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Audiobooks Narrated by Aditi Thirani
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"Ratan Tata was the Chairman of Tata Group from 1991 to 2012. During his 21-year tenure, he made major changes to the group and became part of Tata group's international brands like Tetley, Chorus and Jaguar-Land-Rover. He was also the main force behind creating the cheapest car in the world, Tata Nano. Ratan Tata has been conferred with Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, and is currently the chairman of Tata Trusts."
"Satya Narayan Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft in 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Prior to becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise Group, to build and run the company's computing platform."
"Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive who is the CEO of Google and it's parent company Alphabet. Sundar, who did metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, has an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton School. He joined Google as a management executive in 2004. By 2015, he assumed the position of Company CEO."
"Swami Vivekananda was a young Hindu monk who brought the glory of Indian culture and spirituality to the world. His speech at the World Religion Conference held in Chicago in the year 1893 is still remembered. He created a unique identity of India through that speech. From the age of 25, Vivekananda wore only ocher-coloured clothes. Before traveling the world, he had traveled all over India on foot. He had said in the earlier part of his life that he would not live beyond the age of 40. And so shall he followed, he died at the age of exactly 39 years. Vivekananda's most revered life mantra was - get up, wake up and do not stop until the goal is achieved."
"Jeff Bezos is the founder, president and the largest shareholder of the American company Amazon. He is the richest person in the world today. Jeff started the company with an online sale of books and then extended it towards many directions, making it one of the largest technology companies in the world. He is an ideal to reckon with."
"Before the global financial meltdown of 2008, India's economy was thriving and its
GDP growth was cruising at an impressive 8.8 per cent. The economic boom impacted
a large section of Indians, even if unequally. With sustained high growth over an extended
period, India could have achieved what economists call a 'take-off' (rapid and
self-sustained GDP growth). The global financial meltdown disrupted this
momentum in 2008.
In the decade that followed, each time the country's economy came close to returning
to that growth trajectory, political events knocked it off course.
In 2019, India's GDP is growing at the rate of 7 per cent, making it the fastest-growing
major economy in the world, but little on the ground suggests that Indians are actually
better off. Economic discontent and insecurity are on the rise, farmers are restive and
land-owning classes are demanding quotas in government jobs. The middle
class is palpably disaffected, the informal economy is struggling and big businesses
are no longer expanding aggressively.
India is not the star it was in 2008 and in effect, the 'India growth story' has devolved
into 'growth without a story'. The Lost Decade tells the story of the slide
and examines the political context in which the Indian economy failed to recover
lost momentum."
"From Amartya Sen to Aamir Khan, Raghuram Rajan, Sachin Tendulkar, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitharaman and Sania Mirza among others, in this book eminent journalist Sonia Singh opens a window to the myriad worlds of these stalwarts, who share their idea of India in freewheeling conversations. Chatty, candid and amazingly gripping these 15 interviews uncover the pivotal moments in their lives that have become defining moments in the history of the nation."
"The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself."
"An 1898 western short story by American author Stephen Crane. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride. Potter's nemesis, the gunslinger Scratchy Wilson, drunkenly plans to accost the sheriff after he disembarks the train, but he changes his mind upon seeing the unarmed man with his bride."
"Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction."
"Aditya and Ayesha are a picture perfect couple. He's handsome, young and successful, while she's beautiful, caring and devoted. Aditya's content, but also bored, until he stumbles upon the rabbit-hole that is partner-swapping, and drags her into it with him. When they meet Viren, a charming and poetic man and his bored and frivolous wife Saumya, Aditya begins to fear that he's bitten off more than his ego can chew. It's a question of who has the last laugh, as the swappers battle with the boundaries of possession in a marriage thrown wide open..."
