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The Rupa Book Of Great Animal Stories
Here are exciting tales of hair-breadth escapes and thrilling encounters in the wild - stories of man's relationships with other living creatures, furred or feathered, fierce or friendly. All the stories were written out of the writers' own experiences.
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Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond has lived in the Himalayan region for most of his life, and made Mussoorie his home for decades. Roads To Mussoorie is a collection of stories about the place that was his home for a long time. Summary of the Book Ruskin Bond’s love for Mussoorie can be seen through most of his writings. In this book, he writes about life in Mussoorie and reveals a lot of details about the place through stories of many interesting characters. The stories have realistic situations and are humorous in nature, and the writing brings the place and people alive. The author recalls fondly his travels to and from Mussoorie through the years. He also includes sketches of the life in the town, scandals, and interesting incidents of family and friends. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian writer of British descent. He was recognized by The Indian Council for Child Education for his role in the growth of children’s literature in India. For this, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for his work Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1999, and again in 2014. Today, he lives with his adopted family in Landour, near Mussoorie.
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Shudders In The dark
The soothing voice of reason cannot always triumph over darkness. The stories in this anthology, compiled by Ruskin Bond, draw the reader into a powerful world of imagination and terror. They include the mystery of an astonishing ghost, the horror behind a perfectly executed murder, adventures in the depths of cold and stormy nights, and the fearful wrath of the dead.The soothing voice of reason cannot always triumph over darkness. The stories in this anthology, compiled by Ruskin Bond, draw the reader into a powerful world of imagination and terror. They include the mystery of an astonishing ghost, the horror behind a perfectly executed murder, adventures in the depths of cold and stormy nights, and the fearful wrath of the dead. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Academy Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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Your Right First Job
If you want to make it to the top, start your career with the right first job (RFJ). T. Muralidharan, the Chairman of TMI group and one of India's top recruiters and career consultants, reveals this secret after studying the resumes of some of the most successful CEOs and leaders. The old saying, There are many ways to skin a cat, applies perfectly to career success. While each of these successful people took a different route to the top, all of them started with the RFJ. So, what are the characteristics of the RFJ? How will you find this magic RFJ which can propel you to the top? Does the RFJ vary from person to person? If so, why does it varyvary? How does it vary? And how does one get the RFJ? This book caters not only to students who will be stepping into the corporate world for the first time, but also to those who are stuck in the wrong job. An Expert's Guide to Your Right First Job highlights the importance of knowing your personality, finding the right industry, choosing the right first employer and other such important decisions related to your career. This book is an essential read for anyone who wants to jump-start their career. About the Author T. Muralidharan, is a first generation entrepreneur, who established the TMI Group, which is among the top recruiting firms in India. A graduate of IIT Chennai and IIM Ahmedabad, Muralidharan started his company with an initial investment of 50,000 in 1987 and now has turnover of over 500 million. Over the years, he has helped over a hundred thousand professionals get jobs in the private corporate sector. He writes on issues related to career and employment in leading newspapers and magazines, including The Hindu, The Week and Sakshi. He is also the founder of Jobs-Dialog, India's first exclusive recruitment platform for small and medium enterprises.
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A Little Book Of Life
A Little Book of Life is a great compilation of some of Ruskin Bond’s favorite quotations, sayings, and aphorisms. Summary of the Book In this book, Ruskin Bond very skillfully puts together some of his most cherished and best-loved quotations and sayings. A Little Book of Life, as the title says is a book, which has all the elements of life, and is sure to make the readers sit back and smile. In the book, Ruskin Bond presents his thoughts on nature, love, money, family, friendship, enemies and in short, all the little elements that sum up our lives. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He has been writing novels, poems, essays and short stories for over forty years now. He was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, and the Padma Shri in 1999. He was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Government of Delhi in 2012. His works include:The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley, Scenes from a Writer's Life, A Flight of Pigeons, Landour Days – A writers Journal, The Sensualist, The Road To The Bazaar, and The Panther's Moon, only to name a very few.
