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1.Satyajit Ray Miscellany
Author: Ray Satyajit
Publisher: Penguin
Print Length: 272 pages
Release Date: 24 June 2022
Price: ₹435.00
Review
More than seventy rarest essays on filmmaking, screenplay writing, autobiographical pieces and rare photographs and manuscripts of Ray
'Ray is a most singular symbol of what is best and most revered in Indian cinema' - Adoor Gopalakrishnan
'Satyajit Ray, I salute you. The greatest of our poets of the cinema'-Ben Kingsley
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), one of the doyens of world cinema, gave a unique aesthetic expression to Indian cinema, music, art and literature. His writings, especially, autobiographical works, thoughts on filmmaking, screenplay writing and eminent personalities from art, literature and music, among others, are considered treasure troves, which largely remained unseen and therefore less known till date.
Satyajit Ray Miscellany, the second book in The Penguin Ray Library series, brings to light some of the rarest essays and illustrations of Ray that opens a window to the myriad thought-process of this creative genius. With more than seventy gripping write-ups and rare photographs and manuscripts, this book is a collector's item.
'Apart from being one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, Ray is a most singular symbol of what is best and most revered in Indian cinema.' ― Adoor Gopalakrishnan
'Satyajit Ray, I salute you. The greatest of our poets of the cinema' ― Ben Kingsley
'I think he (Ray) has it in his blood. ... He is the father of Indian cinema.' ― Jean Renoir
'I must admit I get rather restive when people write saying that my first published story was my best. Perhaps Satyajit feels the same about his own first born. But surely Pather Panchali is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful films ever made. There are scenes which I need never view again because they are burnt upon my memory.' ― Arthur C. Clarke
About Author
Satyajit Ray (1921-92) was one of the greatest film-makers of his time. In 1992, he was awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In the same year, he was also honoured with the Bharat Ratna. Ray was also a writer of repute, and his short stories, novellas, poems and articles, written in Bengali, have been immensely popular. He has published several books in Bengali, most of which became bestsellers. He is also the author of the famous Feluda stories, the translations of which have been made available by Penguin.
2.Building a Second Brain
Author: Tiago Forte
Print Length:272 pages
Release Date: 30 June 2022
Price: ₹342.00
Review
Discover the full potential of your ideas and make powerful, meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain'Forte's ideas ... really work' Seth Godin'Building a Second Brain completely changed my life' Ali Abdaal 'Much more than just another productivity method - it's a survival guide' Chris Guillebeau 'This is a well-written, cogent, and useful manual for staying clear in the knowledge-worker world.' David Allen For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world's knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to create and to improve ourselves.
Yet, rather than being empowered by this information, we're often overwhelmed, paralysed by believing we'll never know or remember enough.This eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. A trusted and organised digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes and creative work, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. From identifying good ideas, to organising your thoughts, to retrieving everything swiftly and easily, it puts you back in control of your life and information.
About Author
Tiago Forte is founder of Fortelabs.co and one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. He has taught thousands of people how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their lives. He has worked with organizations such as Toyota Motor Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank, and his work has been featured in the New York Times Atlantic and Harvard Business Review.
3.A Place Called Home
Author: Preeti Shenoy
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 324 pages
Release Date: 27 June 2022
Price: ₹199.00
Review
In the windowless, cramped servant's room at Mrs Shetty's luxurious house, where her mother is a maid, Alka dreams of an escape. When Mrs Shetty decides to send her to the same school as her daughter, she works hard, moulding herself into a new avatar.
She marries Subbu, a coffee grower with a four hundred acre estate. Between taking care of her heritage home, her two young daughters and her fabulous relationship with her mother-in-law, Alka's life feels complete.
But when secrets about her past that she has fiercely guarded are exposed, they threaten to destroy her life. To protect all that she has, Alka must fight her demons and travel back to the world she worked so hard to leave behind.
A Place Called Home is a novel about secrets, family, and finding yourself, from bestselling author Preeti Shenoy.
