जब समाज की चेतना पर शिकंजा कसा जाता है, तब सबसे पहले हमला विचारों, कला और अभिव्यक्ति पर होता है। लेकिन इतिहास गवाह है—हर अँधेरे दौर में कुछ आवाज़ें उठती हैं जो उम्मीद के चिराग़ जलाए रखती हैं। यह किताब सिर्फ़ कविताओं का संग्रह नहीं, बल्कि उन शब्दों का दस्तावेज़ है जो ख़ामोश रहने से इंकार करते हैं। इन कविताओं का जन्म भी ऐसे ही बेचैन समय में हुआ—उन घटनाओं के बीच जिन्होंने लेखक को क़लम उठाने पर मजबूर किया। यह संग्रह अन्याय, हिंसा, असमानता और दमन के विरुद्ध एक रचनात्मक प्रतिरोध है। यहाँ शब्द सिर्फ़ शब्द नहीं, बल्कि संघर्ष की स्मृतियाँ, ग़ुस्से की आवाज़ और बेहतर भविष्य की कल्पनाएँ हैं। देश-दुनिया में चर्चित लेखक गौहर रज़ा ने यह किताब उस यक़ीन से लिखी है कि कविता की चोट कई बार बमों और गोलियों से भी गहरी होती है। क्योंकि एक कविता किताब के पन्नों से निकलकर सड़कों, गलियों और जनआंदोलनों की आवाज़ बन सकती है। यह संग्रह उन सभी लोगों को समर्पित है जो सबसे कठिन समय में भी उम्मीद का दामन नहीं छोड़ते—और जो मानते हैं कि प्रतिरोध सिर्फ़ एक प्रतिक्रिया नहीं, बल्कि इंसान बने रहने की शर्त है।
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Shatabdi Yatra: A Century of the Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Evolution Captured in One Landmark Volume (Collector’s Boxed Edition)
Shatabdi Yatra is a richly illustrated coffee table book that chronicles a century of India’s parliamentary journey, from 1925 to 2025. Dedicated to Veer Vithalbhai Patel, the first Indian elected Speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly, it celebrates his visionary leadership and enduring legacy. Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and research from India and abroad, the book traces the evolution of India’s legislative institutions, key milestones in nation-building, and the growth of parliamentary democracy, making it an invaluable record of India’s democratic heritage.
Choosing Gold | The PNG Jewellers Story by Saurabh Gadgil
When family, business, and identity fracture, what do you hold on to?
Choosing Gold is the story of PNG Jewellers. A story shaped by intent, tested by crises, and defined by the standards it refused to lower. At a time when shortcuts often promise quick recovery, this is a narrative about choosing the harder path, staying true to values, rebuilding credibility one decision at a time, and growing without losing the soul of the enterprise. It traces a leader who stepped into the family business with purpose and held excellence as a daily standard, even in the face of division and repeated setbacks.
Written by Saurabh Gadgil, the sixth-generation custodian of this legacy, this book reveals how conviction, trust, and long-term vision can build institutions that endure.
This is the story of PNG Jewellers. And of choosing what lasts.
Will AI Murder Us All?
Will AI Murder Us All? is a bold, thought-provoking guide to the ethical and existential challenges of artificial intelligence and the human choices that will shape whether it liberates or dominates us. As technology blurs the line between human and machine, Aakash Singh Rathore confronts a question we can’t ignore: What happens when intelligence outpaces wisdom?
At its core is moral psychology—the study of how moral decisions are actually made and acted on, both by humans and by the machines that humans build. Rathore reveals that the greatest dangers aren’t rogue AIs but systems embedded in institutions driven by competition, profit and power where ‘safe’ goals spiral into harm.
Drawing on social psychology—from obedience and conformity to diluted responsibility—the book shows how these forces warp human behaviour and get encoded into AI, normalizing damage at scale, whether through automated surveillance, biased algorithms or unchecked optimization.
Yet Rathore offers a clear path forward: we need an artificial ethics tailored to artificial intelligence, with the best paradigm being an artificial ethics of care. This shifts from rigid rules to designing AI around care, responsibility, relationships and protecting the vulnerable.
Provocative, accessible and urgent, Will AI Murder Us All? is both a cautionary tale and a blueprint for responsible innovation—calling us to build a future of dignity, accountability and human flourishing.
All Our Evenings
In 1990s Hyderabad, three teenagers—Arjun, Ruhee and Ganesh—forge an unexpected bond. Over the course of a single sun-drenched summer, they discover love, friendship and solace from their troubled families. They also discover the Red House, an abandoned house in their neighbourhood, which becomes the site of their intimate friendship. But one night at the Red House, an unexpected act of violence shatters their lives forever.
