<p></p><div class="other-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Sometimes, a journey back is a step forward. When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker, in a tiny village, in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even Internet connectivity offer a young man? To make matters worse, Jairaj, Ayan’s domineering father has his own plans and is determined to have his way. Soon, Ayan has to come to terms with the hard realities of life and the blindness of greed as he and Gopal Shanker learn that life can sometimes unravel in unanticipated ways. A young man, whose life lies ahead of him. An old man, whose life is all in the past. And a few months that change everything. A Hundred Little Flames is a charming account of a relationship across generations and also a meditative look at the issues of old people. Preeti Shenoy’s foray into new fictional terrain is an absolute triumph!</p>

<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Simla, British India, 1936.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">On a cold, wet night, Ratan, a wandering law-college drop-out, is called to pick up his employer, Sara Davenport, from a party at the Governor’s residence. As he arrives, he sees a figure in the dark running through the trees. The next second, he sees Sara stumble and fall. He rushes to her, but she dies in his arms. Her throat has been slashed with a knife.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Ratan has blood on his hands. Sara was his employer, his lover, his friend. He decides to flee.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Ratan doesn’t know that when the body is discovered the next day, next to it would be a note … addressed to him.</p><p></p><div class="other-info" style="margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;"></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Set against a country grappling with the colonial rule, this is a thrilling tale about secrets uncovered and innocence lost.</p>

<div class="Y0Qrof" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><p>J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume complete with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by renowned artist Alan Lee.</p><p>J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a "dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told." And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron.</p><p>It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-eart...</p><div><br></div></div>

<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">A defenceless male elephant calf, born on the grasslands of the great Brahmaputra River, grows into a formidable tusker, journeying through the verdant green hills of northeastern India and Burma. With him, we walk through the vastness of the Indo-Malayan rainforests as he attempts to understand the humans who have irretrievably changed the jungles he roams. Hira Singh, a forest guard in the Nadhia Wildlife Sanctuary, crosses paths with a female leopard who is facing shrinking forests in the hills that are her home. Their lives closely mirror each other’s, following similar patterns of love and loss, as fate resolves to bring the two together, perhaps for the last time. Nadia, a wildlife biologist researching geese, travels to Mongolia, where she tags two geese: Blue Sky and White Cloud. As the birds fly southwards over the Himalayas, she meets Vivek, India’s Minister of State for Environment. Their instantaneous friendship soon takes Vivek to a lush valley at the base of the soaring Himalayas, where he must make a decision that will impact the lives of all around him. With beautiful illustrations and rich prose, the three novellas in Blue Sky, White Cloud narrate stories from the perspectives of man and beast, showing us that, much like us, animals, too, have extraordinary stories to tell.</span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Great Indian Children’s Stories, edited by award-winning writer Stephen Alter, collects nine delightful short stories for older children by some of India’s foremost writers. The handpicked stories in this anthology include classics such as Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Kabuliwallah’, revolving around an unlikely friendship between a little Bengali girl and an Afghan man; Munshi Premchand’s ‘Idgah’, the heart-warming story of the gift a young boy gives to his grandmother on Eid; Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Why-Why Girl’, the true story of a young girl from the Shabar community with an indomitable spirit; Ruskin Bond’s ‘The Blue Umbrella’, a tale of jealousy and understanding set in the pristine Garhwal hills; Khushwant Singh’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’, a poignant story about a young boy and his beloved grandmother; and Shashi Tharoor’s ‘The Boutique’, a sensitive account of an adolescent boy’s rite of passage to adulthood.</span><br></p>

<p>Vandana Kumari Jena creates a stirring melange of thrill, suspense, agony and ecstasy.</p><p>A woman finds herself accused of her husband’s murder while she still grieves his passing. A man’s</p><p>life spins out of control. He fears that his days may be numbered if he waits too long for a kidney</p><p>transplant while his suspicions of his wife’s infidelity grow strong. A woman finds a storm brewing</p><p>in her life when she is asked to be a surrogate.</p><p>Over the Edge is a collection of stories where you will find love and longing, recriminations and</p><p>regrets, murder and mayhem. Some stories are poignant, some are edgy, others whimsical. The range</p><p>of experiences presented is varied, but the common thread running through this eclectic mix is that</p><p>each story will keep you on the edge and sometimes may even take you over it.</p>