About Author
Preeti Shenoy who has authored 15 bestsellers ranks among the highest selling authors in India. She is also on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities in India. She has represented India at International literature festivals in Birmingham, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and others. Preeti has been featured by all major media including BBC World, Cosmopolitan, The Hindu, Verve and Times of India among others.
She is the winner of popular choice fiction award 2021 by AutHER awards from Times of India and most popular self-help book of 2021 by Amazon India. She is also the recipient of several awards including ‘Indian of the Year' award for 2017 and award for Business Excellence by the New Delhi Institute of Management.
She is a motivational speaker, who has given talks in many premier educational institutions and corporate organisations like KPMG, ISRO, Infosys and Accenture and others. An avid fitness enthusiast, she is also an artist specialising in portraiture and illustrated journals. Her other interests are travel, photography, blogging and yoga. Her books include The Magic Mindset, When Love Came Calling, Wake Up Life is Calling, Life is What You Make it, The Rule Breakers, A Hundred Little Flames, It's All In The Planets, Why We Love The Way We Do, The Secret Wish List, The One You Cannot Have and many others. Her work has been translated into many Indian languages and also into Turkish.
4.Ananda : Happiness Without Reason
Author: Acharya Prashant
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 256 pages
Release Date: 27 June 2022
Price: ₹260.00
Review
What is that one fundamental thing for which we go about toiling all our lives - sacrificing, negotiating, scheming, praying? Intuitively, one might answer - happiness. But do we really know what happiness is?
Most of the existing literature paints a fuzzy picture of happiness, beautiful in words but lacking in practicality. In this book, Acharya Prashant shatters all misconceptions about happiness jargons like 'loving unconditionally' and 'living in the present'. He explains how what we commonly understand as happiness exists only in the backdrop of sadness, and what man is really looking for is not just happiness, but Ananda - an unconditional joy free from both happiness and sadness. Discarding multiple myths that burden our consciousness, the book draws from scriptures like the Gita and the Upanishads, revealing the true meaning of Ananda.
If you have the courage to question your deep-rooted beliefs and enter an unfathomable territory beyond the duality of happiness and sadness, this book is for you.
About Author
Acharya Prashant is a powerful voice of socio-spiritual awakening in today's world. He is an acclaimed Vedanta exegete and author of over eighty books, including the national bestseller Karma – Why Everything You Know About it is Wrong.
An alumnus of IIT-Delhi, IIM-Ahmedabad and a former civil services officer, he is an exponent of pure Vedantic wisdom, a vocal warrior against superstition and inner weaknesses, a promulgator of pure spiritual veganism and an expounder of essential human freedom.
5.Mindf**ked
Author: Anubhav Agrawal
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 240 pages
Release Date: 7 July 2022
Price: ₹195.00
Review
Subah ke 4 baj gaye, lekin yeh dimaag hai ki sochna band hi nahi kar raha hai. Khud ke baare mein sochna, kisi aur ke baare mein sochna, kisi cheez, kisi jagah ke baare mein sochna, kuch hone wala hai ya kuch beet gaya ho toh uske baare mein sochna... Lekin jab hum kisi cheez ke baare mein zaroorat se zyada sochna shuru kar dete hain, dikkat wahin se shuru hoti hai. Overthinking sirf humari mental health ko affect nahi karta, balki humare mood ko bhi kharab karta hai, humare rishton aur professional life mein bhi pareshaaniyan laata hai. Jab tak hum normally kuch soch rahe hain, tab tak sab sahi hai, koi pareshaani nahi. Lekin jahan humne zarurat se zyada sochna shuru kar diya, wahan se humari pareshaaniyan badhne lagti hain.
Why Not Me? A Feeling of Millions ke bestselling author Anubhav Agrawal ki nayi book, Mindf**ked: When It's 4 a.m. and You Can't Stop Thinking (Hinglish edition) mein diye gaye solutions se aap overthinking ko control kar sakte hain, aur apne mann ko shaant kar sakte hain.
