टाइम स्टॉप्स एट शामली एक पुस्तक है जिसे भारतीय लेखक रस्किन बॉण्ड ने लिखी है। यह पुस्तक भारत के छोटे-से कस्बे शामली और पहाड़ियों के आसपास बसे गाँवों, कस्बों और नगरों में घटित घटनाओं पर आधारित है। इस पुस्तक में समय का महत्त्वपूर्ण रोल है, जैसे कि गाँव में कुछ अजीब घटनाएँ होती हैं और उन घटनाओं को एक अलग नज़रिये से देखा जाता है। पुस्तक की कहानियों में वास्तविकता का अद्वितीय रूप दिखता है और पढ़ने वालों को अपने प्रेम और समृद्ध भारतीय संस्कृति के साथ जुड़ने का मौका देते हैं। यह पुस्तक रस्किन बॉण्ड की कल्पना और व्यक्तिगत अनुभव का एक प्रिय उदाहरण है।
Catagory: Fiction
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Main Jadoo Hoon Chal Jaunga/मैं जादू हूँ चल जाऊँगा
‘वो तदबीरें नहीं होतीं. . .’
आनंद बक्शी की लिखी सबसे पहली कविता की यह प्रथम पंक्ति है और इसके बाद गीत-संगीत में ही अपना करियर बनाने के लिए ज़िंदगी की जद्दोजेहद, काम और निजी जीवन में हर जगह कविताओं के ही दर्शन होने लगे और काव्य भी ऐसा कि उनका रास्ता आसान बनाते चले गए। आनंद बक्शी साहब यह जानते थे कि प्रेम के बिना ज़िंदगी बेरंग और बेनूर होती है, इसलिए उन्होंने अपने अधिकांश गीतों में प्रेम का पैगाम दिया है।इस काव्य संकलन में प्रकाशित बक्शी साहब के गीतों, कविताओं, ग़ज़लों इत्यादि सभी में प्रेम के इंद्रधनुषी रंग मौजूद हैं। आनंद बक्शी साहब ने अपनी इन कविताओं के द्वारा लोगों के जीवन की अमावस रातों को चाँदनी रातों में तब्दील करने की भरपूर कोशिश की है। यह काव्य संग्रह जीवन में पलायन करने की बजाय साहसी बनकर मुकाबला करने और जीतने की प्रेरणा देने में सक्षम है।
Summer of Then
A young English literature teacher negotiates between her writing and her livelihood, her morality and her heart, her selfhood and her family’s history. She moves between cities, seasons and two men: Nikhil and Zafar—their lives getting entangled across a decade of restlessness and upheavals, their paths defined by questions of identity, desire and betrayals.
Summer of Then is a debut novel that relishes the interiority of women, especially the often-unsettling intimacies of relationships—sexual, romantic and platonic—against the trauma of sexual assault and harassment. Set across Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai and Edinburgh, Scotland, this coming-of-age novel crosses paths with the India of the 2010s, exploring the trickle-down effect of politics on the academia and college life in Indian metropolitan cities, leading us just to the point of the incipient anxieties and beginnings of the next decade.
In the vein of Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Summer of Then employs a sparse yet deeply compelling voice and introspective, observational commentary to evoke precise emotional and social detail.
Four Fingers and Fifteen Nails
Four Fingers and Fifteen Nails is a collection of seventeen stories that provides a vivid portrait of the various elements and importance of chance in life. It explores not only different facets of life but its fickleness as well.
This book is like a box of assorted chocolates; you never know what you are going to come across in the next page! In this cocktail of stories, losers will turn into millionaires overnight, criminals will turn out to be the people you could have never imagined, and some will be blinded by the desire for money, women, and immeasurable power. Each story has a lesson deeply engraved in it. These tales incorporate the element of destiny, the ambivalence of life, and—in some—mysticism as well. The twists and turns in the stories make for a nail-biting read!
Characterised by strong plots, Four Fingers and Fifteen Nails will keep you on the edge of the bed and surprise you with flabbergasting revelations you would have never expected in your wildest dreams!
The Politician Redux
Ram Mohan, an ambitious man in newly independent India, refuses to let his humble origins define him. On a mission to build a political career, he realizes that the only way to live a respectable life is to hold some kind of power.
When the Congress high command vetoes Ram Mohan’s inclusion in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet, Saansad-ji, the state’s chief minister, appoints him as member, UP Public Service Commission, Allahabad. Though non-political, the position has a high social status, and Ram Mohan quickly takes a shine to it. Meanwhile, the JP movement continues to challenge the Congress regime, surging through large parts of India and setting the stage for Indira Gandhi’s downfall.
A sequel to the critically acclaimed The Politician, this new novel, set in the 1970s to 1980s north India, provides a captivating, vivid view of the political battles of that era, and captures the spirit, manners and social conditions of a transformational phase in Indian history.
