जिस देश की संस्कृति अपना इतिहास भूल जाती है, वह देश दुनिया के नक्शे से हमेशा के लिए नष्ट हो जाता है। जब-जब भारत अपना इतिहास भूला, तब–तब पराधीन होता चला गया, लेकिन जब इस देश के समाज सुधारकों, चिंतकों और साहित्यकारों ने लोगों को भारत के गौरवशाली इतिहास से अवगत कराया, तो तब देश न केवल स्वतंत्र हुआ वरन नव निर्माण के साथ उन्नति के शिखर को छूने के निकट जा पहुंचा। आचार्य चतुरसेन ऐसे ही लेखक थे, उन्होंने अपनी इस पुस्तक में रूठी रानी समेत इतिहास की कई अन्य वीरांगनाओं एवं वीरों का कहानी के माध्यम से अदभुत चित्रण किया है।
Catagory: Fiction
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Slow Burn
Rishi Saxena has failed as an actor. When an important audition doesn’t go as planned, rage consumes him and he punches a mirror. But instead of getting hurt, he slips right through and arrives in the Mumbai of his dreams.
In this inverted city, Rishi is a superstar, a critically acclaimed darling. Success kisses his feet, and producers flock at his doors. But success, too, comes at a cost, and behind the twinkling arc lights of showbiz is chaos and a sinister scheme. When this dark reality catches up with him, he wants to leave this new Mumbai right away.
But is Rishi truly ready to go back to the life he left? Is he ready to go back to being a failure? And will
fate stand in the way of his return?
Mistress of Honour
When Potnis, a captain in the Indian Army, meets Pansy during Operation Blue Star, he knows he has found the love of his life. Their passionate romance leads them to the altar and blossoms into a beautiful child, Rihana.
Decades later, history repeats itself with Rihana: Advik, an Air Force pilot, catapults into her heart, as smoothly as he conquers the skies. Where will their unbridled love lead them? Will Rihanna remain a mistress to Advik, for whom the love for his country comes first, or will she be able to make a place in his heart that is second to none?
This heart-breaking saga of love, courage, sacrifice, and a soldier’s constant conflict between home and duty, will leave you asking for more.
Scent of the Nameless
Geet Chaturvedi’s book Pink Slip Daddy that won Hindi literature’s prestigious ‘Krishna Pratap Katha Samman’ award for fiction. In this translation of his well-known story from Pink Slip Daddy, the oft-repeated banal existence of the ‘common man in India’ takes a leap.
An unnamed lower middle-class protagonist resides in a small flat in Mumbai with his wife and young daughter living the rather un-ambitious life of an office clerk. Until one day, he discovers the magical world of a credit card. As his life slowly spirals out of control due to this new acquisition, the common man grabs for air—he asks questions on spirituality, the free market, and even politics to make sense of his financial disarray.
A scathing, psychoanalytical commentary on urban economic life, this short and pithy novel is both satire and critique.
The Loom Of Time
Kalidasa is the greatest poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature and one of the greatest in world literature. Kalidasa is said to have lived and composed his work at the close of the first millennium BC though his dates have not been conclusively established. In all, seven of his works have survived: three plays, three long poems and an incomplete epic. Of these, this volume offers, in a brilliant new translation, his two most famous works-the play Sakuntala, a beautiful blend of romance and fairy tale with elements of comedy; and Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), the many-layered poem of longing and separation. Also included is Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons), a much-neglected poem that celebrates the fulfillment of love and deserves to be known better. Taken together, these works provide a window to the remarkable world and work of a poet of whom it was said: ‘Once, when poets were counted, Kalidasa occupied the little finger; the ring finger remains unnamed true to its name; for his second has not been found.’
Migrants and Other Poems | A Collection of Reflective Poetry on Loss, Migration, and Displacement
An old man sits in a corner of the verandah, gazing at the distant horizon—remembering a homeland he can never return to, a home and hearth left behind in exchange for an uncertain future in an alien land, his evenings tinged with sorrow.
