Between the cradle and the crown lies the cost of power.
Cradle and the Crown is a literary saga exploring love for power, country, and family. When Durga Devi, a fearless student leader, rises through the brutal hierarchies of Indian politics, she is forced to choose between motherhood and authority—between the cradle and the crown. Years later, her abandoned son, Abhimanyu, becomes the voice of a restless generation, turning music into rebellion and conscience into movement. As parallel journeys collide across politics, art, and sacrifice, what is the true cost of leadership, and can love survive the pursuit of power?
How does someone come up with an insane, audacious idea? Does an idea descend upon us like a bolt of genius, or something deep within us lights a spark of madness? The book highlights 15 key business ideation techniques that will be useful for readers who want to come up with a cool business idea. Importantly it will also help them embrace a mindset of probing, of exploring, and of questioning.
Today’s professionals face pressures no generation before them has encountered. The boundaries between work, personal time, and digital life have blurred, creating a world where ambition is constant—and so is anxiety. Talented individuals often find themselves overwhelmed by expectations, caught in cycles of overthinking, and unsure how to translate their potential into meaningful progress.
In Wisdom That Works, ISKCON monk and former tech engineer Madan Sundar Das brings together the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita and years of guiding professionals through career anxiety and decision paralysis. With warmth and clarity, he translates profound spiritual teachings into practical tools that help readers navigate modern challenges with focus and confidence.
Through the LEAD framework (Life, Emotions, Action, Dharma), readers will learn how to:
- Channel their emotions as fuel for growth rather than sources of friction
- Build systems and habits that create lasting change without constant willpower
- Align their daily actions with their deeper purpose and values
Whether you’re a student navigating your first career decisions or a leader seeking to lead with greater clarity, within you already lies the wisdom you seek. This book shows you how to awaken it, and apply it in life.
Why does history in India ignite such fierce debate? Who gets to shape the story of a nation—and to what end?
In Who Owns the Past?, historian Shaan Kashyap delivers a gripping, deeply researched account of how India’s history has been written, rewritten, contested, and politicized from the colonial era to the age of social media. This is not just a book about the past—it’s about the power struggles that define the present.
From Macaulay and James Mill to Romila Thapar and Vikram Sampath, Kashyap traces the intellectual battles that have shaped the “Idea of India.” He examines how textbooks are crafted, how institutions influence memory, and how political shifts leave their imprint on the stories nations tell about themselves.
Blending sharp archival work with vivid portraits of historians, policymakers, and power brokers, Who Owns the Past? is both a sweeping narrative of Indian historiography and a timely exploration of identity, ideology, and nationhood.
Provocative, balanced, and essential reading, this book asks a simple but urgent question: if the past is constantly being rewritten, what does that mean for our future?
Perfect for readers of history, politics, public policy, and anyone invested in understanding the intellectual fault lines shaping contemporary India.
Introducing MicroStimuli—nonconscious persuasive stimuli deployed in the final second before action— to activate the brain’s fastest pathways and change behaviour, in mere milliseconds.
This book distils leading-edge insights from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and design into Ethnolab—a novel research method that unravels the nonconscious brain processes and crafts MicroStimuli, precision point-of-action interventions that reliably influence human behaviour.
MicroStimuli confronts the most stubborn behavioural challenges that traditional approaches have failed to resolve.
Across the past ninteen years, MicroStimuli has addressed public problems (road accidents), organisational issues (declining digital-marketing performance), sector-specific challenges (insurance mis-selling), and personal behaviours (on-time medication) around the world. The book details exactly how these, and many other behavioural challenges, have been tackled in practice.
This book will not merely inform you; it will transform how you perceive the human behaviour problems around you. If mastering persuasion provides your competitive edge at work, this book is written for you.
1855: on a deserted island off the coast of Africa, the most audacious experiment ever envisaged is about to begin. To settle an argument that has raged inconclusively for decades, two scientists dream up an elaborate experiment. A pair of infants, one black, one white, are to be raised on a barren island, exposed to the dangers all around them, tended only by a young nurse whose muteness renders her incapable of influencing them in any way, for good or for bad.
They will grow up without speech, without civilization, without punishment or play. In this primitive environment, the children will develop as their primitive natures dictate. The question is: what will be left when the twelve years of the experiment are over? Which child will be master, and which the slave? For surely one will triumph over the other. Or will they all, children and scientists alike, reap the fruits of breaking the taboo, as they discover love and loneliness on the wild but beautiful island of Arlinda.
Saddam Hussein is dead, but there’s no end to war in Iraq. Armed with a reputation for daredevilry, reporter Tejaswini Ray arrives from New York to cover the conflict and is immediately enmeshed in a skirmish with Commander Luke of the US Marine Corps. Bound by Luke’s strict censorship rules, Tejaswini – Tejo – revolts, her coverage of the death of American soldiers killed by landmines draws the world’s attention to a futile war and invites the Commander’s ire.
Tejo’s uneasy mission is further troubled by her chance encounter with Shabnam – a young woman trafficked from India and sold into slavery at the Marine camp. Drawn together by an unlikely bond, the two find solace amidst the carnage, but their friendship reveals a secret that links them back to the very beginning of their lives. When the war threatens their camp, Tejo and Shabnam abandon the Marines and embark on an audacious journey. But will they escape the dangers, or will their past invade the present, reversing the wheel of time to hasten the end?
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival
A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolution Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country’s goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran’s political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today’s Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, and original in-depth interviews with Iranian decision makers, Nasr brings to light facts and events in Iran’s political history that have been overlooked until now. He traces the roots of Iran’s strategic outlook to its experiences over the past four decades of war with Iraq in the 1980s and the subsequent American containment of Iran, invasion of Iraq in 2003, and posture toward Iran thereafter. Nasr reveals how these experiences have shaped a geopolitical outlook driven by pervasive fear of America and its plans for the Middle East. Challenging the notion that Iran’s foreign policy simply reflects its revolutionary values or theocratic government, Iran’s Grand Strategy provides invaluable new insights into what Iran wants and why, explaining the country’s resistance to the United States, its nuclear ambitions, and its pursuit of influence and proxies across the Middle East.
Building a career in content creation may seem daunting, but it is far more achievable than most realize. Creating monetizable content is 100% a learned skill, one that anyone can master by using the right framework and having clear sense of purpose.
From Creator to Crorepati offers a no-nonsense guide to navigating the creator economy, explaining what works, what doesn’t, and how to start turning content into income.
In today’s interconnected world, young Indians have unprecedented opportunities to lead on global stages. But success requires more than talent and hard work—it demands a strategic approach to developing authentic leadership capabilities that honour both individual ambition and cultural values.
Drawing from real examples of contemporary Indian leaders, global research on leadership development, and practical frameworks tested across different industries, this book provides young Indians with tools for building careers that are both individually fulfilling and collectively impactful.
Whether you’re a recent graduate, early-career professional, entrepreneur, or anyone navigating the complexity of modern career development, Unlocking Success offers a roadmap for authentic leadership that serves both personal ambition and larger purposes.
