Author: Shobhaa Dé
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9381398062
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Shobhaa Dé is known to live life by her own rules. Declaring sixty ‘the new forty’, she shares some of her most intimate secrets that are valuable at any age. From beauty tips, dealing with anxiety and ageing to spiritual quests and seeking solace and tranquility, Shobhaa wants you to have a joyous and fulfilling existence. In Shobhaa at Sixty, she helps the reader rejuvenate their life, giving wise, honest, and practical advice on how to cope with the daily challenges and stresses we face in today’s fast-paced world. She shares her own experiences from her life spanning six decades, claiming the inspiration for penning this book was, in her own words, ‘to free people from the cage of age’. Whether it’s flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa with her trademark wit and insight provides the perfect antidote. Laying great emphasis on family values and ties, she stresses on making each passing decade more meaningful and enriching while taking the time to enjoy the small pleasures of life. Leading by example, Shobhaa shows us just how much we have to look forward to, no matter what our age!
Shobhaa at Sixty
Author: Shobhaa Dé
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9381398062
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Shobhaa Dé is known to live life by her own rules. Declaring sixty ‘the new forty’, she shares some of her most intimate secrets that are valuable at any age. From beauty tips, dealing with anxiety and ageing to spiritual quests and seeking solace and tranquility, Shobhaa wants you to have a joyous and fulfilling existence. In Shobhaa at Sixty, she helps the reader rejuvenate their life, giving wise, honest, and practical advice on how to cope with the daily challenges and stresses we face in today’s fast-paced world. She shares her own experiences from her life spanning six decades, claiming the inspiration for penning this book was, in her own words, ‘to free people from the cage of age’. Whether it’s flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa with her trademark wit and insight provides the perfect antidote. Laying great emphasis on family values and ties, she stresses on making each passing decade more meaningful and enriching while taking the time to enjoy the small pleasures of life. Leading by example, Shobhaa shows us just how much we have to look forward to, no matter what our age!
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9381398062
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Shobhaa Dé is known to live life by her own rules. Declaring sixty ‘the new forty’, she shares some of her most intimate secrets that are valuable at any age. From beauty tips, dealing with anxiety and ageing to spiritual quests and seeking solace and tranquility, Shobhaa wants you to have a joyous and fulfilling existence. In Shobhaa at Sixty, she helps the reader rejuvenate their life, giving wise, honest, and practical advice on how to cope with the daily challenges and stresses we face in today’s fast-paced world. She shares her own experiences from her life spanning six decades, claiming the inspiration for penning this book was, in her own words, ‘to free people from the cage of age’. Whether it’s flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa with her trademark wit and insight provides the perfect antidote. Laying great emphasis on family values and ties, she stresses on making each passing decade more meaningful and enriching while taking the time to enjoy the small pleasures of life. Leading by example, Shobhaa shows us just how much we have to look forward to, no matter what our age!
Getting it Right @60
Author: Bipin Gupta
Publisher: Sankalp Publication
ISBN: 8194778069
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
“Getting it Right@60” - A Common Man’s Perspective There are a lot of books available on life after retirement but I wanted to write one from the perspective of a common man. This is a book for every Common Man who is already retired or retiring. Common Man is conceived as one from the middle class, a person who has spent all this time in doing his job diligently and honestly but in this process could not pursue his hobbies. He could as well not nurture well his family and personal relationships, despite a strong inclination and all resources at his disposal. While definition of Hobby is so wide, encompassing anything and everything, it is at the same time, difficult to identify one’s hobby at-least amongst middle class Indians, for giving it its due after he is retiring. At this stage of life, most of them are unaware about the areas which give them passion and enchantment. This book will help readers from middle class society, address this dilemma. An attempt has also been made to address issues of various fears in the mind of retiring persons as regards their health, finances, uncaring children, unsettled children, sexlessness, loneliness etc. Once retired, with all the time in the world, and limited responsibilities, sometimes, we find ourselves lost in search of purpose. This book will address this aspect of dilemma also. It is endeavoured that each page of this book connects well with senior citizens and interests them. I would not claim that my readers will find some startling revelations about happy retired life from this short book, but I am confident that once a reader reads this, he will be better equipped to lead a more fulfilling retired life. I hope my honest attempt will provide readers with inspiration and zeal to re-prioritise their journey of life, and take retirement as a chosen milestone to start attending to one’s non lucrative but highly satisfying pursuits.
