BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS WEEK

Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons

Jocelyn Cullity

It is Lucknow of 1857. The forces of East India Company are about to unleash plunder on what was once the cultural capital of the kingdom of Awadh. But there is Amah, a member of the Rose Platoon, an elite corps of female military guards of African descent who have protected Lucknow’s royalty for generations. Her queen, Begum Hazrat Mahal, who is also of African descent, enlists Amah to be her eyes and ears and help fight the British takeover. What happens when the women decide to take on the English colonists who declare rule, what will be the ultimate price of the women’s loyalty to the royal family and to the place they’ve grown to love?

Winning in the Digital Age: Seven Building Blocks of a Successful Digital Transformation

Nitin Seth

This is a practical handbook for understanding and winning in the post-Covid digital age and becoming a 21st-century leader. For every enterprise and its leaders, the digital age is a roller-coaster ride with more than its fair share of thrills and spills. It presents them with great opportunities to leapfrog and grow. Achieving success is not easy in the digital age. It requires a complete overhaul of the business model, organisational design, and the mindsets of professionals. Such a large and complex change is not easy to manage, and enterprises often lose their way in their digital transformation attempts. There are compelling insights, practical examples, and answers to key questions on how enterprises can win in the digital age.

Perfect Parenting: How to raise happy and successful children

Sushant Kalra

Some people think that there is only one perfect approach to parenting. But can one approach apply equally to individuals who think, feel and respond differently? Some people believe that parenting is simply about applying the lessons we learnt from our parents’ experience of raising us. But can we ignore the fact that times have changed and our children’s lives have been further complicated by pace, competitiveness, and social media? This book breaks the myth that parenting is not something to be learnt. Drawing heavily on his experience of working with thousands of parents and children, the author helps you unlearn set ways of thinking and learn a new approach to raising happy and successful children.

Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends

Maithreyi Karnoor

Cajetan Pereira is Bhaubaab (brother-sir) to the people of the village he’s made his home. Even as he searches for his ‘roots’ in Goa, Cajetan yearns for his childhood home in Tanzania, pouring that longing into the project of living near a baobab tree on soil that is his only for historical reasons. Into this strange idyll walks Sylvia, a young woman in search of a story. As they discover a past connection and explore ways to build that relationship, they bond over the common violence that shaped their trajectories, and an uncanny friendship with their one-time aspiring film-star neighbour. Over the course of the novel, Sylvia comes into kaleidoscopic focus.