Am so glad about this. Mini is one of our local Pune based authors, and this comes as a shot in the arm for all budding aspiring authors !
Great Show, Mini, congratulations !
Tulika Books: Just a Train Ride Away wins the Bal Sahitya Purask...: "Just a Train Ride Away won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar! A national award! Yay! Yippee!*Choking noises of joy. Takes a few deep breaths. Sits do..."
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
"In Search of Sita - event organised by Open Space
The editors Namita Gokhale and Dr. Malashri Lal pose with the book, near the twistntales counter.
The twistntales team at the venue
The book, which carries essays, commentaries, and articles on Sita as represented through folk literature, theatre, mainstream religion and contemporary film makers.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Great Response, Thankyou Everyone !
Deepa Venkatraghvan, News and Personal Finance Editor, Moneycontrol.com makes a point as author, P V Subramanyam looks on.
The Second Reading in progress
A question from the front!
keen interest
A question from the back !
A cross section of the audience
Sharan welcoming the guests
Getting the event underway ....
Kshitija getting counter items sorted out.
Shahaji loading the boxes from the twistntales office
Friday, August 13, 2010
Book Review "Retire Rich..."
Read about this here :
http://www.jagoinvestor.com/2010/08/review-of-book-on-retirement-retire-rich-invest-rs-40-a-day.html
twistntales will be offering a 15% discount on the book !
http://www.jagoinvestor.com/2010/08/review-of-book-on-retirement-retire-rich-invest-rs-40-a-day.html
twistntales will be offering a 15% discount on the book !
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Session on "Financial Independence" on Independence Day!
Hi,
Thank you for the fabulous response to our book launch, it was great! We had tremendous fun doing up the place with all the spooky stuff that we could muster…. And were the kids excited? ooh! they came completely dressed for the act ! It sure was fun!
We have put up some pictures on our blog, www.twistntales.blogspot.com do check it out!
We are ready with our next event, this one on Personal Finance – “Financial Independence” on Independence Day! We are presenting a morning session in Seasons Hotel with a reading from the book, “Retire Rich – Invest Rs. 40/- a Day” by Mr. P.V. Subramanyam, published by CNBC TV18.
Some of you may remember us doing a workshop on “Health and Wealth” in 2003. Well, this is a progression of that event. Today, Mr. P.V. Subramanyam is a bestselling author, and an avidly read blogger @ www.subramoney.com.
About the Book
“Retire Rich, Invest Rs.40/- a Day” is all about the value of compounding. When do you retire? Is retirement a function of age? or is it about creating that surplus which gets you comfortable to quit your job ? This book introduces you to the concept that retirement is an amount of money! After all, if you do have that magical amount, why not retire early? And “live” life?
“Retire Rich” takes you through the steps and techniques, and warns you to the dangers of not planning. Retirement is a goal and has to be approached in a financial planning mode. Retirement Goal Setting becomes important. How much money is adequate for a person to retire? This book has many pointers and a calculator which leads you towards the answer.
Can you really retire by investing an amount as little as Rs. 40 a day? The answer is yes, it is the power of compounding. If you do have time on your side, it is possible to create a retirement corpus on an amount as small as Rs. 40 a day. If you have accumulated money for your retirement, you should also know how to withdraw. Here he deals with what is annuity, what are the methods of creating annuities, what options are available, and the works about annuity.
A few chapters are devoted to answering how much and what type of insurance should you look at during retirement, the attitude of the Indian family to retirement, the need to make a will, some retirement blunders, etc. What is interesting are the tables at the end of the book telling you how much to save and invest – and case studies about portfolio make over for retirement.
The book has sold 42000 copies in retail since its release in Feb, 2010.
About the Author
Mr. P V Subramanyam, a Chartered Accountant by qualification and a financial trainer by profession. After a 20 year career serving in the trenches of the financial services industry – from Equity broking, mutual fund advising, corporate finance advising, personal financial planning, he turned to training. He has trained in most mutual funds, life insurance companies, private sector banks, brokerage houses, and many companies. He also conducts financial planning workshops within corporates, helping employees save better, invest better, equipping smart people with the tools to get richer. He writes regularly for financial websites (www.moneycontrol.com, www.myiris.com, rediff.com and magazines like Money Today, Money Mantra, and BSE sensex, and can be contacted at pvsubramanyam@gmail.com.
About the Event:
A reading of the book will be done by Deepa Venkatraghvan. She is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and a writer by profession. She is currently the News and Personal Finance editor of Moneycontrol.com, which is the website of CNBC TV18. Prior to this, she worked with the Economic Times.
