About the BookWHAT HAPPENS WHEN A YAKSHA, EXILED ON EARTH FOR MILLENNIA, IS ROPED IN TO SOLVE AN EARTHLY KIDNAPPING?Exiled. Despised. Unrepentant.Banished from the celestial court for an unspeakable crime, Akran, once a powerful yaksha, spends his days in the city of Mumbai, drinking cheap rum and pretending to be human.When a young girl is abducted, Akran finds himself reluctantly dragged into the investigation. But, as he soon discovers, this is not a simple case of kidnapping-villainous thugs, gods and demons are all involved. And an ancient evil is returning to the world.What are the secrets from Akran's own past that threaten his present? Why are celestial forces out to wreak havoc on his beloved city? Are Akran and his friends a match for them? With the clock ticking, Akran must act quickly or all that he holds dear may soon turn to dust.Rohan Monteiro's Shadows Rising brings to life an unlikely hero-irreverent, witty and foul-mouthed-who seems to not have a care in the world. Until someone crosses a line.About the AuthorRohan Monteiro is an amateur chess and poker player, a board gamer, a comic book nerd, a keen consumer of content related to sci-fi, fantasy, mythology and history, a tsundokuist, an indoor climber, an open water scuba diver, a strategy and market research consultant, a life enthusiast and last but not the least a dad. His travels have taken him to over fifty countries, ranging from the world's highest free-range mountain in Tanzania to shark cage diving off the coast of South Africa, to fishing for piranhas in the Amazon and warding off advances from an amorous orangutan in Borneo.Shadows Rising is an exciting, fresh and unique take on timeless Indian myths told from the POV of a protagonist who might just be a lot more involved in the epics than he cares to admit.
As the foundations are laid for a temple to rise on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, voices rise from the ground in a small town in central Kerala. She is a judge in a district court, and he a petitioner in a seemingly banal property dispute. But the very first hearing tosses the judge's life into disarray. The scent of pink Edward roses, the iridescent scales of snakes, the spectre-and science-of vanishing twins. Girls whose feet do not touch the ground. Irascible and comically powerful ancestors. In this illusory landscape are the hard truths about the intertwined histories of Hindus and Muslims in India, as well as the chasms between men and women.A hypnotic novella by K.R. Meera, deftly translated by Nisha Susan, Qabar echoes with the dizzying knowledge that verdicts are not solutions.
Seven decades ago, a new global order emerged. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the planet, those older ways of being are under unprecedented stress. Already, a new world order is taking shape-one that will put long-standing agenda items like trade, commerce and defence on the backburner. In a post-pandemic world, they will be edged out by issues like climate change, holistic healthcare, education for innovation and creativity, as well as the management of frontier technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain and big data. Human dignity and human rights will be critical issues in this modern reality. To represent the changed actuality of the twenty-first century, global governance needs fresh ideas and novel institutions.More than five decades ago, Deen Dayal Upadhyay articulated a coherent economic philosophy, at the core of which was human-centric development.In The Hindutva Paradigm, author and thinker Ram Madhav provides clarifying insights into the reasoning of a philosopher who has remained an enigma through the decades.
Anchored in the principles of personal mastery, Rajiv describes how deepening your self-awareness, learning to regulate your emotional triggers and reforming your conditioned beliefs, aligning your life and work to a higher purpose, and consistently taking personal responsibility for your actions not only makes you an inspirational leader, but also directly contributes to your personal happiness, balance and fulfilment. Founded in the belief that every good leader can become great, Inside-Out Leadership describes a clear pathway for leaders to discover and fulfil their potential. Drawing on his extensive coaching experience and responding to the most significant challenges faced by contemporary leaders, Rajiv reveals, for the first time, the powerful inner journey of self-discovery that has worked for so many leaders and shares empowering insights, tools and practical ideas to support you in discovering your own greater self-both as a leader and as a person.
In this fraught geopolitical climate, the US feels increasingly threatened and President Hussain Akhmu considers sacrificing India's friendship to safeguard his country's interests, even as rumours fly about the People's Liberation Army of China's plan to sabotage India's nuclear programme.
Every story ends with ten prompts that are designed to make you stop and think about the way you manage your own work and business.
As the Hindutva hardliners continue their clamour for a Hindu Rashtra, is the ideology strong enough to withstand the increasing unrest and discontent of the common Indian? A SEARING EXAMINATION OF THE CHANGES THAT INDIA HAS UNDERGONE SINCE 2014
This compulsively readable novel tells the tale of a time when palace intrigues were bigger than family ties and the lure of the throne superseded all relationships. It gives us a heroine like no other, whose memory has persisted despite history's attempts to forget her.
About the BookA FREE-FLOWING NARRATIVE IN VERSE AND PROSE THAT MARKED THE DEBUT OF AN ASTONISHING NEW VOICE IN LITERATURE.'Reading Sharmistha Mohanty's Book One, you keep turning the pages, not to follow the story-though there is a story being told in every page, and in every page she tells a different story which is yet part of the fabric of the same telling-but to follow her sentences. They are unflinching, tender, unexpected, aphoristic, violently observant and violently restrained: "to feel pain but never to come to tears". You read because you want to know where they will take you next. She gives no hint. Whether it is to the unnamed riverine land of her ancestors or, in an unnamed city, to a house whose plaster keeps falling, they invariably lead to a place "as clear and unsentimental and right as life".' -Arvind Krishna Mehrotra'What she writes about, with great sensitivity and originality, is her life and those of her ancestors, of changing traditions which nevertheless remain radically unchanged, of weather, water and sexual relationships ... She tautens and tightens her words around every situation to create it almost visibly in the mind ... She seems to me a real discovery. What she has written may be in the tradition of Tagore, but she has made it original and modern.' -Dom MoraesAbout the AuthorSharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise, and a book of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards. She has also translated a selection of Tagore's fiction, Broken Nest and Other Stories. Her most recent work is Extinctions, a book of prose poems.
