‘Naina, Naina, Naina, I hear Vatsal’s voice calling out to me,
you’re falling in love with me, aren’t you?’
Meet Naina: a twenty-five-year-old with big dreams and a sceptical heart, searching for love that lasts and a job that doesn’t make her dread mornings.
Enter Vatsal: a charming, unpredictable twenty-eight-year-old lawyer-to-be, interning in Delhi before jetting off to London for his master’s degree.
Their worlds collide unexpectedly, leading to a whirlwind first date. Naina feels an instant connection, like fate brought them together. In days, they go from strangers to friends, best friends and then something more. Everyone thinks it’s just a matter of a few days until they make it official, call it love. How could they not, when it feels this right?
But then comes the Diwali party—the best and worst day of Naina’s life. A devastating event shatters their bond, and they don’t speak. For three whole years.
As fate would have it, Naina and Vatsal meet again. This time, Naina is cautious; Vatsal overfamiliar. Everything feels just as intense as it once did—but can Naina handle the pain that took her years to overcome, if at all? And can Vatsal fight his fears and stay to watch Naina overcome it?
Archives: Books
Who the F**k are You
The kick in the ass we all need at some point.
If you’ve ever felt confused, ignored, or passed over…
If you’ve been waiting for your hard work to get noticed, and it hasn’t…
If you’ve wanted to put yourself out there without becoming a cringe-fluencer…
This is your way out.
This book helps you uncover your strengths, sharpen your dreams, and present your value to the world. With the Minimum Viable Self framework, you’ll learn how to do it, without ever dancing awkwardly in Reels.
Whether you’re a professional, founder, chef, fitness trainer, or real estate agent, this is your escape from the shadows. Through a 5-step transformation, you’ll go from invisible to unignorable.
The only question left is: Are you ready to grab the opportunities waiting for you?
I Am a Survivor Hindi / Maine Cancer Ko Jeet Liya / मैंने कैंसर को जीत लिया
मैंने कैंसर को जीत लिया’ एक प्रेरणादायक पुस्तक है जो कैंसर से जूझने वाले लोगों की कहानियों को संजोए हुए है। इस पुस्तक में विभिन्न व्यक्तियों की संघर्षपूर्ण यात्रा और उनकी विजय की कहानियाँ शामिल हैं। यह पुस्तक न केवल कैंसर से लड़ने वालों के लिए बल्कि उनके परिवार और दोस्तों के लिए भी एक प्रेरणा स्रोत है। इसमें बताया गया है कि कैसे सकारात्मक सोच, दृढ़ संकल्प और सही उपचार से कैंसर को मात दी जा सकती है। पुस्तक में डॉ. रेड्डी और अन्य विशेषज्ञों द्वारा दी गई सलाह और मार्गदर्शन भी शामिल है, जो कैंसर से लड़ने वालों के लिए अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण है। यह पुस्तक उन सभी के लिए है जो जीवन में किसी भी प्रकार की चुनौती का सामना कर रहे हैं और उन्हें प्रेरणा और साहस की आवश्यकता है।
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world’s largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.
By examining key historical moments—from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI—Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past—such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain—ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term—findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today.
Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in Age of Automation
How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation the technology trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members. As Carl benedikt Frey shows, the industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of Mechanization were devastating. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the lab or share of Income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends broadly mirror those in our current age of automation. But, just as the industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. The technology trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.
The Architect’s Dream
Forty years after he left, Vidhu Mirani—the Pritzker Prize winning architect whom Karl Lagerfeld once called the Coco Chanel of today—returns to India when the Prime Minister invites him to design a new public library for the capital New Delhi. But a chance encounter in a park now puts him at the centre of a political controversy and forces him to revisit a past that he thought he had left behind.
As his curiosity unspools into something resembling regret, his old friend Hanif Allana, furiously mastering a grief of his own, engages him in a desperate, obsessive cat-and-mouse game. Binding the two men is Tanya Sinha, the woman they both loved, but neither truly knew.
As each exhumes personal history to locate missing pieces of the puzzle they have individually carried within them for years, painful memories begin to surface.
The Architect’s Dream is a novel that asks the primordial question—how haunted are we by the secrets of others?—with a psychologically suspenseful twist that both devastates and redeems.
