Kids Laugh & Learn Gita by Hare Krishna Chandrasekaran is a fusion of spiritual knowledge and humor. A select 36 slokas from Bhagavad Gita are presented to children in an understandable way. Each sloka is explained with easy meanings and transliteration. A joke with cartoons and a story follow this. What quality of Krishna the children can learn from each story is given in the index portion in the beginning. Elders can emphasize the importance of the quality while telling the stories so that it remains fresh in their brains. The book turns out to be a pleasurable read for children and parents together.

It is really important that all children learn them early in their schools, as they say, “Catch them young!”. Along with the modern education, children should be taught values from scriptures in parallel. This will help the children develop an all round personality, which will help them in their life. A ‘must read’ for every child.

Projects succeed-projects fail. This is because there is no definite formula for success in any project. When attempting to do something, be it a small task, an assignment or innovation, a set procedure has to be followed. In a project, the number of factors involved are far too many, and it is always a complex situation. If due care is not given to the project, it fails. The definition of failure varies with perspective. However, three factors stand out: cost overrun, time overrun and the original intentions of the project being lost en route. With finality, we can say that these factors fit in snugly in IT projects. It is particularly apt in a project, if the client who originally mooted the proposal says, “This is not what I wanted”. This is the tune sung by many IT clients and almost always, they are justified. Project failure is a multi-headed dragon which may take any shape it wants. It can be a spaceship for Mars crashing into the ocean, or the Titanic, ramming onto an iceberg; an airport ending up as big as a city, or a road project hitting a huge roadblock. It can be a cathedral, half-finished, or a hydro-electric project ending up with lakhs of displaced families. With big projects, the chances of failure are higher. There are projects with outlays of even billions of dollars. Thus, failure of space missions is understandable. Strangely, construction of a simple park also has failed sometimes.

In the Srimad Bhagavatam, about 24 avatars of Lord Krishna are mentioned. These are the lila avatars of the Lord. Out of these, ten avatars of the Lord have become popular, I would say. These are popularly known as Dasavatar. After describing these avatars in brief, the Bhagavatam goes on to say that, the avatariis Lord Krishna, the son of Vasudeva. All the avatars emanate from Lord Krishna, the original Person. With this in mind, in our current book, you will not find Lord Krishna as one of the avatars.

Managing a team or an entire organization is a tough job. To be good at management, one needs to fulfill several requisites. This book talks about some of the important management requisites like motivational skills, sense of judgement, patience, advance planning, scheduling etc., knowing and practicing which, everyone of us can become a good manager. With the past experience of authoring three good-selling books, the author has put down his thoughts and brought together the pieces of the jigsaw namely - management requisite, Lord Krishna’s exemplification, humour and Bhagavad Gita quotation. Doing this for 81 management requisites was a great task in itself. This piece of work was then edited, enhanced and polished by our team, before it could make it to the hands of thousands of young as well as experienced managers and brighten their everyday lives.

This book encompasses very useful marriage hints from the author who has a track record of leading a successful married life for 40 years. These hints are based on Lord Krishna’s instructions from the Bhagavad Gita which are derived from another context and are laced with rip-roaring laughter.

For the past 5200 years, children have been raising questions and discussing within themselves as to why Krishna did such and such things and why He did not do some other things. They never could never get the right answer. Now the author gives 36 enchanting stories about Krishna and answers the naturally arising doubts with three bullet points in each case.