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| Sand Storms, Summer Rains By Asha Iyer Kumar |
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ISBN-13: 978-8190577892
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When the ambitious and starry-eyed Achu and the sober and subdued Mustafa embark on their individual journeys to Dubai, they have only one aim as do all others headed to the enticing desert land to earn money. Leaving their families in their villages in Kerala, south India, they go to earn riches that would place them in the distinguished and envied league of Gulfees back home. But the chimerical Gulf dream sours when tragedy strikes them in different ways, forcing them to reassess their priorities. As they lurch between love and money, life gives them lessons in endurance, sacrifice and relationships. They return to their homes to make an attempt at resuscitating their family edifices that are waiting to collapse, to try and give meaning to their personal lives that have begun to wither, and to repentantly mollify their troubled consciences. But can they salvage anything worthwhile from the debris of their already mangled lives? Sand Storms, Summer Rains is a moving narration of dreams and deprivations, sorrow and sacrifice, love and loss of two men and their families, a story that in the end prods us to evaluate our own priorities and preferences in a world that is incorrigibly materialistic.
It is life watched at close quarters.
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| Multi-Threaded Love By Satyajit Deshmukh |
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ISBN No: 9788190577830
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Kartik is a young and handsome boy studying for the final year at an engineering college. He does not have money, but his looks and dynamism attract the girls.
They may be rich, beautiful, clever or simple, but they all want him as their ‘guy’.
Kartik, nevertheless, learns a tough lesson at the end of his college year.
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| A Love Story: A Novel By Varalotti Rengasamy |
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ISBN No: 9788190577854
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India: Rs 259
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This novel is about young love between a man and a woman that survives differences in upbringing, misunderstandings, and the test of time. The tale is also about a little-understood attachment between a father and his son. The author weaves a tale of love that finds expression in a sense of commitment and care… It is also about the triumph of idealism and good-over-negative forces — much needed in today’s jaded world, here is a love story that works at many levels.
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| Lal Salam By Raghu N Raghavan |
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ISBN No:8188811793
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India: Rs 250
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Backwardness, historical prejudice and Naxalism are woven together to create the backdrop of this passionate love story between Madhavi (a fiery young leader in the Naxalite movement) and Ram Naik (a super cop). In the exploited and rugged Telangana terrain, their paths are different, but their psychic relationship survives… a sensible amalgamation of armed political activism and intimate love.
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| The Scene behind the Veil By Sami Ahmed |
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ISBN No:9788190577878
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The infinite possibilities of a zero, seen through a lover's eyes; lipstick politics in a new household; holistic healing through the hands of a nervous young doctor... The shadow of fanaticism on individual lives; fear is vanquished and
lives changed through small acts of kindness... “Killers are just killers everywhere. They are neither Muslims nor Hindus, neither theists nor atheists, neither spiritual nor intellectual...”
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| A Guy Thing: A Magical Story of an IITian By Suman Hossain |
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ISBN No:8188811785
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Sahil Hossain comes to IIT Delhi with big dreams in his eyes. He enjoys his hostel days to the hilt with blind dates, porn videos, nights-out and more. He falls in love with a girl and succeeds in winning her heart, but the brief affair changes his life forever.
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| Frying Pan and Other Stories By Raja |
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ISBN No:8188811777
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India: Rs 145
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A poignant potpourri of stories that will grab the attention of young and old alike. Each story has a moral and an appeal of its own that can reach people from various strata of life. The collection is relevant to our time and touches issues pertaining to friendship, caste, women’s rights and empowerment with much sensitivity. Love seems to be the basis for many of the stories, passion is evident in some of them — be it for a lover, for freedom, empowerment, or in general for a better life.
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| A Thing Called Love in an Utterly Rotten World By Amitava Chaudhuri |
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ISBN No: 9788190577847
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Sumit, recently married and armed with his qualifications, moves from Lucknow to a job in Bombay. As he tries to cope with the pulls of family and work, the problems and attractions of the corporate world in the big-city culture expose his vulnerabilities as a man. And what follows is not something that he would have imagined ever.
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| The Bumblebees and Other Stories By Seema Chatterjee |
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ISBN No: 8188811769
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Tales of beautiful witches, clever dwarfs, playing cards that go on adventures and places where it actually rains cats and dogs will fascinate children between nine and twelve. These short stories will delight both children and young teenagers; a bedtime collection a parent can read out to their lovely ones…
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| A Girl Called Asha Albuquerque By Vikshiptha |
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ISBN No:9788190577823
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The literary ghosts of Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov are a brooding presence throughout debutant author Niranjan Sharma’s (who writes under the name Vikshiptha) novel-in-regress, harvested from his unusually perceptive life an ad man-turned-writer. Sharma’s life journey is both movement and stasis; it awakens us to angles of the world that we haven’t noticed before, and achieves its complex final affirmation of love and beauty through a real reckoning with despair and heartbreak. A dark celebration of the elusiveness of memory and the self, grave yet exultant, brutal but compassionate.
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Bollywood Dreams: A Novel By
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ISBN No:8188811750
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Anita is a young, strikingly beautiful woman with her eyes set on the silver screen. She aspires to take the film industry by storm. Her only bane is her poverty. A fisherman’s daughter, she finds her way into the industry and to the top, only to find betrayal, loneliness and angst. Through the character of Anita, Prasenjit tells the story of ambition — an ambition that carries forth many struck by the promise of fame, but sees very few through that arduous climb.
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Urban Voice 3: Bombay
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New writing from and about a vivacious city
ISBN No: 8188811688
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Writings on and from one of the most vivacious cities of the world. The contributors include: Ranjona Banerji, Jane Bhandari,
Derek Bose, Pratik Chowdhury, Atin Dasgupta, Rosalyn D’mello, Fiona Fernandez, Naresh Fernandes, Reshma Ghosh, Aijaz Gul,
Dan Husain, Abha Iyengar, Radhika Iyengar, Lajwanti S Khemlani, Ramendra Kumar, Freny Manecksha, Abhinav Maurya, Rajendar Menen,
Vimla Patil, Sunil K Poolani, Anjali Purohit, Joy C Raphael, Dilip Raote, Monideepa Sahu, Murzban F Shroff, Riah Terri,
Salil Tripathi.
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Pleading Euthanasia
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S V William |
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A debut volume of poetry by a brilliant, young poet
ISBN No: 8188811718
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Linking the outside world to a melancholic mind of myriad questions, mainly concerning the sheer existence and the need of
oneself on this planet… the search for answers and the exhaustion of being alive… analysing relations, God, love, life and
imaginations… building realms of fantasy or nightmares… all these consist the themes in this debut volume of verse by this young poet.
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Fall of a Sparrow
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Jims Andrews |
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A group’s battle for survival in the tsunami disaster
ISBN No: 8188811718
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He had always lost those he had loved dearly. George Peter, the fourth engineer officer of the ship MV Himalaya, survives the
tsunami and is stranded with a few of his colleagues, passengers and a flock of nuns in a remote island on the Bay of Bengal.
A group’s battle for survival in the face of endless hardships, this is a touching human tale of love and loss.
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Enter the Ape
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Richard Nesberg |
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A quest to reclaim dreamscape
ISBN No: 818881170X
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When Thurston Tomas loses his lucid dreams to a host of dream characters, he plans to embark on a quest to reclaim his
dreamscape in order to secure the world he loves. But, then, the dream characters begin to believe they are real and prove a
larger challenge for Thurston to remove. Oh, and there’s an ape.
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Rape, Regret & Retribution
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Subrata Das |
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A stage play, on a real, disturbing drama, in three acts
ISBN No: 8188811742
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Rape, Regret, and Retribution (R3) is a bold and realistic portrayal and ramification of a horrific event that shatters
the lives of two ordinary families in different Indian social strata. The play unfolds when a haughty and confident young man,
Jiten, the protagonist of the play, leaves his permanent residence in a small Indian village to move to a big city nearby to
lead a life as he pleases. He then becomes the centre of a horrible crime — the rape and death of a young girl, Meena. The
legacy of his horrific act leaves behind both families shattered – Meena’s family leaves the city to avoid recollection of the
incident and Jiten’s own family continues to live in a society where the idea of being guilty by association still prevails.
Jiten perhaps feels some regret for his disastrous fate, but no remorse for the heinous crime that he has committed, until...
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Life after Death
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Girish Menon |
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Shocking truth of life and death unravelled
ISBN No: 8188811661
Price:
India: Rs 45
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Based on extensive research using biomagnetic scanner, this book unravels why we have always wondered about the mysteries of
nature surrounding us. It also explains, scientifically, about our energy fields, soul behaviour and its location before and
after death. The knowledge of life after death thus accrued will have an impact on our present understanding of life — giving
a new meaning and purpose in our lives.
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Strengthen Thy Soul
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Sanju Paul |
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A bedside volume of verse you will cherish forever
ISBN No: 818881167X
Price:
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This unassuming collection of verses hopes to heal addictions, depressions and frustrations in life. It is also a simple
endeavour to analyse life — sans heavy words. A bedside volume you would love to treasure…
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Random Collisions: Short Stories
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Sanjay Hazarika |
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Prescribed / Advanced textbook of the Ace School of Fools
ISBN No: 8188811599
Price:
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A statutory warning to the unsuspecting readers who might pick up (and buy!) this book:
# Collided with trash? Relax, there’s a 30-day, no-questions-asked full refund, including shipping charges, guaranteed by Bozo,
The Designer Fool.
# Prescribed / Advanced textbook of the Ace School of Fools.
# The radius of the stink of the Bozos’ loo is two kilometres. Do a pee-r-square to figure out the area.
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The Migrant
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Arunesh Choubey |
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The story of a wannabe emigrant and his travails and hardships
ISBN No: 8188811580
Price:
India: Rs 175
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A young, wannabe emigrant flies across the oceans for the first time in his life, looking forward to "the good life" on foreign
shores, away from the grime and chaos of India. Australia has all the trappings of luxurious first-world living that he has seen
on on screen till now. But to all the pomp and show there is a dark underside: racism, poverty and the constant threat of being
deported. As he crosses the barriers of joblessness and loneliness, there is, yet, in store for him, an ultimate shock...
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Under the Same Blue Sky
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Muhammad Taha Alam |
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A saga of two teens from two different social strata
ISBN No: 8188811629
Price:
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It’s a no-frills-attached saga about Gibran and Biju, both in their teens. Coming from different social strata they both find
joy in love, and misery in separation. Their journey through life under the same blue sky captures the binding unity of human
emotions, irrespective of the different levels of affluence. Is it your story, too?
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Shall We Dance, Mr Koshy?
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Thangasurabi Bright Raj |
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An urban Indian romance; the story of Abe and Candace
ISBN No: 8188811602
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India: Rs 345
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Candace Selvakumari Jones is a fashion designer-turned-merchandiser from Chennai, India, who is pissed off with the lifeless
life that she is leading. This free spirit hasn’t partied in the last four years. All she ever did was work her butt off. And
just when she decides to go and dance away a Saturday night, work plays spoilsport again. She is forced to fly to Bangalore.
Now, Candace can’t help but swear at those plotting crooks [read: colleagues] and at the cruel twist of fate.
In Bangalore, Abe E Koshy is perhaps the only 26-year-old who acts and thinks like a 50-year-old. This financial analyst has a
plan for everything in life and has built a reputation of being ‘Mr Almost Perfect’. He lacks the ‘fun’ gene in his system, but
does not know that — unfortunately. His life was almost perfect till the day he met Candace, yet again.
