“. . . अपने पति की शरण में लौट जाने की मेरी कितनी अभिलाषा थी, परन्तु मेरा यह पातक शरीर बाधक था। इसे लेकर मैं उनके पास नहीं लौट सकती थी। परन्तु वह भी देहबद्ध थे, अतः मैं देह त्यागकर भी उन्हें कैसे पाती, इसी से मर भी न सकी।”
आत्मग्लानि और प्रतिशोध से भरी-बिफरी एक असामान्य नारी की रुला देने वाली अनोखी कहानी।
अमर उपन्यासकार आचार्य चतुरसेन का अत्यन्त मार्मिक लघु उपन्यास, जिस पर इसी नाम से फिल्म का निर्माण भी हुआ है।
Archives: Books
Teesra Patthar/तीसरा पत्थर
रामकुमार भ्रमर के इसी नाम से प्रकाशित चर्चित उपन्यास पर बनी बासु भट्टाचार्य की सफल फिल्म तीसरा पत्थर की यह स्क्रिप्ट पढ़ते हुए ऐसा अहसास दिलाती है कि जैसे फिल्म देखने का ही आनंद ले रहे हों।
इस पटकथा की कहानी बड़ी सरल एवं प्रभावी है।
Aapatkal Mein Gupt Kranti/आपातकाल में गुप्त क्रांति
जब देश में संपूर्ण क्रांति का बिगुल बजने ही वाला था, तो इन्दिरा गांधी ने आपातकाल की घोषणा कर देश-भर में पुलिस राज स्थापित कर दिया और सेंसर की कैंची ने अखबार-तो-अखबार लोगों की ज़बानें तक काट डाली थी। ऐसे में भी क्रांति हुई तो कैसे? भूमिगत होकर जो नेता तानाशाही से जूझे, जेल और पुलिस-यातना का जोखिम उठाकर भी जन-जन में क्रांतिचेतना को उभारते रहे, उन्हीं को मुख्य श्रेय है इस रक्तहीन क्रांति का। कैसे जूझे वे? कौन-कौन थे वे?
किस प्रकार क्रांति का कार्य-संचालन करते रहे? इस सबका अत्यन्त प्रामाणिक तथा रोचक वृत्तान्त प्रस्तुत किया है इस पुस्तक में दीनानाथ मिश्र ने, जो स्वयं उन दिनों भूमिगत होकर कार्य कर रहे थे। इस महत्त्वपूर्ण पुस्तक की भूमिका लिखी है लोकप्रिय नेता तथा पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी ने।
Get Job Ready (Hindi)/Get Job Ready/गेट जॉब रेडी
आजकल कॉलेज से स्नातक करते ही हर कोई अपने ड्रीम जॉब को पाना चाहता है। लेकिन प्रतिस्पर्धा के इस युग में केवल स्नातक होना ही जरूरी नहीं रह गया है, क्योंकि संस्थान किसी भी नियुक्ति के लिए अनुभव, कौशलता और योग्यता को प्राथमिकता देने लगे हैं। इसीलिए यह पुस्तक छात्रों के लिए एक मार्गदर्शिका की तरह साबित होगी।
यह पुस्तक छात्रों को बताती है कि नौकरी पाने के लिए कार्य अनुभव कैसे प्राप्त करें?
आजकल अनुभव, रोजगार कौशल का पैमाना बन गया है। कॉलेज से नौकरी तक के सफर के बीच अनुभव, कौशलता कैसे प्राप्त करें, यह सब इसमें दिया गया है। इसलिए यह पुस्तक आपको मार्गदर्शन और संसाधन दोनों एक साथ उपलब्ध कराती है।
The Star from Calcutta
A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour and intrigue of India’s silent film era come to life in the thrilling fifth installment of the award-winning Perveen Mistry series.
India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, is on the verge of securing her biggest client yet: Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the hottest box office ticket in Indian cinema. In the public eye, Rochana is notorious for her beauty and her daring stunts—behind the scenes, she has recently left the Calcutta studio that made her famous, and the studio owner is enraged by what he claims is a breach of contract. Rochana needs Perveen’s legal help to extricate Champa Films from the impending controversy.
With her work cut out for her, Perveen attends a screening party at the Champa Films’ mansion-cum-studio to study Rochana’s glamorous world. She brings her film-fanatic best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones, the white English daughter of the British Raj governor, as her companion. But in the aftermath of the party, one of the party guests, a Bombay film censor, is found dead on the property. To make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared.
Now with a different legal obligation to her clients—to protect them in the face of a developing murder case—Perveen begins to investigate, peeling back the glitz to reveal a salacious web of blackmail, deceit, and romantic affairs. Perveen has her own secret: her relationship with a handsome former civil service officer, which is becoming harder to hide by the day. For the first time in their friendship, Alice seems to be keeping a secret from Perveen, too, and Perveen begins to suspect that Alice is hiding key information about the night of the murder. Will Perveen be able to detangle the truth from lies while protecting herself—and her closest friend?
