The Ohio State University was one of the stops on Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik’s 2013 USA tour. The evening of October 14th saw students, both Indian and American, from diverse backgrounds, come together to listen to him. The tag of being a celebrated TED speaker and his innovative designation of ‘Chief Belief Officer’ at Future Group certainly piqued one’s interest.
Piyush Jha is a filmmaker and a screen writer of Indian Origin. He is also the author of best seller crime thriller novel Mumbaistan.
Sudeep Nagarkar is an Indian author, and speaker. He has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai. He is the author of the best seller Few things left Unsaid. An Electronics Engineer turned author, Sudeep talks with IndiaBookStore at the Pune fest!
Preeti Shenoy has come a long way since being 'just a mother of two'. (Before irate homemakers-by-choice jump down our throat, let us hasten to clarify: that's the name she called her blog by! It's currently called, 'Much Love'.)
Meghna Pant is a very reputed and famous author of the book ‘Happy Birthday’. The author shared insights of her new book, the secret behind her success and a lot more.
Born in Washington, D.C., Anthony Marra has resided and studied in Eastern Europe and has traveled through Chechnya – a common thread in some of his better known works. Felicitated highly for his short stories, he has come out with his debut novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – a sweeping exposition of the age old adage "Everything is fair in love and war". Apart from winning awards galore, Marra also finds time to complete a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and will begin teaching as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction this fall.
Innovation is not an occurrence – it is an attitude.
Though required by everyone, innovation becomes a life line for people who deal with technology, strategy or processes. In the last three decades most of the “maximum impact products “emerged from ICT which changed the way the world works. An innovator need not come up with E=mc2 every time. Ideas, products or processes you come up with could be simple, sometimes even insignificant, can still be counted as innovations as long as they are different. Rather than waiting to come up with something spectacularly great once in your lifetime, your endeavor should be to raise your Innovation Quotient or InnQ gradually by innovating all the time. To make “Innovativity” as an attitude, it is important to broaden your horizon. Visit new locations, read books and articles on new subjects, meet new people from different age groups. That is the way to tickle your brain and give it a chance to kick up something new; original; different.
Born and raised in a conservative Hindu family in India, Shobhan Bantwal’s arranged marriage took her to the US. Directing and acting in a play in Chicago made her realize her calling towards writing. She has since then given us various books like The Dowry Bride, The Sari Shop Window and The Reluctant Matchmaker. Describing her writing as “Bollywood in a book”, her books are replete with observations and anecdotes about the Indian life in the US. IndiaBookStore in an exclusive chat with her:
1. "Dirty Love" has been described as a book of short stories based on Mumbai and we came to know that your next is already in the pipeline, again a short story collection about the City of Joy: Kolkata. What’s about these cities that you want to tell the world in a different way? When I write, I’m not wondering what I’m going to “tell the world”! I’m trying to unravel something for myself. In the case of Dirty Love, that ‘something’ was the city of Mumbai. Unlike all the other places in my life where I found myself by chance and circumstances (Ethiopia, Darjeeling, Kanpur, Delhi, Calcutta) Bombay was the only place I chose to be in (I moved here from Kolkata in 1995). It was love at first sight, and Dirty Love is about my love for the city but, as the review in Biblio put it, “this love is dirty—just like the city it represents. It leaves it stench on you. It marks you; you belong to it. You reek of it from afar, and it will never leave you, never desert you.” I was interested in communicating the city’s claustrophobia and its expansiveness, its safety (as a…
Daily, we read and often encounter women who are successful in their fields, beautiful or leaders with innovative ideas. And then there are those, who combine all these and create a new wave of difference. In our interview, we listen to the thoughts of Dr. Simona Ahuja, founder of a marketing and stratgey based company, and co-author of the latest release 'Jugaad Innovation : Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth' (Random House, 2012).