A thrilling first collection of adventure tales from India’s favourite storyteller!
Venture into the thrilling world of Ruskin Bond, where mysteries unfold in dark tunnels, brave hearts face mighty earthquakes and the wind carries whispers on the hills.
Have you ever walked through a dark tunnel with your heart pounding, only to see a roaring train rush past like a dragon? Or stood steady as the ground shook like jelly? Can you imagine flying like an eagle or leaving quiet hills for a noisy town?
From lush jungles and rumbling hillsides to dusty mountain paths and stormy nights, My First Adventure Stories brings together tales of unexpected friendship, courage, curiosity and the wild spirit of exploration.
Come, sit on these pages awhile to admire, ponder over, and sometimes get lost in the profound wisdom and hidden truths of these fleeting creations that Joginder Paul offers.
Bird in Flight, a volume of afsanche (flash fiction) by Paul, brings to you another facet of his artistry. These micro stories are slices of life that have been transmuted into sparkling gems of creativity. With such constraint on the use of words and so much abandon in meaning making, the reader is sure to feel the expanse of the artist’s vision captured consummately within the confines of the brevity of the microfiction form.
Though known for his short stories and novels, Joginder Paul has been a pioneer of the afsanche form in Urdu literary writing. These short shorts are as much the reader’s as they are the author’s, and the translator’s, because they invite creative participation. And yet they have an autonomy that makes them experiences to be felt rather than narratives to be read—such is the genius of Paul’s musings.
Nishikant leads a quiet life, going for long walks around Pune with his older sister, fantasizing about the handsome next-door neighbor and lingering in bookstores while dreaming of being a writer. But when a love affair claims his sister’s life and takes the handsome neighbour far away from him, his middle-class parents pack him off to Mumbai to shield him from the scandal. Through his relationships with Shiv in Mumbai, and later with Sreenivas, in London, Nishikant is able to break apart the shackles his past have placed on him. When Nishikant moves back to Mumbai, he has become a writer and a professor and the only escape from his solitary existence are the long letters he receives from Srinivas , until one day, Sreenivas disappears mysteriously.
Silk Route translated from the Marathi Reshim Marg, invites readers to go on a journey along with Nishikant on his many travels through cities and people in a way that has rarely been seen in Indian literature. As the series’ first part, the novel lays the groundwork for this expansive narrative journey that questions love, identity and the false veneer of societal expectations.
In 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned, and Pakistan was born. A shared heritage, a composite culture and centuries-old bonds between people, all seemed to vanish overnight. Nowhere was this rupture more profound than in the Indus Basin—once a unified lifeline of the region, now fragmented by sovereign borders, its rivers flowing through two nations immediately at odds with each other.
The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960, proving that even bitter adversaries could cooperate over shared resources. Yet, it never brought lasting peace. The treaty was suspended by India in April 2025 as a punitive measure in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, and its future remains shrouded in uncertainty. Can it still endure and adapt? Perhaps the time has come for a new arrangement—one that is not just inevitable but essential.
This book traces the turbulent history of the Indus Basin and examines how the Indus Waters Treaty has been shaped by the region’s ever-evolving political dynamics. It explores the role of key leaders on both sides, as well as external pressures, in shaping and reshaping one of the world’s most critical transboundary water agreements.
The Indus Basin has been a witness to conflict, compromise and survival. And if you seek to understand the true nature of India–Pakistan relations, start with the rivers that bind them. Trial by Water leads us in that direction.
Hundred Greatest Love Songs is a genre-bending memoir of a young artist and poet willing to risk his life for his craft. Told in a hundred short chapters and arranged like a playlist, the story is one of transformation—spiritual, sexual and intellectual—as the protagonist, a waiter, carves his path from a greasy diner in small-town Iowa to a prestigious arts college in upstate New York. Along the way, he makes many new friends: misfits and outcasts who become his chosen family, and renowned American poets and artists who show him that it is possible to lead a remarkable life, no matter the circumstances.
