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SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons 
• By: Mohan Rakesh (Author)
• Binding :Hadcover
• Language: Hindi
• Edition :2017
• Pages: 472 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8170281520
  
• ISBN-13:9788170281528
  

DESCRIPTION: 

नाटककार मोहन राकेश के सभी नाटकों को एक साथ पूरी समग्रता में, इस पुस्तक में प्रस्तुत किया गया है। इसमें सभी नाटकों के मूल पाठ, सभी संस्करणों की लेखकीय भूमिकाएं और सृजन-प्रक्रिया पर प्रकाश डालने वाले उद्धरण राकेश की डायरी से दिये गए हैं। साथ ही इन नाटकों के निर्देशकों, समीक्षकों और कलाकारों के आलेख एवं वक्तव्य हैं। भारत और विदेशों में राकेश के नाटकों की रंगमंचीय प्रस्तुतियों के छायाचित्र इस पुस्तक में एक स्थान पर पहली बार दिए गए हैं। इसके संपादक नेमिचन्द्र जैन सुप्रसिद्ध नाट्यसमीक्षक और साहित्यकार हैं। उनकी विस्तृत संपादकीय भूमिका इस पुस्तक का विशेष आकर्षण है।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons 
• By: Mohan Rakesh (Author)
• Binding :Hardcover
• Language: Hindi
• Edition :2018
• Pages: 528 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8170282284
  
• ISBN-13: 9788170282280
  

DESCRIPTION: 

मोहन राकेश (8 जनवरी 1925 - 3 दिसम्बर 1972) हिन्दी के बहुमुखी प्रतिभा-सम्पन्न लेखक थे जिन्होंने मात्र सैंतालीस वर्षों के जीवनकाल में अनेक स्मरणीय नाटक, उपन्यास और कहानियों की रचना की। उनका नाटक ‘आषाढ़ का एक दिन’ हिन्दी साहित्य का पहला आधुनिक नाटक माना जाता है। 1947 के बाद हिन्दी साहित्य के फलक पर उभरने वाले लेखकों में वे अग्रणी लेखक थे जिन्होंने बदलते समय और सन्दर्भ को आगे बढ़कर अपनाया और उसे अपने लेखन में उतारा। अपने समकालीन लेखकों कमलेश्वर और राजेन्द्र यादव के साथ उन्होंने ‘नयी कहानी साहित्यिक आन्दोलन’ को प्रारम्भ किया। 1947 से 1969 तक उनकी लिखी सभी 66 कहानियाँ इस संग्रह में सम्मिलित हैं। यदि कहानियाँ क्रमानुसार परखी जायें तो उनमें निरन्तर लेखकीय विकास मिलता है। कथा-शिल्प में तो मोहन राकेश माहिर थे और थोड़े से शब्दों में बहुत कह जाना उनकी विशेषता थी जो इस बात का प्रमाण है कि भाषा पर उनका कितना अधिकार था। उनकी कुछ कहानियों की पृष्ठभूमि शहरी मध्यवर्ग है तो कुछ कहानियों में भारत विभाजन के दर्द की पुकार सुनाई देती है, लेकिन हर एक कहानी पाठक के दिल और दिमाग पर अपनी अमिट छाप छोड़ जाती है।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : JAYANTHI SURESH & YASODHA BALAKRISHNAN
  
• By : Amarar Kalki
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Tamil
  
• Edition : 2013
  
• Pages : 224
  
• Weight : 250 gm
  
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8192878015
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8192878010
  
• ASIN: B00MZ6J7II

DESCRIPTION:

மோகினித் தீவு அமரர் கல்கி (1899-1954) எழுதிய தமிழ் புதினமாகும்.
திரையரங்கில் பாஸ்கர கவிராயர் என்ற நபரை சந்திக்கிறார் ஒருவர்.
இருவரும் கடற்கரைக்கு சென்று அங்கு பேசுகிறார்கள். பாஸ்கர கவிராயர் பர்மாவிலிருந்து இந்தியாவிற்கு கப்பலில் வரும்போது, மோகினி தீவில் ஒரு இரவு தங்கிய கதையை பற்றி கூறுகிறார் .

