Discover In Your Blood I Run by Sonia Bhatnagar, a captivating novel that takes readers on an emotional and thought-provoking journey. With rich storytelling, deep character development, and a gripping narrative, this book explores the complexities of relationships, love, and self-discovery. Sonia Bhatnagar’s powerful writing keeps readers engaged, making this a must-read for fiction lovers. Whether you're looking for an engrossing literary experience or a book that resonates on a personal level, this novel delivers it all. Order now from Sriina, your trusted online bookstore, and get fast delivery across India!
... Read more Read less
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Vandana Kumari Jena creates a stirring melange of thrill, suspense, agony and ecstasy.
A woman finds herself accused of her husband’s murder while she still grieves his passing. A man’s
life spins out of control. He fears that his days may be numbered if he waits too long for a kidney
transplant while his suspicions of his wife’s infidelity grow strong. A woman finds a storm brewing
in her life when she is asked to be a surrogate.
Over the Edge is a collection of stories where you will find love and longing, recriminations and
regrets, murder and mayhem. Some stories are poignant, some are edgy, others whimsical. The range
of experiences presented is varied, but the common thread running through this eclectic mix is that
each story will keep you on the edge and sometimes may even take you over it.
... Read more Read less
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.
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.
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’.
They were the perfect couple, Aysher and Risha. Both had the most coveted job in the media. Aysher was a dynamic TV news reporter and she was the news anchor. Both were young and achievers in their own right. Theirs was the most envious of all relationships. Until Aysher was struck by the existentialist question: What am I doing here?
From here the story of this urban and successful young couple took an extraordinary turn. Aysher went on a self-discovery mode and a journey which took him to unknown places. Will Aysher and Risha be united once again? Will their relationship be the same all over again? Or is Risha in for a surprise of her life?
Somewhere to Go is a journey of every modern relationship.
... Read more Read less
‘There is a buoyant energy and hilarity to this account of an Indian student seeking the wide world
through the women he meets, but one laughs with growing unease as a darker undercurrent is
slowly revealed.’ —Kiran Desai
The Lovers is about a man in search of a love story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash—a new
immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call him Kalashnikov, and sometimes AK-47, even
AK. In his account of his years at a university in New York, AK takes us through the bittersweet
arc of youth and love. There is discovery and disappointment. There are the brilliant women,
Jennifer and Nina and Cai Yan. There is the political texture of campus life and the charismatic
professor overseeing these young men and women, Ehsaan Ali (modelled on the real-life Eqbal
Ahmad). Manifest in AK’s first years and first loves is the wild enthusiasm of youth, its idealism,
chaotic desires and confusions.
A decidedly modern novel that melds story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture
and text, fragment and essay, The Lovers reminds us of the works of John Berger and Teju
Cole. Funny, meditative, and shot through with waves of longing, the book explores feelings of
discomfort about cultural misunderstandings and the lack of clarity between men and women.
At heart though, it is an investigation of love—‘love despite, or in spite of; love beyond and across
dividing lines’.
... Read more Read less
These Stories Take You On A Multicultural Rollercoaster That Has Diverse Characters And Subjects, But With The Quintessential Twist In The Tale. Find Out What Happens To A Happy Young Man When He Challenges A Past-life Regression Therapist Whose Discovery Of His Origin Changes His Life Forever. Uncover The Secret Inspiration Of An Old Artist Of Abstract Paintings In Paris And Then Join A Woman From Cape Town, Who Makes A Journey To Istanbul And Prague In The Hope Of Self-discovery. Revel In The Story Of A Lady Who Alters The Face Of Egyptian History Forever By Finding Her Way Through A Maze Of Conspiracies, And A Girl Who, Centuries Later In India, Inspires An Entire Society To Act In The Most Unpredictable Way. Discover The Moving Shadows Of Urban Singapore And Unveil A Predetermined Truth As A Taxi Driver In Saigon Meanders Through A Labyrinth Of Coincidences. Acclaimed Writer Ananya Mukherjee Creates A Fascinating And Poignant Vignette Of Human Emotions In An Unborn Desire.