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1. The Changing Room (A New-World Playbook to Help You Survive & Succeed in Uncertain Times)
Author: Geetika Saigal
Release date: 24 August 2021
Price: ₹399.00*
Review
Struggling to make sense of the new world? Hungry for growth & success?
This book will help you do just that!
It tackles life’s biggest questions, decodes away the away the bullsh*t and translates them into simple rules and actionable moves.
· Why am I stuck?
· Why is my life not going anywhere?
· What should I do after being hit by 2020?
· How can I succeed like the leaders do?
· WTF is happiness?
· What should I do now to change my future?
Get ready to get the answers!
From the Triangle of Mediocrity to the Toilet Flush Theory, from the Loser Pit to the Magic Molecules, from the Triple-S Formula to the Hustle Sack, from the Lollipop Effect to Shape-Shifting, from the Impact Paradox to the Jaw of Helplessness, from the Inverted Pyramid to the Transformation Triangle, and right up to the Success Sandwich, it’ll be one hell of a crazy ride.
The new world has new rules. It’s time to decode them. It’s time to embrace them. It’s time to change. Welcome to The Changing Room.
NOTE: When you read it, you’ll get access to Geetika’s Foundation Course, Re-Invent Yourself, incl. Video Lessons & Workbooks.
About the Author
Geetika Saigal - 5 Times TEDx Speaker, Bestselling Author, Founder of Beeja Education
Geetika Saigal is on a mission to ‘Help You, Help Yourself’! She’s been awarded the All India Achievers Award, Indian Icon Award & Women Super Achiever Award. She now spreads her thoughts via her EdTech platform BEEJA EDUCATION.
2. Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Print length: 240 pages
Release date: 13 September 2021
Price: ₹2,331.00*
Review
In Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh: One Man's Journey Through The Mountains And Valleys of Life, the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray tells his extraordinary life story. From an orphanage in Leicester through the rigours and brutality of the English public school system in the 1950s, to a five-year spell in French Foreign Legion, his early life was recounted in his million-selling book Legionnaire.
Since 1965 he has been one of the most successful businessmen operating out of Hong Kong. Starting as a sales manager for Jardine Matheson he worked his way up to running Hutchison Whampoa. He has also been actively involved with the Hong Kong Electricity Company, Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific, Glencore and Huawei among others.
In-between he founded Orange and other mobile telephone operators across Asia and Africa. He has been off the path many times: climbed in the Atlas Mountains; trekked up to Everest and Annapurna; climbed Kilimanjaro and abseiled down the Shard in London. He is the oldest man to walk unsupported to the South Pole. He has run the Marathon des Sables, 250 kilometres across the Moroccan desert when he was 60 years old, and follows his motto ‘Do not follow where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’ somewhat earnestly. He was awarded the CBE from the Queen and been decorated with the Order of Merit and the Legion d’Honneur in France. He claims his greatest success is his marriage of 54 years to Jennifer and the raising of three children and his six grandchildren.
3. Chasing Fireflies
Publisher: Kalamos Literary Services
Print length: 222 pages
Release date: 13 September 2021
Price: ₹249.00*
Review
70 percent of people in the world as per a survey are in love. 40 percent of couples married for 10 years or below are still intensely in love. 80 percent of couples married for more than 30 years become silent, quiet, invisible, or agitated when spoken about love.
We all start with the word, phrase, emotion, feeling, a hormone called LOVE. What happens to love while we get busy cooking the dish called responsibilities? Dharam, a charismatic, stylish, dynamic, well-dressed man with a dense white beard, chiseled body, and a cigar in between his lips, meets the petite, slim, blunt Maya with a chip on her shoulder and a graceful smile.
He loves Golf, old music, and loves to flirt. She loves to cook, is always immersed in her thoughts, and hates to socialize and all kinds of pomposities. In the mad rush of chasing fireflies, they forget to chase the most important firefly. The firefly called love. Chasing Fireflies more than being a story is an immersive experience from the eyes of an Immortal Narrator. A Narrative of love, with love, through love and most important for LOVE.