A decade later, Ruhee returns to Hyderabad, and Arjun, who has never forgotten his first love, is given a chance to tell the truth, both to himself and to those around him. But the tangled threads of fate, class and desire remain, as does a lacerating secret.
By turns tender and unsettling, Ruthvika Rao’s All Our Evenings is a deeply affecting novel about youthful passion, redemption and the people we can never let go.
Tonight On Nature TV News
A rich collection of ingenious, experimental short stories from a master of the craft
Spanning two turbulent years marked by the unchecked rise of billionaires, technocracies and climate catastrophes, and the steady erosion of nature, wildlife and Indigenous rights, Tonight on Nature TV News captures the world as seen by those who stand to lose the most. Through cartoons from the award-winning ‘Green Humour’ series, wild animals and the occasional human protagonist deliver sharp, informed, and often biting commentary on global environmental affairs.
From Donald Trump’s return to the White House and its environmental shockwaves, to the quiet erasure of human and ecological rights amid wars in Palestine and sub-Saharan Africa; from an ambiguous COP30 in Brazil to deepening environmental apathy across Asia, these cartoons hold up a mirror to a planet in crisis. Along the way, they also introduce readers to recent breakthroughs in ecology, weaving urgency with insight, satire with science.
Tune in to Nature TV News, the fifth collection of ‘Green Humour’ cartoons by Rohan Chakravarty, brings together work from his weekly columns with The Hindu and Roundglass Sustain, and his fortnightly features with Deutsche Welle and Mongabay International. By turning the news cycle into a wildlife broadcast, Chakravarty reminds us that the natural world has been watching all along and it has plenty to say.
Pill-Free
Before you swallow another pill, pause and read this book.
It is likely that unknowingly, you may be taking medicines or supplements you do not really need.
Excess treatment rarely enters our life dramatically. It slips in quietly. A mild symptom becomes a diagnosis. One prescription leads to another. A side effect is treated with yet another pill. Ironically, at times, a preventive check-up or screening becomes an entry point for over-treatment. Vitamins, supplements, probiotics, drips, tests, scans and even surgeries are increasingly sold as routine care—often when simpler, and non-medication based options are equally effective.
In Pill-Free, Dr Chandrakant Lahariya takes on one of the most urgent and under-discussed health challenges of our time: the culture of unnecessary medicines, supplements, tests and procedures.
But this is not an anti-medicine book. It is a pro-health book.
Packed with patient stories, myth-busting insights, checklists, nutrition guidance, kitchen wisdom and practical tools, this book empowers you to start a fulfilling journey to reduce your pills, reverse diseases and take charge of your metabolic health with confidence.
Because the best doctor is not the one who prescribes the most. It is the one who helps you need less.
The Syntax of Tax: The Story of India’s Income Tax Simplification | Written by Serving and Retired IRS Officers
What does it really take to simplify a tax system?
Tax laws affect millions of people, yet few ever see how those laws are written, debated, revised, and brought to life. Behind every provision lies a complex process of discussion, disagreement, drafting, and refinement.
The Syntax of Tax takes you inside one of the most ambitious reform exercises in India’s tax administration—the simplification of the Income Tax Law, Rules, and Forms. Contributed by a collective of serving and retired IRS officers, this book takes you on a journey from the drafting table to implementation as officers grapple with technical challenges, competing viewpoints, institutional constraints, and the need to preserve decades of legal interpretation while making the law more accessible—an unofficial
account of an official exercise.
Behind every law lies a story. This is one of them.
Indians in the Ocean
Long before European ships dominated the Indian Ocean, traders and travellers from the Indian subcontinent were already navigating its vast waters. In search of profit, adventure, and knowledge, their journeys shaped how Indians evolved as a society, what they consumed in their material lives, and how and why they produced and circulated oceanic knowledge.
Indians in the Ocean explores the ocean’s role in shaping the economic and cultural histories of the subcontinent between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources in many languages, it reconstructs the experiences of people from the region who travelled, traded, and participated in the global economy at a time when the oceans formed the principal highways linking countries and communities across continents.
Never Taking No for an Answer | 100 Years of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Edited by former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, Dr Rajiv Kumar, Never Taking No for an Answer traces the inspiring journey of the Indian industry, navigating through freedom movement and the constraints of the License Raj to liberalization and global growth.
Through reflections by some of India’s most distinguished business leaders—Kumar Mangalam Birla, Sanjiv Goenka, Ajay Piramal, Naveen Jindal, Sangita Reddy, Bharat Hari Singhania, Harsh Neotia, Ratan Jindal, and Omkar Goswami—this collection of essays offer rare insights and enduring lessons for entrepreneurs, SMEs, and women leaders determined to grow, adapt and lead in a rapidly changing world.