#Yoga teacher from #Bengaluru pens self-help book

Bangalore based Yoga teacher turned author Dharmendra U has launched his debut book on self-help called ‘I am Changing My Life.’
Speaking about the book, the author Dharmendra says “The essays in the book will enable the reader to ponder on questions concerning about his life and help him to come up with conclusions about his life. The book is aimed to assist readers in the process of introspection and solving personal problems. I believe that a life of abundance is everybody’s birth-right and this book is my effort towards assisting readers achieve it”

#Yoga teacher from #Bengaluru pens self-help book pic.twitter.com/gufI1i2pXm

— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) April 30, 2017

Dharmendra is a certified Yoga, NLP, Law of Attraction, Life Coach & a Hypno Therapy Practitioner who has spent years of research to come up with this book. Learning from his experiences, he emphasizes the value and the power of SELF.

 “I am Changing My Life” is available online on Amazon.in, Snapdeal, Infibeam among others. Readers can order their copy in either paperback or e-book on leading e-commerce portals. Readers can also grab their copy at all leading book stores in their cities.

India's demographic dividend could turn to nightmare,if its leaders fail @nytimes #journalist Author @SominiSengupta

India's demographic dividend could turn to nightmare,if its leaders fail @nytimes #journalist Author @SominiSengupta pic.twitter.com/bxL4ARO3BV

— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) March 29, 2016

The End of Karma a book by Ex-Delhi & Dakar bureau chief of The New York Times and a quintessential bongo gal Somini Sengupta tells the stories of unprecedented youth surge through the lens of young Indians, hungry and hopeful and keen to write their own destinies. A daughter of the slums who wants to protect other daughters of the slums, a peasant woman who escapes the barren hinterland, a couple who follow their hearts over the dictates of caste - driven by aspiration—and thwarted at every step by state and society—India's young are making new demands on India’s democracy.

Indians are "born with one destiny but they're trying to write another." My interview w/ the NYT's @SominiSengupta: https://t.co/UhRpC3Wa6U

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) March 29, 2016

Voluntary nature of Aadhaar data is fine : @NandanNilekani

While launching his book 'Rebooting India' in Bangalore recently Nandan Nilekani is the former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India said that recent Supreme Court rulling on Voluntary nature of Aadhaar data is fine. As per the court's order, the card can used only voluntarily for availing subsidies under the public distribution system and purchasing kerosene and cooking gas etc.

Voluntary nature of Aadhaar data is fine : @NandanNilekani pic.twitter.com/RS0bqpXoeF

— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) November 12, 2015

The book 'Rebooting India' by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah offers  transformative ideas and smart usage of technology for changing India's governance.

US college admission guide book by #Kavita Mehta and #Kimberly Wright Dixit

US college admission guide book by #Kavita Mehta and #Kimberly Wright Dixit pic.twitter.com/iZ2WbmnOJw

— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) November 3, 2015

Published By HarperCollins the book 'Acing Admissions' is the result of Kavita Mehta and Kim Dixit’s years of experience of helping Indian families navigate the admissions process. They have identified the key questions, stumbling blocks and knowledge gaps that Indian families face as they consider undergraduate education in the US. Using examples, case studies, comparative tables and anecdotes the authors empowers Indian parents and undergraduate students to make informed choices.

"Birth of a Nation" a book on 1971 Indo-Pak war by Lt Col (retd) M K Gupta Ray

Lt Col (retd) M K Gupta Ray said that the main reason for writing the book was that very few people from current generation are aware of the country’s glorious military history.

"Birth of a Nation" a book on 1971 Indo-Pak war by Lt Col (retd) M K Gupta Ray pic.twitter.com/1IT3gM6z7d

— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) October 2, 2015

He added that the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war was perhaps one of the few battles fought in the annals of human history where a neighbouring country sent its troops to save a country from their demoniac leaders and give them freedom.

Also present  during the launch of the book were Air Marshal (retd) B N Gokhale, director, Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies, Pune and former Vice Chief of Air Staff and and Maj Gen H S Bedi VSM from Headquarters Southern Command among others.

Financial Education is key to your success: #Robert Kiyosaki author 'Rich Dad – Poor Dad’

“Financial Literacy” is the key factor that differentiates the poor and middle classes from the wealthy”, says Mr. Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad – Poor Dad’ author world renowned Financial advisor at the National Achievers Conference 2014. The two day conference, Kicked off today in Bangaluru, with 11 eminent and world renowned speakers with expertise in business mastery, coaching, entrepreneurship, wealth creation and investment strategies.

Financial Education is key to your success: #RobertKiyosaki author 'Rich Dad – Poor Dad’ pic.twitter.com/TjZ0ujSQat
— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) September 20, 2014

National Achievers conference 2014 (NAC) hosted by Success Gyan India's leading International Seminar conducting organization, is a hallmark event with world-class speakers to help individuals achieve outstanding results in today’s highly competitive global economy. The event focuses on imparting skills on financial education, practical sales management, Investment techniques, Leadership, Personal, Development, Health and Wellness.

