Launch of 1000 Reviewers Club - 2022

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View this email in your browser Register As Member Dear INDICANS We are pleased to announce the launch of the second edition of 1000 Reviewers Club 2022. Please do join us using this form. 1000 REVIEWERS CLUB 2021: When INDICA Books launched its ‘1000 Reviewers Club - 2021’ in November 2020 , it was by far one of the most ambitious book review projects we could have imagined. To send 5000 books to 1000 reviewers over the course of one year. Five-thousand books for the reviewers to have. No obligations. Except that we asked them to review the books they received. We didn’t ask for positive, laudatory reviews – only genuine, honest reviews. Over the course of the year, we sent 5000 copies of 86 books from 70 authors to 1114 reviewers. To some reviewers we ended up sending seven books, while a few got only one.  This was based on a number of factors, including compliance with the terms-and-conditions of our program, the reviewers’ responses, as well as logistical reasons (like incorrect addresses and missing mobile numbers). This table captures the breakdown of the number of books we sent to reviewers cohort. Number of Reviewers Number of books Total Number of books 29 1 29 20 2 40 37 3 111 524 4 2,096 337 5 1,685 130 6 780 37 7 259 1114   5000 A breakdown of the books, their authors, and the number of copies we sent out is captured in the table below: Title Author(s) No of copies 12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson 25 A Bad Place Mayur Didolkar 100 Abhimanyu Deepak M R 75 Ahalya Koral Dasgupta 25 Artificial Intelligence Rajiv Malhotra 25 Aryan Debate Shrikant G. Talageri 25 Awakening Bharat Mata Swapan Dasgupta 25 Balochistan Sandhya Jain 25 Beautiful Tree Dharampal 50 Being Rama Dass Ram Dass 25 Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kala Dharampal 25 Black Hole Paradigm Abhas Mitra 25 Blood Island Deep Halder 100 Brahmaputra Aneesh Gokhale 25 Buying Buddha Sophia Rose Arjana 100 Celebrating Life Rishi Nityapragya 100 Cinema Through Rasa Prachand Praveer 25 Cownomics Arti Agarwal 50 Curse of Gandhari Aditi Banerjee 25 Death & Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi  Makarand Paranjape 25 Devayani Manjula Tekal 50 Dharma  Amish Tripathi & Bhavana Roy 100 Dharma and Ecology Pankaj Jain 25 Essays on Indic History Vijender Sharma 100 Everyday Ayurveda Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya 100 Food and Faith Shobha Narayan 75 Bhagavad Gita for Millennials Bibek Debroy 100 Good News India D V Sridharan 75 Great Hindu Civilization Pavan Varma 50 Hindu Rites and Rituals K V Singh 100 Hindutva Paradigm Ram Madhav 75 Hundred-Year Marathon Michael Pillsbury 25 Hymns of Harappa Sai Papineni 100 In the Footsteps of Rama Vikrant Pandey and Neelesh Kulkarni 75 India 2030 Gautam Chikermane 50 India Comes First Ram Madhav 100 India That is Bharat J Sai Deepak 75 Indian Science and Technology Dharampal 50 Ishopanishad Nithin Sridhar (tr. and commentary) 25 Kasheer Sahana Vijayakumar 100 Krishnayan Kaajal Oza Vaidya & Subha Pande 100 Kunti Koral Dasgupta 50 Love Story of Bajirao Vikrant Pandey 25 Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray 50 Mahabharata Unravelled Ami Ganatra 50 Makers of Modern Dalit History Sudarshan Ramabadran & Guru Prakash 100 Meaning of India Raja Rao & Makarand Paranjape 100 Medical Astrology Dr. Deepak Singla 100 Mosaic Manish Mundra 100 Nagin Mayur Didolkar 25 New Idea of India Harsh Madhusudan & Rajeev Mantri 25 Not Two Yellamraju Srinivasa Rao Translated by Padma Neppalli 100 Poisoned Heart Nandini Sengupta 25 Predators and Prey Abhinav Agarwal 25 Purna Vidya Swamini Pramananda & Sri Dhira Chaitanya 25 Revisiting Educational Heritage Sahana Singh 50 Rise of Dharma Semanti Chakraborty 50 Rukmini Saiswaroopa Iyer 75 Samanya Dharma Nithin Sridhar 100 Sambhaji Vishwas Patil & Vikrant