உத்தம சோழருக்கு பிறகு சோழ சாம்ராஜ்யம் குறு நில தேசமாகி விட்டது . பாண்டிய தேசம் மேலோங்கி விளங்கிய காலத்தில் நடந்த காதல் கதை .
சுகுமார சோழனும் புவனமோகினியும் காதல் செய்த கதை . கடைசி வரை பாஸ்கர கவிராயருக்கு கதை சொல்லி கொண்டிருபவர்கள் யார் என்ற கேள்வி நமக்கு இருந்துகொண்டிருபபது யதார்த்தமே

About the Author

Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy (9 September 1899 - 5 December 1954), better known by his pen name Kalki, was a Tamil writer, journalist, poet, critic and Indian independence activist. He was named after "Kalki avatar," the tenth and last avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. His writings include over 120 short stories, 10 novellas, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews.

Specification:

• Publisher : Zen Publications
  
• by : Shakuntala Hawoldar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2008
  
• Pages : 256
  
• Weight : 700 gm.
  
• Size : 9 x 9 x 6 inches
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8188071487
  
• ISBN-10: 818807148X

Description:

Illustrated stories for children that impart universal human values

Grandmothers are wizards who can teach without seeming to. And the stories they tell are simply magical in the way they impact fertile young minds and inculcate a deep sense of values.

Moksha is an enchanting book of a granny’s stories, providing spiritual renaissance for both young, searching minds and weary, wise ones. If granny’s stories are refreshing and interesting, the interjections by the grandchildren are downright educative for their insights into the children’s world.

Moksha gets us to ask ourselves one vital question: what spiritual values do we teach our children? And then it goes on to offer a rich basket of lucid, thought-provoking and inspiring stories which transport you gently into the Land of Now -- where all things are possible!

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher :Rajpal and Sons
• By: Dharampal Gupta Shalabh (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
  
• Language: Hindi
• Edition :2020
• Pages: 112 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 93893733110
  
• ISBN-13: 9789389373318
  

DESCRIPTION: 

इस अत्यंत लोकप्रिय पुस्तक-माला की शुरुआत 1960 के दशक में हुई जब पहली बार नागरी लिपि में उर्दू की चुनी हुई शायरी के संकलन प्रकाशित कर राजपाल एण्ड सन्ज़ ने हिन्दी पाठकों को उर्दू शायरी का लुत्फ़ उठाने का अवसर प्रदान किया। शृंखला की हर पुस्तक में शायर के संपूर्ण लेखन में से बेहतरीन शायरी का चयन है और पाठकों की सुविधा के लिए कठिन शब्दों के अर्थ भी दिये हैं; और साथ ही हर शायर के जीवन और लेखन पर रोचक भूमिका भी है।
आज तक इस पुस्तक-माला के अनगिनत संस्करण छप चुके हैं। अब इसे एक नई साज-ज्जा में प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है।

मोमिन ख़ान मोमिन (1800 - 1851) ग़ालिब, ज़ौक के वक्त के शायर हैं, जो अपनी ग़ज़लों के लिए याद किये जाते हैं और जिनमें फ़ारसी भाषा की ख़ास झलक मिलती है। कहा जाता है कि मोमिन के इस एक शे’र के लिए ग़ालिब उन्हें अपना पूरा दीवान देने के लिए तैयार थे -
तुम मेरे पास होते हो गोया
जब कोई दूसरा नहीं होता
कश्मीरी परिवार में जन्मे, मोमिन पेशे से तो एक हकीम थे और शायद इसीलिए उन्हें हक़ीम ख़ान भी कहा जाता है।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Valerie Bodden  (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2012
• Pages :  24 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8184953380
• ISBN-13: 978-8184953381
  

DESCRIPTION:

About the Book: Monkeys Monkeys are mammals with a tail! Come, discover the world of monkeys! Valerie Bodden tells you about how they live, what they look like, how they climb trees and much more. This book has amazing photographs in colour and fascinating facts about monkeys, big and small, young and grown up, in action and at play. Also included is a story from folklore about why monkeys look like people.

Description

Nandu wants to go to his school fancy-dress competition dressed as a king, but his mother makes him wear a foolish-looking watermelon costume instead.

Dolly and Sunny are leading a happy life as a pair of genius twins, till they wish for their clones.

All Poonam wants is the perfect pair of blue and white slippers, and she finds them too, except that they belong to someone else.

Sher and Samandar are best friends till a piece of mysterious rock turns them into sworn enemies.

Meet these kids and many others like them in this very delightful collection, Moongphali. Funny, adventurous, smart and mischievous, these are children from all parts of India. They speak different languages, eat all kinds of food, live in homes that look totally unlike each other—yet you will find a bit of yourself in each one of them.

Relish these stories and relive your childhood with your kids.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Mukesh Chhabra is a leading casting director in the Indian film Industry. He has a special penchant for casting for children’s films and has worked in Chillar Party, Nil Battey Sannata, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dangal. When Mukesh is not busy making films, he can be found reading and writingchildren’s stories, eating Punjabi cuisine or playing gully cricket.

Neha Singh loves telling stories, using books, theatre and films as different mediums. She has authored two picture books for children—The Wednesday Bazaar and Bela Missed Her Train—published by Karadi Tales. She also helps children and adults rekindle their imagination through her drama-based workshops.

Sonal Gupta Vaswani is an artist, illustrator and an animator, based in Mumbai. She has illustrated several books for children for Fisher Price, Karadi Tales, UNICEF and Pratham.

Specification

• Product Code : BK8726
• Publisher : Rupa Publications India
• Edition : September 29, 2017
• Pages : 156
• Weight : 230 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Binding : Paperback
• Author : Mukesh Chhabra, Neha Singh, Sonal Gupta Vaswani
• Language : English
• ISBN-10: 8129148137
  ISBN-13: 978-8129148131

"Here the collected papers explore the whole question of the relation between the mythopoetic and the moral in the context of the Mahabharata. Here we have a story of extreme complexity, characters that are unforgettable, and a cosmic context in which gods and men alike grapple with destiny. The obligations of kinship and friendship jostle with each other. The women characters, as in everyday life, seem to bear a very heavy load of the burden of life and to stand in a key position in almost every conflict. We are presented with predicaments at every turn. At times these predicaments seem to be aggravated by social structure. At other times they are cushioned by it. Philosophical tangles tied up with karma and dharma are interwoven with the mythopoetic material. Perhaps philosophical issues are pinpointed rather more than they are in Greek epic literature.

The essays in this book treat the Mahabharata from an unusual angle, fastening on the moral dilemmas it presents. How universal are the dilemmas faced by the characters in the story, and are the dilemmas in fact resolved? In dealing with these questions, the discussions range over the meaning of the purusarthas, the institutions of marriage and the family, the concept of action in the Gita and the special predicaments faced by Draupadi, Arjuna and others. These studies invite the scholar to reflect afresh on the text and encourage the general reader to find in epic literature much that is relevant to life today."

It is believed that Pandit Vishnu Sharma, a great Hindu scholar, wrote the Panchatantra in about 200 BC. But in all probability the tales by themselves could be much older. Some of them date back to the period of the Vedas and the Upanishads (1500 BC to 500 BC).

The Panchatantra is woven around the frame of a tale about a king who entrusts his three dull sons to a learned man, Vishnu Sharma. The Brahmin takes them to his hermitage where he recites specially composed tales, divided into Panchatantras or five systems, on dealings with people.

There are several versions of the Panchatantra. ‘The Dullard and other Stories’ as well as ‘Panchatantra – the Greedy Mother-in-Law’ in the special issue are derived from the version in Kannada by Durga Simha (12th Century Ad).

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha
• By :Anant Pai 
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2008
• Pages : 96
• Weight : 210 gm
• Size : 9.4 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• ISBN-10: 8189999869
• ISBN-13: 978-8189999865

DESCRIPTION:

Collection of the following titles: Deadly Feast, Hidden Treasure, Battle of the Wits

About the Author

Anant Pai or Uncle Pai, as he is popularly known as, was born on 17th September, 1929, in Karkala, Karnataka. He is the founder of the popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. He propagated the tales of Indian mythology and folk among the children through comic books. Some of his other works include Ramu and Shamu, Little Raji, Funland and Rekha. He has been awarded with several prestigious awards in his lifetime. He died on 24th February, 2011.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Mehta Publishing House
• By : Ranjeet Desai
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Marathi
  
• Edition : 1984
• Pages : ‎ 84 pages
• Weight : 200 gm
  
• Size : 13.97 x 0.79 x 21.59 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8171616445
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8171616442
  

DESCRIPTION: 

A Nest Protects the Newly Hatched,Wingless Birds, But Once the Birds Grow and Develop Wings then the Same Nest Acts as a Cage for them,We Human Beings Feel the Same Way about our Family, Home, God, Religion, Love, Farming, Education, Business etc. At a very Early Stage, that of a Child. we Find Everything Beautiful. We Feel Protective inside our Shelters. All of these above mentioned places have built and nurtured the society. But really thinking, are all these aspects useful in todays machine minded culture? The Ingeniously Talented and Competent Young People from the Middle Class have Caged Themselves. Their Competency fails to cross the walls of their houses. They are Confined inside their circles. They just BlahBlah about the Political and Social Reformation but they do not dare to act upon it. On the contrary they ignore their duties.They just do not want to leave the secured boundaries of their nests. They have tremendous lust towards personal life and extreme dispassion towars the social life. This approach holds them from stepping on to new path. They prefer to stumble on the same path which is full of pitholes, which is full of misconceptions about education, family management, distribution of wealth, the relations between man and woman. only because of their approach to be confined to the boundaries of their house

 

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Mark Manuel (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2017
• Pages :  520 pages
• Size : 14 x 2.9 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10:  8184957963
  
• ISBN-13:   978-8184957969

DESCRIPTION:

Foreword by Amitabh Bacchan.

The Ganpati Murders

MUMBAI
Serial killers don’t always get caught

It’s homicide season in Mumbai. And it’s Ganeshotsav. A sinister killer with a dark and twisted imagination is terrorizing the city with a series of chilling and gruesome murders every day. His victims are the innocent rich and famous. All celebrities or VIPs with one fault in common. The elite Crime Branch sleuths of the Mumbai Police are easily compared with London’s Scotland Yard. But there’s one thing they have never figured out – how to successfully detect crimes committed by psychopathic serial predators like rapists, pedophiles and killers in this city of 20 million. Can these cops prevent the psychopath from committing murder tomorrow when they haven’t yet detected today’s homicide?

Moryaa Re! is a compulsively readable and gritty crime thriller with a tight plot that could have been ripped off the headlines. Mumbai, with its glorious festivals, colorful people and capricious monsoon, provides the perfect dark and rain-spattered backdrop for murder.

Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer and columnist with over three decades of journalism in leading publications including the Free Press Journal, Bombay Times, Mid-Day, Afternoon and Dainik Bhaskar. He is widely known for his brilliantly penned interviews and contributes frequently to Hindustan Times Brunch and the Huffington Post. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his understanding of this beat, several top cops of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch have collaborated with him to make this book possible. Bollywood, the Hindi film industry in Mumbai, has also always been a source of inspiration for his writing. In a statement of admiration for his work, Amitabh Bachchan – India’s greatest actor – has written the foreword to this book.

Specification:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :   Michael Bar-Zohar  (Author), Nissim Mishal  (Author)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 400 pages
• Weight : 
• Size : 14 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm
• ISBN-10 9788184958454
• ISBN-13 :   978-8184958454

Description

This is the true story about the great missions of Israeli secret service. The book gives a thorough knowledge about the types of adventurous undertakings taken up by the Mossad for the sake of their country. For years and years Israel’s well-known security arm, the Mossad, has been broadly known as the best intelligence service in the world. In this book the author takes us through the exciting, eye-opening accounts of the most dangerous, most critical tasks undertaken by the agency for last 60 years.

The book talks about the incredible stories full of action right from the capture of Nazi assassin Adolph Eichmann to the recent removal of key Iranian nuclear scientists.

The book is very useful for all those who want to know about the world. It is an excellent collection of case works and narration Mossad’s activities. It is a good read for those who like to know about real life dangerous missions of Intelligence agencies.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Gad Shimron (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  304 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9387944689
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387944688

DESCRIPTION:

The daring undercover rescue of the lost Jewish tribe the subject of the movie red sea diving resort the amazing story told first-hand by Gad shimron in Mossad exodus is now the subject of a new movie called red sea diving resort. In 1977, Israel’s Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and Dagger activities. It was ordered by then prime Minister menachem begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan. No stranger to action in enemy countries, The agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the promised land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. This book offers a thrilling first-hand account of how the operation was put in place, and how the Mossad team in Sudan brought it off, despite great personal risk, running a partying vacation spot, arous holiday village, for wealthy tourists by day as they stole through the Sudanese desert to rescue desperate refugees by night. Author Gad shimron was one of the agents based at arous. Enhanced by his wide-ranging historical observations and his crisp, incisive prose, this is at once an entertaining read and a powerful tale of idealistic heroism.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Manjul Publishing House
• By : T.T. RANGARAJAN
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Tamil
• Edition : 2013
• Pages : 280
• Weight : 280 gm
• Size : 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• ISBN-10 : 8183222943
• ISBN-13 : 978-8183222945

DESCRIPTION:

Mahatria Ra, based on his years of research and vast experience, shares with his readers how to tread a path of joy and prosperity by following certain simple techniques. He guides how small and big things can together contribute to your celebration of life. The book opens up new avenues of wonderful possibilities and hope for readers. If your life seems to be oscillating between certainties and uncertainties, and if you wish there was a constant growth in your existence, Most and More is the right book that can help you achieve it.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Maxim Gorky (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2002
• Pages :  396 pages 
• Size :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8179920224
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8179920220

DESCRIPTION:

The Best-Loved novel of one of the world's great writers. Mother, the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world's best-loved writers, is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman. From her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people's struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself from the cowed state into which she has been beaten and her simple motherly concern for her son becomes a motherly concern for all oppressed. To read Mother is to undergo a great emotional experience. It is a novel of strength and power, a tribute to the dignity of the individual. As one well-known literary critic puts it and then I came on Mother, the first of Gorky I had ever seen and much of what I had read became thin and tasteless by comparison. It was tapestry after cotton and burlap, living, breathing people after cardboard cutouts, it was the hope and zeal of all human beings.

Author : Misra, O. P.
Edition : 1985
Language : English
Size & Pages : Size 26 cm, pp. xvi, 192, Illus., 1985
Publisher : Agam Kala Prakashan
Format : Hardbound

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :Meg Greene (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2012
• Pages :  170 pages
• Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8184953577
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184953572

DESCRIPTION:

Mother Teresa transcended her ordinariness with a belief that she was called to her life's work and she used the unsought fame it brought her, to further her causes. In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world had to prove to the hierarchy in the patriarchal Catholic system, even in the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. With her vision to live and work among the 'poorest of the poor' was founded a new order that tended to society's outcasts. This narrative chronicles the expansion and success of Mother Teresa's order and the eventual recognition that was showered on her efforts. This increasing attention led to scrutiny and criticism of her ideology, methods of care and financing. The accusations of hypocrisy, among others, are discussed, as is her controversial beatification. Readers will be challenged to consider for themselves whether Mother Teresa deserves to be sainted.

Dr. Arora's present book is indeed a most welcome addition to the growing field of comparative mythological studies. The work is a very thorough investigation into some of the major themes and motifs in Indian mythology in a much wider and comparative perspective. He has carefully selected them from Indian, Greek, West-Asian, and other sources. The result obtained by him provides an amazing story of interaction between various cultural traditions through space and time. This is a painstaking work of research and a substantial contribution not only to the History of Indian Civilization but also to that of the ancient world. Dr. Arora has approached his question with an open mind with result that his findings do not betray pre-suppositions and prejudices one often finds in such studies. Printed Pages: 268.

Comparative mythology is, indeed, a very absorbing and exciting subject. But it is also a tricky subject. Any investigation pertaining to this discipline involves some obvious risks. For instance, on the one hand, one is often tempted to read much in apparent-and even superficial-similarities of ideas in the mythologies of different cultures and then to fit in those ideas into a pre-conceived ideological framework; and, on The other hand, there is the tendency towards puritanical isolationism which rejects any suggestion of borrowing or external influence. I would like to congratulate Dr. Arora, the author of this interesting monograph, on having taken care to see that in avoiding Scylla he has not fallen into Chary bdis. He has tried to strike a commendable balance between various ramifications of the two extreme positions. Verily, judicious restraint may generally be said to be the keynote of his entire writing.

Dr. Arora has wisely chosen for comparative study only a few important topics in Indian mythology, such as the creation of the world, the four ages, the great flood, births and deaths of mythical personalities, metamorphoses, and supernatural maidens. And one hardly fails to notice that Le has assiduously brought an impressive array of literature, primary and secondary, to bear upon his treatment of these topics. But what has struck me most agreeably in this book is that Dr. Arora has not indulged in any unwarranted theorisation. He has left the facts so meticulously brought forth by him to speak for themselves—of course throwing out, off and on, intelligent suggestions which would certainly serve as helpful signposts.

Altogether we have here a valuable source-book in the field of Hindu mythology, and I welcome it as holding out sure promise of greater things to come.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Theosophical Publishing House Adyar, Chennai
• By : George S. Arundale
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2005
• Pages : 198
• Weight : 339 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• ISBN-10: 8170594618
• ISBN-13: 9788170594611

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'If you desire you can quite definitely set your feet on the way to discipleship... You can dedicate yourself to Them and to their representative in the outer world...If you will take every opportunity, make every effort, you will soon come to know Them...'

'If an individual can intensify in himself the spirit of service, he is well on the road to discipleship, for service is a great characteristic of those who desire to attain.'

