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‘Stories at work: Unlock the secret to business storytelling’ by Indranil Chakraborty, Portfolio/Penguin, Gurgaon 2018. The boredom-killing stratagem of storytelling has become the new business in business communication and invaded boardrooms. CEOs are discovering the virtues of storytelling as the medium for their message in this age of information overload and attention deficiency. Storytelling has also provided a platform for the voices of Kalawatis and Sufiya Begums for larger causes. Indranil Chakraborty is one of the small tribe of business storytelling trainers in the world with the gift of the gab and with experience in large organisations. He has authored the book, which is halfway between a magazine article and a research paper, a la mode, to be a bedside companion for corporate czars and their cohorts. Stories can range in size from a six-word gut-wrenching terribly tiny tale by Ernest Hemingway to the monumental epic Mahabharata, which seeks to point the moral com...

I finished Zac O' Yeah's hashtag # book , 'A walk through Barygaza' on hashtag # amazonprime last night. Barygaza is the old name for Bharuch in Gujarat. I had first heard of the writer in 2014 when he was scheduled to attend a book event at Urban Solace, Bangalore. I had even bought his book 'Mr. Majestic' then, but could neither read the book nor attend the event. So when I saw this hashtag # travelogue by this hashtag # Swedish hashtag # writer who is settled in hashtag # Bangalore , I read it immediately. It was entertaining, written with positivity and humour and also strewn with facts he had unearthed through extensive research. I have read very few travelogues, but this one encourages me to read more of them.