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The laughter Omnibus
An eclectic collection of stories, articles and verses, this anthology by Ruskin Bond is one of the funniest to be published in recent times. Including stories about a cricket match that defies all logic, a cheese with a less than pleasant o dour, and a goat that goes berserk in a drawing-room, The Rupa Laughter Omnibus is pure delight, from beginning to end. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Academy Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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Angry River
Facing an angry river can never be easy. This is a story about a little girl named Sita who has been carried away by the angry river and needs to fight for her survival. Summary of the Book Sita lived with her grandparents, three goats and hens on a small island that happened to be in the middle of a big river. In the island, they had a vegetable patch and peepul tree that served as a means of survival in the form of food. However, tragedy struck when the river flooded and took everything away with it, including Sita. It is up to Sita to look out for her own survival, but how? Read this classic that teaches the readers about courage and friendship that come to the rescue of Sita during her time of difficulty. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian writer of British descent. He was recognized by The Indian Council for Child Education for his role in the growth of children’s literature in India. For this, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for his work Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1999, and again in 2014. Today, he lives with his adopted family in Landour, near Missourie.
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The Childrens Companion
Children’s Omnibus is a children’s book by one of the best loved authors of India. It is a vividly illustrated book with some of the best-loved stories of Ruskin Bond. Summary of the Book Children’s Omnibus: Volume 2 is a collection of old favorites like The School among the Pines and The Night the Roof Blew Off. The book also has some hilarious stories like My Failed Omelettes and Other Disasters. The stories have been carefully selected keeping children in mind. This book will be a truly enchanting read for children aged between 10 to 12 years. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He has been writing novels, poems, essays and short stories for over forty years now. He was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, and the Padma Shri in 1999. He was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Government of Delhi in 2012. His works include: The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley, Scenes from a Writer's Life, A Flight of Pigeons, Landour Days – A writers Journal, The Sensualist, The Road To The Bazaar, and The Panther's Moon, only to name a very few.
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The Rupa Book Of Traveller's Tales
A South African revolution, a plane crash in the desert, a cannibal conclave and an encounter with pirates: these fascinating real-life accounts of travelers caught up in unexpected adventures and tricky situations comprise the ninth Rupa anthology compiled by Ruskin Bond. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Academy Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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Tales And Legends From India
“India is more than a land – it is an atmosphere – and this book is designed to give the reader the feel of India and recapture some of its old magic.” In this anthology, Ruskin Bond does just that, by bringing together legends and folk stories from his adopted homeland, and capturing the essence of one of the world’s most enigmatic countries. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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The Road To The Bazaar
This book, a collection of short and sweet stories, is set in Ruskin Bond's beloved Dehradun. The stories are about the mischievous children who grew up in the hill side town of North India, especially Suraj, Ranji and Koki. Summary of the Book Suraj, Ranji and Koki would always team up with their friends and were responsible for their funny and naughty exploits. In his own ways, Ruskin Bond has written about the lives of people in the town and the events that have helped shaped their lives. There is the story of Mukesh who visits the zoo in Delhi and decides that he is going to start one of his own. Koki has a beetle race with Bhim and Ranji. The winner of the race is a surprise. Suraj goes on an interesting train journey that ends with him finding a new friend on the goods train. This collection of stories will show the reader why Ruskin Bond will always be one of India’s most loved authors. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian writer of British descent. He was recognised by The Indian Council for Child Education for his role in the growth of children’s literature in India. For this, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for his work Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1999, and again in 2014. Today, he lives with his adopted family in Landour, near Mussoorie.
