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Why Would I Be Married Here?

Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves.

Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro- political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyse the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India.

Why Would I Be Married Here? reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India’s marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, these women’s pragmatic cross-region migration for marriage needs to be reframed as an exercise of their agency that simultaneously exposes them to new forms of gender subordination and internal othering of caste discrimination and ethnocentrism in conjugal communities. Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labour, and their lives.

The Feminisms of Our Mothers

In this remarkable collection of essays about their mothers, women from Pakistan explore the many meanings of feminism and its varying interpretations through generations. How, they ask, do these meanings change, mould, attract and detract within and between generations? How do women bridge the cracks that emerge in these formations as they hold within them the joys, sorrows, conflicts and contradictions of their multiple feminisms?

Intentional Health

A nurturing guide to whole-body health that completely integrates traditional Eastern and modern Western healing practices.

By combining a 5,000-year history rooted in time-tested, ancient traditions with cutting-edge science, Dr. Chiti Parikh, executive director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a clinical professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, provides the steps you can take to bring your body into a lasting state of balance and live a longer life with more energy, less pain, and renewed confidence.

No matter where you are along your health journey, Dr. Chiti will help you achieve balance by letting you in on seven ancient secrets from circadian rhythms to the mind-body connection to digestive fire. With Dr. Chiti’s guidance, you too can become intentionally healthy by:

• Setting a positive health intention and visualizing how you’d like to feel
• Diving into ancient health principles
• Engaging in a 28-day vitality regimen to jump-start your journey to optimal health
• Becoming equipped with the knowledge to identify imbalances as soon as they occur

After all, health is not the mere absence of disease. Health is living a life full of energy and manifesting your true potential, with your body as your best ally.

Intentional Health offers a clear road map for self-regulating our biology for optimal health and longevity. What was once considered alternative medicine is now supported by advances in epigenetics and neuroplasticity. Our conscious choices and habits of thinking, feeling, and behavior can restore healing and make chronic illness optional. This book is an excellent guide for anyone seeking a joyful, energetic body, healthy emotions, clear mind, and lightness of being. – Deepak Chopra

Rethinking India: The Politics of the Marginalized

The Rethinking India series, spearheaded by the Samruddha Bharat Foundation and Penguin Random House India, objectively rethinks the current socio-economic, political and cultural paradigms, and poses disruptive ideas addressing structural problems. Leveraging the unique intellectual vantage points of India’s foremost thinkers and practitioners, the three books included in this box set critically reflect on the lived realities of the Dalit, Shudra, Adivasi and Denotified communities. Sensitively juxtaposing ‘what should have been’ with ‘what is’, the books propose a visionary blueprint that will both deepen and further India’s constitutional promise for these communities. This is a must-have set for politicians, policymakers, academics, activists, journalists, students and anyone working on issues of social justice, equality, fraternity, liberty and welfare in India.

I Don’t Love You Anymore

Dear reader,

I hope this book feels like a warm hug to you. I wrote this book for the ones who feel everything too deeply. You’re right, I wrote this book for you.

This book was meant to find you if you’ve ever loved someone who didn’t love you back, if you’ve ever over-invested in the wrong people or if you have a hard time letting go.

I Don’t Love You Anymore is a book that’ll feel like home to you. I promise it’ll hold you gently on your worst days.

Love,

Rithvik

Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

What has self-doubt already cost you in your life? WORTHY is how you change that.

Imagine what you’d do, if you FULLY believed in YOU! When you stop doubting your greatness, build unshakable self-worth and embrace who you are, you transform your entire life! WORTHY teaches you how, with simple steps that lead to life-changing results!

“In life, you don’t soar to the level of your hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. In your business, leadership, relationships, friendships and ambitions, you don’t rise to what you believe is possible, you fall to what you believe you’re worthy of. When you build your self-worth, you change your entire life. WORTHY teaches you how. I wrote WORTHY for YOU if you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill!” – Jamie Kern Lima

Author Jamie Kern Lima’s first, instant New York Times bestselling book, Believe It, captured her journey of going from Denny’s waitress to billion-dollar entrepreneur by learning to believe in herself. And now her second, much anticipated, upcoming book WORTHY is the playbook for how YOU can believe in YOU!

If you’ve ever struggled with self-doubt, felt like you don’t have what it takes…or that who you truly are isn’t enough, even if you’re really good at hiding it from the world, WORTHY is for you. If you’ve been underestimating your talent and gifts, or battle imposter syndrome, WORTHY is for you. If you’ve been letting fear of failure and rejection hold you back, WORTHY is for you. If you’ve learned to please others so much that you end up betraying yourself, WORTHY is for you. If you’re sick and tired of what self-doubt has already cost you in your life, in your goals, in your relationships, and in your hopes and dreams, WORTHY is for you! If you’re ready to expand your self-love, ignite your self-confidence and wake up your self-worth, WORTHY is for you!!

When you change what you believe you’re worthy of, you change your entire life.

This book is about how to do that.

