In How Not to Be a Superwoman, Nilanjana Bhowmick explores the immense pressure women face to excel in every role—as mothers, career women, partners and friends—and the toll this pursuit takes on their mental health and happiness. Her compelling work unveils the raw, real stories of diverse women who have broken free from the relentless cycle of perfectionism, and offers insightful, practical advice on achieving balance and joy that comes from embracing one’s true self. Through a feminist lens, she confronts and rejects society’s unrealistic expectations while advocating for a life of fulfilment, self-compassion and genuine empowerment. This is a must-read for women seeking to liberate themselves from the exhausting superwoman ideal and embrace a more self-loving, balanced way of living.
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Path Ke Davedar/पथ के दावेदार
पथ के दावेदार में हिंसा के पथ से चलनेवाली क्रान्ति की तैयारी का एक चित्र है। इस उपन्यास के अनुवादक और संक्षेपकार श्रीरामनाथ ‘सुमन’ ने इसे हिन्दी में इस प्रकार रूपांतरित किया है कि पाठकों को लगता है कि यह मूलतः हिन्दी में ही लिखी गई एक महान रचना है।
आजीविका के नाम पर बंगाली युवा ब्राह्मण अपूर्व बर्मा (अब म्यांमार) चला तो गया किंतु वहां परिस्थितियां कुछ ऐसी बनीं कि वह क्रांतिकारियों का हमदर्द बन गया। शायद इस के पीछे युवा भारती का आकर्षण भी एक कारण रहा हो।
बंगाल के क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन की पृष्ठभूमि पर रचित इस उपन्यास के माध्यम से ‘नारी वेदना के पुरोहित’ शरतचंद्र चट्टोपाध्याय ने क्रांतिकारी गतिविधियों के साथ-साथ तत्कालीन समाज में व्याप्त छुआछूत, जातिपांति, ऊंचनीच आदि सामाजिक बुराइयों को रेखांकित किया है।
Akelepan Par Vijay Kaise Payen aur Khush Kaise Rahen/अकेलेपन पर विजय कैसे पाएँ और ख़ुश कैसे रहें
अकेलापन क्यों महसूस होता है? शायद आप अपने साथी के अलावा अन्य दोस्तों के साथ पर्याप्त समय नहीं बिता रहे हैं। आपको अपने साथी के साथ संचार संबंधी समस्याएं आ रही हैं। आपके साथी का व्यवहार विषाक्त हो सकता है, जिससे आपके लिए उनसे जुड़ना मुश्किल हो सकता है। क्या बस यही कारण हैं अकेलापन महसूस होने के या और भी हैं? यह पुस्तक अकेलेपन से निजात पाने एवं खु़श रहने के लिए ऐसा मार्ग सुझाती हे, जिस पर चलने से आपका जीवन पूरी तरह बदल सकता है।
Apni Shakti ko Pahchankar Khud Mein Vishwas Kaise Jagayen/अपनी शक्ति को पहचानकर ख़ुद में विश्वास कैसे जगाएँ
यदि व्यक्ति आत्मावलोकन द्वारा स्वयं को पहचानने की कोशिश करे, तो वह स्वयं ही अपने विश्लेषण द्वारा अपनी शक्ति एवं कमियों को पहचान सकता है। शक्तियां एवं क्षमताएं हर किसी में मौजूद रहती हैं, लेकिन व्यक्ति उन्हें पहचान नहीं पाता और उनका उपयोग नहीं कर पाता। इस पुस्तक में अपनी शक्ति को पहचानकर खुद में विश्वास करने के लिए ऐसे संकल्प सूत्र दिए गए हैं, जो हर किसी का जीवन बदलने की शक्ति रखते हैं। आत्मविश्वास से भरपूर खुशहाल जीवन के लिए तनाव और दबावों से मुक्ति पाने के लिए यह पुस्तक बेहद कारगर है।
Kabuliwala Tatha Anya Kahaniyan/काबुलीवाला तथा अन्य कहानियाँ
‘काबुलीबाला’ में रवि बाबू की श्रेष्ठ कहानियां हैं। ये कहानियां विश्व के सर्वश्रेष्ठ कहानीकारों की रचनाओं के समकक्ष रखी जाती हैं। प्रत्येक कहानी मानवीय प्रेम को अपने में समेटे हुए है और पाठक के अन्तर्मन को झकझोर देती है। ‘काबुलीबाला’ पर एक प्रसिद्ध फिल्म बनी थी, जिसमें स्व. बलराज साहनी ने पठान की यादगार भूमिका निभाई थी।
10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less
Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational teachings: Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains why achieving 10X growth is easier than going for 2X growth.
Dan Sullivan, the world’s leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. Most find this idea confusing at first because simply imagining 10X growth causes them to think they need to do 10X more work to achieve it. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think.
10X is not the outcome; it’s a counterintuitive process you can apply every time you want exponential growth in your life and business. To make 10X possible, you must focus on expanding what Dan defines as your four most important freedoms—time, money, relationship, and purpose. As your time becomes 10X more valuable, you increasingly multiply the money you earn both in terms of amount and profitable satisfaction. As money becomes a tool you can increasingly access with greater ease, you will engage with a growing number of other freedom-motivated individuals. As both your professional and personal life fills up with 10X more unique and collaborative relationships, you will realize that your most powerful purposes in all areas become 10X more lasting and positive for everyone involved. You will be impressed by what your life has become, and the meaning and impact you’re having.