On the sidelines of NAC Robert kiyosaki, addressed the press and shared his views on the economy, financial literacy and education pattern.

Speaking during the occasion Mr. Robert Kiyosaki said, that “Financial freedom is one of the most desired wishes anyone has, and it is so for a good reason. You can never expect when there will be a financial crisis, sweeping away all your wealth and income sources. As a result, educating one about the importance of financial freedom, as well as the means to achieve it is very essential”.

He also added, that, “The only way money can be turned into sustained wealth is by educating ourselves about finance, primarily from an accounting point of view and splitting everything we buy into assets and liabilities. Educating oneself about financial matters regularly should be the top priority. If one doesn’t have any clear defined financial goals, then it will be very hard to work towards securing his financial freedom. The key to financial freedom is very simple: convert your regular earned income into passive income or portfolio income. With this in mind, it is very easy to achieve the goals you desire without giving up on things that you hold close to your heart”.

Mr. Surendran CEO of Success Gyan, says, “Every one aims to become rich, but the level of financial literacy in India is very low. Indian populace has become marginally better in saving and planning for the unexpected future, however when it comes to money management we still remain weak. Many investors and aspiring business men lose track due lack financial literacy. We at ‘Success Gyan’ step in bridging the ‘Business Confidence’ gap, by facilitating world renowned personalities to share their experiences and success formula with aspiring; we hope to add value to transform business learnings across people, process and practices through these conferences and seminars’.

#Rajdeep Sardesai writes his first book '2014 - The Election that Changed India'

#Rajdeep Sardesai writes his first book '2014 - The Election that Changed India' pic.twitter.com/bd9RkfJF1e
— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) September 5, 2014

In his riveting book, Rajdeep Sardesai tracks the story of this pivotal elections through all the key players and the big news stories. Beginning with 2012, when Narendra Modi won the state elections in Gujarat for a third time but set his sights on a bigger prize, to the scandals that crippled Manmohan Singh and UPA 2 and moving to the back-room strategies of team Modi, the extraordinary missteps of Rahul Gandhi and the political dramas of an election year, he draws a panoramic picture of the year that changed India. Page-turning, full of insights and great portraits and written with a media insiders eye, 2014 is political storytelling at its absolute best.
Published by Penguin Books India the book is available on for sale on Amazon, Flipkart sites.

About the Author:
Rajdeep Sardesai is one of the country’s most recognised and respected journalists. In a career that started in 1988, he has been anchor, editor and columnist across tv and print. He was city editor of The Times of India in Mumbai at 26, became managing editor of NDTV and later set up the IBN 18 network, including CNN IBN, IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat. A former president of the Editors Guild, Sardesai has won several national and international awards, including the Padma Shri in 2008.

#Rajdeep Sardesai is writing a book on elections in India

According to Chiki Sarkar Publisher at Penguin Books India popular TV news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai is writing a book on elections in India for Penguin Books.It may be noted that former Editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN Rajdeep Sardesai quit on July 4, a day after the channel's deputy editor and his wife Sagarika Ghose resigned. Sardesai took to his Twitter account to announce his resignation.

After 9 wonderful years, time to move on from IBN 18. Will miss all my colleagues who made it so special.
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) July 4, 2014

A break from writing this weekend: book is like a marathon where you need a strategic time out! Enjoy the football. Gnight, shubhratri.
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) July 12, 2014

Bina Ramani's "Bird in a Banyan Tree" book launch in New York

Bird in a Banyan Tree, a book by Bina Ramani reveals previously unknown facts and incidents from Bina Ramani’s life.It narrates how Hauz Khas Village changed from a sleepy village to a sought-after destination.The book gives the true story of what happened on the night Jessica Lal was murdered.An expose of the pressure tactics used to intimidate witnesses during the Jessica Lal trial.It is an inspiring story of a woman who did not give up in the worst of circumstances, and created a successful life for herself.


The Indo-American Arts Council  presents
Book Reading, sale and signing.
TV personality Nina Griscom will converse with Bina Ramani after the Reading.
July 9, 2014, 7-9 p.m.
at  Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones street, New York, NY 10012
Cost of book: $20

About the author: Fashion designer, entrepreneur, restaurateur, social worker, agony aunt, visionary, socialite - many labels have been applied to Bina Ramani. But what is her real story? From arriving as a refugee child in India during partition to having Binatone, a successful electronics brand, named after her; from a nine-year-old sitting on her favourite black rock, watching the waves and weaving dreams in Mumbai, to a passionate relationship with screen idol Shammi Kapoor; from a loveless marriage and a bitter divorce, to opening her own stores and changing the face of Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village; from searching for her daughters across continents, to being taken in police custody and sent to tihar Jail for being a stubbornly honest witness; from being vilified by the media to being lauded by the country for her heroic role in the Jessica Lal murder case - in this inspiring, no-holds-barred memoir, Bina tells it all.
Bina now lives between Delhi and Goa and is working on her second book. She is a social activist and works with women and children.

