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Two Worlds
Two Worlds is a confluence of worlds, world-views and two strong-willed women. Spanning centuries and cities, the novel explores Bengal's nationalist movement, the murky Hindi film industry and the nexus between the media and glamorous Boolywood, quietly transitioning into the quiet anonymity of London and Wales. A broad sweep of character- both historical and fictionus- form the fascinating world of the story as it unfold. As India awakens in its struggle for freedom, Ela Sen, brave and beautiful, is burdened with a forbidden love society cannot sanction and she will not abandon. Decades later, in modern-day India fiery journalist Oona Roy lives life on her own terms, wielding her pen against the corruption around her. But as her world crumbles, the desperately unhappy Oona embarks on a quest, dinging into the long-ago life of a woman who had been as unhappy as herself. Little does she know that in delving into her past, the will find her own future.
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The All Bengali Crime Detectives
In a middle-class Kolkata neighbourhood, the lives of four recently retired men take an unexpected turn when they stumble upon a crime. Will the unlikely 'detectives' be able to catch the criminal? Or will they unravel something even more sinister? The protagonists grab this exciting opportunity to rise above their mundane existence. They defy the ordinary, stretch their boundaries, and in the process discover something precious. Meanwhile, a lot is going on in the paara (neighbourhood) ﾖ a rather difficult match-making process for a 'wheatish complexioned' daughter, rivalry between two neighbouring clubs over Durga Pujo, squabbles between the 'out-dated' seniors and the younger members of the local club, attempts at an impossible romance by a roadside Romeo...
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Xcess Baggage
A young woman fighing for her identity and ready to sacrifice herself for a doomed love. An immortal group of vampires determined to get rid of their endless existence; even if it means butchering an innocent human. These are the key elements of the suspense romantic thriller, Xcess Baggage.
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It Happened In India
Born in a middle class trading family, Kishore Biyani started his career selling stonewash fabric to small shops in Mumbai. Years later, with the launch of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Central and many more retail formats, he redefined the retailing business in India. Incidentally, Kishore Biyani’s objective is to capture every rupee in the wallet of every Indian consumer, wherever they are - an investment banker living in a south Mumbai locality or a farmer in Sangli. As large business houses enter the retail space, Kishore Biyani is not just concentrating on retail but aiming to capture the entire Indian consumption space. From building shopping malls, developing consumer brands to selling insurance, he is getting into every business where a customer spends her money
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The Scalpel Games Beneath
It is the story of four people - a pretty princess, a dreaded don, a noble physician and an evil arch-rival. Painted across a wide canvas filled with multiple hues of love, lust, lies, greed, and scandals, the four characters criss-cross continents, touching cities like Delhi, Amritsar, New York, Chicago, Paris, Istanbul, Barcelone, Manila and Sydney.Padmashree Dr H S Rissam's medi-fiction, The Scalpel, scientillates through different levels of enigmatic stories and solves the mystery of one of the most grand-scaled medical thriller written in recent times. 'When a doctor writes a novel about the medical community cavorting with the mafia, would it be a work of fiction or would it be an attempt to showcase reality without the risk of a backlash? Dr Rissam is the Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Cardiac Clinical Sciences.
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Running On Full
Men and sport can be exciting on their own, but what happens when you combine the two? A heady cocktail that can make you forget even yourself! And that's exactly what happens to Tanya Trivedi. As a six-year-old, she hates both, men and sport. By her teens, she begins to think of them as synonymous and is obsessed with both. And by twenty-three she seems to have it all looks, friends, success, and men.
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Intimate Pretence
Intimate Pretence is a collection of fourteen short stories by Paramita Satpathy. Translated from Oriya by the author and few others, the stories address the recurring problems of the booming middle-class of Orissa. The plight of the modern woman has been delineated with utmost perfection.
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Stilettos In The Newsroom
Rashmi Kumar was born in Pune and raised in New Delhi. She graduated from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She has worked with newspapers and currently works with Business India. And when she is not writing, she is busy radio jockeying and travelling.
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Hakuna Matata
Kaushik is a happy-go-lucky person, whose funny SMSs and sense of humour make him popular and loved by all. He has a perfect job, and has just met the love of his life – Anushka. Surely life couldn’t be better.And then, things take a turn for the worse as Mumbai is shaken by the terror attacks on a very famous hotel, and the couple find themselves hopelessly entangled as suspected accomplices in the terror operations.
