From Test Matches to Twenty20 cricket, from bulky desktops to slim tablets, from letters to sms... when everything around the world is going compact and trendy, why not books? Quickies is that short trip to Goa with your best buddies which makes you high even before it begins.Quickies is the sudden punch in the gut that gives you the pleasure of the rum before biting into the chocolate.Quickies is the love between the partners who break up even before the hickeys get noticed.In short, if y...

Ronnie is 18 and wants to hook up with as many hot chicks as possible. Since practice makes a man perfect, he practices every day...with different partners, or multiple partners.His philosophy: Footiyas will choke themselves with just one girl. Footiyas? Oh, the guys who go to an ice cream shop if their girlfriends say ‘I like chocolate flavour’ and not to the chemist.He shares his flat with DJ who has perfected the art of happy hour nights. To DJ, even an easy addition sum of 1+1 equals to ‘...

A girl trapped by the colour of her skin. A politician desperate to regain power. A family ripped apart.16-year-old Pullamma, with her dark skin, has resigned herself to a limited future in her remote South Indian village. For this reason, she’s obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. She’s also resigned to remaining unwed. For with three girls in the family, there’s simply not enough dowry to go around.Soon a wedding alliance arr...

Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali apppears, and strikes one of their number dead.The goddess disappears without trace, and soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic and rationalist Dr Suresh Jha, enemy of all gurus and mystics, and he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even hi...

Lucid Living is a magical little book that distils the essence of the timeless wisdom of awakening and presents it in a funky new way. It is an experiential journey through seven extraordinary ideas that will completely transform your understanding of who you are and open up a wonderful new experience of being alive. Inspirational, utterly unique and destined to become a modern spiritual classic, Lucid Living is a life-changing book you can read in an hour!

Meet 13-year-old Ten Norbu as he navigates his first brush with mysticism, mystery—and maybe even murder—in this thrilling prequel to the Tenzing Norbu mysteriesLike most teenagers, Ten’s life is rife with change and emotional upheaval. In addition to his newfound fascination with girls and some unexpected bodily sensations, he’s been spending less time with his Parisian mother and more time in his Tibetan father’s Dharamshala monastery. This, in conjunction with t...

From "a major new talent" come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh).Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men and women caught between their own needs and the demands of their society and culture. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, with "a masterful narrative style" (Ian MacMil...

The best thing happened to her . . . but in the worst way possible . . . Prisha Srivastav turned eighteen two months back. Hailing from Faridabad, she studies mass communication in Bengaluru. She meets a mysterious man, double her age, who goes by the name 'the mean monster' in the Bengaluru party circuit. Intrigued, she pursues him and falls for him. However, there's a problem. Prisha doesn't know he kills the one who loves him. Literally. From the master of twists, Novoneel Chakraborty, ...

"This book is a chance to get a fix on some of India's best crime writers" ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).These fourteen original stories, from some of India's most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. Set in a city plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and murderous servants, this collection offers bone-chilling, mesmerizing take on the country's chaotic capi...

★★★★★ Beautifully written, taking one to India and bringing the sounds, smells, colors alive. It’s full of twists and surprises. Nothing is predictable or straightforward. ★★★★★The India collection comprises the three books in the India series and a surprise bonus story.Parvathy’s Well & other storiesSix captivating short stories that take you on an Indian Odyssey. From the North to the South, from the rich to the p...

Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness.At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI devoted himself to the practice. From traveling to India to study with gurus to living an...

**'One of the best books for 2023' CosmopolitanAgainst a rising tide of fundamentalism in India, a mother and daughter lose the most important man in their lives.**Shashi, fifty-something and suddenly widowed, tries to contact her only daughter, Tara, to break the news, but cannot reach her. As Shashi confronts her loss, she finds, amidst grief, unexpected new freedoms.Meanwhile, Tara, a spoiled but brilliant university student, has retreated to Dharamsala ...