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The 1993 Bow Bazaar bomb blast in Calcutta brought an end to the kothas in the busy commercial district. Over the next few years, as dance bars and disco music replaced the old-world charm of mujras, kathak and thumri, the tawaifs began to abandon the profession. Rekhabai, a courtesan, found...

Kill two birds with one stone — or in Hindi: Ek teer se do shikar. So often we are looking for such exact translations, but find it difficult to recollect off-hand. This Hindi-English Dictionary of Proverbs is an audiobook provided in a straightforward format, compiled for easy reference usage.

Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight has revolutionized the way Indians think about food and their eating habits. Funny, easy to read and full of great advice, it argues that we should return to our traditional eating roots (yes, ghee is good for you), nutrients are more important than...

Vijay's unsuspecting wife, Yashodhara, is caught off guard when, tired of the rigours of city life, he actually rents land and starts dairy farming! As if Yash didn't have enough going on already, what with her high-octane job, three children and multiple careers. As Vijay dives deeper into his quirky hobby, the family is plucked out of their comfortable life in the steel-and-chrome high-rises of Gurgaon and thrown headfirst into a startlingly unfamiliar world - complete with cows and crops, multiple dogs and eccentric farmhands, a shrewd landlady and the occasional rogue snake.

The Dolphin and the Shark is born out of Namita Thapar’s experiences of being a judge on Shark Tank India and running the India business of the pharma company Emcure as well as her own entrepreneurship academy. The book emphasizes how leaders of today need to strike a balance between being a...

Kahaniyon ka yah sangrah, vibhinn prakar ki naari bhavnaon ko vyakt karta hai. Kayi anubhav samete hue, yah sankalan badalte rishton par roshni daalta hai. Kahaniyon mein rahasya hai, romanch hai, jeevan ke alag alag mod se guzarte kirdaar hain jo padhne-wale ko apni duniya mein aamantrit karte hain.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet, born on December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. She experimented with expression, in order to free it from...

Emma Lazarus was born in 1849 in the city of New York. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager. In 1866, her father privately printed her first work in and the next year saw her first collection, Poems and Translations published by a commercial press. Lazarus was one of the first...

Priya, Jamini and Deepa, Dr Nabakumar Ganguly's daughters, live in Ranipur, Bengal, safe from the rising turbulence in the country. When their father is killed on Direct Action Day, their world turns upside-down.

Veena Iyer, aged sixty-six, got a degree in dance movement therapy. She is training to upgrade her skill and now runs various workshops.B.R. Janardan, aged eighty-seven, started running after sixty and has sixteen full marathons under his belt.These important stories illustrate the shifting...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020, AND PUBLISHED IN THE UK AS BURNT SUGAR Utterly compelling, complex, unflinching realism - sometimes emotionally wrenching but also cathartic, written with poignancy and memorability. - The Booker Prize Judges 2020 Avni Doshi is a writer of surgical...

India’s most favourite news anchor, Naina Vashisht is murdered less than 500 metres from home when she goes for a jog in her neighbourhood park. As glamourous as she is ambitious, she is a name to reckon with in media and political circles, and crucial to the TRP of her channel. A lot of people admire her, and many more envy her - enough to want her to go away. Naturally, when she is found dead, suspects are many....

Tara: "I'm not interested in getting involved with a nice guy. No more serious relationships! I just want to enjoy. This time it's going to be my rules, my way." Sneha: "Who cares whether he is a nice guy or a bad guy? As long as he is a guy, you need to enjoy him and move on. At least, that's what I do." Dheeraj: "This can just be our way to fulfil our dark temptations. Is that what you wanted to hear? So you just take care of the time we plan to share, and leave the rest to a rich rascal like me."

Radhika, a pretty and fun-loving girl, has a best friend, Nishi, a vexatious short girl she met on the very first day of college. At the same college she met Siddharth, a happy-go-lucky guy who is desperate for a girlfriend; Manas, a one-woman man; and Sameer, the college hunk, who is never single for too long. All fortunately end up being in the same class. This college romance is about these five friends and their love stories.