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Remaking India

One Country, One Destiny

By: Arun Maira

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In this book, one of India's foremost business consultants provides an invaluable insight into India's current economic and social problems and how they can be resolved. Taking a close look at the current scenario as well as analyzing the future, the book discusses various critical issues including: planning and legislating for holistic growth and development; what businesses need from the government to grow in the right direction; the need for collaboration between business and government; and corporate responsibility and its role in growth and development. Remaking India provides an invaluable insight in to India's situation, the rising aspirations of its population and the immense potential that it holds as a nation. It is essential reading for all those concerned about India's future and the need for change.

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0761932747

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Listening to My Mind

Zen-Like Diversions

By: Arun Maira

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Listening to My Mind

Zen-Like Diversions

By: Arun Maira

This book of poems is a recollection of wondrous moments amidst a busy life, when the chattering in the mind stopped and its’ cluttering, with ‘to-dos’ and ‘not dons’ and with ‘what was’ and ‘what will be’, cleared. Special moments when there was peace within and harmony around. Moments of mediation on the beauty of life. A picture can say more than a thousand words. Most of the poems are brief word-pictures, in the style of short, haiku-like poems, with some longer wanderings into the mountains and woods. These are poems about listening to the world and listening to one’s own mind—poems about discovery and self-realization.

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Notion Press

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1638066396

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Shaping the Future

A Guide for Systems Leaders

By: Arun Maira

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Shaping the Future

A Guide for Systems Leaders

By: Arun Maira

You want to make the world a better place for everyone? How do you do it? You must learn to listen to people not like yourself. People must believe you care for them and be willing to follow you. The three disciplines of System Being, Systems Thinking, and Systems Acting provide lenses to see the world and new theories to guide your actions. You can be a leader of change no matter how young or old you are, or high or low your position in a hierarchy. Take the first steps now to shape a future that will be good for everyone around you and for future generations too.

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Notion Press

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9798891338432

Discordant Democrats

Five Steps to Consensus

By: Arun Maira

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Discordant Democrats

Five Steps to Consensus

By: Arun Maira

Twenty-Two Official Languages, Many Races And Almost All The Major Religions Of The World Could A Diverse Country Like India Have Survived Without Democracy And Consensus? Yet There Are Many Who Believe India S Economic Development Is Hampered By Its Noisy Democracy; Like China, Democracy Should Follow Development, Not Precede It. Indeed, The Belief That Democracy Automatically Reduces Discord Has Recently Been Under Question, Since It Has Been Seen That Democratic Constitutions And Systems For Free And Fair Elections Cannot By Themselves Eliminate Disagreements. In Fact, Democracy Brings To The Surface Latent Differences And Makes Discord More Visible, As Is Evident From The Way It Has Functioned Within India And The Usa, And From More Recent Experiences In Some Countries In The Middle East As Well As Afghanistan, Where Democracy Has Supposedly Been Restored . What Then Is The Best Way Forward? All We Require, Arun Maira Argues In This Book, Is For Democracy To Be Made To Work More Effectively. In Healthy Democracies, Politics Cannot Be Left Merely To Politicians: People At All Levels Must Take Responsibility For Shaping The World. Therefore Democracies Require Widespread Processes For Dialogue, Consensus Building And Collaborative Action Amongst People With Different Perspectives. Weapons Of Mass Destruction Need To Be Replaced With Ways For Mass Dialogue. Discordant Democrats Is A Roadmap To Collaborative Governance By One Of The Finest Thinkers On Transformational Change. With Insights From Research, His Experience In Consensus Building And Collaborative Action, And A Variety Of Examples From India And Elsewhere, The Author Sets Out Five Steps To Build Consensus And Describes The Principles And Tools With Which This Can Be Achieved And Applied By People In Any Walk Of Life.

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Penguin Books India

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0670081221

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9780670081226

A Billion Fireflies

Critical Conversations to Shape a New Post-pandemic World

By: Arun Maira

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A Billion Fireflies

Critical Conversations to Shape a New Post-pandemic World

By: Arun Maira

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of economic systems, and the precariousness of the incomes and lives of people all over the world. We must “build back better” and create a more resilient economy, which is more inclusive, and more just, than our economies are. What should be the contours of the “new normal”, and how will we change the old normal to the new, are questions we must collectively address now, and urgently. Otherwise, the old will recreate itself, driven by the embedded ideas about good economics on which it was founded. “Never waste a crisis”, leaders and policymakers say. A Billion Fireflies is a reminder of the ideas for a new paradigm—of what it should be and how it can be brought about—that far-sighted people had proposed before the pandemic. The time has come to convert those ideals into reality.