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The India I Love
The India I Love is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s reflections on various aspects of his life in India over the years. It is composed of prose and poems which share the same nature as Ruskin Bond’s earlier works, they come straight from the heart. Ruskin Bond expresses the very things that create the Indian flavor and distinguish it as unique. The nineteen chapters which make up The India I Love touch upon the various joys and sorrows of life in India and his relationship to it. Because of the use of simple words and phrases, the book connects easily with the readers. The India I Love begins with Ruskin’s views on education, recounting the experience of watching young boys go to school every day. With characteristic wit and humor, Ruskin tackles the subject of celibacy with respect to his own life. As he shares from the pages of his diary, readers are gradually acquainted with his life in London. As the chapters move onto the description of his life living high up in the Himalayas, he writes about the scenic rivers, mountains, hills, valleys, and the holy places surrounding him. The readers are made aware of the various people he meets and the various idiosyncrasies they display. The final chapters speak to the reader about his writing life, the challenges, joys and successes of being a writer by profession. Ruskin also passes on invaluable advice for aspiring writers. Ruskin Bond’s writing style in The India I Love maintains the flavors associated with his past work. He keeps the language simple and stays authentic in his writings. His powerful wit and utmost humility goes straight to the heart of the reader. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is a best selling Indian author. Some of Ruskin Bond’s books include Children’s Omnibus, Tigers For Dinner: Tall Tales by Jim Corbett’s Khansama, Falling In Love Again: Stories Of Love And Romance, The Blue Umbrella, No Man Is An Island: Stories Of Friendship And Bonding, and The Room On The Roof. Ruskin Bond was born in 1934 in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. He wrote his first novel at the age of seventeen and ever since has written over five hundred short stories, novellas, essays, and books for children. He is the recipient of the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government.
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Stories Short And Sweet
Stories Short and Sweet is an anthology of classic short stories by master storyteller, Ruskin Bond. Summary of the Book Stories Short and Sweet is a collection of 12 heartwarming short stories which captures the myriad facets of life in the hills. Bond weaves magic with his words to bring out the best in all the stories. Every mood that makes childhood special comes to life in this stunningly illustrated collection. Some of the stories in the collection are Those Three Bears, The Coral Tree, When the Trees Walked, and The Overcoat. These stories are thoughtful and funny at the same time and will make for a fascinating read for people of all ages. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He has been writing novels, poems, essays and short stories for over forty years. He was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, and the Padma Shri in 1999. He was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Government of Delhi in 2012. His works include The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley, Scenes from a Writer's Life, A Flight of Pigeons, Landour Days – A Writers Journal, The Sensualist, The Road to the Bazaar, and The Panther's Moon, among others.
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The Rupa Book Of Great Suspense Stories
Mystery and terror lurk in the pages of these great suspense tales written by some of the masters of the short story during the last hundred years. Ruskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well-known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His Tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The Blue Umbrella, A Long Walk for Bina and Hanuman to the Rescue are also available in Rupa paperback. The Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghost Stories from the Raj, The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure, The Rupa Book of Himalayan Tales and The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories are some of his recent books for Rupa.
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Everyday Happiness Mantras
The most important person in your life should be you. The voice with which you speak to yourself should be kind, gentle and nurturing. Most of us treat ourselves like harsh jailers rather than gentle care-givers. Forgive yourself, encourage yourself. Everyday Happiness Mantras, your very own guidebook to good cheer, will stay with you through the annual calendar and constantly remind you of the things that truly matter in life. Divided into fifty-two articles - for each week of the year - this book concentrates on one home truth at a time, observing each of which will ensure that you never have a bad day. Covering topics as varied as the power of communication and everyday love, to the importance of observing the annual rituals of the International Family Day and International Womens Day, Everyday Happiness Mantras takes old habits and imbues them with new significance that gives them renewed relevance. If you are choosing happiness over everything else this year, this is the book for you. About the Author Dr. Rekha Shetty, PhD, founder of the Mindspower brand, is the managing director of Farstar Distribution Network Ltd., a twenty-year-old consulting company working exclusively on innovation initiatives. She consults for some of the regions foremost blue chip companies. Keenly involved in social action, she is one of the first woman Rotary International governors in Asia and a recipient of the Service Above Self Award. Apart from the bestselling Innovate! and The Happiness Quotient, her other books include 'The Way to a Healthy Heart - The Zero Heart Attack Path' and 'Corporate Strategy - Minds Power Innovation'.
