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When we don’t process the pain, where does it go? What is the purpose of being alive when there’s so much suffering? What does it mean to live and die with dignity in a world utterly opposed to it? Your Wound/My Garden is a collection of poetry written during Covid-19 lockdown.

What makes people succeed? Why do some people succeed, while others struggle despite working hard? This book is based on the insight that success is not about how good you are but how powerful a model you have to improve how good you are. Chandramouli Venkatesan calls it the Get-Better Model, or GBM. Successful people are those who are able to build a powerful GBM to continuously improve themselves, and this book will show you how to do it. 

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Aisha is a precocious 17-year-old who idolizes her mother and wishes to have a better relationship with her older brother. Twenty-three-year-old Danish has never been able to do anything that would make his parents proud, living as he is in the shadow of his genius younger brother. Aisha and Danish’s paths were never meant to cross, but fate usually has a way of bringing unlikely people together, sometimes through the most unfortunate means.

Grinder N Grater is a toothless old crocodile. He is ridiculed by the other animals and is always hungry. Cheenchi Chiriya, his bird friend, tries to help him replace his teeth with thorns, pebbles and dinosaur teeth, but none of them work. Then she has an idea - and all the animals follow her deep into the forest, into a dark cave with a magic door.

Air pollution kills more than a million Indians every year, albeit silently. Families are thrown into a spiraling cycle of hospital visits, critically poor health, and financial trouble impacting their productivity and ability to participate in the economy. Children born in regions of high air pollution are shown to have irreversibly reduced lung function and cognitive abilities that affects their incomes for years to come. They all suffer, silently. The issue is exacerbated every winter, when the great smog of India descends and envelops much of Northern India.

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.

There was one partition of the land in 1947. Harsh Mander believes that another partition is underway in our hearts and minds. How much of this culpability lies with ordinary people? What are the responsibilities of a secular government, of a civil society, and of a progressive majority? In Partitions of the Heart: Unmaking the Idea of India, human-rights and peace worker Harsh Mander takes stock of whether the republic has upheld the values it set out to achieve and offers painful, unsparing insight into the contours of hate violence. 

What feminine part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world? At what point does femininity become synonymous with apology? Who hurt the people who hurt you? Let's figure it out. Femme in Public (2017) is the debut poetry collection by transfeminine writer Alok Vaid-Menon including work from 2014-2017. It is a meditation on anti-trans harassment, a ceremony for loss and grief, and an imagining of what could be if we weren’t taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free.

Safalataa tay hai aise vichaaron kaa sngrah hai jo anuraag ne us daur men likhe hain jab ve mrityu evn jeevan ko lekar, beemaariyon ke kaaraṇa sngharṣ kar rahe the. Ye pustak aapako saahas evn preraṇaa se bhar degee evn jeevan jeene kee kalaa sikhaa_egee. Pustak kaa adhyann aap ka_ii baar kar sakate hain aur har baar aapako ye kuchh n kuchh nayaa sikhaa_egee. 

A moral dilemma gripped Anil K. Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural on-farm research sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding social and ethical movement - the Honey Bee Network - bringing together and elevating thousands of grassroots innovators.

One day, a little chokli, a stray puppy, discovers the icky, sticky, scratchy joy of playing in muddy rain puddles. Now that’s all he wants to do - that, and telling tall tales about himself to anyone who will listen!

The devas arrive at the gates of the asura kingdom expecting a fight. But when they see the asuras unarmed and jolly, they are suspicious. Their king, Hasyasura, is sent as a spy to unravel the mystery and resolve an eternal enmity.

Hört die unglaublichen und lustigen Geschichten vom berühmten "Ritter" Don Quichotte: Wie der Don auszieht und einen Gasthof für ein verzaubertes Schloss hält, wie er zum Ritter geschlagen wird und die Maultiertreiber angreift, wie er gegen die Windmühlenflügel streitet - und viele mehr.

After two heartbreaks, Adrika, a fiercely independent career girl, changes her hashtag on Instagram to #HappyGoLucky, and dreams become her priority. Arjun, workaholic and socially inept, struggles with his weakness for Dimpy Aunty’s daughter Anushka and his hesitation in sharing heartaches and emotional baggage. Into this mess steps Dimpy Aunty, an unlikely saviour, with all her quirks and jauntiness, steering them through rough patches in unlikely ways as only she can. 

This book is an attempt to look beyond Mahatma Gandhi’s aura and provide an intimate portrayal of the man beneath. Told simply, honestly and affectionately, through his ever-relevant words and wisdom, it makes this icon relatable to today’s children.