Aaran (inner strength), is the first of the series of three stories that I have always had in my mind. There is no greater joy in this life, than bringing thoughts to life.An individual goes through various ups and downs in this beautiful journey. No road is smooth. How we deal with our problems, in professional and personal life, make us who we are.Aaran is a story of an ever smiling ex-army lieutenant, Baldev, who learns life's lessons the hard way. In the struggle to mak...

AARAN 2- NEWER GROUNDS, is set in the midst of a political powerhouse. It is a story of how, with AARAN- the strength within, a decisive mind can bring down even an empire. It beautifully narrates that how crucial are our relationships. It tells that if truth is on one’s side, then nothing can ever be broken, or twisted. It binds the power of human endurance and mental strength. It tells us that no one powerful enough to last forever and that false empires will eventually crumble. It empha...

Searching for Alocyrrehcyzzif. What on earth can that mean? Look at the picture of the bottle of Mystic Cola. Scrutinize it well, in fine detail. Well, did you see them? Did you see the troubled souls trapped within it? Did you see the expressions on their poor, pitiful faces, knowing they have no hope of escaping that bottle? To find out how this unfortunate state of affairs came about, read the story. It’s unlike anything that you have read before.

The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny BoyleFormer tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is pulling a fast one.In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which incredible adventures...

**2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist**The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Dehli and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.It is an ach...

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger.But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah t...

The Love Commandos are dedicated to helping lovers from different castes marry for love in spite of India's millennia-old caste prejudices. But when a would-be Romeo from the Untouchable caste is kidnapped, the Love Commandos turn to Vish Puri for help. Has his fiancée's father made good on his promise and done away with him? Or is his disappearance the result of other forces at work? It falls to Vish Puri to find out. Unfortunately, he's not having a good month. He can't locate a haul of ...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal“I would be lying if I say my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure," says Antara, Tara’s now-adult daughter.This is a love story and a story about betrayal—not between lovers but between a mother and a daughter. . . . In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, embarked on a stin...

Winner of the CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and many more had bee...

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 and prepare to attack, the men intercept a conversation in which a Pakistani soldier, knowing he is going to die soon, says farewell to his wife. Her cry of pain rips through the bunker, overwh...

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 traumaticcircumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and with many other lost acquaintances. For those few hours Bir Bahadur is there, the past com...

Now in paperback, internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a poignant collection of contemporary short stories about the challenges and consequences faced by women in Indian life today.Like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Indu Sundaresan’s In the Convent of Little Flowers gives readers an eloquent and illuminating collection of stories about contemporary Indian life, exploring the cutting-edge issues that surround the clash between ancie...