Jaico Publishing House: 169 books

Timeless and Placeless principles in small dosesIs a minute enough to change the course of our lives?With grace, spiritual enlightenment can happen in a fraction of a second. We need to be open and receptive to this blessing. Using down-to-earth stories and examples, The One-Minute Sufi provides small...

A book that teaches you the equal and overlapping importance of three vital components of any business life cycle:—Business: combining engagement, empowerment, efficiency, leadership and capacity building—Balance: comprising internal and external richness, and—Beyond Business: teaching the significance...

Seven Steps to Lasting Happiness is the product of years of questioning and reflection in the author’s quest to find sustained happiness.This book examines how to:— Have a clear vision for yourself— Know your values & principles— Feel fulfilled in the career of your choice— Have wholesome &...

New Enlarged EditionThe present selection is an attempt to represent the wide range and variety of Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories. The first group represents the stories of ‘lyric awareness’. As in all poetry, the themes are elemental, such as birth and death, beauty, love and childhood, and the...

These tales comprise of fantasy and a whimsical plot arrangement; the story goes thus:Shahryar, king of India, inflamed with jealousy by his wife’s infidelity and wanton ways, executes her. After which he resolves to take revenge on all womankind. Hence, each night after having betrothed a beautiful...

An exclusive collection of 40 outstanding stories from 17 regions of India translated and made accessible to English-speaking readers. Soaked in the flavours and colours of its region, each story smacks of its unique culture. This anthology traverses through states as far-flung as Kashmir and Tamil...

If we are to have national integrity we must understand each other, and if people are to understand each other they must understand each other’s cultural background. One of the most important means of understanding is to know each other’s literature. Selected Stories from Gujarat presents to you...

Snacks For The Soul is a collection of stories that offer emotional, intellectual and spiritual nourishment. The ‘snacks’ come in a variety of flavors the sweet, the bitter, the sad, the joyous, the spicy and the pungent! There are tastes to suit every palate, tastes that will linger long in your...

Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tells the Story of all...

New Enlarged EditionThough he is considered one of the foremost of India’s philosophers, Shankara is also one of the most misunderstood. Much of the misunderstanding of Shankara’s position may be due to the absence of a lucid presentation of his life and works in a comprehensive and readable form....

Swami Shantananda Puri has given us here not the conventional summary, story or philosophy of the great Bhagavata Mahapurana, but a very crisp and lucid idea of the message it holds for all of us.With his four decades of rich experience in chanting, meditating and discoursing on and expouding the Bhagavatam...

The Bhagavad Gita has been hailed as a universal scripture, a Bible of humanity. The song of the Lord, uttered by Sri Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra over five millennia ago, remains even in Kaliyuga, in the 21st century, a tremendous source of faith, hope, inspiration and wisdom, to seekers...

Who was the man in the iron mask? Why did he wear a mask? Why was he imprisoned and who imprisoned him? Nobody knows. His identity was a mystery when he lived and more than two and a half centuries later, he is still shrouded in mystery. Some people identify him with Duke of Mammoth, the illegitimate...

This is the story of a young boy, David Copperfield. Orphaned at the age of ten, ill-treated and abandoned by a cruel stepfather, he struggles to make a life for himself. At a tender age he runs away to his aunt who gives him a new start in life. Read about his friendship, the pressures of a career,...