When Ashwin, a wealthy Delhi boy, meets Lallan, a struggling student from Patna looking to make his fortune, their friendship, with their mutual love for the almond-eyed Mallika, seems to transcend the fault lines of class and privilege.
But one night at a party, a fateful incident leads their worlds to unravel with consequences that change both their lives forever, and expose the deep turmoil inherent in the frenetic energy of the new, aspiring India.
An audacious debut, Fire Under Ash marks the arrival of Indian fiction’s latest star, who takes a coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, writing the city as we’ve never read it before.
When Jay Huskee—the grand patriarch of the Huskee clan—falls out of a window and goes missing, he sets off a sequence of events that results in one of the biggest political showdowns in the history of the country of Gyaandostaan.
In his absence, his grandson Paul must now stake claim to what is rightfully his. Backed by an ebullient ‘crack’ team, Paul must now confront his greatest fears—including talking to girls—to rescue his people from an oppressive regime.
Riotous and riveting, Netagiri takes a satirical look at a power-obsessed society by India’s original funnyman.
You didn’t think it was going to be easy, did you?
To move on
To break up
To find someone else . . .
Molested in a nightclub, Aastha is left shaken and reeling. Thankfully, her best friend, Sameer, is a source of constant support, but he’s already in a rocky long-distance relationship with Karuna. Their friends Padmini and Rahul love each other, yet forever seem to be on the verge of breaking up. And as life takes its own course, each of them begins to grapple with their own issues.
Where and with whom will they end up? And where will their relationships finally take them?
Simply Complicated is a glimpse of life as it is-with a few good laughs and dozens of knotty problems.
In Mumbai, driven to its knees by a merciless blizzard, Saam the watchmender is cornered into an intolerable position. As Shiva’s only earthly demigod child, it falls upon him to stop his indomitable father.
Bred to war, son of destruction, Saam rides with six extraordinary companions into the horror of a crumbling world to face Shiva. He is forced to join hands with Ara, his half-brother he can never fully trust, and take with him his own mortal beloved, Maya, on this desperate attempt to stop the End of Days. But his path is littered with death, danger and betrayal.
Interweaving mythology, epic adventure and vintage heroism, this enthralling novel will change the way you see gods, heroes and demons.
Neelam’s hysterectomy at thirty hastens her into a sexless middle age and changes her relationship with her husband Ari. Their marriage remains stagnant until an unexpected telegram announces the visit of Ari’s ex-girlfriend Esha. By coincidence, their college professor Mahanam also arrives at their doorstep bearing an uncanny resemblance to Ari’s daughter. Events conspire to send all of them on a trip to Ajanta and Ellora where ancient stories spark memories of lost love and betrayal. Both deeply philosophical and playfully dramatic, The Fifth Man is a bittersweet meditation on middle-age desire.
Nem is a student of English literature at Delhi University. He drifts between classes, weed-hazy parties, and the amorous complexities of campus life, until a chance encounter with an art historian steers him into a world of pleasure and artistic discovery. Nem’s life is irrevocably transformed. One day, without warning, his mentor disappears.
In the years that follow, Nem cocoons himself in South Delhi, writing for a chic cultural journal. When he is awarded a fellowship to London, a cryptic note plunges him into a search for the art historian—a search which turns into a reckoning with his past.
Retelling the myth of Poseidon and his youthful male devotee Pelops, Seahorse transforms a simple coming-of-age story into an epic drama of loss, love,
and healing.
Simran Kaur Banga-a quiet, reserved girl living with her conservative Sikh family in Southall, London-is a poet at heart. But a brutal rape and rejection by her own family lands her in Amritsar where amidst strangers begins her nightmare of loneliness. Then one day she finds a friend-or so it seems to her.
Unknowingly, however, she’s become privy to an extreme terror plot.
Accompanied by Captain Suvir, she starts her battle to quell the storm that is brewing in the by-lanes of Punjab, of drugs and dera god-men.
Blood Song is a coming-of-age story of a woman scorned.
Love happens when you least expect it…
Sameer is a Steve Jobs fan, a consultant at an investment bank, and a confused soul looking for love. As he moves cities to study and work, he falls in and out of love, but fails to find the one person who belongs with him. In comes Shagun, whom he marries. But he leaves the very next day for Switzerland…to start a dream
Job. In the meantime, Shagun starts reading his diary! What does she find in there? Will this spell the end of their marriage? With Sameer not around to defend himself, what is the future of their relationship?
Just the Way You Are is a humorous, heart-warming story about one man’s quest for true love.
Rushabh Shah, 26, simple – hearted gujurati guy who’s done nothing extraordinary in his life besides loving his girlfriend Mahek Chopra with complete loyalty n sincerity ! He has only 1 Problem: he’s confused about everything! Still he manages taking the 1st decision of his life & proposes marriage to Mahek, who happily says YES! The families r happy, the couple r more than happy but that’s when — The madness begins ! 3 weeks left for his marriage …. 15 byrs of love at risk …. Rushabh’s gonna f**k up everythin! How?
On his way from Tangiers to China, the medieval Moorish traveller Ibn Battuta arrives in Konya, Turkey where the legendary dervish Rumi had lived, danced and died. More than half a century may have passed since his death, but his poetry remains alive, inscribed in every stone and tree and pathway.
Rumi’s followers entrust Ibn Battuta with a manuscript of his life stories to spread word of the mystic on his travels. As Battuta reads and recites these tales, his listeners discover their own lives reflected in these stories—fate has bound them, and perhaps you, to Rumi.
A Mirrored Life reaffirms the magical powers of storytelling, making us find Rumi in each of our hearts.