WARRING NAVIES -- #INDIA & #PAKISTAN; A book by Cmde (Retd) Ranjit Rai

Cmde (Retd) Ranjit Rai a former Director of Naval Operations and also Intelligence had written ‘A Nation And Its Navy At War’ in 1986 (Lancers) on the Indian Navy’s 1971 War, which was widely read and reviewed. It was the first written account of Indian Navy’s actions during that 14 day Indo –Pakistani War that led to the formation of Bangla Desh and the break up of Pakistan in defeat, with surrender of 93,000 troops and officers of the Pakistan Armed Forces at the Dacca Racecourse under Gen K K Niazi on 16th December, 1971 to Lt Gen J S Arora. This book Warring Navies builds on that with description of all the wars India has fought, the geo-politics of the area juxtaposed with war diaries of the Navy and Mukhti Bhaini’s exploits not revealed before, and numerous war stories of heroes and all the operations the Indian Navy has undertaken since Independence. The author’s epilogue with David Brewster and views of Gen V P Malik in the introduction and Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat and Lt Gen Satish Nambiar in the end top the book.
In the 1965 war an Additional Secretary ordered the Navy not to take part in the war, so Admiral SM Nanda’s promised to avenge and his legendary leadership with all details of the Navy’s 1971 war are covered with the Navy missile attacks and an accidental IAF attack off Karachi for the first time as also seen from Pakistan. In the East the Navy’s blockade by the newly formed Eastern Fleet led by INS Vikrant and her flying machines and men in also holds details, with views by Pakistanis who took part. The sinking of PNS Ghazi is analysed. In 1971 the Navy’s only large loss was its front line ASW ship INS Khukri which fell prey to PNS Hangor’s E-5 torpedoes and sank on 9th December off Diu with loss of 18 officers and 176 sailors.
Yet 1971 saw India’s first victorious war and the Mukhti Bahini naval wing played a stellar and unsung role in the East, all depicted in the book in a racy style along with all the operations carried by the Indian Navy including Op Vijay to recover Goa ( 1961) and operations to avert coups like Op Lal Dora in Mauritius (1983), Op Flowers are Blooming in Seychelles (1987) and Op Cactus in Maldives (1988).
During the author’s visits to USA he was invited to the US Naval Academy Annapolis to speak about the 1971 war, with emphasis on what the author had researched in the book called USA’s ‘Tilt to Pakistan’, and the role of Task Force 74 (TF-74) led by USS Enterprise, Bainbridge, Decatur, Parsons and LPH Tripoli with 25 large helicopters sent in to the bay of Bengal for evacuation. The ‘tilt’ is juxtaposed with Mrs Gandhi’s security treaty with the Soviet Union and how Marshal Andrie Grechko USSR’s Defence Minister ordered Admiral Sergie Gorshkov to sail in nuclear submarines and a Kynda in to the Bay of Bengal to dissuade any action by America or China. HMS Gurkha was ordered by UK to leave the scene and repair to Colombo. The students at Annapolis were surprised to learn about INS Vikrant’s carrier operations with Sea-Hawks and Alizes and knew little about the Indian Navy.
Since the last book, many new facts have come to light and needed to be aired. Some errors which creep in history books needed to be corrected. The author undertook a visit to Pakistan in 2010 to meet Pakistan Naval officers and historians and even met some wives of officers who took part in the 1965 and 1971 wars and referred to the books by the Pakistan Book Club to eke out details of the wars and actions by the players and participants on that side to the border. The author met surviving Mukhti Bahini participants from both sides of the Eastern border, like CD 1 Petty Officer Chaman Singh MVC in Rewari, Lt Cdr J K Roy Choudhury VrC settled in Lebong Darjeeling, Cdr V P Kapil VrC in Delhi, Major Chandrakant VrC 1 Guards (4 Rajput) in Delhi and Sajid Zahir from Dacca. The author spoke to Lt Gen JFR Jacob, the hand maiden of the Mukhti Bahini. This book Warring Navies - India and Pakistan is therefore a sequel and has an expanded scope with some 30 pages devoted to Geo-Strategic aspects and the unsatisfactory command and control of India’s Armed Forces.
Many Pakistani and Indian issues of war are clouded in doubts and controversies and inter service rivalries. These have been fully covered in the book with substantiated evidence to close many controversies. Many myths written in to war histories or articles are difficult to not believe, for India is stodgy in declassifying historical documents and encourages a statist historiography. Hence the authors’ findings, research & analysis, rely on interviews, books, articles and reports, with Joseph P Chacko who contributed form Frontier India news portal. All this evidence is juxtaposed to help the reader get a larger context, while unraveling the sequence of events and examining controversies. The contents below with photographs tell it all in the 264 pages of the book.

