Ray had it all worked out. Go to India, take care of his father and return to his life in San Jose. His father would follow him in a couple of months and that would be that. But his father dies and Ray attributes it to bad luck. Things take a bizarre turn when an old friend tells him the reason behind his father's death. Ray finds himself drawn into the seedy under-belly of Tamil films and up against a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.Should Ray go back to his meti...

You have a potential bestseller, but you're sick of stumbling around, manuscript in hand, begging publishers to look at it? You're a published writer who has sold exactly three copies of your book, of which two are to your mother? Fear not. From India's Certified Number One Non-Bestselling Humour Writer comes the ultimate self-help book for writers. Find out everything you wanted to know about being a literary sensation but you couldn't ask CB because he has blocked you. Discover the must-...

Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story - and another and another - and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of family in the Great Madras Flood.Find yourself, among other places, in Town, at that gastronomic oxymoron, the Udipi cafe, in Velachery, looking for po...

Brahmasri Paruthiyur Krishna Sastri a pioneer of Hindu Religious discourses had traveled all over India and had conducted discourses in various subjects spreading the knowledge. He was considered the greatest exponent of the Ramayana in his time whose style is even now revered and emulated. Sastri's life was dedicated to renovating and maintaining temples, building temples for Sri Rama, philanthropy, singing and talking about the glories of the story of Sri Rama thereby inducing bhakti and...

Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story – and another and another – and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of family in the Great Madras Flood. Find yourself, among other places, in Town, at that gastronomic oxymoron, the Udipi cafe, in Velachery, looking for p...

ಲಾಲ್ ಬಹದ್ದೂರ್ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಿ ಭಾರತದ ಎರಡನೇ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿ ಸೇವೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ಒಬ್ಬ ಭಾರತೀಯ ರಾಜನೀತಿಜ್ಞ. ಅವರು ಬಿಳಿ ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಯನ್ನು ಉತ್ತೇಜಿಸಿದರು-ಹಾಲಿನ ಉತ್ಪಾದನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪೂರೈಕೆಯನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುವ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಅಭಿಯಾನ-ಗುಜರಾತ್