Showing titles in Contemporary Fiction

Jabaaz Pintu, khatarnak Mummy aur chatur Papa ki jokhim se bhari kahaani, 'Pintu, Mummy Aur Bhopu'. Shuru hoti hai ek musuem se ek sandstone ki chori hone ke baad. Hampi se Mangalore, Khajuraho se Ajanta -- bharat ki alag alag aitihaasik jagao ke baare me janiye aur Angaja ke rahasya me kho jaayein. Jasoos, barood, dhamaake aur kabhi khatam na hone waala mazaa. Produced by OfSpin Media Friends.

अविनाश मिश्र कृत ‘नये शेखर की जीवनी’ का अज्ञेय कृत ‘शेखर : एक जीवनी’ से केवल इतना ही संबंध है कि नये शेखर ने पुराने शेखर से ईमानदारी सीखी है। इस प्रशिक्षण में जीवन घनघोर और नगर शोर हो गए हैं। ‘शेखर त्रयी’ के अंग और अब तक प्रकाशित ‘नये शेखर की जीवनी’ के दो खंडों—‘आगमन’ और ‘प्रस्थान’—में 1986-2036 के बीच के भारतीय नागरिक समय का स्वप्न और दु:स्वप्न, यथार्थ और कल्पना, आदर्श और पतन दर्ज हैं।

Anything that best defines Banaras is 'AdiBaaji'. The word AdiBaaji literally means meeting at a tea stall. So Adi is a place where the people of Banaras discuss everything, from Politics to society, and from jokes to emotional stories. Adi is a unique and interesting way of storytelling in Banaras.

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. ‘Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…’ So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her...

Narrated by Roger Allam, Olivier Award-winning star of The Thick of It. Inspired by the true story of mountaineer George Mallory, Paths of Glory bring to life one of history's enduringly enigmatic figures in a stunning novel from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. 'Archer at the peak of his...

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.

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.

Tokyo was supposed to be an escape. Instead, it becomes an emotional reckoning. Estranged brothers Ankur and Anshul travel across Japan—a country their father had always dreamed of exploring. But as they journey through neon-lit cities, tranquil temples, cherry blossoms, and quiet backstreets, years of buried resentment, grief, and unspoken regrets begin to surface.

Vaidehi Ki Baatein with Neelesh Misra is a series of conversations between Neelesh Misra, India's most loved storyteller and his six-year-old daughter Vaidehi Misra. A child's world is so imaginative, creative and warm. Let us peek into this world where giraffes are multicolored, dinosaurs are not extinct and the world is a pretty beautiful place to live in. Disclaimer: This show is made for entertainment purpose only. The views expressed in this are entirely those of the artist. Slow Content is not responsible for any views expressed by the artist.

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...

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...

In this audio-book famous critic and writer, Professor Gopi Chand Narang discusses three loves of renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

31-year-old Lee has her dream job at tech startup Everfore—but being the youngest-looking person in the office means she's always fighting to be taken seriously among the bros on her team who treat her more like a kid sister than a colleague. When her boss challenges the team to develop the next viral app for Gen Z, Lee sees her chance to finally shine—even if it means going undercover as a high school student in the process.

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...

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.

कोई भी धर्म मन:शांति प्राप्त कर इंद्रियों पर विजय पाने का एक माध्यम है। चूँकि यह एक माध्यम है, इसलिए इसका अन्य किसी भी माध्यम की तरह सही या ग़‌लत दोनों तरह से इस्तेमाल हो सकता है। सही रास्ता अतिउच्च दर्जे का आध्यात्मिक सुख देकर मानव को मानवता के क़रीब लाता है, तो ग़लत रास्ता धार्मिक उन्माद फैलाकर मानवता को शर्मसार करता है।

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.

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?

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

Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.