#ShekharGupta’s new book ‘Anticipating India: The Best of National Interest’

Anticipating India: The best of National Interest is a collection Shekhar Gupta's news and current affairs column. pic.twitter.com/wdVT00pPoE
— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) April 28, 2014

Leadership is about having a big heart, says Shekhar Gupta at his book launch. pic.twitter.com/U0k3eyUVjR
— nonita kalra (@nonitakalra) May 6, 2014

About The Book:
I am a shameless, old-style reporter type. I never stop talking to anybody my writing may have torn into, or not answer phone calls from anybody whomsoever. Generally, Indian politicians have that quality as well ... I have not just argued, but even fought, with the three who so remarkably personify the shift in our politics that is generational as well as political and philosophical: Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi ... All three will evolve in the months to come: Modi towards mainstream moderation, Kejriwal towards a little establishmentarian calm and Rahul will shed some diffidence and risk avoidance. Together, the trio will lead a brilliant cast of political characters who—and I say this with absolute certainty and unbounded gratitude—will never leave me short of an idea when I sit down to write the next National Interest. - Shekhar Gupta

How many, in a Mumbai room full of Hermes ties and finance whizkids, are Dalit? What if Mahesh Bhatt’s son, David Headley’s friend, had been a Muslim? Why is Delhi getting better as a city and Mumbai going downhill?

When did the Congress first start shrinking its prime minister? When did it become clear that Narendra Modi would take over his party? Who are the HMTs? And what does an angry Arvind Kejriwal say about us?

Raising such questions is the hallmark of Shekhar Gupta’s National Interest, the most eagerly awaited news and current affairs column in Indian journalism. Informed by three decades and more of formidable reporting and a credibility that gives Gupta unrivalled access to decision makers in government, politics and business, the best of these columns in Anticipating India explain and interpret, provoke and predict change for more than a billion people.

A riveting first draft of modern Indian history, Anticipating India interprets everything from the successes and failings of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh to the ascent of Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, from the forces that have deepened Indian federalism and constitutionalism to the public mood that keeps a check on excesses in the use of political power.
Each chapter in Anticipating India, in its questioning of power, its use and abuse, carries within it ideas of India that challenge conventional wisdom, shatter stereotypes and, in the end, question our long-held assumptions of who we are as a nation and a people.

About the Author:
With over three decades of seminal reporting from the political and social frontlines of a changing India, Shekhar Gupta’s byline is today synonymous with unparalleled credibility, independence and influence. His work includes some of the most significant investigations in contemporary journalism in the region: from Indira Gandhi’s Operation Blue Star to the disastrous Indian intervention in Sri Lanka, from tracking Pakistan’s politics and military to the first Afghan jihad and its effect in Kashmir.

A recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 2009, India’s third highest civilian honour, Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express newspaper. Under his leadership, The Indian Express has thrice won the Vienna-based International Press Institute’s Award for Excellence in Journalism. He joined the newspaper as a reporter in 1977 and then spent a decade in India Today as a reporter and editor.

A regular speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos and its India summits, Gupta is the author of Assam: A Valley Divided (1984) and a monograph, ‘India Redefines Its Role’ (1995), for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, where he is a member of the Council. He also anchors Walk the Talk, a weekly conversation on NDTV with newsmakers from across the world. A collection of these interviews will be published soon.

A proud father of a pastry chef in Delhi and a mathematical economist in London, Gupta lives in New Delhi with his wife—and the company of an adorable family of dogs and cats whom you would call stray at your own peril.

Sanjaya Baru's book on Manmohan Singh 'Accidental Prime Minister' in the eye of the storm

My book, "Accidental Prime Minister: Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh" @PenguinIndia - now on sale. Also on @Flipkart & Amazon
— sanjaya baru (@barugaru) April 11, 2014

Attempt to misuse privileged position & access to high office to gain credibility : Pankaj Pachauri's statement on Sanjay Baru's book cont..
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 11, 2014

Cont….and to apparently exploit it for commercial gains : Pankaj Pachauri’s statement on Sanjay Baru’s book “The Accidental Prime Minister”
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 11, 2014

The commentary smacks of fiction & coloured views of former advisor:Pankaj Pachauri's statement on S.Baru’s "The Accidental Prime Minister"
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 11, 2014

(No wonder) @timesnow: Confirmation: ex PMO official Dr Sanjay Baru spills the beans in his book,says Sonia Gandhi cleared files before PM”
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) April 11, 2014