When Most Retire, Some Re-fire: How to Give Life Your Best Shot by Nirmal Yadav

‘When we feel stuck, going nowhere—even starting to slip backward—we may actually be backing up to get a running start.’ —Dan Millman  When was the last time you chose passion over stability? When was the last time you lived for yourself? The first half of our life is mostly spent...

The Reluctant Mother: A Story No One Wants to Tell by Zehra Naqvi

The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that constantly tries to define her and who she should be....

Gods in Shackles: What Elephants Can Teach Us About Empathy, Resilience, and Freedom by Sangita Iyer

With a foreword by Jane Goodall, this moving memoir follows a successful journalist and filmmaker who felt like something was missing in her life as she finds her purpose in advocacy for the Asian elephants in her childhood home town of Kerala, India. “The greatness of a nation and its...

Janamsakhis: Ageless Stories, Timeless Values by Harish Dhillon

Janamsakhis, as the name suggests, are stories that claim to reveal the life of the first Guru, Nanak Dev, in a chronological manner. The earliest known Janamsakhi dates back to 1658, nearly 120 years after the death of Guru Nanak in 1539. None of the Janamsakhis can claim to be...

Life behind Masks: The Many Shades of Hope in the Times of Covid by Sonali Acharjee

‘The real impact of Covid can never be measured through numbers but through what it did to ordinary people.’ On 24 March 2020, the lives of 1.3 billion Indians suddenly changed. By the time the country went into a nationwide lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it had become...