About the Author
Ankit Jhamb is a senior leader with one of the world’s largest consulting organizations. With over 14 years of experience in Performance Consulting, Learning and Development and Coaching, he has helped thousands understand their selves better through his workshops and methods. His comprehensive approach to human behavior mixes Psychology, Neuroscience, Spirituality and Ayurveda. He believes in looking at life from a holistic point of view.
He is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, a reiki practitioner, a Mental Wellbeing, and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Coach. He holds a master’s degree in Human Resources and Psychology. Apart from being passionate about his work, he also runs a social entrepreneurial venture in Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore and Jaipur called as AAO KHILAYEIN. This venture feeds over 200 people every weekend, works on education, medical treatment and natural calamity relief management.
He is also the founder of SPEAK UP, an initiative for helping people going through mental disorders such as Depression, Stress, Anxiety and Paranoia. He is an advisor to the BRICS Chambers of Commerce, recognized as one of the Top 100 HR Leaders Under 40 by Jombay and was awarded The Youngest Learning and Development Leader 2019 by the World HRD Congress. His first book Lost and Found at 35 has been helping people find their true calling and passion in life. It is also being considered for being adapted for OTT platforms. His second book Lights Please which was launched in the January 2021 has been recognized as one of the ‘TOP 10 Books to be read in 2021’ by Outlook.
4. How Come No One Told Me That?: Life Lessons, Practical Advice and Timeless Wisdom for Success
Author: Prakash Iyer
Publisher: Penguin Portfolio
Print length: 256 pages
Release date: 23 August 2021
Price: ₹263.00*
Review
There are plenty of self-improvement books out there-books that claim they can change your life. Yet, what makes us better human beings are stories and real-life observations, which can help us get ahead in our careers and, in turn, enrich our lives.
From the bestselling author of The Habit of Winning and The Secret of Leadership comes a new book on life and success. In How Come No One Told Me That?, bestselling author Prakash Iyer shares the stories and observations that have made an immense impact on his life.
The book is divided into ten sections, exploring life lessons, ways of improving oneself, leadership and the importance of doing small things right, among other subjects. Through powerful anecdotes and charming essays, followed by practical, actionable advice, this book will help you make those minor adjustments to your professional and personal lives that can truly make you unstoppable.
About the Author
Prakash Iyer is the bestselling author of The Habit of Winning and The Secret of Leadership. In a corporate career spanning more than twenty-five years, he has worked with teams selling everything from soaps and colas to watches, yellow pages and diapers. He was the managing director of Kimberly Clark Lever. Passionate about people and cricket, Prakash is also a motivational speaker and trained leadership coach. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he is married to Savitha, and they have twin children, Shruti and Abhishek.
5. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
Author: Josy Joseph
Publisher: Context
Print length: 320 pages
Release date: 23 August 2021
Price: ₹405.00*
Review
‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog of war, the law-abider and the law-breaker must be distinguished.’
India is justly proud of a parliamentary democracy that has never been threatened by a military coup. No mean feat in a neighbourhood where coups are common and notions of constitutionality shaky. However, for decades now, India’s democratic standing has been steadily declining. An international analysis recently rated the country as only ‘partly free’, while another deemed it an ‘electoral autocracy’.
Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India, and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and ’90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingenious—at times sinister—solutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organisations. Over time, militancy became a flourishing, multi-faceted business enterprise.
From the Kashmiri militancy to the Sri Lankan civil war, from the attack on Mumbai to the long-term unrest in the Northeast, India’s ‘war on terror’ has made its security institutions more nationalistic and chauvinistic and, inevitably, more corrupt. Most dangerously, there is a near-complete capture of the security apparatus, whether investigative agencies, police or intelligence, by the political executive—serving as stormtroopers with no accountability, rather than as defenders of the Constitution.
The result of more than two decades of reporting on insurgencies, terrorism and the security establishment, The Silent Coup is a wake-up call to the nation. You do not need a military coup to subvert democracy, Joseph says—in India, it has already been subverted.
About the Author
Josy Joseph is a writer-journalist based in New Delhi, and founder of Confluence Media, a platform-agnostic investigative journalism outfit. His first book, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, won the 2017 Crossword Award for the best non-fiction book.