Publisher: Sankalp Publication
ISBN: 8194778069
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
“Getting it Right@60” - A Common Man’s Perspective There are a lot of books available on life after retirement but I wanted to write one from the perspective of a common man. This is a book for every Common Man who is already retired or retiring. Common Man is conceived as one from the middle class, a person who has spent all this time in doing his job diligently and honestly but in this process could not pursue his hobbies. He could as well not nurture well his family and personal relationships, despite a strong inclination and all resources at his disposal. While definition of Hobby is so wide, encompassing anything and everything, it is at the same time, difficult to identify one’s hobby at-least amongst middle class Indians, for giving it its due after he is retiring. At this stage of life, most of them are unaware about the areas which give them passion and enchantment. This book will help readers from middle class society, address this dilemma. An attempt has also been made to address issues of various fears in the mind of retiring persons as regards their health, finances, uncaring children, unsettled children, sexlessness, loneliness etc. Once retired, with all the time in the world, and limited responsibilities, sometimes, we find ourselves lost in search of purpose. This book will address this aspect of dilemma also. It is endeavoured that each page of this book connects well with senior citizens and interests them. I would not claim that my readers will find some startling revelations about happy retired life from this short book, but I am confident that once a reader reads this, he will be better equipped to lead a more fulfilling retired life. I hope my honest attempt will provide readers with inspiration and zeal to re-prioritise their journey of life, and take retirement as a chosen milestone to start attending to one’s non lucrative but highly satisfying pursuits.
Shobhaa at Sixty
Author: Shobha Dé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789380480497
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From India’s most widely read writer You’ve got nothing left to prove ... remember, life begins at 60! For most of us who have crossed the sixtieth milestone in the journey of life, there’s a tendency to consider oneself as ‘over the hill’, a ‘has-been’, or an ‘old fogey’. But for the irrepressible and exuberant Shobhaa Dé, that’s certainly not the case – life only begins at sixty! Declaring sixty the new forty, she comes up with a potent elixir to rejuvenate life, and provides practical tips on how to cope with the physical and emotional downslides commonly experienced by the post-sixty generation. Whether it’s the flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa provides the perfect antidote. She lays great emphasis on family values and ties, and underlines the importance of a spiritual quest – all of which make each passing decade more meaningful and enriching. Drawing up a ‘road map’, which enables the reader to chalk out a future course, Shobhaa shows us how life is so very beautiful and just how much we have to look forward to!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789380480497
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From India’s most widely read writer You’ve got nothing left to prove ... remember, life begins at 60! For most of us who have crossed the sixtieth milestone in the journey of life, there’s a tendency to consider oneself as ‘over the hill’, a ‘has-been’, or an ‘old fogey’. But for the irrepressible and exuberant Shobhaa Dé, that’s certainly not the case – life only begins at sixty! Declaring sixty the new forty, she comes up with a potent elixir to rejuvenate life, and provides practical tips on how to cope with the physical and emotional downslides commonly experienced by the post-sixty generation. Whether it’s the flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa provides the perfect antidote. She lays great emphasis on family values and ties, and underlines the importance of a spiritual quest – all of which make each passing decade more meaningful and enriching. Drawing up a ‘road map’, which enables the reader to chalk out a future course, Shobhaa shows us how life is so very beautiful and just how much we have to look forward to!
