Busted
Ashok Soota, Peter de Jager
HarperCollins
Pp 208, Rs 599
In Busted, Ashok Soota and Peter de Jager focus on 17 commonly accepted management principles and analyse why these should not be accepted as universal truths. Backed by their experience in building and scaling businesses, real-life examples and first-person interviews, Busted takes into account the changed realities of the workplace and gives you a balanced view of what makes the world of management tick.
Fire Bird
Perumal Murugan
Penguin Random House
Pp 304, Rs 499
In this transcendental novel, Perumal Murugan draws from his own life experiences of displacement and movement, and explores the fragility of our fundamental attraction to permanence and our ultimately futile efforts to attain it. Translated from the nearly untranslatable Aalandapatchi, which alludes to a mystical bird in Tamil, the titular fire bird perfectly encapsulates the illusory and migratory nature of this pursuit.
Divorce is Normal
Shasvathi Siva
Penguin Random House
Divorce is Normal is an invaluable companion for anyone contemplating separation and divorce. Through her own story, Shasvathi Siva brings to readers fresh insights on unhappy marriages and divorce in the Indian context, helping readers expand their perspectives to overcome societal stigma and accept a brighter future. Shasvathi Siva is a writer and TEDx speaker. Her pieces have appeared in several publications.
THE MEMOIRS OF VALMIKI RAO
Lindsay Pereira
Penguin Random House
Pp 320, RS 599
Mumbai in the early 90s. The Ram Janmabhoomi movement is at its peak, and the Babri Masjid has just fallen. Decades later, in a corner of the metropolis, a retired postman living alone in a dilapidated room tries to recall those months of madness and how they changed everyone he knew. This is the story of Rameshwar Shinde and Ravinarayan Kumar, a young woman called Janaki, and the neighbours they live with.
Be the Smarter You @ Workplace
Rasik Raman Das
Simon & Schuster
Pp 344, Rs 399
In Be the Smarter You @Workplace, IITian-turned-ISKCON monk Rasikraman Das shares success hacks for crucial workplace skills such as communication, decision making, teamwork, leadership, strategic planning, change management, etc, which shall make you stand out and succeed at your workplace. Each chapter comes armed with ready-to-apply models and worksheets to use the knowledge as you go along.
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