She has written two books on personal finance, namely, ‘Everything You Wanted to Know About Investing’ and ‘What Your Financial Agent Will Tell You and Why You Shouldn’t Listen’ also published by CNBC, TV18. From time to time, she also provides research support to the personal finance shows on various Network18 group channels like CNBC Awaaz and CNN IBN.
The event is being held at Seasons Hotel (Council I) between 10.30am and 12.30pm on 15th Aug, Independence Day (Sunday). RSVP: twistntales at the numbers given below or me Janaki @ 9960639162. Thank you for letting us know in advance.
All the above mentioned books will be available for sale at the venue, and also at twistntales.
Hoping to see you there,
From the excited team at
twistntales
Thank you for the fabulous response to our book launch, it was great! We had tremendous fun doing up the place with all the spooky stuff that we could muster…. And were the kids excited? ooh! they came completely dressed for the act ! It sure was fun!
We have put up some pictures on our blog, www.twistntales.blogspot.com do check it out!
We are ready with our next event, this one on Personal Finance – “Financial Independence” on Independence Day! We are presenting a morning session in Seasons Hotel with a reading from the book, “Retire Rich – Invest Rs. 40/- a Day” by Mr. P.V. Subramanyam, published by CNBC TV18.
Some of you may remember us doing a workshop on “Health and Wealth” in 2003. Well, this is a progression of that event. Today, Mr. P.V. Subramanyam is a bestselling author, and an avidly read blogger @ www.subramoney.com.
About the Book
“Retire Rich, Invest Rs.40/- a Day” is all about the value of compounding. When do you retire? Is retirement a function of age? or is it about creating that surplus which gets you comfortable to quit your job ? This book introduces you to the concept that retirement is an amount of money! After all, if you do have that magical amount, why not retire early? And “live” life?
“Retire Rich” takes you through the steps and techniques, and warns you to the dangers of not planning. Retirement is a goal and has to be approached in a financial planning mode. Retirement Goal Setting becomes important. How much money is adequate for a person to retire? This book has many pointers and a calculator which leads you towards the answer.
Can you really retire by investing an amount as little as Rs. 40 a day? The answer is yes, it is the power of compounding. If you do have time on your side, it is possible to create a retirement corpus on an amount as small as Rs. 40 a day. If you have accumulated money for your retirement, you should also know how to withdraw. Here he deals with what is annuity, what are the methods of creating annuities, what options are available, and the works about annuity.
A few chapters are devoted to answering how much and what type of insurance should you look at during retirement, the attitude of the Indian family to retirement, the need to make a will, some retirement blunders, etc. What is interesting are the tables at the end of the book telling you how much to save and invest – and case studies about portfolio make over for retirement.
The book has sold 42000 copies in retail since its release in Feb, 2010.
About the Author
Mr. P V Subramanyam, a Chartered Accountant by qualification and a financial trainer by profession. After a 20 year career serving in the trenches of the financial services industry – from Equity broking, mutual fund advising, corporate finance advising, personal financial planning, he turned to training. He has trained in most mutual funds, life insurance companies, private sector banks, brokerage houses, and many companies. He also conducts financial planning workshops within corporates, helping employees save better, invest better, equipping smart people with the tools to get richer. He writes regularly for financial websites (www.moneycontrol.com, www.myiris.com, rediff.com and magazines like Money Today, Money Mantra, and BSE sensex, and can be contacted at pvsubramanyam@gmail.com.
About the Event:
A reading of the book will be done by Deepa Venkatraghvan. She is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and a writer by profession. She is currently the News and Personal Finance editor of Moneycontrol.com, which is the website of CNBC TV18. Prior to this, she worked with the Economic Times.
She has written two books on personal finance, namely, ‘Everything You Wanted to Know About Investing’ and ‘What Your Financial Agent Will Tell You and Why You Shouldn’t Listen’ also published by CNBC, TV18. From time to time, she also provides research support to the personal finance shows on various Network18 group channels like CNBC Awaaz and CNN IBN.
The event is being held at Seasons Hotel (Council I) between 10.30am and 12.30pm on 15th Aug, Independence Day (Sunday). RSVP: twistntales at the numbers given below or me Janaki @ 9960639162. Thank you for letting us know in advance.
All the above mentioned books will be available for sale at the venue, and also at twistntales.
Hoping to see you there,
From the excited team at
twistntales
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Hi all,
Here we are, like we promised you in our last mail with two more exciting “Meet the Author” sessions. Thank you for the fabulous response for the book launch of Deepak Dalal’s “Sahyadri Adventures” This month, we start with a book for youngsters and follow it up with a more serious one for adults.
