Can Beauty in our world – much different from a fairy tale – change a Beast’s heart?A youthful idealist Maithili Deshmukh is inspired by a book. She gets mixed up in the kidnapping of Virata Rai.Heir to the Rai billions, Virata is touted as India’s Most Desirable Man. He ranks second only to the scion of the political Gandhi family.As his rescuing angel, Maithili experiences heartbreak and disappointment.India’s Most Desirable Man is like a movie superstar. ...

“The fellow you are texting seems like he has secretly entered your heart. I have felt it for some time now.”“No, no. He is just a friend.”Even after centuries of immense evolutionary contemplation flirting still remains the most inexhaustible source of sweet somethings.Love is the mother of all sentiments; the great-grandmother of every emotion out there. I know not how the world should love, but I know it should, but I know it should.The Grand Theatre of Cupid is an interesting and humorous...

For self-styled "book girl," third-year high school student TohkoAmano, being the head of the literary club is more than just anextracurricular activity with minor perks. It's her bread and butter .. . literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, andinstead of the less palatable option of water-soaked bread, she opts tomunch on torn out pages from all kinds of stories. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are handwritten stories. And to satisfy her gourmet tastes, she's employed...

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...

An ideal wife?Piramal Industries is the jewel in Mehtab Rathod’s crown, but he needs a wife to convince the board his playboy days are over and that he’s finally settled down to business – even if it’s just for show! Amrita Piramal grew up playing the faultless hostess, helping her father to woo investors – and, with her delicious curves, Mehtab knows she’ll make the perfect trophy wife.With her family bankrupt, Amrita is forced to accept Mehtab’s shocking ...

School days are full of fun, frolic, friendships, follies and first loves. They are also when little jealousies sprout, competitiveness reigns, and faiths break. Sixteen what an age when a boy turns into a young man, his loyalties all firmed up and a young girl tastes love for the first time.This first book from a just-turned-teenager author captures it all the twists and turns of adolescent life, set in the back drop of a school in Mussoorie, along with all the drama of an International d...

Who is the ‘Good Indian Girl’? What does she look like? How does she dress? Is she real — or is she a myth? In this funny, wicked, touching, irreverent, poignant collection of stories, Annie Zaidi and Smriti Ravindra lift the veil (or sari pallu) on the lives and loves of girls who have been born or raised in the subcontinent. The niceties have to be observed, but the urge to subvert is often overwhelming. As they shimmy down drainpipes at midnight, or steal covert glances at the boys acro...

An ominous accident puts Karan, a skeptical boy, in between the Demon and the Divine. A series of mind numbing haunts sets him on a perilous journey to battle an evil power.Vasuki’s tormented soul finds Karan to quash virulent Pishach.Karan sets her soul free, but at a heavy price. He doesn’t know that Fate has unanticipated plans for him.

The last year of school was supposed to be a stressful mess, but Sathya never expected it would get this stressful or this messy. He's pissed off with his parents, his best friend is convinced something is wrong with him, and there's a new guy with a pretty face and dazzling eyes, and Sathya just can't seem to ignore him.Or rather, Sathya doesn't want to ignore him.* * * * *Part of Take a Chance Anthology.

A man finds himself too busy in his career to understand feelings of her loving wife. One day his wife decides to write a love note, similar to which they used to exchange twelve years ago. Dr. Avani, the anaesthetist on call, always considers Dr. Mohit, the surgery resident, her enemy. Finally destiny brings them together when they handle a serious case of an accident victim. A usual day of Sens family turns hilarious when an unaddressed love letter accidently lands in the house. All the ...

When you bring together 48 stories from 26 exceptionally talented Indian women writers, you can expect imaginations, passions, and emotions to set pages aflame. Ripples is the result of one such effort. It is an anthology of short fiction stories that showcases superior creative writing and is a great representative of contemporary Indian women's fiction writing.

Flash Bites by Abha Iyengar is a collection of flash and micro fiction, telling stories in a few words,letting the reader in into a world and allowing her to fill in the gaps to arrive at her own iinterpretations. The stories are sometimes down- to -earth and sometimes surreal. They open a different door to let the light in on what may seem to be the mundane and ordinary. They give an insight into what lies beneath the surface of things, people and places.