Bullshit Quotient
Defining India’s Corporate,
Social and Legal Fineprint
Ranjeev Dubey
ISBN : 9789350095096
Subject : General Non-Fiction
Binding : PB
Format : B
Imprint : Hachette India
Page Extent : 256
Special Indian Price: Rs. 350
Rights : Indian Subcontinent
only
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SELLING POINTS
• Takes a
hard look at the way social, corporate and legal India functions.
• A self
help book that doesn’t preach as much as warn the reader about the pitfalls of
being gullible.
• This
book is for everyone who:
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wants to know how our society is structured.
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wants to know what goes on in the back rooms of power .
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wants to understand how the corporate world works and why.
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wants to understand the impact of the laws we have created, and
where the legal world is heading
•
wants to understand the machinations of our political system,
understand what is happening to India as a nation and as a society, and where
we are headed next.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Ranjeev C. Dubey, the author of
this incisive, unsparing and eye-opening book, holds that we Indians have an
extra ‘credulity chromosome’ built into our DNA. He believes that we are wired
to unquestioningly trust those who exercise authority over us, or those whom we
admire, even as they unashamedly scam us. In this book, he sets out to dissect
the bullshit that surrounds aspects of modern Indian corporate, social,
political and legal life. In doing this, he asks and answers basic questions about
our society. Who runs the corporate ship and why? Who is making the
stock market tick and how? What
are health care facilities here to do? What is the role of sleaze and grease in
the determination of public policy? Bullshit Quotient: Decoding India’s
Corporate, Social and Legal Fineprint offers radical revelations: Indian
industrial might is built on the back of a colossal land grab. Criminal cases
are business scores being settled through intimidation. Brands and Trademarks
are tools to scam consumers. Corruption is necessary so that we may fund our
democracy. If you want to understand what’s really going on out there, this
book is for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ranjeev C. Dubey is Managing Partner of the
Gurgaon-based full service law firm, N South Advocates. A mainstream corporate
commercial lawyer with many years of experience he is also a prolific writer
and public speaker. A columnist for India's premier business magazine Business
World since 2004, he writes extensively on contemporary corporate, legal
and political developments. Ranjeev is also the author of the litigation
strategy book Winning Legal Wars (Macmillan, 2003). A collection of his
other writings may be accessed at www.ranjeevdubey.com.
The Last Love Letter
Minty Tejpal
ISBN : 9789350092798
Subject : Fiction - General
& Literary Fiction
Binding : PB
Format : B
Imprint : Hachette India
Page Extent : 264
Special Indian Price: Rs. 395
Rights : Indian Subcontinent
only
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SELLING POINTS
• ‘A
steep drop into one of the most searing accounts of a decaying marriage. Minty
Tejpal gets naked and you can’t but help gawk at his scars and his guts.’ – Zoya
Akhtar
• A
candid story of the breakdown of marriage from a man’s point of view.
• Looks
at the grief of being separated from one’s children.
• Set in
the struggling film world of Bombay, it examines the fickleness of celluloid
dreams and how society views a man who is down on his luck.
• Looks at the rising trend of
failed marriages in contemporary urban society.
• Minty
Tejpal, filmmaker and film critic, has worked across media for over two
decades, including stints in advertising, journalism, television and film.
ABOUT THE BOOK
‘I am tired and confused. I am
surrounded by darkness, and am groping for the right path. Only you can take me
to the light, but unless you love me body, mind and soul, it won’t work. Only
you, loving me totally and unconditionally – physically, mentally and
emotionally – will provide the magic balm. I can understand if you are tired,
but I need your help, support and love. I am full of negativity, frustration
and bitterness. Only your love can wash away this muck. Every time we make
love, my anger, fear and confusion melt away, a bit at a time. Every time you
hug and kiss me I feel wanted and special again. You are the balm to my
tortured soul. Nothing else – family, career, drugs, money, films, friends or
golf – can help me the way you can. I am wired to you. My life is in your
hands, but do you want to help me anymore?’ A visceral, honest, deeply
moving cry from the heart of a man dogged by misfortune and deemed unworthy of
love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Minty
Tejpal has worked across media for over two decades, including stints in
advertising, journalism, television and film. Along the way he has made ad
films, reported on terrorism, written a book of naughty cartoons, directed TV
shows, gone bald, started media companies, done sting journalism, learnt golf, been
an acerbic film critic, launched star brands, taught script-writing, sold
carpets, written and directed a film - all done while largely remaining
broke and unemployed. He is twice divorced and based in Mumbai, and has two
children who live in Delhi.
It Takes a Murder
Anu Kumar
ISBN : 9789350094945
Subject : Fiction - Thriller,
Crime & Mystery
Binding : PB
Format : B
Imprint : Hachette India
Page Extent : 288
Special Indian Price: Rs. 350
Rights : World
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SELLING POINTS
• ‘Anu Kumars prose is very evocative and
full of excellent images. She has a great gift for physical description and is
indeed a writer to watch. -- Pankaj Mishra’
• Literary Crime fiction with an undertone of
dark humour written in simple and lyrical prose.
• In recounting a murder in a small hill
town, the narrator examines lives on the margins of the nation and how the
towering political epochs of the 70’s and 80’s infringe upon the personal lives
of the townsfolk.