The Gita for Gen Z: Clarity in Chaos
The Gita for Gen Z is your compass for when life feels chaotic. It helps you overcome challenges like heartbreak, overthinking, exam pressure or career anxiety, while filling your heart with happiness, enthusiasm, courage, and the mental strength needed to win life’s everyday battles.
Rooted in the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, the book breaks long-held misconceptions and reveals the Gita not just as a religious text, but as a practical guide to fearless living.
Get ready to embark on an immersive reading experience as you discover the peace of mind you seek, and the divinity of the world reveals itself to you in fresh ways.
Root Leaf Fire
Root, Leaf, Fire is a transformative journey that begins with a simple plate of food and unfolds into a profound philosophy. It restores food to its true essence: nourishment, energy, art, and medicine. Helmed with recipes that are simple yet extraordinary, it is a guide, a conversation starter, and a companion. It blends timeless health principles with the beauty of well-crafted food, reminding us that true health resides in being present in joyful rituals that bring rhythm and meaning to everyday life.
Root, Leaf, Fire combines Luke Coutinho’s extensive experience in guiding people towards health through sleep, movement, emotional balance, and mindful eating with Sheeba De Souza’s passion for creating beautiful, nourishing meals, offering a distinctive approach to nourishment.
College
What are the avenues of postsecondary educational experience available to the student in India today?
Can college education be tailored to one’s specific talents and meaningful to the world at the same time?
Is there indeed such a thing as native intelligence? What is the ideal education to bring such intelligences to life?
What are the possible curricular relationships between the arts and the sciences; the qualitative and the quantitative, the theoretical and the experiential?
How deeply should a college education be rooted in a discipline? Should one cultivate one disciplinary strength or multiple ones?
What is more valued by employers – depth or range?
College provides accessible answers to these questions that resonates on a wide range of life aspirations, guiding students to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education across the world today. It is an erudite and interesting guide to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education today.
It is essential reading for current and future college students, their parents, educators and anybody interested in the rich potential in the terrain of post-secondary education in post-millennial India.
Jaya
Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling Of The Mahabharata condenses the entire epic, originally known as Jaya, into a tiny capsule. Other than retelling the interesting parts of the Mahabharata, what makes this book a favourite among readers is Pattanaik’s rendering of the various local folklores and tales that are associated with the epic, which have been presented in a whole new genre. With a master stroke, the author has elaborated on the storyline by including lesser-known folklore stories of the epic, while keeping its original form and style intact.
The book has been divided into 108 chapters and has vivid illustrations along with 250 simple line drawings painted by Pattanaik himself. Besides infusing the different tales from local versions of the epic, the author has also added folk arts aspects picked up from ‘Yakshagana’ in Karnataka, ‘Terukuttu’ in Tamil Nadu and ‘Pandavani’ in Chhattisgarh to blend with the narrative.
Stories of Barbareek, Aravan, Astika, Madhavi and Jaimini form a special portion of this book. Other than this, Pattanaik has also introduced some intriguing ongoing traditions, like the worship of Draupadi in temples of Tamil Nadu.
Along with this, a whole section has been devoted to the Kurukshetra war, described on the basis of descriptive astronomical information. By infusing these interesting details along with the various local versions of the epic, the author has attempted to create a pan-Indian version of the epic that has, since time immemorial, helped shape the culture and history of the whole country.
Published by Penguin, this book may be a great choice for those intrigued to know about the religious and cultural intricacies of the country, as well as those who are reading the epic for the first time.
Paro/पारो
पारो मूलतः मैथिली उपन्यास है, जिसका पारो नाम से ही हिन्दी में यह रूपांतरण हुआ है। उद्देश्य प्रधान इस उपन्यास में अनमेल विवाह के परिणाम और बिहार के मैथिल जनपद में विवाह की गलत परम्पराओं की आलोचना की गई है।
मैथिल जनपद जहाँ विवाह करने की विचित्र प्रथा है, विवाह के लिए यहाँ ‘सोरठ’ का मेला लगता है, जिसमें कन्याओं के अभिभावकों द्वारा वर का चयन किया जाता है। इस उपन्यास की नायिका पार्वती भी इसी समस्या की शिकार है। उसका विवाह पैंतालीस वर्षीय चुल्हाई चौधरी से कर दिया जाता है। प्रौढ़ता के अंतिम कगार पर खड़ा यह पथिक उसको न तो मानवीय रूप से संतुष्ट कर पाता है, न शारीरिक रूप से ही।