Author:
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326192512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326192512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Superstar India
Author: Shobhaa De
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754248
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Vintage Shobhaa Dé, with scathing take-offs on everything, from the caste system to male chauvinism, from sex to social pretension . . . in other words, it's all great fun'-Economic Times Watching the preparations for independent India's 60th birthday in 2007, Dé-poised then to enter her own sixth decade-was struck by the thought, 'Surely my life has taken the same trajectory as the country's!' While she reflected on this, many more questions arose: Does India really deserve to congratulate itself? Has it lived up to the early promises it made to its people? Does Dé herself believe in India? In Superstar India, an intimate confession to her readers, Dé answers these questions and discovers a jawan-young-India, ready to find its place in today's world. Witty, passionate and gloriously opinionated, Superstar India celebrates the spirit of a nation that is certainly not about to lose its glow.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754248
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Vintage Shobhaa Dé, with scathing take-offs on everything, from the caste system to male chauvinism, from sex to social pretension . . . in other words, it's all great fun'-Economic Times Watching the preparations for independent India's 60th birthday in 2007, Dé-poised then to enter her own sixth decade-was struck by the thought, 'Surely my life has taken the same trajectory as the country's!' While she reflected on this, many more questions arose: Does India really deserve to congratulate itself? Has it lived up to the early promises it made to its people? Does Dé herself believe in India? In Superstar India, an intimate confession to her readers, Dé answers these questions and discovers a jawan-young-India, ready to find its place in today's world. Witty, passionate and gloriously opinionated, Superstar India celebrates the spirit of a nation that is certainly not about to lose its glow.
The Big Bookshelf
Author: Sunil Sethi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754000
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Famous writers are often reticent about how and why they write, how their ideas and themes develop or how their characters and plots emerge. They can be equally reserved about their personal histories. But in the hands of seasoned journalist and skilful interviewer Sunil Sethi, presenter of Just Books, NDTV’s long-running weekend literary show, they open up in unexpected and fascinating ways. In this selection of thirty of his best interviews from Just Books, they speak freely and frankly about their craft, their life stories and the nature of their creative impulse. Featured here are literary giants, including Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners; internationally acclaimed historians, biographers and philosophers; authors of best-selling thrillers, novels and travel books; and brilliant young trendsetters. Their conversations with Sethi are, in turn, reflective and incisive, witty and poignant, but always candid and intimate, as they provide rare insights into their inner lives and engagement with the world they inhabit. Each voice in this diverse collection is original, distinctive and revealing, as they cover the wide terrain of life and literature. A veritable feast for all book lovers, and an indispensable companion for students and teachers of literature, this volume vividly brings alive each author’s personality and work, ingeniously bridging the gap between reader and writer.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754000
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Famous writers are often reticent about how and why they write, how their ideas and themes develop or how their characters and plots emerge. They can be equally reserved about their personal histories. But in the hands of seasoned journalist and skilful interviewer Sunil Sethi, presenter of Just Books, NDTV’s long-running weekend literary show, they open up in unexpected and fascinating ways. In this selection of thirty of his best interviews from Just Books, they speak freely and frankly about their craft, their life stories and the nature of their creative impulse. Featured here are literary giants, including Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners; internationally acclaimed historians, biographers and philosophers; authors of best-selling thrillers, novels and travel books; and brilliant young trendsetters. Their conversations with Sethi are, in turn, reflective and incisive, witty and poignant, but always candid and intimate, as they provide rare insights into their inner lives and engagement with the world they inhabit. Each voice in this diverse collection is original, distinctive and revealing, as they cover the wide terrain of life and literature. A veritable feast for all book lovers, and an indispensable companion for students and teachers of literature, this volume vividly brings alive each author’s personality and work, ingeniously bridging the gap between reader and writer.
