Chhattisgarh News Line · 20 May 2026
Clever Fox Publishing Announces the Release of Strategy in Everyday Life
A publisher announcement introducing the book's approach to human behaviour, strategy, productivity, and everyday decision-making.
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Author biography
Navoch Mohanayak
Navoch Mohanayak is a futurist, frontiersman, founder, and fosterer. After two decades helping major organisations spot inflection points - most recently as a Vice President at Frost & Sullivan - he now co-builds frontier ventures across compute, energy, space, and flight. He is the author of eight published books spanning strategy, calm, food, poetry, travel, and speculative fiction, with six more forthcoming. Across ventures and writing, his work is united by a lifelong habit of collecting interesting questions.
Descriptor: Futurist. Frontiersman. Founder. Fosterer.
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Published books
The Art of Unfluster
A field guide for imperfect people negotiating with chaos. Politely. With snacks.
Not a manifesto from an enlightened monk who wakes at 4 a.m. to chant on a mountain. A field guide from a man who overthinks emails, occasionally doomscrolls, and maintains that coffee is a personality trait. It won't eliminate the chaos. It'll teach you to negotiate with it.
Strategy in Everyday Life
The unauthorised MBA of being human.
Everything business school teaches you about strategy, quietly smuggled into the decisions you actually make - what to cook, when to quit, how to argue, whom to trust. No case studies about airlines. Just the frameworks you were using anyway, finally named.
The Somewhat Biased Guide to Odia Food
A love letter to a cuisine the rest of the country keeps forgetting.
Unapologetically partial, occasionally indignant, and hungry throughout. Part food writing, part cultural defence, part personal history - a vibrant, funny, deeply biased tour of Odia food by someone with no intention of pretending to be objective.
Wander Yonder
Poems for the restless and the slightly lost.
A collection of poetry and small worlds - the quieter, stranger register of the same mind that builds data centres and argues about hydrogen pricing. Proof that the world-building doesn't stop when the spreadsheets close.
Human Stories in Inhuman Times
On staying human while the machines get interesting.
Reflections and narratives about people - tenderness, absurdity, resilience - set against an era determined to automate all three. Less a warning about technology than a reminder of what it's supposed to be for.
The Bookshop That Wasn't
A life arranged correctly. A bookshop that refuses efficiency. An inheritance that changes the question.
Aniruddha Patnaik has a functioning life in Mumbai - a job designing apps that ask people how they feel, and an existence arranged at the recommended intervals. Then a man he never met dies in a lane in Goa and leaves him Palavras, a bookshop in the ochre light of Fontainhas. Kept alive by a manager who talks to the stock, a woman who unsettles Ani more than he'll admit, and books the previous owner refused to sell, it draws him into a life he never chose but keeps not leaving. Witty, warm, and quietly devastating, this is a novel about appetite - for music, food, and other people's complexity - and what happens when a man living correctly is left somewhere long enough to notice.
Chronicles of the Monosyllabic Traveler
The 112 meditation methods of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - never named, never taught, only lived.
A unique travelogue spanning continents, with the 112 meditation methods of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - the oldest instructions for being alive - woven invisibly through every chapter. Never named. Never taught. Only lived. A journey through the outer world that quietly becomes an exploration of stillness, attention, and what it means to be fully alive.
To Mars and Back: A Novel
India goes to Mars. Five astronauts go with it. One carries a secret older than civilisation.
India - the country that sent a spacecraft to Mars for less than the budget of a Hollywood film about Mars - decides to send actual humans there and bring them back. Commander Arjun Krishnamurthy leads a crew of five through twenty months of radiation storms, dust storms, a fuel crisis, and coffee that never improves. They discover evidence of ancient life on Mars, but the mission's greatest discovery is within the crew: one of them carries a secret older than civilisation. Grounded in real science and told with the warm wit of a country that breaks coconuts before rocket launches, this is a novel about leaving home, doing the impossible on an insufficient budget, and discovering that the universe is far less lonely than it pretends to be.
Forthcoming books
The Somewhat Biased Guide to Bangalore Food
The bias travels south.
Forthcoming.
The Quick (and Not-so-dirty) Guide to India's DPDP Act
Data-protection law, made readable by someone who resents that it wasn't already.
Forthcoming.
Learn Quantum with G.O.A.T
Quantum computing, taught without the customary intimidation.
Forthcoming.
The GyanGanj Protocol
A frequency-locked city of immortals has initiated a planetary Hard Reset.
When a frequency-locked city of immortals initiates a planetary Hard Reset, a disgraced military strategist and a rogue material theologian must infiltrate the Himalayas to steal the operating system of the Earth.
The Grammar of Belonging
The ecological crisis is also a crisis of language and imagination.
A thought-provoking collection of essays arguing that the ecological crises of our time are not merely failures of technology or policy, but failures of language and imagination. It invites readers to relearn the grammar through which humans become participants in living places rather than consumers of them.
The Setu Inverted
An ancient acoustic network beneath the ocean could trigger a global tectonic catastrophe.
When an oceanographer and a former naval commander discover that the legendary bridge from the Ramayana was not a floating stone causeway but a sub-oceanic acoustic stabilisation network, they race against a ruthless deep-sea energy conglomerate to prevent the reactivation of an ancient technology that could trigger a global tectonic catastrophe.
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