Here are things that you should know:
1. Abe and Candace: both were debate champions in high school;
2. They argue about everything;
3. Other than these two things, they have nothing else in common.
Now, the question on everyone’s lips is:
‘Did love, eventually blossom?’
The answer is ‘Yes’. But not the way you anticipated...
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Kamal Ascending
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Madhu Bazaz Wangu |
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A tale of a Kashmiri girl who wants to be a meaningful painter
ISBN No: 8188811564
Price:
India: Rs 245
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Kamal Ascending is the story of a Kashmiri girl who wants to become a meaningful painter. After graduation and an
acclaimed art show, she marries Satyavan. They have two children. To fulfill his ambition, Satyavan decides to immigrate to
America. Coming to a foreign land and taking care of her family, Kamal loses touch with her artistic self. She must discover
her way back to artistic and spiritual awareness, or she will fade into nothingness
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The Giggling Statue
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Laxmi Natraj |
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A fast-paced thriller that will take you on a rollercoaster ride
ISBN No: 8188811572
Price:
India: Rs 195
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Beep…beep. The apparatus hooted menacingly. The senior policeman abandoned his lunch abruptly and darted outside. He snatched
the counter from the boy and looked at the green dial. The needle was swinging wildly and the machine went on and on, beeping
all the time.
The officer looked around. All the tankers were far away. He walked step by step, following the direction of the needle.
The beep became louder and louder till they reached the oil spill on the ground.
All the officers on duty stared at the oil spill. The senior said: “The signal is coming from the oil spill. That means one of
the tankers we had already checked still carries the contraband parcel. But how did it manage to escape our search?”
A faced-paced thriller that will send you on a rollercoaster ride — from cover to cover.
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The Pleasure Inn
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Sony Kedar |
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Answers in this story set are unexpected and satisfying
ISBN No: 8188811637
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $12.00
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What happens when Sunder finds out his father’s sin? What nightmares make Ramu’s life a hell? Is there any mystery in Nita’s
death or is it merely an accident? What happens when a ghost decides to look for a human friend? What makes the silver
candlestick special? Why does Sharat find The Pleasure Inn scary? What’s Dr Arun’s bizarre experience? Does the scary incident
in the school’s dorm change Sulochana’s mind? What crucial step the beauty queen takes?
In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. These stories are a well of suspense,
fantasies and the facts of life.
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Q.U.E.S.T.
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Rajesh Menon |
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Technology * Spirituality * Management * Science
ISBN No: 8188811645
Price:
India: Rs 125
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Three individuals — a programmer, a project manager and a CEO — set out on their search for a one-time CEO of a software company,
who has shunned the material world and taken refuge on a desolate mountain somewhere in India to lead a life of a spiritual
seeker.
The three professionals, tired of their hectic yet mundane lives loaded with problems and boredom, seek to hunt him out and get
to know his insight on matters relating to technology, management and spirituality. The story traces the quest…
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Dreams Die Young
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C V Murali |
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A student’s tryst with the Naxalite movement
ISBN No: 81-88811-47-5
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Settled in the US and at the peak of his work and life, Rajat Sen, a brilliant professor,
finds himself tormented by memories of a disturbed past. Inner torment about social inequities
and a close association with fellow collegiate Arindam had led a young and idealistic Rajat to
an association with the Naxalite movement, a student’s uprising that had rocked Bengal in the
early seventies. Rajat is pulled into Naxalism with visions of a classless society that values
people, rich and poor, alike. As part of a group of young men and women, Rajat plans and executes
daring plans to shake the foundations of bureaucracy and polity by killing politicians and other
holders of important posts. Fighting the growing backlash from the government, the group is dealt
body blows with every attempt. As Rajat gets sucked into a vortex of high ideals and violence,
his innocent, protected life as the only son of well-to-do parents seem to have been left a long
way behind. But is violence the answer to a corrupt society? He thinks so, until the day he comes
face to face with the real meaning of killing.
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Karma and the Case for Digital Photography
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Sachin Jha |
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Replete with profundity wrapped in modern episodes
ISBN No: 81-88811-48-3
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This book is replete with profundity wrapped in the most wonted modern episodes. The book
traverses the life of the protagonist, Rahul, through his teenage, youth and early middle-age
— his journey of discovering boundless and an all-encompassing love. Woven into the progression
of the narrative itself, each chapter is essentially a vivisection of an aspect — love,
friendship, work or religion — the book takes the reader on a soul-searching journey. If
classic fiction were wholesome oranges (pips, peels et al), and self-help books were vitamin C
pills, then this book would be a glass of orange juice!
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Urban Voice: Views & Visuals from a New World
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An interesting assortment; an Orwell special
ISBN No: 81-88811-44-0
Price:
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O V Vijayan, Anand Patwardhan, Ramachandra Guha, Derek Bose, Robert McCrum, Shashi Tharoor,
Margo Hammond, George Orwell, Anil Nair, Suma Josson, Zainab Kakal, Deepa Agarwal,
Meena Kandasamy, Sudeep Sen, Majid Naficy’ Meher Pestonji, Abha Iyengar, Namit Arora and
Srikant Jakilinki contribute to this one-of-a-kind literary magazine.
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The Quest for Clues
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Anjali Raghbeer |
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A gripping, pacy and entertaining thriller for kids
ISBN No: 81-88811-50-5
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Krrish hates the idea of going to India for holidays — it’s the same boring routine. But when he
reaches his grandparent’s sleepy farm, strange things happen. Krrish discovers that somebody is
out to kill his grandfather. In an attempt to rescue his grandfather Krrish gets caught in a trap
that transports him back into time. Maya, his pesky sister refuses to be left behind. Will they
come back? Will they find clues to help them solve the mystery? Or will they helplessly watch
their grandfather die? Go back into time with Krrish and Maya and find out…
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Never Say Never Again
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Piyush Roy |
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A tale of attachment, compatibility, friendship, sacrifice
ISBN No: 81-88811-51-3
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Never Say Never Again takes the reader through the myriad shades of a relationship,
traversing cultures, age, geography, and sexual orientation. Lillian is a single mother —
independent, successful, draped in insecurity, seeking love. She lives with her son, Sam, a
confident 18-year-old exploring his sexuality, profound, and seeking a more meaningful
attachment… in an online chat room. The book takes the idea of ‘love’ beyond the strictures of
acceptability and definition and places it within a mature circle of attachment, compatibility,
trust, friendship and sacrifice.
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Scattered Thoughts
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Anu S Chopra |
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A collection of stories that are pictures of life in prose
ISBN No: 81-88811-52-1
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A collection of funny, sensitive heartwarming stories of women, caught up in poignant and quirky
situations, from all walks of life. The stories are about errant lovers, errant maids,
errant husbands and, more importantly, errant life. These stories explain how they are dealt
with — sometimes successfully, sometimes not-so-successfully. None of the characters are
perfect; they are flawed beings who are easily recognisable and identifiable. Simply put the
stories this are visuals of life in prose.
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All My Ghosts
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Jonathan Bagley |
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A small case study in cycle touring for the adventurous mind
ISBN No: 81-88811-55-6
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Kim’s girlfriend disappears one night leaving behind no note, no forwarding address, and no
indication of her intentions save a severed finger; a mental patient missing several digits
tells her life story from the psychiatric ward; and a character, more vessel than man, is sent
out on a murderous mission to find a girl missing a finger. Using fingers as a central motif,
this book explores the importance of past event, real and imagined, on the future, mapping the
politics of Kim’s memory through to an explosive conclusion.
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What I Speak is What I Breathe
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Arun Kumar V. |
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Connects languages, religion, spirituality, humanity, logic
ISBN No: 81-88811-54-8
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Senthil is a common man — one of those proud, patriotic, common men who exist in every place,
every country; their only differences being their respective geographic influences. On his first
trip to North India, he meets Liz, an American woman. Drawn by the talkative Liz, his journey
expands from what it was meant to be. This is Senthil’s journey, in more ways than one. It is a
tribute to the commonness in every common man, and of course, understanding that from a larger
perspective.
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How to Live a Civilised Life
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Nalin Rawal |
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Life is precious. Don’t mess with it. Follow this book
ISBN No: 81-88811-53-X
Price:
India: Rs 195
Elsewhere: US $12.00
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Does it help to pray? What do you do when you have an adulterous spouse? To what extent is
violence justified? Should you give alms to a beggar? Are lies justified for the sake of business
promotion/gains? Should one pay one’s taxes honestly? What can you possibly do with a child who
doesn’t listen to you? How do you deal with problems like alcoholism and drug abuse? Should
non-vegetarianism be avoided? How does it relate to religion? Is corruption justified in life
and society? What is the meaning of a family? How should you look after your ageing parents?
You hate your boss. What can you do? How do you discriminate between what is right and wrong?
Answers to all such questions — and many more. Find out them all in this book.
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Future of the Past
By
Alpesh Patel |
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When human beings are on the brink of extinction
ISBN No: 81-88811-49-1
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The world was entering a dark phase of disaster and human beings were on the brink of extinction.
The passengers of a Comfort Airways flight survive the great disaster when Captain Dhoot safely
lands the aircraft in Mumbai. But a ghostly city welcomes them and they discover a desolate world
sans electricity, water, food or transport. For weeks, they brave misery, anxiety and decadence
and wander around the globe and search for their kin and survivors.
Just when survivors suspect that they could be the last members of an endangered human species,
Captain Dhoot takes charge and avows, “We will not resign meekly and vacate this planet in a
hurry.” Amidst the punishing monsoon rains, Captain Dhoot leads his passengers on an ambitious
‘mission’ to revive human civilization – and save the human race.
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Goa on a Cycle
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Rajneesh Gore |
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A small case study in cycle touring for the adventurous mind
ISBN No: 81-88811-43-2
Price:
India: Rs 195
Elsewhere: US $12.00
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In 2002, Gore and a friend decided to undertake a trip from Mumbai to Goa… on cycle! What has emerged
from that journey is this part travelogue, part how-to guide and part personal scrap book, chronicling
the interesting and varied experiences that peppered that journey. What started out as a mere physical
challenge turns into a lesson in life for the author. In the pages of his memoirs, we encounter
Swedish tourists and travellers in the Konkan, warm hospitality and caste conflicts in India's
villages, numerous dhaba dinners and ubiquitous golawallas… all of whom will awaken the spirit of
adventure and wanderlust hidden in each of us. We also get to know his silent partner in adventure,
Rishi, and Gore himself, whose lives and personalities unfurl before us like the road beneath their
wheels.
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Medicine, Morals
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Ishtyaque Ansari |
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Holds up those heady days of college for a closer scrutiny and no little humour
ISBN No: 81-88811-99-8
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India: Rs 195
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Idealistic, poor, and on the cusp of youth, Ajay arrives at the gates of the haloed portals of
the government medical college, Baroda, brimming with pride and optimism. Along with his friend
Brij and his roommates, Sunil and Achal, he prepares for a long and grueling stint as a medical
student. He soon learns that life in hostel can be tough, outdone only by the combined woes of
anatomy and dissection, esoteric-sounding lectures and the horrors of handling human cadavers.
The small circle of classmates soon charms up to Priya, the class belle, who all the boys openly
woo, including the earnest Ajay. Much to Ajay’s disappointment, however, his ardour is met with
coolness bordering on scorn, as Priya has plans of her own. Studies soon prove to be difficult
too, as Ajay’s performance slips into a new low. To add insult to injury, his bathmate team up
to pull a deadly prank on a hapless Ajay. A growing inferiority complex about his poverty leads
on to some unsuccessful endeavours, including a stint as a paid semen donor. Inadvertently drawn
into a close group of hostel goons, Ajay is first persuaded, and then forced, to steal drugs. He
gets caught, and the scrape he gets into that only a miracle can save Ajay from.
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Big Apple 2 Bites
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Deals with topics of weight and importance with an irreverence that is almost mocking
ISBN No: 81-88811-98-X
Price:
India: Rs 275
Elsewhere: US $16.00
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Sen is an unusual young statistician — happy when delving into literature and the esoteric martial
art of Aikido, and morose while doing his job of a consultant. Nevertheless, it is his job that
lands him in Manhattan twice on business assignments, once on each side of 9/11. The story revolves
around his semi-romantic relationship with the beautiful Allison. Seen through the eyes of a cynic
and recounted with unconventional humour in every page, it provides snapshots of all aspects of
life — covering segments as diverse as outsourcing and rationalising layoffs, war and philosophy,
international economics and corporate politics, the software industry, chasm and similarities
between the East and the West, the frontiers of science, human emotions, love, truth and deceit
and numerous other issues that define the chancy, unpredictable modern world.
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Dear Dad
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An endearing tale of reminiscence for fathers and a how-to guide for fathers-to-be
ISBN No: 81-88811-97-1
Price:
India: Rs 145
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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While many books capture the emotional and physical changes an expectant mother experiences, few
focus on the dad, often bewildered by the changes occurring in his life. Unexpectedly finding
himself a father-to-be, Rajat Mathur was thrown into a world of diapers, doctors and those
numerous disasters that comprise fatherhood. His book, Dear Dad, the first of a series,
takes readers on this emotional yet lighthearted journey. Starting from the time he realises he
is to be a father, ending at the moment he holds his child for the first time and covering
everything in between — mothers-in-law, shopping trips, breaking the news to the family et al.
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Beyond the Newsroom
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A scathing attack on the unholy alliance between India’s Fourth Estate, governance and underworld
ISBN No: 81-88811-96-3
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $15.00
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Mumbai’s greatest underworld Don, the Godfather with a Heart of Gold, makes a miraculous escape
with a 400-strong police battalion waiting to arrest him right outside his house… So begins
Oswald Pereira’s energetic new novel. This book drops the veils on the underhanded deals and
Bollywood plots, which never make it to India’s newspapers, and reveal the many hidden aspects
of a black-and-white piece of newsprint. Apart from being an exciting and immensely readable
piece of ‘fiction’, Beyond the Newsroom features complex, interesting characters who show
how nebulous the lines between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ can be. This story — sometimes a beacon of a hope
and sometimes a cry for help — is a must-read for the thinking Indian.
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sandy@enigma (La Premier Call Centre)
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Rohit Ramanujam |
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On how the call centre industry has changed the landscape of India
ISBN No: 81-88811-91-2
Price:
India: Rs 95
Elsewhere: US $6.00
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The book elucidates the ways and means the call centre industry has changed the landscape of
India in general and Bangalore in particular. It has helped many an independent men and, more so,
women a chance to show their talent and individualistic ideals. This book revolves around the
character Sandy. It discusses about her adolescence, schooling years, marriage and the subsequent
fallout.
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Strangers Ourselves: The Adventures of Paul Theroux
By
John Mowat |
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A must-read for admirers of Theroux, wanting a deeper understanding of his work
ISBN No: 81-88811-93-9
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $10.00
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A writer is best understood and known by his work and his words. Strangers Ourselves is thus an
essential guide to Paul Theroux (1941), one of America’s most respected travel writers and novelists,
and a critical analysis of his most outstanding books — Fong and the Indians, Picture Palace, Saint Jack
and others. Analysing the critical aspects of Theroux's life — his friendship with V S Naipaul,
his work in the Peace Corps and his tenure at various universities — this book is a critical
outline of Theroux’s works as well as their influences and inspirations.
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The Book of Life
By
Vikram Dev Thakur |
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Covers the grandest reflections on the things that really matter
ISBN No: 81-88811-92-0
Price:
India: Rs 140
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Spanning areas of study as far flung as physics, philosophy and biology, this new author brings
you a little book about all the Big Things in life. Birth, death and everything in between find
place and intelligent discussion in this book, which will help demystify these important concepts
for the layman. The Book of Life is truly that — a book covering the grandest reflections on the
things that really matter. You may have never thought about any of this in the course of your normal
day, but the wisdom and radical ideas in these pages will resonate within you long after you are
done reading.
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Scammers of the Dictator’s Realm
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Matthew Uzukwu |
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A masterful fictional expose of the Nigerian financial scams
ISBN No: 81-88811-90-4
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $12.00
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Scammers of the Dictators’ Realm is a masterful fictional expose of military dictatorship
and the rise of international financial scams in the country of Nigeria, and the determination of
the subsequent democratically-elected authority to extirpate the phenomenon. The story sheds light
on the Nigerian society during the military dictatorship, weaving a story around a scammed American
investor and many hilarious moments of daily life under the military rule.
In the story, the trio of Albert Dyke, Obata Ohasum and Vincent Ekey fronts a business enterprise
for the purpose of engaging in financial scams. They score a hit when a fake proposal to bid on a
government supply contract attracts the interest of Mark Fisher, an American citizen from the State
of New York. First Mark has to invest $400,000 in bribe money to the army ‘general’ in charge of
the contract award process for the bid to succeed. Mark puts up the money, then suspects later
that a scam has occurred. The trio plans Mark’s murder, then lures him to Nigeria for a ‘crucial
meeting’—they wanted to forestall future prosecution for their crime. The trio escapes punishment
for their crime until a democratically-elected president takes over. He has a tough agenda against
financial scam artists and the case of the trio is prosecuted at his instigation.
