विश्व विख्यात कवि और चिंतक शेख सादी के उपदेश प्राय: मस्ती और हास्य विनोद के रंग में डूबे हुए होते हैं, परंतु ये इतने तीखे और गहरे होते हैं कि गुदगुदाहट के बावजूद दिल और दिमाग को झनझनाकर रख देते हैं। इस पुस्तक में शेख सादी की अमर कृति गुलिस्तां का सरल हिंदी अनुवाद दिया गया है, साथ ही उनका प्रेरक जीवन परिचय भी इसमें है।
वास्तव में यह पुस्तक अनमोल उपदेशों का ऐसा खजाना है कि इंसान अपनी अच्छाइयों और बुराइयों को ख़ुद जाँच परख सके और अपनी ज़िंदगी के लिए सही रास्तों को चुन सके।
Archives: Books
Kadambari / कादम्बरी
कादम्बरी एक फिल्मी पटकथा है, जो स्वयं अमृता प्रीतम ने लिखी है। एचके वर्मा द्वारा निर्देशित इस फिल्म में उस्ताद विलायत ख़ाँ के संगीत दिया था। यह एक प्रेम कहानी है। बिना किसी परिचित कोण के एक प्रेम कहानी। ताज़ा और यथार्थवादी। यह फिल्म अमृता प्रीतम के प्रसिद्ध उपन्यास ‘धरती सागर और सीपियाँ’ पर आधारित है और मौलिकता से परिपूर्ण है। यह आज के उन लोगों की कहानी है, जो अकसर जीवन के उतार-चढ़ाव से बह जाते हैं, फिर भी प्यार और उम्मीद के किनारे पर वापस आते हैं।
अमित एक नाजायज बच्चा है, जो अपनी माँ पर हमले से पैदा हुआ है। लड़के के पिता द्वारा अस्वीकार किए जाने के बाद, वह अब अपने बेटे के साथ रहती है, जिसे उसने बड़ी मुश्किल से पाला था। अमित की बचपन की दोस्त चेतना को पता चलता है कि उस पर क्रश उसके लिए प्यार में बदल गया है। प्यार, जिसे अमित किसी के साथ साझा करने में असमर्थ है क्योंकि वह अपनी माँ के लिए अपने प्यार को किसी के साथ साझा करने के लिए तैयार नहीं है। आगे क्या हुआ, यह तो पूरी पुस्तक पढ़कर ही पता चलेगा।
Takht-E-Taus / तख़्ते-ताऊस
दुनिया देखे, जिस तख़्ते-ताऊस के आगे बड़े-बड़े राजाओं और अमीर उमराओं के मुकुट झुकते थे और दुनिया की तमाम ताकतें जिसके आगे थरथर काँपती थी, उस पर आज राठौर केसरी यशवंत सिंह का पुत्र अजीत सिंह अपने पैरों सहित खड़ा है।’ वीर शिरोमणि महराजा अजीत सिंह के पराक्रम, रणनीति, मानवीय भावना और रजिया के साथ अथाह प्रेम की वेदनामय कहानी। एक राज पुत्र की ऐसी कहानी, जो करुणा से प्रारंभ होकर शौर्य के चरम तक पहुँचती है और जो राजपूताने के गौरव की रक्षा के लिए अपने प्राणों को हथेली पर लेकर चला, सदा संघर्ष से गुज़रा और एक दिन तख्ते-ताऊस को चुनौती भरी हुंकार के साथ रौंद डाला।
एक ऐसे राजा की सच्ची कथा, जिन्होंने स्वतंत्रता और अस्मिता की रक्षा के लिए प्राण होम कर दिए।
Zero To Scale: A Playbook To Build Consumer Brands In India
As our internet ecosystem has matured and logistics capabilities deepened, it has become easier to launch brands, but much harder to scale them due to the intense competition. More and more brands are vanishing on the second page of Amazon results, and very few manage to crack offline distribution. Most brands struggle to grow beyond a threshold.
In *Zero To Scale*, Arindam Paul has meticulously documented all his learnings across every function brand operators need to master — product, distribution, acquisition, brand building, organization, and more. It’s a rare, original playbook drawn from the hard-won experience of scaling Atomberg from a pre-revenue upstart to over 1000 Cr in annual revenue. For anyone building a brand in India or pursuing a career in sales and marketing, this book offers practical, actionable insights you can’t afford to miss.
Children’s Book of the Future
An illustrated, imaginative exploration of future technology and science for children that carries a message of hope and optimism.
This narrative non-fiction book offers an inclusive and hopeful vision of the future for children aged 7-9, taking inspiration from the latest scientific research.
This highly illustrated book makes complex ideas more accessible and shows the exciting futures that could be ahead. There are eighteen stories that each take inspiration from current research and present engaging, optimistic futures that could result from real-world science, with insets delving into how that science works.
