Deepa and Ruchi are 12 years old when they meet at their Catholic school in India, but their connection is swift and lasting. As the two girls grow up and face their families’ expectations and the limits of their ambitions, their friendship is marked by intimacy, jealousy, and suppressed desire.
When, in their twenties, Deepa marries a doctor and moves from India to the suburbs of Connecticut, Ruchi quickly finds an engineer bound for the same state and follows her friend across the world. But life in the United States is different than either woman expects. Deepa’s daughter seeks affection Deepa refuses to give, and Ruchi’s son resists her smothering care. At the same time, Deepa and Ruchi find their closeness tested by a growing class disparity, competing family needs, and the differences in their desires. Ultimately, when Ruchi discovers a dangerous secret about Deepa’s husband’s wealth, both women are forced to weigh the tangled bonds of their friendship with their lives, and their families’, in the burgeoning Indian American community.
Every Happiness explores the slippery edges of a lifelong relationship, and the invisible threads that bind us, sometimes painfully, to those we love most.
When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest.
A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of the Rebel English Academy, his tuition center that offers affordable English lessons. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge at the Academy – but she has a gun, her parents are political prisoners, her husband has just died in a suspicious fire, and she’s clearly hiding something. Baghi encourages Sabiha to write, and throughout the book her life unspools on the page.
Meanwhile Captain Gul, disgraced intelligence officer, has been banished to OK Town, where he aims to silence protesters by any means necessary. But his duties – and romantic desires – begin to overlap, and his already-dubious power is further threatened.
In Rebel English Academy, Pakistan is coming into modernity, struggling under martial law after the execution of its former leader. Mohammed Hanif has constructed a vibrant cast of interconnected characters that face this changing landscape with violence, passion, and the occasional sharp humor. Wry, searing, and deeply relevant, Rebel English Academy is a triumphant new novel about political power, religion, education, sexuality, and dissent.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, a simple act upends an ancient parable. This time, it is the lady who carries the monk across the river.
Through the intertwined fates of Guru Brihaspati, his celibate disciples Kevala and Gyan, and the enigmatic Mandakini, The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River explores the tension between spirituality and desire, the sacred and the profane, and the elusive unity of both. As Kevala and his guru engage in a five-day debate on the meaning of a fulfilling life, the river becomes both a literal and symbolic divide, one that must be crossed daily, not just in body but in spirit.
Tautly woven with philosophy, passion, and profound questions, this novel is no sermon. It is a story of real lives, intense choices, and the irresistible force of Shakti. Can the pursuit of transcendence and the pull of earthly love coexist? In just five days, lifetimes of belief are tested, and the answers may be as fluid as the river itself.
As faith collides with longing, the story unfolds with intensity and depth, drawing readers into a world where every choice reshapes the path to enlightenment.
Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in Mumbai. After three years of living together they are ready to take the next step of a big fat Indian wedding. As he begins to share the good news with his family and start preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his mother Dolly, now divorced and madly in love with a much younger man who wants to marry her; revelations of his father Prem’s old friend from Oxford University having had a gay crush on his dad for several years; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay having left his wife and heavily wooing Ved as his one and only true love. Will things finally work out for Ved on his big day, one that he’s dreamt about all his life, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?
एक नवविवाहित जोड़ा अपने लिए एक मकान पसंद करने जाता है। लेकिन बर्फ़ीले तूफ़ान की वजह से वे उसी घर में फँसकर रह जाते हैं। उन्हें लगता है कि यह बस एक हादसा है। लेकिन जब उन्हें घर की मालकिन की पुराने टेप मिलते हैं, वे पाते हैं कि यह महज़ हादसा नहीं, बल्कि एक पहले से ही रचा षडयंत्र है। यहाँ बिताई दो रातों में हर लम्हा, हर घटनाक्रम उन्हें उस रहस्य के निकट ले जाता है जो कई लोगों की मौत से जुड़े हैं। यह एक ऐसा थ्रिलर है जो पाठक के दिमाग और दिल, दोनों को झकझोर देता है। यह डराता नहीं, बल्कि सोचने के ढंग को हिला देता है। झूठ मत बोलो एक मनोवैज्ञानिक सस्पेंस और क्लासिक हॉरर का ऐसा मिश्रण है, जो आख़िरी पन्ने तक साँसें थामे रखता है।
उसने बुलाया था रहस्य-रोमांच से भरपूर एक रोमांचक कथा है, जिसमें सच और झूठ की सीमा बार‑बार बदलती है। लगातार होती हत्याएँ, जिनमें न कोई गवाह, न हथियार, न सबूत। पुलिस के पास केवल अनुमान और असहायता है। साथ ही चलता है एक तनावपूर्ण कोर्टरूम ड्रामा, जहाँ हर सुनवाई में पुलिस चौंकाने वाले खुलासे करती है। मामला इतना अधिक उलझना शुरु होता है कि हत्या का एक अदद मामला पूरे देश का सबसे सनसनीखेज़ मामला बन जाता है। हर पेशी के साथ सामने आता है एक नया पीड़ित, एक नई हत्या और एक नया रहस्य। हालाँकि यह उपन्यास काल्पनिक है, लेकिन इसमें घुला दर्द वास्तविक है—हर उस लड़की का, जिसने उत्पीड़न सहा है और हर उस व्यक्ति का, जो किसी बेटी, बहन या पत्नी के दर्द को महसूस कर सकता है। सस्पेंस, थ्रिल और कोर्टरूम टेंशन से भरा यह उपन्यास पाठक को बाँधे रखता है।
‘काय हवं आहे?’