In this wonderfully comprehensive book, nutritionist and author of several cookbooks, G. Padma Vijay compiles a number of traditional and innovative recipes for Indian breads from across the country to bring an incredible variety of flavours to our plates.
Dakshin is a compilation of her favourite recipes, and several years after it was first published, it continues to be the best introduction to vegetarian South Indian cuisine.
In Brain Storm: Puzzles and Challenges for Bright Kids are just what the doctor ordered.
Cheerfully unscrupulous and entirely self-assured, Faizal prepares to set up the scam of his life. Hawala money, clandestine meetings, discreet text channels, rookie players, camera crews and live streams beaming across the world.
Her summer holidays are spent in the confines of the family home in Kerala, where she has for companion her cousin Inga. But as the two girls grow up, their lives change through a tortuous, pain-filled process.
This is a delightful celebration of curly hair and the courage it takes to be yourself. This chapter book explores genetics, family dynamics and adoption identity through a light-hearted and sunny tale.
About the Book31 HABITS TO TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND.Ashdin Doctor, is here to help. With his simple yet assured approach and his easy-breezy style, Ashdin not only picks the best habits for a positive outlook but also tells you how to go about making them a part of your life. Whether you are someone struggling to increase your self-worth, or are trapped in a worry cycle, or simply do not have enough masti in your life, Ashdin has solutions for you. His simple and straightforward guidelines are designed to make things better.Based on his popular podcast, The Habit CoachTM, Ashdin Doctor's One Habit a Day is replete with easy-to-apply advice and fun exercises. Inculcating positive habits has never been so enjoyable!About the AuthorAshdin Doctor is The Habit Coach¿. He firmly believes that an awesome life starts with awesome habits.He hosts The Habit Coach¿ Podcast on IVM, which is a daily podcast that has over a thousand episodes. It is ranked among the top self-development podcasts in India. It covers a wide variety of topics all designed to help the listener evolve through their daily habits.He works with people from all across the world, helping them with their habits, spreading his message through keynote speeches, workshops and group coaching sessions. Apart from that, he is a director at Ormax Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Ormax Media Pvt. Ltd. and Ormax Evolve Pvt. Ltd. He is also a trustee at the Light of Life Trust, an NGO dedicated to underprivileged children around the world. Ashdin will be donating a percentage of the proceeds from this book to the NGO to promote literacy.
This is an inspirational story of transmuting pain into purpose, healing and transforming through loss, building resilience and discovering newer meanings in life.
Jaanbaz was an itinerant door-to-door salesman from Afghanistan, one of many from that country who, have over the twentieth century, been known as Kabuliwallahs in India
About the BookA SCINTILLATING NEW TRANSLATION OF THE CLASSIC TAMIL NOVEL.As the winds of political intrigue and dynastic upheavals blow through the Chozha Empire, it all comes down to one woman-the powerful Pazhuvoor Ilaiya Rani, Nandini. What is the strange power she wields over her influential husband, Periya Pazhuvettaraiyar? Why does the mere mention of her name torment Crown Prince Aditya Karikalan?When Ponniyin Selvan was first serialised in Kalki, no one could have imagined the impact it would have on the circulation of the magazine. Today, this pioneering work is considered one of the great classics of Tamil literature.This unabridged and first-rate translation of Kalki Krishnamurthy's masterwork by Nandini Krishnan is at once faithful to the original and accessible to the readers of this day. Carefully crafted in lyrical prose, Troubled Waters-Book Two in the Ponniyin Selvan series-is the quintessential page-turner: full of adventure, intrigue, conspiracy and romance. About the Author'Kalki' is the pen name of Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy (1899-1954), whose career in writing and journalism began as activism during the struggle for Indian independence. He served as editor of the popular Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan before launching Kalki. The magazine-and eventually its founder-was named for the mythological tenth avatar of Vishnu to symbolise a vision to destroy regressive regimes, express radical thoughts, take readers into new directions, and create a new era'. Kalki wrote several novels, including Parthiban Kanavu and Sivakamiyin Sabadam, as well as political essays, film reviews, dance and music critiques and scholarly work. About the TranslatorNandini Krishnan is the author of Hitched: The Modern Woman and Arranged Marriage and Invisible Men: Inside India's Transmasculine Networks. She has translated two of Perumal Murugan's works into English: Estuary and Four Strokes of Luck. She was shortlisted for the PEN Presents translation prize 2022 and the Ali Jawad Zaidi Memorial Prize for translation from Urdu 2022. She is an alumna of the Writer's Bloc playwrights' workshop by the Royal Court Theatre, London. Her novel-in-manuscript was a winner of the Caravan Writers of India Festival contest and showcased at the Writers of the World Festival, Paris, 2014.
Like the millions it affected, for Indira Varma too, the Partition was a scar that would remain, even as the wound healed with the passing of time.
An idea could change lives: teaming up schoolchildren with police personnel, both partners in change, each one impacting and sensitising the other.
It transcends politics and manifests as a heartfelt connection between the people and their leader.
Madras, Rediscovered, therefore, is a historical guide for those who wish to look around Madras, or wish to find out more about their city, as it is a plea to conserve not only its spacious environment but also its cultural and historic relics, be they Indian or European.
At the centre of all that blood, gore and broken bones lies the inveterate spirit of wronged women, who refuse to go down without a fight.
Macabre as they are, Shihabuddin¿s prose is also replete with tender, heart-warming beauty¿ as in life, so in these tales, the light is never quite far from the dark and the unsavoury. Making Shihabuddin Poithumkadavüs work accessible to the English-reading public for the very first time.
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