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The Magic of Coffee Table Books

While today there hardly are people who love to read handheld books, all thanks to the many gadgets we can read on, coffee table books are still something that grab our attention. We buy them or not, we are sure to flip a few pages and admire these head-turners, quite many of which come from book publishers in India . Although coffee table book is a name buzzing around for more than a decade now, there's a something in these beauties that attract us. What could be it? The hidden child loves it! Remember how we loved flipping throughout picture books, even when we had no clue of alphabets? Well, it still is that same child within us that loves coffee table books. Simply flipping through those smooth pages, with beautiful pictures, those classic fonts is a soothe. What more! These books give some additional information too. Now can we deny it? Class interiors! When the first coffee table book came out in the early 20th century, only the rich could afford it. Though buying pow

Spruce up your home with creative coffee table books

Covering all sorts of genres and themes, coffee table books, apart from decking up the living space as an urbane decorative element, can make one enamoured of them with creative browsing material. From offering artistic grace to being inspirational and quirky, creative coffee table books are fun to own. Here are some why-to’s for having creative coffee table books around the abode. 1. They make a delightful appearance: There’s no two ways about it. A stack of thick and expressive coffee table books add height, volume, colour and symmetry. Make way for books that make a subtle statement of your personality. Their covers should be interesting, making you lift them up every time you see them. 2. Popular urbane art decor: Creative coffee table books are the contemporary, design-savvy decor items more popular than the old-style artefacts these days. Style them up with placing a big vase on the  centre of the coffee table and get the state-of-the-art feel. 3. Guests love t

Indians living abroad: A peek into the lives of Indian diaspora

Looking around the world, Indian diaspora is the greatest far and wide. As compared to the nationals of any other country, there are more Indians spread throughout the globe. A significant reason behind such huge numbers of Indians settled in abroad is their ancestors, who wisely decided to explore far away lands for work, trade and survival reportedly during the early independence making the further generations follow them and carry the parental business or venturing out their own line of work. Today, places like Fiji, Kenya, the New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Australia, South Africa, the UK and many more have bundles of Indians enjoying opportunities these offer them. The Indian diaspora community constitutes of diverse elements including South Asian Hong Kong Muslims, Canadian Sikhs, Gujarati East Africans and Americans and so forth. Following the Indian values and ethos even after adapting the lifestyle of a different land, these people have kept alive their Indianness. One

Indian Diaspora in Coffee Table Books

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Coffee Table Books are the talk of the year. Something latest! Trendy, these books can be found covering almost all the genres and versatile topics. But few books are found on the diaspora… the Indian diaspora ! Indians are the descendants of the most ancient civilisation with the greatest and oldest history. People from across the world have come here and people from this land have travelled miles, going far away from their land of birth—their motherland. What they have taken along with them are values, practices and uniqueness. Such is the Indian diaspora—wide and acclaimed. To add to this treasure of people can be books, rather coffee table books , on Indian diaspora . Today, people of Indian origin can be easily found everywhere from the under-developing country to the most developed, south of the globe to the north, deepest into the seas to the top of the greatest mountains. Tenzing Norgay, who reached the highest peak in the world, Ashoka, who spread Buddhis

The Best Coffee Table Books to Gift this Diwali 2018

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Diwali is close, Christmas is trailing and New Year is peeping from behind the summer. What more can one desire of in festivities but—fun, harmony and gifts, not to forget, the good food! Edibles are also a thing that we generally opt as gifts, however, with the health-conscious people, let’s make these d ays lively, filled with love and laughter and gift books, for it is said there is no friend as loyal as a book, and knowledge-gifting too! Here we bring you some of the best coffee table books , in no particular order, that we think can make smart gifts: • In the Company of Women A must book, close to every woman’s heart... this book is a reminder to what women in this era can achieve. It inspires you to become your aspiration every time you turn a page. This is a book for the ones looking for some solid substance. • Remembering Diana Is there anyone who doesn’t know Diana? Or anyone who still loves her? If yes, this book is for them, to introduce to them an icon—

Coffee-table books: Today, Tomorrow, Forever

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When beauty and practicality blend, they give rise to coffee-table books . Sometimes slender, sometimes heavy as a brick, these tomes are the true definitions of the coffee table sprucing every living room. Speaking of coffee-table books, inspirational anecdotes are less likely to be missed as they are the impressions of hard work, commitment, determination, and everything sterling wrapped in graceful covers that not only inspire readers but grab the eyeballs of visitors too. To so many, the odysseys of the Indian diaspora are worth keeping. Our coffee-table books are the collections of the journeys of successful Indians around the world. These exclusive publications display the unknown about the lives of the unheard achievers; their sagas of struggle, tales of success and narrations of accomplishments. A few big names that manifest the authenticity of these books include Mukesh Ambani, Yusuff Ali MA , Indra Nooyi, Ajay Banga, among several other top-notch personalities. Not

Dada J.P. Vaswani – A practical philosopher changing lives around the globe

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Maneesh Media is about to bring an enlightening story of Dada J.P. Vaswani on his 100th propitious birth anniversary on 2nd August in the form of a book. Among all the innumerable saints and sages in India, why yet another sage is being glorified, you may wonder. Also that why an entire book on him and no one else… “Change your attitude, change your life…” six basic words yet passing on an elaborative message worth embracing. It is one of the significant adages from India’s practical philosopher, Dada J.P. Vaswani who is not just a man cherishing each aware being, but a modern sage spreading love to blooms to human and to everything pure and divine. Dada steerages a prominent Sadhu Vaswani Mission, which is a social welfare and administration association with a base camp in Pune and running actively around the world. A disciple of Sadhu T.L. Vaswani, Dada Vaswani has been working in the field of advancing vegetarianism and animal rights for quite a while now. A Hyderabad