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What would you do if the perfect life you have is torn asunder? Set across two cities in India in the early '80s, Life Is What You Make It is a gripping account of the years that change young Ankita Sharma's life. Pretty and intelligent, Ankita has everything she wants: friends, boys in hot pursuit, and admission into a premier management school for her MBA. But six months later, she finds herself a patient in a mental health hospital. How did she get here, and will she ever get back her life again?

From the author of the best-selling Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight comes a health and diet book specifically for women. Rujuta's holistic approach to health, weight and diet has made her one of the most sought-after dieticians in the country. In Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha, Rujuta walks you through the different phases of life, from being a teenager to pregnancy to menopause.

Meet Aniket. Twenty-seven, techie, Mr. Average. His best friend is Subbu, a nerd who breathes, thinks and lives code. Aniket cannot believe his luck when he starts dating Trish - a stunning, sexy model who is totally out of his league. But Trish has a list of things she wants him to work on, beginning with his potbelly and his geekiness.

The shocking and brutal murder of a young American woman rips apart the peace of the ancient city of Benares. Hawa Singh, a senior inspector from the Delhi crime branch on a visit to Benares, gets embroiled in the case. He finds that the murdered woman had been researching the Bhrigu-Samhita, an astrological classic dating back to pre-Vedic times, its original manuscript believed to be lost. The FBI sends in Ruby Malik, a Pakistani American to investigate the murder.

A collection drawing from the many areas of Mary Anne Mohanraj's work, Silence and the Word includes everything from enticing erotica to Sri Lankan-American immigrant tales, from romantic poetry to provocative essays, like “Esthely Blue” (a magical-realist semi-autobiographical story of sex, work, and disappearing body parts), “At the Gates of the City” (a Mormon ghost story), and the award-winning story “A Gentle Man” (an affecting tale of an immigrant father’s attempt to reconcile his own yearning for home with his children’s individual needs and desires). Mohanraj boldly explores sexuality, ethnicity, and their interactions with the human heart.

Everyone has a story. Pull up a chair in Kafe Kabir and listen to four people explore friendship and love, writing their own pages of life from the cosy café to the ends of the world.

Le storie che compongono ArtifiCina – terza raccolta di racconti di fantascienza cinese in doppia lingua - esplorano il rapporto tra la natura “naturale” e quella “artificiale”, che rappresenta ormai uno dei tratti salienti della cultura cinese contemporanea.

कैसा कुत्ता है!' घुमक्कड़ कलाकार, गायक और कवि राहगीर की कविताओं का पहला संकलन है। इस संग्रह में राहगीर के लोकप्रिय गीतों के साथ बहुत-से ऐसे गीत और कविताएँ शामिल हैं, जो अभी तक न कहीं प्रकाशित हुए हैं और न ही प्रस्तुत।

कला के पथिक जान लें कि विज्ञान का विज्ञ मुकेश कुमार सिन्हा की तरह ‘प्रेम का अपवर्तनांक’ जैसी मौलिक कविता से नितांत भिन्न आस्वाद अन्वेषित कर सकता है। पहले भी मुकेश अपनी रचनाओं से प्रेमियों की फ़िजिक्स और केमिस्ट्री ठीक करते रहे हैं। नए अंदाज़ की इन रचनाओं का स्वागत! – ममता कालिया जीवन की विसंगति, संवेदन और स्पंदन के साथ मनुष्य के संघर्षमय सरोकारों के साथ जुड़ी कविताएँ।

The sheer volume of commentaries on the Mahabharata is awe-inspiring. So, what is it in the Mahabharata that gives it its timeless magic? Is it the mythical characters with which it is replete that makes the epic so enchanting? Or is it the great wealth of philosophical and metaphysical ideas in it that dazzles its audiences? Or could it be a combination of all these that makes it ever-fascinating to scholars and audiences around the world? And, most of all, what accounts for its incredible effect on the subconscious of millions of Indians through several generations?

प्रेम कितना मोहक, सम्मोहक और मादक होता है.. उसके विभिन्न पड़ावों से गुजरते हुए मैंने यह जाना है। 'मन पतंग दिल डोर' को लिखते हुए मैंने महसूस किया है कि मोहब्बत का कोई मौसम नहीं होता। वो जब हो जाए वही उसका मौसम हो जाता है। यौवन जब आता है तो अनेक मधुर एहसास लिए आता है.. उन एहसासों को शब्द मैंने नहीं दिए हैं बल्कि उन्होंने खुद अपने लिए शब्द चुने हैं।

इन कविताओं में एक भरा-पूरा लोक है, ख़ुद के अलावा पूरा परिवार है, माँ-बाबू-बीवी-बच्चे हैं, नींबू-खीरा-चाय-बिस्कुट हैं, मित्रगण हैं, अजनबी लोग हैं, आबाद दुनिया है, लेकिन अकेलेपन का एक अहसास अनवरत चलता रहता है।

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