Book Review - One Year Of Stand Up Comedy Journey In India by Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi.

BLURB : 

When Jagdish Chaturvedi, a doctor-turned-innovator-turned-author, could not balance his schedule effectively to perform as an actor, he chose to transition from theatre to a comparatively less schedule-intensive art form - stand-up comedy.
This book is about the first year of his transformational journey, and it delves into several aspects of being a successful comedian, such as the process of writing jokes, delivering them, promoting a show, branding oneself, understanding the audience and even rescuing the show.
What are the challenges? How do you overcome them? How much can you earn and how can you sustain it on a regular basis? What are the key learnings to take from bad experiences? What shouldn't I do?
This book shares raw experiences of a growing stand-up comedian and includes a separate section that provides valuable advice from seasoned and experienced stand-up comedians. This book aims to be a struggling comic's answer to all unanswered questions with the hope to help accelerate their journey towards faster growth as a stand-up comedian.

REVIEW : 

This is the only Indian book on stand up comedy. There’s a beauty about Jagdish sir’s book, is he writes about his success and failures in such a witty manner and inspite of all this, leaves you pondering with such great preachings which is worth remembering and that can be imbibed and followed to succeed. As different people are exploring new and different fields, we are getting several new options of undiscovered and new fields to explore, one such book is ‘one year of standup comedy’ which talks about Dr Jagdish’s journey of exploring stand up comedy for the first year. What's unique is that everything that no one would share is written very honestly. Things like how to come up with jokes, make money, save a show when no one laughs and how to grow as a comedian. The frank and direct way of narration feels like a friend is sharing important tips. Around 40 established comedians from India also share their advices in between sections of the book. This is a must read for anyone who wants to try comedy and explore the profession of Stand-up comedy. So stand up, buy this book, read it and do comedy more efficiently.

RATING :
4.5/5

Book Review of The Benefits of Failing Successfully: 10 Hidden Benefits of Making Mistakes And Failing by Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi.

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 In this book, Dr. Chaturvedi shares ten personal anecdotes of mistakes and failures and gives a perspective of his interpretation, where he positions failures as a part of the process rather than a definitive outcome. Explaining with humorous caricatures and situations, he demonstrates numerous benefits that arise from such mistakes, why they are important and how they have helped him shape his career.
Even though the mistakes and failures made by Dr. Chaturvedi may appear trivial and in-significant when compared to those faced by many others in the general population, they highlight the principles of a very unique and positive perspective that may be applied in mistakes and failures of greater magnitudes as well. This book may serve to be food for thought for many who believe that failures are detrimental and that they should be aggressively avoided and not embraced. It may change their minds to think about failures as steps towards success, by showing how key insights from these failures can be used to empower new skills and opportunities.

 REVIEW :

We live in a world where people boast about their success and doesn’t even share a bit of their failures that they have seen or faced while reaching where they are today, and that is what we get to know ( their success stories ) in those books that they write in the name of memoir or Autobiography. Kudos to the author for being brave and writing about his failures in such an amazing and humorous way that you could actually relate to it. Well to start of with the cover i actually liked it that much that i picked up only because of its bright colors and the illustrations itself caught my attention. I read the blurb and within a minute i was reading this book with rapt attention. I got the best of lines of wisdom by the one liners that the author has shared as 1-2 liners, it is par excellence. The illustrations goes well with the context and the best part of this book is, this book can act as an inspiration and can be read by all the age groups. This book is an ode by the author to all those people who are not afraid of failing and are proud to fall only to rise and soar higher, all over again. This book can actually be considered as one Real ‘self help’ book. You can read it as many times as you want and you won’t get bored and this is what the beauty of this book is. No grammatical errors, no errors.
Go for it without even looking at the price.

RATING : 5/5
 

Book review of Investing Medical Devices - A Perspective From India by Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi.

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In this book, the authors share their experiences, anecdotes, insights, and failures while inventing and commercializing medical devices in India. The objective is to give entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and clinicians a realistic expectation of the time, money, coordination and teamwork required to develop and launch a medical device in India.

The book includes a special ‘How-I-Do-It’ section and detailed appendices that form a reference and resource handbook to guide budding entrepreneurs. This book also includes a new “Advice from the Experts” section, which shares the key advice to young innovators from 23 industry experts.

The book is a recommended read for all healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who want to be successful in the medical device innovation space.

REVIEW :  

In daily life, we come across a lot of people who are researching upon different medical inventions to help the mankind, and i have never ever come across such a wonderful  book that talks about invention in such an easy and broad way. This book describes an entrepreneur’s entrepreneurial journey and this book is an asset for the entrepreneurs who are trying to enter the healthcare market and try something for their own. The author has brilliant described the process, his personal experiences and easy way to enter this market and to create a product on their own keeping the complexities and India’s environment in mind. What i really liked about this book is the easy going narration and i got to know something about a field and product which was totally new to me. The book is simple without any grammatical mistakes, simple cover and it goes well with the book. This book is a sort of self help book, so it might please the masses but it will surely appeal to the larger audience who are trying to break the shell and get out of their comfort zone and so something for the society.

RATING : 
5/5 

Book Review of Daredreamers-A start-up of heroes by Kartik Sharma and Ravi Nirmal Sharma

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 India’s first start-up of superheroes with a mission of saving lives is here to kick ass. Rasiq is riding the highs of life thanks to his successes as an investment banker. But his arrogance soon gets the better of him and he ends up losing everything he holds dear. Managing to salvage only his grit from the wreckage, Rasiq reboots his life and teams up with five uniquely talented superheroes to start a rescue venture DareDreamers. These superheroes Nick: a crazy inventor; Halka: an inhumanly strong man; Arjun: a champion shooter; Natasha: a Bollywood stunt-double; Dr. Vyom, a medical Sherlock Holmes; and, of course, Rasiq: the mastermind combine their unique talents to deliver spectacular rescue operations. Their skyrocketing success, however, comes at a price an enemy hell bent on tearing down their fame and reputation.Will DareDreamers defeat its wily adversary? Or will it become yet another failed start-up?Treachery, action and adventure come alive to make DareDreamers a page-turner.

REVIEW :
As soon as i saw this book on bookstore, i couldn't resist myself to pick this book up. the cover was so intriguing and attractive that i just picked it up without even going through the blurb. after reaching home the first thing i did was to read the blurb and i just couldn't stop myself from diving in further. Rasiq's story is not only compelling, its beyond excellence. The book is about an IIT, IIM and a guy who is full of life and ambitions Rasiq who joins the harsh corporate world after completing his studies, within 48 hours of his joining he realises where his destiny has got him into and he gets a taste of hardships that he will be facing as an employee. Though his professional career prospers but his real life starts getting hampered and that is when he realises that he is just not meant for this job and this is the time to follow his true calling and the idea of Daredreamers shapes up. The authors has beautifully described the pros and cons of both being a employee and entrepreneur. The Characters involved makes this book read-worthy and the way they have penned the story around them, makes it read worthy. I just felt the first part as compared to the second and third is quite slow and could have . been a little better only if the author could have omitted the love story of Rasiq and his girlfriend a bit. This book surely has some grammatical errors. The cover goes well with the blurb and story. this book turned out to be a fantastic read and my favorite character was Narad.

 RATING : 
This book should be picked by every book lover across, this book deserves a place in your bookshelf. 
4.5/5