मोरारजी देसाई भारत के स्वाधीनता सेनानी, राजनेता और देश के चौथे प्रधानमंत्री थे। वे प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री थे, जो डुमरमा और लक्ष्मीपुर के निवासी थे। वही एकमात्र व्यक्ति हैं, जिन्हें भारत के सर्वोच्च सम्मान भारत रत्न एवं पाकिस्तान के सर्वोच्च सम्मान निशान-ए-पाकिस्तान से सम्मानित किया गया था।
वे 81 वर्ष की आयु में प्रधानमंत्री बने थे। इसके पूर्व कई बार उन्होंने प्रधानमंत्री बनने की कोशिश की परंतु असफल रहे। लेकिन ऐसा नहीं हैं कि मोरारजी प्रधानमंत्री बनने के योग्य नहीं थे। वस्तुत: वे दुर्भाग्यशाली रहे कि वरिष्ठतम नेता होने के बावजूद उन्हें पंडित नेहरू और लालबहादुर शास्त्री के निधन के बाद भी प्रधानमंत्री नहीं बनाया गया। मोरारजी देसाई मार्च 1977 में देश के प्रधानमंत्री बने लेकिन प्रधानमंत्री के रूप में इनका कार्यकाल पूर्ण नहीं हो पाया। चौधरी चरण सिंह से मतभेदों के चलते उन्हें प्रधानमंत्री पद छोड़ना पड़ा। इस पुस्तक में उनकी प्रामाणिक जीवनी दी गई है।
Catagory: Business & Economics
Nange Pairon Ka Safar/नंगे पैरों का सफ़र
इतिहास इतिहास के पृष्ठों पर लिखा जाने से बहुत देर पहले कुछ लोगों की देह पर लिखा जाता है। ऐसा मानना है दलीप कौर टिवाणा जी का। इसलिए उन्होंने अपनी यह आत्मकथा उन्हीं लोगों को समर्पित की है जो अपनी देह पर इतिहास का लिखा जाना झेलते हैं। इस पुस्तक में लेखिका ने अपने जीवन की तमाम अनछुई बातों का बेबाकी से चित्रण किया है। उन्होंने अपना पूरा जीवन समाज एवं साहित्य को समर्पित कर दिया, जिसके लिए उन्हें जीवन संघर्ष की राह पर अनेक कष्ट भोगने पड़े, जिन सबका चित्रण इस पुस्तक में दिया गया है।
Prakritik Chikitsa/प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा
पूर्ण रूप से स्वस्थ रहने और रोगों को जड़ से नष्ट करने का एकमात्र उपाय है—प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा। इस पद्धति को आज हमारे देश में ही नहीं विदेशों में भी व्यापक मान्यता मिली है। लोगों में प्राकृतिक संसाधनों द्वारा स्वस्थ रहने केप्रति गहरी रुचि है।
प्रस्तुत पुस्तक के लेखक धर्मचन्द सरावगी ने अपने जीवन का अधिकांश समय प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा के अध्ययन और अनुसंधान में लगाया। उनके लंबे अनुभव का सार है—प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा। जिसके पास भी यह पुस्तक रहेगी और वह इसका अनुसरण करता रहेगा, उसे डॉक्टर की कभी आवश्यकता नहीं पड़ेगी।
Calm Your Emotions (Hindi)/Shant Man Safal Jeevan/शांत मन सफल जीवन
काम योर इमोशंस पुस्तक एक प्रभावशाली पुस्तक है, जो भावनात्मक संतुलन बनाए रखने में मदद करती है। यह तनाव, चिंता और नकारात्मकता से निपटने के व्यावहारिक उपाय सिखाती है, जिससे आप मानसिक शांति प्राप्त कर सकें और अपने जीवन में संतुलन ला सकें।
The Art of War
A must-read for anyone seeking success, leadership, and personal mastery, The Art of War is an essential guide for those ready to unlock their full potential and live their best life.
Written over 2,500 years ago by Chinese general Sun Tzu, The Art of War is one of the most influential texts on military strategy. However, its teachings go far beyond warfare and offer timeless wisdom that can be applied to all aspects of modern life.
Whether navigating challenges at work, managing relationships with friends and family, or overcoming inner conflict, this book provides invaluable tools for personal growth. Sun Tzu’s principles will help you conquer obstacles, master your emotions, anticipate challenges, and cultivate the discipline needed to lead with confidence.
OTP Please
A great shift is underway in how we buy, eat, move, work and sell owing to technological intervention. Tech platforms—whether a Swiggy, Amazon or Uber in India, a Foodpanda in Pakistan or a Pathao in Bangladesh or Nepal—have eased the pressures of modern life. They have freed up our time, provided jobs to grateful millions and delivered guilty pleasures and last-minute necessities to online buyers.
But behind the dazzle of the digital, much is opaque. Gig workers live a precarious life while internet retailers cope with the oppressive rules of global behemoths. Consumers wonder if there are are consequences to instant gratification and the extreme ease of living.
