आधी-अधूरी ख़्वाहिशों की दास्तान है ज़िंदगी, मुकम्मल जहान तो बस कहानियों में हासिल है . . ऐसी ही एक अधूरी दास्तान बंद लबों में पिरोए फिरती है माहिरा और मनन की ज़िंदगी, जिसमें मोती हैं—मोहब्बत के इज़हार के, इकरार के, तकरार के . . . आख़िर यह दास्तान आधी-अधूरी क्यों रह गईदेर रात एक टॉल, हैंडसम छवि बॉनफायर के दूसरी तरफ से नज़र आई, और सोढ़ी के मुँह से निकल गया, ‘ओ, चौरसिया!आख़िरकार माहिरा का दो दशकों से भी लंबा बेपनाह इंतज़ार ख़त्म हुआ . . . और फिर शुरू हुआ सवालों-जवाबों का, शिकवे-गिलों का सिलसिलवैसे मनन को इल्म था कि उसने जो किया वह क़ाबिल-ए-माफ़ी नहीं फिर भी जवाब तो उसे देना ही था, आख़िर माहिरा इसकी हकदार थी। लेकिन क्या था जवाब और क्या रहा उनका भविष्य? जानने के लिए पढ़ें, अमिता ठाकुर की कलम से निकला हिंदी पाठकों के लिए उनका पहला उपन्यास जो जज़्बातों के चक्रव्यूह में फंसाता है, निकालता है और पाठक को आख़िरी शब्द तक बांधे भी रखता है। ा।
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Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London’s poshest clubs and on the squash court, but unmoored after he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances. He decides it’s time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. A person could be spiritually reborn in a place like this. Even a very rich person.
But a person—or several—could also die there. Samsara is the Sanskrit word for the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, after all. And as it turns out, the colorful cast of characters Ro meets—including a misanthropic politician; an American movie star preparing for his Bollywood crossover debut; a beautiful heiress to a family fortune that barely survived Partition; and a bumbling white yogi inexplicably there to teach meditation—
harbors a murderer among them. Maybe more than one.
As the death toll rises, Ro, a lawyer by training and a sleuth by circumstance, becomes embroiled in a vicious world under a gilded surface, where nothing is quite what it seems . . . including Ro himself. Death in the Air is a brilliant, teasing mystery from a remarkable new talent.
Brave and funny, set in colonial India, Darako features a paanwallah and his secrets, a spitting competition that grows to be a massive affair attracting talents from everywhere, an Afghan rebel who is a star spitter and a mystic, gun-running during the freedom struggle, a daylight murder and a tangy romance amidst the utter chaos. In this world, up is down, and down is up. With laugh-out-loud moments and a clever play with language, song and history, Darako uses satire to comment on religion, identity and freedom.
Dear reader,
If you have a heart, you will fall in love. And chances are, someone will end up breaking your heart. I wrote this book after someone broke mine.
What do you do when the only person you’ve ever loved with your whole heart decides to leave your life? You keep trying to run away from the hurt, but to no avail. This book is a product of all the running I did from heartbreak.
I feel everything too deeply, and when my heart broke, I collected all the broken pieces, and they fueled my art. This book is everything I wrote after someone I loved left me.
There’s too much heartbreak in these pages, but also too much hope and, more than anything, a promise that life can’t always hurt you.
I hope healing finds its way to you soon.
Love,
Rithvik
To prepare for the future, our ancestors created the Naga sadhus—a clan of warriors for the protection of Dharma, as proclaimed by Adi Guru Shankaracharya in the eighth century. This sect of Shiva devotees has stood firm, living selflessly and fighting fearlessly. For centuries, they have died the death of heroes, serving and saving Dharma and the temples.
