Categories: Fiction

Visitors To The House

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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;var(--font-body)&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">In the hill town of Didoli, each of the five visitors to the house on the gorge has a story. The avuncular mongrel called Vurf, a spirit bearing a message for a stepdaughter, the urchin with her golden hair and a vagabond past, a fading child star too wise for his years and an autistic infant who can smell tomorrow. Their lives are entwined over a span of thirty years in a thinking world that seems to say: you grow up to become your childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

Kismat Connection

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<p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: open_sans; font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;">Is it possible to change your fate?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: open_sans; font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;">Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a total failure, according to her astrology-obsessed mother, and doomed to a happily-ever-after with her first boyfriend, according to her family curse. Determined to prove the existence of her free will, Madhuri devises an experimental relationship with the one boy she knows she'll never fall for.</span><br style="font-family: open_sans; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: open_sans; font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;">Arjun Mehta is also at the mercy of the stars, but he isn't complaining. His astrological reading destines him for success, and he resolves to use his year of good luck to show Madhuri that they should be more than just childhood best friends. When Madhuri offers him the opportunity to be her relationship lab rat, it feels like the universe is finally on his side, so Arjun puts his heart on the line.</span><span style="font-family: var(--font-body); font-style: var(--font-body-style); font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing); font-size: var(--font-size-body-100); text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">But as their opposing prophecies slowly become true and real feelings begin to cloud their experiment, Madhuri will have to decide if charting her own destiny is worth breaking Arjun's heart -- and her own.</span></p><section id="shopify-section-template--16768202965284__main" class="shopify-section main-product-section" style="font-family: open_sans; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px;"><div class="product animation animation--product product--has-sticky-scroll is-visible" data-section-id="template--16768202965284__main" data-section-type="product" data-current-product-id="46865581506852" data-product-has-only-default-variant="true" data-enable-sticky-product-details="true" data-gallery-size="large" data-is-full-product="true" style="--swatch-size:48px; max-width: calc(var(--max-width) + calc(var(--space-outer) * 2)); margin-top: 0px; --product-meta-top:-161px;"><div class="product__bottom"><div class="left-side-blocks for-mobile" style="margin-top: 101.781px; padding: 0 var(--space-outer);"><div class="product__description product__block product__block--medium" style="width: 730.219px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-6);"><div class="rte rte--product ff-body fs-body-100" style="font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px !important; text-align: center !important;"></div></div></div></div></div></section><div id="shopify-section-template--16768202965284__loox-product-reviews-app-section" class="shopify-section" style="font-family: open_sans; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px;"><div class="section" style="position: relative; max-width: calc(var(--max-width) + calc(var(--space-outer) * 2)); padding: var(--spacing-10) var(--space-outer); margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><div id="shopify-block-loox-product-reviews" class="shopify-block shopify-app-block" style="padding: 15px;"></div></div></div><section id="shopify-section-template--16768202965284__main" class="shopify-section main-product-section" style="font-family: open_sans; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px;"><div class="product animation animation--product product--has-sticky-scroll is-visible" data-section-id="template--16768202965284__main" data-section-type="product" data-current-product-id="46865581506852" data-product-has-only-default-variant="true" data-enable-sticky-product-details="true" data-gallery-size="large" data-is-full-product="true" style="--swatch-size:48px; max-width: calc(var(--max-width) + calc(var(--space-outer) * 2)); margin-top: 0px; --product-meta-top:-161px;"><div class="product__bottom"><div class="left-side-blocks for-mobile" style="margin-top: 101.781px; padding: 0 var(--space-outer);"><div class="product__description product__block product__block--medium" style="width: 730.219px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-6);"><div class="rte rte--product ff-body fs-body-100" style="font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px !important; text-align: center !important;"><div id="for_mobile_description" style="margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion " style="margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion__inner" data-index="" data-open="true" style="border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-border); margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion__content fs-body-100 rte non-page-rte measure" aria-hidden="false" id="accordion-content-description" style="padding-bottom: var(--spacing-6); font-size: var(--font-size-body-100); max-width: var(--max-width-narrow); margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><p style="font-family: var(--font-body); margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing);"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><p><br style="font-family: open_sans; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;"></p>

The Amar Chitra Katha Festival Collection Set of 5 books

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, &quot;sans-serif&quot;; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, &quot;sans-serif&quot;; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;">India's rich tapestry is woven together by her stories. These tales can be from the great epics and mythology, or from the ancient history of this rich land. But sometimes the stories of the people, passed down from generation to generation - told at bedtimes and celebrations, in schools and homes - are the most astounding. These stories are part of the great collective inheritance from our past generations.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, &quot;sans-serif&quot;; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-line;">The Amar Chitra Katha Fe</span><span class="morecontent" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-line;">stival Collection brings together five of the most celebrated titles in the Amar Chitra Katha chapter book catalogue. This collection includes Funny Folktales, Tales of Wit and Wisdom, Amazing Folktales from&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-line;">South Asia, Jataka Tales and Fabulous Fables from India.</span><span style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-line;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

The Grand Amar Chitra Katha Collection: Set of 12 books

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">India’s rich tapestry is woven together by her stories. These tales can be from the great epics and mythology, or from the ancient history of this rich land. But sometimes the stories of the people, passed down from generation to generation – told at bedtimes and celebrations, in schools and homes – are the most astounding. These stories are part of the great collective inheritance from our past generations.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">The Grand Amar Chitra Katha Collection brings together all twelve titles published in the much-loved Amar Chitra Katha chapter book series. This collection includes&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Buddhist Stories</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Tales&nbsp;</em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">of Wit and Wisdom</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Funny Folktales</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Amazing Folktales from South Asia</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Fascinating Stories&nbsp;</em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">from India</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Unusual Fables from India</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Jataka Tales</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Fabulous Fables from India</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Witty Minister&nbsp;</em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Stories</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Stories from the Panchatantra</em>,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Royal Fantasy Stories</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Favourite Indian Folktales</em>.</p>

The Immortal King Rao

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<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Montserrat; letter-spacing: 0.7px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 251);">"<em>The Immortal King Rao</em>&nbsp;explores the limits of our own species. Somewhere between the communal experience of Dalits in rural India and the insidious rise of MNCs and AI, lies our own fate. Vara leaves you with questions and insights-and with the feeling of being trapped, along with her characters, in a world oblivious of its own mortality." - Shubhangi Swarup, author of&nbsp;<em>Latitudes of Longing</em></p><div><em><br></em></div>

Every Vote Counts

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<p><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: open_sans; font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;">NAVIN CHAWLA has had a ringside view of Indian elections. As chief election commissioner, he supervised the landmark 2009 general election and several key state elections as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience, this book presents a riveting account of how the daunting task of conducting the largest electoral exercise in the world is undertaken. He also sheds light on the other issues India faces in conducting polls due to its size, population, geographical diversity and the challenges posed by the people in power.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;var(--font-body)&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">With the 2024 elections just round the corner, Every Vote Counts is a book that every concerned and interested Indian must read.<o:p></o:p></span></p><section id="shopify-section-template--16768202965284__main" class="shopify-section main-product-section" style="font-family: open_sans; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px;"><div class="product animation animation--product product--has-sticky-scroll is-visible" data-section-id="template--16768202965284__main" data-section-type="product" data-current-product-id="46922031595812" data-product-has-only-default-variant="true" data-enable-sticky-product-details="true" data-gallery-size="large" data-is-full-product="true" style="--swatch-size:48px; max-width: calc(var(--max-width) + calc(var(--space-outer) * 2)); margin-top: 0px; --product-meta-top:-161px;"><div class="product__bottom"><div class="left-side-blocks for-mobile" style="margin-top: 101.781px; padding: 0 var(--space-outer);"><div class="product__description product__block product__block--medium" style="width: 730.219px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-6);"><div class="rte rte--product ff-body fs-body-100" style="font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px !important; text-align: center !important;"><div id="for_mobile_description" style="margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion " style="margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion__inner" data-index="" data-open="true" style="border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-border); margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><div class="accordion__content fs-body-100 rte non-page-rte measure" aria-hidden="false" id="accordion-content-description" style="padding-bottom: var(--spacing-6); font-size: var(--font-size-body-100); max-width: var(--max-width-narrow); margin: var(--spacing-7) 0;"><p style="font-family: var(--font-body); margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing);"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="product__description product__block product__block--medium" style="width: 730.219px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-6);"><div class="rte rte--product ff-body fs-body-100" style="font-weight: var(--font-body-weight); font-style: var(--font-body-style); line-height: var(--line-height-body); letter-spacing: var(--font-body-base-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px !important; text-align: center !important;"></div></div></div></div></div></section><div id="shopify-section-template--16768202965284__loox-product-reviews-app-section" class="shopify-section" style="font-family: open_sans; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px;"><div class="section" style="position: relative; max-width: calc(var(--max-width) + calc(var(--space-outer) * 2)); padding: var(--spacing-10) var(--space-outer); margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><div id="shopify-block-loox-product-reviews" class="shopify-block shopify-app-block" style="padding: 15px;"></div></div></div><p><br style="font-family: open_sans; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 16.5492px; text-align: center;"></p>

Saturday Stories

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">From the bestselling author of&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Follow Every Rainbow</em>, comes a set of sparkling stories that explores the full gamut of human emotions, vulnerabilities and truths, and captures the distinct spirit of our times.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">Deceptively simple in their telling, and occasionally laced with dark humour, the short glimpses of life in Rashmi Bansal’s fi­rst foray into fi­ction will take readers by surprise, and by turns inspire, move and entertain them.</p>

Mad Sisters of Esi

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folktales of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figure they know only as ‘Great Wisa’. To Laleh, this is everything. For Myung, it is not enough.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">When Myung flees the whale, she stumbles into a new universe where shapeshifting islands and ancient maps hold sway. There, she sets off on an adventure that is both tragic and transformative, for her and Laleh. For at the heart of her quest lies a mystery that has confounded scholars for generations: the truth about the mad sisters of Esi.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">Fables, dreams and myths come together in this masterful work of fantasy by acclaimed author Tashan Mehta, sweeping across three landscapes, and featuring a museum of collective memory and a festival of madness. At its core, it asks: In the devastating chaos of this world, where all is in flux and the truth ever-changing, what will you choose to hold on to?</p>

This Is Salvaged: Stories

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">This Is Salvaged</em>&nbsp;search fervently for meaning through one another:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor who is descending into dementia…</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators…</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">One sister consumes the ashes of another…</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible’s specifications…</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">In stories that are wise and funny, beautiful and strange, Vauhini Vara-author of the award-winning&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">The Immortal King Rao</em>, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-writes with compassion, but without sentimentality, about loss and longing and attempting to find hope in the midst of grief.</p>

For Now It Is Night: Stories

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">Hari Krishna Kaul, one of the very best modern Kashmiri writers, published most of his work between 1972 and 2000. His short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore – with an impressive eye for detail, biting wit, and deep empathy – themes of isolation, individual and collective alienation, corruption, and the social mores of a community that experienced a loss of homeland, culture, and language.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">In these pages, we will find: friends stuck forever in the same class at school while the world changes around them; travelers forced to seek shelter in a battered, windy hostel after a landslide; parents struggling to deal with displacement as they move away from Kashmir with their children, or loneliness as their children leave in search of better prospects; the cabin fever of living through a curfew…</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; 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;">Brilliantly translated in a unique collaborative project,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">For Now, It Is Night&nbsp;</em>brings a comprehensive selection of Kaul’s stories to English readers for the very first time.</p>