Pande 50 Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha Rahul Roushan 75 Sanskrit Non Translatables Rajiv Malhotra & Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji 100 Saraswati Civilization Maj. Gen. GD Bakshi 25 Saraswati’s Gift Kavita Kane 100 Savarkar (Part 1): Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 Vikram Sampath 25 Savarkar (Part 2): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966  Vikram Sampath 25 Science and Socio-Religious Pankaj Jain 25 Splendours of Royal Mysore Vikram Sampath 50 Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth Michel Danino 25 Srishti  Satavadhani Dr.R.Ganesh, Translation: Koti Sreekrishna & Hari Ravikumar 25 Strange Death of Europe Douglas Murray 25 Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 25 Swift Horses Sharp Swords Amit Agarwal 100 Temple Management in the Agamas Deepa Duraiswamy 75 The King Within Nandini Sengupta 25 The Ocean's Churn Sanjeev Sanyal 25 The Rat Eater Anand Ranganathan & Chitra S 50 The Sabarimala Confusion Nithin Sridhar 25 Transcending Science Dr. K Sadananda 75 Unsung Valour Saiswaroopa Iyer and others 50 Vault of Vishnu Ashwin Sanghi 100 Vedic Mathematics Chandrahas Halai 50 Venkatesa Suprabhatam Venkatesh Parthasarathy 100 What Does it Mean to be Indian S.N. Balagangadhara & Sarika Rao 100 Who Killed Shastri Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri 50 Your Best Day Is Today Anupam Kher 75 We received hundreds of reviews that readers shared with us and posted on Amazon and Goodreads. They also shared these reviews on Twitter and Facebook. CURATOR'S CLUB : Separately from the “1000 Reviewers Club – 2021”, INDICA Books has also been sending books, since 2015, to a curated list of influencers that now exceeds 620 people. Over the past seven years we have sent over 11000 books to this list. Together with the 5000 sent to the 1000 Reviewers, the total number of books sent by us is over 16000!  1000 REVIEWERS CLUB 2022: Register for the Launch We now invite all the passionate book lovers to join us on this journey once again. As you can see we simply love gifting books! We are hosting a formal launch event with best selling authors Vikrant Pande, Rahul Roushan, Koral Dasgupta and Nandini Sengupta tomorrow at 11 AM. Do join us for the same.   As we get ready to start the second edition “1000 Reviewers Club – 2022”, here is some information to get reviewers started: it has some general information as well as some terms-and-conditions. We will be sending out only physical books. Like before, these books will be sent out to addresses in India only. Reviews must be posted to Amazon and/or Goodreads. Please share your reviews on Twitter and Facebook and tag our Twitter handle. If posting on Facebook, please join our Facebook group and share your reviews there. Links are provided below. We are setting out to send you five books, less or more is a function of how you respond and fulfil to your side of the bargain. Sharing the image of the book you received on social media, reading and writing a review and sharing the same is what we expect of you. We will surely send you three books in good faith, post that you will receive books based on your performance. Reviews have to be original (i.e., no plagiarism or copy-paste from someone else’s review) and meaningful (this means that reviews of the ‘I liked this book. It is a good book. Everyone should read this book.’ variety do not count). Look forward another exciting edition. Happy receiving ,reading and reviewing and most importantly sharing ! Warm Regards Chief Curator Abhinav Agarwal Links: “1000 Reviewers Club – 2022” form Indica website Indica Books Twitter handle Indica Books Facebook group Indica Books author discussions and Q&As Indica Books Writers Open House (for aspiring writers and authors) Our mailing address is: 104, Hillridge Villas, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.