• 8th August, Sun 7pm “Pearls of Wisdom” by Sonja Chandrachud at twistntales
• 15th August, Sun 1030 am “Retire Rich” (a book on Financial Planning and a CNBC bestseller) by P V Subramanyam at Seasons Hotel.8th August 2010, Sunday 7pm to 9pm at twistntales
Sonja has had a long happy relationship with twistntales. From being one of the early volunteers in our Sunday Morning Reading Sessions for kids, and doing a workshop for women on Stress Busters, Sonja has come a long way! twistntales is happy to the first to release Sonja’s Pearls of Wisdom.
Dubbed the ‘Desi Rowling’ by the media, Sonja deftly brews up fantastical tales filled with magic, mayhem & mischief. The Potion of Eternity & Pearls of Wisdom are the first two novels in the much loved Hilarious Hauntings Adventures five book series.
Hilarious Hauntings Adventures is about the lovable and quirky wizarding Von D’eth family of the Sorcery World. Like any other place on earth, these sorcerers must be on the alert for the nasty Black Magi are always on the prowl, stealing elixirs, ruining spells, in short trying to mess things for everyone. Check out www.hilarioushauntings.com
Packed with the weirdest, meanest and funniest assortment of ghouls, djinns, witches and yogis, these are the first two books in a series of fantasy adventures that will have you careening from one escapade to another, at the mercy of the creatures from your nightmares.
POTION OF ETERNITY
HHA Book 1.
Count Drunkula Von D’eth, a Transylvanian vampire and a top secret agent for Wizard Organization Worldwide (WOW), has been given a mission to die for… The magical Potion of Eternity, which will grant great powers to the children of a couple who drink it together, has been spiked by the Black Magi during the Great Wedding of the Oriental Sorcerer, Dead Lee and the Enchantress of the Deep, Abyssinia. Instead of declaring undying love, the two sorcerers go off the deep end, whipping up tsunamis, unleashing the Slimy Poaching Agency and threatening to rip the Sorcery World apart!
Time is now running out, the Count must concoct the Antidote and brew a fresh lot of the Potion before all hell breaks loose in the Sorcery World. But all this must be done undercover…decrees the 317 year old druid Nostra Daemus, the Ancient One and head of the WOW.
The Count moves to Wichita, Kansas, buys a charming haunted mansion, and settles down with his large, crazy family to concoct the Antidote and brew a fresh lot of the Potion.
But things can never be so simple in the wizarding world, especially if you have a hotheaded Indian Tantrika, Sinistra Sin-ha as your wife, a Water Sprite, a Vetal and a Psychic as your children, the ugliest, meanest Hag of a witch, Hilda Von D’eth for a mother and a mad mystic, Yogi Baba as your father-in-law!
Drunkula soon realizes he is up against some serious black magic and an enemy in his own house who will do anything to pinch the rest of the Potion from him. Then, there is a ghastly murder, his lab is broken into, his wife goes missing and the arrival of a nasty ransom note…
There’s only one thing for the Count do—take matters into his own hands and fly off to meet the Supreme One, the leader of the Black Magi, and strike a deal in the Belly of the Beast…
PEARLS OF WISDOM
Book 2: (SYNOPSIS)
The Pearls of Wisdom, which bestow powers on the ruler of the water world, have been snitched by the notorious Supreme One and his merry band of Black Magi from under top-notch secret service vampire agent Count Drunkula’s nose. He now faces execution for treason, and the only one who can save him and restore order in the water world is his daughter Koral. She has just aced her WWETs (Water Wizadry Eligibility Test), but this mission is way out of her league—2000 leagues under the sea, to be precise.
Deep in the Sea of Secrets Koral is up against creatures from an underwater nightmare—Va Suki the thousand-headed serpent who has his two thousand eyes on the pearls too; Kraus Kraken, ready to strike a deal with the Black Magi; Medusa the gorgon, waiting to snack on any wizard who comes her way; and the deadliest of them all—a new Black Magi leader on the hunt for virgin souls… Will Koral be able to return with the pearls, or will she lose something more precious than her life?
Teeming with eccentric vampires, wizards, djinns, nagas and witches, this sequel to The Potion of Eternity is both a laugh riot and an adventure that twists and turns till its final electrifying finale.
Make sure you are there at your spookiest best. Come with your Black Magic potions, charms, wizardary tools, witchy wigs et. all! And this is your opportunity to buy your books @ a special price and get the author to make it special for you!
An e-invite is attached to this mail, kindly feel free to forward this to others who may be interested.
See you at twistntales!
From the excited team at,
twistntales
Here we are, like we promised you in our last mail with two more exciting “Meet the Author” sessions. Thank you for the fabulous response for the book launch of Deepak Dalal’s “Sahyadri Adventures” This month, we start with a book for youngsters and follow it up with a more serious one for adults.