In the year 1757, 111 Naga sadhus borrowed the majestic weapons of the idols of their gods. Fueled by their belief in Lord Shiva, they gathered an invincible courage to protect the temples of Gokul. They stood as an indestructible wall, led by Ajaa, a fearless Naga warrior, against the Afghan army of 4000 men, a cavalry of 200 horses and 100 camels, and 20 cannons. The brutal Afghan army was led by Sardar Khan, the most ruthless commander of Emperor Ahmed Shah Abdali, ill-famed for the demolition of temples and building a history of genocide in Bharat.
The fight continues. This is the Naga warrior’s commitment to courage and determination. This is the clash of Shiva devotees against the devils that lie under men’s skin. This is the Battle of Gokul.
Dear reader,
I hope this book feels like a warm hug to you. I wrote this book for the ones who feel everything too deeply. You’re right, I wrote this book for you.
This book was meant to find you if you’ve ever loved someone who didn’t love you back, if you’ve ever over-invested in the wrong people or if you have a hard time letting go.
I Don’t Love You Anymore is a book that’ll feel like home to you. I promise it’ll hold you gently on your worst days.
Love,
Rithvik
इस कहानी संग्रह की 26 कहानियाँ भावों, दृश्यों और जीवन स्थितियों का एक सुंदर कोलाज बनाती हैं, जिसके इंद्रधनुषी रंग मन ही नहीं, आत्मा तक को छूने, भिगोने, अभिभूत करने और झकझोरने का काम करते हैं। इन कहानियों के पाठ का प्रभाव भी अपने-आप में अनूठा ही होता है। जहाँ “नवरात्र पूजा” संबंधों की मनोवैज्ञानिक गुत्थियों से मिलवाती है तो “एकदा एक्स” प्रेम के आयाम को बड़ा करने की कुंजी पेश करती है, वहीं “दो चाँद और तीन कहानियाँ” में कथाकार युवा मन की दुर्लभ थाह लेते हुए पाठक को अपने साथ गहराई तक ले जाता है।संजीदा पाठकों को दुष्यन्त के उजले-स्याह किरदारों और उनके बहुरंगी कारनामों में मानव सभ्यता के भविष्य की आहटें भी मिलती हैं। यही विविधता समकालीन भारतीय लेखकों में उनको विशिष्ट पहचान देती है।
A beautiful boxset of four of Virginia Woolf’s best-known works.
This set is a perfect gift for a Woolf enthusiast, and an ideal entry point for those who have yet to discover the brilliant works of this famous member of the Bloomsbury Group. Each edition features an illustrated covers by artist Aino-Maija Metsola.
Contains:
To The Lighthouse
Mrs Dalloway
Jacob’s Room
Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Three of Murakami’s best-known and best-loved novels, brought together in one beautiful boxset.
For nearly half a century Murakami has been delighting readers with his deceptively simple writing. His work is both fantastic and realistic, as gripping as it is beguiling. This boxset contains three of the best novels from Japan’s greatest living novelist.
You might start with Norwegian Wood, a story of young love and the book that shot Murakami to literary stardom. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle displays many of Murakami’s distinctive storytelling tropes – mysterious women and missing cats among them. And Kafka on the Shore, the great masterpiece, is the genre-bending tale of a fifteen-year-old runaway.
A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about the way books bring lonely souls together.
Two young lovers. Sixty long years. One bookish mystery worth solving.
Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She’s just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it’s a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her―only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe takes a closer look at the book only to find notes scribbled in the margins between two young lovers back when the book was new…one of whom is almost definitely Jasper Holmes, the curmudgeon next door.
When she begins following the clues left behind, she discovers this isn’t the only old book in town filled with romantic marginalia. This kickstarts a literary scavenger hunt that Chloe is determined to see through to the end. What happened to the two tragic lovers who corresponded in the margins of so many different library books? And what does it have to do with the old, sad man next door―who only now has begun to open his home and heart to Chloe and her siblings?
In a romantic tale that spans the decades, Chloe discovers that there’s much more to her grouchy old neighbor than meets the eye. And in allowing herself to accept the unexpected friendship he offers, she learns that some love stories begin in the unlikeliest of places.