IN WORTHY YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO…

• Get Unstuck from the Things Holding You Back
• Build Unshakable Self-Love
• Unlearn the Lies the Lead to Self-Doubt
• Embrace The Truths That Wake Up Worthiness
• Stop Dimming Your Light and Doubting Your Greatness
• Let Go of Past Mistakes and Restore Self-Confidence
• Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Embody Empowering Ones
• Eliminate Your Fear of Rejection and Failure
• Learn to Believe You’re Enough Exactly as You Are
• Transform the Meaning You Give to Your Own Story and Identity
• Follow the Roadmap for Achieving True Fulfillment in Life
• Achieve Your Hopes and Dreams by Believing You Are Worthy of Them
• Embrace Who You Truly Are
And much more…

Are you ready to unleash your greatness and believe in the power that is YOU? Are you ready to finally stop believing the lies that you’re unlovable, unqualified or not (fill in the blank) enough? Are you ready to triumph over the thoughts holding you back, destroy self-doubt and truly know and believe you have what it takes to accomplish your greatest goals and wildest dreams?

Imagine…what would you do if you had zero self-doubt and unshakable self-worth? What would you do if you fully believed in YOU?

AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own

“An Economist Biggest Book of the Year”

A humanist manifesto for the age of AI

Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise.

Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions—the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet—to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures. Sharing her perspective as a leading insider in technology and politics, she rejects the dominant narrative, which often likens AI’s advent to that of the atomic bomb. History points the way to an achievable future in which democratically determined values guide AI to be peaceful in its intent; to embrace limitations; to serve purpose, not profit; and to be firmly rooted in societal trust.

AI Needs You gives us hope that we, the people, can imbue AI with a deep intentionality that reflects our best values, ideals, and interests, and that serves the public good. AI will permeate our lives in unforeseeable ways, but it is clear that the shape of AI’s future—and of our own—cannot be left only to those building it. It is up to us to guide this technology away from our worst fears and toward a future that we can trust and believe in.

Kisse Coffiyana/किस्से कॉफ़ियाना

इस कहानी संग्रह की 26 कहानियाँ भावों, दृश्यों और जीवन स्थितियों का एक सुंदर कोलाज बनाती हैं, जिसके इंद्रधनुषी रंग मन ही नहीं, आत्मा तक को छूने, भिगोने, अभिभूत करने और झकझोरने का काम करते हैं। इन कहानियों के पाठ का प्रभाव भी अपने-आप में अनूठा ही होता है। जहाँ “नवरात्र पूजा” संबंधों की मनोवैज्ञानिक गुत्थियों से मिलवाती है तो “एकदा एक्स” प्रेम के आयाम को बड़ा करने की कुंजी पेश करती है, वहीं “दो चाँद और तीन कहानियाँ” में कथाकार युवा मन की दुर्लभ थाह लेते हुए पाठक को अपने साथ गहराई तक ले जाता है।संजीदा पाठकों को दुष्यन्त के उजले-स्याह किरदारों और उनके बहुरंगी कारनामों में मानव सभ्यता के भविष्य की आहटें भी मिलती हैं। यही विविधता समकालीन भारतीय लेखकों में उनको विशिष्ट पहचान देती है।  

The Road to Freedom

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom.

Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society – and is therefore morally better.

But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s? Should the freedoms of corporations be allowed to impinge upon those of individuals in the ways they now do?
Taking on giants of neoliberalism such as Hayek and Friedman and examining how public opinion is formed, Stiglitz reclaims the language of freedom from the right to show that far from ‘free’ – unregulated – markets promoting growth and enterprise, they in fact reduce it, lessening economic opportunities for majorities and siphoning wealth from the many to the few – both individuals and countries. He shows how neoliberal economics and its implied moral system have impacted our legal and social freedoms in surprising ways, from property and intellectual rights, to education and social media.

Stiglitz’s eye, as always, is on how we might create the true human flourishing which should be the great aim of our economic and social system, and offers an alternative to that prevailing today. The Road to Freedom offers a powerful re-evaluation of democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society—and provides a roadmap of how we might achieve it.

Against the Grain

Dive deep into the minds of those who dared to defy convention in Against the Grain, a compelling exploration of wisdom, vulnerability and visionary thinking. Through conversations with luminaries like A.R. Rahman, Uday Kotak, Nandan Nilekani, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Naval Ravikant and many more, this book reveals what it takes to carve your own path, defy norms and truly embrace your uniqueness.

Veteran business journalist Pankaj Mishra skilfully retraces the journeys of these bold outliers, delving into their experiences of hope, disillusionment, victory, defeat, joy and pain with refreshing candour. Drawing from transformative interviews featured on Mishra’s acclaimed and beloved podcast Outliers, this book offers a lucid and captivating narrative that vividly portrays how some of India’s most prominent figures confront the myriad challenges and uncertainties of life.

A must-read for those navigating their own paths to success, this chronicle serves as an inspiring testament to resilience, determination and individuality.

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