Abiotic Stress Management in Fruit Crops explores the growing challenges posed by abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature fluctuations, soil degradation, and environmental pollution on fruit crop production. This academic volume integrates theoretical frameworks and practical approaches. The book brings together the latest research, case studies, and management strategies aimed at enhancing resilience, productivity, and sustainability in fruit crops. With a focus on innovat...

Nutrition of Fruit Crops explores nutrient management strategies essential for sustainable fruit production. The book presents foundational principles of plant nutrition, diagnosis of nutrient deficiencies, fertilizer application techniques, and modern tools like DRIS and integrated nutrient management (INM). Designed for students, researchers, and horticultural professionals, it provides both theoretical knowledge and field-level insights to improve crop yield and quality. In the context ...

An engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage, from the prize-winning author of Home and Difficult Daughters.Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and frustrated by how little life has to offer. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life. When an arranged marriage is proposed, Nina is uncertain: c...

When their traditional business - selling saris - is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and children alike, the need for escape - whether through illicit love or in the making of pickles or the search for education - becomes ever stronger...

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and ...

When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom... Meanwhile, Ishita, a failed marriage behind her, finds another chance at happiness with Raman. But when the courts threaten the security of her new family, she decides to fight for it - whatever the cost.From prize-winning author Manju Kapur, Custody is an intimate portrait of m...

Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for - children, a dutiful loving husband, and comfortable surroundings. So why should she be consumed with a sense of unease and dissatisfaction?Astha finds herself embarking on a powerfully physical relationship with a much younger woman, Pipee, the widow of a political activist. But with this extra-marital affair is she foolishly jeopardizing everything - or is Astha at last throwing off the fear and timidity in...

MADHUBALA:Madhubala was born as Mumtaz Jehan Begum in Delhi on 14 February 1933. When she entered in film industry as a child artist in 1942, who could ever thought on seeing her that one day she would become one of the most beautiful and versatile actresses of Hindi cinema.Lavishly illustrated with photos of Madhubala, this special book covers in detail the major events in her life, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity and her marriage to Kishore Kuma...

These recipes can be eaten every day for a healthy and balanced diet and feature classic and original curries, including those with an array of spices, vegetables and superfoods that are rich in anti-oxidants and cooked in a way that retains their specific nutrient value.Rooted in the streets, homes and markets of India, Everyday Healthy Indian Cookery reflects the delicious flavours and aromas of the curries and healing spices that characterise the very best of that count...

Authentic Indian food from Manju, the world's oldest chef, and her award-winning restaurant in this homage to the vegetarian cuisine of Gujarat. 2022 She Awards Outstanding Culinary Skills winner Manju Patel. The food being served at Manju's fabulous restaurant in Brighton is a homage to the cuisine of Gujarat, where vegetarian cooking is both a religious belief and an environmental cause. Living and growing up in Uganda, Manju was passionate about cooking and was taught to cook by her mot...

You watch someone seemingly stumble into success, into love, into abundance, while you work twice as hard for half the results. You meet people who radiate a frequency of ease and attraction, and you wonder: What do they know that I don't? These aren't just philosophical questions—they're urgent, personal, sometimes agonizing questions.Why is everyone's life so different?Why do opportunities seem to fall into some laps while others struggle for scraps?

Scribbles and Shenanigans is a charming collection of the author's everyday observations-little moments, big thoughts, and the quirky takeaways that life tends to sprinkle along the way.