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Deepa Malik

It is her smile that you notice first. It captivates you and ensures that your eyes don't move away from it. You don't see the wheelchair; you don't see the body paralysed chest down. You don't see the trauma of recurring spinal tumours, the frustration of an unresponsive body caging a free spirit, the countless hours of gruelling training. All you see is Deepa Malik - achiever, champion, inspiration.Call her India's foremost para athlete with twenty-three international medals-incl...

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Ravinder Singh

There is more to love than just loving . . . It is also a promise Lavanya Gogoi is from the scenic hills of Shillong while Rajveer Saini belongs to the shahi city of Patiala. Worlds apart from one another, the two land up next to each other on a flight from Mumbai to Chandigarh. It's love at first flight, at least for one of them. For the other . . . well, it's going to take more than a plane ride! And when love does finally happen, there are more obstacles to overcome. Rajveer has to stan...

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Ajay K Pandey

His father's over expectations only ruined his self-confidence furtherwith each failure. A ray of hope walked into his life as his wife, acharismatic personality spreading joy wherever she went. Everythingis going per plan, but darkness comes knocking soon.He finds out that she does not have much time to live and takes it uponhimself to fight all odds even his family, if need be to help her fighther medical condition. His father sees his own redemption in helpingthem; he knows his son will ...

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Larry Brilliant

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when love, compassion and determination meet the right circumstances to effect positive change, is the kind that keeps hope and the sense of possibility a...

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Ravinder Singh

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER: a heartbreaking true story that has broken records in India and will make you believe in the power of love.++++Not all love stories are meant to have a happy ending . . .I TOO HAD A LOVE STORY is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi - two people who found each other on a dating website and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test....

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Venu K. Kodimela

There are incidences where the today’s youth when they fail in love are going into depression, becoming alcoholic, getting addicted to drugs or committing suicide; and are even resorting to crimes such as acid attacks, rape, murder, etc. hence spoiling both the lives. If the same youth puts that energy and aggression in a positive way and in the right direction that will lead to a successful life. Hafeez Basha is one such youth who was very shy during his engineering, got rejected by a gir...

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Prahlad Kakar, Rupangi Sharma

In 1971, clutching a princely sum of three hundred rupees in his pocket, Prahlad Kakar arrived in Bombay Central station. During his early days of dire struggle, he slept on benches in train stations and on the sofas of reluctant friends. Scratching the underbelly of Colaba Causeway, he learnt manylife lessons for his survival and eventual climb to notoriety.Four decades later, he swears by Murphy's law, 'Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.' Murphy is certainly not a ...

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Val Inchley OBE

Born in the middle of an air raid, Val's life began with a bang, and she has been living in the fast lane ever since. Aged ten, she became a Christian at a beach mission, and then at twenty-one she committed the unforgivable sin (as defined only by her parents on that occasion). In 1967 she graduated (with honours) in Medicine from the University of Liverpool and the following year God called her to work in Nepal. Scared stiff of spiders and hopeless at languages, she was an unlikely missi...

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Divya Gupta Kotawala

'My Dad's Daughter' is an emotional journey of a daughter with her father, which, for her, ended at the hospital door. Divya’s father succumbed to COVID in May 2021, and that marked the most catastrophic experience for her as she helplessly witnessed her father going through an unimaginable ordeal and passing away without his family around him. Unable to handle the sudden demise of her dad in the most unprecedented circumstances witnessed by this generation, Divya struggled to find any clo...

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Anna Varki

These memoirs of ninety six years of my life include many momentous experiences via my famous journalist father Pothan Joseph and his connections to Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi), my life raising a family in the Indian Railway system in post-Independence times, beginning a career as a teacher when I was well past youth and, finally, retiring with full access to the internet, email and other benefits of the Cyber Age

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ANAND SUSPI

From playing a rare instrument to asking Rajiv Gandhi intimate questions to practising dolphin dives to hanging out of a running train in the middle of the night to witnessing a world record to being caught in a flood of sambar to learning kung fu with mosquitoes to becoming the inventor of capris to seeing Rama and Arjuna together in the forest to being misled about the Wodeyars to making magnets to eating blades to robbing libraries to planning a borewell..Well, this book is simp...

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HR Shenoy, M Subramanian, KR Iyer

What’s the journey of life without a dash of humour?Seen through the prism of a good laugh, life becomes a ‘jolly good show’ to be enjoyed and experienced, the good and the bad notwithstanding.H R Shenoy and his two co-authors cull out real life instances and experiences, and share them with just that a dash of humour.Transformed by this perspective, everyday instances become colourful and enjoyable, with a life’s lesson thrown in somewhere if you could care to find it.Travel with the author...