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Celeste Varick has a simple plan: find one of the last wormholes on earth and walk right in. The catch? She has no idea where she'll land, or that she's about to fall for the one stranger chasing the same impossible leap. Everett Ludlow booked the same charter to the same island to find the same wormholes at the same exact moment. A kindhearted skeptic, he doesn't believe in fate but is desperate enough to leap into the future to save someone he loves.

>One king. A group of incorrigible women. Nine nights. The demon-king, Mahisha, rules Jambudvipa with an iron fist. He wears the horns of a buffalo and has the will of a bull. With allies far and wide, his kingdom—usurped from the Aryas—is prosperous. All seems aboveboard. But Jambudvipa's underbelly rots. Teeming with crime, sin, and greed, the city and its people are not what they seem. Most of all, Mahisha himself.

Narasimha, once a brave soldier, has left the war and lies low as a physician in a village. But a familiar face from his past seeks his help to stop the tyranny of the blind usurper Andhaka. If Narasimha refuses, the world might just end. What will he do? And why did he leave the war in the first place? Prahlad, the interim king of Kashyapuri, is torn between the ideals of his unrighteous father and his love for Lord Vishnu.

In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

इस उपन्यास का जो कथा-संसार है वह अपने-आपमें एक दुनिया है, एक ऐसी दुनिया जो पहले भी थी, अभी भी है, आगे भी रहेगी।

यह उपन्यास जेएनयू जीवन पर आधारित है। कहते हैं जो भी यहाँ कुछ साल रहकर पढ़ाई-लिखाई कर लेता है उसे प्रेम हो जाता है, यहाँ की हवा से, पहाड़ी से, यहाँ तक कि कैंटीन, रास्ते और वो सब कुछ से जिसे आँखों से देखा जा सके। जो यहाँ के हो गए वे फिर कहीं और के नहीं हो पाए।
उपन्यास में तीन मुख्य पात्र हैं- शेखर, इवा और जेएनयू।

हमारे देश में शादी और प्यार पर ल की बड़ी छाप है। लेकिन असल ज़िन्दगी सुनहरे परदे की कहानियों से बहुत अलग होती है। कई बार राम-रावण अलग-अलग नहीं होते बल्कि वक़्त और हालात के साथ एक ही व्यक्ति किरदार बदलता रहता है।

Mara was the demon who tried to distract Lord Buddha with the help of his three daughters—Raga, Arati and Tanha. Paroosh believes Mara’s three daughters have been strayed in this world wearing skins of teenage girls. And he seeks to deliver to Mara, by sacrificing the girls against the peepal tree, for he wants the father to reunite with his daughter.

I Am is a podcast that dives into the sea of Indian Mythology...but this time, it's the charatcers who take you with them.

Qisse Lockdown Ke With Neelesh Misra is a 30 episode series created and performed by Neelesh Misra.

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love. Call agent Sam works right beside the girl who's just dumped him. He's dating someone he can't stand just to get over her. Esha is just short of becoming a model. Two inches, to be precise. Vroom wants to change the world. Radikha's trying to manage her mother-in-law and hold down her job.

गृहयुद्ध में तबाह सीरिया वहाँ की स्त्रियों के लिए भयावह यातनाघर बन गया। चोटिल देह और आत्मा लिए भारतीय मूल की एक सीरियाई लड़की भारत आती है। यहाँ उसकी मुलाक़ात भारतीय सेना के उस ऑफ़िसर से होती है, जो आतंकवाद से लड़ने में अपना बहुत-कुछ गँवा चुका है।

Before the Kalakeya invasion, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva were young princes of Mahishmati, competing for rule of the greatest kingdom of its age. Listen to their epic adventures as they fight to prove who is most worthy to one day wear the crown. Under the watchful eye of Sivagami, and the warrior Kattappa, one shall rise to be king of the throne, while the other shall become king of the people. Hear their epic tale, narrated by the warrior Katappa, in S.S. Rajamouli's Baahubali: The Lost Legends!

Baahubali: The Lost Legends continues in Season 2! Join Katappa as he narrates the exciting and incredible adventures of Baahubali and Bhallaladeva as they take on enemies of Mahishmati both within and without! The two brothers will have to battle against mighty warriors, powerful queens, and even journey to the land of the rising sun to protect their mother Rajmata Sivagami and the kingdom of Mahishmati!

Chandrakanta: Devaki Nandan Khatri, published it in 1888, it was the first modern Hindi novel.

Aavarana: The Veil by S. L. Bhyrappa is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam, and she reluctantly agrees. Despite her father being completely against the marriage, she breaks ties with him and changes her name to Razia. However, things change for the worse, and she discovers a different side to Amir. He is not the progressive and liberal person she thought he was.

उपन्यास के मुख्य पात्र की पुलिस की लापरवाही से मौत हो जाती है। दोष छुपाने के लिए पुलिस उसे आतंकवादी बता एनकाउंटर में मार गिराने का दावा करती है।

An autobiography of every Indian farmer of mid 20th century.

Imagine a scenario where a dark and dingy jail becomes a favourite place for someone. Strangely, this is what a journalist found when he went inside the four walls of a dreaded jail with hardened criminals as co-prisoners. Of course, the very thought is breathtaking. How do people react when they have to live the reality of losing their freedom? With a mixed bag of tension and apprehension, a hardcore media guy was sent to jail. And when this large-hearted journalist was sent to jail by big-time media moguls for exposing their wrongdoings.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion.