STOP PRESS!
In a country where 10,000 copies is considered a ‘bestseller’, 100,000 copies sold in just 9 months is astounding. And to celebrate this beautiful moment, friends, wellwishers, IIMA alumni, entrepreneurs, wannabe entrepreneurs – a hall full of wonderful people - gathered in Bangalore on 2nd July.
Thoda speech veech hua. 
I spoke.
Pankaj Chandra (director, IIM Bangalore) and Rakesh Basant (Chairperson, IIMA CIIE) spoke.
Laura Parkin [...]

Ek aur inspired soul
Dear Rashmi,
I recently bought your book “Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!”. It is a commendable work by any standards.
I was working with XXX Retail Limited as Marketing Manager for the last one year post my MBA from VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur. After reading your work and “The Alchemist”, convinced that this is definitely not my [...]

Critics have not been too kind to ‘Stay Hungry’. So I was pleasantly surprised to read this glowing review by Saaz Aggarwal in Sunday Midday dt May 24, 2009. 
 
Thank you Saaz, for capturing the spirit of the book and of its author so beautifully

Many of you write in to me after reading SHSF. You write about problems, about issues and dilemmas. The details are not important – underlying it all is the basic issue of self esteem. If you don’t love yourself, believe in yourself… then who will?  Sample this:
Hi Rashmi
Firstly, Congratulations for all the success you have achieved. You truly [...]

Nimesh from IIMA Class of 2006 writes with Qs that are on many a wannabe entrepreneur’s mind… My replies after each Q, in CAPS:
Dear Rashmi:
I have been reading your book – Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. I must admit it is quite engrossing and motivating. I did not take any job out of campus in 2006 [...]

A v touching email… the kind that I open up and read whenever I need an energy boost. To keep walking, keep writing..
Dear Rashmi
Rashmi, I want to congratulate you for your book “STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH”. Its an excellent book with  different and interesting experience from different IIM-A  graduate entrepreneurs. People who knew that entrepreneurship [...]

The Gujarati edition of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish was launched in Ahmedabad on April 11. 2009. It is one of the 8 language editions of SHSF which will be launched this year.
The translation has been beautifully rendered by Sonal Modi, who had earlier translated Sudha Murty’s books. It is indeed an honour for me that [...]

Ahead of ‘Imagining India’ AND Malcolm Gladwell
India Today – March 2009

An interesting email from someone who not only bought the book but went a step further…
Hi Rashmi
 
I am Parry; was studying in RV College of Engg in B’lore then and now working in B’lore. I was reading your book, “Stay hungry Stay foolish” and found it beautiful. The biographies on such determined people was a [...]

I cannot imagine a life without books… So this email delighted me beyond words!
Dear Rashmi,
 
I am writing this to thank you for your remarkable efforts in writing the said book becoz…
 
This is the firstever book in my life which i have actually completed reading, it is my first love with world of books and i [...]