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Decoding Bollywood : Stories of 15 Film Directors
Some like Farah Khan and Zoya Akhtar had sterling antecedents but it took a tough childhood and intermittent assignments on film sets to win the box office with Om Shanti Om and Zindagi na milegi dobara, while Ashutosh Gowarikar auditioned for folk dances and failed with his debut film, lagaan created cinematic history and Anurag Basu had to first dance as a background extra and later overcome cancer to witness barfi win hearts and awards. These and other hitherto unfamiliar stories of directors belonging to the "100 crore club" like Rohit Shetty and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, the adventurous Kabir Khan and the maverick, Mahesh Bhatt take us through the unusual lives of 15 filmmakers of extraordinary films. Sonia Golani achieves the incredible by sitting each director down to candidly discuss the hype around the Oscars, the exclusivity of the "100 crore club", effect of corporatization and much more. Decoding Bollywood is more about demystifying the "world of Bollywood" than a mere decoding of 15 directors who have created benchmarks in their respective genres for generations to follow.
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Shakti Manifest : A Silent Revolution
The story of a profound and beautiful gurushishya relationship in 1989, the village of Rikhia in the eastern state of Jharkhand was a forgotten corner of the world-its inhabitants living in impoverished and dismal conditions. The primarily Santali population seemed to be stuck in the dark ages-without electricity, water, roads or sanitation. Disease and illness was rampant, malnutrition widespread and no scope for education or a better future. Today, however, there has been a 360 degrees transformation in this village-you can see well-fed toddlers playing on quiet roadsides, calling out namo Narayan to a passerby, older children cycling to well-attended schools and everyone is busy in a productive and positive way. What happened? That is the story Barbara Pidgeon tells and in doing so, reveals the extraordinary lives of the two people, the principal architects of this change and their relationship to one another. One of them, the guru, Swami Satyananada, a stalwart of yogic philosophy, founder of the Bihar school of yoga and follower of Swami Sivananda, the Saraswati lineage of yogis and the other, his disciple, Swami Satyasangananda, popularly known as Swami Satsangi, one of the first woman yogis. The two, as Swami Satsangi says, are like the Shiva and Shakti and in essence, just as Shakti and Shiva are one, they are one-he the consciousness and she the energy-making for a beautiful balance and synergy. This book gives an insight to both these deeply spiritual and extraordinary people from whose lives we have many lessons to learn.
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Resonance
Siddharth Rana, the Joint Director of the IB, is at his wits end attempting to unravel that mystery. Working with the blindest of clues, Siddharth has to race against time to prevent terrorists from achieving their horrific goal-an India laid low by a catastrophe of biblical proportions. This is a story that leaps across continents, gets to the heart of convoluted terrorist plots and attacks and amazes you with its exposition of high-tech gadgetry and science. It is equally a story of breathtaking bravery, recounted at a mind-blowing pace. At its core, it is also a story about the beauty of relationships. Relationships that are beyond national boundaries and historic enmities. About the Author Ajay is currently with the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). His background as an engineer and his two decades of work with the Indian Revenue Service, his close association with different intelligence agencies around the globe, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, attachment with the Indian Embassy in USA and his training at Duke University, North Carolina, USA have given him a deep understanding of world geopolitics and the intricacies of how intelligence agencies and governments at different levels operate worldwide. All of this has fed into his first novel, Resonance.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You: 10
There's nothing better than hearing the success stories of other people. Read what worked for them and what didn't You'll find your own path to success these in thses 101 stories about getting fit and shaping the right body for you. Read Reachord's simmons' own story and also read inspirational storeis about 1 getting started 2 regaining control 3 finding the right exercise you 4 learning to like yourself and your body 5 finding the right " magic" foods for you 6 having and accountability partner 6 conqureing the gym 7 and dozens of great ideasyou can use.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Positive
