Chicken Soup for Indian Soul: Indian College Students

Chicken Soup series are series of short and dense inspirational stories and motivational essays written by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Interestingly, the name was chosen keeping in mind – Chicken Soup being used as a home remedy during sickness. The book series are meant for individuals facing specific concerns in the lives or are at the verge of something new in their lives. Some of the titles themselves would explain this – Chicken Soup for Mother’s Soul; Pre-teen Soul; Grandparent’s Soul; Relationships Soul etc.  The series covers a phase of life or how best to manage the start of a possibly new journey in one’s life.

Presently, there are more than 200 titles that have sold 100 million copies in 54 different languages worldwide. There is an interesting back-story to the Chicken Soup Series – both authors were rejected a numerous times by many publishers, until they were published Health Communications. The brand has grown so wide that today, customised titles are available in bookstores across India. One of them being Chicken Soup for Indian Soul: College Students. The book seeks to address problems faced by young adults, when they happen to enter college. The book is available on the India shopping site – homeshop18.com. The India Online Shopping Site has many other self-improvement books written by other famous authors. The teleshopping website has attractive offers and freebies on select books.

Do You Speak Green?

Fusion Clothing Company are the makers of the brand - “Do You Speak Green?”, which sells its clothing line, both through online and offline stores. The company considers being environmental friendly is its USP as a brand. The clothing line apparently uses pure organic cotton and uses non-toxic vegetable dyes.  Also the company contributes 10% of its profits to the Bombay Natural History Society, in aiding the conservational efforts promoted by the organisation.

The product line is affordable and has a price range from Rs.325 to Rs.1, 475. Do You Speak Green? - can be termed as one of the New Age companies, which chases a higher motive apart from profit making. Overall, it’s a green company seeking for better future for humans on the planet as a whole.  The company plans to target tier-II and tier-III towns for its next phase of expansion. This would enable it to purchase directly from farmers growing organic cotton. Presently, the brand is available on the Indian Shopping Site, homeshop18.com – for affordable prices. The India Online shopping site also showcases various other premium cotton brands that include – John Miller, John Player, Peter England, Willis Lifestyle and so on. The apparel prices in India on the shopping website carry attractive rebates on the original MRP.   

Micromax Mobiles

Micromax Mobiles in India have established themselves as a known brand in a few years, when Nokia used to be the only established brand in the market. Interestingly, there was no Indian manufacturer on the scene, when Nokia reigned supreme. Today’ scene happen to be different, there are at least -5- serious Indian players in the market today. Micromax mobiles happen to be front-runner brands in India today. The company is known to be produce feature rich mobile devices, with an affordable price tag, and add to the Indian patriotic fervour of being Indian brand serves well for the Micromax brand.

Micromax was dream project fulfilled by four friends, who joined together and started a company to compete with the multinational brands in the market. The company today is a pioneer in specific phone-segment like the Dual SIM models, where Nokia as a brand is still to make its presence felt with Dual SIM models. According to the IDC research, the company happens to be the 4^th largest GSM manufacturer in India today after Nokia, Samsung & LG. The company makes phone models after carefully studying the needs of the common man. For instance – Micromax X1i model was born out of the idea that there isn’t necessary power-supply in Indian villages for anyone to recharge their batteries daily. The X1i had a longer battery life and helped the customer to do away with regular charging on daily basis. Another trend was the Android Smartphone, which have become prominent in the Indian market in recent times. Micromax made sure, their Smartphones worked on Android, but laid emphasis to the price factor. Today, the Micromax A60 is one of the best selling Android phones from Micromax. Having said about the price factor, the brand is conscious about its larger segment of the price sensitive consumers. The latest from Micromax – the X200 is a dual SIM (GSM + GSM) model with reasonable amount of decent features, but is modestly priced at Rs. 1535. The online shop – homeshop18.com has most of the Micromax mobiles and comes with reasonable price discounts.  

Microwave Ovens | Whirlpool, Onida, Samsung & More!

Microwave Ovens make cooking pleasure and makes for healthy and easy cooking. Microwave Ovens have come into the market and have made our lives all easier. These ovens make cooking easy and are available in different capacities; they range from 20ltrs and, 25 ltrs and make for easy cooking. The famous brands like Whirlpool, Onida, Samsung, Kenstar, IFB and LG are available on the online shopping website. The microwave oven can prepare Soup, Pizza, Pop-corn, Potato, Fresh Vegetable and Grilled Chicken. Some of them come with oven grill operation to make them easy for the customer to use. Buy microwave oven online and make the purchase effortless, while purchasing a microwave oven, through India shopping mall – homeshop18.com.  

Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Search

Google is the world’s knowledge repository and stores data on some 1-million servers around the world and currently is able to process up to 1-billion search requests a day. The statistics might seem overwhelming, but users are constantly on the look-out to maximise the use of Google. The book in essence, lets us know – how to do better searches on Google. The book suggests tried and tested approaches for obtaining good results from Google. The methods suggested are reliable and are capable for usage at the enterprise level, and the authors like to call these solutions to have industrial strength. There are no confusing terminologies used – the book here is meant for the regular user, who takes the help of Google regularly. The sole reason the book is trying to help the user is to enable reliable searches within few minutes after reading the book. The book will help save tonnes of research time, which might be wasted just searching for unnecessary data online. The authors writing the book are both exponents on internet research; Tara Calishain is the creator of researchbuzz.com, and Rael Domfest happens to be chief technology officer at O’Reilly Media. This book and other books on Google are available on the online shopping site, homeshop18.com. Buy book online on the online shop, homeshop18.com for Rs.100 and get Free Shipping on the book.

Jaipan Steam Cooker - Health Maker

A steam cooker is a device that helps prepare food in a sealed environment, the cooking process help seal the air & liquids inside the food. Other cooking techniques, only evaporates away the moisture; this conserves and preserves the nutrients present inside the food. Health conscious individuals looking for minimal oil use will find solace in this method of cooking.  Other food steamers warmers heat-up the kitchen environment, but this gadget tends to retain the moisture inside food being prepared.

Jaipan appliances one of the progressive appliances brand in the market, has come out with the same device for the Indian consumer. The cooker comes in three-compartments and is able to retain a volume of 9litres. The patented Turbo Ring technology helps cook food in a homogeneous manner and this process happens in less than 40 seconds. The removable base on the bottom of the steamer can store and boil 6 eggs. There are two LCD panels to precisely regulate temperature and indicate time, there are also pre-programmed cooking modes with a 24hrs delay. The delay mode will help you program the cooking of the food, whenever you want the food to be prepared. The bottom line is about eating healthy, without sacrificing on taste. This Jaipan Steam cooker is available at the online shopping website, homeshop18.com.  Buy the Jaipan Steam cooker in the online shop and get 1-yr Mfg. Warranty, with 25% off on the MRP.