Until judgment was rendered in the celebrated case, it wasn’t certain what the learned high court
judge’s decision would be — rule in favour of the defendants who had a defense team of legal
luminaries or succumb to the suspected pressures from the president to find the defendants guilty.
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From the Sea to the Stars
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A mans journey to try and save his son. Across the bottom of the oceans and then off into deepest space...
ISBN No: 81-88811-88-2
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $15.00
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Pete Reynolds, a freelance photographer, had returned to the Island of Cyprus for the first time
since he was a boy. It was during that time whilst exploring a deserted cove with his friends
that he became trapped in a tunnel under a reef and should have drowned. He couldn’t have known
it, but by returning to the island some 30 years later, the events of that day would take him on
a journey across the bottom of the oceans and then off into deepest space. A journey not just to
save an alien race, but a journey to try and save his son.
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So, You Mean, This is Not the Real World?
By
John Kelly |
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An intriguing story of a man confronting his demons
ISBN No: 81-88811-89-0
Price:
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John Kelly’s part-diary, part-dialogue with the higher aspects of himself and other beings in
energy and spirit form is an intriguing story of a man confronting his demons and the problems
that plague anyone who thinks and explores the purpose of his life. An intensely personal, honest
admission of faults and failures, So, You Mean, This Is Not The Real World? is at first a touching
tale of a human being once lost but slowly finding his way back to his life’s path. At a broader
level, the book you hold in your hands is an exploration of life itself and an attempt to answer
those fundamental questions: Why are we here? Are we alone? Who are we, really? Kelly found out
the answers to these questions the hard way and presents in this book his struggle to give his
life meaning.
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Songs of Freedom: Kerala’s Many Mutinies
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K C John |
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A veteran journalist’s ringside view of Kerala’s evolution
ISBN No: 81-88811-27-0
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $15.00
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The people of Travancore and Kochi led two separate movements for responsible government. Malabar,
under direct British rule, joined the National Movement for freedom. The struggle for responsible
government was also part of the national struggle for Independence. The struggle in the three
areas of the Malayalam region, after reorganisation of the states linguistically, after
independence, ran parallel to one another. In this gripping narrative of the growth of democracy
and the humbling of Sir C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer, the late K.C. John, veteran journalist who had a
ringside view of the evolution of modern Kerala takes you through the convulsions for freedom
that the state went through over the last century.
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The Receding Waves
By
Anita Mohandas |
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A simple tale of the magic of childhood and loss of innocence
ISBN No: 81-88811-86-6
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $18.00
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The Receding Waves is a deceptively simple tale of the magic of childhood and the loss of
innocence. The story, sketched by Gouri through her reflections, is about a friendship — a
beautiful friendship between her and a lonely handicapped child, Shree, whose boundless optimism
and vivacity for life, in spite of her being stricken by polio, are in stark contrast to Gouri’s
reserved, self-conscious nature. Being brought up in the small and picturesque coastal state of
Kerala, amidst its temples, myths, omens, superstitions, astrological predictions and tantric
rituals, we get a peep into the life of a pristine culture; still kept alive.
This is also the story of women and the shackles of tradition, religion and relationships that
bind them down: of little delights, huge disappointments, of life’s lessons learned the hard way,
of spiritual dilemmas, and finally, the search for the self.
A dreamy tale — the flow and ebb of a thousand waves, slowly but steadily wearing away both sweet
nostalgia and the scars of time...
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Touch
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Meena Kandasamy |
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Experience the power of honest verse; superior poetic vision
ISBN No: 81-88811-87-4
Price:
India: Rs 145
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Dying and then resurrecting herself again and again in a country that refuses to forget
the unkind myths of caste and perhaps of religion, Meena carries as her twin self, her shadow
the dark cynicism of youth that must help her to survive. “Happiness is a hollow world for fools
to inhabit” cries Meena at a moment of revelation. Revelations come to her frequently and
prophecies linger at her lips.
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A Sting in the Tale
By
Niroop Mahanty |
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Thirteen tales of the unexpected, this book is an intriguing page-turner
ISBN No: 81-88811-83-1
Price:
India: Rs 250
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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A village with a strange preoccupation, an airliner hijacked from outside,
a high-tension company meeting, a patient witness —
these are some of the settings for this intriguing page-turner.
Thirteen tales of the unexpected…
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Eimona
By
G B Prabhat |
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The definitive story of the ‘electronified’ generation; with stylish satire
ISBN No: 81-88811-80-7
Price:
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Elsewhere: US $15.00
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Eighty-four year old Subbu’s world has gone topsy-turvy. The normal is now the abnormal,
and the abnormal, the normal. With distant amusement and mischief, he watches the New India
of stock options, freshly minted millionaires, prenuptial agreements and layoffs. About his
only interest in life is his eight-year-old great-granddaughter, Maya. Eimona — “anomie” in
reverse — is the tale of a future already happening to India.
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The Day of the Dead
By
Nikhil Khanna |
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About two men who live in two worlds: real and unreal; a fun adventure
ISBN No: 81-88811-81-5
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Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Two men, separated by a porous border between Mexico and the USA, live in two worlds — real and
unreal. One intrudes upon the other in dreams of disturbing frequency and nightmarish dimensions.
The border between the law and the lawless is also what separates the two, forever burdened by
their mutual need to unravel the dream world through the explorer called reality. For Shaun,
getting at Senator Brown in the bargain is as compulsive a professional requirement as it is an
irrepressible personal necessity for being in control of his sanity. The scheming senator, the
patron-priest for the transnational Mafia, is unchallenged in his conquest of the drugdom.
Inspector Cross, reminiscent of Serpico, is made of sterner stuff. He challenges the might of
Brown, but pays the price with his life. Or, does he?
