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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Nalin Verma
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Englis
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 208 pages
- Weight : 160 g
- Size : 13 x 1.32 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9353336627
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353336622
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There are human skulls speaking to men. There are demonesses falling in love with their prey. There is a jackal pretending to be a priest and a donkey that goes beyond his duty. These are stories from the soil of Bihar, from the land of Bhojpuri and Maithili—stories that have traversed centuries and created a catalogue of oral wisdom. The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar is a collection of timeless tales that have been told through generations, are adored for being a literature and treated as sacred testament of village wisdom. The stories are a source of joy for younger generations and a celebration of the past for the older ones. Firmly grounded in village life with characters both human and animals, The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar is an enchanting read to draw you into a world of its own..
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- Publisher : Srishti Publishers & Distributors
- By : Preeti Shenoy
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 256 pages
- Weight : 160 g
- Size : 12.85 x 1.37 x 19.84 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9387022609
- ISBN-13 : 978-9387022607
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Ankita has fought a mental disorder, been through hell, and survived two suicide attempts. Now in Mumbai, surrounded by her loving and supportive parents, everything seems idyllic. She is not on medication. She is in a college she loves, studying her dream subject: Creative Writing. At last leading a ‘normal life’, she immerses herself in every bit of it.Underneath the surface, however, there is trouble brewing. A book she discovers in her college library draws her in, consumes her and sends her into a terrifying darkness that twists and tears her apart. To make matters worse, a past boyfriend resurfaces, throwing her into further turmoil.Preeti Shenoy’s compelling sequel to the iconic bestseller Life is What You Make It chronicles the resilience of the human mind and the immense power of positive thinking. The gripping narrative demonstrates with gentle wisdom how by changing our thoughts, we can change our life itself.
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- Publisher : Maple Press
- By : Premchand
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Hindi
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 424 pages
- Weight : 295 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789350338964
- ISBN-13 : 978-9350338964
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury India
- By : Saiswaroopa Iyer
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 394 pages
- Weight : 330 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9354350135
- ISBN-13 : 978-9354350139
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Long before the times of Draupadi and Sita,Immortalised in the hymns of the Rig Veda,But forgotten to the memory of India Was the warrior queen with an iron leg, Vishpala.Brought up in the pristine forest school of Naimisha, Avishi reaches the republic of Ashtagani in search of her destiny. When Khela, the oppressive king of the neighbouring Vrishabhavati, begins to overwhelm and invade Ashtagani, Avishi rises to protect her settlement but at a high cost.Separated from her love, her settlement broken, with a brutal injury needing an amputation of her leg.
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- Publisher : Westland
- By : Anand Neelakantan
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 234 pages
- Weight : 190 g
- Size : 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9390679869
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390679867
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As bestselling author Anand Neelakantan peels back the layers of Valmiki’s timeless saga, these stories of ambition, love, devotion and courage shine through, inviting readers to look at the women anew. Lovers, sisters, wives and mothers who hold a complex epic together—these are the women of Valmiki’s Ramayana.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins India
- By : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 372 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 14.15 x 2.79 x 21.51 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9353573572
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353573577
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The Ramayana, one of the world's greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita's version. The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women's struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, contemporary battle of wills. While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, 'Enough!'
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- Publisher : Harper
- By : Paulo Coelho
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2005
- Pages : 256 pages
- Weight : 441 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9788172235147
- ISBN-13 : 978-8172235147
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Based on the biblical figure prophet Elijah, the novel The Fifth Mountain narrates the life of the young prophet and his struggles with god. Stuck having to choose from his love and sense of duty, the story speaks about how he gets over his difficulties and follows his destiny. The author, through this book, passes on the message that there is a purpoThe story is set in the 9th century BC, when young Elijah is forced to flee for his life and take refuge in the city of Zarephath. There he befriends a widow, who is a worshipper of Baal-a god who resides on the fifth mountain and falls in love with her. But with the circumstances conspiring against him, he is faced with the task of proving himself and fulfilling his mission from god to restore his worship in Israel.The Fifth Mountain is another powerful and inspirational masterpiece of the author and it is a blend of philosophy, mysticism, spirituality and moral instructions. The author of this book is Paulo Coelho and it was published by Harper in 2005. This book is available in paperback.se behind every soul's existence and he guides the reader to learn a number of useful lessons that man has to learn from his life.
