What’s in a name? Plenty.
Agassi Joel Roy hates his first name and wants everyone to call him Joel. He hates tennis too—and most other sports. But when he hears about the cycling competition in his town, he decides to take part.
So what if he doesn’t know cycling? Or doesn’t own a working cycle? With a borrowed cycle—accompanied by a rather unexpected companion—and ample courage, Joel begins his lessons, with his neighbour Zeba as his tutor.
Will Joel reach the finish line or will cycling join the list of most hated sports?
Go on a voyage with Cheeku the rabbit and Meeku the mouse, solve mysteries with Detective Sheerluck the dog, meet uncanny ghosts, chase runaway elephants, and read about lots more in this collectable edition of The Greatest Champak Stories: Volume 1.
With loads of action and humour, these tales of mystery, magic, adventure and friendship are the perfect mix to entertain and fascinate young readers. This fun-filled collection of illustrated stories from the celebrated Champak magazine is a must-have!
When Ashish has to go to his mother’s workplace after school, he is sure he is in for the most boring time ever. But he couldn’t be more wrong!
His mother, Ruth, works in a bookstore where Ashish must team up with Kavya—the owner’s niece—to catch a bookshop ghost and nab a bookstore thief.
Will they succeed?
The growing uncertainty of the economic climate and ever-increasing anxieties about our health and wellness have made it more urgent than ever before to seek a life of stillness, balance, and perspective. As we adjust to a new reality, our inner world is cracked open to reveal the state of our spiritual health. We are now left questioning the fragility of our egos that crumble in the face of a threat to our assumed identities of work and relationships.
The market for spirituality is an endless warren of complex pathways, with each path offering a differently worded routine to reach the same destination. Seekers are enticed with milestones to cross in the form of courses and levels often under the tutelage of a guru. This book shares wisdom on how to wade through the labyrinth of pathways that make up the journey to a more conscious spiritual lifestyle.
Rich with anecdotes from the author’s own experiences and fellow seekers, The Inner Light is a handy guide to prepare readers—aspirants and sceptics alike—for what to expect when they set out to integrate spirituality into everyday life. This book is for beginners looking to dip their toes, and then some, into the waters of spirituality without getting caught in the whirlpool of spiritual consumerism. It answers these important questions:
What is spirituality? Where do I even start?
How can I walk this path with awareness?
How can I improve my understanding of life?
दिल्ली मॉडल ने स्वतंत्र भारत में पहली बार सार्वजनिक शिक्षा और स्वास्थ्य सेवा में बदलाव के मुद्दे को हाशिये से निकालकर भारतीय राजनीति के केंद्र में ला दिया। यह मानव पूँजी विकास में निवेश और सभी नागरिकों के लिए बेहतर सेवा वितरण को प्राथमिकता देता है, जबकि सबसे कमज़ोर लोगों के लिए एक सामाजिक सुरक्षा जाल सुनिश्चित करता है। यह पुस्तक दिल्ली मॉडल के वास्तविक स्वरूप के बारे में पहली ऐसी पुस्तक है, जिसमें इसके आर्थिक आधार और भारत में अन्य शासन मॉडलों, विशेष रूप से गुजरात मॉडल के साथ इसकी तुलना के बारे में विस्तार से बताया गया है। जस्मीन शाह ने इस प्रामाणिक और शोध-समर्थित पुस्तक में दिल्ली में आम आदमी पार्टी सरकार द्वारा छह प्रमुख क्षेत्रों—शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य, वायु प्रदूषण, परिवहन, बिजली और पानी में किए गए सुधारों और उनके परिणामों का खुलासा किया है। पिछले दशक में निर्धारित नीतियों और सुधारों का विश्लेषण करते हुए, जैस्मीन ने दिल्ली मॉडल के सिद्धांतों का लाभ उठाकर एक विकसित भारत के निर्माण के लिए एक महत्त्वाकांक्षी रोड मैप तैयार किया है।
बाज़ारवादी युग में दरकते इंसानी रिश्तों पर लिखी आलोक श्रीवास्तव की ग़ज़लें उनके निजी अनुभवों का आईना हैं। आसान की कई रचनाओं में सामाजिक सरोकार के सबूत मिलते हैं। यह पुस्तक पन्नों के कैनवास पर शब्दों के रंग बिखेरने का एहसास कराती है, जिसमें पाठक काव्य की हर विधा में निपुणता के साथ किसी सूफ़ियाना ख़्याल को सिर्फ एक दोहे में समेट देने के हुनर से रू-ब-रू होते हैं। पुस्तक की रचनाएँ पाठकों के मनोभाव में ऐसे प्रवेश करती हैं, जैसे वह उनकी ही भावनाएँ हों। विद्वान रावण द्वारा विरचित ‘शिव तांडव स्त्रोत’ और गोस्वामी तुलसीदास के लिखे ‘रुद्राष्टक’ का हिंदी भावानुवाद भी आसान में समाहित है।
Limited-Edition with a Handwritten Note from the Author
When love will not let you find a way out
In World’s Worst Best Girlfriend, Daksh and Aanchal met under improbable circumstances and were strangely drawn to each other. Their paths diverged, but when they reconnected, they couldn’t deny the spark they had. Yet, they chose to move on. Then, time added its layers and ambition blinded their journey.