My Lifetime Reading
Author: Prof.Suvasish Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN: 9388942205
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The book entitled ‘MY LIFETIME READING’ is the outcome and resultant of the lifetime reading of Prof. Suvasish Mukhopadhyay. He is a voracious reader and in his life time he went through nearly seventy books from cover to cover. He has a unique habit of preparing a note from each of the books which are read by him in different time in his life. This book bridges the extreme two end of the English Literature right from ‘Discovery of India’ to ‘Three Mistakes of my Life’. This book is nothing but the collection of vocabularies, phrases, good constructions, quotations and adages which are collected by the author while reading all these books. Out of all the books under consideration there are more than forty books which received the BOOKER PRIZE and rest of the books are also world famous books and accepted whole heartedly by the readers across the globe. The author has nothing new to say, only he took years together to compile his total reading and in this world he is the only person who is having this collection, only for that reason he keeps the copyright of this collection with him. In the reference the titles of all the books are given along with the names of the authors. This book will be nothing but a made easy for the budding authors who are in quest of good words, phrases and sentences. This book will save the time of the readers who are in search of good vocabularies, phrases and well constructed sentences. It is the staunch belief of the author that millions of readers across the globe will be benefited through this book and this book will enrich their level of English language to a great extent due to its uniqueness.
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN: 9388942205
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The book entitled ‘MY LIFETIME READING’ is the outcome and resultant of the lifetime reading of Prof. Suvasish Mukhopadhyay. He is a voracious reader and in his life time he went through nearly seventy books from cover to cover. He has a unique habit of preparing a note from each of the books which are read by him in different time in his life. This book bridges the extreme two end of the English Literature right from ‘Discovery of India’ to ‘Three Mistakes of my Life’. This book is nothing but the collection of vocabularies, phrases, good constructions, quotations and adages which are collected by the author while reading all these books. Out of all the books under consideration there are more than forty books which received the BOOKER PRIZE and rest of the books are also world famous books and accepted whole heartedly by the readers across the globe. The author has nothing new to say, only he took years together to compile his total reading and in this world he is the only person who is having this collection, only for that reason he keeps the copyright of this collection with him. In the reference the titles of all the books are given along with the names of the authors. This book will be nothing but a made easy for the budding authors who are in quest of good words, phrases and sentences. This book will save the time of the readers who are in search of good vocabularies, phrases and well constructed sentences. It is the staunch belief of the author that millions of readers across the globe will be benefited through this book and this book will enrich their level of English language to a great extent due to its uniqueness.
A Woman's Place Is at the Top
Author: Hannah Kimberley
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250084008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first biography of Annie Smith Peck, an early feminist and accomplished adventurer who changed the rules for women.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250084008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first biography of Annie Smith Peck, an early feminist and accomplished adventurer who changed the rules for women.
Sethji
Author: Shobha De
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Sethji is the head of the ABSP, a crucial coalition partner in the government. Shrewd, ruthless and an inveterate fighter, he is a man who refuses to play by any moral codes or lose a single battle. Easing his way is Amrita, his ravishing and aloof daughter-in-law who guards her own secrets. But when two of the country’s most powerful men team up to challenge Sethji, the wily old politician has to fight the deadliest battle of his life—a battle in which he must stake everything. The one person he is forced to trust is Amrita, a woman who gives nothing away, not even to Sethji. Exposing the dark, venal heart of Indian politics, Sethji is an absolutely unputdownable novel about ambition, greed—and above all trust.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Sethji is the head of the ABSP, a crucial coalition partner in the government. Shrewd, ruthless and an inveterate fighter, he is a man who refuses to play by any moral codes or lose a single battle. Easing his way is Amrita, his ravishing and aloof daughter-in-law who guards her own secrets. But when two of the country’s most powerful men team up to challenge Sethji, the wily old politician has to fight the deadliest battle of his life—a battle in which he must stake everything. The one person he is forced to trust is Amrita, a woman who gives nothing away, not even to Sethji. Exposing the dark, venal heart of Indian politics, Sethji is an absolutely unputdownable novel about ambition, greed—and above all trust.
Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination
Author: Stephanos Stephanides
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900430066X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia’s nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India’s castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900430066X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia’s nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India’s castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture.