India’s food is as diverse as its people, changing dramatically in taste, technique and ingredients every few kilometres. One of our first introductions to this wide range of cuisines is through the tiffin boxes of our classmates. Carrying flavours from different families and cultures, these boxes hold many stories—of history, tradition and the country itself.
The Great Indian Tiffin Box is a delightful exploration of this culinary diversity, featuring a curated list of popular and unique dishes from each Indian state and union territory. Peppered with lesser-known facts and interesting recipes, this beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of India’s rich food heritage and is a perfect read for food enthusiasts and cultural explorers alike.
Deepa and Ruchi are 12 years old when they meet at their Catholic school in India, but their connection is swift and lasting. As the two girls grow up and face their families’ expectations and the limits of their ambitions, their friendship is marked by intimacy, jealousy, and suppressed desire.
When, in their twenties, Deepa marries a doctor and moves from India to the suburbs of Connecticut, Ruchi quickly finds an engineer bound for the same state and follows her friend across the world. But life in the United States is different than either woman expects. Deepa’s daughter seeks affection Deepa refuses to give, and Ruchi’s son resists her smothering care. At the same time, Deepa and Ruchi find their closeness tested by a growing class disparity, competing family needs, and the differences in their desires. Ultimately, when Ruchi discovers a dangerous secret about Deepa’s husband’s wealth, both women are forced to weigh the tangled bonds of their friendship with their lives, and their families’, in the burgeoning Indian American community.
Every Happiness explores the slippery edges of a lifelong relationship, and the invisible threads that bind us, sometimes painfully, to those we love most.
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Physician-scientist Dr Sophia Pathai teams up with Olympic coach Pullela Gopichand to explore how resilience, rhythm, and daily habits shape your healthspan—the years you live in good health. Drawing from cutting-edge research and lived experience, this book blends lab-tested insights with life-tested wisdom—rooted in both modern science and Indian traditions.
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Designed for thinkers, doers, and seekers, this is your blueprint for resilience and human potential.
Sanjiv Mehta began his career at Union Carbide India Ltd following the tragic Bhopal Gas disaster. He later joined Hindustan Lever (now Hindustan Unilever Limited) in 1998, initially leading operations. By early 2002, he had risen to the position of Chairman, overseeing Unilever Bangladesh. His vision and strategic acumen led him to manage territories in the Philippines, North Africa, and the Middle East. In 2013, he became the Chairman and Managing Director of HUL. Under his leadership, HUL’s market capitalization grew significantly, making it one of India’s top five most valuable companies. From a middle-class Indian upbringing to leading one of the world’s most valuable consumer goods companies, Sanjiv Mehta’s three-decade career offers a wealth of leadership lessons that bridge legacy and innovation.
Held with some career defining moments, A CEO’S Brew is a must-read memoir for aspiring leaders.
There are very few books on women of middle India. This is the woman who was neither the parlour Didi, nor a scion of a business family. Where did she live? What did she do? What did she buy? Where did she study? We knew little beyond the stereotype of groups of women from kitty clubs taking WoW tours and posting photographs on Facebook groups.
As a co-founder of SALT, the author, Shinjini Kumar, has helped thousands of such women start their financial independence journey. Through multiple meetings across multiple cities, Shinjini has captured the unique stories of these very ‘Middle India’ women, witnessing how they have risen despite their archaic marriage and family structures behind the modern living rooms with Apple and Google television sets and Pinterest inspired gardens.
With a writing style that is accessible and fun, Busy Women is an inspirational read on the little green shoots of independence nestled within the ossified joint family structures of so-called Middle India.
The stories in Creeping Shadows are spread over a vast canvas both in terms of time span and locale. A teahouse in ancient China. A brothel in 19th century Calcutta. A forest lodge in Bankura. An old mansion in Bangladesh. A university campus in today’s Delhi. Beginning as human interest narratives they end with sudden, unexpected twists that raise hair ends and send trickles of ice water down the spine. Here are tales of shadows, tingles and chills…
When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest.
A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of the Rebel English Academy, his tuition center that offers affordable English lessons. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge at the Academy – but she has a gun, her parents are political prisoners, her husband has just died in a suspicious fire, and she’s clearly hiding something. Baghi encourages Sabiha to write, and throughout the book her life unspools on the page.
Meanwhile Captain Gul, disgraced intelligence officer, has been banished to OK Town, where he aims to silence protesters by any means necessary. But his duties – and romantic desires – begin to overlap, and his already-dubious power is further threatened.
In Rebel English Academy, Pakistan is coming into modernity, struggling under martial law after the execution of its former leader. Mohammed Hanif has constructed a vibrant cast of interconnected characters that face this changing landscape with violence, passion, and the occasional sharp humor. Wry, searing, and deeply relevant, Rebel English Academy is a triumphant new novel about political power, religion, education, sexuality, and dissent.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, a simple act upends an ancient parable. This time, it is the lady who carries the monk across the river.
Through the intertwined fates of Guru Brihaspati, his celibate disciples Kevala and Gyan, and the enigmatic Mandakini, The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River explores the tension between spirituality and desire, the sacred and the profane, and the elusive unity of both. As Kevala and his guru engage in a five-day debate on the meaning of a fulfilling life, the river becomes both a literal and symbolic divide, one that must be crossed daily, not just in body but in spirit.
Tautly woven with philosophy, passion, and profound questions, this novel is no sermon. It is a story of real lives, intense choices, and the irresistible force of Shakti. Can the pursuit of transcendence and the pull of earthly love coexist? In just five days, lifetimes of belief are tested, and the answers may be as fluid as the river itself.
As faith collides with longing, the story unfolds with intensity and depth, drawing readers into a world where every choice reshapes the path to enlightenment.
Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in Mumbai. After three years of living together they are ready to take the next step of a big fat Indian wedding. As he begins to share the good news with his family and start preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his mother Dolly, now divorced and madly in love with a much younger man who wants to marry her; revelations of his father Prem’s old friend from Oxford University having had a gay crush on his dad for several years; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay having left his wife and heavily wooing Ved as his one and only true love. Will things finally work out for Ved on his big day, one that he’s dreamt about all his life, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?
