान को इस उपन्यास में बड़ी ही बारीकी और सजीवता से उकेरा गया है।
व्यक्ति के आंतरिक स्वास्थ्य, शांति और आनन्द के लिए योगासन, प्राणायाम और ध्यान अमृत के समान है। साधारण मनुष्य के लिए योग थोड़़ा कठिन है, पर निरंतर अभ्यास से योग स्वतः सध जाता है। ध्यान योग अंतर्मन की शांति और अतीन्द्रिय शक्तियों की ओर ले जाने वाला प्रवेश द्वार है। यह एक ऐसा आध्यात्मिक अभ्यास है, जिसे व्यक्ति र्धै्य और शांतिर्पू्वक बैठकर अपने आप के साथ किया करता है। ध्यान धरना अर्थात अंतर्मन में उतरकर शांति और आनंद की बांसुरी बजाना है। मन की शांति और स्थिरता का नाम ही ध्यान है। कभी ध्यान साधु-संन्यासी या योगी ही किया करते थे, लेकिन आज के तनाव भरे जीवन में सुख-शांति के लिए यह सबके लिए अनिर्वा्य-सा बन पड़़ा है। यदि आप बेहतर स्वास्थ्य, मानसिक शांति और आत्मविश्वास भरी ज़िंदगी को प्राप्त करना चाहते हैं तो श्री चन्द्रप्रभ जी की यह पुस्तक आपके लिए वरदान साबित हो सकती है।
स्त्री को पुरुष समाज कितना भी कमज़ोर समझे, लेकिन वह कमज़ोर नहीं है। ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि ने अपनी कहानियों में ऐसी ही अदम्य साहस से परिपूर्ण स्त्रियों का चित्रण किया है। वाल्मीकि जी की कहानियों में सिर्फ दलित चिंतन ही नहीं है बल्कि स्त्री शोषण, अत्याचार आदि पर भी उनकी लेखनी उतनी ही पैनी है, जितनी दलित शोषण और चिंतन को लेकर। अपनी कहानियों के माध्यम से वाल्मीकि जी ने समाज तथा परिवार में हो रहे स्त्री शोषण का बहुत ही बारीकी से चित्रण किया है। इनकी कहानियों में स्त्री पात्रों तथा उनके शोषण को पढ़कर ऐसा लगता है कि ये स्त्री चरित्र सिर्फ वाल्मीकि की कहानियों का ही प्रतिनिधित्व नहीं करतीं, बल्कि हमारे समाज की अधिकांश स्त्रियों का प्रतिनिधित्व करती हैं। जो हमेशा इस समस्या से टकराती है। यह समस्या हमारे समाज में कोढ़ की तरह है जो दिन पर दिन घटने के बजाय बढ़ती जा रही है। हम 21वीं सदी के प्रांगण में प्रवेश तो कर गए हैं लेकिन स्त्री के प्रति हमारा जो नज़रिया है वह आज भी पुरातन वाला है। समाज के नज़रिए का प्रतिरोध करती वाल्मीकि जी की ये यादगारी कहानियॉं अपने आपमें बेजोड़ हैं।
