Kap-tain Of The Century: Kapil Dev

"Kap-tain Of The Century: Kapil Dev is an insight into the various aspects of Kapil Dev''s life. A man who rose from the depths of hurt and humiliation, to prove to whoever there remained any need for proving, that he is indeed India''s Cricketer of the Century. Kapil Dev is an extraordinary man, not only because of the achievements and laurels he has garnered over the years, but because he is extremely passionate about a game, which had meant much more to him than a mere job. And from which he voluntarily detached himself, because his sense of commitment towards it was put under a question mark. This book tells about the lows in the life of a man who, at last, achieved poetic justice on the 23rd of July, 2002 when he was awarded "" Wisdom Indian Cricketer of the Century""."

ISBN: 818683060X
Author: Singhal, Rahul
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Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata

Devdutt Pattanaik is a medical doctor by education, a leadership consultant by profession, and a mythologist by passion. He has written and lectured extensively on the nature of sacred stories, symbols and rituals and their relevance in modern times. His books include The Book of Ram (Penguin India), Myth=Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology (Penguin India) and The Pregnant King (Penguin India). The Book of Kali (Viking India) is based on his talks. Devdutt’s unconventional approach and engaging style is evident in his lectures, books and articles.

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High above the sky stands Swarga, paradise,
abode of the gods. Still above is Vaikuntha,
heaven, abode of God.
The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are the twins,
Jaya and Vijaya, both whose names
mean ‘victory’. One keeps you in Swarga;
the other raises you into Vaikuntha.
In Vaikuntha there is bliss forever, in Swarga there is pleasure for only as long as you deserve.
What is the difference between Jaya and Vijaya?
Solve this puzzle and you will
solve the mystery of the Mahabharata.

In this enthralling retelling of India’s greatest epic, the Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the Sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu, and Yakshagana of Karnataka.

Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings by the author, the 108 chapters abound with little-known details such as the names of the hundred Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan and Barbareek, the Mahabharata version of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana, and the dating of the war based on astronomical data.

With clarity and simplicity, the tales in this elegant volume reveal the eternal relevance of the Mahabharata, the complex and disturbing meditation on the human condition that has shaped Indian thought for over 3000 years.

ISBN: 9780143104254
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU

Robert Holden, Ph.D., is the Director of The Happiness Project and Success Intelligence. His innovative work on happiness and success has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy, shown in 16 countries to more than 30 million television viewers. He’s the author of ten best-selling books, including Success Intelligence and Shift Happens!

The more you learn about true happiness, the more you discover the truth of who you are, what is
important, and what your life is for…

Be Happy is the follow-up to Robert Holden’s best-selling Happiness NOW! In this book, Robert gives you a front-row seat on his 8-week happiness programme. Step-by-step he introduces you to a set of proven techniques, principles, meditations and insights that will help you be happy now!

Key lessons include:
?? Follow Your Joy – stop chasing happiness and start enjoying your life as it happens.
?? The Happiness Contract – undo mental and emotional blocks to happiness and
success.
?? The Receiving Meditation – increase your natural capacity for happiness and
abundance.
?? The Forgiveness Practice – give up all hopes for a better past and be happy now.
?? The Gift of Happiness – use the power of happiness to bless your life and benefit
others.

ISBN: 9788189988739
Published by: Penguin Books India
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All That You Can`t Leave Behind: Why We Can Never Do Without Cricket

Soumya Bhattacharya’s first book, You Must Like Cricket? was published to acclaim across the world in 2006. He is also the author of the novel If I Could Tell You. His writings have appeared in the New York Times in the US; the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age (Melbourne) in Australia; and the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the New Statesman and Wisden in the UK. He is the Editor of the Hindustan Times’s Mumbai edition. He lives with his wife and daughter in Mumbai.

If one were to do a nationwide poll of Indians born after Independence and ask which is the one date they remember most, the answer may well be 25 June 1983, the date on which India won the cricket World Cup. It is often said that cricket in India is like a religion; nothing could be more misleading. Religion has scarred the nation more deeply than anything else. Cricket is the balm that heals.

In our collective consciousness, there is nothing quite like cricket. As the most visible expression of national identity, as an obsession or a dream, cricket is the only thing that possibly unites a country as diverse and as contradiction-ridden as India.

In this brilliant book, Soumya Bhattacharya shows how we have made this game our own, given it our own colour, our own customs, our own codes. And how cricket in turn has come to permeate every aspect of our public life, from popular culture to politics—so that, when a game is on, the rest of life happens strictly between overs.

