Categories: Fiction

War of Lanka - Hindi

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<p>"LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH.</p><p>BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE?</p><p>INDIA, 3400 BCE.</p><p>Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war.</p><p>But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest Goddess of them all.</p><p>Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her - she'd rather die than allow Ram to surrender.</p><p>Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide.</p><p>Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he'd negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know ...</p><p>The first three books of the second-fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history - the Ram Chandra Series - explore the individual journeys of Ram, Sita and Raavan. In this, the epic fourth book of the series, their narrative strands crash into each other, and explode in a slaughterous war.</p><p>Will Ram defeat the ruthless and fiendish Raavan, constrained as he is by the laws of Dharma? Will Lanka burn to a cinder or fight back like a cornered tiger? Will the terrible costs of war be worth the victory?</p><p>Most importantly, will the Vishnu rise? And will the real enemies of the land fear the Vishnu? For fear is the mother of love."</p><div><br></div>

A Boy Called Dustbin

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<p>"Ashwin Subramaniam’s world is turned upside down when his family is forced to relocate for a year. The locality is new and unfamiliar, Ashwin has no one he can call a friend, and he hates his cousin Chuppu, whose house his family and he are living in. Ashwin’s attempt to win over the colony boys with his cricketing skills goes horribly wrong, earning him the unfortunate nickname Dustbin but also a coveted place in Chuppu’s group of friends. Life is stressful for the fourteen-year old, what with having to impress his new mates and dealing with his miserable performance at school.&nbsp;</p><p>Funny and heartwarming, this teenage drama follows the adventures and escapades of the fourteen-year-old drama queen as he navigates coming of age in the ’90s – adjusting to a new colony, strange house, new friends, increasing schoolwork and, most importantly, figuring out how to grow up."</p>

THE BOAT-WRECK

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<p>‘Tagore picks up the flotsam of a love story from the Ganga and narrates it like only he can. An eternal human story.’- GulzarAfter a boat-wreck overturns his life, Rameshchandra Chowdhury mistakes young Kamala for his newly wedded bride. They move away from Calcutta to start a domestic life together, even as Ramesh is unable to forget Hemnalini, whom he was always in love with, but could not marry. Meanwhile, Hemnalini must steel her heart, while her hypochondriac father and hot-headed brother seek grooms for her. When Nalinaksha, a serene and influential doctor, enters the scene, fate decides to rock the boats again. Initially serialized in Bangadarshan magazine between 1903 and 1904, and then published as a novel in 1906, Noukadoobi was Tagore’s exercise in psychoanalytical probing of an ensemble cast of characters, to reveal not just their individual pains and passions, but also the collective consciousness of the society of the period. Narrated in warm tones that reveal the tenderness of everyday life, and translated gracefully by Arunava Sinha, here is a story about love and sacrifice, faith and resilience that is timeless.</p><div><br></div>

THE LAST POEM

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<p>An intensely romantic story that unfolds in the beautiful hill station of Shillong in north-eastern India, The Last Poem (Shesher Kavita) is considered by many to be Rabindranath Tagore’s finest prose work. Amit Ray travels to Shillong to escape from the drudgery of his middle-class existence, and finds himself ensnared instead in a web of passion andpoetry with the elegant and enigmatic Lavanya. As the protagonists grow closer to each other in this unconventional love story, they also discover themselves – their strengths, their ambitions, their flaws, their follies.<br></p>

SELECTED SHORT STORIES

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<p>In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture. Tagore’s treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven with Tagore’s perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep affinity for the natural world. Tagore’s stories continue to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.<br></p>

SELECTED POEMS

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<p>In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore’s poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.<br></p>

