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Raksha Bharadia's `Me' promises to help through example
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"Me" is a self-help book that inspires through living example. Me: A Handbook on Life, by Raksha Bharadia, published by Rupa and Co, was recently released by Magsaysay award-winner Kiran Bedi recently.
While Bharadia quotes heavyweights from Albert Einstein to Rabindranath Tagore to Goethe, engaging pencil sketches by Tuhin Chakrobarty enliven the book. Unlike most self-help books, it is neither didactic nor self-absorbed. Its strength lies in numerous interviews with the likes of M.F. Hussain, Pandit Jasraj, Mahesh Bhatt and Birju Maharaj.
Bharadia says she read about 500 books and conducted around 150 interviews. She adds, "After so much reading, introspection, reflection, the book wrote itself." Originally 650 pages, the book today is 250 pages long after seven rounds of editing. She classifies the book as "part psychology, part philosophy". "I am interested in the way people deal with things. I want to understand those who never gave up." She divides her answers into Self Esteem, Goals, Love, Body and Happiness.
The book doesn't merely deal with heart and soul. The chapter "Body" deals in detail about health. The reason is simple, because, "the body is the only place you have to live." The author confesses that she herself has conquered physical ailments through discipline and exercise. Kiran Bedi says, "We are here to be happy." This book hopes its readers can achieve that happiness.
NANDINI NAIR
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