Ravi Shastri’s memoir “India’s 71-Year Test:
The Journey to Triumph in …” published
India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in ….
By Ravi Shastri with Ayaz Memon
Published by HarperCollins
Indian Cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri’s memoir titled “India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in ____” was released recently.
It is his first ever book and based on his cricketing life, published by Harper Collins.
Veteran sports journalist Ayaz Memon helps Shastri to write this memoir while Shiva Rao features illustrations in the book.
Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in an over against Baroda in a Ranji match for Bombay on January 10, 1985. Many controversies related to Shastri’s career are revealed through this book, and some interesting cricket incidents on the field related to his career and some of the alleged stories are also exposed there.
Apart from a legendary cricketer Shastri also worked as a cricket commentator. Sharing never-before revealed anecdotes and insights, Shastri takes a walk down memory lane, offering a rare look at the illustrious men in white from across the globe who have helped shape his career in cricket and beyond.
Regarding the book Ravi Shastri said in a statement, “I’ve had the privilege to play against, watch as well as commentate and now coach, some of the greatest cricketers to ever walk out on the pitch.
I’m very pleased to be sharing my stories, a glimpse into my exciting life involved with cricket, in this book published by HarperCollins India.’
Sonal Nerurkar, Senior Commissioning Editor, Harper Collins India, said, “From Champion of Champions to one of the world’s top cricket commentators to India’s head coach, Ravi Shastri has an incomparable perspective when it comes to the game of cricket. I’m honoured that he chose to publish these stories with us.”
A thriller by former President and James Patterson
The President’s Daughter
By Bill Clinton with James Patterson
Published by Cornerstone
The ‘President’s Daughter’ by James Patterson and Bill Clinton is a thriller and it is even more compelling than global number one bestseller ‘The President is Missing’. According to the authors every detail in it is accurate, because one of the authors is President Bill Clinton.
As far as story goes, Matthew Keating, the protagonist of the novel is a one-time Navy SEAL and a former US President. He has always defended his family as fiercely as he has his country. However, now these defences are under attack. And it’s personal. Keating’s teenage daughter, Melanie, has been abducted, turning every parent’s deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father. Because Keating knows that in order to save Melanie’s life he will have to put his own on the line.
Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992 and served two terms. After leaving the White House, he established the Clinton Foundation, which helps improve global health, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity and preventable diseases, create economic opportunity and growth, and address the effects of climate change. He is the author of a number of non-fictions works, including ‘My Life’, which was a number one international bestseller. With James Patterson, he is co-author of the number one international bestselling novel ‘The President is Missing’.
On the other hand, James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades, ‘The Alex Cross’, ‘Women’s Murder Club’, ‘Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels’, and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
A new translation of Amrita Pritam’s novel Pinjar released
The Cage
Translated by Rita Banerji
Published by Hachette India
The Cage, a contemporary translation of Amrita Pritam’s critically acclaimed novel ‘Pinjar’ was released. The novel is one of post-Independence India’s early feminists works that describes the struggle of Partition through the eyes of a young woman. The novel also explores themes of gender, religion and violence, and comments on the patriarchal conception of morality. It is translated posthumously by Rita Banerji.
Amrita Pritam’s ‘Pinjar’, written in 1950, remains her most notable and radical work. It was the first to look at Partition and its aftermath through a woman’s point of view. According to the plot a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man, and though she escapes and return home, her family refuses to accept her. An earlier English translation of Pinjar was done by the award-winning writer and translator Khushwant Singh.
Amrita Pritam was born on August 31, 1919 and died on October 31, 2005. She was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages. The novel ‘Pinjar’ was made into an award-winning film, Pinjar (2003).
Amrita Pritam became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus, a long poem, Sunehade (Messages), later she received the Bharatiya Jnanpith, one of India’s highest literary awards, in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (“The Paper and the Canvas”). The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally, Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, in 2004, and in the same year she was honoured with India’s highest literary award, given by the Sahitya Akademi (India’s Academy of Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship given to the “immortals of literature” for lifetime achievement.