मधुशाला में एक सौ पैंतीस रूबाइयाँ (यानी चार पंक्तियों वाली कविताएँ) हैं।
मधुशाला की हर रूबाई मधुशाला शब्द से समाप्त होती है। हरिवंश राय बच्चन ने मधु, मदिरा, हाला (शराब), साकी (शराब पड़ोसने वाली), प्याला (कप या ग्लास), मधुशाला और मदिरालय की मदद से जीवन की जटिलताओं के विश्लेषण का प्रयास किया है। मधुशाला जब पहली बार 1935 में प्रकाशित हुई तो शराब की प्रशंसा के लिए कई लोगों ने उनकी आलोचना की। लेकिन गांधी जी ने इसकी प्रशंसा की।
बाद के दिनों में मधुशाला इतनी मशहूर हो गई कि जगह-जगह इसे नृत्य-नाटिका के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया। मधुशाला की चुनिंदा रूबाइयों को मन्ना डे ने एल्बम के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया। इस एल्बम की पहली कविता स्वयं बच्चन ने गाई। हरिवंश राय बच्चन के पुत्र अमिताभ बच्चन ने न्यू यॉर्क के लिंकन सेंटर सहित कई जगहों पर मधुशाला की रूबाइयों का पाठ किया।
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Command attention, charm your superiors, and win people over wherever you go. How to Win Friends and Influence People has helped thousands of readers gain self-confidence and unlock life-changing opportunities-and now, it’s your turn.
Master the fine art of communication, express your most important ideas, and create genuine impact with the help of international bestselling author Dale Carnegie. Written in his trademark conversational style, this book illustrates time-tested techniques through engaging anecdotes and events from the lives of legendary orators, historical figures, and successful leaders.
This book will help you:
– Become a great conversationalist, leaving a good impression wherever you go.
– Persuade people to do what you want, unlocking numerous life-changing opportunities as a result.
– Become a true leader, mastering the fine art of people management.
– Create incredible and long-lasting connections that offer you genuine value and growth opportunities
Full of timeless wisdom and sage advice, this practical handbook on human relations will equip you to navigate the treacherous waters of interpersonal relationships in both business and social settings. Now you too can unearth your true potential, forge long-lasting relationships, and discover How to Win Friends and Influence People in every walk of life!
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Considered a fundamental guide on learning how to cope with worrying and anxious thoughts, this book has been the mainstay for great thinkers, businessmen, and leaders. With its simple prose and timeless techniques, it teaches how to prevent thought fatigue, reduce worry, and build a mindset that induces happiness and peace.
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is the 1# inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in achieving their goals and succeeding in life. Drawing inspiration from the lives of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation, Napoleon Hill reveals the life-changing secret to securing exceptional wealth and success.
What makes people successful? Why are some people rich and thriving, while others are not? Napoleon Hill devoted twenty-five years of his life to uncover the answer behind this question. He interviewed over 500 affluent men and women, discovering the secrets behind acquiring great wealth and success. He formulated this knowledge into actionable and concise principles that can be applied by anyone.
As relevant now as it was in 1937 when it was first published, his seminal work Think and Grow Rich has helped over 15 million readers identify their goals, believe in their abilities, obtain what they want in life, and join the ranks of top achievers.
READ THIS BOOK TO –
1. Discover the success secret of some of the richest leaders and entrepreneurs, and how you too can achieve what they have! You don’t need to settle for mediocrity when you can be exceptional.
2. Create a MASTER PLAN using an organized, step-by-step approach to crystallize your desires into action.
3. Discover the 13 principles behind accumulating massive wealth and the 6 ways you can transform your desire into gold.
4. Learn how to increase your confidence, magnetism, and capabilities using the principle of auto-suggestion.
5. Master your subconscious mind to achieve anything you want!
Kick-start your journey of self-discovery today, and accumulate the fortune of your dreams!
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
On the Brink of Belief
Djinns linger in homes, an Assamese grandmother says. Peculiar cousins haunt Kashmiri family trees. Redemption for Shaitan is found on a bathroom floor in Lahore. In Dhaka, questions hang heavy in a police cell. Farewell emails offer closure to a relationship set against the backdrop of the decriminalization bill in Sri Lanka. And in a quiet kitchen somewhere in Nepal, memories still glow like flames. In this collection, twenty-four LGBTQIA+ writers from South Asia and beyond, conjure worlds where the borders between myth and memory, flesh and spirit, fact and belief dissolve.
This collection is a first-of-its-kind portal into the charged space where queerness meets faith. Building on the cultural histories of South Asia, these stories are brought to you as flash fiction, memoir, poetry, fragments and conversations, gathering voices that are at once intimate, fiercely authentic and defiant. Together, they rewrite what it means to belong and believe, offering readers not answers but revelations.
Life’s Magic Moments
As he steps into his ninety-first year, the prolific Ruskin Bond brings nine decades of wisdom to his readers, encapsulated in a book that draws from the author’s most personal experiences.
Reflecting on childhood and old age, people and places and Mother Nature—an inseparable part of his life—the writer ponders over the fleeting nature of human ambition, the sanctity of dreams (for he still dreams) and the endless generosity of our planet.
Fresh and witty, the text puts forth profound learnings with a candour that is uniquely his. Featuring life lessons, musings and memorable quotes, this book is a tribute to life’s magical moments. Because when life fades, it’s words and memories that live on.
The War that Made R&AW
Two events in the 1960s underlined the urgent need to restructure and revitalise India’s Intelligence system: the 1962 war against China, and the one against Pakistan in 1965, both shocking instances of failures in information gathering. The officer who would be given charge of this task was R.N. Kao—someone as unlike romanticised ideals of spies in films and novels as possible.
The founder-chief of India’s Research and Analysis Wing lived and operated from the shadows. Understated and gentlemanly, he may not have looked the part, but Kao undoubtedly put Indian Intelligence on the world map.
In this riveting book, authors Anusha Nandakumar and Sandeep Saket trace the roots of modern Indian espionage and describe the newly formed R&AW’s integral role in the liberation of Bangladesh. Kao had one goal, to build an Intelligence-gathering agency that would ensure the security and integrity of India. And eventually, the legend of the ‘Kaoboys’—the nickname given to the team he built—would spread far and wide. This is the compelling tale of how it started; of covert operations, courage and quick thinking; and of how wars are won as much off the battlefield as on it.
Secession of the Successful
Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital? And, perhaps most pertinently, is India becoming, after Russia and China, the constricting land of intolerance and authoritarianism from which the elites flee in droves, seeking greener and more liberal pastures—not to forget tax havens.
Marshalling his magisterial scholarship into highly readable prose, Sanjaya Baru raises all these questions and more in Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India, which more than being a tome is a wakeup call we had better heed.
Bougainvillea House
Clarice Aranxa has come to Bougainvillea House to die. But there will be no peace here, nor quiet surrender, as long-forgotten memories are brutally revived. And even as Clarice grows weaker by the day from the ravages of motor neuron disease, her violent past is mirrored in a series of unexplained deaths.