Why don’t woodpeckers get headaches?
Can condiments solve our energy crisis?
How many people pick their nose?
Believe it or not, these questions come straight from prize-winning research—and the surprising, tender and wonderfully misunderstood world of the Ig Nobel Prizes.
Unruly tours the Ig universe: nominating letters full of chaos and charm, debates that run longer than the calculated time, last-minute reversals, breakthroughs once belittled and the quiet elegance of a prize that allows us to laugh first and think later.
This delightful book also gathers the unseen bits of science; stories usually scrawled in margins. Each page holds crisp irreverence and a deep affection for the accidents, detours and stubborn hope behind a life in science.
Funny, unhinged and quietly radical, this book is an ordinary thinker’s love letter to weird science, weirder scientists and the curiosity that tugs at us long after the hilarity fades.
किताब लोगों को जीते ख़ुद को हारें बिना सिखाती है कि लोगों को प्रभावित करते हुए भी अपनी पहचान, सीमाएँ और आत्म-सम्मान कैसे बचाए रखें। सरल भाषा, वास्तविक उदाहरण और व्यावहारिक सलाह के साथ यह पुस्तक आपको रिश्तों, करियर और सामाजिक जीवन में संतुलन बनाना सिखाती है, ताकि आप दूसरों का दिल भी जीतें और ख़ुद से भी न हारें।
अघोरी : एक अनकही कहानी एक अनोखी, रहस्यपूर्ण और आध्यात्मिक यात्रा है, जो पाठक को मानव मन, साधना, भय और मुक्ति के उन अनदेखे प्रदेशों में ले जाती है, जहाँ सामान्य जीवन की पहुँच बहुत कम होती है। मयूर कलबाग की यह पुस्तक केवल अघोरियों की कठोर और अद्भुत साधना को उजागर नहीं करती, बल्कि यह बताती है कि भय, अंधकार और मृत्यु जैसी अवधारणाएँ वास्तव में आत्म-जागरण का मार्ग भी बन सकती हैं।
कहानी एक जिज्ञासु साधक की यात्रा के माध्यम से शुरू होती है, जो हिमालय की कठिन घाटियों, श्मशानों और गहन मौन से गुज़रते हुए अघोरियों की तपस्या और उनके आध्यात्मिक विज्ञान को समझने की कोशिश करता है। पुस्तक में दर्शाया गया हर अध्याय व्यक्ति को अपने भीतर छिपे भय, भ्रम और सीमाओं के पार जाने की प्रेरणा देता है। यह केवल एक कहानी नहीं, बल्कि आत्म-परिवर्तन, त्याग, साहस और आध्यात्मिक शक्ति की खोज का दस्तावेज़ है।
In an age where speed eclipses stillness and competition governs every breath, mankind finds itself trapped in a relentless pursuit that exacts a silent but devastating toll on well-being. Amidst this climate of uncertainty, a luminous path was revealed: Sushumna Kriya Yoga Meditation. Bestowed by the exalted Siddha Masters, Pujya Guru Bhoga Siddhar and Pujya Guru Mahavatar Babaji, and transmitted through the grace of Pujya Guruma Aathmanandamayi, it is a gateway to self-realization and transformation.
In Bhoga Siddhar and Mahavatar Babaji’s Sushumna Kriya Yoga, Guruma shares revelations from her spiritual odyssey and clarifies the deeper science behind the practice. Simple yet boundless, this technique offers a sanctuary in modern life and an invitation to awaken the soul’s true potential.
We spend our lives searching for forever
believing it must arrive whole and uninterrupted . . .
But what if forever is not measured in time, but in depth? What if forever is not always something we arrive at, but something we get to touch?
A few chance meetings draw Ravin and Heer into each other’s orbits. What begins as an unplanned crossing of lives slowly grows into something neither of them intended. However, they must now decide what the future holds for them—because love, this time, comes at a heavy cost.
Half of Forever is a reflection on the kind of love that alters the shape of a life by simply being felt. It also brings Ravin’s love trilogy to a quiet close, following I Too Had a Love Story and Can Love Happen Twice?—three journeys, one evolving heart.
Growing up, I believed life was about skills and degrees.
Until I entered the real world and realized something uncomfortable.
My skills mattered far less than my ability to deal with people.
Somewhere along the way, I was simply tired.
Of trying to make it work with people.
I was struggling to answer: How do you deal
with people without losing yourself?
Most books teach you how to manage your
mind. Very few teach you how to navigate
other humans. This one does.
It is a collection of sharp, lived truths about how people behave, why they behave that way, and how you can respond with clarity instead of chaos.
One page. One insight. Start from any page.
Learn something every time
If people overwhelm you, this book will calm you.
If people confuse you, this book will guide you.
If people exhaust you, this book will steady you.
If you are scared to deal with people, this book will feel like a warm hug.
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Vikram Chauhan, a brilliant fintech entrepreneur with no belief in the supernatural, is at the peak of his Silicon Valley career. But when his wife, Meera, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his world collapses. He abandons everything to chase a cure at any cost. His desperate search leads him to the whispers of a hidden temple in the remote town of Gresham, Rajasthan, said to perform miraculous healings.
But Gresham hides darker truths. On the ominous night of the Blood Moon, Vikram is brought before the temple’s enigmatic high priest, who offers him a single, terrifying bargain: salvation for Meera, in exchange for capturing the ancient pishach—Betaal.
Bound by an otherworldly oath to Vikram’s bloodline, the pishach draws him into a harrowing cycle of encounters. Each time Vikram closes in, Betaal tells the story of its current host and poses a riddle that tests his morality, forcing him to confront the limits of love, logic, and faith.
As Meera’s time slips away and the curse of his lineage resurfaces, Vikram must face an impossible question: how much of his humanity is he willing to sacrifice to save the woman he loves?
Vikram and Betaal: Night of the Blood Moon plunges into a world where ancient folklore collides with modern reason, a haunting tale of love, legacy, and the darkness that binds them both.
Moving from Pakistan’s dazzling chaotic cities to its lawless feudal countryside, This Is Where the Serpent Lives powerfully evokes contemporary feudal Pakistan, following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love. Orphaned as a little boy and fending for himself in the city streets, Yazid rises to a place of responsibility and respect in the Lahore household of Colonel Atar, a powerful industrialist and politician, only to find that position threatened by conflicting loyalties and misplaced trust. Born on Colonel Atar’s country estate to a poor gardener, Saqib is entrusted with the management of a pioneering business, but he overreaches and finds himself an outlaw, confronting the violence of the corrupt Punjab Police. The colonel’s son competes with his cherished brother for the love of a woman and discovers that her choice colors his life with unexpected darkness as well as light.
In matters of power and money and the heart, Mueenuddin’s characters struggle to choose between paths that are moral and just and more worldly choices that allow them to survive in the systems of caste, capital, and social power that so tightly grip their culture. Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving, This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature.
A girl and a boy born into different classes meet by chance. In their meaningful but brief time together, they explore life and the reality of New India. Two dogs accompany them as his nationalism runs into her studied scepticism.
Guiding readers through a country remade, Discovery of New India is a witty, accessible political primer on a decade of change and its human impact.
A trailblazer in her field, Jamini Sen was one of British India’s first women doctors and the first ever woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Driven by her ideals, she served as the physician to the Nepal Royal Family, introducing modern medicine to the kingdom. Her close friendship with King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah and her discretion in a palace rife with intrigue earned her trust and respect. Despite facing significant personal and professional challenges, including the loss of loved ones, Jamini’s resilience and dedication to her work and faith never wavered. Her legacy as a pioneering and fearless woman in medicine continues to inspire generations.
This book is about her journey.
