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Mrs Anupama Arora, 42, struggles every day with the memory of her late husband even as she battles the two hormonal time-bombs that are her children. But it's been two years and her nosey neighbours just don't seem to understand that it's time she moved on. While her friends are desperately trying...

This is a local story set in the time of the global economic downturn. A story that pans out in the underbelly of glamourous Mumbai where, looking at a pimp in handcuffs, dead fish come alive, laughing the most raucous laughter. While people disbelievingly stare at the fish, there's a cat in the vicinity...

In Netaji Jehangir Contractor's Khandala house, Rajaram Lokhande shoots dead his cook Fazal Haque who has turned an informer. Jeet Singh kills Rajaram in his hotel room and escapes with his seventy-five lakh rupees to Goa. Amidst multiple high-profile intrigues and conspiracies at the gambling den...

From the bestselling author of The Price You Pay comes a new story of grit, determination and hope set in the Kargil Mountains during the war of 1999. Captain Samir Singh Rathore and his men are posted on the treacherous heights of the Himalayas to rebuff the encroaching Pakistani army. As they camp...

The incredible story of what makes Narendra Modi a potential prime ministerial candidate. As he overcomes resistance from within his own party, from various factions of the Sangh Parivar and from his political opponents. A fascinating account of what it takes to be mass leader.

Mahant Digvijai Nath was a key player in the appearance of the Rama idol in Babri Masjid, but little is known about him. While it is known that the Hindu Mahasabha had a role in placing the idol in the mosque, the larger plot and the chain of events that led to that act have never been subject to...

'Papi says it is wrong of parents to presume that they know better, or know more than their child does. They may be biologically older than their child, but in their experience as parents, they're of the same age. So if I was his two-year-old daughter, he was my two-year-old father. And we were both...

'Tagore picks up the flotsam of a love story from the Ganga and narrates it like only he can. An eternal human story.'- Gulzar After a boat-wreck overturns his life, Rameshchandra Chowdhury mistakes young Kamala for his newly wedded bride. They move away from Calcutta to start a domestic life together,...

'Life and Times of Mr S' worked for me like magic. It unsettled my notion of what was real, what possible, and resettled that notion in a strange luminous place. Narayanan uses what he sees as singular illusions - class, caste, family, for example - to conjure a "pluriverse" of his own, crowded with...

Patna is not a nice place to be. It is home to me and I cannot stop wanting to go back every once in a while, wanting to be a part of its life. I say this even so: Patna is not a nice place to be. In this masterful portrait of Patna, Sankarshan Thakur chronicles the way the city has changed-or not-under...

Pankaj Sekhsaria is the most consistent chronicler of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and one of the best known. His writings on the environment, wildlife conservation, development and indigenous communities have provided insights and perspective on the life of the islands...

'Intizar Husain's stories often tread that twilight zone between fable and parable. His narratives are spun on an oriental loom' - Keki N. Daruwalla A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some little evidence of past joys. Javed, who's returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak...

Traditional religious discourses have failed to account for the biological process involved in the attaining of Nirvana. Drawing from sources as varied as the Pali canon, Mahayana texts, Zen Buddhism, J. Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, U.G. Krishnamurti, Nietzsche, post-modernist thinkers and biological...

Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumatic circumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey,...