After all, it’s not necessary to be together even if you love each other to the moon and back—or so they believed.
Wrong.
Not being with the one you love means that there is always this heart-shaped hole in your life, a pain you can’t understand, a longing that refuses to go away.
What happens when the Band-Aid on this relationship is ripped and they are pushed together to see what life for them would be like? What happens when they let go of their ambitions and emotions to finally look at filling the hole?
World’s Best Ex-Girlfriend is a romance that will take the reader through the wringer of love.
A collection as unprecedented as it is captivating, Lapbah—a title inspired by Lapbah Sohra, Sohra’s monsoon deluge—is a magnificent anthology in two volumes that brings together fifty-seven compelling tales by fifty-two of the finest writers from the North-east. It presents, for the first time, voices from all eight states of the region, seamlessly blending original works in English with masterful translations of those written in the regional languages.
The collection offers a rich tapestry of themes and styles through writing by the likes of Easterine Kire, Janice Pariat, Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Mitra Phukan and Arupa Patangia Kalita. The stories, emanating from the many different linguistic, literary and ethnic cultures, range from the traditionally heart-rending tales of Arup Kumar Dutta and Rashmi Narzary to the darkly humorous social and political satires of S.J. Duncan and Wan Kharkrang and the fantastical worlds of Jahnavi Barua and Harekrishna Deka, where reality mixes freely with the surreality of dream and fantasy.
Lapbah, compiled and edited by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Rimi Nath, is a celebration of voices as diverse and multifaceted as the region itself, offering readers a profound and moving literary experience.
Living on rent in a wealthy, religious house, Chintamoni spends her days holding together her ordinary, lower-class family. Nothing excites her in her marriage to an unremarkable man, while the shadow of her son’s heart disease looms over her austere life. When a secretive devotee of Ma Kali begins boarding in the house, Chintamoni realises that the man has been eyeing her. His arrival kindles her dormant desires, bringing her both love and money. But the events that should have changed her life for the better end up making it much worse. Hidden Treasure is the story of a woman—and of women—struggling to make something of their lives in a world run by men, money, and religion.
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind
Riley Thorn and her hot, tattooed, private investigator boyfriend Nick Santiago are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. Not only do they finally have their own place, they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises.
Yep. It looks like summer is over and so is Riley’s bad luck. Or is it?
When Nick gives up sleeping and showering to obsess over the cold case that still haunts him, his intrepid business partner Mrs. Penny is calling the investigative shots. It’s every bit as bad as you can imagine.
Meanwhile, Riley has her hands full fixing up the crumbling crime scene they call home and setting boundaries with the breaking-and-entering octogenarians next door. You know. Normal stuff.
But normal comes to a screeching halt when Riley is abducted by a stranger, and her psychic powers go on the fritz. To make matters worse, it becomes clear that Riley’s new house guests are either in trouble or are trouble after bad guys deliver a warning with a severed finger.
Can Nick and Riley solve the case the old-fashioned way before they all end up in pieces? Or will a surprise birthday party, a dog doody bandit, an accidental arson, and a blast from the past be too much for them to handle?
