After Kunal’s mother dies, he is sent off to a boarding school in the hills. Till he has a hostel room, he stays with Tara, his father’s cousin, who teaches a special music programme in the school.
Teaching music helped Tara after her best friend died—that, and perhaps the company of the enigmatic figure known as Death, whom she sees everywhere.
Tara and Kunal must try to live together, their lives entwined by their separate losses—which neither is comfortable talking about.
This is a tale of love and loss, of the healing and illuminating power of friendship, art and music.
Archives: Books
My First MINI Library of Learning: A box set of six board books for kids 0 to 3 | Fruits & Vegetables | Transport | Seasons | Opposites | Things at Home | Insects | First Words
Make early learning years enjoyable for your baby with My First MINI Library of Learning, a complete collection of 6 expertly researched, carefully curated essential baby board books with beautiful pictures. These bright, handy, easy-to-read, and fun books include topics such as first words, shapes, colours, numbers, fruits, flowers, insects and so much more!
- Careful Curation: Introduce kids to their first key concepts and everyday objects around them through well-researched and colourful photo board books. The topics are as varied as:
Fruits and Vegetables
2. Transport
3. Things at Home (and around us)
4. Seasons and Opposites
5. Insects
6. First Words
My First MINI Library of Learning Volume 1
Make early learning years enjoyable for your baby with My First MINI Library of Learning, a complete collection of 6 expertly researched, carefully curated essential baby board books with beautiful pictures. These bright, handy, easy-to-read, and fun books include topics such as first words, shapes, colours, numbers, fruits, flowers, insects and so much more!
- Careful Curation: Introduce kids to their first key concepts and everyday objects around them through well-researched and colourful photo board books. The topics are as varied as:
- ABC
- Numbers
- Colours
- Animals
- Shapes
- Flowers
Move Better : A two-step guide to efficient posture and increased mobility
Have you woken up one day and noticed that your knee is suddenly hurting? Do you go through days managing spasms and sprains that you can’t really explain? All of this, even though you exercise regularly and have a fitness schedule?
The problem might be in how you move or how you sit, says popular rehab and movement coach, Shikha Puri Arora. In this practical and timely book, the Mumbai-based expert argues that the way we move, sit, stand, walk and carry ourselves reveals a lot about the quality of our health.
However, one doesn’t have to tolerate this discomfort anymore. This book—with its specially formulated Move Better course—offers easy, tried and tested solutions that are designed to make you pain-free in ten days.
Living at the peak of our well-being is the birthright of every individual. So, what are we waiting for? It’s time to move better.
Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Processes for Enduring Competitive Advantage
Don’t risk the dire consequences of your work processes becoming obsolete—discover a powerful model for constant, ongoing, enterprise-wide process evolution and optimization.
If you have a great product, but don’t have the operations in place to efficiently and effectively support it—production, manufacturing, sales, finance, human resources, etc.—you won’t succeed. Product innovation is seen as flashier and so gets far more attention, but you can create an enduring competitive advantage by revolutionizing business operations.
The problem is most attempts to improve business operations are reactive, sporadic, and siloed. Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini’s Dynamic Process Transformation model provides a living model for constant, ongoing process evolution and optimization.
The authors focus on maximizing three drivers of change. First, “open market rules”—each business process must be run as a separate business, instead of via monolithic mandates coming down from on high. Second, there must be “unified accountability”— outcomes must be clear and consistent across the company, instead of being siloed within departments. And third, there needs to be a “dynamic operating engine,” a methodology to convert the constantly changing business process goals into tactical day-to-day employee actions.
With numerous examples from leading companies, this book shows how to proactively keep business processes across the company from becoming obsolete and take advantage of a neglected key to success.
Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
One of Thinkers50’s Ten Best Management Books of 2023
“A timely, actionable book on the virtues that every great leader needs to learn.”
—ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
Leadership is simply a series of moments, and this book gives you the tools to turn each moment into an opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead.
In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson has written a much-needed practical guide for every modern leader. Whether you are the head of one of the largest companies in the world, supervising a small team, or guiding your family, it will be your ability to integrate your head and heart that will influence your success in leading others and navigating our complex world.
Combining studies from leading thinkers in the field with her own research, and more than three decades of personal experience, Kirstin explains the 8 key attributes of a head and heart leader and provides the tools to measure your own approach. Along the way, she shares her conversations with modern leaders from a broad range of backgrounds whose stories will surprise you, challenge your thinking and inspire you to be the type of leader the world needs.
Mental Models
Think Smarter. Solve Better. Make Decisions Like an Expert—Even If You’re Not One (Yet).
Mental models are like treasure maps for your mind—offering clarity, direction, and the tools to navigate any challenge. Instead of stumbling through problems, you’ll know exactly what lens to use and what tool to reach for.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This book equips you with the full toolkit: saws, drills, levels, and more—so you’re never stuck with a one-size-fits-all mindset.
Whether you’re trying to boost productivity, make better life decisions, think more critically, or simply understand the world more clearly, Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools gives you the frameworks that high performers use every day.
- Learn how to think in frameworks, not fragments
- Use mental models to simplify decisions and reduce overthinking
- Tackle complex problems with proven cognitive tools
- Make faster, smarter choices in work and life
- Train your brain for clarity, focus, and better outcomes
Written by bestselling author and human performance expert Peter Hollins, this book distills over a decade of research into clear, practical tools anyone can apply.
Vazhga Vazhga and Other Stories
Imayam is considered one of the most important Tamil writers today and this powerful collection of stories reveals just why that is. Whether he is depicting a lack of political morality in the novella Vazhga Vazhga, questioning whether religion unifies or divides in Tiruneeru Sami, or narrating his unique spin on Samban, a character from one our epics, Imayam’s unsparing gaze on society gently and subtly reveals the inequalities people must live with and navigate.
Beautifully translated by Prabha Sridevan, the stories in this collection are layered, and told with deep empathy and humour.
How the Bamboo got its Bounty | Puffin Chapter Book: Gorgeous new full colour, illustrated chapter book for young readers from ages 5 and up by Sudha Murty
‘From human birth to death, our Bamboo finds one way or another to be useful to a common person. It is truly the unsung and the forgotten.’
In a lush, green forest, a shy, unassuming tree is presented with a reward by the forest queen. This makes
all the forest inhabitants curious . . .
India’s favourite storyteller brings to us the story of the humble bamboo that endures and selflessly gives.
A charming ode to our bountiful forests and trees, their resilience and the abundant gifts they bestow upon us, this gorgeous chapter book is the ideal introduction to the world of Sudha Murty.
Modi & India
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was voted to power in the year 2014. That election was to prove to be a consequential one for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and for India. The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc had since declared the 2024 election as the last opportunity to stop the rise of Modi and his idea of India. That project didn’t succeed. The NDA won even though the BJP fell short of the majority mark on its own. The setback hasn’t deterred Prime Minister Modi from proceeding with the BJP’s ideological agenda.
In line with that objective, PM Modi has worked to position Bharat as a ‘Vishwa Guru’—an exemplar of moral righteousness, a pluralistic democracy led by dharma and drawing sustenance from the wellspring of an eternal Hindu universalism. But this shift towards India’s Hindu ethos has forced the Opposition and many allied commentators to fear the rise of a second republic—a ‘Hindu Rajya’—moored to an implacable ultra-nationalist and majoritarian dogma. But is that really the case?
Evocative, anecdotal, argumentative and deeply researched, Modi and India: The Battle for Bharat chronicles the emergence of, and the battle for, a new republic in the making.