Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
32 books
The founding editor of The Wall Street Journal’s sports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.
The secret to winning is not what you think it is.
It’s not the coach. It’s not the star.
It’s not money. It’s not a strategy.
It’s something else entirely.
Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one ...
I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.'
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. ...
Leaders fail sometimes. Maybe that is what makes them great leaders at some point. They have it in them to fail, acknowledge the failure and move on from there to achieve success and more. Shweta Punj, the associate editor at Business Today explores the failure stories of leaders and how they emerged winners from them in her debut book, Why I Failed: Lessons from Leaders. The book looks at sixteen leaders from various fields and brings out their lessons to ...
Ascent: a practicing manager's growth mantra is a self-help book written by amit chatterjee. According to the author, a person can excel beyond his expectations by following certain methods. He says that a manager without an mba degree or a job in a reputed company can still achieve great success as a leader. His provocative book incites managers to work on their own volition. By using one's own intelligence and inner qualities one can become a leader from a ...
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.
In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A ...
The answer is, Yes we can! From Guinness World Record holders (For conducting the largest maths class on memorizing times tables till 99) Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal comes a book that will serve as a manual to explore the immense power of your memory through a scientific yet simple approach. It will Explain concepts with simple illustrations.
While teaching you memory techniques, it will also discuss their application in real life, like memorizing ...
Join Shefalee Vasudev, former editor of Marie Claire and an acclaimed fashion journalist, on a deep-sea dive into the gagging depths of Indian fashion. In Powder Room, she offers an insider's view of people who make the industry what it-from a lower middle class girl who sells global luxury for a living, a designer who fights the inner demons of child sexual abuse yet manages to survive and thrive in the business of fashion to a Ludhiana housewife on a perpetual ...
When Poppy loses her engagement ring and her mobile all in the same disastrous evening, it seems the obvious solution to make use of a phone she finds, by chance, abandoned in a hotel bin. But inevitably her life becomes entangled with the real owner of the phone, a high-flying businessman called Sam who becomes increasingly irritated when Poppy can't resist meddling in his affairs.
Driving through India and want to know where to eat on the road? Try Highway on my Plate: the Indian guide to roadside eating, the country’s first guide to dhabas and roadside restaurants. Adapted from the hit TV series on NDTV Good Times, Highway on my Plate, it lists the top eats on almost every major Indian highway and routes as presented by the popular anchors Rocky and Mayur. Packed with information, Highway on my Plate is an indispensable guide for ...
Are you stressed? The workplace has become increasingly competitive, family life has its never-ending complications, and when you step outside, you have to deal with heavy traffic, aggression, and massive pollution. No wonder that you’re tense and agitated, have hyper reflexes and blood pressure that’s higher than the midday sun. But you’re not alone. Fifty percent of Indian professionals suffer from stress with stress-related diseases from ...
A stunningly lyrical work, The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata reinterprets Vyasas epic from Arjunas point of view. As Arjuna relives the battle of Kurukshetra, he senses a profound change coming upon himself. He begins to understand the true meaning of surrender and sacrifice. The book comprises three parts, narrated principally by Arjuna. Part I takes us through the childhood and youth of the Pandavas and Kauravas, the game of dice, the Pandavas ...
The remarkable story of how a Westerner ventured into the heart of radical Islam in the Yemen.
In December 2009 the US government launched an air strike against the tiny Yemeni village of al-Majalah where al-Qaida militants were believed to be in hiding. A second attack a week later targeted the prominent religious leader Anwar Awlaki. He escaped unharmed but many villagers were killed. These two strikes were intended to set back al-Qaida’s operations in ...
Like the idea of cooking Italian food but worried about the vegetarianoptions? Italian Khana Vegetarian gives you delicious and fool-proof recipes for authentic Italianvegetarian which anyone can prepare in their homes. From soups and saladsminestrone, pumpkinsoup, eggplant and rice salad, salad capreseto substantial main coursesfilo pie with spinach,ricotta and pumpkin, risotto primaveraItalian Khana Vegetarian will give you recipes for everyoccasion from quick, ...
The message of this book is as renowned as the Dalai Lama himself: that compassion is essential for individuals and for the world. When we think of His Holiness, we immediately think of the compassion he embodies, and to which he has devoted his entire life. He suggests we pay close attention to the way we respond to everyone and to everything around us, and explains how caring for others can be a profound source of happiness on an individual level, which can ...
Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman—a jaded, dissolutely resolute journalist—whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. But when he meets Laura, he is rejuvenated and falls into a heady love affair with her. Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the ghats of the Ganges at Varanasi. ...
The Mainland China Cookbook includes all the beloved restaurant chain’s favourite dishes and teaches you how to whip up the perfect Chinese meal in your kitchen. Spicy Hunan prawns, quick fried snow peas with garlic pearls, chicken with chilli and cashewnuts, lamb with cumin, hot and sour soup—try these and more. Accompanied with notes on the main regional styles, techniques and tips for easy cooking, and a list of suppliers in all major metros, The ...
When Namita is ten, her mother takes her to Dhondutai, a respected Mumbai music teacher from the great Jaipur Gharana. Dhondutai has dedicated herself to music and her antecedents are rich. She is the only remaining student of the legendary Alladiya Khan, the founder of the gharana and of its most famous singer, the tempestuous songbird, Kesarbai Kerkar. Namita begins to learn singing from Dhondutai, at first reluctantly and then, as the years pass, with growing ...
Last week during one of our marathon telephone conversations my mother asked me which one of us, me or Frank, was the woman in our relationship. ‘Neither of us, obviously, ’I said. ‘That’s what makes us gay.’ ‘Very funny, ‘my mom said. ‘Someone on Oprah said that often gay couples have one person who plays the man and the other who plays the woman. So I was wondering which you were.’ ‘Frank and I ...
The biryani is Indias most beloved dishone that has spread to all the four cornersof the country and assumed many forms.It originated in the Mughal courts, flowering in the jagirs of Awadh, and it is in Lucknow, Delhi andthe small Muslim principalities of north India that one finds the classic versions, subtle, refined, anddelicately flavoured. Pratibha Karan gives us not just the definitive recipes from these regions butunearths rare and old dishes such as a ...