Your success in this world is directly proportional to your ability to manage the world and get what you need while also building sustainable relationships—communication in its various forms is the technology that allows you to do so. Don’t Shut Up is a simple and directly applicable toolkit for any communication-related situation you might have —be it a Tuesday morning presentation or a Friday evening date. What do you need from your friends, dates, college, work and life? In this book, Prakhar Gupta and Mudit Yadav have magnified your life one conversation at a time, discovered twenty-three situations that have the potential to impact your life and happiness, and offered their advice on how to navigate each one.
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Slip, Stitch & Stumble
Manmohan Singh’s 1991 Union Budget speech made history by altering the course of the Indian
economy, especially its financial sector. His measures took a broom to multiple cobwebs in this sector. What Manmohan Singh started over three decades ago is still a work in progress today, but it does raise some questions: Why did he focus on financial sector reforms? What has motivated continuing these reforms?
This book tries to answer questions like these while focusing on the evolution of financial sector reforms which, oddly, remain incomplete even after thirty years. The fabric of this sector has been fraying and initiatives over the past three decades have resembled hasty, temporary needlework; the patchwork, incomplete reforms make the sector further vulnerable to failure. Hence: Slip, Stitch and Stumble.
This book does not claim to present an exhaustive history of financial sector reforms. Instead, it examines the provocations behind some of India’s big-ticket reforms while trying to understand the motivation of players who have been putting roadblocks on the path to progress. All this even as a closed economy
was transforming into one of the world’s
fastest-growing economies.
Witnesses of Remembrance
A new selection of far-reaching poems from an outstanding literary doyen of our times.
Kunwar Narain is widely regarded as one of India’s finest contemporary poets and thinkers, with a universal appeal. Awarded with the Jnanpith, his work bears witness to how the lived and the written coalesce. His poems say more than their words—taking us into and out of the morass of our bizarre worlds, signalling inner disquiets in their solicitudes, waking us up to hope in the interstices between lines, and creating entire worldviews in their collectivity.
This is the first book-length translation of the author’s poetry to appear after his passing away in 2017. It has an eclectic, wide-ranging selection of poems from his latest five collections. This bilingual edition is also substantive, with over a hundred poems—translated and introduced by Apurva Narain, who has spent years with his father’s poems. Among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today, he brings here a compelling level of precision and evocation that Kunwar Narain’s poems demand—slowly expansive as they are in their visionary insights, tender intimations, austere surfaces and silent remembrances; conversing with their readers and urging them to re-read. and is among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today.
Out of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping-point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and swaying palm trees, delicious food and smiling locals. This favours the south of the island over the north rebuilt piecemeal after the end of the civil war in 2009, and erases a history of war crimes, illicit assassination of activists and journalists, subjugation of minorities, and a legacy of governmental corruption that has now led the country into economic and social crisis.
This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry – many exiles refuse to identify as ‘Sri Lankan’ – features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala. It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. Poets long out of print appear beside exciting new talents; works written in the country converse with poetry from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Poems in traditional and in open forms, concrete poems, spoken word poems, and experimental post-lyric hybrids of poetry and prose, appear with an introduction explaining Sri Lanka’s history.
There are poems here about love, art, nature – and others exploring critical events: the Marxist JVP insurrections of the 1970s and 80s, the 2004 tsunami and its aftermath, recent bombings linked with the demonisation of Muslim communities. The civil war between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers is a haunting and continual presence. A poetry of witness challenges those who would erase, rather than enquire into, the country’s troubled past. This anthology affirms the imperative to remember, whether this relates to folk practices suppressed by colonisers, or more recent events erased from the record by Sinhalese nationalists.
All He Left Me Was a Recipe
Part fact, part fiction, All He Left Me Was a Recipe is a never-ending pursuit of love, a quest for the ever-elusive ‘Mr Right,’ all while kissing the ‘Mr Maybes’. It’s a rollercoaster ride through the fabulous and often hilariously complicated world of modern dating where love, lust and culinary metaphors are on the menu.
From ‘a-ha’ moments to giggles and even some epic heartbreaks with a fair share of tear-shedding, this book is a VIP pass to Shenaz Treasury’s heart in all its shapes and forms over the years. Every story wraps up with
a recipe—a memento from each of these unforgettable encounters—along with some timeless life lessons.
So, pour a glass of wine, get comfy and dive into a world that’ll make you laugh, shed a tear or two, and who knows, you might just find yourself along the way.
Angria
Kanhoji Angre is born to Tukoji Sankhpal, keeper of the Suvarnadurg Fort for Shivaji, emperor of the Marathas. A child of the seas, Kanhoji is as much at home in the turbulent waters of Konkan as in the forts and forests of the Desha mainland.
But the enemies of their empire are never too far away.
The Mughals are in constant battle with the Marathas on land, while the Siddis and the newly arrived Portuguese threaten to destroy them at sea. There’s also the British East India Company who have arrived as traders and settled on the island of Kulaba, paying taxes to Kanhoji.
