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Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow inthe face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lieshidden might just be the stark, naked face of reality. Where the Rainbow Ends is a racy page-turner that promises totake you on a tempestuous and soul-stirring journey which shallremain with you long after you have put the book down. Rahul had everything going his way-a soaring career, a happy family and all else a man his age could ...
In the middle of the catastrophic 2008 recession, Aditya, a jobless, penniless man meets an attractive stranger in a bar. Little does he know that his life will change forever.
When Radhika, a young, rich widow, marries off her stepdaughter, little does she know that the freedom she has yearned for is not exactly how she had envisioned it.
They say homing pigeons always come back to their mate, no matter where you leave them on the face of this earth. The Homing ...
Have you ever heard of any NRI who: Hasnt washed dishes and vacuumed carpets Hasnt missed any of his friends/ family members wedding in India Doesnt watch Indian movies, no matter how long he has been outside India Hasnt been to a striptease Doesnt indulge in Indian food whenever he visits India on a vacation Do you know any Indian who: Hasnt thought of moving out of India for a better, safer life Isnt fed up of the scams, traffic jams, filth, noise, crowd and ...
What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it threw you to a place you did not want to go? Would you fight, would you run or would you accept? Set across two cities in India in the early eighties, 'Life is what you make it' is a gripping account of a few significant years of Ankita's life.Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking, smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her. College life is ...
The book is a journey through the age of confusion and exploration – the late teens, a path through growing up adventures and trysts that must be secret, even in the relative permissiveness of post Gen-Y India. It is a battle on many fronts and the one that cannot be lost is the battle with a debilitating nerve condition – a battle aided by medicine, doctors and good wishes; and yet has to be fought all alone. When the mists clear there is Rupali, the ...
I'm not Twenty Four...I've Been Nineteen for five years..." is story of Saumya whose name is so confusing that people think that she is a boy. After completing his MBA from MDI when she joins The Lala Steel, she never thought that her life will be going to change so drastically. How A Delhite girl survived in small town of karnatka? How She meet an Indian Hippie, Subhro and fall in love with him? How she reacted when she canme to know that ...
Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) was perhaps the most important Bengali poet after Tagore. However, the discovery of his unpublished manuscripts and their posthumous publication from the 1980s has gradually introduced a corpus of some eighty short stories and five novels that far exceeds in volume the original poetic canon, and has opened a new window on the literary career of Jibanananda. This volume offers the first ever translation of Jibanananda's early short ...
It is well known-amongst the Buddhist scriptures there is one book in which a large number of old stories, fables, and fairy tales lie enshrined in a edifying commentary: and have this been preserved for the study and emusement of later times. The Buddha, as occasion arose, was accustomed throughout his long career to explain and comment on the events happening around him by telling of similar event that had occured in his called the book of the 550 Jatakas or ...
An Elephant Called Malla Prasad, is a book written for children in the age group of ten to fifteen years. It is the story of a bull elephant who is bought as a little calf in the Sonepur fair by a local landlord. The story has a Behari background and revolves around the landlords cowshed near which the elephant lives. The Zamindar is a lover of animals and has seventy five cows, eight bulls, two horses, and several camels who all, except for the bulls, befriend ...
On October 31, 1984, a sixteen-year-old Amrita Gill came home to find her parents murdered in the riots following Indira Gandhi's assassination. Since then, she has lived in Seattle for thirteen years, wanting nothing to do with the life she left behind in India. Now, however, she finds the past pulling at her. First, she receives a letter from an unknown man in Vancouver called Gurbachan Singh, who says he has something to tell her. Soon after that, she learns ...
The story is set in a small university campus, where Virendra Chauhan--a research scientist--and his students are trying to set right a key instrument which has failed to function since its arrival. Although the faulty machine and the attempts to make it work form the core of the narrative, it expands into an allegory of the human spirit--its sorrows and joys, strife and peace, its unending quest--rooted in contemporary social reality. All the events in the story ...
In The River Has No Camera, we look at Kerala through the eyes of a young cosmopolitan Indian woman and what we see is a curious mix of alienation and belonging. The backdrop of the story is the glorious and turbulent past of the rich Nayar landlords. There is a certain irony in that the narrator's great-grandfather, supposedly the embodiment of a caste ridden and oppressive feudal system, embraces socialism. His volte-face has drastic and rather unpleasant ...