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You Can Sell
Anyone who sells a product,service or an idea is a salesperson. Who is not selling? A candidate at a job interview, apolitician making speeches to get votes, a boy and girl dating with the intention of getting married . . . all are selling themselves in some or the other way. You Can Sell challenges the age old cliché which delineates sales to be the sole domain of a sales man. Aren't we all Selling? You Can Sell addresses time-tested principles which make a successful sales professional. The word used is 'principles' and not 'tactics'. Tactics are manipulative whereas principles are based on the foundation of values. Many times you hear people saying that to succeed you need to learn the 'tricks of the trade'. Well, this book is different! Good professionals learn the trade, and that's exactly what You Can Sell teaches.
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New Nepal New Voices
The stories in New Nepal, New Voices illustrate that Nepali writing in English is not only alive but bursting withenergy. Gone are the days of tortured metaphors borrowed from Shelley and Keats, the days of believing that the only way we could write was by mimicking the literary giants of our southern neighour. The narratives in this book are distinctively Nepali, but they also move beyond the bounaries of the parochial, landlocked Nepal and reveal a country whose physical space is as fluid as its national identity.Ajit Baral is a writer based in Kathmandu. He has contributed to Biblio: A Review of Books, Tehelka, The book Review, The Daily Star, and to several other Nepali newspapers and journals. His collection of interviewa with international writers was published in 2007. He edits Read, a quarterly book magazine and runs a publishing house called Fine Print.
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Sepia Leaves
In the 1970s, India is reeling under Emergency and in Rourkela, a Nehruvian dream town in Orissa, a small boy isstruggling to deal with hos dysfunctional family. The arrival of a surrogate mother for Appu causes his mother's madness to take a furious turn. Years later, Appu's father dies on a summer evening in Bangalore. In the course of that night, Appu pores over letters, diaries and family albums to slowly come to terms with his mother's schizophrenia and its effect on those living under its shadow.Amandeep Sandhu was born in Rourkela and has lived in Orissa, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. He earned a Masters in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad and is currently settled in Bangalore. He has worked as a farm-hand, woollen-garment seller, shop assistant, tuition master, teacher and journalist with the Economic Times. He is currently a technical writer.
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Zero Percentile
As a brilliant young boy Pankaj never imagines that he will ever be swamped with problems. Life with his friends Motu and Priya is fun. Always destined to go to IIT, a cruel accident makes him end up in a place he had never heard of before, Volgograd – a Russian ‘City of Heroes’, so-called for its role in the Second World War for stopping Hitler’s assault on Russia.At hostel, in Volgograd, life is entirely different. There, not brain but brawn rules, which makes him land in jail after being induced into a gruesome brawl over food, with other very powerful and aggressive hostellers. Desperate for a win, he masterminds a coup, but makes the Dean his enemy instead who becomes hell-bent on destroying him. The journey never eases for him after that. Under extreme peer pressure he tries hard to lose his virginity and then cope with the agony of his best friend Nitin getting infected with HIV.After his father’s death, he struggles to sustain himself in a highly expensive, newly capitalist Russia. His seniors, who he always looks upto as Gods unexpectedly turn into his enemy and conspire to ruin him with the help of the local mafia. He takes the gauntlet of fighting all these adversities and emerges victorious ultimately only to succumb to love.
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The Story of My Marriage
Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In India, there are a few more steps: Boy loves Girl. Girl loves Boy. Girl's family has to love boy. Boy's family has to love girl. Girl's Family has to love Boy's Family. Boy's family has to love girl's family. Girl and Boy still love each other. They get married. Welcome to 2 States, a story about Krish and Ananya. They are from two different states of India, deeply in love and want to get married. Of course, their parents don’t agree. To convert their love story into a love marriage, the couple have a tough battle in front of them. For it is easy to fight and rebel, but it is much harder to convince. Will they make it? From the author of blockbusters Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The 3 Mistakes of My Life, comes another witty tale about inter-community marriages in modern India.
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Jinnah: India Partition Independence
The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible -- Jinnah? The Congress party? Or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer, his answer, for there can perhaps not be a definitive answer, yet the author ended with his becoming the 'sole spokesman' of Muslims in India; the creator of Pakistan, the Quaid-e-Azam: How and why did this transformation take place?No Indian or Pakistani politician/Member of Parliament has ventured an analytical, political biography of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, about whom views necessarily get divided as being either hagiographical or additional demonology. The book attempts an objective evaluation. Jaswant Singh's experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India's foreign policy, managing the country's defence (concurrently), had been uniformly challenging (Lahore Peace Process; betrayed at Kargil; Kandahar; The Agra Peace Summit; the attack on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament; coercive diplomacy of 2002; the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003).
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