About Author
Writer, poet and social media influencer Anubhav Agrawal is the founder of I write what you feel(R), an online poetry community which has over three million followers on social media.
6. Sanjeev Kumar : The Actor We All Loved
Author: Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta (Author), Uday Jariwala (Author)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Print Length: 384 pages
Release Date: 21 June 2022
Price: ₹487.00
Review
'He was a natural; one of the most powerful actors.' --Narendra Modi
The 1970s were indeed the golden era of Bollywood. In the decade that revolutionized Hindi cinema, there was one actor who was every director's fail-safe artiste. When he entered the frame, the audience would sigh with relief, 'Nothing can go wrong now!'
Sanjeev Kumar was the antithesis of the typical Bollywood hero doing romance and action. Not one to crave glamorous roles, he was more interested in versatility. From his mature roles in films like Mausam and Aandhi to his comic timing in Angoor or the angst of person with disabilities in Koshish-he was truly a thinking man's actor. His expressive face, inflections and pauses, natural ease for lip-syncing, all of it made him the complete package.
Written by his nephew Uday Jariwala and Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, this biography takes us through Sanjeev Kumar's journey to becoming one of the greatest actors Bollywood has seen, with personal essays by his friends Gulzar, Randhir Kapoor, and co-stars Sharmila Tagore, Moushumi Chatterjee, Tanuja, among others.
About Author
Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is a prolific biographer, reviewer for CNBC TV18, and a bibliophile. She is credited with the acclaimed Red Dot Experiment, a ten-year-long and six-nation study on how culture impacts communication.
Uday Jariwala is the heir to the legacy of Sanjeev Kumar. He runs the Sanjeev Kumar Foundation, an NGO that works towards the promotion of theatre, art and education. He is a businessman and lives in Mumbai with his wife Neelam and their two children, Aryan and Saachi.
7. Basics of Stock Market
Author: Arvind Arora
Publisher: Invincible
Print Length: 98 pages
Release Date: 17 June 2022
Price: ₹277.00
About Author
Arvind arora: A well acclaimed stock market investor, Arvind Arora holds credit of several researches in this arena. With above fifty percent return and investment rate, Arora assures to maintain his supremacy in the market.
He has a remarkable presence on Youtube [A2 Motivation], with over 1.37 crores subscribers. He is also Founder and CEO of Conker World. A Tedx speaker and a motivational coach, Arora has guided over 25 million people. He follows the ideology, “chasing dreams with passion.”
8. The Friend: Mind, Body, Soul, Well-Being
Author: Lady Mohini Kent Noon (Author) Sri M
Publisher: Penguin
Print Length: 224 pages
Release Date: 28 June 2022
Price: ₹278.00
Review
Sri M is widely known as a spiritual leader and teacher. However, he believes, for him to truly connect with someone and guide them, they must be friends. In this book, Lady Kent asks him about love, life, religion, marriage, death and everything in between making it a one-stop shop complete collection of Sri M's teachings and philosophy. Following the ancient form of a conversation between a guru and disciple, this book is easy to read and relatable for people of all ages.
About Author
SRI M-spiritual teacher, social reformer, educationist and author-was born Mumtaz Ali into a Muslim family on 6 November 1949 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His transformational journey from young boy to yogi, is a story of single-minded discipline and dedication. He established the Satsang Foundation twenty years ago as a meeting point for spiritual seekers of all persuasions. Conversant with the principles and beliefs of most major religions, Sri M's teachings seek to transcend the outer shell of all religions by exploring the core of their teachings and nurturing the innate goodness in every human being. Sri M's autobiography, Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi's Autobiography, was published in 2011 and became an instant bestseller.
Further, Journey Continues: A Sequel to Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master was published in 2017. Sri M has also authored several texts on the Upanishads, on meditation and a novel, Shunya. His latest book, On Meditation: Finding Infinite Bliss and Power Within, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019. All his books have been translated into numerous Indian languages. Among the many awards and honours he has received for his contribution to society, Sri M was conferred with the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India, in January 2020 for distinguished service of high order in spirituality.
