Frog Books
38 books
A divorced mother with a son, Kaveri remarries and has a child with her new husband. The son, Kartik, from the previous marriage, remains close with his mother but is distant and unattached to his stepfather. Kaveri feels a sense of guilt for the muddled relationship between stepfather and son. It becomes her life work to keep peace. As Kartik grows into a fine young man with a caring attitude and passionate character, Kaveri wishes for him what she never had... ...
Indian fiction scene is very skewed. At one hand there are book by high profile authors whose works are difficult to comprehend and on the other hand there are books by the new authors whose stories revolve round the usual campus stories with predictable storyline. These books are called the books for the youth as if todays youth do not have any other work except boozing and chasing beautiful girls. A new kind of story which will be liked by all those who have ...
Personal experience of the author, Marine engineer.
Volume Title: A swordtail; Magic of coin; Champa;The recruitment; A family albu; Mercy mating; The blunder of time.
A brides worth -- Mahabharat revisited -- The new bling dynasty -- Two fainting goats -- The silicon based life -- Hypatia's murder -- Cocoa forever -- La carjavalian science -- Dahoneyan : the goddess of love -- An involuntary candidate.
A warm time-travel tale. Three women – a man’s sister, a daughter and a granddaughter – chronicle a story that will touch the hearts of women of all ages. The story begins in 1946 in Shekapura (now in Pakistan) and travels to Amrtisar in India via Canada. Through three different time frames. The women witness and record the loves and struggle of Dhiren Ralhan. In the process, they discover a journey which unravels an intricate search and definition for a ...
For the First Thirteen years of his life Tom is jailed behind the Wall in East Germany. When the Wall comes down, Tom escapes and goes in search of freedom. It’s an action-packed pursuit. This is constantly on the move. He does a variety of jobs, but his main search is for new experiences. Eventually, he ends up in South America looking for god through Shamanism and Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic substance, and gets entangled in the deadly politics of the ...
Poetry is not a dispassionate exercise in merely enumerating the myriad forms and flows in which language can be woven to the selfish pleasure of the penholder’s mind. This book’s purpose is to interact, have a dialogue, an engagement, an experience — of empressions. An experience where you will hopefully keep coming back to these words, to find new meaning and associations, woven into the words we share together.
The book is a beautiful compilation of finely-crafted essays by well-known writers from the Indian subcontinent. The essays range from why India does not have primacy in Asia to the aroma of food. They mostly have a strong, fresh content, often questioning the dominant paradigm. The language too is good, as the editor singularly points out. The editor’s note says, every work featured in the book is one of the best essays each writer has penned. And the only ...
As the title suggests, the book questions the role of the Indian media at a time when what you read and see in newspapers and magazines are not ‘genuine’, but planted stories — for a fee, of course. The contributors in this second volume include Dilip D’Souza, Lina Mathias, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Meher Pestonji, Nilanjana S Roy, S Sowmya, Farzana Versey and Shivam Vij.