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Bosses-The God,The Bad And The Ugly
Is your boss the Critic or the Screamer? The Bully or the Ostrich? The Nurturer or the Viper? The Perfectionist or the Eccentric? Find out what kind of boss you have in this fun and handy guide to a hundred types of bosses most commonly seen in the workplace. With anecdotes and examples of each type of head honcho, along with easy-to-reference tips and tricks to please your particular one, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to climb quickly up the corporate ladder. And if youre a boss yourself, fear not, for there are tips for you too, so that you can better communicate with your employees without them hating you for it! Drawn from the authors own experiences in his years of administrative service, this book is essential reading for all bosses and employees alike.
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Intrapreneurs @ Mjunction
Intrapreneurs @ Mjunction, a first-of-its kind book in India on intrapreneurship, documents the meteoric rise of mjunction services ltd, an E-commerce company whose visionary leader empowered his team to think and work like entrepreneurs. What followed is a growth story that is both unique and awe-inspiring. From humble beginnings-the company began as a 50:50 venture promoted by Tata Steel and SAIL-mjunction rose to become world's biggest e-marketplace for steel. The story of mjunction chronicles how the challenges of growing in a nascent business domain were overcome through specific innovations, how new opportunities were created, mostly with limited resources, how the business environment was shaped by helping clients to identify potential efficiencies by changing their mindsets, how the crippling monopolies in the trading of steel and coal were broken and how change-resistant public sector companies were persuaded to adopt new digital practices and processes in their selling and buying. And most vitally, how mjunction was run on solid business principles, where elements of social and economic sustainability were combined in their service offerings. Coming at a time when India urgently needs business leaders who can unleash the power of intrapreneurship to grow their organizations as well as the nations economy, this book is an essential read for organizations, strategy planners and CEOs. About the Author Dr. Rajeev Kumar 'ABC' is a specialist in organizational communication management. A PhD in Organizational Communication from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he was a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow at Texas A&M University, USA. Currently, he is General Manager, Learning and Development, at Tata Group Corporate Communication and is also the Vice Chair of the inaugural Global Communication Certification Council set up by the International Association of Business Communicators. ABC stands for Internationally Accredited Business Communicator
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Halt Station India
Rajendra B. Aklekars research-and his scholarship which enables him to interpret his findings-throws new light on the way railways were built. - Sir Mark Tully, author of Non - Stop India Fascinating stuff. An enormous amount of really rigorous work. - Naresh Fernandes, author of City Adrift - A Short Biography of Bombay Halt Station India chronicles the dramatic rise of Indias original rail network, the arrival of the first train and the subsequent emergence of a pioneering electric line-all in the port city of Bombay. Trains that once provoked awe and fear-they were viewed as fire chariots, smoke-spewing demons-have today become a nations lifeblood. Taking a walk along Indias first rail lines, the author stumbles upon fragments of the past-a clock at Victoria Terminus that offers a rare view of a city, a cannon near Masjid Bunder Station that is worshipped as a god, a watchtower overlooking Sion Station, believed to have housed a witch. Each pit-stop comes with stories of desire and war, ambition and death-by Dockyard Road Station, for instance, author Laurence Sternes beloved, Eliza Draper, followed a sailor into the sea or close to Parel Station, the wife of Indias governor general, Lord Canning found a garden rich in tropical vegetation this, she replicated at Barrackpore. Drawing from journals, biographies, newspapers and railway archives-and with nostalgic, first-time accounts of those who travelled by Indias earliest trains-the book captures the economic and social revolutions spurred by the countrys first train line. In this, Halt Station India is not just about the railways-it is the story of the growth of Indias business capital and a rare study of a nation.