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The Bet
By
Kulpreet Yadav |
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What happens when you bet for money? Do not guess; read on
ISBN No: 81-88811-84-X
Price:
India: Rs 295
Elsewhere: US $18.00
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What happens when you don't believe in superstition? What happens when you are agonizingly
in love? What happens when you are short of money? What happens, when you bet for money?
Faith can be a tumultuous attribute to cling on, particularly when it is ambiguous enough under
a screen of hope- hope of reliability, hope of alls-going-to-end-well, hope against hope…
But what happens when the glimmer shines off and the unearthed spells a hurtful betrayal.
Well, in the case of Amir, a young and smart call center executive, it spelled a compromise
between his own life and that of his beautiful, loving wife Anjali- a choice that he couldn't
attempt to choose, or ignore, for that matter. Not yet. Not until he tracked his faith back;
to pursue, to fight.
But would the unjust evil give in tamely, to a novice…
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Biotoons
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Prashanth Suravajhala |
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A peek into the most happening field of biotechnology; concise
ISBN No: 81-88811-82-3
Price:
India: Rs 150
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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The World of Genes is a concise, yet comprehensive and convincing, book for not just beginners,
but anybody who wants to take a peek into the most happening field of biotechnology.
At a time when genetics is conquering new frontiers and the scientific community is engrossed
like never before in eliminating human suffering due to diseases, inheritance and accidents,
this innovative book traces the brief history of genetics, from Watson and Crick, and summarises
what biotechnology, the buzzword across the globe, is all about. Terms still abegging acceptable
levels of currency — like bioinformatics, biomathematics and biostatistics — are suitably explained
in a most straightforward manner. Due attention has been given to provide useful info on where
biology meets information technology.
By a modest reckoning, it is a bestseller in the making.
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Sumit
runs away
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Mahesh Suvarna |
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A contemporary piece of fiction that is both entertaining and astute
ISBN No: 81-88811-85-8
Price:
India: Rs 300
Elsewhere: US $16.00
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Mahesh Suvarna, today a senior banking official, found inspiration for his first book in his college days
as an engineering student at Mumbai’s VJTI College. Set around the life and times of a group
of friends he made there, this debut work uses humour, poetry and a hint of surrealism to expose
the rot in the Indian educational system as well as the weak ties that bind us to our friends,
our destinies and our sanities.
Through the protagonist, Sumit, Suvarna takes us on a unique journey into the mind of a typical
college student who, every single day, juggles hormonal urges, parental expectations, peer pressure
and the confusions of an alluring but distant future
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Bombay
Talkies
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Mayank Shekhar |
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The book entails a compilation of concise and witty
film reviews that showed at the cinemas during 2004 and 2005.
ISBN No: 8188811394
Price:
India: Rs 295
Elsewhere: US $18.00
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A reason this movie annual, chronicling Mumbai cinema during 2004 and 2005,
exists is fairly similar to why film reviews do. At a basic level, movie reviews are manuals
to the movies. The reason they appear in mainline publications across the globe and ought to,
often at the inevitable cost of rubbing many the wrong way, is that they are one of the best-read,
accessible and possibly the only honest space to discuss the most mass-oriented pop-cultural product.
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Civil Disobedience
Movements in India
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C V H Rao |
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The book is a sound, sober and effective presentation
of India’s case from the international standpoint.
ISBN No: 8188811386
Price:
India: Rs 250
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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Civil Disobedience Movements in India continues to be a faithful record of the history of the non-violent
civil disobedience initiated by Mahatmaji in order to achieve independence for India.
India’s Case for Freedom was an attempt to put before the public,
particularly the non-Indian public which was not obsessed by its adherence to any particular party slogans,
the case for Indian freedom. Both the books were first published before India achieved her independence.
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Drizzle of
Yesteryears
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M K Ajay |
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The stories in this anthology will appeal to anyone who has felt like an outsider at some time,
either within his native land or elsewhere.
ISBN No: 8188811424
Price:
India: Rs 195
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Who belongs to a village?
Do the lives of those ‘in exile’ get counted in its collective consciousness and identity?
What does being ‘at home’ mean for an eccentric in a traditional society?
Where does one locate oneself after migration?
This collection of seventeen short stories, arranged in two sections — ‘At Home’ and ‘In Exile’ —
examines belongingness, delightfully eccentric behaviour, displacement, everyday surprises and longing to return to one’s roots.
Stories in the section ‘At Home’ are evocative, capturing moods and events in Pambunkavu,
a fictional twenty-first century village set in the Malabar region of Kerala.
‘In Exile’ traces the lives of its people in distant lands — cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Vienna
or the surreal landscapes of a circus tent in Texas — as they cope with migration and foreign cultures.
The simplicity of its characters, fluency in storytelling, striking imagery and the settings in this collection
ranging from a monk’s domain in cyberspace to an institution for the mentally ill will appeal to anyone
who has felt like an outsider at some time, either within his native land or elsewhere.
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First
Rain
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B Vaqar |
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The poems in this slim anthology are
a result of extreme frenzy and suppressed frustration
ISBN No: 8188811408
Price:
India: Rs 95
Elsewhere: US $4.00
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The poems in this slim anthology are a result of extreme frenzy and suppressed frustration,
from a person who has no power to change things, but nevertheless can’t tolerate them.
These poems discuss extremely relevant issues and some of them contain striking sociopolitical shades.
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Cheating the
Hangman
By
Wade Agnew |
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Time has now come to spill the beans
on these hair-raising adventures...
