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Roopa's Latest Book: The Jasmine Murders
If you enjoyed Sujata Massey's Widows of Malabar Hills, you'll love Roopa's new whodunit!
The Jasmine Murders introduces the formidable husband-wife detective team of Jayan, a police chief grappling with a lawless town, and Uma, whose sharp intuition proves vital when a severed head—jasmine still in its braid—appears at their home. As more crime erupts, they attempt to bring order to a town simmering with communal tension and the legacy of a corrupt predecessor. As a historic cyclone bears down on Manamadurai, Uma must navigate a covert network of local gossip to help her husband untangle a web of communal tension and buried secrets before the violence consumes them both.
Meet Roopa Unnikrishnan
Author & Storyteller
Rhodes Scholar, Arjuna Awardee, International Rifle Shooter, Business Leader & Strategist
Roopa Unnikrishnan is also a passionate author whose stories captivate and inspire. With a unique blend of business insight and literary imagination, her work resonates with readers from all walks of life.
About The Raconteur
Roopa Unnikrishnan is an award-winning author, Rhodes Scholar, Arjuna Award recipient, and Commonwealth Games gold medalist in rifle shooting. After years spent guiding global companies through high-stakes strategy and innovation challenges, she now channels that same curiosity into crafting whodunits.
Her nonfiction debut, The Career Catapult, won the Independent Press Award, but with The Jasmine Murders, Roopa joyfully returns to the storytelling instincts that once made her Oxford thesis ‘too entertaining’. Her essays on strategy and creativity have appeared in Knowledge@Wharton and the Economic Times.
Roopa lives in New York City with her professor husband, their beagle Tara, and an ever-growing stash of notebooks filled with clues, red herrings, and suspicious characters. Her twins, Durga and Krishna, have launched into the world—though they still occasionally serve as sounding boards for particularly devious plots.
The Career Catapult
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We live in an evolving economic environment, one in which job security and career certainty are distant memories. The old rules for navigating the turbulent waters of employment just don't apply anymore. In the face of these ongoing changes, it's easy to become fearful and discouraged.
In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan shows you how to gaze into this uncertain future and shape it to your advantage--regardless of your current position in the job hierarchy.
Leaping into a revised career trajectory requires quick and purposeful movement. In The Career Catapult, Roopa offers five essential disciplines that will catapult you along the fast track:
- Dig Deep to Soar: Examine your skills and resources to accurately assess your marketplace value.
- Stalk Innovations and Trends: Explore the context in which you can offer your value.
- Jolt Your Network: Use your assets, including networks that can drive significant value.
- Prototype Possibilities: Free yourself to imagine. Visualize the full array of possibilities and test-drive them. Find ways to don the mantle of the new role
- Go Extreme: Is your desired future achievable? Yes! Take that confident leap into your future.