इस पुस्तक में कमलेश्वर की दिल्ली में एक मौत तथा अन्य कहानियाँ दी गई हैं। इन तमाम कहानियों में कस्बाई, नगरीय एवं महानगरीय जीवन की तमाम गतिविधियों, लोगों के सहज मनोविज्ञान को देखा जा सकता है। कमलेश्वर मूलत: मैनपुरी (उत्तरप्रदेश) में जन्में होने के कारण और बाद में नौकरी के सिलसिले में दिल्ली-बंबई में रहने से उनकी कहानियों में कस्बाई जीवन का चित्रण अधिक है।
Catagory: Literature & Fiction
Antim Safar/अंतिम सफ़र
अंतिम सफर कमलेश्वर का अंतिम एवं कालजयी उपन्यास है, जिस पर वे फिल्म बनाना चाहते थे। लेकिन उनके असामयिक निधन के कारण यह कृति सिल्वर स्क्रीन पर साकार न हो सकी। यह न केवल इंदिरा गांधी के जीवन पर एक उत्कृष्ट उपन्यास है, वरन स्वतंत्र भारत के इतिहास के कुछ स्वर्णिम पन्ने भी इसमें हैं। यह भारतीय इतिहास के एक ऐसे युग की कहानी है, जो हमेशा याद किया जाएगा। उपन्यास की भाषा अत्यंत सरल एवं आम बोलचाल की भाषा है।
Ek Din Mathura Mein Tatha Anya Kahaniyan/एक दिन मथुरा में तथा अन्य कहानियाँ
नरेन्द्र कोहली एक ऐसा नाम है, जिन्होंने लाखों पाठकों के बीच अपनी लोकप्रिय छवि बनाई और प्रसिद्धी के शिखर छुए। उनकी उपन्यास शृंखलाएँ इसका उदाहरण हैं। उन्होंने कई विधाओं में लिखा, तो बच्चों और किशोरों के लिए भी ढेरों कहानियाँ लिखीं। इस संग्रह में उनकी ‘एक दिन मथुरा में’ तथा अन्य कहानियाँ दी गई हैं। सभी कहानियाँ अत्यंत हृदयस्पर्शी, रोचक एवं प्रेरणाप्रद हैं। परन्तु ये कहानियाँ महज उपदेश देने के लिए नहीं हैं, बल्कि इनमें उद्देश्य सामने रखा गया है, ताकि नई पीढ़ी की यह ख़ुशनुमा फसल कुछ सीख सके, कुछ बन सके।
Roothi Rani/रूठी रानी
जिस देश की संस्कृति अपना इतिहास भूल जाती है, वह देश दुनिया के नक्शे से हमेशा के लिए नष्ट हो जाता है। जब-जब भारत अपना इतिहास भूला, तब–तब पराधीन होता चला गया, लेकिन जब इस देश के समाज सुधारकों, चिंतकों और साहित्यकारों ने लोगों को भारत के गौरवशाली इतिहास से अवगत कराया, तो तब देश न केवल स्वतंत्र हुआ वरन नव निर्माण के साथ उन्नति के शिखर को छूने के निकट जा पहुंचा। आचार्य चतुरसेन ऐसे ही लेखक थे, उन्होंने अपनी इस पुस्तक में रूठी रानी समेत इतिहास की कई अन्य वीरांगनाओं एवं वीरों का कहानी के माध्यम से अदभुत चित्रण किया है।
Slow Burn
Rishi Tripathi has failed as an actor. When an important audition doesn’t go as planned, rage consumes him and he punches a mirror. But instead of getting hurt, he slips right through and arrives in the Mumbai of his dreams.
In this inverted city, Rishi is a superstar, a critically acclaimed darling. Success kisses his feet, and producers flock at his doors. But success, too, comes at a cost, and behind the twinkling arc lights of showbiz is chaos and a sinister scheme. When this dark reality catches up with him, he wants to leave this new Mumbai right away.
But is Rishi truly ready to go back to the life he left? Is he ready to go back to being a failure? And will
fate stand in the way of his return?
Mistress of Honour
When Potnis, a captain in the Indian Army, meets Pansy during Operation Blue Star, he knows he has found the love of his life. Their passionate romance leads them to the altar and blossoms into a beautiful child, Rihana.
Decades later, history repeats itself with Rihana: Advik, an Air Force pilot, catapults into her heart, as smoothly as he conquers the skies. Where will their unbridled love lead them? Will Rihanna remain a mistress to Advik, for whom the love for his country comes first, or will she be able to make a place in his heart that is second to none?
This heart-breaking saga of love, courage, sacrifice, and a soldier’s constant conflict between home and duty, will leave you asking for more.
Scent of the Nameless
Scent of the Nameless traces the quiet unravelling of an ordinary life in urban India.
An unnamed middle-class office clerk lives with his wife and young daughter in a modest Mumbai apartment, leading a life of contented monotony—until a credit card unleashes desires he never knew existed. What begins as convenience becomes compulsion, then catastrophe. Debt seeps into everything: his relationships, his dignity, even his sense of self. As his humiliation deepens, the unseen machinery of markets, power and privilege tightens its grip around him.
Blending satire with hallucinatory lyricism and psychological tension, this novel by Geet Chaturvedi, in Anita Gopalan’s translation, is a piercing meditation on modern capitalism and the insidious violence of economic inequality. Written with restraint and moral precision, it stands in quiet kinship with J.M. Coetzee, W.G. Sebald and Thomas Bernhard.
The Loom Of Time
Kalidasa is the greatest poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature and one of the greatest in world literature. Kalidasa is said to have lived and composed his work at the close of the first millennium BC though his dates have not been conclusively established. In all, seven of his works have survived: three plays, three long poems and an incomplete epic. Of these, this volume offers, in a brilliant new translation, his two most famous works-the play Sakuntala, a beautiful blend of romance and fairy tale with elements of comedy; and Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), the many-layered poem of longing and separation. Also included is Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons), a much-neglected poem that celebrates the fulfillment of love and deserves to be known better. Taken together, these works provide a window to the remarkable world and work of a poet of whom it was said: ‘Once, when poets were counted, Kalidasa occupied the little finger; the ring finger remains unnamed true to its name; for his second has not been found.’
Mumbai Marathon
Once a year, the Mumbai Marathon passes by Silverline Apartments.
This year, seven more women are racing to the finish.
Set in the heart of the city, Mumbai Marathon follows the complicated lives of seven women. An actress who will risk everything for a billboard. A psychiatrist who cannot outrun her own past. A maid who sells her grief to survive. A widow who mourns strangers. A socialite left behind by the spotlight. A woman who learns that motherhood can arrive without birth. And a rich girl who wants to matter.
Each stands between what was and what comes next, stumbling forward without spectacle or applause. Because for women, stopping is not an option.
Aarambhh M Singh’s Mumbai Marathon is a finely observed novel about identity, ambition, and desire. It is not a story of victory, but of motion—of lives lived in the long, ordinary middle. A quiet, compelling read that stays with you long after the pages stop turning.
The Hawk’s Quest
In this incredible retelling of the Mahabharata, Shakuni is no longer the villain history remembers, but a man forged in the fires of familial massacre. A wily strategist, yes; but also Shakuni the King, the brother, the son, the husband, and the father. The Hawk’s Quest is a gripping narrative of the single-minded execution of a vow of revenge. But it is not one born of malice, rather of a desperate need to reclaim the stolen dignity of lineage revealing the raw humanity beneath the strategist’s mask.