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From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and...

Written by Allama Iqbal Shikwa(Complaint), was published published in 1909, and Jawab-e-Shikwa(Response to complaint) was published in 1913.

Najeeb s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape...

यह उपन्यास सन 1984 से 2016 तक के उत्तराखंड के ताज़ा इतिहास की पृष्ठभूमि में आधुनिक विकास की विसंगति, प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के असीमित दोहन, राजनीति की कुरूपता और गाँवों के उजड़ने की कहानी कहता है। यह उपन्यास ‘चिपको आंदोलन’ के बाद कुमाऊँ में छिड़े जबरदस्त 'नशा नहीं रोजगार दो' आंदोलन से शुरू होता है, जिसमें जनता की, विशेषकर महिलाओं की 'चिपको' जैसी व्यापक भागीदारी थी। उपन्या

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up and announces that it is Jinni s 'duty' to drop everything and come and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their sleepy hometown, Bittora.

यह कहानी प्रमुखतः एक लड़का (छोटू) और एक महिला को ध्यान में रखकर लिखी गई है। यह कहानी मूलतः एक स्त्री को सामाजिक दृष्टि से मिलने वाली अवहेलना और एक नवयुवक के उस स्त्री के ओर आकर्षित होने की कहानी है।

नब्बे के दशक की शुरुआत में दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के किरोड़ीमल कॉलेज, उसके हॉस्टल और उसके आस-पास की ज़िंदगी है और मोबाइल फ़ोन से पहले के उस दौर में पाँच दोस्तों की लीक से हटकर प्रेम कहानियाँ हैं। क-एक पाई की अहमियत, दोस्तों के लिए वक़्त ही वक़्त, बिंदासपन और बेफ़िक्री के उस दौर में राजनीतिक, सामाजिक और आर्थिक सभी स्तर पर बदलाव साफ़-साफ़ दिखने लगा था।

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.

दो डायरी; एक अज्ञात शराबी की, जो न सिर्फ भगवान के साथ मदिरा सेवन करता है अपितु भगवान के साथ समाज के हर पहलू पर बातचीत भी करता है। दूसरी डायरी ख़ुदकुशी कर चुके कृष्ण नामक व्यक्ति की है जो एक मुस्लिम लड़की से प्रेम करता था।

‘जिन कहानियों में प्यार बेइंतहा होता है, उन कहानियों की एक दूसरी दुनिया होती है’ ‘दूसरी दुनिया’ बस एक किताब नहीं है जिसे सिर्फ़ पढ़ा जाना चाहिए, बल्कि यह इस बात का प्रमाण है कि सच्चे प्रेमी कभी मरते नहीं। वैसे ही जैसे लैला-मजनू, हीर-रांझा, रोमियो-जूलियट आज भी ज़िंदा हैं।

Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown.

Border Roads Organization is responsible for building roads in Himalaya at huge heights, where no other country perhaps can build roads. The high altitude at such places is always challenging and tiring for machines as well as for humans. Low oxygen level, below zero temperature, eccentric nature, colossal snow piles on roads, and unpredictable landslides are few factors that affect human lives in such areas.

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the...

‘Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature’—The Hindu Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan’s village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one...

Yaari Road ek kahaani hai do doston ki, jo ek saath Mumbai ke ek flat mein rehte hai.

What would you do if the perfect life you have is torn asunder? Set across two cities in India in the early '80s, Life Is What You Make It is a gripping account of the years that change young Ankita Sharma's life. Pretty and intelligent, Ankita has everything she wants: friends, boys in hot pursuit, and admission into a premier management school for her MBA. But six months later, she finds herself a patient in a mental health hospital. How did she get here, and will she ever get back her life again?

Nisha Kulkarni justifies every reason to be the favourite child of Pune's premier school - be it her academic brilliance, her exceptional facility with music, or simply her unassuming charm. With his daughter showing promising signs of a stellar success story, Vaibhav Kulkarni has made peace with own unrequited dreams of the past. But when the girl mysteriously starts losing mojo and spirals into despair and seclusion, Vaibhav faces the toughest test of his life as single father - to reclaim his child's trust and happiness.

Michael is a violinist from Rochdale. He plays in a trio in Vienna with Julia, a pianist, and they are much taken with each other. But the trio splits up and they go their separate ways. One day in London, from the top of a double-decker bus, Michael catches a glimpse of Julia. They eventually meet up, and she tells him that she is contentedly married and has a child. Michael persuades her to visit Vienna and Venice with him. He discovers that Julia has become deaf, though her deafness comes and goes.

Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love...