ISBN No: 8188811335
Price:
India: Rs 300
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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For me it was the ultimate experience, like a bank robber walking in with a gun and getting away with the cash
My mission was delivering forbidden fruit from foreign shores with forensic efficiency, right to your front door
Sam placed his 45 on the seat between us, and geared himself for the chase
Losing my heroin was bad enough, but the thought of a drug-free stay in Singapore was too much to bear
I sat bolt upright, my internal thermometer kaput, but all senses rushing, and brain already in overdrive
It was the day I showered a Thai cop with heroin
Visit:
www.cheatingthehangman.com.au
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Shielding her
Modesty
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Sita Bhaskar |
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A distinct palette
of cultural vignettes
ISBN No: 8188811343
Price:
India: Rs 200
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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Modern India and its people spilling over its borders into
contemporary life in America form the backdrop of these stories.
In one story is Muruga, an illiterate billboard painter,
with a lascivious eye on his billboard creation, at odds
with the shameless gawkers at his half clad sultry siren.
In another is irrepressible Naresh whose love for Pushpa
harks back to a not so innocent time of lurid teenage
fantasy and all the delicate implications that make it hard
for him to confess his love to her. And then in a Barbie Doll
assembly factory in India, eight-year-old Parvati yearns for
a shoe from a Barbie Doll collection.
As the characters are jostled between the pull of both cultures,
their experiences uncover the myriad contradictions and commonalities
deeply embedded in looking at things with an Indian eye while adapting
to western mores and thought. Taken together, these stories form a
distinct palette of cultural vignettes that inform the reader of the
nature of the Indo-American experience.
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The Colour of
Mehndi
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Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi |
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Gives voice to a woman whose life and death
have been shrouded in a veil of shame and silence
ISBN No: 8188811378
Price:
India: Rs 350
Elsewhere: US $17.00
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Nazli Akram seemed to have it all - a husband, two beautiful sons
and a picturesque house in the suburbs of Arizona. But her outwardly
idyllic existence masked the chaos brewing within the confines of
her own mind. A young Pakistani-American woman, struggling with a
failing marriage and her own sacrificed ambitions, Nazli’s once-promising
future quickly deteriorates as she succumbs to her own personal demons
and follows a dangerous path of despair and mental illness. But her
story is lost through the years until her youngest son - now a grown man
on a quest for his own identity - uncovers the audiotapes of the mother
he doesn’t remember. And his discovery finally gives voice to a woman
whose life and death have been shrouded in a veil of shame and silence.
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Dance of the
Fireflies
By
Rucha Humnabadkar |
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Celebrates the courage and fortitude of India’s street children
ISBN No: 818881136X
Price:
India: Rs 300
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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Dance of the Fireflies is a heartrending novel set in India.
In a quest to fulfill his dream, Chotu, a seven-year-old boy,
leaves his remote village in South India for a life in the city.
His pursuit takes him through a labyrinth of bittersweet experiences.
Struck by hunger, and plagued by emotional and sexual abuse at the
hands of Aslam, a man who takes advantage of his vulnerability,
Chotu questions his decision to leave his village. He finds reprieve
in his friendship with Tasneem, a young girl who loses her family
when the tsunami waves devastate her village on the coast of Chennai.
Their paths intertwine as each explores life and realizes their destiny.
Through their experiences, we ascertain the implications of living a
repressed life.
How do you deal with the loss of family?
How do you forge friendships when trust becomes a fragile sentiment?
Lastly, how do you keep a dream alive in the face of adversity?
The novel brings to life the indomitable spirit of human endurance,
hope and desire. A story that is evocative of the noteworthy moments
in most people’s lives.
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HINDU HISTORIES :
The Beginnings
By
Nipun Shukla |
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Throw light on the remote periods of the past
ISBN No: 8188811351
Price:
India: Rs 300
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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When journeying back into the past, from recent times to the ancient,
one would find history gradually transform into legend, and legend
into myth. This is especially true for a country as complicated and
diverse as India. Thus, the ancient histories of its people, the
Hindus (a broad term that includes all the people of the Indus River,
the Sindhu), are also shrouded in myth and legend.
Hindu Histories, a fictional narrative complete with dates, hymns, and
genealogies, is an attempt to throw light on those remote periods of
the past. The basis of the work is in the assumption that Hindu myths
are poetic (hyperbolic) forms of ancient social and political realities.
The work builds on this assumption and moves on two intertwined paths.
The first interprets the said myths and reveals them to be actual events
that transpired in those times. The second explores the role of Vedic Sages
(founders, if you will, of ancient Hinduism) as influential philosophers
and reformers, who in their quest to create a World-Family, lay, in the book,
the foundations of the Vedic Period to come.
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Conflict and
Other Stories
By
Shubham Gupta |
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Plainly put, a life that just goes on and on...
ISBN No: 8188811327
Price:
India: Rs 300
Elsewhere: US $15.00
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These short stories are a meticulous reflection on life and a subtle
expression of the intricacies that it presents every moment with
resounding ease and regularity. The effervescent style and the
unexpected twists are what the author calls 'blinds,’ which extract
new meanings from what we generally miss out in keeping with our
hectic chores. They delve in love, relationships, plain-storytelling,
and in life, a life in which not everything is good, not everything
bad.
Plainly put, a life that just goes on and on...
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The Final
Option
By
Baqir Shameem |
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India's First War Thriller
ISBN No: 8188811319
Price:
India: Rs 200
Elsewhere: US $10.00
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It was a swift and surgical operation. Osama bin Laden and
his close aides, totally unaware and in deep slumber, were
caught alive. Those who offered resistance were shot down,
while the rest were rounded up. In the wee hours of the morning,
the patrol had completed its mission. By daybreak, helicopters
with backup support had reached the area and within no time the
world’s most dangerous and most wanted terrorist was on his way
to Islamabad. This is just the beginning.
The plot is Machiavellian in concept to solve long-cherished
political goals - all so much within the realm of probability.
In fact, the whole book reads like contemporary history - so
plausible is the setting and developments. With bin Laden in
Pakistan’s hand anything is possible.
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