At its core, the book is an ode to friendship. It is as much about an artist trying to find his place in the world as it is about the people who help him do so. Ultimately, Hundred Greatest Love Songs serves as a testament to the healing power of poetry and proves that literature, art and music can save lives.
A business strategy consists of certain guiding principles that helps an organization make quick and accurate decisions. Since an organization is nothing without its people, strategy is essentially human centric. It is about how people in an organization should make decisions and allocate resources to attain critical objectives. A robust strategy offers a clear roadmap with guiding principles defining the actions individuals in an organization should take (and not take). It also provides insights into the things one should prioritize (and not prioritize) to accomplish desired goals.
This book highlights strategy techniques that can help you navigate both your personal and professional conundrums. It tries to showcase how strategy consultants think through frameworks, examples and tools, to help young professionals improve their chances at professional success. Conceived as a definitive guide to achieving both personal and professional success, Why Your Strategy Sucks will unleash your true potential to win at work and in life.
Jaya Kishori is a well-known spiritual orator and a famed motivational speaker. Having seen people immersed in every kind of difficulty, trouble, sicknesses, stress, trauma, she has put together advice and thoughts that can help readers make their lives better and more meaningful. Through this book, she would like to tell the reader that ‘It’s okay to have problems and issues in life. Everyone has them.’ She also wishes to offer solutions to these problems, so people can obtain some solace and are able to handle situations better
Like Arjuna, every human being must navigate the battlefield of life, so the Gita speaks to us all, providing invaluable coping skills to handle adversities that inevitably arise along the way.
In this book, Priya Arora clubs together verses that have a common theme or concept, such as the power of focus and how actions have consequences, and goes on to explain the instructions that the Gita offers on how to handle these situations. She contextualizes the verse and explains what the takeaway is meant to be.
The Gita’s spiritual teachings are forever pertinent because they are not born of the social constraints or moral conventions of a particular time in history. Instead, Krishna shows the path to overcoming suffering by adopting the right attitude to adversity.
This wonderful interpretation and explanation of the Gita shows the abiding relevance of Krishna’s instruction in our lives today.
A HIGHLY REQUESTED SELF-HELP GUIDE BY THE AWARD-WINNING, NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ‘I DON’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE’
This is the beginning of a new chapter in your life. This book was meant to find you. I’m proud of you for choosing peace. I know you overthink a lot. I know you feel everything too deeply. But I also know that there’s immense strength in you. You’re strong enough to deal with all the challenges life throws your way. You’ve been through so much in the past but you’re still here—moving forward bravely with a smile on your face.
I’m proud of you for being so brave.
This book will help you prioritise what’s important and let go of what’s harmful to your well-being.
Read this book if you want to:
1. Start trusting your potential and improve your self-esteem
2. Feel better about yourself
3. Let go of toxic thoughts and people
4. Get out of the loop of overthinking forever
5. Learn how to be kind to yourself
6. Be patient with your journey
7. Identify toxic friends and learn how to deal with toxic relatives
8. Understand yourself better and build a stronger relationship with yourself
9. Understand what self-love truly means
10. Become more emotionally intelligent
Above all, this book will simplify your life and show you how to achieve freedom from overthinking.
Real magic is never planned. It is discovered when you stay open, when you trust, and when you keep going.
In this intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle, acclaimed actor and director Anupam Kher opens the doors to his most personal and ambitious cinematic vision—a project that celebrates courage, hope, and the indomitable human spirit.
From the first spark of inspiration and heartfelt reflections to unexpected challenges, memorable moments, and the way everything came together, this book offers a front-row seat to the making of Tanvi the Great. At its heart is the story of a young autistic girl who refused to be defined by her limitations and showed the world a different kind of brilliance.
All in all, Different, but No Less is more than a film’s journey; it is a reminder that true beauty often lies where the world forgets to look.
