About - Supermarketwala

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An interesting account of the changing face of retail in India

Description

• Rita, the young bahu, avoids buying personal products from the family grocer.

• Sonu’s breakfast table on a Sunday represents global cuisines. Do you know

how it is possible?

• Where do big corporates and MNC retailers fumble, and what helps simple

DMart get its model right?

• What is Ching’s Secret that is not Knorr’s, Maggi’s, or Yippie’s?

Supermarketwala, Damodar Mall’s intriguing and revelatory debut book, answers these questions and much more. Damodar, in Supermarketwala, provides the very basics for the growth of modern retail and consumerism in India, through interesting and carefully studied consumer behaviour, an art that few in his domain possess.

Supermarketwala, is intended to be the go-to book for all consumer business enthusiasts and readers alike, who wish to understand how and why we as consumers behave in a certain manner at different places. These insights, which are the analyses of the sector so far, could become the pillars for shaping successful consumer products and retail businesses in the huge consumer economy that India will soon be.

About the author

Damodar Mall is an Indian retail sector professional. He is Chief Customer Strategy Officer of Reliance Retail Ltd. He is the Ex-Director, Integrated Food Strategy at Future Group. He was a part of Kishore Biyani’s core strategy team. Damodar Mall is a business graduate from IIM, Bangalore and an engineer from IIT Bombay. He won the gold medal in marketing at IIM Bangalore. He has earlier been responsible

for promoting a supermarket chain with R.K. Damani in 1999-2000, which flourished into the 60 store D-Mart chain in western India. He has also headed the first phone order supermarket, Sangam Direct for Unilever in 2003. He has been instrumental in shaping Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar for the Future Group. Damodar writes an invitation blog ‘Shopkeeper-In-Law’ for Forbes India. He has written columns for

the Economic Times, DNA, Times of India, amongst others. He was profiled by Mint, a business daily in 2007. Damodar Mall was a part of the Coca-Cola Retail Research Committee of Asia from 2006-2009. He is the recipient of the Golden Spoon Award for the most admired Food & Grocery retail professional of the year, in 2011.

About - Kathmandu

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The story of Kathmandu told through personal anecdote and historical narration

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Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalayas; a unique survival of cultural practices that died out in India a thousand years ago. It is a carnival of sexual licence and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western intervention, an environmental catastrophe.

Closed to the outside world until 1951 and in a medieval time warp, Kathmandu’s rapid modernization is an extreme version of what is happening in many traditional societies. The contiguity of its animating spirits, gods, goddesses, witches and ghosts; the comforts of caste; the ethos of aristocracy and kingship; and the lately destabilizing spirits of consumer aspiration, individuality, egalitarianism, communism, and democracy reflect the layers of the city’s development. Two major threads are interwoven through the narrative, one of which follows the author’s story through a decade in the city, and another which unravels the city’s history and its successive reinventions of itself. Erudite, entertaining and accessible,

Kathmandu is the fascinating chronicle of a unique city.

About the Author:

Thomas Bell was born in the north of England in 1978 and studied history at Oxford, then the history of architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He moved to Nepal in 2002 to work as a freelance journalist. He stayed for five years, reporting on the civil war for The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, and several other international newspapers. From 2007 – 2009 he was the South East Asia Correspondent of The

Daily Telegraph, based in Bangkok. In 2009 he returned to Nepal, married and had two children, and continued to write for The Economist while working on this book. He currently works on Nepali politics for the United Nations’ Department of Political Affairs.

About - Stolen Years

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An emotionally charged memoir of Simranjit Singh Mann, told by his daughter. A personal story, the story of a family.

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In 1984, Simranjit Singh Mann resigned from the Indian Police Service in protest of Operation Blue Star, the Indian Army operation ordered by Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, that cleared the Golden Temple complex of Sikh militants. Mann was subsequently charged, among other things, with conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. A passionate Sikh whose radical beliefs were honed by his family, Mann went underground and was apprehended while trying to flee the country. He spent five years in prison, after which all charges were dropped.

Three decades after Blue Star, his daughter Pavit Kaur looks back on the years her father spent in prison. In this disarmingly honest and emotionally charged account, Pavit Kaur documents her father’s hellish journey through the Indian prison system. This is also a personal story and the story of a family during one of the most fraught times in India’s history.

About the Author:

Pavit Kaur lives in Chandigarh. This is her first book.

Stolen Years is one of few Indian prison memoirs that brings you face-to-face with the bovine bureaucratic brutality of the Indian prison system and the Indian state. It is a remarkable book of deprivation and the power of the will to survive Pavit Kaur’s memory and eye for detail will feed the curiosity of today’s reality obsessed reader.

People are curious about other people. They want to learn who they are, what makes them work, how they feel, how they grow. The insights from memoirs take them far beyond their own experience, and pushes their comfort zone. This is the 30th anniversary year of Operation Blue Star, and will provide a peg for Publicity

About - Skin Talks

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The definitive guide to beautiful skin by one of India’s top dermatologists

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The skin is the largest and the most visible organ of the body, but it is also one that ages the fastest! Unfortunately, when it comes to right skin care, most of us are totally clueless. With Skin Talks, you can be your own skin doctor by learning about:

• the process of skin ageing and its causes

• home remedies for skin problems like sun tan, acne, and pigmentation

• how to take care of your skin by using the right cleansers, moisturisers,

sunscreens, and anti-ageing creams

• the difference between skin care in summer, winter, and monsoons

• tips to add to your daily routine

Written by one of India’s top cosmetic dermatologists, Skin Talks is your

quintessential beauty bible to help you achieve healthy, supple skin. So what are

you waiting for? It’s time to let your skin blossom.

About the Author

DR JAISHREE SHARAD is India’s leading cosmetic dermatologist. She is the vice president of the Cosmetic Dermatology Society of India (CDSI) and a part of the editorial team for many indexed dermatology journals. She has been one of the few Asians to be Executive Board member of the European Society of Cosmetic and Aesthetic Dermatology (ESCAD). Her pioneering work in Cosmetic

Dermatology and Dermatosurgery has seen her win numerous national and international awards. She is an international trainer for Botox and Dermal fillers and has many publications (in medical journals and textbooks) to her credit. For nearly 15 years now,

Dr Jaishree, or Dr J as her clients like to call her, has touched the lives of thousands of people, with her commitment to bringing the very of essence of skin care to India. Her work is her passion and her ethos is to make people confident in their own skin. Skin Talks is her first book.

About - Fire Under Ash

Keynote:  In hierarchical New Delhi, two young men from different sides of the tracks become friends leading to a cataclysmic event that changes their lives forever

Description When Ashwin, the crème de la crème of Delhi’s elite, meets Lallan, a student from Patna looking to make his fortune, the friendship that develops appears to overcome the fault lines of class and privilege. One night at a party,a shocking incident leads one friend’s world to unravel with consequences that change both their lives forever and also expose the myth of the New India as a land of opportunity. An audacious debut narrated with great poise and aplomb, Fire under Ash marks the arrival of Indian fiction’s latest star who takes a coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, writing the city as we’ve never read it before.

Author bio

Saskya Jain holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she was the recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Award for Fiction and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship for travel to Iran in 2010. One of her stories was a finalist in the 2011 Asian-American Short Story Contest (judged by Yiyun Li), and her writing has appeared in Literary Imagination, Hyphen Magazine (online) and The Baffler. She was a resident at Ledig House in upstate New York and the writer-in-residence at Goethe Institute, Bangalore.

The Hidden Letters

By : Purba Chakraborty

It's a Love Triangle *LT* of sorts ...

LT is a tradeoff between friendship and love. 

As a wise man would say, a person cannot have everything in life which s/he desires ... 

Pleasure & Pain are two sides of the same coin .. when a coin is flipped, you have an equal chance of Head/Tail, similarly at times you may get pleasure, but you will have to endure pain too, as you cannot escape the law of nature.

The story progresses and the LT soon breaks and the path they choose to walk on seperates them. 

With love comes possessiveness, desire to own or be owned by someone you love. 

It also creates jealousy, if you see your loved one being liked by someone else ... 

Which ultimately breaks the bond of a true relationship ..

As the late Yash Raj Sir once mentioned in a TV interview "Love is a complex thing ... " a person may choose to love someone more over the other, parents may be more protective of their daughter than their son, each individual's perception of love is different . 

A woman has to play different roles in life, hence she has to consider different factors before making any decision, she is considered to be the Moral/Emotional pillar on which a sound home is built .. this story is of one such woman, who has to choose and allot her share of love to her: Cousin/Daughter/Husband  ..

It's around 200 pages and can be read in a couple of days. Happy Reading ..