Young Turks

Shereen Bhan with Syna Denuhgara

Keynote

Prominent leaders from different spheres share secrets of what they did at 25 and how that transformed their leadership horizon

Description

The most inspiring book for young budding entrepreneurs

Young Turks is the longest running business show on television. The book will have the added dimension of ‘how to’ interlaced in the stories of these inspiring men. It will include the stories of 15-20 of the most inspiring tech entrepreneurs who’ve been on the show.

The show has a dedicated following and the book will have Shereen’s insights into what makes these men so successful. This will be the essential book for every aspiring entrepreneur.

About the author

Shereen Bhan is the Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor of CNBC-TV18, India. She joined UTV news and current affairs division and produced shows like We the People for Star TV and Line of Fire for Sab TV. Her stint with CNBC-TV18 began in December 2000.

Bhan anchors and produces several flagship shows like Young Turks, India Business Hour, The Nation’s Business and Power Turks. She has done some of the biggest interviews on CNBC-TV18, including Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Benazir Bhutto and Deepak Chopra. She also anchors and puts together CNBC-TV18’s ground events like the Managing India brainstorm and the CNBC Industry Vectors.

The Fifth Man

Author: Bani Basu | Translator: Arunava Sinha

Keynote

From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award comes a novel brimming with irreverent humour, sexual tension and dark drama.

Description

Neelam’s hysterectomy at thirty hastens her into a sexless middle age and changes her relationship with her husband Ari. Their marriage remains stagnant until an unexpected telegram announces the visit of Ari’s ex-girlfriend Esha. By coincidence, their college professor Mahanam also arrives at their doorstep bearing an uncanny resemblance to Ari’s daughter. Events conspire to send all of them on a trip to Ajanta and Ellora where ancient stories spark memories of lost love and betrayal. Both deeply philosophical and playfully dramatic, The Fifth Man is a bittersweet meditation on middle-age desire.

About the author

Bani Basu is arguably the most versatile contemporary writer in Bengali, the broad range of her fiction deals with gender, history, mythology, society, psychology, adolescence, music, sexual orientation, the supernatural, and more. Besides writing novels and short stories, she is also an essayist, critic and poet. She has won a number of literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award. She lives and writes in Calcutta.

About the translator

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Twenty-eight of his translated works have been published so far. Born and brought up in Calcutta, he lives and works in Delhi.

Redrawing India

Redrawing India: The TEACH FOR INDIA Story

Kovid Gupta   Shaheen Mistri

The inspiring, never told before story of Teach For India, one of India’s biggest non-profit organizations

Description

A 19-year-old Bostonian teenager flies into Mumbai with her NRI parents to spend a relaxing summer break. Here she stumbles into a slum community, expecting to encounter paucity, prejudice, and pauperism. Her views are magically transformed when she instead comes across children with eyes full of potential.

In what is nothing less than a cathartic moment, she decides to commit herself to a lifelong battle of educational equity for every Indian child. But tackling India’s biggest hardship is nothing less than performing magic. With courage and perseverance, her movement soon grows from 1 to 100,000 individuals working relentlessly to rewrite India’s history. Numerous college graduates and young professionals trade their cozy corporate careers for challenging lives as teachers in municipal schools.

This is the saga of Teach for India, a living illustration of what is possible when a dream is followed uncompromisingly. It is the anecdotal blueprint on how Teach For India founder Shaheen Mistri transformed her dream of educational equity into a nationwide movement for liberty and justice. It is a tale of taking action into one’s own hands, and carving a space for oneself in the greater solution for utopic India.

About the Author:

Kovid Gupta graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 with a BBA in Marketing, BS in Radio-Television-Film, and BA in Hindi. Since then, he has been actively working as a screenwriter and has written for acclaimed serials like Balika Vadhu and Bade Acche Lagte Hain in addition to Bhojpuri soaps. He is also the Founder and CEO of India Kids, a non-profit organization that works to improve the lives of orphaned children across India by empowering college students globally.

ORFEO

                         By: Richard Powers

A major and thrilling new novel that explores private fears, public hysteria and the art of music, by one of America's most important living writers

  

Orfeo is inspired by the fascinating real-life account of Steve Kurtz, the bioartist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI and prosecuted by the American government for four years.

In a story of one man running for his life, Richard Powers shows how all of us are perilously close to crossing the blurred boundary that separates state security and state persecution.

Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els flees and turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over.

But alarm turns to national hysteria, as the government promises a panicked nation that the 'Bioterrorist Bach' will be found and brought to trial. As Els feels the noose around him tighten, he embarks on a cross-country trip to visit, one last time, the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. And through the help of these people - his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime artistic collaborator - Els comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with national security into one last, resonant, calamitous artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams.

Richard Powers is a bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a recipient of the National Book Award and one of America's most critically acclaimed novelists.

Richard Powers has been a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as a winner of the US National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of eight novels, including The Time of our Singing, Plowing the Dark, and Gain. He lives in Los Angeles.