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BOOKS AND AUTHORS - August 2021

Aug 2021

Sep 17, 2022

Book titled "Will Power: The Inside Story of the Incredible Turnaround in Indian Women's Hockey" ...

Former Dutch field hockey player and former Indian Women's Hockey Coach, Sjoerd Marijne, authored a new book titled "Will Power: The Inside Story of the Incredible Turnaround in Indian Women's Hockey". The book published by HarperCollins Publishers India would be launched in September 2022.
The book highlights the experiences of Sjoerd Marijne, when he was appointed the Chief Coach of the Indian Women's Hockey Team in 2017. It also talked about how the Indian Women's Hockey team dealt with setbacks, mental health issues, internal politics and maintained team chemistry along with high-performance culture.
He was appointed the chief coach of the Indian Women's Hockey Team in 2017 and later, he was given charge of the Men's Hockey Team in September 2017. In May 2018, he was again appointed as the Coach of the Women's Hockey and he guided the team to a fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Sep 12, 2022

A Book Title "Forging Mettle : Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story" by Pavan C. Lall

A senior journalist Pavan C. Lall authored a new book 'Forging Mettle: Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story', released in September 2022. The book was published by HarperCollins Publishers India. The book is focused on how a business is built into a large organisation on the foundations of values and sustainability.
Forging Mettle is a story of Nrupender Rao, Chairman of the Board at Pennar Industries Limited and his entrepreneurial journey. The story gives a unique philosophy for a company, recommended to striving entrepreneurs to understand how to construct a principled and ethical institution. It's also the story of how a business built with ethics and social and environmental concern at the core of its values can indeed be profitable and sustainable.

Sep 06, 2022

S. Jaishankar Launches Gujarati Translation of His Book "The India Way: Strategies for an Uncerta...

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar launched the Gujarati translation of his book, "The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World" in Gujarat.
Prior to this, he visited the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) in Gandhinagar and said that India moves forward with the hard work of such committed institutes.

Sep 05, 2022

Book on Divorce Laws Launched

A new book on divorce laws and various religions in the post-colonial era was released at the India International Centre.
The book 'Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India' talks about family law, religion, and gender politics in India.
Written by Saumya Saxena, British Academy Fellow at the faculty of History, University of Cambridge, the book talks about the Indian state's difficult dialogue with divorce, which reconciles largely through religion.

Sep 02, 2022

Congress' Shashi Tharoor to Tell Ambedkar's Story in Upcoming Biography

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will come out with a biography of BR Ambedkar next month in which he would provide insights into his life and also highlight the disputes the latter had with other political and intellectual giants of his era, including Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
In "Ambedkar: A Life", Tharoor will also seek to answer the question whether Ambedkar was the greatest Indian of modern times.
The Congress MP traces the arc of Ambedkar's life from his birth into a family of Mahars in the Bombay Presidency on April 14, 1891 to his death in Delhi on December 6, 1956.

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