• 8th August, Sun 7pm “Pearls of Wisdom” by Sonja Chandrachud at twistntales
• 15th August, Sun 1030 am “Retire Rich” (a book on Financial Planning and a CNBC bestseller) by P V Subramanyam at Seasons Hotel.8th August 2010, Sunday 7pm to 9pm at twistntales
Sonja has had a long happy relationship with twistntales. From being one of the early volunteers in our Sunday Morning Reading Sessions for kids, and doing a workshop for women on Stress Busters, Sonja has come a long way! twistntales is happy to the first to release Sonja’s Pearls of Wisdom.
Dubbed the ‘Desi Rowling’ by the media, Sonja deftly brews up fantastical tales filled with magic, mayhem & mischief. The Potion of Eternity & Pearls of Wisdom are the first two novels in the much loved Hilarious Hauntings Adventures five book series.
Hilarious Hauntings Adventures is about the lovable and quirky wizarding Von D’eth family of the Sorcery World. Like any other place on earth, these sorcerers must be on the alert for the nasty Black Magi are always on the prowl, stealing elixirs, ruining spells, in short trying to mess things for everyone. Check out www.hilarioushauntings.com
Packed with the weirdest, meanest and funniest assortment of ghouls, djinns, witches and yogis, these are the first two books in a series of fantasy adventures that will have you careening from one escapade to another, at the mercy of the creatures from your nightmares.
POTION OF ETERNITY
HHA Book 1.
Count Drunkula Von D’eth, a Transylvanian vampire and a top secret agent for Wizard Organization Worldwide (WOW), has been given a mission to die for… The magical Potion of Eternity, which will grant great powers to the children of a couple who drink it together, has been spiked by the Black Magi during the Great Wedding of the Oriental Sorcerer, Dead Lee and the Enchantress of the Deep, Abyssinia. Instead of declaring undying love, the two sorcerers go off the deep end, whipping up tsunamis, unleashing the Slimy Poaching Agency and threatening to rip the Sorcery World apart!
Time is now running out, the Count must concoct the Antidote and brew a fresh lot of the Potion before all hell breaks loose in the Sorcery World. But all this must be done undercover…decrees the 317 year old druid Nostra Daemus, the Ancient One and head of the WOW.
The Count moves to Wichita, Kansas, buys a charming haunted mansion, and settles down with his large, crazy family to concoct the Antidote and brew a fresh lot of the Potion.
But things can never be so simple in the wizarding world, especially if you have a hotheaded Indian Tantrika, Sinistra Sin-ha as your wife, a Water Sprite, a Vetal and a Psychic as your children, the ugliest, meanest Hag of a witch, Hilda Von D’eth for a mother and a mad mystic, Yogi Baba as your father-in-law!
Drunkula soon realizes he is up against some serious black magic and an enemy in his own house who will do anything to pinch the rest of the Potion from him. Then, there is a ghastly murder, his lab is broken into, his wife goes missing and the arrival of a nasty ransom note…
There’s only one thing for the Count do—take matters into his own hands and fly off to meet the Supreme One, the leader of the Black Magi, and strike a deal in the Belly of the Beast…
PEARLS OF WISDOM
Book 2: (SYNOPSIS)
The Pearls of Wisdom, which bestow powers on the ruler of the water world, have been snitched by the notorious Supreme One and his merry band of Black Magi from under top-notch secret service vampire agent Count Drunkula’s nose. He now faces execution for treason, and the only one who can save him and restore order in the water world is his daughter Koral. She has just aced her WWETs (Water Wizadry Eligibility Test), but this mission is way out of her league—2000 leagues under the sea, to be precise.
Deep in the Sea of Secrets Koral is up against creatures from an underwater nightmare—Va Suki the thousand-headed serpent who has his two thousand eyes on the pearls too; Kraus Kraken, ready to strike a deal with the Black Magi; Medusa the gorgon, waiting to snack on any wizard who comes her way; and the deadliest of them all—a new Black Magi leader on the hunt for virgin souls… Will Koral be able to return with the pearls, or will she lose something more precious than her life?
Teeming with eccentric vampires, wizards, djinns, nagas and witches, this sequel to The Potion of Eternity is both a laugh riot and an adventure that twists and turns till its final electrifying finale.
Make sure you are there at your spookiest best. Come with your Black Magic potions, charms, wizardary tools, witchy wigs et. all! And this is your opportunity to buy your books @ a special price and get the author to make it special for you!
An e-invite is attached to this mail, kindly feel free to forward this to others who may be interested.
See you at twistntales!
From the excited team at,
twistntales
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