Are you ready for the corner office?

Are you ready for the corner office?: Insights from 25 executive coaching experiences by Pradipta K. Mohapatra And Ganesh Chella from  Sage India.

This book is a collection of 25 inspiring stories about the unique and personal developmental journey of 25 senior leaders towards the corner office. Seen through the eyes of their Executive Coaches, each of these stories tell us how they found answers to critical questions such as ‘Am I ready for it?’, ‘How do I prepare to get there?’

‘How do I learn to succeed once I get there and how can I enjoy the journey while I am at it?’ The term ‘corner office’ is really a metaphor for anything significant that these leaders wanted to achieve in their professional careers and personal lives.

This unique collection of coaching stories is meant to inspire, help and educate many other leaders who are on a similar quest.
In our Management Studies section, Rs. 525, in paperback, 308 pages, ISBN :9788132113720


Visionary Leadership in Health: Delivering Superior Value by Anant Kumar , Jay Satia And Moi Lee Liow from Sage India.


This book presents a visionary leadership framework and its application toward delivering superior value in health. It provides a road map on how to create shared vision, assess vision–reality gap, identify paths to pursue, inspire, and empower stakeholders, and utilize results-based management to deliver superior value.

By linking leadership and management in health rather than juxtaposing them, the book argues that the task of every health professional requires a mix of leadership and management, although their relative emphasis may vary as per the context and content of the health program. The book will equip health professionals to not only improve personal performance but also enhance the value that their health programs will generate for their beneficiaries.


In our Public Health section, Rs. 995, in hardback, 380 pages, ISBN :9788132113201

From Plassey to Partition and After

From Plassey to Partition and After, (1/e): A History of Modern India by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay  from Orient Blackswan.

This book is now regarded as a major intervention in the historiography of modern India, and an authoritative account of the largest anti-imperialist movement in the world. It traces India’s colonial encounter, her nationalist longings, and her emergence as a sovereign, democratic republic, along with radical social transformations over two centuries. And this enlarged edition offers a perceptive analysis of India’s efforts towards modernisation and democratisation since Independence. The book addresses important historiographical questions by taking cognisance of emergent perspectives adopted by social science scholarship over the last twenty-five years.

The book engages in debates on issues like political economy in eighteenth-century India, socio-religious reform and the nationalist movement. It offers a detailed study and analysis of the freedom struggle through its Moderate, Extremist and Gandhian phases, and events like the Swadeshi, Khilafat–Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit India Movements.

There is a focus on other strands of the nationalist movement—from the revolutionary to socialist and other leftist groups, and the role of women—and its various ideological contestations. The newly added concluding chapter links contemporary debates about Indian nationhood with changes in society, economy and polity, from the years of state-directed planning under a one-party system to the emergence of a market economy in an era of predominantly coalition governments.

In our History section, Rs. 395, in paperback, 608 pages, ISBN :9788125057239

Transgressions

Transgressions by Vaiju Naravane from Harper Collins, India.

Why would a woman who has everything take her own life? Kranti, an Indian woman fashion designer in Paris, commits suicide. She leaves two notebooks and some paintings behind. Her lover, Robert-Pierre, a psychiatrist who is married and has managed to keep his two lives separate, tries to make sense of Kranti’s death, just as his own life begins to unravel...

What terrible secrets lie hidden in the pages of her notebooks? Did they drive her to take her own life? Fast-paced and vividly written, this novel, which moves seamlessly between India and Paris, keeps the reader on tenterhooks right up to the last shattering page.


In our Fiction section, Rs. 399, in paperback, 384 pages, ISBN :9789350296516

The Dramatic Decade

The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee from Rupa & Co.

The Dramatic Decade focuses on one of the most fascinating periods in the life of this nation—the decade of the 1970s. This was when India found herself engaging with the true meaning of democracy. The nation displayed her commitment to liberty by extending full support to East Pakistan’s struggle for independence. Later, between 1975 and 1977, during the Emergency, she found herself grappling with the limits of personal expression. Finally, in 1977, India saw the emergence of the politics of coalition, with the Janata Party—an amalgam of Indian parties opposed to the Emergency, comprising the Congress (O), the Bharatiya Lok Dal, the Jana Sangh and the Socialists—coming to power. This was a turning point in the history of the Indian legislature.

This was the decade when Pranab Mukherjee committed himself to the role of a political activist. As one of the keenest observers of and participants in this dramatic decade, Pranab Mukherjee’s insights are invaluable. Indeed, he nudges our impressions of the 1970s. For instance, recounting the urgent appeal for Indira Gandhi’s mid-term resignation, he asks: Which democracy in the world would permit a change of a popularly and freely elected government through means other than a popular election? Can parties beaten at the hustings replace a popularly elected government by sheer agitation?

Was it not prudent for those who were determined to change the government to wait till the elections which were but round the corner? Does the rule of law mean that the remedies available to the common man are to be denied to someone holding an elected office? […] How could anybody replace her when the overwhelming majority of Congress MPs—with a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha—resolved that Indira Gandhi should continue as the party’s leader in Parliament and thereby as the Prime Minister of India? Drawing from personal diary extracts, conversations with key players of the 1970s, and vital secondary literature, Pranab Mukherjee presents an exceptional portrait of a complex nation.

In our Politics section, Rs. 595, in hardback, 348 pages, ISBN :9788129135742

This Divided Island

This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian from Penguin Books India.

In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places and fewer people, untouched.

What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today-an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war.

Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories. This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed.


In our Politics section, Rs. 499, in hardback, 336 pages, ISBN :9780670086030
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Fragile Frontiers

Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks by Saroj Kumar Rath  from Routledge India.

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia.

Using new insights, it explores South Asia's regional dynamics of antagonism, the ever-present challenge to the frontiers of India, Pakistan and the terrorism question, the strife in Afghanistan and the self-serving selective US 'war on terror'. This will be an engaging read for those interested in defence, security and strategic studies, politics, international relations, peace and conflict studies and South Asian studies as well as the general reader. 

In our Strategic Affairs section, Rs. 995, in hardback, 384 pages, ISBN :9781138790773

Beloved Bapu

Beloved Bapu: The Gandhi - Mirabehn Correspondence by Tridip Suhrud And Thomas Weber from Orient Blackswan.

The current volume offers readers unprecedented insight into the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Mirabehn, his foremost Western woman disciple, who came to India to dedicate her life to Gandhi and and remained his faithful companion for twenty - three years.
Gandhi and Mira corresponded extensively when they were not together. The current volume brings together this correspondence in its entirety for the first time, interweaving Gandhis letters to Mira with her own responses to him and putting them in conversation with each other.

The letters are arranged chronologically, which allows readers to understand the trajectory of Gandhi and Miras relationship. They reveal the depth and complexity of this connection, which was as close and loving as it was troubled. The letters also provide glimpses of Gandhi and Miras work in the khadi industry and in village India, their views on ashram life and people, their struggles with health and diet, and their opinions on living a good life and serving truth.

The original letters reproduced here are accompanied by the editors commentary, which contextualizes the correspondence and offers readers important historical and biographical background information. This book will interest not only historians, students and scholars of Gandhi but also the lay reader.

In our Gandhi Studies section, Rs. 950, in hardback, 552 pages, ISBN :9788125056157