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1. Test of Times: Reliving Indian Cricket History
Publisher: Notion Press
Print Length: 162 pages
Release Date: 24 February 2022
Price: ₹199.00
Review
Price: ₹199.00
Review
This book is a time machine for Indian cricket fans. It shows how Indian cricket has grown ever since the start of cricket in the country. We celebrate heroes and cricketers who have made the game great in India. Join me in a journey where we celebrate the earliest legends of Indian cricket. Let's go on a journey to celebrate the earliest cricketers of Indian cricketing history.
Let's celebrate and see how Indian cricket has grown. Reminiscing, when India played its first unofficial tour to England in 1911 and then made their international debut in 1932, winning its first international game in 1952 to the first World Cup in 1983. Let's celebrate the cricketers who made these wins and journeys possible.
2. The Fit Indian
Author: Vishnu Mohan
Publisher: Penman Books
Print Length: 220 pages
Release Date: 3 February 2022
Price: ₹299.00
Review
This book is not a place where you will find diet and workout plans which you would be simply able to copy paste into your lives, as one size doesn’t fit all. It extensively covers why despite having best of the diet plans or coaches people fail to transform. What are those few small habits we need to fix, and the mindset changes we need to bring to achieve that transformation. It explains why fitness should not be looked at as a 12- or 24-week program, rather it should be taken up as a lifestyle. Explore, what are those small mistakes we make in our fitness journey which will always keep us away from our fitness goals.
After reading the book it would be impossible for you to fall in the marketing gimmicks and false promises given by certain influencers and companies on social media, who are trying to sell what not in the name of fat loss and muscle gain. They are just trying to mint money out of your vulnerability and lack of awareness. The companies and the influencers alone cannot be blamed, it is our impatience and attitude towards fitness which tempts us to try shortcuts and make things easier for them. It is time to change our perspective towards fitness and fight against the myths prevailing in the fitness industry.
About the Author
Vishnu Mohan is an Internationally Certified Fitness and Nutrition Coach, who has handled 1800+ clients across the globe in the past 5 years. He himself is a natural athlete, who has represented India in International natural bodybuilding and fitness modelling shows. He has handled different cases as a coach, right from busy corporate professionals to housemakers to models into the finals of reputed pageants such as Mr. India by Times of India. Five years back, when Vishnu decided to chase his passion for fitness and pursue a career in this field, many deemed it a foolish decision.
3. LORDS OF THE DECCAN : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
Publisher: Juggernaut
Print Length: 480 pages
Release Date: 30 January 2022
Price: ₹557.00
Review
The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a large part of modern-day India was ruled by a single sovereign. There is an obsession with foreign invasions and the polities of the Gangetic plains, while the histories of the rest of the subcontinent have been reduced to little more than dry footnotes. Now, in this brilliant and critically acclaimed debut book, Anirudh Kanisetti shines a light into the darkness, bringing alive for the lay-reader the early medieval Deccan, from the sixth century CE to the twelfth century CE, in all its splendour and riotous glory.
Kanisetti takes us back in time to witness the birth of the Chalukyas, a dynasty that shaped southern India for centuries. Beginning at a time when Hinduism was still establishing itself through the Deccan, when the landscape was bereft of temples, he explores the extraordinary transformation of the peninsula over half a millennium. In vivid and colourful detail, Kanisetti describes how the mighty empires of medieval India were made: how temple-building and language manipulation were used as political tools; how royals involved themselves in religious struggles between Jains and Buddhists, Shaivas and Vaishnavas; and how awe-inspiring rituals were used to elevate kings over their rivals and subjects. In doing so, he transforms medieval Indian royals, merchants and commoners from obscure figures to complex, vibrant people. Kanisetti takes us into the minds of powerful rulers of the Chalukya, Pallava, Rashtrakuta and Chola dynasties, and animates them and their world with humanity and depth.
It is a world of bloody elephant warfare and brutal military stratagems; of alliances and betrayals; where a broken king commits ritual suicide, and a shrewd hunchbacked prince founds his own kingdom under his powerful brother’s nose. This is a world where a king writes a bawdy play that is a parable for religious contestation; where the might of India’s rulers and the wealth of its cities were talked of from Arabia to Southeast Asia; and where south Indian kingdoms serially invaded and defeated those of the north. This painstakingly researched forgotten history of India will keep you riveted and enthralled. You will never see the history of the subcontinent the same way again.
