1. The Startups of Bharat
Aditya Arora, Surya Pasricha
Penguin Random House
Pp 240, Rs 399
The book attempts to get people to understand the startup journey. Every lesson of this journey is a page from the life stories of startup founders— those who have raised millions of dollars and those whose ventures have already achieved unicorn status. The book focuses on younger founders to instill confidence in readers and make the narrative relatable to them so that they can ignite their entrepreneurial ambitions and learn how to do it (practically).
2. Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees
Lavanya Mohan
Simon & Schuster
Pp 235, Rs 299
Money shouldn’t be a source of stress and personal finance shouldn’t feel like a second job. Whether it’s budgets, bank accounts, taxes, investing, or insurance, this book breaks it all down in the context of your life. The book tackles everything—from Instagram-fueled spending habits, to negotiating pay checks, to bad money decisions in relationships, to planning for kids, and even plotting a great escape from the 9-to-5 routine.
3. H.I.T. Investing
Mahesh Joshi
Penguin Random House
Pp 240, Rs 799
M.A.D. Investors shares the work done by seven of the leading impact investors across the globe along with examples of outstanding businesses that they have invested in and the impact achieved by them. Each chapter details the journey of the investor and the motivation behind choosing to focus on impact investing, their investment strategy and performance with case studies on businesses that help drive their performance.
4. Our Living Constitution
Shashi Tharoor
Aleph Book Company
Pp 128, Rs 499
Shashi Tharoor provides readers with a compelling narrative about the world’s longest written national constitution. He describes the various parts of the Constitution, beginning with its preamble and then goes on to explain its historical roots. He explores the civic nationalism that animated India’s Founding Fathers, which in turn invested the Constitution with its progressiveness, pluralism, tolerance, liberalism, and concern for the individual.
5. My Name is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
Bloomsbury
Pp 304, Rs 699
Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in 19th-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name. My Name is Emilia del Valle is a powerful tale of love and war, discovery and redemption, told by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges, survives and reinvents herself along the way.