Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals with them shortly, only to find his quiet, middle-class life upended by a bewildering set of events over the next few days.
Even as Venkat is hurled into a world of street gangs and murky journalism, we see a parallel narrative unfold of a betrayal and disappearance from long ago. Could there be a connection? Set over four mostly sleepless days, we see Venkat lose grasp of the narrative even as he loses grasp of his wife and daughter.
Exquisitely translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Sakina’s Kiss is a delicate, precise meditation on the persistence of old biases—and a rattled masculinity—in India’s changing social and political landscape. Ingeniously crafted, Vivek Shanbhag interrogates the space between truth and perception in this unforgettable foray into the minefield of family life.
How can you bring your best and most successful self to work every day?
This book unlocks the secrets to:
* Keeping yourself motivated and energized, and being your productive best;
* Managing stress and taking control of every workday situations;
* Dealing with difficult bosses and co-workers or unforeseen situations like losing your job;
* Channelling negativity into a more productive and positive attitude.
Drawn from the author’s decades of experience as head of HR in the country’s top organizations and packed with easy-to-apply practical advice, Buddha at Work will help you achieve your true potential and find inspiration when you need it the most.
The modern age is characterized by speed, impersonality, and absurdity. It is easy to get caught up in the rush and forget the small, everyday things that string together to build the everyday.
Restless Lives offers an oasis of quiet contemplation. In this beautiful poetry collection, author Harish Bhat contemplates various aspects that make up daily life. At times pleasing, at others disturbing, the lines within these pages promise to give pause, inspire and stir emotion.
This is Harish Bhat as you have never seen him before.
यह किताब सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं, शिक्षाविदों, पत्रकारों, एनजीओ से जुड़े लोगों या आम लोगों के लिए भी एक ज़रूरी किताब है। इसमें ग्रामीण विकास को लेकर ऐसे तथ्य और ऐसी रिपोर्टिंग की गई है जिसे सरकारी अधिकारी मानने के लिए राज़ी नहीं हो सकते।
इस पुस्तक में सुदूर इलाकों की अड़सठ रिपोर्टें, दस लेख और उनतीस तस्वीर हैं जो ग्रामीण भारत की व्यथा को सामने लाती है।
इसमें भूख है, बदहाल खेती है, सूदखोर महाजन हैं और बंधुआ मजदूर हैं। यह किताब हर संवेदनशील व्यक्ति के लिए एक ज़रूरी किताब है।
In Triveni are birds perched on branches, moonstruck musings, a house of straws, walking roses and unbridled desires of the heart. The poems are inhabited by lost lovers, unreturned books and bloodsucking rumours. A poetic form unique to Gulzar, Triveni is a confluence of three of India’s majestic rivers—the golden-hued Ganges, the deep green Yamuna and a third, the mythical one that lies beneath the former two, the Saraswati.
A form Gulzar began experimenting with in the 1960s, Triveni comes close to several classical Japanese forms of poetry such as the Haiku, Senryu and Tanka. The closest Indian forms to Triveni are the doha and shayari. In this stunning translation by Neha R. Krishna, Triveni have been transcreated as tanka and are ladled with musicality, breaking away from the charm of rhyme and metre. This collection, too, is a confluence or sangam of forms and nothing short of a gift from one of India’s most beloved poets.
Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are!
With the gut as a central axis of vigour, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic science, modern research and nutrition with a special emphasis on food chemistry.
In this comprehensive book, she shares the tools that shaped her life and advises on how you can use food to preserve your health and reverse diseases. She outlines a five-step process that will help you unlock the huge potentials of the gut and improve your gut–brain axis so it can share critical information with you on what the body truly needs.
Dimple’s goal is to empower people to use nutrition to prevent disease, and through this accessible, exhaustive book, shows you just how you can do that.
In 1897, an Indian yogi named Bava Lachman Dass exhibited himself at the Westminster Aquarium in London, demonstrating forty-eight yoga positions to a bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosopher Swami Vivekananda had spoken at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where theosophist Annie Besant rhapsodized about ‘his inborn sense of worth’ and the ‘exquisite beauty’ of his spiritual message.
The Victorians had conflicted views on the religious beliefs and practices of the Indian subcontinent, blending fascination and suspicion. But within two generations, legions of young Westerners would be following the ‘hippie trail’ to India, and the Beatles would be meditating at the feet of the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Journalist Mick Brown’s vivid account charts the eccentric history of the West’s evolving love affair with Indian religion through a curious cast of scholars, seekers, charlatans and saints.
From Edwin Arnold, whose epic poem about the life of the Buddha became a best-seller in Victorian Britain, to the occultist and magician Aleister Crowley; and from spiritual teachers Jiddu Krishnamurti, Meher Baba and Ramana Maharshi to the controversial guru Rajneesh, The Nirvana Express is an exhilarating, sometimes troubling journey through the West’s search for enlightenment.
WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller!
This brief, easy-to-read and inspiring book has given thousands of people the courage to trust themselves and take action—even if they’re a little uncertain, even if they’re a little scared.
Ideal for: entrepreneurs, artists, open-minded individuals, innovators, graduates, and anyone who is figuring out their next steps at work or in life.
If you are…
• Looking for the courage to try something new
• Feeling there’s more but not sure what
• Evaluating a decision or new venture
• Developing a creative project
• Facing an unexpected change
• Graduating or retiring
• Feeling burnt out
• Finding yourself stuck
…this full-color book will offer inspiring prompts, stories, drawings, quotes, and creative guidance to help you find your way.
In RISK FORWARD, Hall of Fame speaker, consultant, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Victoria Labalme shares insights that are practical, reassuring and radically freeing.
Discover the worldwide phenomenon of ThetaHealing® and how it can help you to achieve transformational healing in this revised and updated edition of Vianna Stibal’s definitive guide.
In 1995, Vianna Stibal was diagnosed with a serious health condition. When conventional and alternative medicine failed her, she discovered a simple technique that cured her illness and sparked a worldwide phenomenon.
ThetaHealing® is essentially applied quantum physics. Using a theta brain wave, which until now was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yogi-level meditation, the practitioner is able to connect with the energy of All That Is – the energy in everything – to identify issues with and witness healings on the physical body, and to identify and change limiting beliefs.
In this revised and updated edition, you will discover:
• the belief and feeling work that can instantly change the thinking within you that creates illness
• the 7 Planes of Existence, a concept that allows you to connect to the highest level of love and energy of All That Is
• how to develop the ability to change on all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, using the Creator of All That Is.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Ever wish there was a step-by-step blueprint to design your life for financial freedom, lifestyle flexibility, and major impact?
Are you ready to go from being stuck and complacent to courageous and capable of creating a business offering you the time and financial freedom you never dreamed possible?
Through sharing her tried and true strategies, inspiring stories, and mindset shifts, Amy Porterfield, host of the top-rated podcast Online Marketing Made Easy and a 9-to-5 escapee who built an 8-figure online business on her terms, reveals:
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You can have more time, flexibility, recognition, income, and impact. You’re capable of so much more than you know. You’ve got this!
