Why are some people and organizations consistently more successful than others?
At its core, the answer is strategy. A good strategy makes the difference between a winning company and a bankrupt one. Billions of dollars and millions of hours of work are spent on crafting strategies for companies. But what about individuals?
Strategy for Life distills decades of experience into a step-by-step guide for professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders who want to take charge of their own lives. It equips you with the tools to navigate – and thrive – in times of disruption, uncertainty, and opportunity. Through clear, easy-to-apply frameworks, the book helps design, plan and live the life you want to live.
The city is breathing, but it is not alive.
India’s metropolitan dream is turning into a suffocating reality—choked skies, endless traffic, mounting waste, and infrastructure that promises relief but delivers more chaos. What looks like growth from afar feels like collapse from within. At the heart of this crisis lies the unending urban expansion paradox: every new flyover brings more cars, every expansion multiplies the density it was meant to ease. Our cities are not expanding to serve us—they are expanding to consume us.
But this is not a story of despair. It is a bold roadmap for change.
India’s Urban Expansion introduces the concept of the global readiness perimeter, offering a new framework to understand how Indian cities can move beyond reactive expansion toward deliberate, future-ready planning.
यह भारतेंदु हरिश्चंद्र द्वारा 1881 में रचित एक प्रसिद्ध हिंदी नाटक है। यह नाटक अपनी इस लोकप्रिय पंक्ति के लिए जाना जाता है—’अंधेर नगरी, चौपट राजा। टके सेर भाजी, टके सेर खाजा।’
यह एक राजनीतिक व्यंग्य है जो विवेकहीन शासन और मूर्ख प्रशासन पर प्रहार करता है, जहाँ न्याय और अन्याय में कोई भेद नहीं होता। इसमें एक लोभी चेले (गोवर्धन दास) की कथा है, जो ऐसी नगरी में फँस जाता है जहाँ हर चीज़ का दाम एक टका होता है। अंत में, उसका गुरु अपनी बुद्धि से उसे फाँसी से बचाता है। इसे आधुनिक हिंदी नाटक का मील का पत्थर माना जाता है। यह नाटक जनता को शासन की विसंगतियों के प्रति जागरूक बनाता है। जो राजा जनता के प्रति संवेदनशील नहीं, उसके राज में सच्चे लोग मारे जाते हैं तथा धूर्त लोग फलते-फूलते हैं। तानाशाह की सत्ता है, न्याय का आडंबर होता और जनता का शोषण किया जाता है। ऐसी नगरी में गुणवान और गुणहीन लोगों में कोई भेद नहीं किया जाता।
“अंतरराष्ट्रीय बहुपुरस्कृत लेखक सलमान रुश्दी का यह संग्रह, मृत्यु और जीवन के रूपकात्मक अंतिम क्षण में स्पष्ट होने वाली सच्चाइयों की एक चौंका देने वाली पड़ताल है।
रुश्दी अपनी असाधारण कल्पनाशक्ति का लेंस जीवन के अंतिम अध्याय की ओर मोड़ देते हैं और पाँच कहानियों के माध्यम से, जो उन तीन देशों में फैली हुई हैं, जहाँ उन्होंने अपनी और रचनाएँ लिखीं — भारत, इंग्लैंड और अमेरिका—अविस्मरणीय पात्रों द्वारा एक जीवंत दस्तावेज़ प्रस्तुत करते हैं।
“दक्कन में” दो झगड़ालू बुड्ढों—जूनियर और सीनियर—और राष्ट्रीय विपदा के समय उनकी अपनी त्रासदी की कहानी है। “कहानी का संगीतकार” में मिडनाइट्स चिल्ड्रन में मुंबई के एक मोहल्ले की संगीत प्रतिभा का वर्णन है, जो अपनी जादुई शक्तियों से उस संपन्न परिवार पर विनाश लाती है जिसमें वह विवाह करती है। “लेट” में कैम्ब्रिज के एक प्रोफेसर की आत्मा एक अकेले छात्र की मदद से अपने जीवनभर के यातनादाता से प्रतिशोध लेती है।
“ओक्लाहोमा” एक युवा लेखक को झूठ और धोखे के जाल में फँसा देती है, जब वह यह पता लगाने की कोशिश करता है कि उसके मार्गदर्शक ने आत्महत्या की या अपनी मौत का नाटक रचा था। और “द ओल्ड मैन इन द फियात्ज़ा” हमारे समय में अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता पर एक गहरी दृष्टांत प्रस्तुत करती है।
हम मृत्यु को स्वीकार करते हैं, या उससे विद्रोह करते हैं? क्या हम अपनी “आख़िरी घड़ी” शांति से बिताते हैं या क्रोध में? यदि हमें अपनी कहानी का अंत ज्ञात नहीं, तो हम अपने जीवन में पूर्णता कैसे प्राप्त करेंगे?
“आख़िरी घड़ी” जीवन और मृत्यु, विरासत और पहचान पर गहन अंतर्दृष्टि और असीम कल्पनाशक्ति के साथ विचार करती है—वही गुण जिन्होंने सलमान रुश्दी को हमारे समय के सबसे प्रशंसित लेखकों में स्थान दिलाया है।”
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.
