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'We were the usual: nine-to-fivers, investment-makers, mall-goers, office-trippers and city-slickers. We were life-going-to-seeders.'<br/>Living in a sunny barsati in south Delhi, Saurav Jha and Devapriya Roy are your average DINK couple, about to acquire a few EMIs and come of age in the modern consumerist world. Only, they don't. They junk the swivel chairs, gain a couple of backpacks and set out on a transformational journey across India. On a very, very tight budget: five hundred rupees a day for bed and board. And the Heat and Dust project begins. Joining the ranks of firang gap-year kids and Israelis fresh out of compulsory army service, they travel across a land in which five thousand years of Indian history seem to jostle side by side. It is, by turns, holy and hectic, thuggish and comic, amoral and endearing. In buses that hurtle through the darkness of the night and the heat of the day, across thousands of miles, in ever new places, the richness of this crowded palette spills over into their lives. From rooms by the hour to strange dinner invitations, from spectacular forts to raging tantrums, this is a youthful account of wanderlust and whimsy, of eccentric choices that unfold into the journey of a lifetime ... and a supreme test of marriage.

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Delhi was made and razed several times. It was plundered by Timur Lang,Nadir Shah and Ahmedshah Abdali. But it resurrected itself each time, and with redoubled vigour. Then came the Sultans, followed by the Mughals who gave it stunning mosques, aweinspiring monuments and gardens. The British arrived soon after and Delhi remained their capital for thirtysix years, until India became independent. Dilli O Dilli takes you on a walk through the many Delhis of the past to the Delhi that we know today.

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Excellent murder mystery! First an evening of celebrations at a hotel by two police officers, gunshot which claims one life which is first said to be a suicide and then turns out to be a murder. The man killed was a known pimp, but who killed him? Why was he murdered? We invite you to get glued to the book to know who was the "Aurat Farosh Ka Hatyara".

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'Fresh, attractive, humorous and witty, Tiya is easy to read because it wears its learning lightly.'-Upamanyu Chatterjee The perky parrot Tiya's secure world is shattered when he hears an unknown voice urging him to leave his home, the old banyan tree. As he launches into an adventure-filled journey through strange lands, meeting fantastic creatures along the way, Tiya comes to terms with his strengths and weaknesses. He discovers that no one in this universe is ordinary, and that life is a series of experiences that ultimately unshackle you from your own narrow existence. It is up to you to take on this adventure and come out of it as a free spirit. This delightful fable is irreverent and inspiring at the same time. Written by a monk with several years of learning and experience as a teacher, it is an imaginative rendering of Vedantic and Yoga philosophy. Yet you will find no sermons-only the story of a simple parrot and his formless mentor Hans.

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10 Bemisal Prem Kahaniyan is a bouquet of ten acclaimed Hindi short stories written since the 1940s that explore the many facets of love. A landmark in Hindi literature, each story is replete with the pain and bliss of separation and union, and the dilemma of lovers. What is labelled as sin and banned in orthodox societies is celebrated in this collection edited by Akhilesh. Love is not synonymous with possession here, nor do the stories talk about lovers moving to safe havens away from society. Instead, the age-old emotion of love adds new dimensions to the characters in the stories and empowers them in every which way.

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Have you ever heard of a burglar who breaks the safe, but never takes away the booty? Puzzled you are? Then you must read 'Tijori Ka Rajasya' by Ibne Safi. This is the story of a criminal who uses secrets for his good. Read on know how Faridi uses criminal tactics and ways to get hold of this very notorious criminal.

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Brida has long been interested in various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more. In a forest, she meets a wise man who helps her overcome her fears and trust in the goodness of the world. She also meets a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world, and how to pray to the moon. She seeks her destiny, even as she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. Renowned for his best-loved work The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho has sold over thirty million books worldwide and has been translated into forty-two languages.

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Niyati's world is clouded by parental conflict, the hypocrisies of a philandering musician father, the impassioned strains of his ragas and the seething silences of her mother. Her only solace, Niyati's touchstone for everything in life, is elder sister Nisha. Nisha remains the only constant in Niyati's life until a revelation sends her beliefs into a spin... Broken Melodies is as much about a troubled child in a broken household as it is about chasing happiness and restoring beauty to one's life.

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Arrow of God reverts to the tribal world. Ezeulu, the head priest of Ube,faces an erosion of values both from within his tribe and from without. On the one hand are the men of his tribe who align with and abet the European missionaries and on the other are the colonial invaders who are impinging on the old African way of life.

