When a much below average lad like Subbu wins a mega jackpot lottery, can glitz, glamour and girlfriends be far behind? Who will his lady love be? Tina, his batch mate with a fondness for fancy cars; Dhanashree, the pretty dance instructor from the finishing school; Maya, the voluptuous disciple of a fake Swamiji; Jennifer, the beauty queen or perhaps Shraddha, the naughty airhostess on board the Chennai flight? Will his newly found status help Subbu deliver motivational speeches at schools? ...

This experiential narrative on the life in the Indian Foreign Service by former Ambassador T. P. Sreenivasan provides a sneak peak into the charms and challenges of the IFS to help civil service aspirants make informed choices. The glimpses of the different aspects of diplomatic life will also enlighten general readers.

Long admired for its literacy rates, healthcare infrastructure and human development, Kerala simultaneously grapples with economic stagnation, migration pressures, governance paradoxes and social tensions. The Kerala Club is a rare, insider-led exploration of one of India's most debated states, its triumphs, contradictions and unresolved dilemmas.With contributions from senior and retired civil servants with deep links to Kerala, the book brings together candid, experience-...

A novel approach to the crucial role emotion plays in virtuous actionWhat must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an indispensable role in virtue. With exemplars of compassion, for instance, this role is played by a modified sympat...

This book is a compilation of daily prayers along with their purposes. As a new mom myself, I wanted this book to be extremely handy in today’s fast-moving times where we want to give it all we have while simultaneously understanding the ‘why’ of everything.These prayers have been with me night and day through my highs and lows. I would like to share them with my readers.While growing up, the evening ritual was to finish our sports, freshen up, pray and eat amongst our loved ...

This book is the second volume in the series, "Four Decades Through Thick & Thin - Musings of a Diplomat" which was started by the Author originally as real life anecdotes told to his family, from his forty years' career as Indian foreign services career official. The current volume is based during the Author's posting to Iran during the years 1948 - 1950. Volume 1 of the series, also published by Smashwords, was based in the Persian Gulf of the mid Nineteen Forties.This book is al...

We live in the noisiest era in human history. Notifications tug at us, screens consume our days, and our minds, once capable of deep thought and presence, are now fragmented, tired, and overwhelmed. Clarity Copilot is your antidote to the Digital Pandemic.In this groundbreaking guide, Dr. Sreeni unpacks how constant connectivity hijacks dopamine, drains focus, disrupts sleep, reshapes relationships, and erodes our emotional resilience. Blending neuroscience, psychology, le...

Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian StudiesThe medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups, ...

This eBook is the fourth volume in the series entitled "Four Decades Through Thick and Thin – Musings of a Diplomat". The series is an autobiography of portions of the author's forty years of service with the Indian Foreign Service and its predecessor - the British Indian Foreign Service. While the earlier volumes dwell on the author's postings abroad, this particular volume is based in India – in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat, where the author was on special deputation from the Govern...

How to be good, healthy, and religious?How to stop worries, manage time, and control anger?How to be happy, wealthy, control the mind, and stay positive?This book is an attempt to understand the possible answers to these common life questions, the author gathered through his various readings. Some snippets from the book are:• Good life is not a passive existence where we live and let others live. It is one of involvement with family and friends to make life le...

A pandemic made us all sad, mute and tremble with fear. We locked the entire world one day and isolated ourselves from each other. This book Thoughts Unlocked Lockdown Days Musings is a perfect riposte to a pandemic that has rendered the humans voiceless. Writer Sreenivasan ruminates on how the pandemic made a larger impact on his life and those around him. It would give the reader an insight into how a human mind works when, one day, the world closes all its doors and puts us all under ho...

“A timely story about what matters most deeply: our quest for love and acceptance….Jyotsna Sreenivasan’s writing speaks straight to the heart.”—Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of MenAnd Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and pressures of their culture and ...