What affirms our humanity, enduring beyond our barbarism? Where is home, in a world beleaguered by climate crisis, pandemic and genocide? Hunchprose is Ranjit Hoskote’s fierce, poignant testament to these urgencies.
The title of this dazzling new collection asserts poetry’s claim to be heard above the buzz of data, to transform language, broken by history, into music. Vibrant with linguistic experiment, Hunchprose weaves unpredictable patterns, celebrates our plural selves. In the erasure of ancient scripts, the melting Arctic ice, a lion tamer’s primal fear, we recognize vulnerability and rupture. A dancer’s courage, a leather worker’s revolutionary promise, a locksmith’s passion for ruins inspire us to redeem ourselves through love, doubt, hope and dream.
Infused with wry humour, informed by the wisdom traditions, Hunchprose urges us to look at our world, and within ourselves, with renewed ardour.
Offering a unique expression of thought reflecting feeling more than meaning, Grains of Stardust is a synesthetic stream of consciousness that does not distinguish between journey and destination, but meanders unchecked upon the river of human emotion.
‘Read my poetry out loud
Breathe it in
and taste the letters pour out.
A delicious sound.
Do you hear the colours take form?
Feel the pages move you
as you float in space
make some space
Open your mind
and get inside
and see all that
shimmering
marmalade liquid.
Grains of stardust‘
What if you ran away from your life today?
Twenty years later, three people are looking for you.
One is dying to meet you again.
The other wishes you had never met them.
The third wishes they could have met you at least once.
You are one person. Aren’t you? But you are not the same person to each of them.
Find the answers about your own life in this story about searching for love and discovering yourself. Join a broken but rising YouTube star Alara, a struggling but hopeful stand-up comedian Aarav, and a zany but zen beach shack owner Ricky. Together, take the journey to seek the truth behind the famous singer Elisha’s disappearance somewhere by the deep sea in Goa.
Will you be able to find Elisha? Or will you end up finding yourself?
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati’s
Jugalbandi provides this backstory to his current dominance in Indian politics. It
begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced
elections in the 1920s, moves on to the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) in 1980, and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004.
And it follows this journey through the entangled lives of its founding jugalbandi:
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani.
Over their six-decade-long relationship, Vajpayee and Advani worked as a team
despite differences in personality and beliefs. What kept them together was
fraternal love and professional synergy, of course, but also, above all, an
ideology that stressed on unity. Their partnership explains what the BJP before
Modi was, and why it won.
In supporting roles are a cast of characters-from the warden’s wife who made
room for Vajpayee in her family to the billionaire grandson of Pakistan’s founder
who happened to be a major early funder of the BJP. Based on private papers,
party documents, newspapers and over two hundred interviews, this is a mustread
for those interested in the ideology that now rules India.
A thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world’s most
recognizable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking,
multiculturalism, and activism.
“I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and
its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two Indias,
and, just as much, of East and West.” Unfinished takes readers from Priyanka’s
childhood in India, where she was raised by her grandparents and her parentstwo
army doctors committed not only to their children but to their careers and to
philanthropy-before being sent away to boarding school at an early age; through
her formative teenage years in the U.S. living with extended family in the
Midwest (Cedar Rapids and Indianapolis), Queens, and suburban Boston, where
she endured bouts of racism; to her return to India, where she unexpectedly won
the national and global beauty pageants (Miss India and Miss World) that
launched her acting career. Readers looking for a glimpse into what it takes to
succeed in the massive Indian film industry will find it here, and they’ll also find
an honest account of the challenges Priyanka faced navigating her career, both
in India and Hollywood. The result is a book that is warm, funny, sassy,
inspiring, bold, and rebellious. Just like Priyanka herself.
From her dual-continent twenty-year-long career as an actor and producer to her
work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, from losing her beloved father to
cancer to marrying Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s story will inspire a
generation around the world to gather their courage, embrace their ambition, and
commit to the hard work of following their dreams.
Vikas Gupta’s business was swindle (thagi) whom he always performed with all success so beautifully. What is his connection with murder? But that connection somehow emerged and silently gripped him when he became a witness of a murder.
By giving the title of Glamor Boy to Sunil, citing bias in his unlikely success, Inspector Prabhudayal demanded an independent investigation of the case. As a result, he had an intriguing, spider-webs-like complex story of double-murder which was the challenge of his creator for him.
Police Inspector Ravi Sharma took a lesson from his training, not to trust; and his lesson overshadowed by him. And in the process to fathom a serious crime like murder, he entangled in a trap and reached the plank of the hanging!
To know why and how, do read, Biwi ka Hatyara.
Moti Avatarmani was told by his father, Gopal Yashwantrai Avatarmani, about a pair of precious white shoes in his childhood in which he hid diamonds. On the night of Diwali, on the very day his father left him forever, he was wearing that white shoes. Someone said that because he had embezzled, he was hiding somewhere, and someone said he had died long ago.
-Where did Gopal Yashwant Avtarmani disappeared?
– Was he alive or dead?
Only Surendra Mohan Pathak’s novel, Ek Karod Ka Joota, can answer such mysterious questions.
The brother of Sahil Sarin was in jail. He was a drug smuggler, a debtor to a drug mafia, and his death in prison at the hands of drug mafia executioners was certain under the condition of not repaying the debts. The only way to save his brother’s life was in front of Sahil Sarin that he would take his brother’s wrong occupation.
He chose his wrong path to save his brother, but there was something else in his mind, but what else did he want? The tussle between police, Sahil and drug mafias takes the story of this novel to a new turning point, but at what point? Ek Hi Rasta is a very interesting, brilliant thriller, which has a specialty of gripping to read and finish it in one sitting.