10X is fundamentally about quality vs quantity, and the quality of your freedoms determines the results you achieve.
How to Be Love(d): Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself, Embracing Imperfection and Loving Your Way to a Better Life
The last book on love you’ll ever need. Explore simple truths for going easier on yourself, embracing imperfections and loving your way to a better life through insightful stories and down-to-earth advice from artist and international best-selling author of Unlearn, Humble The Poet.
We all want love. Everything we do is in pursuit of it. But as we count likes on social media and measure our worth by the numbers in our bank accounts, we are programmed to see love as something to earn or win. That programming obscures the simple truth that we ourselves are beautiful, infinite, eternal sources of love. Instead of seeking to be loved by the world, we must be love.
With short chapters filled with insight, advice, and personal anecdotes from Humble’s own journey, this book is a guide to self-love that helps clarify your path inward toward the inherent love and value that is within each of us. Throw away old ideas that prevent you from realizing the love you’ve always had within you. Instead of earning more, achieving more, and gaining more attention, clear pathways for love to enter and flourish.
3 Minute Happiness Journal: Create Happy Habits. Change Your Brain. Transform Your Life.
From the author of the hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal, an all-new journal with more prompts, affirmations, and ways to boost your mood in just minutes a day.
Kristen Butler created her original, hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal to share the tools, mindset strategies, and habits that helped her go from depressed and broke—literally broken—to happy, thriving, and whole. Now, Kristen—the founder of the online community Power of Positivity, more than 50 million strong—returns with more unique prompts, affirmations, and ways to boost your mood and create happy habits in just minutes a day.
Even with all the time we spend on our digital devices, the act of using pen and paper to write out our thoughts, feelings, intentions, reflections, goals, and wins carries great power. Kristen’s gentle yet impassioned guidance helps you tap into that power to boost your mood and change your life, using simple, small, repeated actions to change your life for good. These are the same habits she used to transform her life into the life of her dreams.
This journal starts with a practical and inspiring user’s guide and then moves into quick, yet powerful daily entries—only 3 minutes in the morning and 3 minutes in the evening—to set you up for a more joy-filled life every single day. And because leading research reveals it takes 66 days to form a lifelong habit, it includes a full 90 days of prompts and exercises, so you can build a solid foundation for your new happiness routine.
You don’t have to spend a decade building an empowering self-care routine through trial and error like Kristen did. With fresh, daily inspiration and done-for-you “check-ins,” all you have to do is show up each day and watch your life transform. Happiness is only a few daily habits away!
Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness
What does “good luck” look like and how do you achieve it?
Lucky symbols, lucky numbers, lucky charms and luck-creating rituals–how is it that a disciplined and hard-working country like Japan is so invested in the idea of luck? And what, exactly, does “good luck” mean?
This insightful book–by a leading expert on the subject–explores the ways in which “good luck” symbols and rituals in Japan are used in tandem with diligence and a positive attitude to help people overcome life’s many twists, turns and bad patches.
It explores how customs and beliefs play a vital role in creating positive expectations and outcomes–and includes practical exercises for bringing good fortune and happiness into your own life.
Author Nobuo Suzuki acquaints us with beloved Japanese icons of luck, prosperity, and goal-setting and explains what they truly represent–including Maneki Neko (the “Lucky Cat”), Daruma (the “Lucky Buddha”) and the Seven Lucky Gods of Good Fortune. We even meet some quirky and much beloved modern Japanese symbols of luck like the “Golden Poop” (yes, you read that right!). And we learn how these symbols all foster a sense of community which contributes to the happiness and well-being of all individuals in Japan.
With this book, luck becomes a matter of self-understanding and connection to others rather than something that exists outside of ourselves and other people. It is an integral part of life and learning to shape out a destiny for ourselves that we can view with pride and contentment.
You Must Know Your Constitution
26 November 1949 marks the date when the longest constitution in the world was formally adopted to guide the largest democracy in the world. It effectively transformed the British Dominion of India into one nation—the independent Republic of India. The supreme law of the land set forth the workings of Indian democracy and polity, and its provisions aimed to secure justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity for the people of India. As drafted and as conceived, the constitution makes provision for a functioning democracy and not an electoral autocracy, and this is how it has to be worked. It is therefore imperative for all citizens to familiarise themselves with its provisions.
In this definitive tome, the author (who commenced his legal practice in the year the constitution was enacted) presents his comments in a style that is comprehensive, lucid, and systematic. The book traces the history and the origins of India’s document of governance and explains its provisions. Some of the salient features of the book include:
• An educative and informative exposition of the different parts of the Indian Constitution, including a bird’s-eye view of—and with comments on—all the three hundred and ninety-five articles of the constitution and additions made by constitutional amendments.
• Provides references of critical cases and prominent constitutional developments up to 31 July 2023.
• Insightfully describes the structure, powers, and directive principles of government institutions.
• Contains updated judicial pronouncements and legislative and constitutional amendments.
In essence, You Must Know Your Constitution is an immensely readable and insightful compendium, inter alia, for judiciary aspirants, academicians, legal and administrative authorities, policymakers, research scholars, and students as well as for general readers who are interested in exploring the manifold facets of India’s core document of governance.