A big-hearted tale of true love, second chances and one grand wedding
Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in the city. After three years of living together, they are now ready to take the next step—a big fat Indian wedding. But as he begins to share the good news with his family and start the preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his divorced mother is blissfully smitten with a younger man who is pulling out all the stops; a long-buried secret from his father’s past catches up to him; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay is back and wants to be a part of his life. Will things finally work out for Ved? Especially, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?
Told with humour, warmth and a lot of heart, Queerly Beloved is a sparkling romcom about love in all its messy, complicated glory.
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.
1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rapidly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians—permitted to cross borders that white men may not—to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet.
Balram is one such surveyor-spy, an Indian schoolteacher who, for several years, has worked for the British, often alongside his dearest friend, Gyan. But Gyan went missing on his last expedition and is rumored to be imprisoned within Tibet. Desperate to rescue his friend, Balram agrees to guide an English captain on a foolhardy mission: After years of paying others to do the exploring, the captain, disguised as a monk, wants to personally chart a river that runs through southern Tibet. Their path will cross fatefully with that of another Westerner in disguise, fifty-year-old Katherine. Denied a fellowship in the all-male Royal Geographical Society in London, she intends to be the first European woman to reach Lhasa.
As Balram and Katherine make their way into Tibet, they will face storms and bandits, snow leopards and soldiers, fevers and frostbite. What’s more, they will have to battle their own doubts, ambitions, grief, and pasts in order to survive the treacherous landscape.
A polyphonic novel about the various ways humans try to leave a mark on the world—from the enduring nature of family and friendship to the egomania and obsessions of the colonial enterprise—The Last of Earth confirms Deepa Anappara as one of our greatest and most ambitious storytellers.
सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग की मोहक गलियों में रची-बसी यह कहानी एक ऐसे युवा ड्रीमर की है, जो गर्मियों की लंबी, उजली रातों में शहर की सुनसान सड़कों पर भटकता है। एक ऐसी ही रात में उसकी मुलाकात होती है नास्तेंका से— मासूमियत और सौंदर्य की प्रतीक उस लड़की से, जो अनजाने ही उसके हृदय में गहराई तक उतर जाती है।
चार रातों तक वे मिलते हैं—अपने विचारों, भावनाओं और सपनों को साझा करते हुए। लेकिन जैसे ही उसका दिल इस नए रिश्ते में सुकून पाने लगता है, उसे पता चलता है कि नास्तेंका किसी और से प्रेम करती है — उस व्यक्ति से जो उसे लौट आने का वादा कर गया है। फिर भी, दोनों के बीच एक अदृश्य आकर्षण है, एक अधूरी चाह जो उन्हें जोड़ती है।
व्हाइट नाइट्स यानी उजली रातें मानव संबंधों की सुंदरता और उनकी नाज़ुकता का एक कालातीत प्रमाण है। फ़्योदोर दोस्तोएव्स्की अपनी बेमिसाल लेखनी के माध्यम से अपने पात्रों की भावनात्मक गहराई को ऐसे चित्रित करते हैं कि पाठक दो अजनबियों की उस अंतरंग दुनिया में प्रवेश करता है, जिनकी ज़िंदगियाँ कुछ क्षणों के लिए एक-दूसरे से जुड़ती हैं।
व्हाइट नाइट्स फेस्टिवल रूस के सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग में गर्मियों के दौरान होने वाला एक अंतरराष्ट्रीय सांस्कृतिक उत्सव है, जब रातें भी दिन जैसी उजली रहती हैं। इसमें बैले, ओपेरा, संगीत कार्यक्रम, आतिशबाज़ी और नेवा नदी पर नाव परेड शामिल होती हैं। यह त्योहार कला, रोशनी और शहर की जीवंतता का अनोखा संगम है।
This exquisite box set brings together three internationally acclaimed works by Han Kang, one of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary writers. With profound psychological depth, poetic minimalism, and unflinching moral insight, Han Kang explores the limits of the human body, mind, and empathy.
Perfect for readers of literary fiction, world literature, and Booker Prize enthusiasts, this set offers a complete introduction to the author whose voice transcends language and culture.
The Vegetarian Winner of the Man Booker International Prize, 2016 Yeong-hye’s quiet decision to stop eating meat spirals into an act of shocking rebellion and self-destruction, revealing dark truths about desire, control, and the human psyche.
Human Acts Winner of the Manhae Literary Award (Korea), Korean Novel of the Year Set against the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, Human Acts tells the interconnected stories of victims and survivors of political violence, asking how humanity endures in the face of horror.
The White Book Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, 2018 A meditation on loss, memory, and rebirth, The White Book unfolds through reflections on the color white — mourning, purity, and transformation — inspired by the author’s lost sibling.