‘Rarely has the history of peninsular India, of this period, been told as anything more than a dry and ceaseless monotony of battles between obscure and unimaginable rulers. Anirudh Kanisetti’s Lords of the Deccan has lifted the history of south India out of the dusty archives of Indian archaeology and epigraphy. Meticulously researched and narrated with a style that is at once lively and judicious, Lords of the Deccan synthesizes a wide array of innovations in recent scholarship with the older tradition of political history. Kanisetti harnesses his impressive skills as a storyteller to breathe new life into his subject, deftly interweaving the careers of individual kings, the structures and networks of noble families, and the great transformations in religious, cultural and literary life into a single coherent and riveting account of south India in this crucial period, which saw the region enter historical centre-stage and take on many contours still palpable today.’– Daud Ali
‘Lords of the Deccan is the completely thrilling and game-changing debut of a major new talent. Anirudh Kanisetti is a superb writer and a talented storyteller as well as an impressively judicious and subtle historian. He breathes life into the rajas, scholars and soldiers of two nearly forgotten medieval dynasties and resurrects for us a whole extraordinary world with flair, nuance, clarity and sophistication.’– William Dalrymple
‘Lords of the Deccan is an assured and supremely entertaining account of a clamorous, tumultuous and little-known period of Indian history – the early medieval Deccan period. Navigating these unchartered waters with considerable confidence and panache, Anirudh Kanisetti brings to vivid light both the savagery and the song of these riotous five hundred years. He does so, moreover, by dismantling the opaque language of historiography for the lay-reader and giving them the tools to truly understand the dialect of power – the temple building, the ode-writing, the painting and even the very manipulation of language and religion. With Lords of the Deccan, Kanisetti has claimed for himself a place of pride in the cartography of Indian history writing.’– Ira Mukhoty
‘Ambitious in its scope and rich in depth and detail, Lords of the Deccan is an outstanding debut. With his evocative retelling, Anirudh Kanisetti restores medieval south India to the prominence and centrality it deserves in general imagination – marrying old learning to new perspectives on everything, from kingship to the evolution of religions.’– Manu S. Pillai
‘In shining a light on the Deccan in the second half of the first millennium, Anirudh Kanisetti has given us a marvellous book. It brings to life the Chalukyas, the Pallavas, the Cholas, the Rashtrakutas and others, and in the process gives us a peninsular perspective of Indian history. This is also a story of imperial achievements in which language, literature, faith, sculpture, and artistic achievement weld seamlessly with political and military stratagems. A wonderful read.’– T.C.A. Raghavan
Anirudh Kanisetti is a history researcher and writer based out of Bengaluru and Hyderabad. He currently works at the Museum of Art and Photography. He has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts, and his writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, LiveMint and The Print, among others.He hosts two critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India and Yuddha.
4. I Came Upon a Lighthouse: A Short Memoir of Life with Ratan Tata
Author: Shantanu Naidu
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 232 pages
Price: ₹248.00
Review
I told him that when I write a book, I would write about another side of him and not just historic events or business milestones. I would write about us and our adventures together, and how I saw him, colours and shades of him unknown to the world. Life beyond the great steel wall of 'industry doyen'. He agreed. 'There cannot be one book that captures everything ... So you do your thing, give your perspective.'
It was their shared empathy for homeless dogs that sparked an unlikely friendship. In 2014, Shantanu Naidu, an automobile design engineer in his early twenties, developed an innovation to save the local strays from being run over by speeding cars. Ratan Tata, himself known for his compassion for stray dogs, took note. Impressed, he not only decided to invest in the venture, but over the years became a mentor, boss and an unexpectedly dear friend to Shantanu. I Came Upon a Lighthouse is an honest, light-hearted telling of this uncommon bond between a millennial and an octogenarian that gives glimpses of a beloved Indian icon in a warm light.
About the Author
From composing music videos for social causes during his engineering days, Shantanu Naidu went on to establish himself in animal welfare with his video 'Paws for a cause', which was his entry into the space. During his time as automotive design engineer at Tata Elxsi, he founded a start-up, Motopaws, to put reflective collars on India's stray dogs to prevent night-time road accidents. Mr Ratan Tata became a primary investor in the venture.
After Shantanu's return to India from his MBA at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he spent time diving deep into entrepreneurship, he joined Mr Tata's office as Deputy General Manager, assisting him with day-to-day activities, including philanthropic initiatives, start-up proposals and social media.
During his time at Mr Tata's office, Shantanu found a huge gap in young students' understanding and fear of entrepreneurship and founded 'On Your Sparks', an online entrepreneurship course teaching fundamentals through stories, the proceeds of which are used for animal welfare. He has also founded the 'Cyber Aid Army', which helps victims of cybercrime technologically and through counselling, free of charge. Shantanu spends most of his time with dogs and engaging students online, coming up with the next best idea or talking about his love for pina coladas and Mumbai.
5. Investonomy: The Stock Market Guide That Makes You Rich
Author: Pranjal Kamra
Publisher: Penguin
Print Length: 256 pages
Release Date: 7 February 2022
Price: ₹248.00
Review
Are you inspired by billionaires around the world but think becoming a billionaire is too far out of your reach? Are you confused about the behaviour of the stock market and the implications of investing in it?Are you actually scared of investing in the stock market? If yes, then Investonomy is a must-read for you! Investonomy not only explains modern value investing principles but also unveils certain secrets of the stock market. It busts popular myths and misconceptions as well. A thorough reading of this book will enable you to chart your own investment plans, and soon, you'll be all set for your personal wealth-creation journey through equity investment. Investonomy is an initiative to empower existing, as well as potential, investors like you.
About the Author
Pranjal Kamra is a seasoned value investor and a YouTuber with over two million subscribers on his channel. His YouTube channel is the biggest in the financial education domain and aims at empowering investors and disseminating financial awareness. He is the author of an Amazon bestseller, Investonomy: The Stock Market Guide That Makes You Rich, and founder and CEO of Finology Ventures Pvt. Ltd. Pranjal is an alumnus of the National Institute of Securities Market and holds a degree in law from HNLU. His sharp acumen and skills in investing have helped him earn a name for himself at the age of just twenty-seven.
6. The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires)
Author: Lauren Asher
Publisher: Piatkus
Print Length: 448 pages
Release Date: 27 January 2022
Price: ₹439.00
Review
Rowan
I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late. People like me don't get happy endings. Not when we're destined to ruin them.
Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met. Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care. At least not until I discovered his secret. It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything. Especially not us.
About the Author
Plagued with an overactive imagination, Lauren spends her free time reading and writing. Her dream is to travel to all the places she writes about. She enjoys writing about flawed yet relatable characters you can't help loving. She likes sharing fast-paced stories with angst, steam, and the emotional spectrum.
Her extra-curricular activities include watching YouTube, binging old episodes of Parks and Rec, and searching Yelp for new restaurants before choosing her trusted favorite. She works best after her morning coffee and will never deny a nap.
7. How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Print Length: 208 pages
Release Date: 10 February 2022
Price: ₹99.00
Review
Are you so focused on a better tomorrow that you are unable to enjoy the present?
Do you make great plans but cannot implement them efficiently?
Do worries and insecurity overshadow your happiness and life?
Break free from all these problems and step into a happier and more successful life with How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. It is a compendium of actionable insights on how to beat stress, fear and anxiety to lead a peaceful life. Having helped millions of readers worldwide, this book lists tried and tested life-lessons that is sure to change your life for the better. Helped millions of readers worldwide
Tried and tested life-lessons Find your true inner self Learn to manage your time efficiently Create a planned approach to physical, emotional and financial success.
About the Author
Dale Carnegie has authored close to eleven books and multiple articles on solving everyday problems and achieving success, his books have helped millions of people feel better prepared for life.
8. POWER OF THE MASTER MIND: Teaching from the Biggest Finance Gurus
Author: Wallace D Wattles Napoleon Hill, George S Clason
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Print Length: 200 pages
Release Date: 10 February 2022
Price: ₹221.00
Review
Are you a dreamer? Is shortage of money stopping you from realising your dreams? Do you wish to master the art of creating wealth? Then, your search is over! Power of the Master Mind is a treasure trove of knowledge and insights by the most legendary finance gurus and bestselling authors of all times. Full of effective financial planning hacks and advices, it will give you a new perspective on creating wealth and paving the way for success!
Pick this book up to learn:
• Helpful strategies on financial planning.
• How highly successful and rich people manage their finances.
• How to make more money and thrive professionally and personally.
• How to change your life and make it better.
About the Author
Napoleon Hill is a multi-faceted personality who is best known as the author of self-improvement books that share time-tested techniques and laws that help achieve your goals. George Samuel Clason was a successful businessman and best known for writing many informational pamphlets about saving money and achieving financial success. Wallace D Wattles was an author of American origin whose books on self-improvement are considered one of the founding works in the self-help genre as we know it today.
9. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Author: Harley Rustad
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 304 pages
Release Date: 3 February 2022
Price: ₹391.00
Review
A riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India--one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.
For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties, Justin quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey-across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal--in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters while documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever-restless explorer was driven to seek out ever-greater extremes, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest--his own hero's journey.
In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition and shrouded in darkness and danger. There he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake--one from which he would never return.
Lost in the Valley of Death is about Justin's search to find himself, in a country where, for many Westerners, the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life.