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One day while writing a story, a fiction writer's protagonist steps out of his notebook and disappears. After devoting a lifetime to the service of his country, Acharya-ji feels like a failure and eventually loses his mind. Akanksha's life is shattered by technology that makes life easier for everyone and completes the world today. Deepti finds the cool shade of love after years of pain and struggle, but not quite. Contemporary, yet sentimental, the stories in this volume tug at the heartstrings and force the reader to sit up and think about the society caught in a flux of changes.

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Safia Mehdi's family hopes that she will bring back her deviant husband, Abbas Jafri, to 'God's true faith'. Ironically, Abbas, who dreams of a liberated India where women enjoy equal rights as men, helps Safia break free from the stereotype of a Muslim woman. Abbas is issued a fatwa for confronting the imam and criticizing the shariat for the sorry state of Muslim women in the country. When he is killed by fanatics, Safia is left all alone to fend for her daughter and herself. Armed with sheer belief in the power of being a woman, Safia embarks on a journey to find out if women can become the God that they were always meant to be.

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One after another dead bodies are found in the jungle which sends everyone in a tizzy. A question of whodunit arises on the face of everyone. Read the fast paced book to know how the serial murder mystery is solved.

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A quintessential fan tribute and a celebration of Feluda on the occasion of the sleuth's fiftieth anniversary<br/> In 1965, Satyajit Ray, drawing from the detective tradition made popular by characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, created a character who would go on to influence Bengalis of an entire generation: Feluda. And when Soumitra Chatterjee played the dapper detective in the film Sonar Kella, a cult was born. Fifty years later, the cult endures. Every new Feluda film has the box office in a tizzy. Feluda@50 seeks to explore the phenomenon. What makes Feluda tick? What is it that we love about this man? Why is it that every Feluda film continues to run to packed houses for weeks and months on end in an otherwise struggling Bengali film industry? What is the way forward for the franchise in the years to come? What role do Feluda's sidekicks, Topshe and Lalmohan-babu, play? The book also delves deep into Ray's motivations for keeping Feluda cocooned from contemporary politics and never allowing him to have a love interest. Also including in-depth interviews with the three stars who have played Feluda onscreen, this is the quintessential fan tribute and a celebration of Feluda on the occasion of the sleuths fiftieth anniversary.

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Bharat Vikhandan is a book that speaks in favour of the latent potential within India and its diverse culture. It argues that the country's integrity is being diluted by three prominent Western cultures and discusses the resulting effects of the process.This book examines the origins of the famous Dravidian movement that shaped the vast culture of our nation, while also focusing on the Dalit Identity and its current situation. It has been also noted that the book predominantly concentrates on the subordination, surveillance and subversion of Independent India.Bharat Vikhandan makes for a powerful read while closely observing the changing trends in modern India and questioning the reasons behind its growth and eventual dilution. It makes for an eye-opener and is a wakeup call to the nation as whole, forcing to rethink our priorities and allegiances. It has been praised for its historiographical and confrontational content while refusing to shy away from hard truths that need to be discussed. This book was published by Harper Hindi in 2014 and is available in paperback.Key Features:This is the Hindi translation of the title Breaking India by the same author.

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The last one-and-a-half years in India have been defined by the anti-graft agitation led by Anna Hazare. His key lieutenant, Arvind Kejriwal, has played a central role in the movement. In 2012, as it became clear that the political establishment was not going to accede to the main demand of the movement - to pass the Lokpal Bill. Team Anna demanded the setting up of a Special Investigative Team to probe corrupt politicians. On 25 July 2012, Kejriwal, along with two of his colleagues and Anna Hazare, sat on a fast to press this demand. This book, which serves as a manifesto for the movement going forward, gives practical suggestions as to what the ordinary citizen, the opinion makers and the political establishment in India can do to provide a political alternative, or to achieve true swaraj (self-rule). The author's central point is that power must shift from New Delhi and the state capitals to the village councils and the town communities, so that people can be directly empowered to take decisions about their own lives. A must-read for anyone with a dream to leave behind a better India for the next generation.

