Loving someone is easy. But keeping them forever? That’s tough.
Vikrant Vayu is just another middle-class guy navigating college life in Delhi till one drunken night, when a dare from his friends changes everything. The challenge is to slide into the DMs of Tara Neer, the college’s reigning Instagram queen with an aesthetic feed and a vibe that screams ‘out of league’.
He’s not expecting anything. But Tara, intrigued by his charm and wit, starts chatting with him. What follows is an unexpected friendship that grows into something real. From cozy campus walks to viral couple reels and late-night chai dates, Vikrant and Tara fall in love.
For a while, it feels perfect. So perfect, they decide to get engaged. Families meet. Rings are discussed. Future feels real.
But love in the age of Instagram comes with receipts. And insecurities don’t disappear just because you say, ‘I trust you.’ Enter the red flags, the toxic patterns and online drama. And when those red flags start waving too loud, you’re forced to ask the question no couple wants to answer: Are we fighting for love—or just fighting?
Days With My Red-Flag Girlfriend is a raw, unfiltered story about modern love—the kind that’s messy, real and impossible to forget.
For fifth-grader Moyna, life is full: school, friends and parents who think the world of her. Her backyard just happens to be a vast mangrove delta, where herons stand as still as secrets, kingfishers flash like sparks over the water and where she has fallen asleep to stories of Bonbibi, the guardian of the forest. Out in the deep jungle, tigers still prowl.
But when her father is suddenly gone, Moyna’s world begins to shift. Held gently by friends, neighbours and family, she learns that she doesn’t have to face it alone—and that laughter can return, little by little.
Down by the Mangroves is a tender story about loving your world, watching it change and discovering that sorrow and joy can share the same space.
In the bustling port of Muciri in the Chera kingdom, thirteen-year-old Kathir believes that the godlike ancient Siddhars belong only in folklore—until he is sent to apprentice under one atop the mist-laced Agastya Mountain. What he finds there is a world where medicine borders on magic, forests guard ancient memories, and time keeps its own secrets.
When a sacred relic vanishes and a student disappears, Kathir, along with his friends Atreya and Nakulan, is pulled into a perilous journey across ancient India. To mend what has been broken, they must unravel prophecies hidden in stars and silence, and confront powers that can twist destiny itself.
Rich with lore, wonder and adventure, The Vaidyar’s School of Medicine and Magic is a story of courage awakening in the unlikeliest of hearts.
In the small villages of India, the setting sun brought an end to everything—including Anna Mani’s precious reading time. Determined to change this, Anna dreamed of a world where light could last beyond nightfall.
But when modern electricity finally arrived, it came with a cost: skies clouded with dark, choking smoke. Anna
realized that the first solution isn’t always the best one.
Discover the inspiring true story of a scientist who turned her childhood frustration into a lifelong quest, harnessing the clean and powerful energy of the sun and wind.
There exists a deep curiosity about the Indian Air Force in civilian minds—fascination with the glamour of its aircraft and the men and women who fly them. This stands especially true after the IAF’s pivotal role in the high-stakes Operation Sindoor.
In the follow-up to the widely successful first book, Air Warriors 2 showcases more untold stories of quiet professionalism under fire and courage in the face of peril, set against the backdrop of the IAF’s day-to-day operations. From insights into Operation Sindoor and the lessons drawn from it, to boisterous games of cricket at the NDA and perilous landings on Siachen’s tiny helipads — Wing Commander Arijit Ghosh reveals a whole new side of the men and women in blue.
Deeply researched and engagingly told, the true stories in Air Warriors 2 seek to inspire, enthral, and fascinate every reader.
Over four hundred years ago, a Muslim queen defied an empire. Chand Bibi—ruler, military strategist, and diplomat—stands among the most remarkable figures of early modern India. This book brings her world to life, moving between palace intrigue, battlefield strategy, poetry, and politics.
