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ज़ाहिर का कथाकार एक बेस्टसेलिंग उपन्यासकार है, जो पेरिस में रहता है और संपन्नता तथा सेलिब्रिटी जैसे रुतबे का आनंद ले रहा है। एस्तर दस वर्षों से उसकी पत्नी है और एक युद्ध संवाददाता है, जो अपने मित्र मिखाइल के साथ ग़ायब हो जाती है। यह व्यक्ति उसका प्रेमी हो सकता है या नहीं भी। क्या एस्तर का अपहरण हुआ था, हत्या हुई थी या वह केवल उस विवाह से बचना चाहती थी जिससे वह असंतुष्ट थी?

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।

तेलुगु भाषा में प्रकाशित होने के बाद बहुत ही कम समय में बेस्टसेलर साबित हुई। इतना ही नहीं बल्कि यह किताब आज भी बेस्टसेलर की श्रेणी में बनी हुई है। अब यह किताब आपके सामने हिंदी भाषा में उपलब्ध है। जिस तरीके से दक्षिण के लोगों ने इस किताब को और इसकी कहानी को पसंद किया है, हमें पूरा यकीन है कि पूरे भारतभर के हिंदी पाठक इस कथा को भरपूर प्रेम देंगे। यह एक ऐसी प्रेम कहानी है, जो हर एक को अपने अंदर झांकने के लिए प्रेरित करेगी।

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.

Welcome to Kahaanipur Junction. This is not merely a railway junction but a place where everyone is a character and their lives are plots of some interesting stories which are waiting to be told.

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

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.

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.

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. For an ancient evil, described in the shlokas of the Rigveda, India’s oldest text, long believed to have been vanquished and rooted out from the face of the earth, has inexplicably survived.

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

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!

Duṣprachaar ke na_e aayaam paidaa ho ga_e hain. Vhaaṭsa_ep, fesabuk, ṭviṭar aur jaane kitanee soshal miḍaiyaa ke aayaam utpann ho ga_e hain jinakaa istemaal suprachaar ke lie kam duṣprachaar ke lie adhik ho rahaa hai. Log bhee binaa soche samajhe kisee bhee tathy kee satyataa jaane binaa jaane kitane logon ko fŏravarḍa kar dete hain. Is tarah nafarat karane vaalon kee fauj taiyaar kee jaa rahee hai. Saare dharm ahinsaa ke pakṣadhar fir hinsaa kee baaten kyon? Sab dharm prem ke pakṣadhar fir nafarat kee raajaneeti kyon?

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

Told in Ruskin Bond's simple yet poignant style, the stories and poems in No Man Is an Island thoughtfully explore the many shades of friendship and camaraderie. Featuring classic tales such as 'The Woman on Platform No. 8', in which a mysterious stranger befriends a young boy, and 'The Crooked Tree', in which a writer and a hawker form an unlikely bond, this heartwarming collection is a must-listen.

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.

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

Sapphire Towers: Just another residential high-rise in Mumbai where the humdrum routine of daily life carries on with clockwork precision. But beneath the tranquil surface lurks a web of lies and deceit spun by a group of lonely housewives.

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.

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.

इंसानी जीवन कितना क्षणभंगुर है, इसे देखना हो तो किसी अस्पताल में जाकर कुछ दिन ठहर जाइए। नामालूम क़िस्म की अनगिनत बीमारियाँ वहाँ जीवन को छीनने के लिए मुँह बाए खड़ी दिख जाएँगी। लेकिन इसी बीच कोई मरीज़ कुछ दिन बाद बीमारी को हराकर बेड से उठ खड़ा होता है और यह बता देता है कि जीवन बहुत बड़ा है, बस उसके लिए लड़ना आना चाहिए।