From such moments, Mukherjee’s poems draw their quiet power, evoking the ache of loss: of homeland, of loved ones, and of the self in the anonymity of modern life. Shaped by images and myths, and written with empathy and delicacy, these poems linger on rootlessness and apathy, the fragility of human relationships, and the fleeting, impermanent nature of existence.
Mumbai Marathon
Once a year, the Mumbai Marathon passes by Silverline Apartments.
This year, seven more women are racing to the finish.
Set in the heart of the city, Mumbai Marathon follows the complicated lives of seven women. An actress who will risk everything for a billboard. A psychiatrist who cannot outrun her own past. A maid who sells her grief to survive. A widow who mourns strangers. A socialite left behind by the spotlight. A woman who learns that motherhood can arrive without birth. And a rich girl who wants to matter.
Each stands between what was and what comes next, stumbling forward without spectacle or applause. Because for women, stopping is not an option.
Aarambhh M Singh’s Mumbai Marathon is a finely observed novel about identity, ambition, and desire. It is not a story of victory, but of motion—of lives lived in the long, ordinary middle. A quiet, compelling read that stays with you long after the pages stop turning.
Bharat Bharti / भारत भारती
भारत-भारती राष्ट्रकवि मैथिलीशरण गुप्त द्वारा रचित एक अत्यंत प्रसिद्ध हिंदी काव्य-ग्रंथ है। भारत-भारती को तीन मुख्य खंडों में बाँटा गया है :
अतीत खंड : इस खंड में भारतवर्ष के गौरवशाली इतिहास, समृद्ध सभ्यता, संस्कृति, कला-कौशल और वीर पुरुषों के आदर्शों का गुणगान किया गया है।
वर्तमान खंड : कवि ने इस भाग में तत्कालीन भारत की दुर्दशा, सामाजिक कुरीतियों, अवनति और ब्रिटिश औपनिवेशिक शासन के कारण हुए पतन का चित्रण किया है।
भविष्यत् खंड : इस अंतिम खंड में भारतीयों को उनके कल्याण की ओर अग्रसर होने और एक उज्ज्वल भविष्य के निर्माण के लिए प्रेरित किया गया है।
भारत-भारती की लोकप्रियता का आलम यह रहा है कि आज से 100 वर्ष पूर्व ही प्रभातफेरियों, राष्ट्रीय आंदोलनों, शिक्षा संस्थानों, प्रातःकालीन प्रार्थनाओं में भारत-भारती के पद गाँवों-नगरों में गाए जाने लगे थे। आज भी 12वीं, बीए, एमए, यूपीएससी, आईरईईटी, सीयूईटी, यूजीसी नेट इत्यादि परीक्षाओं में भारत-भारती से संबद्ध प्रश्न पूछे जाते हैं, इसीलिए इस पुस्तक में विशेष प्रश्नोत्तरी भी दी गई है।
The Hawk’s Quest
In this incredible retelling of the Mahabharata, Shakuni is no longer the villain history remembers, but a man forged in the fires of familial massacre. A wily strategist, yes; but also Shakuni the King, the brother, the son, the husband, and the father. The Hawk’s Quest is a gripping narrative of the single-minded execution of a vow of revenge. But it is not one born of malice, rather of a desperate need to reclaim the stolen dignity of lineage revealing the raw humanity beneath the strategist’s mask.
The Best of Urdu Short Stories
Urdu Literature has provided a scintillating treasure house of fiction beginning from the earliest novels like Umrao Jan Ada (1900) to Kai Chand the Sar-e Asman (2006). But it is in the genre of short story that Urdu literature truly shines with a galaxy of writers and rich narratives. In this rigorously curated and distinctive anthology, we bring to lovers of Urdu literature, the best of writers such as Premchand, Ismat Chughtai, Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Intizar Husain, Hajra Masroor, to Khalid Jawed and Ali Akbar Natiq.