PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE IS PROUD TO PUBLISH ANTI-CLOCK, WINNER OF THE O.V. VIJAYAN AWARD AND THIKKURISSI AWARD
‘James is very inventive and very imaginative with a great sense of humour. There is a sort of eccentric genius animating the story’ JURY, JCB PRIZE FOR LITERTURE
‘A philosophical novel that discusses the mysterious problems of life and death’ BENYAMIN
‘”Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.” V.J. James’s novel Anti-Clock has given an extremely creative twist to these words by Karl Marx’ O.V. VIJAYAN PRIZE
Hendri, the coffin maker, has one goal in life: to see the dead body of his nemesis Satan Loppo being lowered into the coffin he has painstakingly carved. For it was Loppo who defiled his beloved Beatrice, and let loose his hellhound Hitler upon Hendri, giving him a permanent limp.
From inside his coffin shop, Hendri watches the world go by even as he prepares to deliver justice upon Loppo. He is confronted by the son of his best friend becoming enamoured with Loppo’s wealth, Loppo’s evil designs towards the hills of Aadi Nadu, and his own Christian guilt that regularly comes to haunt him. Until he meets Pundit, a 112-year-old watchmaker who was part of Bose’s Indian National Army and is building an ‘Anti-Clock‘, which can turn back time. When Loppo too hears of the Anti-Clock and desires to possess it, the inevitable battle becomes a reality.
Meet Asha Ray.
Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.
Cyrus inspires Asha to write a new algorithm. Before she knows it, she’s abandoned her PhD program, they’ve exchanged vows, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia.
The platform creates a sensation, with millions of users seeking personalized rituals every day. Will Cyrus and Asha’s marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah?
In this gripping, blistering novel, award-winning author Tahmima Anam takes on faith and the future with a gimlet eye and a deft touch. Come for the radical vision of human connection, stay for the wickedly funny feminist look at startup culture and modern partnership. Can technology-with all its limits and possibilities-disrupt love?
Chirag-e-Dair, The Lamp of the Temple, is perhaps the greatest secular poem ever written by an Indian. It is Mirza Ghalib’s eulogy on Banaras, the quintessential Hindu place of pilgrimage, a holy place where according to the Hindus a man is released from the cycle of the birth and death and becomes one with God. All this is completely alien to Islam. And yet, Ghalib a born Muslim not only sings paeans to Banaras but expresses a yearning to lead life like a Hindu practising all rituals and customs associated with Banaras
On way to Calcutta in connection with his pension case, Ghalib fell ill and was forced to spend many months in Lucknow and Banda from where he reached Banaras. It was only after reaching Banaras that his health fully recovered. The climate of Banaras, its lovely natural surroundings, its gardens, temples and the inhabitants fascinated him so much that he immediately fell in love with the city and wrote a long poem in Persian which he titled as Chirag-e-Dair.
Ghalib is by common consent the greatest Urdu poet but he rated his Persian poetry much higher than his Urdu verse. And Chirag-e-Dair has a pride of place in that Persian poetry.
This novel is based on story of Mahabharata. Mahabharata has been written in this novel with scientific point of view & it is a verified document of ancient science.
Cruel tradition of Sati Pratha has been shown in this novel and this is a very interesting & historical novel.
Every day seeing the plight of the world & its people, there is a reaction, because the creature always sensitive, other’s pain hurt, get puzzle. This brings forth the satire in creation. Narendra Kohli is a vetran story writer, so the story element must be in his satire.
This story collection, Mera Apna Sansaar is presented in very simple, but interesting language. The characters of this stories seen neighborhood of the readers and the content also seems as real incident. This is the greatest thing of these stories. Which is prepared for every age group of readers. Kohli ji is the cultural nationalist scholar. Who has introduced to Indiay living style with this stories.
The period of 1920 to 1947 is very active, excited and the very important period with the point of view of independence of India. Where the people of our country was connecting themselves with Gandhi Ji, there lefties was traying to discourage to Gandhi, Gandhi-Darshan and his volunteers. After 1920 Hindu Organization was doing organize with vision of Hindu Rashtra. They are always connecting themselves with Sardar Patel. What did lefties with Gandhi, Nehru, Subhash and Patel. Many things of that period you will get in this book.
This book contains great author’s interview of Irfan Habib, Gulzar, Rajkishore, Krishna Baldev, Shamim Haneef and Naamawar Singh. It is given the untouchable moment of them in this book. This books unvail the views and think of the great scholars of the country. It’s language is very attractive and interesting. Impeachable answers have been given to all questions.
November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she’s horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince’s grand procession is passing by her college.
Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Feeling guilty for failing to have helped Freny in life, Perveen steps forward to assist Freny’s family in the fraught dealings of the coroner’s inquest. When Freny’s death appears suspicious, Perveen knows she can’t rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