He has won several awards for his journalism, including the Prem Bhatia Trust’s ‘India’s best political reporter’ in 2010 and the ‘Journalist of the Year’ Ramnath Goenka award in 2013. The Prem Bhatia trust citation said the award was ‘for his scoops and revelations, which include a list of scams that have become familiar names in the political lexicon’. Josy has exposed some of India’s biggest scandals—among them, the Mumbai Adarsh Housing scam and the 2010 Commonwealth Games scams—and his stories have played a significant role in impacting the country’s social and political narrative.
He was the National Security Editor of The Hindu newspaper until August 2018, when he left to start Confluence Media. Previously, he has also worked with The Times of India as its Editor, Special Projects, Daily News and Analysis (DNA) as an Associate Editor, and several other mainstream publications. At Confluence Media, Josy is experimenting with creating a commercially viable, scalable, quality journalism outfit.
6. Back to the Roots: Celebrating Indian Wisdom and Wellness
Publisher: Penguin eBury Press
Print length: 256 pages
Release date: 23 August 2021
Price: ₹306.00*
Review
What are the benefits of the Indian squat? Why do Indians touch the feet of their elders? These and many such ancient rituals and tradition are a part of our growing up, and in the absence of modern scientific certification, it is convenient to dub them as myths. But observation and deductive reasoning have proved to be the bedrock of these age-old and time-tested practices.
In Back to the Roots, Luke Coutinho and Tamannaah offer the rationale behind over 100 such practices that go a long way in promoting long-term wellness. Learn about traditional Indian recipes, superfoods and tips that provide solutions to a host of ailments like constipation, acidity and even fever. Join us on this valuable journey to resurrect our ancient knowledge and learn how inexpensive it is to invest in our lifestyles, improve our health, prevent diseases, improve longevity and the quality of our lives.
About the Author
Luke Coutinho is a globally renowned holistic lifestyle coach and award-winning holistic nutritionist. He is the co-author of the bestseller The Great Indian Diet with Shilpa Shetty. Luke was among the GQ 50 Most Influential Young Indians 2018 and the Times Power Men 2018, and received the Elle award for the Best Health Expert of the Year 2018 and Best in the Industry (Nutritionist) by Vogue in 2018.
Luke is an adviser and the head of integrative lifestyle and nutrition at Pure Nutrition, which creates pure plant-based formulations and cold-pressed oils. He is also the co-founder of GOQii, a digital healthcare platform that provides personalized coaching.
7. Stargazing: The Players in My Life
Publisher: HarperCollins
Print length: 336 pages
Release date: 25 August 2021
Price: ₹480.00*
Review
From being Champion of Champions to one of the world's top cricket commentators to Team India's head coach, Ravi Shastri has an incomparable perspective when it comes to the game of cricket. In Stargazing: The Players in My Life, the legendary all-rounder looks back at the extraordinary talent he has encountered over the years.
Who is the former Indian captain who didn't do full justice to his talent? Or that bruising bowler who went on to become a best friend? What was the most important lesson the legendary Clive Llyod taught him? How does Shastri set aside his personal bond with Virat Kohli in his role as coach?
Full of never-before-revealed anecdotes, Stargazing, co-written with Ayaz Memon and featuring illustrations by Shiva Rao, offers a glimpse into how champions from across the globe have inspired one of the world's greatest ODI players and Team India's most successful Test cricket coach.
About the Author
Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is an Indian cricket coach, former commentator, cricketer and current head coach of the India’s national cricket team. As a player, he played for the India national cricket team between 1981 and 1992 in both Tests and ODIs.
8. SATTVIK COOKING: MODERN AVATARS OF VEDIC FOODS
Author: Hansaji J. Yogendra
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
Print length: 332 pages
Release date: 10 September 2021
Price: ₹350.00*
Review
The oldest yoga institute in the world now brings you the ultimate Sattvik cookbook that will enhance your positivity quotient and become an inseparable part of your life. Ancient Indian texts say that the trigunas—Sattva, Rajas and Tamas—pervade the universe and the human mind. Food that is Sattva is pure, happy, energizing, vitalizing and fulfilling; rajas is stimulating, passionate, ambitious and domineering; and tamas is dull, inactive, heavy and impure. Food influences the mind directly, but the mind can also influence the kind of food you desire.