• Author of the Myth Quest series and the
bestselling, The Mahatma and the Monkeys, the first children’s book
published from Hachette India in 2009.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A darkly lyrical and slyly ambiguous
account of love, loss and fury.
When Gautam Dogra is found murdered in his
study one afternoon in the small hill station of Brooks Town, the police
dismiss it as a relatively simple case. But Charlotte Hyde knows well that a
murder never happens in a day – it follows its own timeline. As Kerketta,
Charlotte’s old retainer, always said, a murder is written into your life at
the very beginning. As Charlotte begins telling the story of Dogra’s death, it
soon becomes clear that his story can only be fully understood in the light of
many other stories. Of her estranged daughter, Maddy, of the political climes
in which they lived. Of lost hopes and lost loves, of small humiliations and
disillusionments and, above all, of the slow incitement to violence that the
terror of loss brings into quiet lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Anu Kumar has a degree in history from
Delhi University and has also specialised in human resources management at the
XLRI School of Business. She writes for children as well as for older readers,
and her short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. It
Takes a Murder is her third novel for older readers after Letters for
Paul (Mapin 2006) and The Dollmakers' Island (Gyaana, 2010). She
lives in Singapore with her husband and four-year-old daughter.
The Book Mine: The Lu Quartet
Super Sleuths & Other
Stories
Nalini Das
ISBN : 9789350093221
Subject : Children's and YA
Fiction - Older Readers (8-12)
Binding : PB
Format : B
Imprint : Hachette India
Children’s Books
Page Extent : 432
Special Indian Price: Rs. 399
Rights : World
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SELLING POINTS
• Fast-paced
and enduring detective stories that will appeal to young readers.
• Written
by Nalini Das, who was Satyajit Ray’s cousin, the stories from the Goenda
Gandalu (The Lu Quartet) collection reflect the best of young readers’
detective fiction and challenge the readers’ minds.
• Translated
for the first time, the stories in this collection are a rare archive.
• Racy
and risky, the adventures of the Lu Quartet are unputdownable.
ABOUT THE BOOK
‘We knew we had to solve the
mystery somehow!’The world of Kalu, Malu, Bulu and Tulu is always buzzing with
mysteries, big and small. And that works just fine, because the four young
‘detectives’ are raring to solve them. Wherever the four clever friends happen
to be—at their school hostel, next door at the Zamindar Mansion, or away on
holiday in Mandu or Cherrapunji—they have a way of smelling out a mystery and
keeping their nerve in the face of daunting dangers and terrifying threats to find
what lies at the bottom of it. Join the Lu Quartet on their adventures in caves
and ravines, secret chambers and dark mango groves, and see if you can unravel
the twists and turns of the whodunits just as they do.These thirteen classic
stories by Nalini Das originally appeared in the reputed Bengali magazine
Sandesh and have been translated for the first time into English by leading
children’s writer Swapna Dutta.
About the Author
Nalini
Das,
the daughter of Punyalata and Arun Nath Chakraborty, grew up with her sister
and two cousins, which might have inspired her to write, stories of four
'detective' friends as Goenda Gandalu. She had a brilliant academic
career and took up teaching. When Sandesh, a well-known Bengali
magazine, was relaunched she became one of the editors, a post she held until
her death. The Gandalu stories first appeared in Sandesh and were
very popular.
About the Translator
Swapna Dutta has been writing,
mostly for children, for the last four decades and has more than 40 titles to
her credit, including translations. She has worked as Editorial Consultant for Target
(Living Media), as Assistant Editor for The Limca Book of Records and
Deputy Editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica between 1988 and 2002. She
has been published by HarperCollins, Scholastic, Orient Longman, Rupa,
Children's Book Trust and National Book Trust, among others.
MythQuest Series
Selling Price Rs 195/‐
The MythQuest series presents
for the very first time a whole range of super characters drawn from our very
own mythology. They include birds and beasts, demons and warriors, sages and
gurus, and kings and queens, each of whom is endowed with special powers and
limitless courage, making them unforgettable. MythQuest will entertain and
convert a whole generation of young readers to their very own homegrown heroes
and heroines who are as old as the universe! The series will also educate kids
about the rich mythological history of India as well as provide insight into
the hitherto lesser known characters who have played significant roles in the
great Indian epics and mythologies.
SELLING POINTS
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Combining education and entertainment, the Myth Quest series
brings the stories of great mythological characters to life.
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These easy to read books are vividly illustrated making them great
fun to read as well as look at.
•
This collection is about the terrifying asuras and the fascinating
birds and beasts in Indian mythology ‐ we bring you their complete stories and
their exciting adventures full of magic and supernatural elements.
•
These editions with eye catching covers will also work as
collectibles and the numbered series will make readers clamour to own the
entire set.
•
The MythQuest stories are the first of its kind and give a whole
new spin to books on Indian mythology making these traditional characters as
exciting as modern superheroes.
9789350093252
Simply Maths Series
Children’s Non‐Fiction/ Older Readers
(8‐12 years) Paperback 270x250 mm, with 4‐colour illustrations Hachette India
Children's Book 32pp HI Price: Rs. 145 (Special price of Rs 99) September 2012
9789350094846
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