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'Shourie has the anecdotal reasoning of Nirad Chaudhuri married to the writing style of Robert Ludlum. Both are in ample evidence in this book.' - India Today In this incisive commentary, Arun Shourie documents the ways in which our history textbooks have been doctored by leftist historians. Thoroughly researched and riveting, this study brings to light the techniques and frauds that a cabal of some of our best-known academicians has used to promote themselves, and to acquire control over institutions. And then to put these supposedly academic institutions to use. Shourie shows how, in the process, this cabal has perverted India's historical narrative, and thereby vitiated the country's public discourse. Two new chapters bring to light recent developments in the field: how, with their holy scriptures having been repudiated in their holy cities, these 'historians' strive to retain their perches by dominating niche domains; how these efforts are bound to fail; but how their trajectory holds vital lessons for those who seek to replace them. A must read for every Indian who has an interest in the country's history and a stake in its future.

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A motley collection of modern stories about the temperaments, jargons and manners of parlance of a society caught in a cross of changes. They echo the restive questions and confusions of our times. While Club, Dashte-e-tanhai and Tehree transport us to the wilderness of psychological and social isolation, Chabi, Gussa and Kursi are a perfect blend of the fantastic and the real. Governess, Salesman, and Car draw on the thought that life is lived not only by temporal riches but by empathy and compassion... More well crafted stories about the void created in absence of a father, a farewell to a dog and the sad life of a bandmaster.

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya is well-known as the creator of India's national song, 'Bande Mataram', and as a novelist who pioneered the art form in India with acclaimed classics like Ananda Math, Bishabrikha and Devi Chaudhurani. As critics have recognized, few writers in world literature have been so accomplished in both philosophy and art. So extensive was his output on religion and Hinduism, and so erudite his articulation, that Aurobindo Ghosh called him a rishi, while Nirad C. Chaudhuri believed that Bankim had 'one of the greatest Hindu minds, perhaps equalled in the past - whole of the Hindu past - only by the great Samkara'. Many Threads of Hinduism brings together some of Bankim's important writings on religion, Hinduism in particular, and includes his thoughts on the Vedas, nationalism, the origins of religion, the conflict between one god and many gods, and the need for mass education. There are also pieces comparing the Brahmins of yore to India's colonial masters at the time, the British, and excerpts from his translation of and commentary on the Bhagavadgita, which remained incomplete when he died. Beautifully translated by Alo Shome, this is an introduction to a different facet of a celebrated novelist and an important addition to the corpus of books on religion.

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Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ritu Menon unfolds that experience into a historical narrative of surpassing appeal.' - Gopalkrishna Gandhi 'Nayantara Sahgal's personal life was enmeshed with historical events in India: Ritu Menon's biography of her is a delicate exploration of both. I enjoyed reading it very much.' - Leila Seth Nayantara Sahgal, born into the first family of Indian politics, is one of India's finest writers. Novelist, essayist, political commentator and memoirist, everything she wrote, whether political or literary, followed the evolution of democracy in post- Independence India. What connects Sahgal's fiction and non-fiction is politics; what propels her politics is the idea of India. The three strands of personal, political and literary are inextricably woven in her writing, and just as it is impossible to separate a writer's life from her text, Nayantara Sahgal cannot be read without reference to the political life of the country. Charged with stepping out of line in her political writing, Sahgal displayed a similar tendency in her personal life, risking both social disapproval and political displeasure. She carried on regardless. This literary, personal and political biography of this important writer is a first, based on interviews, private papers and letters, first-hand information and archival research.

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On 25 July 2001, Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi who had become an MP by then was shot dead as she got out of her car near the gate of her New Delhi residence. Sher Singh Rana, Dheeraj Rana, and Rajbir were accused of the crime. Twenty-five-year-old Rana allegedly surrendered in Dehradun and confessed to the murder, saying he was avenging the deaths of twenty-two Kshatriyas at Phoolan's hands in Behmai. Then he escaped from Tihar Jail in 2004 to reach Afghanistan via Bangladesh in order to reclaim the relics of the last Hindu ruler Prithviraj Chauhan from his grave there. He was captured again from Kolkata in April 2006 and sent to Rohini Jail in Delhi. He is still lodged there since the matter is sub judice. Jail Diary is Rana's story in his own words. It begins on the day of his escape from Tihar and goes back and forth in time describing his childhood in small-town India, the beginning of his political career during college days, his induction into Eklavya Sena through which he was introduced to Phoolan, his days as a liquor vendor in Haridwar, and his nerve-wracking adventures as someone who broke one of the highest security prisons in Asia to pursue what, to his mind, was an act of honour.