Can’t sleep soundly?
Don’t feel like stepping out of the house?
Having suicidal thoughts?
You might be depressed and don’t know it yet. According to a study, more than 36 percent of Indians suffer from major depressive episodes (MDE). Yet, depression remains a much-evaded topic, quietly brushed under the carpet by most of us.
In Beating the Blues, India’s leading clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and trauma researcher, Seema Hingorrany, provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to treating depression, examining what the term really means, its signs, causes, and symptoms. The book will equip you with the following: easy-to-follow self-help strategies and result-oriented solutions ways of preventing a depression relapse, everyday examples, statistics, and interesting case studies workbooks designed for Seema’s clients. With clients ranging from celebrities and housewives to teenagers and even children, Seema decodes depression for you. Informative and user friendly, with a foreword by Indu Shahani (former sheriff of Mumbai), Beating the Blues is an invaluable guide for those who want to deal with depression but don’t know how.
The Immortals tells the story of two families bound by music. Shyamji is the son of the acclaimed classical singer Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is not his father – and knows he never will be. His student, Mallika Sengupta, is a talented singer who has never pushed herself while her son Nirmalya, also Shyamji’s student, believes in suffering for his art and judges Shyam Lal for selling out. Written in haunting, melodic prose, The Immortals is an acutely observed and lyrical novel about the place of art in the modern world.
Shiva: Destroyer and Protector, Supreme Ascetic and Lord of the Universe. He is Ardhanarishwara, half-man and half-woman; he is Neelakantha, who drank poison to save the three PBI – Worlds—and yet, when crazed with grief at the death of Sati, set about destroying them. Shiva holds within him the answers to some of the greatest dilemmas that have perplexed mankind. Who is Shiva? Why does he roam the PBI – World as a naked ascetic covered with ash? What was the tandava? What is the story behind the worship of the linga and what vision of the PBI – World does it signify? Namita Gokhale examines these questions and many others that lie within the myriad of stories about Shiva. Even as she unravels his complexities, she finds a philosophy and PBI – Worldview that is terrifying and yet life affirming—an outlook that is, to many, the essence of PBI – Indian thought.
In the first of a charming series, we meet Jana Bibi, who has inherited her grandfather’s house in a quaint hill station in India.
Casting aside the conventions of her upper-crust upbringing, Janet (Jana) Laird moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly, and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, a town where the local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a bully, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps wild monkeys at bay. Settling in, Jana meets the town’s colorful local characters who gather at the Why Not? tea shop—the contemplative darzi who struggles with his business and family; a kindly shopkeeper whose shop is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance; a newspaper editor who burns the midnight oil at his printing press; a tyrannical head of police who rules with an iron hand; and a young man with a golden voice, who wants to be a singer in the movies.
When word gets out that a new government dam will flood the little hill station, forcing everyone to move and start over, Jana is enlisted to save the community. Will Hamara Nagar survive? With some luck and Mr. Ganguly the fortune-telling parrot, the townspeople may have fate on their side.
2570 BCE, Bagasra Village, Harappa, India
Twelve-year-old Avani is a happy-go-lucky, adventurous Harappan girl, who loves to play with her friends Tavishi, Delshad and Ambar. The wedding of the Village Elder’s daughter Ketika brings fresh excitement into their lives.
However, something sinister is afoot, as Avani realizes when she overhears a mysterious conversation between two men. Other incidents, like a bizarre robbery and a fire at the grain storeroom, add to the tension.
Do these unconnected events point to a bigger plan? How is the monk from far-off China linked to all this?
Will Avani and her friends’ quick thinking unmask this plan, and save the honour of Bagasra village and Harappa?
Hugo Baumgartner is a firangi wherever he goes—too dark for Hitler’s Germany, too fair for India. Escaping the Nazi regime but losing his parents to it, the wandering Jew builds a life in India only to be interrupted by war, and then partition—and finally finds a home in multitudinous Bombay.
We meet him as a kindly, rather hapless old man who spends his days making the rounds of local teashops to scavenge for his many cats. Then, one day at the Café du Paris, one of his regular haunts, he encounters a surly young German of the new order—a drug-crazed hippie who will change his life forever.
Set in Berlin, Venice, Calcutta—and of course Bombay—Baumgartner’s Bombay is the story of the twentieth century and a memorable portrait of Baumgartner, survivor, victim, everyman.
A HAUNTING SAGA OF LOVE AND LOSS SPANNING THREE GENERATIONS OF A PARSI FAMILY
Tower addresses the timeless themes of love and death, loss and return, and the validity of faith. It speaks of a house that a young man built in Bombay in the 1920s to accommodate his family and relatives, the years that saw its rooms fill up, the looming threat of their emptying, and eventual deliverance from that threat. Echoing with ghostly voices from the past, and watched over by the three Fates, Framji Building is at the heart of this epic tale of loss and longing, charged with gothic, supernatural and magical forces.
Lyrical, allusive and inspired, marrying myth and matters of fact, Tower is a profound meditation on life, death and what lies beyond.
Are you a true professional? Would you like to become one? In The Professional, Subroto Bagchi showed how one can behave professionally-or otherwise-in diverse situations, and asked the key question: What does it mean to be a professional? Inspired by that game-changing book, many aspiring professionals wanted to test their mettle using Bagchi’s tools. The Professional Companion fulfils that need. In this do-it-yourself workbook that is meant as a companion volume to The Professional, Bagchi takes you through simple exercises that allow you to understand how professional your approach is in a given context, and helps you develop a wider skill set and a more committed outlook.The Professional Companion is your very own personalized guide to excelling in today’s world.
Some people talk about nature, others listen to it. Listening can reveal wondes like how to befriend an elephant, how to talk to a tiger and how to live in the jungle. Many such amazing experiences crowd this volume containing the unpublished writings from the early and last years of the well-known naturalist, the late E.R.C. Davidar, besides his acclaimed book Cheetal Walk. a lawyer by profession and a shikari-turned-photographer, he established maybe the first ever private elephant corridor in India, near his jungle-cottage, and undertook the first census of the Nilgiri tahr along the entire range. Charmingly told, funny and brimming with insights, the book, enriched with photographs from the family album, not only enlightens us about wildlife and conservation in the Nilgiris but becomes a memoir of a jungle lover and his family.
