BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Too Good To Be True: The National #1 Bestseller Now in an Exclusive Hardback Edition with a Bonus Chapter and Colour-Your-Own Cover! by Prajakta Koli 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the Amazon India Popular Choice Debut Book 2025 Award

Winner of Crossword Popular Choice Award for Fiction 2025

Winner of the Puri Literary Festival Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2025

Avani's favourite thing to do is bury her nose in romance novels-but, honestly, life can't be trusted to make the stories real, right?

In the bookstore where she works, a man walks in, straight out of the pages of her favourite love stories. Aman is hot, successful, seems to know what she's going to say before she's said it, and just cannot get enough of her. In short, he's perfect. Then why is Avani losing her mind, ignoring the advice of her BFFs and trying to convince herself that he's just too good to be true?

Will Aman ever be able to figure her out? And will Avani allow him to?

Wickedly witty, tender and utterly relatable at every turn, Too Good to Be True is the sparkling, true-blue, will-they-won't-they love story you've been waiting for!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Prajakta Koli, also known as MostlySane, is one of India's most influential digital creators, actors and storytellers, with over 18 million followers across social media platforms. She rose to prominence through her relatable, sharp-witted content and has since built a multifaceted career across entertainment, literature and global advocacy.

As an actor, Prajakta is best known for her lead role in the hit series Mismatched, and has starred in Single Papa, both on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video's original series Andhera and the Bollywood film Jugjugg Jeeyo. In January 2026, she made her Marathi film debut in Krantijyoti Vidyalay Marathi Madhyam, marking a meaningful return to her linguistic and cultural roots.

In 2025, she was the only Indian on the TIME100 Creators list, which recognized her impact on culture and storytelling worldwide.

Beyond entertainment, Prajakta is a passionate advocate for social change and serves as UNDP's first Youth Climate Champion from India, representing young voices on

global platforms and advocating for climate action and sustainability. She has also featured in the Daytime Emmy-winning documentary YouTube Creators for Change on Girls' Education with Michelle Obama.

Too Good to Be True is Prajakta's debut novel, which became a national #1 bestseller on release. Its publication initiated a significant new chapter in her journey as an author and a storyteller.

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Books Of The Week - Saturday, 6th JULY 2024

YOGAi: Interplays of Yoga and  Artificial Intelligence 

by Sunil Malhotra 

 About the Book

"We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

When the dust settles on the hype around Ai, the world is likely to remain wildly unpredictable. Use this book as a starting point for understanding the human quest for truth, and creating technologies wisely to make our lives richer and the world a better place.

YOGAi is the result of the author’s professional experience, embellished by interactions with Dr. Karan Singh, Ervin Laszlo, Satish Kumar, John Maeda, Salim Ismail and other luminaries, making it a well-rounded treatise on the interplays of Yoga and Ai.

YOGAi makes Ai approachable by contextualising the evolution of technology. These technologies have crept upon us, even without our noticing, and yet when it comes to leveraging them, we still have a tendency to shy away. Technologies with broad, general applications in their early stages take an inordinate amount of time to emerge, but eventually their power becomes self-evident, and they take hold over society in disruptive ways.

Another goal of YOGAi is to make you accessible to yourself by contextualising the evolution of the human mind. Attention is brought to Yoga, narrowly understood as physical exercises from India, which in fact are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Yoga serves as a powerful tool for self-discovery, enabling individuals to explore their innermost selves and cultivate a deeper understanding of their identities, purpose, and connections to the world. Ultimately, the convergence of Yoga and Ai represents a pathway towards realising human potential and creating a more equitable and sustainable world for all.

Sunil Malhotra’s entrepreneurial experience spans Design, Manufacturing and Information Technology. A thought leader in Design Thinking and Exponential Transformation, Sunil founded Ideafarms to bring industrial design to ICT.

About the Author

I like technology. And design.

But I like people even more. And the planet.

I have been an entrepreneur. Always.

Since 1985 I’ve championed interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centred design. As founder and CEO of Ideafarms, which brought Industrial Design approaches to IT, my focus is on investing in simple solutions combining eastern philosophies with western scientific methods.

I look at problems holistically using a combination of design, technology and societal elements. Aka systems thinking.

I connect dots and, more importantly, keep the human aspects of empathy, compassion and enthusiasm at the centre.

Everything created by humans is meant for use by other humans …

… therefore you can never go wrong if you keep human needs in the centre of your thinking; staying within the boundaries of ethics and sustainability, and making "Planet over People and People over Profit", your business mantra.

A spiritual orientation helps. Having championed the cause of spirituality in business for over thirty years, and helping leaders get on top of their challenges using Yogic and other practices, has enriched my journey. I have written The First Principal (2014) and YOGAi: Interplays of Yoga and Artificial Intelligence (2024).

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK - 10TH NOVEMBER, 2018

The Ferment 

By - Nikhila Henry 

About the Book

From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!’—Zee News

‘Activism or anti-nationalism?’—Times Now

‘Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide’—FirstPost

‘Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peaceful political debate’—NDTV

‘Kashmir University students protest anti–free speech circular’—The Quint

These are but a tiny sample of headlines that have become commonplace in India in recent years. What is it about the present moment in the life of our nation that has stirred so many thousands of young citizens into political action? And what is it about the nature of their protests that is threatening enough for the establishment to brand it ‘anti-national’?

The wave of youth protests, agitations, and marches that gripped India in the last few years were not, Nikhila Henry argues, sporadic, isolated, or piecemeal. Rather, they were an organized effort against a fractured, unforgiving, and deeply discriminatory society. The participants, despite differences, often found convergence and empathy for each other, and fought larger battles: battles of the Dalit, of the Adivasi, of the Kashmiri, of the Women, of the Muslim. In so doing, it was not simply entrenched discrimination they highlighted. In so doing, they questioned fundamental ideas of public morality and the very essence that makes us a united nation.

About the Author

NIKHILA HENRY is a Special Correspondent with The Hindu in Hyderabad, reporting on education, student politics, civic administration and social welfare. An alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Programme on Investigative Journalism of the United States’ State Department, Nikhila worked as a Principal Correspondent for The Times of India in Hyderabad for eight years, covering education, youth agitations, gender struggles and politics. She also compiled and edited Rohith Vemula’s online diary, Caste is Not a Rumour. The Ferment is her first book.

ISBN : 9789386215437

Price : Rs. 599.00

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