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entrepreneurship and give you a fighting<br />
chance when it comes to realizing your<br />
dreams in a David-versus-Goliath world.<br />
Only then will we succeed in harnessing<br />
the country’s enormous entrepreneurial<br />
potential with the most energetic and<br />
passionate people in the world, alive with<br />
fresh mindsets, optimism and hope.This<br />
book is about ‘it can be done’, not ‘I did<br />
it’. It’s all possible. Just dream your own<br />
dream—and when you do, dream with<br />
your eyes open.<br />
ABOUT AUTHOR<br />
RONNIESCREWVALA<br />
From modest beginnings in Mumbai’s<br />
Grant Road, surrounded by the energy and<br />
unbridled potential of a country always on<br />
the verge of greatness, Ronnie ScRewvalais<br />
a first-generation entrepreneur. His early<br />
days, in front of the camera and on stage,<br />
inspired him to pioneer cable TV in India,<br />
and build one of the largest toothbrush<br />
manufacturing operations before<br />
starting UTV, a media and entertainment<br />
conglomerate spanning television, digital<br />
content, mobile, broadcasting, games and<br />
motion pictures, which he divested to The<br />
Walt Disney Company in 2012. Newsweek<br />
termed him the Jack Warner of India,<br />
Esquirerated him as one of the 75 Most<br />
Influential People of the 21st Century and<br />
Fortune as Asia’s 25 Most Powerful. On to<br />
his second innings, Ronnie is driven by his<br />
interest in championing entrepreneurship<br />
in India, and is focused on building his<br />
next set of ground-up businesses in high<br />
growth and impact sectors. His more<br />
recent commitment to being a first mover<br />
in sports has made him lend his support to<br />
kabaddi and football.<br />
THE BARD OF BLOOD<br />
AUTHOR: BILAL SIDDIQI<br />
PUBLISHER: PENGUIN PUBLICATION<br />
PRICE: Rs. 299<br />
About Book<br />
A thriller researched with the assistance of US and Indian<br />
intelligence agents, war correspondents and the crime writer S.<br />
Hussain Zaidi. A brilliant agent, has been forced to leave RAW<br />
because of a disastrous mission in Balochistan in 2006—part<br />
of India’s covert support of the Balochi rebels. Kabir must now<br />
revisit those ghosts, avenge his mentor and face his deadliest<br />
enemies— Mullah Omar and the ISI—while racing against time<br />
to save his country.<br />
About the author<br />
Bilal Siddiqi, aged twenty, is a student of St Xavier’s College,<br />
Mumbai, and is due to graduate in <strong>2015</strong> with a bachelor’s degree<br />
in mass media. He wrote the official blog for the Kolkata Knight<br />
Riders team of the Indian Premier League in 2014. He is currently<br />
working at Red Chillies Entertainment. He lives with his family in<br />
Mumbai. This is his first novel.<br />
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