Positive thinking is a powerful tool, one that can make you healthier, happier and more successful. You can use the power of positive thinking to improve your life and relationships, overcoming challenges and lead a productive life with a purpose. This book can start you on the path to a new you. About the Author Jack Canfield is the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which Time magazine has called the publishing phenomenon of the decade. Jack is also the co-author of many other bestselling books. Jack is the CEO of the Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California and founder of the Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California. Jack has received many awards and honors, including three honorary doctorates and a Guinness World Records Certificate for having seven books from the Chicken Soup for the Soul series appearing on the New York Times bestseller list on May 24, 1998. Mark Victor Hansen is the co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul, along with Jack Canfield. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, bestselling author and marketing maven. Marks powerful messages of possibility, opportunity and action have created powerful change in thousands of organizations and millions of individuals worldwide. Mark is a prolific writer with many bestselling books in addition to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Amy Newmark is Chicken Soup for the Souls publisher and editor-in-chief, after a 30-year career as a writer, speaker, financial analyst and business executive in the worlds of finance and telecommunications. Amy is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where she majored in Portuguese, minored in French and travelled extensively. She and her husband have four grown children.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers
From budding bloggers to bestselling novelists, your fellow writers share their best advice, writing tips, time management strategies and personal ups and downs in the business of writing. These stories will motivate you, entertain you and keep those words flowing! Bestselling novelist J.A. Jance explains how her next book rights a wrong done to a friend killed in Vietnam. Award-winning Young Adult novelist Sarah Darer Littman talks about her second book blues. Read how bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan was mentored in the writing world by someone she had first mentored in the TV world and how Jenna Glatzer overcame her agoraphobia to ghostwrite Celine Dions biography. Marc Tyler Nobleman explains how he unmasked the true creator of the Batman series. With chapters overcoming your fears, beating writers block, accepting rejection and making time to write, youll feel like youre a firstclass writers conference. Additional chapters cover how to use writers groups and mentors effectively, tried and true methods to find new inspiration and how writing can change your own life and others.
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Fit for Life Not Fat for Life
There is only one concept to grasp and only one action to take: Eat more living food than dead food. The simplicity of this message has eluded people up to now. In fact, it may seem oversimplified. Because of past frustrations and disappointments, people have come to believe that losing weight is complicated, difficult and expensive. Truth be told, all that is required to reap the myriad benefits of Harvey Diamond's program is to return to the fundamentals of life. The human body is intelligent and capable beyond anyone's comprehension, but in order to unleash this extraordinary intelligence-including that which normalizes body weight-the proper fuel is required. That fuel is living food. But for some inexplicable reason, people have allowed themselves to believe that they can give their bodies the wrong fuel and then have it operate at optimum efficiency. And that is why most people become overweight. This book offers not a diet, but a lifelong way of eating that allows the eating experience to remain a joyous one, rather than a clinical endeavor of measuring portions, counting calories, calculating grams of fat, carbohydrates and protein, or ingesting meal replacements. It teaches readers how to eat any food in the most healthful way so there is no feeling of deprivation. As readers embark on this life-changing journey, they will experience the surge of energy and well-being that only comes as the automatic result of properly fueling their bodies. Providing deliberate, gentle and forgiving guidance every step of the way, this book will become readers' trusted source and companion as they create a new way of eating and living, which will lead to both overweight and poor health becoming conditions of the past.
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Ramayan 3392 AD (Volume - 2)
A story thousands of years in the making. A re-imagining of one of the greatest tales ever. Retold in the post-apocalyptic future. Mankind has been devastated and in its wake the monstrous being Ravan and his dark hordes threaten to wipe out what little is left of humanity. But hope is alive in the form of mighty warrior Prince Ram. Along with his brother Lakshman and the lovely Seeta, daughter of Mother Earth, Rama sets out on a perilous journey to end Ravans bloody grip on the world. Ramayan 3392 AD is an epic adventure which has been called Indias answer to Lord of the Rings by the Times of India and features a surreal cast of fantastical creatures and spectacular battles, all within an astonishing quest to save humanity from a darker evil that the world has ever encountered before.