In the end, All That You Can’t Leave Behind is as much about India as it is about cricket.

ISBN: 9780143066293
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Film Tie-In)

Jeff Kinney is an exciting new addition to the Puffin list. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is his debut novel and the comic adventures of his protagonist, Greg Heffley, began online in 2004 on www.funbrain.com where 70,000 children read about him every day. Jeff is an online developer and designer. He lives with his family in southern Massachusetts, USA.

Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you''ve had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you''ve had a go at drawing yourself…

Now imagine it all - on screen!

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen.

A full-colour diary complete with photographs, script pages, storyboard sketches, costume designs, and more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney.

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series.

ISBN: 9780141331010
Published by: Jeff Kinney
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Grids of Change: Managing Power Games and Power Lines

Rajendra Prasad Singh was born in 1948 and grew up in a small village in Bihar. After completing his post-graduation in mechanical engineering from Banaras Hindu University, he joined Tata Steel in the early seventies.

In 1977, he moved to the newly formed public sector power company, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). His defining moment, however, came in 1991 when he took up the challenge of reviving a fledgling power transmission company that had been set up a few years ago by the government—PowerGrid Corporation of India Ltd.

In less than a decade, R.P. Singh, under the guidance of his mentors at PowerGrid, had steered the company into the list of successful public sector companies. His rise to the top position at PowerGrid was quite rapid, and he remained at its helm for close to 12 years before relinquishing office in 2008, but not before taking the company to newer heights. This is Singh’s first book. He is working on two more.

Being the head honcho of a public sector enterprise is one of the most exacting or testing positions in the corporate world. Heading an archetypal corporate set-up where strengthening the bottom line is your sole objective is one thing; leading a corporation that has a crucial public service to perform while continuing to increase profits for its owners—the Government of India—is another.


As chairman of PowerGrid, one of India’s leading utility companies, R.P. Singh was on the inside track of Indian business, government and policy for 12 long years—years spent not just reshaping power networking in India but also raising the benchmark in corporate governance. It wasn’t always easy. Conservative, anti-reform forces had to be contested, rivals fought off, political and other influences contained. This book tells the story of how it was done.

R.P. Singh reveals the inside workings of India’s government-owned business sector, the saga of how a start-up with borrowed staff and facilities was built into a public-sector jewel and one of the leading power grid operators of the world. This is a fascinating business book: part memoir, part management manual, part survival guide.

ISBN: 9780670084227
Published by: Penguin Books India
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The Go-Giver

The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman. Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of ôgo-givers:ö a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a real estate broker, and the ôConnector,ö who brought them all together. PindarÆs friends share with Joe the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and teach him how to open himself up to the power of giving. Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to givingùputting othersÆ interests first and continually adding value to their livesùultimately leads to unexpected returns. Imparted with wit and grace, The Go-Giver is a heartwarming and inspiring tale that brings new relevance to the old proverb ôGive and you shall receive.ö.

ISBN: 9781591842323
Author: Burg, Bob, Mann, John David
Published by: Penguin Books India
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The Life and Times of Baba Ramdev

Ashok Raj is an author and children’s illustrator based in Chennai.

The continuing saga of a contemporary mass leader who sought out a vision and a method to amalgamate yoga and health care into the mainstream consciousness….

Baba Ramdev’s emergence as the new ideologue of a national and global spiritual resurgence is considered by many as a curious phenomenon. This work is a study on the making of the Ramdev spectacle with all its inescapable assertiveness, mass enthusiasm and, of course, controversies. It seeks to locate his philosophy in today’s socio-cultural milieu, while tracing its origins in Indian spiritual history, and the past landmark reformist movements that have been initiated in the country by earlier path-breakers including Sri Aurobindo, Swami Dayananda, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Bhagwan Nityananda, J. N. Krishnamurty and Sri Ramana Rishi.

Indeed, Ramdev represents a renewed continuity to the great revival of the ancient Indian spiritual traditions and yoga that took place in the twentieth century and received recognition worldwide.

With his own version of holistic yoga as a ploy for instituting the universal right to health, Baba Ramdev has proposed two distinct ideological alternatives to the current established order of the world – pranayama and the yogic way of life as the key to health restoration and well-being; and manifestation of an enabling spiritual environment for personal and social transformation.

Ramdev’s arrival once again underlines the continuing significance of Oriental spiritualism the world over as it offers perhaps the most promising insights for the creation of a ‘new spiritually-awakened man’ – a man at ease with himself and with the world around him.

ISBN: 9789380480169
Published by: Penguin Books India

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