Sanatan (Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2024)
Sanatan is the gut-wrenching story of Bhimnak Mahar and his ilk, who have been subjected to barbaric abuse and inhuman discrimination by the upper castes over centuries. The story begins with the young Bhimnak in pre-Independence India. It then traverses time and geographical boundaries to end with Bhimnak’s grandson. The circular narrative pattern is reflective of the endless cycle of pain that the Mahars are unable to break free from, no matter how hard they try, no matter where they go, no matter if they change their identity and religion. Using myths, the Puranas and historical texts as resources, Sharankumar Limbale rewrites Dalit history in this novel as he attempts to tell the truth, with an intention to build what he calls ‘a new and progressive social order’. Limbale not just brings his reader face to face with uncomfortable realities, he also suggests what could be an alternative social order in the future.
Aameen/आमीन
बाज़ारवादी युग में दरकते इन्सानी रिश्तों पर लिखी आलोक की ग़ज़लें उनके निजी अनुभवों का आईना हैं। ‘आमीन’ की कई रचनाओं में सामाजिक सरोकार के सबूत मिले जिसने आलोक को सहज ही बेदार और प्रगतिशील कवियों की क़तार में ला खड़ा किया—वह क़तार जो हिंदी ग़ज़ल और उर्दू ग़ज़ल की ख़ेमेबंदी से परे सिर्फ़ और सिर्फ़ ग़ज़ल की हिफ़ाज़त कर रही है।
‘आमीन’ के प्रथम संस्करण की भूमिका शीर्ष लेखक कमलेश्वर ने लिखी जो किसी पुस्तक पर उनकी अंतिम भूमिका के रूप में याद की जाती है और मशहूर शायर-फ़िल्मकार गुलज़ार के पेशलफ़्ज़ ने इस पर एक मुकम्मल संग्रह होने की मुहर लगाई। दो भाषाओं का पुल बनाने वाले एक नौजवान के पहले संग्रह पर हिंदी और उर्दू के दो शिखर क़लमकारों के शब्द इस बात की गवाही बने कि आलोक ने अपना अदबी इम्तेहान पूरी संजीदगी और तैयारी से दिया है जो बहुत हद तक सही साबित हुई; वहीं दूसरे संस्करण की भूमिका डॉ नामवर सिंह ने लिखी, इस शुभकामना के साथ कि ये रचनाएँ और दूर तक पहुँचे। आमीन!
The Hidden Hindu 1
Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged Aghori, Om Shastri, who was captured and transported to a high-tech facility on an isolated Indian island. When the Aghori was drugged and hypnotized for interrogation by a team of specialists, he claimed to have witnessed
all four yugas (the epochs in Hinduism) and participated in the events of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Om’s revelations of his incredible past that defied the laws of mortality left everyone baffled.
The team also discovered that Om was in search of other immortals from every yuga.
These bizarre secrets, if revealed, could shake up ancient beliefs and alter the course of the
future. So, who is Om Shastri?
Why was he captured? Why is Prithvi looking
for him?
Board the boat of Om Shastri’s secrets,
Prithvi’s pursuit and the adventures of other
enigmatic immortals of Hindu mythology in
this exciting journey.
The Spoiled Heart
The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room.
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn’t quite know why.
He hasn’t risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son, and he’s now running for the leadership against accomplished newcomer, Megha. It’s a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to Helen, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.
A magnificent and multi-layered account of one man’s inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is an explosively contemporary story of secrets and assumptions whose consequences could never have been imagined. It is a stunning achievement from one of our very finest novelists.
Remember Me As Yours: They Went to Look for Love. They Found Life
Nityami Thakur hails from Bhopal and only has a simple request from life: that she get a man who loves her as unconditionally and loyally as she would. But her pursuit of this simple wish has landed her on a journey where every man she meets only punctures her confidence, convincing her that perhaps she is not good for anybody. Sick and tired of window-shopping for Mr Right, Nityami gets to know that her first love from school is somewhere in Sikkim. And that he has recently broken up. With renewed hope and the desire to take a break from her messy present, Nityami decides to take a road trip to Sikkim.
Falak Sultana hails from New Delhi and is a born fighter. Coming from a broken home with an abusive father, she worked hard to not only set up her own small food delivery service but, unbeknownst to her family, to also pursue an MBA, aspiring to bigger life goals. Her only friend is her stepmother, who is her age. Just when Falak thinks her life is finally aligning with her dreams, she ends up doing something drastic, which makes her run for her life. And she reaches Sikkim.
When the two girls find themselves, coincidentally, in the same cab, they feel the company would be good for the road trip ahead. But little do they know whom destiny has kept in store for them. Someone who had changed their lives when they had first met, and will once again alter their lives.
Remember Me As Yours is as much a fast-reading romantic comedy, as it is a poignant coming-of-age tale of two girls who find themselves singled out by society and are desperate to make sense of their personal losses.