They think they’re invincible. After seventeen very ordinary years of life in small-town America, Amit Pillai suddenly finds himself on a red-eye flight to Kerala. An NRI, he is forced to join the posh Ananthapuri International School, the only school in town that accepts ‘soft boys’ like him. But this Kerala is faux Americana where it’s all loud music and lined pockets, and there is never enough time to stop and look around. Amit quickly discovers that life here is anything but soft. Struggling with love and identity, he is never quite sure where to draw the line, when his fragile existence at school is rocked by a series of shocking events. What have they done? What are the consequences? And can they live with them? A roller-coaster ride through the real-time experiences of an Indian teenager, Wicked Games is contemporary school life told like never before.
Catagory: Romance
Strangers on the Roof
‘Startlingly avant garde in its form, as well as its content’-Business Standard
Samar, a young scholar, is married to Prabha against his will. Ego and frustration combine to make him refuse to say even a single word to his wife on the day of the marriage. They live thus, without speaking, for nearly a year. Until one moment when their suppressed emotions burst through, and lead to a passionate reconciliation. Funny, affectionate and hard hitting, this is one of the most unique love stories in Indian writing. ‘The first Hindi work which attempted to jolt the fabled Bharatiya Sanskriti (Indian culture) out of its smug stupor’-Countercurrents
‘The enfant terrible of Hindi literature’-Tehelka
The House of Wives
Calcutta, 1841. Emanuel, an ambitious Jewish merchant, wants to make his fortune by trading opium with China. Over the ensuing decades, Emanuel’s success will be determined by two remarkable women: Semah, his dutiful first wife in Calcutta whose dowry funds the mercenary expedition to Hong Kong; and Pearl, the beautiful Chinese girl whom he falls in love with. Despite the open hostility between the two women, Emanuel insists that they must all live together in his Hong Kong mansion that locals call the House of Wives.
Brimming with intrigue and adventure, and written with astounding flair, The House of Wives is a dramatic and poignant tale of love, ambition, friendship and family inspired by the true story of the author’s great-grandfather.
Chander and Sudha
In the idyllic university town, young women daydreamed as they lay on the grass and gazed up at the clouds. Young men took morning walks at Alfred Park. Hot summer afternoons were for drinking sherbet and eating watermelons, and evenings were meant for reading poetry. It was also a time of stifling social mores, and love was an unattainable ideal seldom realized. Allahabad of the 1940s is the serene backdrop to the turbulence of Chander s love for his professor s daughter Sudha. Driven by his passionate belief in the transcending purity of their love, Chander persuades Sudha to marry another man, to devastating consequences. Unhinged by his separation from Sudha and consumed by a restless desire to make sense of love Is it really about sex? Is the purity of love a lie? Chander spirals into a destructive affair with the seductive Pammi. Immensely popular since its publication more half a century ago, Chander & Sudha continues to seduce readers with its potent mix of tender passion and heartbreaking tragedy.
The Chieftain’s Daughter
Inspired by the romances of Walter Scott, Durgeshnandini is a swashbuckling historical epic set in Bengal during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the sixteenth century.
Best Loved Stories Edited by Ravinder Singh (Box-Set)
Love Stories that Touched my Heart: Love is a feeling that can’t simply be defined. It has to be narrated . . . in the form of stories-love stories. Selected and edited by Ravinder Singh, this anthology-made up of stories that touched Ravin’s heart the most-will make you believe that someone, somewhere, is made for you.
Tell Me a Story: There is always a story that changed your life. And that is the time when life happened for you! Tell Me a Story is a collection of such heart-warming stories that left an indelible mark on the lives of its writers. Edited by Ravinder Singh, this anthology is about the moments that make life worth living.
The Best of Sudeep Nagarkar
From break-ups to make-ups, from friendship to affection, from infatuation to love, these five beautifully crafted love stories explore a range of complex human behaviours and emotions. Written by bestselling author Sudeep Nagarkar, they will not only warm your heart but also make you believe in love like never before.
The Love Connection
Ravinder Singh’s I Too Had a Love Story is for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .
Durjoy Datta’s Our Impossible Love presents life the way it is and love the way it should be.
See love from a completely different angle with Sudeep Nagarkar’s It Started with a Friend Request.
The Boy You’ve Loved Reading About Box Set
Raghu pretends that there is nothing remarkable about his life even as he hides a dark secret. At the same time, he feels drawn to the fascinating Brahmi-a girl quite like him, yet so different. No matter how hard Raghu tries, he begins to care… Then life throws him into the deep end and he has to face his worst fears. Will love be strong enough to pull him out?
On a fateful night, two years ago, Raghu couldn’t save his first love, Brahmi. Another blow to his heart that he must hide from the world, but the annoying and persistent Advaita just won’t let him be. She wants to love him back to life but she must find out what wrecked him in the first place.
Facing the Mirror
A groundbreaking book where lesbians found their voice for the first time
For decades, most lesbians in India did not know the extent of their presence in the country: networks barely existed and the love they had for other women was a shameful secret to be buried deep within the heart. In Facing the Mirror, Ashwini Sukthankar collected hidden, forgotten, distorted, triumphant stories from across India, revealing the richness and diversity of the lesbian experience for the first time. Going back as far as the 1960s and through the forms of fiction and poetry, essays and personal history, this rare collection mapped a hitherto unknown trajectory.
In celebration of the Supreme Court’s reading down of the draconian Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, this twentieth-anniversary edition, with a foreword by author and activist Shals Mahajan, brings to readers a remarkable history that illuminates the blood and the tears, the beauty and the magic of the queer movement in India. The raw anger and passion in them still alive, the writings in Facing the Mirror proudly proclaim the courage, the sensuality, the humour and the vulnerability of being lesbian.