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Notion Press

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1638505829

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The Solutions Factory

A Consultant’s Handbook for Problem-solving

By: Arun Maira

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The Solutions Factory

A Consultant’s Handbook for Problem-solving

By: Arun Maira

In The Solutions Factory, Arun Maira digs deep into his experiences as a consultant and presents twenty human-led business stories that cover all kinds of problem-solving techniques told through carefully picked personal experiences and anecdotes. By distilling the essence of the work that consultants do, he offers a management handbook that is unique to Indian business practices. From cultural understanding to communication skills, this book illustrates the applicability of simple tips for a diverse range of business roles and levels. Maira's down-to-earth and insightful approach, keenly oriented towards respectful and ethical business practices, illustrates his signature mix of idealism and pragmatism-be it is about managing an unexpected crisis or about learning more about another company's culture. In this age of financial uncertainty due to the pandemic, a book like this is as essential for small-business owners as it is for the heads of major corporations. Maira's focus on excellence through ethics, success through learning, and valuation through value brings to the fore his people-centric and back-to-basics approach-an approach that every modern corporation will need in order to prepare for the future ahead of us.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9354921655

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9789354921650

Time for Bharat

A Researched Conversation of Governance.

By: Arun Ganesh and Srinath Sridharan

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Time for Bharat

A Researched Conversation of Governance.

By: Arun Ganesh and Srinath Sridharan

The individual chapters have been helmed, apart from the Editors, by an eclectic battery of authors that include Arushi Arora and Anisa Bawari, both lawyers, and working at Khaitan Legal Associates (KLA); Saugata Bhattacharya, Chief Economist at Axis Bank and a writer and columnist; Dr Abhijit Chattoraj, writer and Professor at Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH); Dr Nishant Jain, Programme Director with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ); Shraddha Joshi, strategic planner; Sakate Khaitan, Senior Partner at KLA, an alumnus of London Business School and a Solicitor of Senior Courts of England and Wales; Swaminathan Mani, Co-Founder and Director at SenecaGlobal IT Services; Kaushal Mishra, engineer cultured in Risk Management and a former CEO; Dr PM Nair, retired Director General of Police, NDRF and Home Guards, Civil Defence and Fire Services; Anita Nandi, former Chief Representative India for the City of London Corporation; Dr A Padma Raju, retired Vice Chancellor of Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University; Shefali Sehwani, Chief Financial Officer of Lloyd’s India Branch; Smiti Tewari, Associate Partner at KLA and a practicing Litigator in High Courts and Supreme Court; Rao Tummalapalli, Co-Founder and Managing Director at SenecaGlobal IT Services; Priti Rohira, legal and compliance professional; Dr Vilas G Waikar, Practice leader in insurance, risk, environment and an alumnus of the University of London and IIM Ahmedabad.

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9798888053690

The Muslims Are Coming

Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror

By: Arun Kundnani

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The Muslims Are Coming

Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror

By: Arun Kundnani

Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroomed—at least 100,000 Muslims in America have been secretly under scrutiny. British police compiled a secret suspect list of more than 8,000 al-Qaeda “sympathizers,” and in another operation included almost 300 children fifteen and under among the potential extremists investigated. MI5 doubled in size in just five years. Based on several years of research and reportage, in locations as disperate as Texas, New York and Yorkshire, and written in engrossing, precise prose, this is the first comprehensive critique of counterradicalization strategies. The new policy and policing campaigns have been backed by an industry of freshly minted experts and liberal commentators. The Muslims Are Coming! looks at the way these debates have been transformed by the embrace of a narrowly configured and ill-conceived anti-extremism.

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Verso Books

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1781685584

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9781781685587

The Learning Factory

How the Leaders of Tata Became Nation Builders

By: Arun Maira

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The Learning Factory

How the Leaders of Tata Became Nation Builders

By: Arun Maira

The Learning Factory is a book full of anecdotal stories that offers different teachings and lessons for students, business professionals, as well as those curious about the Tata way of business. This firsthand narration of interactions and incidents with Tata leaders gives a new insight into the group's leadership and strategy and helps better understand its value-driven business.' - Ratan Tata Founded in 1868 by Jamshetji Tata, the Tata Group symbolizes the great Indian story of hope, growth and phenomenal success.The group played the role of a nation builder in post- independent India. Its companies were headed by legendary chairpersons, all of whom firmly believed in the importance of continuously learning and growing. What can we learn from the individual stories that come together to form this inspiring narrative? Like all great successes, this isn't one story-it is many accounts that are so powerful that the whole is so much greater than the sum of all its parts. In The Learning Factory, Arun Maira narrates people-centric episodes that bring alive the values of the Tata Group, standards that combine the high-velocity practices as well as the old-fashioned principles that make the Tata Group the giant it is today. With insightful stories of conduct that are as practically implementable as they are inspiring, this is a blueprint for the individual as well as the business that seeks success through its community of leaders, workers and thinkers.