This science book for children offers:
– A combination of sci-fi and science using short fictional descriptions combined with real-world scientific explanations to make the future come alive.
– An optimistic vision of the future with inclusive and diverse content for the generations that will not only live in it but shape it.
– A variety of different topics covered, including a train ride on Mars, life on a Dyson Sphere, a birthday on planet Venus, a trip to the bottom of the sea, and a chat with the extinct animals of the past!
The Children’s Book of the Future provides a diverse and multicultural approach that will appeal to children of all backgrounds. The exploration of future technology and some of the diverse visions explored include a plane ride on one of Saturn’s moons, a journey to a faraway star that is lightyears from Earth, life on a floating city, and living amongst robots. Inspire young changemakers with this book that sets out to reclaim the future for current and future generations of children.
The HBR Work Smart Boxed Set (6 Books) (HBR Work Smart Series)
Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice.
It’s not easy to navigate the world of work when you’re exploring who you are and what you want in life. How do you translate your interests, skills, and education into a career you love? The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.
This specially priced six-book boxed set, available as a paperback or ebook collection, includes:
Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships Boundaries, Priorities, and Finding Work-Life Balance Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career People, Performance, and Succeeding as a Manager Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence
An Accidental Lawyer
A legal luminary, K.K. Venugopal has played an unputdownable role in the development of constitutional law in India. This autobiography is an attempt to preserve in perpetuity the life of one of India’s legendary constitutional lawyers. Providing a fascinating account of Venugopal’s life—-both professional and personal—-It not only unravels the lawyer and the person in him but also recapitulates India’s dynamic socio-political and legal history. Presenting both the high and low points of Venugopal’s life , An Accidental Lawyer captures his interactions with his family and friends as well as judiciary, legislature and executive. It offers a unique perspective on his relations with key political figures such as prime ministers, chief ministers, governors, among others. Peppered with interesting anecdotes and consisting of landmark legal cases, the book will be of interest to both general readers and the practitioners and students of law interested in learning court craft from one of India’s eminent jurists.
You Had Me At Annyeong!
Timira Leia Marak, a PR consultant from India, finds herself in a real-life K-drama when she lands up in Seoul for a new job and meets handsome chaebol heir Baek Haneul who, as fate would have it, happens to be her new employer. Against her better judgement, Timira finds herself drawn to Haneul, with whom she seems to share a connection deeper than she can fathom.
But many complications abound. Firstly, there’s the matter of Timira’s ex-boyfriend Rodrigo, a Japanese-Brazilian superstar who signs up to play for a Korean football club. Then there’s the beautiful heiress Ri Mina, key to Haneul’s future—who is also his fiancée. And that’s only the beginning . . . Caught between the intensity of their feelings and the constraints that keep them apart, can Timira and Haneul even hope for their own chance at Happily Ever After?
Set against the backdrop of Korean pop culture, You Had Me at Annyeong is a humorous and heartwarming cross-cultural romance that is just as equally a delightful love letter from India to Korea.
Enter Stage Left
Returning to Pakistan in 1970 after a spell in England, Salima and her husband, Shoaib Hashmi, plunge into Pakistani cultural and political life. Along with her teaching at the National College of Arts, Lahore, where she pioneered a new system of art education, Salima also found time to dabble in photography, advertising and television.
In 1972, Shoaib and Salima conceived, scripted and acted in the pathbreaking Akkar Bakkar on Pakistan TV (PTV). Akkar Bakkar ran for six months and became the first Pakistani television programme to win an international award. Such Gup and Taal Matol, both hugely popular programmes, soon followed. It was a time of creativity and innovation.
During this time, Salima and Shoaib also became parents to Mira and Yasser. This period of Salima’s life came to an end with the ascent to power in 1977 of Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. Amidst a programme of Islamization and a clampdown of dissent, Salima also had to deal with her father Faiz’s second spell of self-exile to Beirut between 1979 and 1982.
Enter Stage Left, the second of Salima’s two-volume memoir brings us up to date with events in Salima’s and Pakistan’s life until the present day.
Gita for the Young and the Urban
Between your first breath and your last lies the journey of your soul.
You’ve got apps for meditation, dating, productivity, sleep, but do you still feel stuck in overthinking, people-pleasing, and chasing goals you’re not even sure you set?
In the middle of city lights, traffic jams, and silent midnight scrolling, your heart still whispers—is there more to life than this?
Gita for the Young and the Urban is that soft voice turned into words. A gentle fire. A call back home. Through stories, reflections, and soul-stirring truths, discover how Karma unfolds, how the mind can be mastered, how a Guru uplifts, and how surrender is strength in disguise.
This isn’t just a book. It’s your spiritual soundtrack. A bridge between what you’re chasing and what truly fulfils.