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Around The World With The Tadka Girls
From the bylanes of Shanghai to the farmers markets of Santa Monica, Ranjini Rao & Ruchira Ramanujam have been there, done that and picked up a motley of aromas, tastes and inspirations for their culinary experiments over the years. Around the World with The Tadka Girls is a diary of the authors culinary travels and experiments together, recorded and fine-tuned after several trials and errors. It brings to you fresh, imaginative recipes, inspired by innumerable culinary quests and experiments in different cuisines, all blended with the inimitable Indian Tadka style of the authors own kitchens. Ranging from breakfast options that borrow flavours from Mexican kitchens and American B&B spreads, to soups and salads that smack of Polish and tropical tastes, the book conveys a world of flavours and unexpected quirky tastes. The Tadka authors own signature dishes will transport you to train journeys of yore and visits to summer fairs, while their cakes and bakes are inspired by classic French and Mediterranean recipes. Every recipe is accompanied by real-life stories, be they visits to a school potluck, or a drive down a wine trail in a Midwestern American town. The authors share these intimate moments, as well as the fruits of their labours, for you to savour and serve to your families, much as they have been doing for years.
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Cooking Italian Food in India
Chef Roberta has lived in India for seventeen years, working in restaurants in Manali where she quickly became the stuff of legend amongst travellers to the region. The Italian food that she serves is light and healthy and what make her dishes so special are the use of local ingredients and her understanding of the Indian palate, which she so successfully combines with her own culinary upbringing in Naples, where spice and fresh ingredients play a huge role. Now, in Cooking Italian Food in India, Roberta has put together the recipes that make her restaurant such a success. The book combines a range of appetisers, soups, sauces, main dishes and desserts. It also includes her tips on how to use herbs, choosing the right pasta for a sauce and the best wine to pair with your dish. A fabulous, easy-to-follow guide to making Italian food in India.
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The Big Fix
It's that time of the year again! The annual ICT T20 carnival has come to town. On the agenda this year is more than just cricket as Shaurya Chauhan, the skipper of Capital Cavaliers soon discovers. Shaurya is going through a rough patch. His batting isn't clicking and his captaincy is being questioned, what with the team close to being knocked out. Plus, Manu Dayal, the team's dare devil batsman, is breathing down Shaurya's neck, waiting in the wings to take over the captaincy. As Shaurya contends with these challenges on the professional front and the end of a love affair on the personal, he becomes embroiled in something deeper and even more sinister. The coach of the Cavaliers, Howard Jensen, is found with his head knocked in and Shaurya is the prime suspect. Then the police start sniffing around on account of match fixing allegations. And questions as to whether the two are connected all seem to point to Shaurya's complicity again. Mitakshara, an intrepid crime reporter, is at first convinced of Shaurya's guilt and is out to get him. But soon, she begins to suspect that things are not as they seem on the surface. And Shaurya is just one link in a chain that involves bookies, businessmen, the police and, of course, more than a handful of cricketers.
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F.C.U.K Your Way To Success
Organizations expend considerable time and money in developing their leaders and helping them to lead more effectively. However traditional thinking generally yields traditional results and these don't seem to be getting us to where we want to go. Obviously our thinking needs to change. This is where Breakthrough Thinking comes in. Break through Thinking aims to reduce our efforts and either sustain or enhance the results we get. And it achieves this by leveraging the most common currency of all human interaction conversation. F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success is a refreshing, incisive and humorous book that will compel us to change the way we look at things. It will help us think with clarity, listen for potential, speak with intent and act with purpose. The omnipotent F.C.U.K. does away with complexity. It empowers and energizes. F - Focus on the person, not the problem C - Change all challenges into opportunities U - Uncover solutions by discussing options K - Know how to break down problems, it's as important as solving them Using this logical, easy to understand and even simpler to implement concept, learn to master the art of Maximizing RESULTS with Minimum Effort and F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success.
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Chicken Soup For The Soul-Boost Your Brain Power
You can redesign and energize your brain at any age. Dr. Marie Pasinski of Harvard Medical School and Chicken Soup for the Soul will help you Boost Your Brain Power with these revealing personal stories, clear medical advice, and tips. You can improve your memory, reduce your risk factors for Alzheimers disease, stay sharp in your senior years, and enhance your mental abilities, at any age! Read how other people just like you have boosted their brain power, improved their memory and cognitive thinking, and have even come back from traumatic brain injuries in these fascinating and revealing personal stories. Combine these with Dr. Pasinskis practical tips and clear medical explanations and you will learn how to: Improve your memory Stimulate your brain through new activities Reduce your risk factors for dementia and Alzheimers disease Trigger creative thinking Eat right and exercise to keep your brain young Manage your health to boost your brain functioning