The twenty-first century woman juggles home, work, friends—all in a day’s work. And this demanding lifestyle is taking its deadly toll on her. With women’s health issues suddenly on the rise, Dr Mathai’s Holistic Health Guide for Women is what every woman must have. It contains causes, solutions, and treatments for cancer, PCOS, arthritis, etc., based on ayurveda, homeopathy, and naturopathy as well as complementary therapies such as yoga, acupuncture, reflexology, and acupressure. With simple DIYs and home remedies, this book is the ultimate guide to a healthy life.
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The Hungry Ghosts
Moving between Toronto and war-torn Sri Lanka of the 1980s and ’90s, The Hungry Ghosts tells an intense and absorbing story of one man’s restless search for redemption. Shivan Rassiah, gay and in his early thirties, prepares to return from Canada to his dying grandmother in Sri Lanka. Much is riding on this trip for Shivan, who hopes it will bring i am the renewal he so desperately needs. Yet he is haunted by the memories of his complicated relationship with his grandmother through his early years, the tragic outcome of a visit he paid her some years after migrating to Canada, and the Buddhist tales she told him with their themes of destiny and karma, which insist there is no escape from
acts committed. Engulfed by his memories and mistakes, Shivan begins to doubt that the redemption he seeks might indeed be possible. A lush, complex novel of migration, sexuality,
family and exile, The Hungry Ghosts brings vividly
to life the smell, colours, landscape, manners
and customs of the author’s native Sri Lanka
and his adopted homeland Canada.
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition
From nuclear proliferation to Jihadi terrorism, the Partition of India continues to cast a long shadow even today
Nobody expected the liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody. But in 1946, a full year before Independence, a terrible cycle of riots began, starting with Calcutta and going on to engulf many parts of the country. As the British rushed to leave, thousands of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were brutally killed in communal violence. This book vividly recreates that tragic period through personal stories and eyewitness accounts, and recounts the complex relationships between Nehru, Patel, Jinnah and Mountbatten. It shows how Partition, which has created such a wide gulf between two countries whose people have so much in common, has given birth to global terrorism and dangerous nuclear proliferation today.
The Small-Town Sea
‘One of the outstanding storytellers in contemporary Indian writing’-Forbes India
Uprooted from a bustling city, the thirteen-year-old protagonist of The Small-town Sea is replanted in his father’s home town where he struggles to cope with his new life. He reluctantly makes friends with Bilal, a boy who lives in the orphanage run by the local mosque. Together, they embark on clandestine adventures while his ailing father-whose last wish is to die listening to the sea he has grown up by and written books about-rediscovers people from his childhood by accident. But his father’s death unsettles the boy’s life again, and he finds himself grappling with altogether unexpected challenges.
Lyrical and haunting, sharply funny and achingly sad, The Small-town Sea is a masterful tale of love, friendship and family from one of our most compelling storytellers.
Mother Teresa
This inspirational and heartwarming book details the profound impact that Mother Teresa’s life, mission and principles have had on the world. With many a moving anecdote, from her talk with heads-of-state for world peace to her poignant prayers for a dying child, this definitive biography gives an inimitable insight into the life of one of the most admired women in the world.
Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm
Stories with purrs and moos and puzzle clues!
Loud and lively Talky Tumble lives on Jumble Farm with her mum and more animals than she can count. When Mummy falls ill one day, it’s up to Talky, joined by her furry and purry friends, to step in and take charge!
But when it’s Talky’s turn to have a bad day, will she be able to cheer herself up? Or is her grumpy mood going to stay put?
A rollicking ride through a maze of wordplay and a sea of rhyme, this unique interactive picture book is perfect for kids ready to take on scrambled words and opposites.
Lend Me Your Ears
Express to impress
Poets are born. Public speakers are made. And this collection of assorted elocution pieces is designed to do just that: unleash the orator within you. Handpicked by master speaker Terry O’Brien, it includes:
· Delightful poems that impart wisdom: from Kipling’s classic If, to charming verses by the beloved Ruskin Bond
· Eloquent prose pieces: from Twain’s razor-sharp wit to the insights of Bacon
· Impressive dramatic excerpts: think Shakespeare
· Speeches that changed the world: from John F. Kennedy to our very own Mahatma Gandhi
On the Dessert Trail
Did you know that there was a cold war between France and Britain on the invention of the crème brûlée? Or that the torte, a dessert from Austria, was also the subject of a long trademark battle between creator Eduard Sacher and the Demel bakery, where he worked?
These and many such interesting anecdotes accompany the recipes of the desserts, forming the base of Dessert Trail. Cookbook author, chef, restaurateur and popular blogger, Monish Gujral hand-picks classic, signature recipes from his travels across the world and presents them with his own twist. He simplifies the processes so that you can make them at home, in the comfort of your kitchen. With more than eighty dessert recipes from across fifty countries, Monish opens up a whole world of sweets that beg to be tried and tasted.
This book is a home cook’s delight and a must-have for those who crave to satisfy their sweet tooth.
Maximum City
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.
As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
The Golden House
On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from Bombay takes up residence in a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent and unmistakable air of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya; Apu, the flamboyant artist; and D, who harbours an explosive secret even from himself.
The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in India, the unravelling of an insidious plot.
Copiously detailed, sumptuously inventive, brimming with all the razzle-dazzle that imbues his fiction with the lush ambience of a fable, The Golden House is about where we were before 26/11, where we are today and how we got here. The result is a modern epic of love and terrorism, loss and reinvention-a powerful, timely story told with the daring and panache that make Salman Rushdie a force of light in our dark new age.