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"Open It" is a story about a traumatic father desperately looking for his missing daughter. He describes her features to a group of boys and they find the girl. But the old man only sees his daughter many days later, on a hospital stretcher, having been retrieved from a railway track. What...

On February 22, 1937, the Time magazine featured him on its cover as the wealthiest individual on the planet, a position he's believed to have held his entire life. At his peak, his net worth was the equivalent of $77 billion in today's money. He used a 184-carat diamond worth over $70 million...

What happens when a wait at a bar turns into a blissful union with a stranger. Maya takes a lot of effort to get ready for a blind date on a weekend, but instead gets stood up. Just when she's fretting, a stranger named Dev drops in and gets talking with her. Moments pass by in their easy banter...

History recorded him as the Butcher of Amritsar. On April 13, 1919, General Reginald Dyer ordered his men to open indiscriminate fire at a crowd of peaceful protesters in Jallianwala Bagh killing over a thousand right away. While this happened in Amritsar, a young Urdu poet in Aligarh dreamed of...

Set in the pre-Independence Banaras, where the Viceroy of India is supposed to come, the magistrate is at a loss as to how to make the city clean for the visit. At the same time, the people of Banaras are calling for a strike in protest of the viceroy's arrival. The magistrate gets hold of the...

एक हँसती-खेलती लडकी, मोहिनी संदेहास्पद परिस्थितीयों में मारी जाती है. क्या उसने आत्महत्या की है या किसी ने उसका...

101 game-changing answers to life’s burning questions on how to make the world a better place. What is an entrepreneur’s most useful skill? Some would say it’s communication, others creativity or management. But the greatest skill a leader possesses is curiosity – a strong desire to...

Joby was a simple guy with small aspirations and all he wanted was to reach the peak of the Himalayas like hundreds of others before him so that he'd have done at least one exciting thing in the entirety of his boring life. But he'd never, ever, in his wildest dreams, dreamed of running into a...

Anand Thappar's Dead Bride: A dangerous secret made savvy politician, Anand Thappar, murder his beloved wife? Was it a matter of the heart or was there another, more sinister reason? Find out in 'Anand Thappar's Dead Bride'...

Inspector Yash had just retired from the police force and moved to a quiet place nestled in greenery. But no one told the criminals that! When the house he moves into, proves to be haunted, Yash is in great danger. He finds an unexpected friend to help him solve this spooky mystery. Will the two...

The time has come, water is scarce everywhere in Mumbai, it's as expensive as diamond. An old lady staying alone realises there is a thief in the house! What has he come to steal?...

Sparks fly when they meet on a Mumbai Local and Sheila introduces Harry to a pleasure he had previously dismissed. Audiobooks! Unfortunately they are parted before they can even exchange names and it looks like their romance will end before it even began... Or will it? PS: The rich fragrance...

From his plush hideaway in Bangkok, underworld don Shakti Pillai is wreaking havoc amongst India’s wealthy. He wields modern technology to extract information and extort money from billionaires while continuing to take on contract killings for anyone who can afford his price. Fed up with the police force’s inability to stop the don, some of India’s biggest business magnates pool in their crores and hire a mercenary to get rid of him. They recruit the best in the game, an assassin known only as Venus.

Set during the French Revolution, this powerful story shows how love and courage can bring hope even in the darkest times.

Chanakya, who lived in India in the 4th Century BC, was a leadership guru par excellence. The treasure of his teachings can be found in his book, The Arthashastra, which deals with good governance based on ideal leadership. The concept of the ideal nation in The Arthashastra, called Saptanga...

That’s one lesson Rishabh Shah learnt after he founded I.I.M.U.N. (India’s International Movement to Unite Nations) in 2011. Now, as the world’s largest youth-run organisation, they work with thousands of young people across 220 cities in India and more than 35 countries to put together concourses for school children. The aim is to sensitise leaders of tomorrow about the world, from the Indian lens.

A young photographer goes to the Sunderbans. But that one encounter became memorable in the jungle for the years to come. Was it only the tiger? Or something else haunts the jungle?...

Mahatma Gandhi's assassination was a culmination of many events and many actors that never enjoyed the centerstage in the broader discourse. Yes, Nathuram Godse pulled that trigger, but a lot more went into the project than just that. There was a disgraced barrister, a former Air Force officer...

The 1911 Delhi Durbar was the third and the last, and a very special one. It was an event of many historical firsts—the first time Delhi took over from Calcutta as India's capital, the first time a reigning British monarch visited India in person, and the first time an Indian king openly...

The Golden Temple of Amritsar has always been more than just a holy site. Throughout its chequered history, the complex has served as the undeniable seat of Sikh power, both theological as well as political. So when it was desecrated in 1984, it's only natural the entirety of North India burst...