What if Monday was never the problem?Millions of professionals spend their lives counting down to Friday, believing happiness is waiting somewhere in the future-a promotion, a vacation, a new role, or the weekend.But what if the life you're waiting for has been quietly passing you by?In No Boring Mondays, Akhil Pundhir shares deeply personal stories, practical insights, and powerful reflections drawn from his own journey through pressure, uncertainty, leadership, se...

Behind Closed CurtainsSome doors are locked. Some secrets are hidden. And some people are watching.Julian Vance built The Obsidian, the world's most advanced luxury smart tower—a fortress of glass, steel, and artificial intelligence designed to keep its residents safe. From his isolated penthouse command center, Julian monitors every system, every sensor, and every digital footprint inside the building.Control is everything....

Daniel Frost wakes up to a life that doesn't belong to him.Haunted by impossible memories, mysterious messages, and a daughter he cannot remember, Daniel begins to uncover a truth that challenges everything he knows about identity and reality.As fragments of forgotten timelines collide, he is drawn into a dangerous mystery that spans parallel worlds and hidden experiments. With time running out, Daniel must decide which version of his life is truly his—and what he is willin...

Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum.This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the r...

Akhil Sharma's new collection is a remarkable achievement. These tender, elegant stories - each of which was first published in the New Yorker - all explore the unpredictability of human emotion. In the sleek, minimalist prose for which his prize-winning novel Family Life was acclaimed, Sharma skilfully reveals the obstacles we face in making meaningful relationships. A striking fusion of fiction and memoir, A Life of Adventure and Delight is unflinching in expos...

Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights Primer is an authoritative guide to all American freedoms. Uncluttered and w...

Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protec...

During your life you will make many important financial decisions. Their success will be significantly affected by the state of the economy and financial markets when you make them.Imagine if you had a guide to the future to help you anticipate periods of boom and bust and make decisions accordingly: when to invest and take risk, and when to sell or take measures to preserve your wealth.The Secret Wealth Advantage is that guide.To make better investment dec...

Does the journey of becoming a chartered accountant scare you to death? Does it mean you need an IQ of 170 and an unimaginable work ethic to become a CA? Is this right? Come on... We CAs are also people who love to have fun, but we always keep a straight face. This is Joe's three year-long journey, where he finds himself tangled with romance, corporate backstabbing, true friendship, and drama while traveling around the world. In a breathless race, he realizes what it means to become an imp...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India's poor are not disenfranchis...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even her nostrils suggested a frank sexuality. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her waist and pull her toward him. And then he realized that he had.Gopal Maurya's wife has left him, preferring to seek enl...

From a preeminent legal scholar, a “fascinating” and “masterful” (Wall Street Journal) history of the American Constitution's formative decadesWhen the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the hall...