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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.

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how...

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.

Two cops bonded by wedlock and duty are always in a cat and mouse game to catch criminals. While the boss senior inspector Urmila aims to be station incharge in Nagpur, husband and head constable Mandar sees parenting as his goal. The roles are reversed on and off duty, that leads to cute fights sprinkled with thrilling crime solving stories.

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new.

Shreya and her twin brother, Sushant, are attacked by a mysterious stranger with extraordinary powers. Fighting for their lives, and unable to hold out against him, Shreya falls back, in desperation, upon an ancient legend. But when an ancestor from deep antiquity unexpectedly appears in response to Shreya’s cry for help, the lives of the twins take an unexpected turn.

When intelligence officer Kabir is sent to Rajgir to recover from a personal tragedy, he doesn’t expect to be thrust into a conspiracy that could rewrite the global power structure. A sniper’s bullet, a cryptic inscription, and a murdered archaeologist catapult him into a perilous chase across India’s ancient sites. Teaming up with fiery historian Reeya Ghosh, Kabir uncovers secrets buried for millennia: the legendary wootz steel and its lost connection to the clean and abundant thorium energy.

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.

Audible prastut karta hai Subhumi ke Taraane, ek Audible Original, in association with Hind Yugm. Lekhak Vivek Kumar ke shadb.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity.

Audible presents Adulting, a 20 episode series created by Dice Media. From the makers of Little Things and What The Folks (WTF!) comes “Adulting”, a coming of age story about two young women trying to handle the responsibilities of being independent adults in the fast-paced, urban bustle of Mumbai. Take a peek into the daily life and shenanigans of two twenty-something women: Ray & Nikhat (played by Yashaswini Dayama and Aisha Ahmed respectively), as they try to make it through adulthood in their own unique way. Now in audio with all new episodes. Disclaimer: This show is a work of fiction and is partly inspired by true-life incidents. All stories and names have been fictionalized and the contents of the show are not a true or accurate depiction of what transpired. Any resemblance to real persons, businesses, places or events is unintentional and coincidental. This show contains expletives, strong language and mature content for Adult listeners. This show is not intended to offend or defame any individual, entity, caste, community, race, or religion or to denigrate any institution or person, living or dead. Listener's discretion is strongly advised

When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiselled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that Madhav arouses in her. And before long, she forsakes her family, her...

पुलिसनामा: जहाँ मुर्दे भी गवाही देते हैं के सभी किस्से सच्ची घटनाओं पर आधारित हैं, जिनका लेखक चश्मदीद था या फिर ये किस्से उसके पास स्टाफ रिपोर्टर से पहुँचे। दो दशकों से अधिक क्राइम और राजनीति पर रिपोर्टिंग करते हुए लेखक ने पुलिस तंत्र और उनके काम करने के तरीकों को बहुत नजदीक से देखा-समझा है। पुस्तक बताती है कि समाज को अपराध-मुक्त रखने की ज़िम्मेदारी में कभी अजीबोगरीब घटनाएँ, मजेदार वाकयात और कभी-कभी एनकाउंटर भी हो जाते हैं। इन परिस्थितियों में पुलिस को कभी वाहवाही मिलती है तो कभी धिक्कार। लेखक ख़ाकी वर्दी वालों को इंसान की तरह देखना-समझना नहीं भूलते और यही बात इस किताब को ख़ास बनाती है।

Young Komal ko rape se bachate hue middle class housewives Abha, Shalini aur ek maid Mangala ne milkar, ek aadmi ko jaan se maar diya. Uss raat unki zindagi badal gayi. Woh ek doosre ki gehri dost bann gayi, lekin saamna tha duniya ke saath, jo unhay murder charge mein gunehgaar saabit karne par tuli hui thi.

Audible pesh karta hai, Pratishod, with Hind Yugm, ek Audible Original, lekhak Sandeep K. Pandey dwara.

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.

Four women know nothing about each other and live cocooned in their individual worlds. Until one day they're forced to reckon with shocking truths they never imagined! Their desires haunt them, provoke them and make them fight to choose new paths in their lives. Will these women survive their stories of passion, betrayal and pain? Best-selling author and film writer Madhuri Banerjee brings to you a new romantic thriller that interweaves varied stories of women and their passions, to show us how all relationships ultimately crash into each other.

Audible prastut karta hai The Black Hunter, ek Audible Original, in association with Hind Yugm. Lekhak Saurabh Kudesia ke shadb. Kidnapping ke baad hosh udaati ajeeb halaat main laute logon ke band dimaag kholne ke liye Central Crime Investigation (CCI) director Shridhar ne apne puraane dost aur CCI department ke purv criminologist Dr. Vedi ki madad li. Apahriton ke band dimaag ki parton main chhupe dharm, adhyaatm, manovigyaan ke hairat-angej, vichitr aur aprakat mayajaal ko suljhaane ke liye Dr. Vedi ko uss vichitr ‘Nark’ ko todna tha jise iss khel ke Mastermind ne jivon ke karmon ka nyay karne ke liye rachaa thaa. Disclaimer- Ye show vyasyak shrotaayon ke liye banayi gayi hai. Yeh karyakram poori tarah kaalpanik hai aur vaastavik vyakityon, vyavsaayon, sthaanon ya ghatnaayon ke saath koi bhi samaanta maatr sanyog hai. Iss series ka uddyeshya kisi vyakti, sansthan, jaati, samudaay, nasl ya dharm ko thes pahunchaana ya badnaam karna ya kisi sansthan ya jeevit ya mrit vyakti ko badnaam karna nahin hai

Ek aisee prem kahaanee jo adhooree rah ga_ii par bhaarat ke lie varadaan saabit huii. Ek aisaa niahsvaarth prem jo ek ḍaayaree men khokar rah gayaa.

Spot Dada is a 10-episode fictional series from Audible Suno, starring national award-winning actor Swanand Kirkire, Rajeshwari Sachdev and Neena Kulkarni. For the past 40 years, one man in Bollywood has seen it all.