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Theme for an American
Dream
Reviewed by Gayatri Rajwade
The Triple
Package: What Really Determines Success
by Amy Chua and Jed
Rubenfeld Bloomsbury India. Rs 499
The style is easy,
almost light. The content: determining success. So can a book on how
success is "packaged" be recounted in a breezy narrative? The
Triple Package sets out to do just that and succeeds,
considerably.
Roller coaster life
journey of a tycoon
Reviewed by Ambika Sharma
On a Prayer-
Yash Birla
by Vishwaveer
Singh. Penguin. Pages 265. Rs 599
This book portrays the
spiritual journey of a business tycoon, Yashovardhan Birla, the
Chairman of Yash Birla Group. It also focuses on various other events,
including his spiritual awakening, which shaped him to become a
successful entrepreneur after losing his entire family in a freak
plane crash when he was just 22 and still a student.
Power
of the ‘spirit’
Reviewed by Vikrant
Parmar
Lamplight
by Kankana Basu, Pan Books, Pages 189, Rs 250.
A
single spooky encounter is enough to send shivers down the spine of
most mortals, but in Kankana Basu's book Lamplight there is an
entire family that accosts spirits — mostly benevolent and benign,
with a couple of exceptions.
Looking
at the South-Asian cauldron
Reviewed by D S Cheema
Internal Security Threats to South Asia
by Manan Dwivedi and Devaditya Chakravarty Kalpaz Publications. Pages
263. Rs 845
So
much has been written about this subject that one expects the book to
be the same run-of-the-mill book. It is a valiant effort to dissect a
popular but highly complex subject for any writer. India and other
South Asian counties, who have so much at stake, could learn a few
things from the book.
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