Just keeping you folks posted on some of the new deals in the book world which have a NRI connection.

bq. Yoga expert Rod Stryker’s The Four Desires: Yoga of Fullfilment, drawing on his twenty-five years of teaching life transformation through the ancient yogic philosophy that desire is the sacred fabric of nature and the force behind all accomplishment, creativity, and enrichment, written with Greg Lichtenberg.

bq. Deputy Commissioning Editor at Britain’s Channel Four Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from the Bury Park, about how this second generation immigrant from Pakistan escaped the humdrum tedium of life in the English suburbs and the restrictions of his culture by becoming obsessed by Bruce Springsteen ­ ending up with how he reconciles his love of Springsteen and all things American with his religion and the post 9/11 situation.