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- Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
- By : Subrata Dasgupta
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 256 pages
- Weight : 180 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789386538666
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386538666
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On a September Saturday afternoon in 2011, Martin Shawncross and Joya Bose in perfect synchrony surrendered their respective virginities. That Martin, a twenty-one-year-old American, had waited so long for this momentous personal event would have scandalized his friends and family were they to know about it. That Joya, a twenty-five-year-old Bengali, did not wait longer for this same experience would no doubt have scandalized her family had they come to know of it.Thus begins this gossamer tale of love and discovery, reaching back to a past spanning four generations and two continents. Narrated through the seemingly banal story of a young couple falling in love in present-day America, Voice of the Rain Season explores by way of memory, history and old letters, the life of a family in a pre-Independence Bengal. It unearths through Joya’s discovery of the family’s long forgotten secret, notions of identity, homecoming, language and loss.The heart of Dasgupta’s novel, however, lies in the glory of Tagore’s Rabindra Sangeet and the beauty of classical music, as it surpasses geographical boundaries and seeps effortlessly into the hearts of a people far-removed from the Bengali landscape.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Chandan Sinha
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 204 pages
- Weight : 227 g
- Size : 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9389967732
- ISBN-13 : 978-9389967739
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The Bhakti saint-poet Kabir's sakhis/ dohas (couplets) have been a source of wisdom to people across the spectrums of caste, class and creed. His sakhis are his conversations with God, with himself and with us in everyday colourful tongue that leave a mark on readers of all ages.
Several translations have appeared until now but this book by Chandan Sinha is a first of its kind. In his Foreword, John Stratton Hawley calls this a 'strikingly original book' that translates the sakhis in rhyme—as in the original—which is easy enough 'in Hindi, but it’s very much harder in English.' A short explanation follows each translation.It is a book to turn to every day.
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- Publisher : Harper Collins India
- By : Arundhathi Subramaniam
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2020
- Pages : 112 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9353576121
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353576127
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Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences -- the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.
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- Publisher : Grapevine India
- By : Grapevine
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 331 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789381841051
- ISBN-13 : 978-9381841051
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Poetry gives meaning to our lives. For many of us, it's a way of understanding the world around us. This book is an attempt to bring together the greatest words ever written by some men and women to have walked this planet.
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- Publisher : Pan Macmillan India
- By : Rabindranath Tagore
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2019
- Pages : 140 pages
- Weight : 450 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386215926
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386215925
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Kabir is one of the most beloved Indian mystics. He is also amongst the pioneers of the Bhakti Movement in North India. One Hundred Poems of Kabir is a classic book of poems, translated into English by the maestro, Rabindranath Tagore. These poems are songs of love written in the voice of a lover longing for the beloved. The mystical connotations unravel the journey of the soul to its union with the Supreme Being.
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- Publisher : Harper Collins
- By : Farrukh Dhondy
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2011
- Pages : 180 pages
- Weight : 200 g
- Size : 12.6 x 1.7 x 18.5 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9350290820
- ISBN-13 : 978-9350290828
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Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with contemporary audiences finding new meanings in them. Rumi's poems bring together the divine and the human, the mystical and the corporeal to create a vivid kaleidoscope of poetic images. While many recent 'translations' have sought to give Rumi's poetry a certain hippy sensibility, robbing it of its true essence, Farrukh Dhondy attempts to bring out the beauty and sensibility of the verses whilst imitating the metre of the original. Dhondy's translations provide a modern idiom to the poems, carefully keeping intact their religious context.
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- Publisher : Harper Collins India
- By : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 372 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9390351952
- ISBN-13 : 978-9390351954
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'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.'While we have all heard tales of Rani Lakshmi Bai and Padmavati, not many of us are familiar with another Indian queen.Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the beautiful Jindan Kaur went on to become Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest and last queen; his favourite. She became regent when her son Dalip, barely six years old, unexpectedly inherited the throne. Sharp-eyed, stubborn, passionate, and dedicated to protecting her son's heritage, Jindan distrusted the British and fought hard to keep them from annexing Punjab. Defying tradition, she stepped out of the zenana, cast aside the veil and conducted state business in public. Addressing her Khalsa troops herself, she inspired her men in two wars against the 'firangs'. Her power and influence were so formidable that the British, fearing an uprising, robbed the rebel queen of everything she had, including her son. She was imprisoned and exiled. But that did not crush her indomitable will.An exquisite love story of a king and a commoner, a cautionary tale about loyalty and betrayal, and a powerful parable of the indestructible bond between mother and child, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's unforgettable novel brings alive one of the most fearless women of the nineteenth century, an inspiration for our times.