Tagore-Gitanjali

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<p>"A Bengali poet and mystic, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) had long been loved and admired in India, but it was not until the publication of his own English translation of more than a hundred of his Bengali poems in 1913 that he achieved international fame — and a Nobel Prize.</p><p>Comprised of moving, heartfelt prose poems reminiscent of Blake and Gibran — many almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasings, and images — Gitanjali (Song Offerings) was inspired by medieval Indian lyrics of devotion in which the principal subject is love, through some poems detail the internal conflict between spiritual longings and earthly desires, and others depict images drawn from nature.</p><p>In his introduction to this translation, William Butler Yeats writes: ""I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me."" This new edition is sure to earn Tagore a broad new following."</p><div><br></div>

THE NEW AGE OF BAKASUR

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<p>"The New Age of Bakasur begins when two young boys, Pradeep and Ravi, arrive in Delhi from Bhopal to spend a week with their uncle, Shekhar. They admire Shekhar for his relentless crusade against corruption. A well-respected police official, Shekhar has exposed several scams involving the rich and the powerful using innovative sting operations.</p><p>As Pradeep and Ravi explore Delhi, their illusions about it being a model metropolis are shattered. They are stuck in traffic jams and stranded on flooded streets. They spot garbage-strewn stretches in the heart of the capital. Official apathy and the glaring divide between the rich and the poor stare them in the face. When they turn to Shekhar for answers, he explains how corruption has infected every aspect of governance like a deadly virus. Unscrupulous public figures—modern-day ‘Bakasurs’—who swindle people and amass illegal wealth have become the biggest threat to the nation.</p><p>Shekhar shares many real-life examples of dishonest practices, which he has come across. These symptomize the rot across India. Shekhar shares his experiences with Ravi and Pradeep hoping to motivate them to become drivers of change and join forces with likeminded youngsters to vanquish today’s Bakasurs and save the country from the scourge of corruption.</p><p>Urgent, racy and often witty, this novel will strike a chord with every concerned reader invested in the future of India."</p><div><br></div>

THE KEY: SANDS OF TIME, BOOK 2

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<p>"Thirteen-year-old Maya is training to be a Halvard—someone who protects the Sands of Time, which keep the worlds of Olaman and Amrozan in balance. Battling intrigue and conspiracy, she comes face to face with the Warriors of the Shadows, who want to gain control over the Sands, and hence control time itself. For that, they need the Key, and in a strange twist of fate, Maya is the one who has it.</p><p>With time running out, Maya must figure out who is a Warrior and who a friend. Her own abilities are increasing every day, but is that because she is prophesied to be an agent of the Warriors? How can Maya control her strength? Can Noah, her Watcher, protect her at all costs—even from herself? And what of her friend Yazid, now a prisoner of the Warriors? Will he have to die to save the worlds?</p><p>As exciting and pulsating with action as Book One, The Prophecy, this sequel hurtles along till it culminates in a thrilling climax. And at its core is Maya, a protagonist like none other—strong, brave, curious."</p><div><br></div>

THE TREASURE OF THE KHASI HILLS

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<p>"In a trunk containing his late grandfather’s possessions, Kumar finds a human skull. On looking carefully, he discovers that there are tiny carvings on it—a code to a treasure! With his friend Bimal, he deciphers the code and Bimal and Kumar decide to set off to find the treasure that is hidden in the beautiful Khasi Hills. But in hot pursuit of the skull and the key to the code is Karali, the conniving and traitorous friend, who wants the treasure at any cost.</p><p>Accompanied by their attendant Ramhari, and their loyal dog Bagha, Bimal and Kumar are plunged into the adventure of a lifetime. In every corner there lies a villain waiting to waylay them. There are deep dark caves with wild animals. Ghosts that beckon in the dark. And there is the yaksha guarding the treasure. Can Bimal and Kumar elude all of them and succeed?</p><p>Hemendra Kumar Roy’s adventure, ghost and science fiction books in Bengali have enthralled generations of young readers for nearly a century now. For the first time, this iconic story appears in English in this lucid translation that will entice a whole new generation of readers into Hemenbabu’s world."</p><div><br></div>