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Love Is Also a Compromise

Venu had learnt to live a life devoid of any male presence—a failed love affair tends to do that. So when she comes across a patient file belonging to someone she had more than just known in her past, it brings back unexpected memories and she suddenly finds herself wanting the same affection that she had known thirty years ago. The only way she can let love back into her life is by learning to let go, and if there ever was a time to do that, it is now. But is she ready?

Love Is Also a Compromise will make you believe in the power of love all over again.

Synchronicity

Three deaths, two families broken, one fateful car crash.

Tasha and Brad, both struck by tragedy, find solace and hope in each other in the depths of their grief. Can they move past their mutual misfortune to build something beautiful again? Or will the emotional wreckage of their past come in the way of real love?

A story of second-chances, Synchronicity highlights the importance of love amid emotional crisis.

May God Bless You, Dear

Brinda is every bit the perfect homemaker and she loves cooking for her family. Today is an extra-special day and even the neighbours can smell the delicious food she started preparing at three in the morning. Her son is excited too—after all, it’s his father’s birthday.

However, just when she thought she had it all, an old secret comes back to haunt her. One that may just make her do something against her will.

Will she go through with it? Read on to find out.

Just Because I Made Love to You Doesn’t Mean I Love You

Mitali moves to a new city because she doesn’t want anything to do with her past, especially her broken marriage. Looking forward to a simple and quiet life, she doesn’t even socialize much with her new colleagues, not wanting to risk any more excitement.

Things, however, change when she meets Aditya. Suddenly, all the excitement that she’s been avoiding comes rushing back into her life. Is this what having fun feels like? Or is she falling in love?

A refreshing look into the nature of romantic relationships in today’s times, Just Because I Made Love to You Doesn’t Mean That I Love You will make you think about the oddities and difficulties of finding love.

The Divine Union

Arun is tired of his friends complaining that he’s withdrawing from his social circle or he’s too lonely or he should just marry and settle down—after all, an eligible bachelor like him shouldn’t remain unattached for too long. But he’s not lonely, he just enjoys his own company, and as for ‘settling down’, he’ll think about it when he meets a girl who can actually understand him or at least knows a thing or two about reading.

Enter Nila, right on cue, after a chance encounter on a train and she sounds almost too good to be true. Does she really have everything that Arun has been looking for?

Read on to see if Arun discovers the dream he has been chasing all along.

Flirting

Naina has always had a thing for guys who play hard-to-get. So when she notices a guy waiting for the same bus as her, she can’t help but flirt with him, even though he doesn’t seem to be interested in her. This is what a usual day in Naina’s life looks like, for he’s not the only guy she’s flirting with.

Wearing her heart on her sleeve like a badge of honour, it doesn’t look like Naina’s going to end her flirting spree any time soon. Or will she?

Read on to find out if there is indeed someone for everyone—even Naina—and whether they can make her change her ways.

A Love Story in Reverse!

Love—only a four letter word, yet it’s so powerful that it can conquer anything in this world!

We’ve all experienced the first flush of love and remember the lingering fragrance of it. Humanity, time and again, has coined many definitions to describe this beautiful emotion, but this small word is a feeling that can’t simply be defined. It has to be narrated . . . in the form of stories—love stories.

Selected by Ravinder Singh, story that touched Ravin’s heart—will make you believe that someone, somewhere, is made for you.

A Train to My Marriage

Krishna is on her way to meet a potential suitor her family has picked for her to marry and she is not thrilled. After all, Krishna—although a little clumsy—is a city girl who loves mushy, romantic Korean movies while her suitor is from some remote area, far from the city!

Surely, she deserves better than a country bumpkin? But meet him she must, with all the readiness of someone who has no idea of what’s coming her way.

Travel with Krishna on this journey of sweet disasters to find out what’s in store for her.

The Last Vicereine

It was the spring of 1947 when Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrived in New Delhi. India was on the brink of civil war. The reluctant Vicereine was a rebel, a rule-breaker. She was a troubled soul, a great beauty, a firecracker. But there was more to Edwina than met the eye. The glamour was a façade; behind it was a highly intelligent woman of influence and power.
The only one to truly understand her for who she was was Jawahar, her friend, confidant and so much more.
No one could have imagined the maelstrom of intrigue, and the events and relationships that would change their lives and those of millions of Indians forever. Set amid the turmoil of Partition, The Last Vicereine is a heartbreaking story of the birth of two nations, of love, grief, tragedy, inhumanity and the triumph of hope.

Vyasa

On a huge battlefield stand two armies facing each other. The dust stirred by soldiers covers the sun.
Rain-clouds shower flesh and blood, drenching the troops. Along the ground a wind rises; the small stones that the wind carries with it, hit the warriors.With cinematic effects, full of cuts and intercuts, Vyasa-with 1600 electrifying visuals for hot-hearted adults-sets in motion the battlefield of Kurukshetra. From the birth of the Pandavas and Kauravas to the interpenetration of life instincts and death instincts, this first book in this graphic book series rolls out the beginning of interplay of lust and violence which gives to the tale of war, revenge and peace the unmatched regal look.

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