Strange Obsession is the story of the gorgeous young super-model Amrita Aggarwal. Within months of her arrival in Bombay, she is the envy of its beautiful people. Then, one day, she attracts the attentions of a mysterious woman called Minx. As the months pass and the demands of her unwelcome suitor grow, Amrita’s life turns nightmarish… An unforgettable novel of sexual obsession and its calamitous consequences.
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Penguin Book Of Hindu Names For Boys
Choosing a name for your child has never been easier
The Penguin Book of Hindu Names has sold over 50,000 copies since it was published almost a decade ago. The product of several years of research, it is an exhaustive and user-friendly compilation, with information on sources and usage.
For the first time, this classic work is available in a two-volume set, divided into names for boys and those for girls, making it more accessible. Including modern names and those which are popular, The Penguin Book of Hindu Names for Boys serves as a practical guide for choosing the perfect name for your son. It is also a precise and invaluable sourcebook for scholars and lay readers alike who would like to know what familiar (and not so familiar) Hindu names actually mean.
Just Like That
For Osho, all change is individual. There is no ‘society’ to change—change can only happen to each one of us, one at a time. So, no matter what the subject matter of the book, the thread that runs through all Osho’s words is like a love song that we can suddenly, mysteriously, hear at just the right moment. And strangely, no matter what the words seem to be referring to, they are really only referring to us.
This is no ordinary love song, more an invitation to open our hearts to hear something beyond the words, beyond the heart . . . a silence beyond all understanding—where we all belong.
Just Like That brings together Osho’s talks on Sufi stories and Sufism. Osho, with his characteristic wit, incisiveness and irreverence, peels the layers of our consciousness and introduces us to ourselves.
Snapshots
As the wine and conversation begin to flow at a reunion between six women, who were friends at school, memories start to surface—some happy, others bittersweet and a few that are downright poisonous… Forced to confront dark secrets that they thought lay buried deep in the past, the women begin to turn against one another and the mood of the party turns nightmarish…
Death, infidelity, incest, rape, lies and the evil that lurks beneath the everyday lives of people form the substance of Snapshots, Shobha De’s explosive new novel.
Love Over Coffee
Rajni blew her hair away from her face.
My heart skipped a beat.
‘I love you!’ I blurted out.
Her cheeks turned a deep pink.
I could sense that her anger had completely disappeared.
Anup; a happy-go-lucky boy next door; finds himself a misfit in an IT company. On the bright side; he has great friends in office—Chetan; Subbu and Parag—to help him out of sticky situations. Also; in the same office is the love of his life; Rajni. But Rajni’s strict family and her paranoia of tongue-wagging colleagues play villain in their love story forcing him to be satisfied with clandestine meetings; secret phone conversations and emails. Just as Anup decides to turn over a new leaf; sinister happenings at work force him to take some life-changing decisions—to quit his job and pursue his long-cherished dream of becoming a writer; and also; to marry Rajni.
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Amen
On 31 August 2008, Sister Jesme left the Congregation of Mother of Carmel. The authorities repeated attempts to have her declared insane, she says, left her no other option. This book, a first of its kind in India, is an outpouring of her experiences as a nun for thirty-three years.
Spirited and fun-loving, from a good family, deeply-rooted in Catholicism, Jesme was drawn to religious life at seventeen after a Retreat at junior college. As a nun, seven years later, she felt distressed at the many ills growing inside the convent and being forced to remain silent about them. There was corruption, by way of donations for college seats; sexual relations between some priests and nuns, and between nuns; class distinctions whereby the cheduthies, or poorer and less-educated sisters, did menial jobs; and a wide gap between comforts and facilities enjoyed by the priests and nuns.
Jesme was permitted to complete her doctorate in English Literature, to pursue her passion for literature, cinema and teaching college students. She exposed them to classic films, believing that aesthetics enhances spirituality. But these joys were clouded by the troubles she faced.
Searing, sincere, and sensitive, Amen is a plea for a reformation of the Church and comes at a time of its growing concern about nuns and priests. It affirms Jesme’s unbroken spirit and faith in Jesus and the Church, living like a nun, but outside the Four Walls of the convent.
Social
From the bestselling author of Faster: 100 Ways to Improve Your Digital Life
This time Ankit Fadia expands his expertise beyond computers and digital devices. He gives away technology tips and general advice on how you can enhance your professional life. This book includes applications that help plan your day, communicate effectively and manage finances.
• Does your resume have trouble getting noticed?
• What’s the most effective way to do your homework on people before you meet them?
• How can an app help you get more out of conferences?
• Can de-cluttering your Inbox really save you a lot of time?
• How to get more work done on flights?
• Should you hire a public relations firm?
Social puts you on the path that takes you being an employee to creating your own personal brand.
The Diet Doctor
Want to learn to lose weight in a controlled, easy and scientifically sound way and keep it off? Then it’s time to junk the latest trends and go back to the basics with The Diet Doctor.
Ishi Khosla, who has worked with the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre as well as food majors advising them on nutrition, now tells you what and how much to eat to lose the weight you want-just as a nutritionist would.
Learn why the Indian body type might have more trouble losing weight and how you need to tailor your diet
Plan your eating with the help of detailed meal plans for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks
Choose the exact quantity for your weight using the food group charts
Get inspired by the creative recipes
Accidentally In Love
The thing with love is, the more you try to push it out, the more it follows you . . .
Chhavi Mukharjee has just settled into the cut-throat modelling industry when, all too soon, things begin to fall apart. When she meets Tushar, a successful photographer, sparks fly between them.
But Chhavi doesn’t believe in love or commitment. They decide to carry on a no-strings-attached, open relationship. However, when she begins to miss him while he’s away, she knows it is something more than just passion!
Three Truth Of Wellbeing
What does it take to live in well being?
To be in an abiding state of health, peace, love?
In his first-ever self-help book, Sadhguru, a profound mystic of our times, offers his characteristically pragmatic wisdom for a life of joy and fulfilment. Don’t route your joy through heaven, he says. Access happiness for yourself—right here, right now. Starting with three basic dimensions of the self—Body, Mind and Energy—Sadhguru introduces us to simple techniques to realign and transform them into a life of sparkling aliveness. From the ideal approach to food and sleep to the profound secrets of the human spine, from the role of sex and desire to the deepest meaning of love and morality, from the significance of physical postures and psychological attitudes to the notion of authentic spiritual illumination—this book guides us on all this and more.
The book, peppered with personal anecdotes and Sadhguru’s inimitable wit, has many practical tips and do-it-yourself exercises. Accompanied by a DVD with instructions for Isha Kriya, it is a must-have for anyone committed to becoming fully human.