Hence, it’s easy for the mind to spiral in a particular direction. Of the three food spirals, only Sattvik has the power that can propel you to a state of happiness, contentment and full of positive energy. The recipes revealed in this book will help you derive the benefits of Sattvik foods along with them being super tasty. In Sattvik cooking, for example, natural sweeteners are most important as they stimulate vata, the primary dosha that controls the other two doshas—pitta and kapha.
The recipes will enable millennials to embrace Sattvik food by infusing them with modern-day cuisines from India and around the world, while also understanding the science behind it. Sattvik Cooking uses humble Indian kitchen ingredients to unleash the mind, body and spiritual powers of ancient Vedic foods. The unique selection of recipes will not only satisfy the palates of all age groups, but will also be hugely beneficial for fitness enthusiasts.
About the Author
Yoga guru Dr Hansaji J. Yogendra is the director of The Yoga Institute, the oldest yoga institute in the world. She is an exemplary visionary, a yogi and a scholar who has transformed the lives of millions of people around the world. The leading face of householder yoga, Dr Hansaji is the wife of Dr Jayadeva Yogendra and has conducted over 1,00,000 theoretical and practical sessions of yoga.
She is a part of various committees formed by the Government of India as well as many international organizations. The Yoga Institute was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award in June 2018 by Shri Narendra Modi for spreading the goodness of yoga to all. Hansaji has also undertaken several social service initiatives for the betterment of society. Her work in yoga education, research, experiential learning and standardization of yoga practices has been widely recognized. Her dynamic and charismatic personality is an inspiration for people around the world who wish to inculcate yoga as a way of life.
9. The Island of Missing Trees
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Viking
Print length: 368 pages
Release date: 17 August 2021
Price: ₹470.00*
Review
wo teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witnesses their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, surreptitious departures.
The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns - a botanist, looking for native species - looking, really, for Defne. The two lovers return to the taverna to take a clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into their suitcase, bound for London. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their daughter Ada's only knowledge of a home she has never visited, as she seeks to untangle years of secrets and silence, and find her place in the world.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
About the Author
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. The author of 19 books, 12 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year.
Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. In 2021, Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's inaugural book club, The Reading Room.
10. Devil's Daughter
Author: Vidhie Mukerjea
Price: ₹250.00*
Review
‘At the epicentre of the whole fiasco were my parents, and what got lost in the chaos was me.’
On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Vidhie Mukerjea returned home from school, excited to celebrate with friends and family. Only to walk into a house filled with cops. She watched on as her mother was arrested for an unspeakable crime. Four months later, her father was locked up as well.
As Vidhie grappled with her new reality, the media ruthlessly covered the case and dissected her every move. She was portrayed as a devil’s child by society, the press and—ultimately—it was how she began to view herself.
Where does an eighteen-year-old me go from here, she wondered. Where does my family go from here?
Devil’s Daughter is the brutally frank memoir of an isolated, rebellious young woman and her journey towards overcoming the blame and shame cast upon her. And how she was able to cultivate a profound appreciation for the beauty this world has to offer—in the face of an ugliness no one should know.
About the Author
Vidhie was born in India and raised in Bristol. She graduated in international business from Barcelona but has pursued writing and art instead. The destination printed on her flight ticket is the point of her inspiration, and people—their culture, their food, their relationships and their way of living—enlighten and motivate the artist in her.
11. Operation Trojan Horse: A Novel Inspired by True Events
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print length: 368 pages
Release date: 24 August 2021
Price: ₹304.00*
Review
It is 1996. A fifteen-year-old Lashkar-e-Taiba fidayeen crosses over to India from Pakistan. When officer Shekhar Singh of the Counter Terrorism Cell captures and interrogates him, he makes a startling revelation. The terror group has begun sending men to settle down in India in the guise of regular civilians. On the sly, they are to serve as outposts for its missions and destroy the country from within.
Stunned but not shaken, Shekhar and his bosses decide to take the fight to the enemy camp. Five Indian intelligence agents are planted in the LeT to take on its might and sabotage its operations. And thus is born Operation Trojan Horse, a first-of-its-kind Indian counter-terror mission that will go on for years.
