We all know that girls love boys who love girls, and then they turn into women who love men who love women. And no matter how much one would like to clutter their life with work or distract themselves with friends or treks or travels, at the end of the day it is the matters of the heart that take control of our deeper senses.
Forget algebra. Love can be the hardest, most complicated thing on earth.
This is a book about growing up, of learning and un-learning, losing and receiving, crying and smiling, but most of all—loving. From the first awkward teenage days to discovering boys to falling in love and getting your heart broken, Juhi Pande tells you the Things Your Mother Never Told You About Love. Guaranteed to lift the spirit and add a spring in your step, this book tells us everything us girls need to know to get us through the rough seas.
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The Bad Boys Of Bokaro Jail
What happens when a business executive is thrown into a jail in small town Jharkhand? He ends up with an education of a lifetime…
When Chetan Mahajan is wrongfully sent to Bokaro jail, he encounters a world completely different from his corporate life in Delhi. From picking the best prison ward, befriending the people who can get him mobile phone access and upgraded food, and training for his upcoming marathon in the tiny prison yard, Chetan soon learns to work the prison system. In the process he makes unlikely friends, and discovers what India’s underbelly really looks like.
A true story, The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail, is thought provoking, amusing and touching. It will show you the Indian prison as you have never seen it before.
Saltwater
Young, F*cked Up and Beautiful
Rish returns home to Bombay, halfway through his college in the US, unable to deal with the suicide of his friend Sahil—a manic depressive with an uncontrollable drug habit. He touches down in a world of careless money and no rules.
As he struggles to repair old friendships and rekindle old love, he’s quickly sucked into the same old pattern of magic pills, endless parties and random sex. Rish’s quest for redemption quickly degenerates into an unstoppable roller coaster into the nights of south Bombay, tearing through exclusive nightclubs and sea-facing penthouses.
When it crashes —no one will be left standing.
Saltwater is the raw, uncut footage of an entire generation losing it, together, one shiny party at a time.
On Sal Mal Lane
Sri Lanka, 1979. The Herath family has just moved to Sal Mal Lane, a quiet street disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. The innocence of the children—a beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers—contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and it is only a matter of time before the conflict engulfs them all and the sleepy neighborhood erupts in violence.
Tender and heartbreaking, On Sal Mal Lane is an evocative story of what was lost to a country and its people.
Jungle Trees Of Central India
Covering an area larger than France, and including five of India’s most-visited tiger reserves, the forests of central India are one of the country’s most spectacular landscapes. Jungle Trees of Central India is the perfect guide to every tree you are likely to come across in this region. A culmination of over four years of research, the book has over 2000 photographs, and thumbnail keys to all the barks, flowers, fruit and leaves. An ideal companion for your explorations, it will turn you into an expert tree-spotter and take your enjoyment of wild places to another level.
On A Prayer
A touching story of love,faith and redemptionTwenty-two-year-old Yash Birla wakes up atthe break of dawn to a phone call that changeshis life-a plane with his parents and sister hasjust crashed in Bangalore. Leaving his college inNorth Carolina on a flight to Mumbai, Yash findsout that they have all passed away. Everythinghe has known is destroyed and his world issuddenly torn apart.Reeling from the loss, Yash is handed over a vastempire of companies that he is now at the helm of,where he has to fight for his rights and manoeuvrethrough relatives who have their own agendas.This is the story of a man who overcomes oneof life’s toughest hurdles and lives to tell the tale.It is Yash Birla’s journey from a state of oblivionto survival, where his deep belief in spiritualityand his faith in true love act as a crutch for himto go on. Money, greed, God and an inside viewof one of India’s oldest industrial families . . .that is the story of On a Prayer.
Servants Of The Goddess
Servants of the Goddess weaves together the heartbreaking, yet paradoxically life-affirming stories of five devadasis—women, in the clutches of an ancient fertility cult, forced to serve the gods.
Catherine Rubin Kermorgant sets out attempting to make a documentary film about the lives of present-day devadasis. Through her, we meet and get to know the devadasi women of Kalyana, a remote village in Karnataka. As they grow to trust Kermorgant and welcome her as an honorary sister, we hear their stories in their own words: stories of oppression, discrimination, violence and, most importantly, resilience. Kermorgant becomes a part of these stories and finds herself unwittingly enmeshed in a world of gender and caste bias which extends far beyond Kalyana—all the way to Paris, where the documentary is to be edited and produced.
Servants of the Goddess is a testament to women’s strength and spirit, and a remarkably astute analysis of gender and caste relations in today’s rural India.
The Love Diet
Can foods really affect your moods?
Can they also boost your sex life?
From the author of The Beauty Diet comes a unique book designed to cultivate love and improve health and vitality for a happy and blissful life. In The Love Diet, Shonali Sabherwal, India’s leading nutritionist, presents a refreshing approach to eating by sharing:
• Food secrets that can make you more caring, loving, and giving
• Tips to enhance sexual appetite in men and women
• Magical food and lifestyle factors needed for better sex and specific food plans and recipes
With insightful notes from clients and expert practitioners, The Love Diet is your go-to book for advice and solutions on how to feel happy and sexy.
Letters From A Young Poet
As a young man, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his niece during what he described as the most productive period of his life. By turns contemplative and playful, gentle and impassioned, Tagore’s letters abound in incredible insights—from sharply comical portrayals of English sahibs to lively anecdotes about family life, from thoughts on the nature of poetry to spiritual contemplation and inner feeling. And coursing through all these letters, like a ceaseless heartbeat, is Tagore’s deep love for the natural splendour of Bengal. In this manner, this volume also serves as a prose companion to his magnificent work Gitanjali.
Letters from a Young Poet shimmers with wit and warmth, and offers unforgettable vignettes of the young poet in those happy days before extraordinary fame found him.
Central Time
In Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote becomes the storyteller of a turbulent epoch. We meet Ovid and Ghalib, poets in exile or eclipse, in these poems, which are by turns elliptical, conversational and narrative. We meet painters who betray their art, and sculptors who are betrayed by theirs. Fascinated by the enigmas of time, memory and evanescence that art invokes, Hoskote addresses a range of artists including Bihzad, Magritte, Masaki Fujihata and Ranbir Kaleka. At the same time, he retains his affection for the natural world, celebrating the textures and intensities of sensuous experience: the roughness of stone, the dance of light, the flowering of touch and the taste of salt and cinnamon.
A testament to a present shimmering like a mirage between contested pasts and vexed futures, this book pivots around moments of encounter: a defiant squirrel in Anuradhapura, an enigmatic collection of objects in a Berlin museum or a man discovering a mass grave near Kabul. Written between 2006 and 2014, the hundred poems that form Central Time resonate with the crises of war, genocide, terror, forced migration and the precariousness of belonging.