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- Publisher : Atria Books
- By : Rhonda Byrne
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2006
- Pages : 198 pages
- Weight : 200 g
- Size : 18.5 x 12.5 x 2 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9781582701738
- ISBN-13 : 978-1582701738
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The Secret is a self-help book regarding the power of positive thinking by Rhonda Byrne. The book suggests the notion that like attracts the like, which means if you emit positive energy, it will be very beneficial because you will attract positive things to you. Byrne proposed that positive thinking magnets positive outcomes. Simply believing in what you want to acquire or become will become of you. The book portrays that the secret is mainly about the law of attraction but it also highlights gratitude and visualization. The primary technique of ask, believe and receive is explained further by stating some facts from some of the Secret’s practitioners. The book promotes encouragement for people in times of trials or deepens their urge to succeed. Happiness, wealth, success in relationships, and even health improvement are all justified as achievable by the application of the so-called secret.
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- Publisher : Hay House India
- By : Richa Tilokani
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2021
- Pages : 228 pages
- Weight : 240 g
- Size : 13.9 x 2 x 21.5 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9388302591
- ISBN-13 : 978-9388302593
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The Bhagavad Gita, a treasure trove of divine wisdom, was shared by Lord Krishna with Arjuna, the Pandava prince, at the battlefield of Kurukshetra, right before the Mahabharata or the ‘Great War’ began. It comprises 700 Sanskrit shlokas translated into English, which inspire one to seek and understand the profound truths of life through the ancient principles of Karma Yoga (the art of work), Gyan Yoga (the art of knowledge) and Bhakti Yoga (the art of devotion). These eternal principles help to live life to the fullest, so that one can work better, think better and live better by tapping into higher consciousness, accessing the spiritual dimension and nurturing the pure self.The Teachings of Bhagavad Gita is a perfect source to discover the art of self-empowerment by exploring the various facets of this most sacred text and imbibing its all-encompassing wisdom to attain unending joy, peace and success.
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- Publisher : Westland
- By : Ravi Shanker Etteth
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 265 pages
- Weight : 449 g
- Size : 12.9 x 1.63 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386850710
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386850713
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It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming danger: the enigmatically named Brahmin, skilful spymaster and custodian of Magadha’s best-kept secrets.Lush with historical detail and unforgettable characters, The Brahmin is an intricately plotted novel that seeks to recreate a near-mythical period in India’s past.
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- Publisher : Harper Perennial
- By : Ranjit Desai & Vikrant Pande
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 592 pages
- Weight : 300 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789352774395
- ISBN-13 : 978-9352774395
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'The epic text of Ranjit Desai's Shriman Yogi finds new voice in Vikrant Pande's nuanced translation, an immersive narrative of the foundations of the Maratha empire and the saga of its charismatic founder.' - Namita Gokhale. Young Shivaji reaches Pune, a dying fort city, with his mother Jijabai and lights the first lamp within its ruins. While his father Shahaji Bhosle is away on deputation by the Adil Shah sultanate after having failed in a revolt against it, Shivaji learns how an empire is built from the ground up. Thus begins the life of the Great Maratha. What awaits Shivaji is nothing short of the vast scroll of history, and it takes him from Surat to Thanjavur and all the way to Aurangzeb's durbar in Agra. He dreams of freeing his land from the clutches of Mughal rule, and though he suffers many defeats and personal losses along the way he never gives up his vision of Hindavi Swaraj. Amidst political intrigue and a chain of skirmishes, Shivaji becomes a leader, a warrior and a tactician par excellence, driven by immense pride and love for his motherland.
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- Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
- By : H.G. Wells
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2015
- Pages : 472 pages
- Weight : 381 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9788175993198
- ISBN-13 : 978-8175993198
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“The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known.” From the very beginnings of life, spanning across the age of mammals evolving into monkeys, apes, and sub-men; from the Neanderthaler to the early days of human adventure; from the beginnings of cultivations to priests, sages, kings, and wars; and from the conquests to material knowledge, revolutions, and reconstruction of the world . . . here is a story of how life began and evolved into ‘us.’ A comprehensive and compelling account of the world history, H. G. Wells’ A Short History of the World is a thought-provoking masterpiece. Constructed on an evolutionary, anthropological, and sociological basis, it is an immensely popular period piece that remains one of the most readable of its kind.