Operation Trojan Horse is a thriller inspired by real events - including the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and several other LeT operations - and the true stories of the courageous men who risked their lives in the enemy country for their motherland.
About the Author
"D.P. SINHA is a former IPS officer who spent most of his career in the Intelligence Bureau looking after counter-terrorist operations. ABHISHEK SHARAN is a senior crime journalist who has been reporting on terror attacks in India from ground zero for the past twenty years."
12. What Millennials Want: Decoding the Largest Generation in the World
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Print length: 288 pages
Release date: 30 August 2021
Price: ₹468.00*
Review
That means that the choices and trajectory of this generation have pivotal consequences on local, regional, and global politics and economics. So the important question is: What do Indian millennials want? What are their economic aspirations and their social views? Most importantly, what makes them tick?
It's 2021 and more than 84% of them reported having an arranged marriage, and 65% listed a government job as their top priority. So are millennials really any different from previous generations?
In What Millennials Want, Vivan Marwaha documents the aspirations and anxieties of these young people scattered across more than 30,000 kilometers in 13 Indian states. Combining an expansive dataset along with personal anecdotes, he narrates an intimate biography of India's millennials, investigating their attitudes towards sex, marriage, employment, religion, and politics.
About the Author
Vivan Marwaha is a user researcher who works on technology projects in emerging markets. A millennial himself, he cares deeply about understanding India and its future through its youth. He has lived and worked in New Delhi, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Buenos Aires, and has written for the Washington Post, New Statesman, Mint, and Times of India, among other publications.
14. Ghost Hunter Gaurav Tiwari
Publisher: Westland
Print length: 272 pages
Release date: 2 September 2021
Price: ₹270.00*
Review
Shocked by the mysterious death of Gaurav Tiwari at the age of thirty-two, acclaimed horror writer Abhirup Dhar contacted the team at Indian Paranormal Society, founded by the late paranormal investigator, to understand his life and work. This book is the result of the intense conversations that followed. As the IPS team related some of the most spine-chilling cases they’d investigated, Abhirup learnt more about Gaurav. And the paranormal.
From a parking lot haunted by the ghosts of young children, to Lambi Dehar, filled with the tortured souls of the thousands who’d died there; from the unhappy spirits in Mukesh Mills to phantoms in the labyrinths of a court—Gaurav and the IPS team investigated the most haunted places in India.
Knowledge cancels fear, Gaurav used to say. It was a motto he lived by and kept in mind as he carried out his investigations, uncovering mysteries of the dead and undead. This is a book for anyone interested in horror, the supernatural and the paranormal, capturing as it does both the incredible life of Gaurav Tiwari as well as his chilling encounters with unearthly beings.
About the Author
Abhirup Dhar is a banker by profession. He is passionate about writing and has been doing so ever since he was a child. He also has a keen interest in movies and has reviewed them for certain portals.
His books include, Once Again… With Love! and Stories Are Magical. He delved into horror with Hold That Breath!, which went on to top the Amazon bestseller charts for months and was among its Best Reads. His next book, The Belvoirbrooke Haunting, was on the Amazon bestseller charts as was Hold That Breath: 2, which has been endorsed by renowned filmmaker Vikram Bhatt.
He has received various awards for his books and Ghost Hunter, Gaurav Tiwari has been acquired by a production house for screen adaptation.
Abhirup is currently writing the script of a web series for which he is working with respected people in the Hindi film industry. He is currently based out of Mumbai.
Indian Paranormal Society (IPS) was founded by Rev. Gaurav Tiwari in 2009 and it has been a pioneer in metaphysical/anomalous research around the globe, especially in India. The collective gained enormous popularity in the field of paranormal research because of the investigations and cases that they handled by travelling to different parts of the country.
The team now comprises Siddharth Bantval, Rith Deb, Waqar Raj, Meghna Porwal and Mohan Kattimani, and focuses on subjects like metaphysics, quantum mechanics and psychology concerning paranormal studies/research. IPS aims to shun myths/superstitions by logical evaluation, critical thinking and applying principles of forensic science. IPS has helped thousands get rid of their fear of the unknown by spreading awareness about this field. As Rev Tiwari always said, ‘Knowledge cancels fear.’
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Very nice writing
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