Sri M is widely known as a spiritual leader and teacher. However, he believes, for him to truly connect with someone and guide them, they must be friends.
In this book, Mohini Kent asks him about love, life, religion, marriage, death and everything in between making it a one-stop shop complete collection of Sri M’s teachings and philosophy.
Following the ancient form of a conversation between a guru and disciple, this book is easy to read and relatable for people of all ages.
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Satyajit Ray Miscellany
More than seventy rarest essays on filmmaking, screenplay writing, autobiographical pieces and rare photographs and manuscripts of Ray
‘Ray is a most singular symbol of what is best and most revered in Indian cinema’ – Adoor Gopalakrishnan
‘Satyajit Ray, I salute you. The greatest of our poets of the cinema’-Ben Kingsley
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), one of the doyens of world cinema, gave a unique aesthetic expression to Indian cinema, music, art and literature. His writings, especially, autobiographical works, thoughts on filmmaking, screenplay writing and eminent personalities from art, literature and music, among others, are considered treasure troves, which largely remained unseen and therefore less known till date.
Satyajit Ray Miscellany, the second book in The Penguin Ray Library series, brings to light some of the rarest essays and illustrations of Ray that opens a window to the myriad thought-process of this creative genius. With more than seventy gripping write-ups and rare photographs and manuscripts, this book is a collector’s item.
Kaidi No. 100/कैदी नं. 100
कैदी नंबर 100 एक प्रतिभाशाली छात्रा संगीता की कहानी है। लेकिन वह इतने निर्धन परिवार से है कि किसी अच्छे कालेज में अध्ययन नहीं कर सकती। परंतु प्रोफसेर दिवाकर उसकी योग्यता को पहचान लेता है। संगीता को उच्च शिक्षा के लिए विदेश भेजने हेतु प्रोफेसर को चोरी भी करनी पड़ती है। गुरु और शिष्या के पवित्र रिश्ते पर लोग उँगलियाँ उठाते हैं, लेकिन ऐसा क्या होता है कि जब संगीता नए नाम नीलम से एक महान वैज्ञानिक बन जाती है तो उसे अपने ही पति की हत्या करनी पड़ती है और एक और नई पहचान मिलती है कैदी नंबर 100 और प्रोफेसर दिवाकर भी क्यों एक घोर अपराधी बन जाता है, जो कैदी नंबर 100 का अपहरण कर इस महान वैज्ञानिक से ऐसी दवाई ईजाद करवाना चाहता है, जिसके प्रयोग से वह सारी दुनिया को कोढ़ी बनाना चाहता है।
The Newlyweds
India is teeming with a young population that was born post-liberalization, grew up with the internet, witnessed the advent of smartphones and social media, and is well-versed in the many dialects of a globalized pop culture. But when it comes to love and marriage, they’re often disconcertingly expected to adhere to the orthodoxy of a bygone era. It’s this conflict between the parallel paths of alleged tradition and mutinous modernity that drives journalist Mansi Choksi’s The Newlyweds.
Through vivid, lyrical prose, Choksi shines a light on three young couples who buck against patriarchy-approved arranged marriages in the pursuit of love, illustrating the challenges, triumphs and losses that await them.
Engaging and moving, The Newlyweds raises universal questions such as what are we really willing to risk for love? If we’re lucky enough to find it, does it change us? For the better? Or for the worse?
Indira Gandhi
Jo Bolen To Harikatha
Prem Panth Aiso Kathin
Bahuri Na Aiso Dao
Rohzin
LONGLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE 2022
Mumbai was almost submerged on the fatal noon of 26 July 2005, when the merciless downpour and cloudburst had spread utter darkness and horror in the heart of the city. River Mithi was inundated, and the sea was furious. At this hour of torturous gloom, Rohzin begins declaring in the first line that it was the last day in the life of two lovers, Asrar and Hina.
The novel’s protagonist, Asrar, comes to Mumbai, and through his eyes the author describes the hitherto-unknown aspects of Mumbai, unseen colours and unseen secrets of the city’s underbelly.
The love story of Asar and Hina begins abruptly and ends tragically. It is love at first sight which takes place in the premises of Haji Ali Dargah.
The arc of the novel studies various aspects of human emotions, especially love, longing and sexuality as sublime expressions. The emotions are examined, so is love as well as the absence of it, through a gamut of characters and their interrelated lives: Asrar’s relationship with his teacher, Ms Jamila, a prostitute named Shanti and, later, with Hina; Hina’s classmate Vidhi’s relations with her lover and others; Hina’s father Yusuf’s love for Aymal; Vanu’s indulgence in prostitutes.
Rohzin dwells on the plane of an imagination that takes readers on a unique journey across the city of Mumbai, a highly intriguing character in its own right.
Made in Future
Over the last two decades, the disruption brought about by data and technology has created a wide chasm between marketing strategy and what really works in the marketplace.
Made in Future is a groundbreaking new book that seeks to recast marketing from a white sheet, with an incisive view of how vast changes in media, content, influences and people’s expectations have come together to write a new story of marketing.
The book challenges a lot of the accepted wisdom of the past, yet is brutal where the hype is ahead of substance. In the process, it offers an alternative journey that is conceptually whole, makes you think and helps you follow it all up with pragmatic decisions.