Lady Mohini Kent Noon is an author, journalist, playwright, film-maker and charity worker. She has previously worked as a print journalist with India Today magazine and other publications and had a fortnightly radio slot on BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio Scotland.
9. The Vortex : The True Story of History's Deadliest Storm and the Liberation of Bangladesh
Author: Scott Carney (Author), Jason Miklian (Author)
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 528 pages
Release Date: 20 June 2022
Price: ₹480.00
Review
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal.
In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone killed 500,000 people and began a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide and war. The Vortex is the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution.
Bhola made landfall during a fragile time, when Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism and bravery, which played out in the lives of tens of millions of Bangladeshis. Authors Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us deep into the story of the cyclone and its aftermath, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it, including the infamous president of Pakistan, General Yahya Khan, and his close friend, the President of the United States Richard Nixon, American expats Jon and Candy Rhode, soccer star-turned-soldier Hafiz Uddin Ahmad and a young Bengali revolutionary, Mohammed Hai.
Thrillingly paced and written in incredible detail, The Vortex is not just a story about the painful birth of a new nation but also a universal tale of resilience and liberation in the face of climate emergency, which affects every single person on the planet.
'This book makes you feel like you're living through the traumatic birth of Bangladesh, a beautiful and resilient country that has overcome near-impossible odds. But if we don't quickly bring climate change under control, those experiences of our past could foreshadow our next great global tragedy. The Vortex is a stark reminder that the power of nature can either be tempered by human wisdom or amplified by our shortsighted greed and hunger for power. An epic tale indeed!' -Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, educator, environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org
'This is a rich tale of a terrible cyclone and the human folly that deepened the tragedy. Grippingly written, it is both a powerful history of the creation of modern Bangladesh and an urgent warning about our precarious common future on our rapidly heating planet.' -Gary J. Bass, author of The Blood Telegram.
'Among the greatest threats posed by climate change are dangerous supercharged storms powered by warming oceans. But their catastrophic destruction isn't limited to lives and property; sometimes even entire political ecosystems are at risk. In The Vortex, Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us on a riveting journey into the deadliest storm ever. They reveal not only the devastating human toll but also how it triggered a horrific genocide and war. In the absence of meaningful climate action, climate disasters threaten to increasingly force humans into conflict, making The Vortex an urgent wake-up call for our shared global future.' - Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University, and author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.
About Author
Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and an anthropologist, as well as the author of the New York Times bestseller What Doesn't Kill Us. He spent six years living in South Asia as a contributing editor for WIRED and writer for Mother Jones, NPR, Discover Magazine, Fast Company, Men's Journal and many other publications. His other books include The Red Market, The Enlightenment Trap and The Wedge. He is the founder of Foxtopus Ink, a Denver-based media company.
Jason Miklian, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. Miklian has published over sixty academic and policy works on issues of conflict and crisis, based on extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, Colombia, India and the Congo. He serves on the United Nations Expert Panel on Business and Human Rights, has won several awards for his academic publications, and serves as an expert resource for various government knowledge banks in the US, the UK, the EU and Norway. Miklian has also written for or been cited in an expert capacity by the New York Times, the BBC, The Economist, Washington Post, France 24, The Guardian, The Hindu and NPR.
10. Twisted Lies
Author: Ana Huang
Publisher: Boba Press
Print Length: 576 pages
Release Date: 26 June 2022
Price: ₹1,049.00
Review
He'll do anything to have her...including lie. Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.
She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse. Every monster has their weakness. She's his.
His obsession.
His addiction.
His only exception.
Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage. Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship. But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time. Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.
Passionate.
Protected.
Truly wanted.
Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies...and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.
About Author
Ana Huang is an author of primarily steamy New Adult and contemporary romance. Her stories range from lighthearted to dark, but they all have HEAs with plenty of banter and swoon sprinkled in. Besides reading and writing, Ana loves traveling, is obsessed with hot chocolate, and has multiple relationships with fictional boyfriends.
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