Catagory: Non Fiction

Sleep is a complex phenomenon, and even though we spend one-third of our lives sleeping, there’s still very little that we know about it.
In this path-breaking book, Dr Manvir Bhatia, one of the country’s top sleep specialists, sheds light on the fascinating connection between sleep and the brain, beauty and weight, among other things.
From delving into common sleep problems and weird phenomena observed, like sexsomnia, narcolepsy and sleep apnea, to the specific tools needed to ensure good sleep, The Sleep Solution is the go-to book for all your sleep-related problems.

What good is a great-looking Ferrari that cannot race?

What good is a smartphone with low battery life?

What good are great-looking sports shoes that cannot last a marathon?

These are just good-looking objects with low or zero performance. The same goes for our body.

A diet plan may help you lose weight; a gym routine may help you with a great-looking physique-but that does not necessarily translate into a stronger, healthier you. In fact, you may not even need the gym; you can pick a sport you enjoy, even something as simple as running. Take charge of your health and achieve your fitness goals in a way that improves not just the way you look, but also your performance and quality of life-just like an athlete!

This book will help you eat, exercise, think, look and most importantly, perform like an athlete.

There is an athlete in all of us, and it is time to bring that athlete out.

India is sitting on a demographic dividend, expected to become the world’s youngest country by 2020 with 64 per cent of its population, roughly 800 million people, of working age. But our country cannot become a global powerhouse unless we resolve the contradictions and bridge the gaps that distort our society. The challenge before us is to enable every one of India’s 1.2 billion citizens to realize their aspirations. According to Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, the only way to do this is by using technology
to radically reimagine government itself.

Rebooting India identifies a dozen initiatives where a series of citizen-friendly, high-tech public institutions can deliver low-cost solutions to India’s grand challenges. Based on their learnings from building Aadhaar, the world’s largest social identity programme, the initiatives that Nilekani and Shah propose could save the government a minimum
of Rs 100,000 crore annually, about 1 per cent of India’s GDP-enough to fund 200 Mangalyaan missions a year.

It doesn’t take 10,000 people or even a thousand, say Nilekani and Shah. All it would take is a small, focused team of highly skilled, enterprising individuals, and a supportive prime minister.

Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary.
Here we come across the dissident Czech writer Václav Havel, who later became the nation’s president; the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, with her pronounced anti-apartheid novels; the Chilean-American Isabel Allende, ‘the world’s most widely read Spanish author’; and Günter Grass, hailed as the ‘literary spokesman of his generation’. We also meet Graham Greene and Milan Kundera alongside the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, who, in his quiet way, ridiculed Islamic fundamentalism. The book is rounded off with three remarkable Latin American writers: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez.
Of Love and Other Sorrows takes the reader on a fascinating journey in the company of some of the biggest names in modern literature. This illuminating study of their lives and works will seduce readers to rediscover these masters for themselves.

‘I was a common man and a common man isn’t allowed to dream big . . . but then, there are those rare moments when one of these ill-fated lives manages to rise from mediocrity like a phoenix from the ashes’
His formative years were nothing but full of turbulence. From leaving his schooling to working as a daily-wage labourer, Dalip Singh Rana had seen it all at a very young age. He was often the subject of ridicule and was poked fun at due to his enormous girth.
However, even under such harsh circumstances, a determined Dalip relentlessly pursued his goal of wrestling for India. Such was his passion that he did what no Indian had done so far – enter the internationally acclaimed WWE arena!
My Fight with Destiny is the story of a man who not only triumphed over wrestling superstars like The Undertaker and went on to win the World Heavyweight Championship but also of a man who conquered his inner demons and physical anomalies.
An inspirational, emotional and no-holds-barred account of a life less ordinary-of a village simpleton who went on to become an international icon.

This is the story of how Dalip Singh Rana turned into THE GREAT KHALI!

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, or Rajaji, was famously described by Mahatma Gandhi as his ‘conscience keeper’. The eighty-odd largely unpublished letters presented here span the period from the run-up to Independence to its early years, providing deep insight into the struggles and endeavours of Indian public life. Frank, brave, even bitter at times, they reveal the fierce debates, strong differences of opinion and continuous negotiation between the two leaders on matters crucial to the country’s future.
Introduced and annotated with trademark brilliance by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the letters offer us a rare glimpse of the lives of two of the tallest Indians of our age, when idealism rode strong but was also challenged.