'When you are in the presence of the Master you always know what to do. Why? Because He lifts you out of your smaller self into your higher Self. When in the presence of your higher Self you know what to do.'

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• Publisher : Patra Bharati
  
• By : ABUL KASHEM
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : Bengali Edition
  
• Edition : 2019
  
• Pages : 535
  
• Weight : 795 gm.
  
• Size : 8.66 x 5.51 x 0.59 inches
  
• ISBN-10 : 8128827197
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8128827198

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Chandragupta Maurya fell head over heels in love with Cornelia, the daughter of Greek emperor Seleucus. As their love grew deeper, Chanakya’s political strategies became more intricate. Dating over 2300 years back, Mourjo tells a compelling story of love-war-despair-magnanimity that has never been written before.

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• Publisher : Patra Bharati
  
• By : HIMADRIKISHORE DASGUPTA
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : Bengali Edition
  
• Edition : 2020
  
• Pages : 144
  
• Weight : 282 gm.
• ISBN-10 : 8183746160
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8183746168

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Are you sure that the beverage you are about to sip is free from anything knowing which would shake your muscles? Are you most certain that the person you are about to kiss is a human being? What if the sweet fragrance trails you away somewhere to an otherworldly place from which you can never return to this realm? A collection of gleefully strange, obscure and sometimes hallucinatory dark fantasy tales by Himadrikishore Dasgupta who is a force to reckon with in this beloved genre.

Full of wit and delicious observations, Mrs Funnybones captures the life of the modern Indian woman—a woman who organizes dinner each evening, even as she goes to work all day, who runs her own life but has to listen to her Mummyji, who worries about her weight and the state of the country. Based on Twinkle Khanna’s super-hit column, Mrs Funnybones marks the debut of one of our funniest, most original voices. ‘I love Twinkle Khanna’s brilliant observations and self-deprecating humour—she is the discovery of the decade’—Karan Johar ‘Fantastic, fashionable and funny’—Vogue ‘A woman with more than a few quips up her sleeve’—Open ‘Spot-on . . . she addresses pressing matters . . . in a light-hearted, breezy manner without coming off as a preachy martyr’—Huffington Post ‘An intelligent critic . . . [writing] is a craft and Twinkle Khanna has demonstrated she has the chops’—DailyO ‘One of the best columnists we have’

The Mudrarakshasa is a historical play and is mainly concerned with Chandragupta's elevation to the throne of Magadha or South Bihar, on the fall of the Nanda dynasty, and the adoption of measures to strengthen his rule by Chanakya, the renowned politician of his time. The events represented in the play cover a period of about a year, as shown further on, and it is necessary, for a clear understanding of the intricate policy of Chanakya during this period, that the reader should have an insight into the history of the time.

A race of kings, designated ëthe Saisunagas' from Sisunaga the first king, reigned in Magadha, according to R.C. Datta, from 637-370 B.C. Their capital was Pataliputra also called Kusumapura. Mahanandin was the last monarch of this dynasty. He had a son named Nanda, otherwise called Mahapadma by a woman of the Sudra class. He was a powerful and ambitious king but was exceedingly avaricious. He had by one wife eight sons, Sumalya and others, and according to tradition he had a son, named Chandragupta, by another wife of low extraction. The Nandas reigned, accordng to V. Smith, for fifty years, from 372ñ322 B.C. The play presents dramatic depiction of a political plot to win over Rakshasa, the ablest minister of Nanda, in Chandragupta's side, through the guile of Chanakya.

Thye Mudrarakshasa, unlike the majority of sanskrit plays, is purely a political drama. It has for its theme, besides elevation of Chandragupta to the throne of Magadha, wining over of Rakashsa, the hostile minister of the Nanda dynasty to the side of Chandragupta and adoption of measures to strenghen the rule by Chankaya, the renowned politician of his times. In the words of H.H.Wilson; It is a historical or political drama, and represents a curious staste of public morals, in wich fraud and assassination are the simple means by which inconvenient obligations are open enemies removed. It is not howere , that such acts are not held in themselves as crimies, orthat their perpetrators, if instigated by vugar vice or ferocity, are not condemned as culprits; it is only when the commission of the crime proposes a poliotical end that it is represented as venial, and is compatible with an amiable.

It includes the commentary of Dhundiaja, English translation, critical and explanatory notes, Introduction and verious readings.

It is a historical or political drama, and represents a curious state of public morals, in which fraud and assassination are the simple means by which inconvenient obligations are acquitted, and troublesome friends or open enemies removed. - H.H. Wilsom