Friday, September 7, 2012

Maitreya in Media





Maitreyabooks go digital and global


On 4th September, 2012, Maitreya uploaded its first book on Amazon Kindle to reach out to all the international readers all across the globe. This also marked the launch of Maitreya's 7th book titled-
'Amused- A Short Story Compilation by Ravi & Sapna' , in the virtual world.

Now all those people who are settled abroad and would like to read our books can log on to Amazon Kindle.

Here are the links-


46+14=06, A Story of a Genius- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0095WNKLA/ref=r_soa_w_d

Baker's Dozen- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0096BP9DM/ref=r_soa_w_d



Sunday, September 2, 2012

Amused




Amused

Amused has been written by young, fresh and first time writers and it offers an array of stories with a twist in the tail. The stories will make you smile, laugh, cry and keep you amused.

While Sandhya writes about the Jogan family that follows the IST in the USA,  'The Encounter' by Srinath has a lot to say about the life and the transformations that one goes through and all that is brought out through a conversation between a grandfather and a grandson. Krishna's 'The Winter Birds' with an unusual narration is a very exciting romantic story. Ravikiran's 'Shakespeare's curse' is about the protagonist's encounter with Shakespeare...
Achal Rangaswamy's 'Hero Meets Hero' is about a day in the life of a pickpocket, Kshitij Banker's story will remind you of a stranger you know  well, Usha and Sriya's stories have everyday humour that we miss to observe.

A sure decoction to leave you Amused! 

Cover concept, photography and design- Ravikiran 

About the writers

Sandhya Ramachandran i
s presently the City Manager(Chennai) at Burrp.com. She is a Post Graduate in Film and Video Communication from the National Institute of Design and holds a Bachelors degree in Architecture. She is a storyteller who loves to tell her stories in words, images, film, doodles and other mediums of expression she can find. Travel, lifestyle, culture, art, food, education and literature form her core interests in her explorations. She believes that globe trotting would bring more meaning to life.

Srinath Vardarajan is a Chartered Accountant with a lot of passion for short stories and poems. He likes to write about simple day to day things with a different perspective.

Sriya Narayanan is a marketing professional at a newspaper . She also writes feature articles and a column on animal welfare. Her poetry has been published in journals like Eclectica, Nthposition and Mascara Review. She was shortlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Creative Writing Award in 2009 and 2011.

Ravikiran has studied Photography Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He is a travel photographer, who also loves to write short stories. He has penned and also designed a fiction with his mom titled 46+14=06, A Story of a Genius.

Krishna Marimuthu is an adept musician, aspiring film maker and of course, a born writer. His varied interest makes his writing simple in style, solid in substance but most importantly a tangible pleasure!

Creating press and TV campaigns for advertising agencies, writing newspaper articles and website content, managing copyright permissions for publishers, anchoring corporate communications -
Usha Narayanan has done all this and more. She is happy to dabble now in the joys of purely creative writing!

Sales and Marketing professionals are known for the yarns they spin to sell their wares. But 
Achal Rangaswamy loves to spin yarns around his favourite subject- Cricket.


Kshitij Banker is a radio Jockey with Radio Mirchi (98.3FM), Baroda. 


Authors & Titles of stories 

Sandhya Ramachandran 


• Traveller’s Joy 

• The Jogan Family 

• Symphony

• Persistance of Vision 

• For a Rainbow

• Epitaph

• Transience

• Memory



Srinath Vardarajan 

• Rani

• Broken Arrow

• Known Devil, Unknown Vengeance

• Love is a disease

• Morning Walk

• Temporary Excuse

• All the Best

• World Wonder

• The Encounter
Sriya Narayanan 


• Skyward Blue

• Queue

• The Married Man

• Paper Clip Man



Ravikiran 


• The End is Here

• Shakespeare’s Curse


Krishna Marimuthu 


• The Tiny Circle of Miracles

• The Winter Birds


Usha Narayanan 


• A Crazy Day in the Life of a Teenager


Achal Rangaswamy


• Hero meets Hero


Kshitij Banker


• Hello Uncle! 











Beyond the Uncharted Landscape



Beyond the Uncharted Landscape


This book has been written Achal Rangaswamy and M. S Srinivasan. 

It is a practical, "hands - on" guide for students, corporate aspirants and young men and women who have just begun working. The book takes the reader through a conversational journey of self-realisation and self actualisation. Written by a senior corporate who has over 3 decades of experience himself, the friendly and simple book sticks to contemporary language and puts the reader at ease.

Yet, each chapter provides a profound lesson in terms of learning joyfully, working with responsibility, and having a great attitude of gratitude. Achal Rangaswamy constantly talks of "stress- free happiness" and "taking the road of one's choice".

The book is anecdotal as well as prescriptive, but is not one of those self-help books that leave you wondering what to do next. In fact, at the end of each chapter, the author leaves the reader with a question or two to anwer, even take notes and then keep looking at those notes so that they can serve as stepping stones on the way to success not only at work, but also as an individual who is always on the grow.

Laced with spirituality, which is neither boring, nor in-your-face kind of instructional matter, the book continuously highlights the need to stay grounded, learn at a measured pace rather than feel frantic, and look at succeeding without knocking down everybody else in sight.

Based on the author's two decades long interaction with students from Biz Schools and engineering colleges, many issues like choice of streams, choice of functions at work, dealing with day to day crises at the workplace, and issues in man management are discussed with many anecdotes to tellingly give the reader options to look at.

There is even a chapter on goal setting and monitoring, which is literally a hand-held, Do It Yourself guide, which helps the reader plan various goals, professional, personal, social and of higher orders as well. Put simply, it is a practical, do-able and most user-friendly guide to success in personal and corporate life.