<p><div class="author-book" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: &quot;DM Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(237, 232, 222); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></div></p><div class="book-details" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: &quot;DM Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(237, 232, 222); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Way of the World gives a commentary on the absurd nature of the lives of the privileged classes through a satirical and comedic lens. The play is about two lovers, Mirabell and Millamant, who wish to marry each other but not at the cost of losing their inheritance. They need blessings from Millamant’s aunt, Lady Wishfort, to inherit the fortune. Lady Wishfort disapproves of Mirabell and instead wants Millamant to marry her nephew, Sir Wilful. It is play full of characters interweaving through each other’s lives with Fainall having a secret affair with Mrs Marwood, who is not only Mrs Fainall’s friend but also once had an affair with Mirabell. W. Congreve depicts themes such as deception, materialism, greed, different natures of love and so on through various other characters in the main and the sub plot. Largely, through this play Congreve has expressed the tendency of material gain overtaking one’s love for their partner.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The play, which was not successful when it was first published, gained positive reception over the years for its complexities and true depiction of society at the time. Written in the late seventeenth century, it is considered one of the best Restoration comedies to this day.</p></div>

<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">The author of the critically acclaimed dystopian novels The Competent Authority and Murder with Bengali Characteristics, Shovon Chowdhury was a writer with a razor-sharp wit whose work blended the bizarre with the profound. Part-jester, part-rationalist, he employed his terrific sense of humour (often directed at himself) to put an absurd spin on reality. Besides generous excerpts from his widely praised novels, in the section entitled ‘The Investigator’ the book presents a selection from his longest-running column with the tagline ‘We dig for the truth. So you don’t have to’; ‘We the People’ is a series of reactions to the increasingly bewildering political world; ‘The 4-Minute Manager™’ aims to make a management guru out of everyone; ‘Ask Uncle’ carries advice from your friendly neighbourhood uncle; ‘What If’ presents alternate histories from the Chinese capturing Assam to Madhuri never performing ‘Ek, Do, Teen’ and more; also included are poetry and the previously unpublished piece, ‘I Lost My Trousers in Tiljala’.</span><br></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4438665866851805;margin-top:6.829986572265625pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:#231f20;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">They were the perfect couple, Aysher and Risha. Both had the most coveted job in the media.&nbsp; Aysher was a dynamic TV news reporter and she was the news anchor. Both were young and&nbsp; achievers in their own right. Theirs was the most envious of all relationships. Until Aysher was&nbsp; struck by the existentialist question: What am I doing here?&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4438665866851805;margin-top:5.167999267578125pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:#231f20;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">From here the story of this urban and successful young couple took an extraordinary turn. Aysher&nbsp; went on a self-discovery mode and a journey which took him to unknown places. Will Aysher&nbsp; and Risha be united once again? Will their relationship be the same all over again? Or is Risha&nbsp; in for a surprise of her life?&nbsp;</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ccdbc96-7fff-5e64-8f58-1fb08deb4a65"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:5.167999267578125pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:#231f20;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Somewhere to Go </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:#231f20;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">is a journey of every modern relationship.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>‘There is a buoyant energy and hilarity to this account of an Indian student seeking the wide world</p><p>through the women he meets, but one laughs with growing unease as a darker undercurrent is</p><p>slowly revealed.’ —Kiran Desai</p><p>The Lovers is about a man in search of a love story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash—a new</p><p>immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call him Kalashnikov, and sometimes AK-47, even</p><p>AK. In his account of his years at a university in New York, AK takes us through the bittersweet</p><p>arc of youth and love. There is discovery and disappointment. There are the brilliant women,</p><p>Jennifer and Nina and Cai Yan. There is the political texture of campus life and the charismatic</p><p>professor overseeing these young men and women, Ehsaan Ali (modelled on the real-life Eqbal</p><p>Ahmad). Manifest in AK’s first years and first loves is the wild enthusiasm of youth, its idealism,</p><p>chaotic desires and confusions.</p><p>A decidedly modern novel that melds story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture</p><p>and text, fragment and essay, The Lovers reminds us of the works of John Berger and Teju</p><p>Cole. Funny, meditative, and shot through with waves of longing, the book explores feelings of</p><p>discomfort about cultural misunderstandings and the lack of clarity between men and women.</p><p>At heart though, it is an investigation of love—‘love despite, or in spite of; love beyond and across</p><p>dividing lines’.</p>