Mind Over Matter: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Mental Barriers and Taking Action
Your approach to life is a powerful mix of action and mindset. If anxiety and fear dominate your thoughts, they will shape your decisions and, ultimately, your outcomes. But what if you could train your mind to believe in the best possible results—while still considering risks?
Mind Over Matter isn’t just another book on self-discipline—it’s a toolbox designed to keep you moving toward your goals. With no fluff or vague theories, this book provides direct, actionable techniques to ensure your actions align with your intentions.
Inside, you’ll discover:
- The emotional, psychological, and biological obstacles holding you back
- The 5-step cycle of laziness—and how to break free from it
- A series of tough questions that force self-awareness and action
- A powerful formula for maximizing willpower and staying motivated
- A bonus chapter from bestselling author Stephen Guise on using mini habits to rewire your mindset
Stop falling into self-defeating patterns. Take control of your thoughts, take action, and start creating the life you want—one intentional step at a time.
Master Your Life: The Art of Self-Coaching for Personal Growth and Success
Are you ready to take control of your life and become the best version of yourself? Master Your Life is your ultimate guide to self-coaching—turning knowledge into action and personal growth. Instead of relying on others for guidance, this book teaches you how to navigate challenges, find clarity, and unlock your full potential on your own terms.
Discover how to cultivate self-awareness, set meaningful goals, and create a roadmap for success—all without outsourcing your emotional and tactical needs. With practical strategies and actionable insights, you’ll learn to break through self-doubt, harness motivation, and develop a mindset for continuous growth.
Inside this book, you’ll learn:
- How to identify your core values and never feel dissatisfied again
- Scientific frameworks for lasting behavior change and personal growth
- Techniques to observe yourself, overcome blind spots, and take action
- How to disarm the ego and unleash your full potential
- Powerful self-awareness questions to get unstuck and gain clarity
Whether you’re looking to improve your mindset, build confidence, or navigate life with purpose, Master Your Life will give you the tools to coach yourself toward success. Take charge today!
In the early 2000s, India was expected to ‘shine’ and emerge as a rising superpower. It was the post-1990s golden generation— professionals fresh out of B-schools and engineering programmes —who were supposed to take us there. The Great Indian Dream was ready to lift-off. Except we never left the ground.
No one could really explain what went wrong. Some blamed politicians, some corruption, some capitalism and some communal polarization. Most people missed the giant elephant in the room—caste.
Caste in India is mostly researched and reported from the experience of the oppressed. Caste as a privilege is not understood well. How do caste elites respond to modernity? How do they understand culture, intimacy, love and tradition? Were their ideas, institutions and imaginations ever even capable of delivering upon the Great Indian Dream?
In Meet the Savarnas, Ravikant Kisana goes where few authors have dared: to document the lives, the concerns and crises of India’s urban elites, to frame the savarnas as a distinct social cohort, one that operates within itself and yet is oblivious of its own social rules, privileges and systems.
Ever since his father went away to work, all Vincent’s mother can say to any of his plans is: ‘Vincent Can’t Go’. But with his best friend’s birthday party coming up, Vincent has to go. How will he manage that?
Welcome to Thutta. We have a train, an ocean and 5,120 people.
One of these people is Katli, although she pretends to be seven people — making up new versions of herself is her way of dealing with being a thirteen-year-old on an island where nothing much happens.
Until one morning, when she follows a cat off a train and sets off a sequence of events involving absent animals, mysterious meetings and sneaky schemes. As the secrets grow into something much bigger than Katli could have imagined, she knows one thing for sure: life on the island will never be boring again.
Oh, and whatever you do, don’t say SQUI—
Barely a year into college, Indrajeet More is offered to host a travel show on budget backpacking across India.
As he undertakes a year-long journey across thirteen cities, what unfolds is a string of surreal life experiences—from getting lost in the forests of coastal Karnataka to camping amid the snowy peaks of the Himalayas, from hunting for the best toddy shop in rural Kerala to dancing to the beats of Naga folk songs.
Through this journey, Indrajeet discovers novelty and relatability in diverse cultures by reflecting on his upbringing in a Maharashtrian household. He navigates the inevitable boredom of solo travel and the anxiety of uncertainty, ultimately seeking belongingness in the most unfamiliar of places.
Solo is a raw, unfiltered backpacker’s gaze at contemporary India, about learning to read people beyond language, understanding food beyond ingredients, hearing stories beyond regions and, most importantly, finding a sense of home away from home.
People and businesses spend years trying to ‘make it’ in the Creator Economy. Many are genuine, with something valuable to share, yet nothing clicks. At the same time, they watch countless creators go viral and businesses with lower quality rake in millions every month, getting massive likes, securing brand deals and attracting customers.
This leaves many talented creators and small businesses questioning whether they should even stay in the Creator Economy. The short answer? Yes. By 2027, the Creator Economy is projected to be worth half a trillion dollars.
In Pixels to Profits, you’ll learn:
The 5Cs of the Creator Economy
(Did you know that you are a part of at least one of them?)
The 3Rs that every great content piece has.
How aspiring creators and small-and medium-sized businesses have the highest leverage in this upcoming multibillion-dollar economy.
What the world’s top voices in the Creator Economy have to say about the future of AI and emerging technologies.
And much more!
A woman lost and found and lost again . . .
Born in a world that was unfair to women, Mannu Bhandari, grew up to be a sensitive, fiery and outspoken writer. Little did she realize though, that getting married to a man from her own field would prove to be the death of her own writing for the next decade.
In this very straightforward and open autobiography, Mannu Bhandari presents the other side of the household that she and Rajender Yadav occupied. She talks about how she drew her characters from her life and how difficult this seemingly simplicity of writing was.
Deeply hurt by her husband Mannu lays bare the fault lines of her very controversial marriage and her dilemmas and struggles—of being together and yet completely alone. With rare, candid ease and sentimentality, she takes the reader through her life, revealing her writing genius and claiming her rightful position as one of the best writers in Hindi literature.
The past crashes into Kareena’s present as her first love resurfaces after eighteen years, awakening desires she thought were long buried. As she struggles between two worlds, two men, and two versions of herself, her inner turmoil deepens when a stranger enters her life, further blurring the lines between loyalty and longing.
Meanwhile, Mouni, a teenager, witnesses two contrasting expressions of love—one driven by persistent pursuit, the other by selfless, serendipitous surrender.
Will the intense implications of love weigh upon the fragile heart of a woman and a girl on the cusp of understanding love? The First Connect explores love’s unpredictability, unravelling the complexities of lost love, being lost in love, and love lost in translation. Through delicate moments of magic and fleeting waves of whisper, it asks: does love thrive through conscious effort, or does it find its way through fate alone? And most importantly, what makes a First Connect truly flourish and feel real?
Raj Kapoor’s Awara, released over half a century ago, is widely regarded as a classic of Indian cinema. With its socialist message, the unprecedented intensity of its central romance, the memorable songs and the hugely popular character of ‘vagabond’—the tramp as the quintessential ‘common man’—the film captured the imagination of a young, independent nation. It also made Raj Kapoor perhaps the most famous Indian in the erstwhile Soviet Union, China and the Middle East.
In this award-winning book, first published in 1992, Gayatri Chatterjee examines every aspect of Awara to try and understand not just its popular and enduring appeal but also its intrinsic merits as pure cinema. By situating it in a historical, social and political context, and decoding key shots, sequences and songs, she analyses the different levels at which the film works.
Containing over 100 photographs, this exhaustive study brilliantly uses a single landmark film to investigate the complex and often fascinating phenomenon of popular cinema in India.