Historian Sarah Waheed uncovers the multilayered world of the Deccan region that shaped Chand Bibi and her battles against the Mughal empire under Akbar. Interwoven with the queen’s storied past is the author’s personal journey across archives, crumbling forts, and Sufi shrines; through forgotten manuscripts and contested memories; and into the mysteries that both illuminate and conceal Chand Bibi’s life.
Deeply researched and narratively evocative, this is the definitive portrait of a woman who fought for her homeland and sought to unify a fractured region—and of the quest to bring her story back into view.
The eleven stories cover a wide variety of themes, but all have in common the stylistic experimentalism which came to blossom fully in Tomb of Sand. There is an iconoclasm to Geetanjali Shree’s writing, especially beginning with this collection. Readers will soon learn that nothing is sacred to the author: narrative and genre conventions are summarily pushed off their pedestals and in their place we find…what? Entirely new ways of conceiving and presenting storytelling unfurl before us as we come to question our own rigid preconceptions of the short story genre. In one story, a woman spends all day compulsively walking in circles around her housing complex. There is no introduction, no explanation, no denouement. In another, a woman goes on a writer’s retreat, and in a pseudo-sci-fi turn of events, falls passionately in love with the sky. The other participants in the retreat are robots. In a third, “Butterflies” (included here), a narrator staying in a cottage in Kerala is overwhelmed with the grief over past events, but is surprised out of her self-indulgence by a mysterious group of young women who are either nurses or diabetes patients; she’s never sure which. Plots break, sentences shatter, grammar careens, new words are formed, and new narrative structures are erected and felled. Once Elephants Lived Here reveals to us the pathbreaking experiments that led to Geetanjali Shree’s magnum opus Tomb of Sand.
On a desolate, sinking island, a group of children witness their mothers living lives of cruelty and servitude.
Bought and sold by Amma, the sadistic madam who was once herself sold into slavery, the women have learned to accept their fate. Yet their children weave fantastic tales of escape, imagining that someday they will leave the island and enjoy a life of freedom.
When Kusum Khan, a young, educated woman from the city, is forcibly brought to the island, she too is subjected to Amma’s violent induction. Yet Kusum refuses to yield, and soon the collective complacency of her fellow prisoners turns into ferocity and defiance. Together, they begin a rebellion that will upend their island, their world and the very order of things. An earth-shattering drama of resistance and female power, Uprising gives voice to the silenced through the story of a revolution no one saw coming.
Is there a moment, so pliant, that we can nudge it towards any future we desire?
Sometimes I believe that there is such a moment. In a lifetime, once.
In an unnamed nation that’s about to rupture, Priyamvada (Poppy), a Hindu and Tariq, a Muslim are in love. In a few hours, Tariq intends to propose; Poppy intends to say yes. Both assume that they’ll fend off political blowback. For, surely, their privilege will protect them.
But will it? Will Poppy and Tariq sustain a love so wholesome, so cossetted, that it remains impervious to a dystopian state? Or will the two be rent apart by chance and circumstance? What will their lives look like as they plunge into a brave new future, together or apart?
Written in alternating chapters, Like Being Alive Twice trails fact and possibility—the tale as-it-was and the tale as-it-could-have-been-if-only—arranging and rearranging, tweaking and nudging; hoping to find a lasting peace in one or the other story; hoping, above all else, that such peace will prevail over murderous times.
Politically urgent, stylistically intrepid, and relentless in its commitment to scrutinizing love, loss and the language of privilege, Like Being Alive Twice tells of the frantic pursuit of life piled upon life, even as a bloodied world closes in.
Sometimes life takes you to places so dark,
You can’t even see the stars.
But don’t forget the light that’s inside you–
That you’re made of stars too.
A Light That Never Goes Dark is an illustrated collection of poetry and prose you can turn to when you feel dark inside. Whether you’re navigating difficult seasons, heartbreak, growth or simply the complexity of being human, it is here to hold space for you and gently guide you back to the light that exists within.