Kanhoji must rise above conspiracy, deceit, war and family politics to become the Samudratala Shivaji—‘Shivaji of the Seas’.
An astounding debut, Angria is the tale of one of history’s most feared naval commanders. Amid the smell of gunpowder and salt, Sohail Rekhy brings to life a momentous era when the war for swaraj was fought on the seas of India and when only one man stood between the firangis and the Desha. This is the chronicle of a hero whose story has been lost to the waves of time.
Energize Your Mind (Hindi)/Man Banayen Oorjavan/मन बनाएँ ऊर्जावान
अपने मन पर नियंत्रण पाएँ
पाएँ अपने जीवन पर नियंत्रण
इस बेस्टसेलिंग किताब में लेखक और लाइफ कोच गौर गोपाल दास बताते हैं कि हमारा मन कैसे काम करता है। अपनी बेहतरीन किस्सागोई शैली में वे समझाते हैं कि कैसे हम अपने दिल-ओ-दिमाग को समझकर और फिर उसे अनुशासित कर अपने जीवन में सही तरह से जी सकते हैं। इस पूरी किताब में उन्होंने ऐसे व्यायाम, मेडिटेशन तकनीकें और वर्कशीट्स पाठकों के साथ साझा की हैं जिनसे हम अपने अंदर बदलाव लाकर अपने विचारों और व्यवहार को अपने नियंत्रण में रख सकते हैं।
ये किताब उन सभी लोगों को अवश्य पढ़नी चाहिए जो अपने लिए एक बेहतर और सम्पूर्ण भविष्य चाहते हैं।
A General Reminisces
Lt Gen. Satish Dua’s tryst with Kashmir has spanned nearly four decades (from 1980 to 2018), during which, he has observed the changing social, political, security and religious landscape of the region.
In A General Reminisces, he reflects upon this time, his interactions with bureaucrats and experiences about the atmosphere at the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. He mulls the change, the way it has taken over the citizens and the army stationed there—at the same time, he pens his thoughts about how militancy sprung up in the Valley in 1990s and how the Indian Army evolved to respond to it. A counter-terrorism force called Rashtriya Rifles was created to counter the rising threat. Then there was a bold response of creation of Ikhwan, a rehabilitation programme that allowed young Kashmiri men to convert from militancy and work with the Indian Army. This eventually led to a bolder experiment of raising the Territorial Army battalion, comprising of surrendered terrorists.
In these events, Lt Gen. Dua weaves in the context to tell a story of a terrorist-turned-soldier, Nazir Wani, who ended up becoming the very beacon of change that Lt Gen. Dua has witnessed and hopes for.
Nazir, the son of a farmer, was born at a time when teenagers of Kashmir heard strident voices, fiery speeches, and more than occasional gunfire. Nazir strayed on the wrong side as a teenager, starting with running errands for terrorist groups to more. Fortunately for him, Ikhwan was started just then. He joined the programme and proved himself as a cool and confident operative in the field. As an Ikhwan and later as a soldier of Territorial Army (TA) Battalion of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI), Nazir earned his spurs in several operations. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra for his ultimate sacrifice in a daring operation.
An inspiring tale of Nazir’ s operations and valour, this book also goes to the man behind the hero and shows the humble aspirations of a father.
Thinkg Straight (Hindi)/Suljhi Soch/सुलझी सोच
डेरियस फ़रु की पुस्तक “थिंक स्ट्रेट” से आप 8 स्मार्ट तरीके सीखेंगे और अपने दिमाग पर नियंत्रण रखेंगे। लेखक ने इस पुस्तक के बारे में स्वयं लिखा है कि मैं तुम्हें जाने बिना तुम्हारे बारे में कुछ जानता हूँ। मुझे यकीन है कि आप अपने दिमाग में बहुत समय बिताते हैं। आप जानते हैं, सोच रहे हैं, चिंता कर रहे हैं, तनाव कर रहे हैं, बाहर निकल रहे हैं—इसे आप जो चाहें कहें। मैं इसे एक व्यस्त मन कहता हूँ। जी हाँ मन और विचारों की शक्ति के चमत्कार ही इस पुस्तक में दिए गए हैं। व्यक्तित्व विकास की यह एक प्रसिद्ध पुस्तक है।
Karma (Hindi)/Karm/कर्म
कर्म’, आज के दौर में इस शब्द का प्रयोग बहुत किया जाता है। लोग इसे एक बही खाते की तरह समझते हैं जिसमें हमारे अच्छे-बुरे, कार्यों और विचारों का हिसाब रखा जाता है; एक ऐसी व्यवस्था जो यह सुनिश्चित करती है कि अच्छे के साथ अच्छा हो और बुरे के साथ बुरा। इस सरल समझ ने हमारे जीवन में कई उलझने पैदा कर दी हैं।
इस पुस्तक के द्वारा सद्गुरु न सिर्फ यह समझाते हैं कि कर्म क्या है बल्कि वे हमें यह भी बताते हैं कि चुनौतियों भरे इस जीवन में हम अपनी राह कैसे खोज सकते हैं।