Books and Authors Bulletin

All things literature.

Q&A: Sonali Punj Singh, Author of 'Sugar and Spice'
Sonali Punj Singh has done MBA in Marketing, worked in Corporate Communications and also worked as a lecturer of Marketing and English language. Through the course of her competitive career, she also pursued her love for writing. From a cosmopolitan lifestyle to that of the yore, she relates with people and articulates their lives in a simplistic style, making her writings joyful reads. She has recently come out with the book Sugar and Spice, which is a story of an Indian couple that thrives through family pressures, while balancing their love life.
Ridhi Malhotra
26 Jan, 2021 740 words
Q&A: P S Satish, Author of 'The Great Entrepreneur Blueprint: 52 Dimensions'
P S Satish is a Corporate Trainer, Mentor and Consultant for manufacturing industries and engineering institutions. He headed the Global Sourcing division of the company Robert Bosch for close to 10 years. He now runs a service company in Bengaluru. He has recently come out with the book The Great Entrepreneur Blueprint: 52 Dimensions, which is about 52 dimensions that budding entrepreneurs should consider before embarking on their entrepreneurial journey.
Ridhi Malhotra
24 Jan, 2021 1.2K words
Q&A: Tanuj Lalchandani, Author of 'Tatva, Soul & Karma'
Tanuj Lalchandani is a well-known astrologer, spiritual healer, palmist, tarot reader, and author. As a spiritual healer and astrologer, he helps people in leading more peaceful and fulfilling lives by telling them about simple remedial measures. He blends modern day techniques, supports his statements with logic and guides his clients about love, career, vaastu tips, and more. His book Tatva, Soul & Karma combines spirituality and astrology, and is an attempt to understand the various Indian Gods and Goddesses and how to worship them.
Ridhi Malhotra
22 Jan, 2021 1.1K words
Q&A: Viswaprasad Raju, Author of 'Lockdown 20: Notes & Posts'
Viswaprasad Raju is an advertising professional and a travel sketch artist based in Hyderabad. His travel sketches have been featured in Lonely Planet, The Week, Spice Route, The Hindu, New Indian Express, Wow! Hyderabad, among many others. He is a fan of Wimbledon, Galle, Fine Stationery and the National Parks of Central India. His book Lockdown 20: Notes & Posts contains notes and posts on the COVID-19 induced lockdown, which he penned between Lockdown 1.0 & Lockdown 5.0.
Ridhi Malhotra
20 Jan, 2021 669 words
Q&A: Neerja Singh, Author of 'No Time to Be Young'
Neerja Singh is a former teacher, proud Air Force Veteran’s wife, prize winning fiction writer, and blogger with a background and training in media, having worked in advertising, public relations, documentary film making, and feature journalism. A professional speaker on the generation gap, she has been reverse mentored by her two millennials to empathize with the young; and what makes her eligible to address generational empathy is that she is at home with the zoomers, but a contemporary of the boomers. Her book No Time to Be Young: 30 Insights into Generational Empathy from the Seenager, Senior Teenager delves into addressing the generation gap and brings the inter-generational disconnect out of the echo chambers where it currently rages.
Ridhi Malhotra
16 Jan, 2021 1.5K words
Q&A: Yashasree Barve, Author of 'Agile Mindset Ma.g.i.c.'
Yashasree Barve is an Agile Coach and Transformation Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and has been working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, delivering enterprise solutions across the breadth of the technology landscape. Her work includes transformation consulting and coaching for customers and teams. She has led the agile transformation initiative for the HiTech Business unit of TCS comprising of 20,000+ associates for over five years. In this role, she has consulted, trained, and coached several teams and customers on agile transformation. She has recently come out with the book Agile Mindset Ma.g.i.c.: Stories from the Trenches, which unravels how to bring the change in mindset to be agile using a four-stage approach, and describes techniques for embracing agility.
