Archive | June, 2011

The author Jay Elliot had the opportunity to work in close co-ordination with Steve Jobs as the Senior Vice President of Apple Computer. The favorable combination of circumstances helped Elliot understand the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. namely Steven Paul Jobs from a very close and professional angle.
In this new business/leadership category type book The STEVE JOBS Way (iLeadership for a New Generation) by JAICO Publishing House the author Jay Elliot along with William L. Simon shares his understanding on the lessons of leadership he experienced…

Author: Manjula Padmanabhan
Publisher: Picador India

In a country where women have been exterminated, one little girl remains alive. Her name is Meiji. Her uncles, Eldest, Middle and Youngest, have raised her against all odds. As her body buds into puberty, her aging guardians realize they cannot protect her from the vicious Generals who now nominate their world, assisted by artificially created slaves called Drones and marauding bands of witless Boy Soldiers who rove a brutalized landscape through which Youngest and Meiji must travel to escape. Youngest will have to…

Corruption is something we live though every day. Right from the time we hit the road to work. Be it the change that we spare to the policeman or in grave situations like obtaining a death certificate. At every juncture, where government is involved, corruption is. They say the problem is never one-sided. As long as we give, they take.Wouldn’t you be elated if you found a solution book in midst of problems?That’s how I felt when I received the book – We can pull it off by Suresh Taneja.…

Author: Mohit Badoni
Publisher: Maple Press

Major Rajesh Singh is a decorated soldier with two gallantry awards to his name, Shaurya Chakra and Sena Medal. During his college days he discovers friendship and is smitten by love only to lose both at the crossroads of his life. Defeated and dejected he leaves home to begin a new life in Rajpur, a small village nestled in the foothills of Mussoorie. There he forges new friendship, bonds amongst the local people he encounters and most importantly meets Diya, who instils a new…

Paperback: 352 pages

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Vintage Books 2010

Source: Gift from another Bookcrosser

Review Quote: ‘A vicious satire on modern life’. Daily Telegraph

My Opinion: Very different from his previous books.

This is the eighth and most recent novel that Sebastian Faulks has had published and differs from his normal style as it is the first one set totally in the present day. It is therefore impossible I feel to praise or criticise in comparison to his other novels. It stands alone as a contemporary novel from this diverse…

More than the reviews that I had read on this book, the title itself attracted me to read the book. I could not sustain my curiosity of getting to know what exactly is described in the book through those excellent reviews. In fact this book has been quoted as one of the must read books for this year.

It is a very small book and is power packed with a lot of ideas for the world that is in constant change. It addresses the current world and the current state…

Treasure Me is a story is of Birdie a petty thief who reaches a small town in search of her family history and a heirloom that she thinks holds a big treasure for her and can be a pathway for her to get away from the life she is living and retire somewhere in peace…
It also is a story of Hugh a journalist who has a problem with women as in he can’t resist them and how he is trying to save his crime journalism career by doing a…

The Other 99 % by Debashis Chatterjee (You Can Dare To Lead) is a book which brings powerful insights on the theme of Leadership. Dr. Debashis Chatterjee is Director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. His publications include several internationally published books such as Leading Consciously (Butterworth-Heinemann) has been translated in several foreign languages and was adjudged among the top 5 international management titles of 1998 by the magazine Management General published from the United States.
The book tries to zero in on seven practice areas by taking into consideration the…

Title: Classic Rabindranath TagorePublisher: Penguin IndiaGenre: FictionISBN: 9780143416326 PP: 1136 Price: Rs. 599Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
I have had only this to say about Rabindranath Tagore every time I have finished reading one of his books: Pure Genius. He was way ahead of his times – he understood the human mind and emotions with precision and his tales always had that naughty twist in them. He saw the world for not as is, but for what it was and the possibilities that could exist.
While reading this collection of 9 novels…

I distinctly remember that fight sequence from the movie Kaalia where everybody is standing in line while food is being distributed and Michael (actor Bob Christo) decides to spoil the decorum and breaks the queue. While one of his crippled inmates gathers courage and decides to retaliate against this brawny white guy Michael shouts back, “Hum jahaan khade hote hain line waheen se shuroo hotee hai”(The line always start behind me). Immediately after that all the other prisoners in the queue go and stand behind Michael.
The most I knew…