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Empower Yourself Right Now curates timeless pearls of wisdom from the world's greatest supergurus whose words have motivated billions around the globe and shown them the path to success and fulfilment. Delving deep into the roots of the most commonly faced roadblocks to personal growth such as self-doubt, negative patterns of thinking, procrastination, wavering focus, and a fear of the unknown, each excerpt in the book offers a fresh and powe...

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Have you ever wondered if humans actually did evolve from apes? Or maybe, if we were specifically created, then how might have that occurred? There sure are a lot of opinions on the evolution versus creation topic. And too often these views use confusing technical jargon that few people care to learn or have ever even heard. The answers to the questions you might have are, in many cases, the same answers that many other people seek. When you h...

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Carpets adorn living spaces across the length and breadth of the country and are appreciated for many qualities-their design, their colours, their 'feel'-but rarely their history. Yet, each carpet has a story hidden within its intricate details, and the value of a carpet is not only determined by what it costs, or by its technical and aesthetic qualities, but also by the story it carries. Of Indian Carpets and Carpetwallahs: An Appreciation te...

Do you believe that the entire world flooded roughly four thousand years ago and that a man named Noah built a large boat to save a small remnant of human and animal life that would repopulate the entire Earth? This is the belief of many Christians, Jews, and Muslims, but then we have those who believe that the entire story was written thousands of years ago for entertainment only. Could either case be true? Is either realistic? After all ther...

Can the Mind Be Quiet? carries the essence of the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The book is divided into sixty chapters, each describing a unique spiritual encounter with people from diverse backgrounds. The conversations and private interviews between various seekers and Krishnamurti address a wide array of questions such as 'How do I bring up my children?', 'Can the mind unburden itse...

Can we go back in time? Can we break the light-speed barrier? Is our Sun turning into a black hole? Explore the secrets of the Universe with a new approach to science that sheds a brighter light on pop-science. Mysteries of the Universe are revealed in this insightful, in-depth, and thought provoking book on the science of physics. Theoretical physics can be more than mere theory when the theory is sound. You don't need to be a rocket scientis...

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Padma Shri awardee Dr M. R. Rajagopal has spent a lifetime caring for patients in pain. One of the first medical professionals in the country to study and practise palliative care in a significant way, he is the founder of Pallium India, a palliative care NGO. In Walk with the Weary: Life-changing Lessons in Healthcare, Dr Rajagopal knits his own experiences as a doctor with stories of the unique lives of his many patients, asserting that medi...

Over the past decade, Indian society has experienced a significant increase in rates of depression, self-harm, and anxiety disorders among children and young adults. This increase coincides with massive changes in our lifestyles, family structures, our approach to pedagogy, and expectations from the school system. In addition, our society has become intensely consumer- (and consumption-) driven with a proliferation of attractive products, enti...

Sweets play a central role in all festivalsand celebrations of India and every part of the country has special dessertsthat are prepared in specific ways. In The Sweet Kitchen: Tales and Recipesof India's Favourite Desserts, chef and food writer Rajyasree Sen delvesinto the stories behind some of these iconic sweet dishes and asks questionsabout the origins of others. Among the tales she tells are the following-Issandesh only made in Bengal? I...

TheGreatest Enemy of Rain presents fourteen memorable short storiesabout the mundane and mysterious aspects of everyday life of the eccentric andoddball characters that occupy its pages. These unforgettable men and womengrapple with questions of life and death, newfound freedoms, lifelongvendettas, love and longing, and memories of days gone by.In 'The Greatest Enemy of Rain', Gopi recounts the ups and downs of hislifelong quest to outsmart a ...

The Hitopadesha-whichliterally means good advice-was composed in Sanskrit sometime between the ninthand tenth centuries CE by Pandit Narayana. Arranged in four fascinatingsections-Winning Friends, Losing Friends, Waging War, and Making Peace-thevignettes that comprise the text include tales of anthropomorphized birds andanimals who are imbued with all too human qualities and frailties. Using humour, satire, and unconventionalmethods of narrati...

Seventy-fiveyears after Independence, India faces stark questions. Some of the mostpressing ones relate to jobs and the cost of living. But questions about thestate of our democracy are equally critical, if not more so. When India wonindependence and prepared to become the world's largest democracy, the people, through their leaders and elected representatives, looked to create a nationbuilt on the ideals of equality, liberty, and fraternity. ...

Those Women of theCoromandel brings to life the eclectic, intertwined lives of three women living in Coromandel in nineteenth-centuryIndia. We meet Miss Beston who is known as the Boat Woman, a Briton who hasgone native. Living in her boat (that grows into a chain of houseboats, eachhousing a different area of her living and working quarters) she is anentrepreneur, hunter, and host and guide to every British official who passes throughthe Coro...

Thiruvaimozhi, a significant work in the Tamil Vaishnava canon, was composed in the eighth century by Nammaazhwaar, 'our one who goes deep', the most prominent of the twelve Vaishnava Aazhwaar saints. The poet ascribes this impressive 1, 100-verse work not to himself but to one whom he visualizes as the very spirit of truth, from whose mouth it emerges as 'holy utterance'. Taken as a whole, Thiruvaimozhi reflects a broad view of what the...