Ridhi Malhotra
12 Jan, 2021 1.6K words
Q&A: Kaustabh Kashyap, Author of 'The Night Won't Wait'
Kaustabh Kashyap is a freelance writer, poet and translator based in Assam. He has contributed fiction, poetry and articles for national magazines and e-journals namely Erothanatos, Reading Hour, Vayavya and often writes on a variety of topics for The Assam Tribune. His short-stories have also appeared in the international blog Reedsy, an online author services firm based in London. He is a NET-JRF awardee in English Literature and plans to pursue his PhD in disability studies. The Night Won't Wait: Glimpses of the Great Pause, his first collection of poems was released recently. He is currently working on his second book, a novel.
Ridhi Malhotra
10 Jan, 2021 1.1K words
Q&A: Preethi Amaresh, Author of 'Nànmín: Concavity of China’s Refugee Policy'
Preethi Amaresh is a Political Scientist who is pursuing Doctor of International Relations from Geneva School of Diplomacy, Switzerland. She is also a foreign affairs columnist and frequently writes for reputed international and national journals and magazines. She has recently come out with the book Nànmín: Concavity of China’s Refugee Policy, which is about China’s treatment of refugees’ from different ethnicities and the country’s engagement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Ridhi Malhotra
7 Jan, 2021 1.6K words
Q&A: Dr. Rakesh Bhargava, Author of 'A Life Ordinary Revisited'
Dr. Rakesh Bhargava is an Orthopedic Surgeon. He has recently come out with the book A Life Ordinary Revisited, which is an autobiography. In the book, he has detailed many anecdotes from his life. The book blurb reads – ‘The story of a non-entity can be interesting and intriguing too. Does anyone ever deign to read the story of a mediocre life?’
Ridhi Malhotra
30 Dec, 2020 1.2K words
Q&A: Ajay Kamalakaran, Author of 'A Week in the Life of Svitlana'
Ajay Kamalakaran is an international journalist and writer based in Mumbai. He has been covering economic, political and cultural developments in Russia since 2003. His latest book A Week in the Life of Svitlana is set in Moscow. It features Svitlana Khristenko, a patriotic Ukrainian with dual Russian-Ukrainian citizenship, who chooses to live in Moscow, despite her conflicting loyalties. Despite her strong political views, all Svitlana wants is to adjust to the changes caused by a topsy-turvy Russian economy, while providing her daughter a good life. The novel draws from vivid post-Soviet life, weaves a saga of satire and intrigue, and presents a unique look at contemporary Russian society.
Ridhi Malhotra
26 Dec, 2020 834 words
Q&A: Rehana Munir, Author of 'Paper Moon'
Rehana Munir is a Bombay-based independent writer, and has a weekly humour column in HT Brunch, and a cinema column in Arts Illustrated magazine. Her debut novel, Paper Moon, was published by HarperCollins India and released at Tata Literature Live! in November 2019. The novel is all about ‘Books’, ‘Bombay’, and ‘Romance’. It follows Fiza Khalid and her journey of opening a bookshop in a charming, old Bandra mansion, all the while navigating relationships, heartbreaks and love.
Ridhi Malhotra
23 Dec, 2020 954 words
Q&A: Dr. Vasudha Neel Mani, Author of 'Gratitude: The Purpose of Life'
Dr. Vasudha Neel Mani is the Principal of Rockwoods International School, Udaipur. She has recently come out with the book Gratitude: The Purpose of Life, which is a guide towards positivity, gratitude, anger and stress management. The book details that Gratitude is the key to abundance, and if readers follow and do all the exercises mentioned in the book for 21 days, this will begin to transform their life in a big way and enable them to become positive, grateful and compassionate human beings.
Ridhi Malhotra
21 Dec, 2020 1.2K words
Q&A: Col. Sudip Mukerjee, Author of 'Two Steps Ahead'
Col. Sudip Mukerjee has recently come out with the book Two Steps Ahead: Uncover What People Really Mean, which is an insightful read about effective communication and how we can decipher human thoughts through the language people use. The book details the 5 step ‘secret decoding system’ for improving communication skills, knowing exactly what the people you are dealing with want, and getting what you want simply and easily by using the language that works.
Ridhi Malhotra
7 Dec, 2020 566 words