OTP Please delves into the wondrous new world of electronic commerce by connecting diverse stories and perspectives gathered across South Asia, from Peshawar to Patna and Colombo to Kathmandu. It explores the emotional dynamics between the different actors on this stage, the workings of tech companies and the implications for policy. Deeply researched and breezily narrated, it is essential reading to understand this extraordinary digital age that we inhabit.
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PRAISE FOR OTP PLEASE
An entertaining, insightful and nuanced read that ties together so many different stories! — R. MADHAVAN
Compels us to pause and ask essential questions about our own choices – THE HINDU
The author delivers a deeply empathetic, multidimensional view of the shifting landscape by arranging the anecdotes around nine emotions- a new age navarasa of an OTP driven generation – FINANCIAL EXPRESS
The author brings in engaging stories from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal to give us a glimpse of hose our neighbours use app based services – BUSINESS STANDARD
Vasudevan ensures that her tone is neutral and while laying out all the facts she leaves it to the reader to cast judgement – OPEN MAGAZINE
Informative yet intimate, anecdotal yet balanced, Vasudevan’s reportage illuminates the digital age we inhabit – DECCAN HERALD
Rigorously reported, empathetically told and disturbingly familiar, this book will make you pause before your next ‘Order Now’ – FRONTLINE MAGAZINE
Vandana is a gifted thinker and writer. She feels deeply, puts a human face on every issue and amazes me with how much work she has put into the book – SUBROTO BAGCHI
A fascinating book that reflects the pervasive influence of technology on our attitudes and behaviours… compelling us to think about how we consume, how sustainable the business models that encourage higher levels of convenience are and what needs to be addressed — VINITA BALI
Apostles of Development
The battle against global poverty that began after World War II was a major undertaking engaging economists, engineers, and organizations. Featuring front and centre were six remarkable economists: Amartya Sen, Manmohan Singh, Mahbub ul Haq, Jagdish Bhagwati, Rehman Sobhan, and Lal Jayawardena, all born as colonial subjects in the British Empire and studied at Cambridge University. They represented a new figure on the world scene — the Third World development expert — and played a crucial role in global debates about poverty and development.
Apostles of Development examines their different economic doctrines and the ongoing debate surrounding economic theory in poor countries compared to rich ones. The lives of these apostles reveal how development did not begin with textbooks but with real-world attempts to solve very specific and pressing problems. Finally, the book emphasizes that development was a Global South project first and foremost, aiming to improve the conditions of the world’s poorest countries.
It challenges the conventional wisdom that sees development only as a tool of rich countries to dominate, or as proof of their humanitarian spirit. It argues that development succeeds not when it follows ideological prescriptions, but when it looks for what works. The fading of grand visions shaped by ideological concerns has been one of the lasting effects of the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the best way forward is determined modesty, focusing on practical matters, such as addressing gross inequality and insisting that development means more than just economic growth. Given the salience of questions of economic inequality and the constant visibility of the promises and problems of economic development in the world today, this is a timely and important read.
Dhruva (Hindi)/ध्रुव
भक्त ध्रुव ने महज पाँच वर्ष की आयु में ही कठोर तपस्या करके भगवान विष्णु को प्रसन्न किया। अपने पिता और सौतेली माँ के उपेक्षित व्यवहार ने ध्रुव को इस कठीन मार्ग पर चलने के लिए प्रेरित किया। यह पुस्तक आम आदमी के जीवन को सरल बनाने और एक सच्चा भक्त बनने के लिए प्रेरित करती है।
Telecom Wars
Today, mobile connections are so readily accessible that it is perhaps easy to forget the time when only the elite had access to a phone provided by the sole operator: the Government of India. It all changed in the early 1990s as liberalisation stirred the Indian economy out of its decades of complacency.
The Telecom Wars begins its narration from those times, traversing the uncertain early years of the mobile phone industry. It is a vivid portrait of the fierce competition as Tata, Birla, Reliance, and Bharti bid to capture the lion’s share of India’s billion voices. As they did, India’s institutions to regulate and manage the sector also evolved—the ministry separated from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), and state-run operators MTNL and BSNL also joined the fray. Policy makers, entrepreneurs, and bureaucrats worked tirelessly to change India’s cellular topography.
Fast-paced and expertly written, veteran financial journalist Deepali Gupta’s account is both a comprehensive history and a work of great business insight.
Fortune Seekers
Nattukotai Chettiars were the most prominent business community from Tamil region and this book captures their spirit of enterprise that led many of them to seek their fortunes overseas. It’s a story that connects South India, Burma, and South-East Asia across the Bay of Bengal and equally one that spans the British imperial era and that of the modern nation state.
For students of history, business, and for modern entrepreneurs, the book has valuable lessons on the importance of diversifying into promising investment opportunities and gauging the economic winds of change.