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- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- By : Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2016
- Pages : 232 pages
- Weight : 120 g
- Size : 12.95 x 1.35 x 19.79 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8129142309
- ISBN-13 : 978-8129142306
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Ravelling in the twenty-first century is not only about check-ins, posting selfies or writing status messages with hashtags. It is about the visiting places one may have only read about, seen in movies or heard about; it’s about standing on a landmark and feeling something; it’s about refreshing memories and making new memories.Every Mile a Memory is not only a travelogue about monuments and landscapes. It is not only about famous cities like London, Paris and Rome, but it is also about a solitary walk on a village road on English countryside, about quiet boat-ride on the Ganga and about long train journeys to nowhere. It is sipping a cup of coffee in a café in Barcelona and yet it is also about enjoying chai from a kulhad on some half-forgotten railway station in Indian hinterland.As Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma travels a round the globe and his own motherland, all the events, sights, thoughts, memories and feelings form a complex kaleidoscope, which eventually crystallizes into words to give a unique perspective on places – Britain, continental Europe, Turkey, Morocco and of course, India.
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- Publisher : Niyogi Books
- By : Rabindranath Tagore
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 260 pages
- Weight : 449 g
- Size : 24 x 18 x 1 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9386906104
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386906106
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It is not possible to surmise when exactly Tagore started writing Jibonsmriti(My Reminiscences). It is generally believed that after the publication of the play Raja (King, 1910), he was going through the first draft of Jibonsmriti.Jibonsmriti, was translated into English by Tagore’s nephew, Surendranath Tagore, though retouched and slightly changed by Rabindranath himself. It was serialised in RamanandaChattopadhyay’s The Modern Review under the title My Reminiscences from January to December, 1916. To thwart the attempt by any foreign publisher to publish it, all the issues of The Modern Review carried the declaration, ‘All Rights Reserved. Copyrighted in the United States of America’. Interestingly, Rabindranath himself advised Ramananda Chattopadhyay to mail one copy each of the issues of The Modern Review carrying My Reminiscences to W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. In April, 1917, it was published as a book by MacMillan, New York, with a colour portrait by Sasi Kumar Hesh as the frontispiece, apart from 12 paintings by GagnendranathTagore.This book Rabindranath has etched in words many of his primary experiences about his future poetry, plays and novels. A surging passion for being one with Nature, a sense of imagination-filled solitariness even in the midst of a crowd, a consciousness of the concrete and yet non-recognition of its weight—all these aspects of the book inform his later creations. In that sense, My Reminiscences can be called an introduction to the entire Tagorean canon.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- By : William Dalrymple
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2017
- Pages : 404 pages
- Weight : 500 g
- Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9385936549
- ISBN-13 : 978-9385936548
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The result of a decade of travels through the Indian subcontinent, the Age of Kali is a collection of essays ranging in scope from the widows of Vrindavan to rap stars in Bombay, the temples as old as the Parthenon in Madurai, the socialite author Shobhaa De, the remnants of the kingdom of Avadh, and meetings with then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan. Stylish, witty and bristling with insight, these jewel-like essays string together to create a captivating and enduringly relevant portrait of the subcontinent.
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- Publisher : Rajkamal Prakashan
- By : Ali Sardar Zafari
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : Hindi
- Edition : 2018
- Pages : 434 pages
- Weight : 440 g
- Size : 21.5 x 14 x 3 cm
- ISBN-10 : 8126705272
- ISBN-13 : 978-8126705276
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- Publisher : Juggernaut
- By : Twinkle Khanna
- Cover : Hardcover
- Language : English
- Edition : 2016
- Pages : 256 pages
- Weight : 299 g
- Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- ISBN-10 : 9789386228055
- ISBN-13 : 978-9386228055
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A collection of utterly magical stories that will leave you crying, laughing and wholly enchanted.A gangly young girl transforms her village with a revolutionary idea. Sixty-eight-year-old Noni Appa finds herself drawn to a married man - 'Why do people have to define relationships, underline each word till the paper gives way beneath,' she wonders. Bablu Tripathi becomes obsessed with sanitary napkins much to his family's horror, and a young woman keeps checking the weather forecast as she meticulously plans each of her five weddings. Funny, observant and wise, this is storytelling at its most irresistible.