"Justin Alexander Shetler went to India in search of adventure and authenticity and never came back. Was his disappearance the result of a crime, an accident, or a profound spiritual transformation? This mystery beats at the heart of Harley Rustad's gripping and propulsive book, which is part travelogue, part pilgrim's quest, part detective story. With empathy and reportorial rigour, Rustad traces the origins and evolution of Shetler's desire to live a bold, meaningful life-and to share that life, post by post, with a growing online following. The result is the classic hero's journey updated for a hectic, hyperconnected world: think The Lost City of Z meets Eat Pray Love, only set in the Himalayan foothills in the age of hashtags." - Kate Harris, author of LANDS OF LOST BORDERS
"A compelling read and a fascinating story, which Harley Rustad tells with great flair and even greater compassion. The parade of parents with kids gone missing in India's Parvati Valley moved in parallel to my own plight-each of us facing the same suite of bewildering possibilities from natural death to foul play to a new life." - Roman Dial, author of THE ADVENTURER'S SON
"Lost in the Valley of Death beautifully evokes the mystical landscape and treacherous terrain of the High Himalayas, and the spiritual quests with which they have forever been associated. This chronicle of a wilderness survivalist and Instagrammer, and his mysterious disappearance, is an engrossing journey into the dark mysteries of the Parvati Valley, a hippie haven and retreat, and of the lost pilgrims whose stories still haunt the region." - Namita Gokhale, author and director of the Jaipur Literature Festival
About the Author
Harley Rustad is the author of Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Outside, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and Geographical. He is a features editor and writer at The Walrus, a faculty editor at the Banff Centre Mountain and Wilderness Writing residency, Canada, and the founder of the Port Renfrew Writers'
Retreat in Canada. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Rustad is originally from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
10. The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom
Author: Justin Donald
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Print Length: 280 pages
Price: ₹258.00
Review
We all want to make more money, that too with minimum effort and without too much hassle.
Ever wondered what life would be like if we had a simple, proven system to create cash flow and generate real wealth with little risk or complexity?
This book helps you:
• Manage your finances better, by directing you to a well-structured plan
• Reduce investment-related risks
• Create a sturdy cash flow
• Streamline passive cash flow to multiply your wealth
Get set to live life on your own terms, and fulfil all that you aimed to achieve.
"Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing." – Entrepreneur Magazine
About the Author
Justin Donald is a leading financial strategist who helps you find your way through the complexities of financial planning. A pioneer in structuring deals and disciplined investment systems, he now consults and advises entrepreneurs and executives on lifestyle investing.
11. Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist | Subhas Chandra Bose Biography
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Print Length: 740 pages
Release Date: 21 February 2022
Price: ₹619.00
Review
There are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. That, however, is an assessment of his life based on what is widely known about him. These often revolve around his resignation from the Indian Civil Service, joining the freedom movement, to be exiled twice for over seven years, throwing a challenge to the Gandhian leadership in the Congress, taking up an extremist position against the British Raj, evading the famed intelligence network to travel to Europe and then to Southeast Asia, forming two Governments and raising two armies and then disappearing into the unknown. All this in a span of just two decades.
Now, new information throws light on Bose's intense political activities surrounding the revolutionary groups in Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra and United Provinces, his efforts to bridge the increasing communal divide and his influence among the splintered political landscape; his outlook and relations with women; his plunge into the depths of spirituality; his penchant for covert operations and his efforts to engineer a rebellion among the Indian armed forces. With this new information, what appeared to be dramatic now becomes more intense with plots and subplots under one man's single-minded focus on freeing the motherland and envisioning its development in a new era.
Furthermore, one of the most sensitive issues that have prevented political parties and successive governments from talking much about Bose is his joining the Axis camp. While Jawaharlal Nehru and other prominent Congress leaders publicly denounced the move, the Communist Party of India went on to a prolonged vilification campaign. Sardar Patel issued instruction to Congress leaders to defend the INA soldiers without eulogizing their leader.
Was Bose really a Nazi sympathiser? Knowing very well about the strong public opinion that existed among the political leadership and the intelligentsia in India against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and imperial Japan, why did he risk his own political image by allying with the Axis powers?
Pacey, thought-provoking and absolutely unputdownable, Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist will open a window to many hitherto untold and unknown stories of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
About the Author
Chandrachur Ghose is an author, researcher and commentator on history, economics and environment, having graduated from Visva Bharati and the University of Sussex. Ghose has co-authored Conundrum: Subhas Bose's Life After Death, which features among the bestsellers in Amazon. Ghose is one of the founders of the pressure group Mission Netaji that has been the moving force behind the declassification of secret documents related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. His activism led to the declassification of over ten thousand pages in 2010.
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