Peerless minds
Subtitle: an arc of achievement
By: edited by Pritish Nandy and Tapan Chaki
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9789353023553; 9789353023560
Subjects: Successful people; Interviews; Success; Achievement; Gagneurs; Entretiens; Succès
Description: ' Peerless Minds brings together the finest minds that sustain India as a riveting and relentless idea. The exceptional life stories featured in this book reaffirm the truth that the luckiest of nations are the ones that continue to be rebuilt and reimagined by peerless minds.' -- S. PRASANNARAJAN, Editor, Open magazine Three Nobel Prize winners. Two Bharat Ratnas. Three Knights of the British Empire. A Pulitzer Prize winner. A two-time Best of the Bookers winner. An Abel Prize winner. A Pritzker Prize winner. A Fields Medallist. Two Fukuoka Prize winners. A Turner Prize winner. Two Praemium Imperiale recipients. A double Academy Award winner. Many Padma Vibhushans and Padma Bhushans. But that is not why these people are really here. They are here because they, as Indians and people of Indian origin, have had extraordinary achievements and have inspired, each in their own way, a generation of Indians. Here you will find, among others, economist Amartya Sen; authors V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie; mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik; philanthropist Azim Premji; mathematician Manjul Bhargava; from the world of music, Annapurna Devi, Lata Mangeshkar and Zubin Mehta; industrialist Ratan Tata; sculptor Anish Kapoor; architect Balkrishna Doshi; spymaster A.S. Dulat; historian Irfan Habib; Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna; poet Javed Akhtar; and stand-up comic Hasan Minhaj. In conversation with them are authors and journalists such as James Astill, Prannoy Roy, Vir Sanghvi, Aatish Taseer, Shereen Bhan, Karan Mahajan, Rajdeep Sardesai, Khalid Mohamed, Priya Khanchandani, Indu Bhan and Anil Dharker. A fascinating collection of long-form interviews with some of the greatest minds and biggest achievers of our time, Peerless Minds is a book to be cherished and preserved.
Notes: Also available as an e-book.
Table of contents: title: Sir V.S. Naipaul -- p. 3; title: Amartya Sen -- p. 17; title: Zubin Mehta -- p. 29; title: Sir Salman Rushdie -- p. 47; title: Siddhartha Mukherjee -- p. 73; title: Manjul Bhargava -- p. 89; title: Lata Mangeshkar -- p. 107; title: Ratan Tata -- p. 127; title: Sir Anish Kapoor -- p. 143; title: Kailash Satyarthi -- p. 157; title: Azim Premji -- p. 175; title: A.R. Rahman -- p. 189; title: Soumitra Chatterjee -- p. 201; title: Satya Nadella -- p. 221; title: Sachin Tendulkar -- p. 233; title: Farokh Erach Udwadia -- p. 247; title: Raghuram G. Rajan -- p. 273; title: Hariprasad Chaurasia -- p. 291; title: Amitabh Bachchan -- p. 309; title: Vikas Khanna -- p. 335; title: Ramachandra Guha -- p. 345; title: Hasan Minhaj -- p. 361; title: Balkrishna Doshi -- p. 379; title: S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan -- p. 393; title: Sundar Pichai -- p. 411; title: Irfan Habib -- p. 431; title: Fali Nariman -- p. 453; title: A.S. Dulat -- p. 475; title: Javed Akhtar -- p. 489; title: Devdutt Pattanaik -- p. 503; title: Annapurna Devi-- p. 533.