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9353059771

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9789353059774

Structure-based Design of Drugs and Other Bioactive Molecules

Tools and Strategies

By: Arun K. Ghosh,Sandra Gemma

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Structure-based Design of Drugs and Other Bioactive Molecules

Tools and Strategies

By: Arun K. Ghosh,Sandra Gemma

Drug design is a complex, challenging and innovative research area. Structure-based molecular design has transformed the drug discovery approach in modern medicine. Traditionally, focus has been placed on computational, structural or synthetic methods only in isolation. This one-of-akind guide integrates all three skill sets for a complete picture of contemporary structure-based design. This practical approach provides the tools to develop a high-affinity ligand with drug-like properties for a given drug target for which a high-resolution structure exists. The authors use numerous examples of recently developed drugs to present "best practice" methods in structurebased drug design with both newcomers and practicing researchers in mind. By way of a carefully balanced mix of theoretical background and case studies from medicinal chemistry applications, readers will quickly and efficiently master the basic skills of successful drug design. This book is aimed at new and active medicinal chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists, natural product chemists and those working in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. It is highly recommended as a desk reference to guide students in medicinal and chemical sciences as well as to aid researchers engaged in drug design today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527333657

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An Upstart in Government

Journeys of Change and Learning

By: Arun Maira

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An Upstart in Government

Journeys of Change and Learning

By: Arun Maira

Anecdotes of Arun Maira, former member of Planning Commission, India.

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Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited

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8129137186

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9788129137180

Listening for Well-being

Conversations with People Not Like Us

By: Arun Maira

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Listening for Well-being

Conversations with People Not Like Us

By: Arun Maira

Arun's insights...provide a unique perspective on collaborative solutions to address humanity's greatest challenges. -Ratan Tata Walls have risen between nations and people of different faiths and cultures. There is increasing violence against people whom we do not approve-physical in the real world and verbal online. We are unwilling to give people the dignity that they deserve when they are different. We are losing our ability to listen to people who are not like us even within the boundaries of our nations. The idea of democracy is in peril. Meanwhile, global problems-climate change, depletion of shared resources, persistent poverty and increasing inequalities-cry out for more urgent solutions. Listening is a simple idea. Everyone-rich or poor, powerful or weak, educated or uneducated-can listen to each other. In Listening for Well-Being, Arun Maira shows us ways to use the power of listening. He analyses the causes for the decline in listening and proposes solutions to increase its depth in private and public discourse. Drawing from his extensive experience as a leading strategist, Maira emphasizes that by listening deeply, especially to people who are not like us, we can create a more inclusive, just, harmonious and sustainable world for everyone.

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8129148218

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Discordant Democrats

Five Steps to Consensus

By: Arun Maira

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Discordant Democrats

Five Steps to Consensus

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0670081221

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Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying

Reforming Institutions

By: Arun Maira

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Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying

Reforming Institutions

By: Arun Maira

The development of institutions that conform to both democratic principles as well as market-capitalist ideas is one of human history's unfinished tasks. Perhaps it has become modern India's destiny to help finish the task. Institutions and institutional processes provide stability, are a means to progress and thus fulfil the needs of society.

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8129131269

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Agnipaksha

ātmajībanī

By: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam,Arun Tiwari

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Agnipaksha

ātmajībanī

By: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam,Arun Tiwari

Autobiography of an Indian scientist.

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Book's by Arun Maira

Remaking India

Remaking India

Listening to My Mind

Listening to My Mind

Shaping the Future

Shaping the Future

Discordant Democrats

Discordant Democrats

A Billion Fireflies

A Billion Fireflies

The Solutions Factory

The Solutions Factory

Time for Bharat

Time for Bharat

The Muslims Are Coming

The Muslims Are Coming

The Learning Factory

The Learning Factory

Structure-based Design of Drugs and Other Bioactive Molecules

Structure-based Design of Drugs and Other Bioactive Molecules

An Upstart in Government

An Upstart in Government

Listening for Well-being

Listening for Well-being

Discordant Democrats

Discordant Democrats

Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying

Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying

Agnipaksha

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