टोकियोच्या समंजस ग्रंथपाल हा प्रश्न विचारतात.
ग्रंथालयात येणारी प्रत्येक व्यक्ती कशाचा शोध घेत आहे, तिला नेमकं काय हवं आहे, हे सायूरी कोमाचीना न सांगता समजतं. आणि तिचा शोध सफल व्हावा, ह्यासाठी त्या योग्य पुस्तकाची शिफारस करतात.
अस्वस्थ विक्रेता साहाय्यकाला नवी कौशल्यं शिकायची आहेत. बाळंतपणाच्या रजेनंतर कामावर रुजू झालेली आई पदावनतीमुळं आलेल्या नैराश्यातून बाहेर पडायचा प्रयत्न करत आहे. प्रामाणिक लेखापालाला पुरातन वस्तूंचं दुकान उघडायची तळमळ आहे. अलीकडेच निवृत्त झालेला कर्मचारी आयुष्याचा नवा अर्थ शोधत आहे.
ह्या प्रत्येकाला कोमाचींनी सुचवलेल्या विलक्षण पुस्तकामध्ये आपली स्वप्नं साकार करण्याचे मार्ग सापडतात.
‘तुम्ही जे शोधत आहात, ते ग्रंथालयात मिळेल’ हे पुस्तक ग्रंथालयांची अद्भुत दुनिया आणि परस्परसंबंधांची जाणीव ह्याविषयी आहे. हृदयाची धडधड काय सांगते हे लक्षपूर्वक ऐकलं, समोरून आलेली संधी सोडली नाही आणि मनमोकळेपणानं बोललात, तर तुम्ही दीर्घकाळ पाहिलेली स्वप्नं साकार होतील असं सांगणाऱ्या प्रेरणादायी कहाण्या ह्या पुस्तकात वाचायला मिळतील.
A vivid collection of voices from Goa, Appetite: New Writing from Goa explores the tangled web of human desire in its various manifestations and the deeply rooted traditions that define (a form of) Goan identity today.
From stories of late-night feasts gone awry in bustling family living rooms, to poems that trace lustful longing and essays that reflect on diaspora and in-migration, each piece captures what it feels like to truly yearn. The anthology moves effortlessly between the intimate and the expansive, from the salty tang of the sea and the delicate twang of a rebec to the inner landscapes of complex characters wrestling with love, loss, sexuality and identity.
Rooted in the state’s history yet alive to its present, Appetite is a heartfelt tribute to Goa itself—its salt-washed shores, spice-laden air, delectable cuisine and the unquenchable appetite that pulses at the heart of the land and its people. The Goa Writers invite readers to savour not only the stories told, but the world that makes them possible.
A skilled plastic surgeon is like a master sculptor whose material is the human body. That’s the credo the protagonist of this novel, Dr Bheem Malik, lives by. Among his clientele are the who’s who of Manhattan, keen to submit themselves to the doctor’s knife for the sake of fuller lips, sleeker jawlines, bigger breasts.
Dr Malik has it all: a successful career as New York’s topmost plastic surgeon, a beautiful wife whose body he
has sculpted himself and a mother-in-law, Kasturi, who is a senator. But when his name surfaces in a MeToo scandal, Malik’s life is turned upside down. His career is at stake, and so is Kasturi’s future in American politics. In order to emerge from this crisis, both must revisit their past and rediscover the true meaning of love.
A Kannada novel mostly set in the United States, Kaayaa (which translates to ‘body’) touches upon various
contemporary themes, from sexuality and disease to politics and marriage, and lays bare characters who are torn between their real and imagined selves, each chasing after their own version of the American dream. A searingly honest rumination on the old metaphor about beauty being only skin-deep, this novel by the acclaimed Kannada writer Guruprasad Kaginele is a satirical masterpiece that doesn’t lose sight of the underlying tragedy of being human.
The Himalaya has always been a land of folklore, carried across generations in the voices of its people. Villagers by a bonfire, grandmothers at the hearth with grandchildren at their knees, wandering bards, fakirs and mystics have all shaped a vast oral tradition. This is a world where rivers sing, animals speak, demons and tricksters lurk, and gods walk among mortals. In Voices in the Wind, celebrated authors Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal gather this living inheritance from across the length and breadth of the mountains—Kashmir and Ladakh, Himachal and Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Bhutan, and the sister states of the Northeast—into a single, enchanting volume.
This collection of folktales, fairytales, spirit stories, legends and fables encompasses generational wisdom and contains within it traditional beliefs, local knowledge systems and a deep understanding of the contradictions of human nature. The tales span the spectrum of human and non-human experience: stories of lovers separated by fate and reunited by magic; of crows who nurture abandoned children; of serpent kings and shape-shifting brides; of feisty heroines, tricksters, and goddesses who challenge injustice; of the everyday courage and wit of villagers negotiating harsh but enchanted landscapes. Rooted in ecological memory, these narratives are also reminders of the delicate Himalayan balance between humans, animals, rivers and forests.
Enriched with traditional woodcut illustrations, the volume has contributions from a vast repertoire of scholars, storytellers and folklorists. This collection preserves and resonates with voices that have travelled centuries and continents, and speak urgently to the present. At once an anthology of marvels and a cultural history, Voices in the Wind is a definitive treasury of myth and memory, as enduring and transformative as the mountains themselves.