Mantra Meditations Hindi / Mantra Sadhna / मंत्र साधना
मंत्रों के जाप की परंपरा बहुत प्राचीन और हमारे जमीनी संस्कारों से जुड़ी हुई है। लेकिन इन्हें आज के लोगों के लिए भी प्रासंगिक बनाए रखना है। हमारी परंपराएँ संग्रहालय में रखी धूल खा रही किसी कलाकृति में नहीं बदलनी चाहिए। हालाँकि इन परंपराओं को इनकी शुद्धता के साथ प्रासंगिक बनाए रखना एक चुनौती भी है। राधिका दास की ये किताब आधुनिक भाषा में भी भक्ति परंपराओं की शुद्धता, आदर्श और गंभीरता को सहेजती है। इसीलिए ये किताब मंत्रों के जाप के समृद्ध खजाने तक पहुँचने का रास्ता दिखाती है। ईश्वरीय शक्ति से जुड़ने और एक मजबूत संबंध की नींव रखती है। यह पुस्तक मत्रों की बेमिसाल दुनिया में गोते लगवाकर उन्हें उसे समझाती है और उनका अनुभव कराती है।
Orbital Hindi / ऑर्बिटल
इस पृथ्वी नाम के ग्रह पर हमारे जीवन का एक ऐसा स्वरूप जिसके बारे में आपने पहले कभी नहीं सोचा होगा।
छह अंतरिक्षयात्री अपने अंतरिक्षयान में बैठकर लगातार पृथ्वी का चक्कर लगा रहे हैं। वहाँ उनका काम मौसम संबंधी आँकड़ों को इकट्ठा करना और वैज्ञानिक प्रयोगों को अंजाम देना है। लेकिन अमूमन वे अपना समय निरीक्षण में ही बिताते हैं। एक साथ मिलकर वे हमारी इस शांत नीले रंग के ग्रह को निहारते रहते हैं: एक ही दिन में शानदार सौंदर्य के अंतहीन नज़ारे उनकी आँखों के सामने से गुजरते हैं।
हालाँकि वे दुनिया से अलग-थलग हैं लेकिन फिर भी लगातार होने वाली इसकी खींचतान भागने का कोई विकल्प उनके पास नहीं है। उन तक माँ के गुजर जाने की ख़बर पहुँचती है और इसके साथ ही मन में विचार उठने लगता है वापस पृथ्वी पर लौटने का। उनकी बातचीत, उनके डर, उनके सपने, सब कुछ ही मानव जीवन की क्षणभंगुरता से लबरेज़ है।
पृथ्वी से दूर रहते हुए उन्हें इस बात का अभूतपूर्व अनुभव हुआ कि वे इसका अनन्य हिस्सा हैं या उनके भीतर इसे लेकर एक सुरक्षात्मक भाव है। पृथ्वी के बिना जीवन का अस्तित्व क्या है? मानवता के बिना पृथ्वी का क्या मतलब है? जैसे प्रश्नों से उनका दिमाग़ अटा पड़ा है।
21 Big Ideas That Will Change Your Life Hindi / Jeevan Badalnewale 21 Prabhawshali Vichar / जीवन बदलनेवाले 21 प्रभावशाली विचार
जीवन बदलने वाले 21 प्रभावशाली विचार एक प्रेरणादायक पुस्तक है, जो इतिहास के महान विचारकों से चुने गए 21 विचारों को सरल और व्यावहारिक रूप में प्रस्तुत करती है। यह पुस्तक आपको सिखाती है कि कैसे सोच में बदलाव लाकर आप अपने जीवन में स्पष्टता, संतुलन और उद्देश्य ला सकते हैं। आधुनिक जीवन की उलझनों में यह किताब एक मार्गदर्शक की तरह काम करती है, जो आपको आत्मचिंतन और सार्थक बदलाव की दिशा में प्रेरित करती है।
New Writing in India
Adil Jussawalla’s anthology of Indian writing was first published in 1974. Today, more than half a century later, it remains one of the landmarks of our literature, featuring writers from various Indian languages, including English, whose works have stood the test of time.
The book traces a map of what Jussawalla calls ‘literary and linguistic cross-currents’, through the writings of Nirmal Verma (Hindi), Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali), Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi), P. Lankesh (Kannada) and Ashokamitran (Tamil), among other literary greats.
This anthology challenges the colonial notion of Indian literature as a collection of exotica as well as the terrible misconception that modern Indian writing is an inferior mimicry of Western forms. What we have here is a literary record that stands out for the originality of the voices it contains and yet underscores a set of shared themes and artistic concerns that galvanized these writers and brought them together.
When this book was first published, the pieces collected here were barely a decade old and hence were presented under the rubric of ‘New Indian Writing’ of the time. But as Amit Chaudhuri reminds us in his introduction to the anniversary edition, the term ‘new’ in the title is not merely a reference to recency but to a ‘self-replenishing, revolutionary’ quality that never diminishes in great literature.
Ezra Pound once said that literature is news that stays news. New Writing in India bears testament to those words and to the multifarious tradition of Indian writing.