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Girls and the City
Juhi Jha -- ambitious and naiveLeela Lakshmi -- talented, tenacious single motherReshma Talwar -- hotshot young executive As the women bond over work, navigating their secret pasts, disapproving landladies, abusive bosses and roadside stalkers, they discover that the city -- fuelled by hungry aspirants and a real-estate boom -- might not be the refuge they seek. One pouring night in Bengaluru, their worst fears come true: one person is dead and the rest are suspects... Girls and the City by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is an unputdownable read about the big little lies we deploy to hide our dirty little secrets.
Perfect Eight
Perfect Eight tells a story that travels from Lahore to Kanpur to an Assamese cantonmentto Patiala to Ambrosa to Bangalore, through floods and fires and communal riots-proving that what began with Partition continues to play itself out decades after India's soul and its people were divided.
Hotel Calcutta
The century-old Hotel Calcutta run by an Englishman, is under threat from land sharks. As the staff stare at uncertain times, a monk turns up and prophesies that the hotel will still stand if a wall of stories can be built. Will Hotel Calcutta survive or crumble under the sledgehammers of the land sharks? The century-old Hotel Calcutta run by an Englishman, is under threat from land sharks. As the staff stare at uncertain times, a monk turns up and prophesies that the hotel will still stand if a wall of stories can be built. Peter Dutta - the manager
Close to the Bone
“A thrilling journey. . . . A must-read.” Freida Pinto “How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning.” Lisa Ray is one of India’s first supermodels. She’s also an acclaimed actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins born through surrogacy, a lifelong student, and a person of no fixed address. She is a woman who has lived many lives. And this is her story. Unflinching and deeply moving, Close to the Bone traces Lisa Ray’s serendipitous life, from her childhood in Canada as the biracial daughter of an Indian man and Polish woman, to her rise as a Bollywood star; from her battle with a rare and incurable cancer, to her journey to find identity and belonging, ...
Rajesh Khanna
The untold story of Hindi cinema’s first superstar Obsessed female fans routinely sent him love letters written in blood. Hysterical crowds camped outside his house to catch a glimpse of the superstar. And the frenzy unleashed by his public appearances was enough to give law-enforcers a nightmare. In the 1970s, Rajesh Khanna achieved the kind of fame that no film star had ever experienced before—or has since. But having climbed to the pinnacle of success, he then saw it all vanish. And through it all, he remained a fighter till the very end. In this riveting biography, journalist Yasser Usman examines Rajesh Khanna’s dramatic, colourful life in its entirety: from little-known facts about his childhood to the low-down on his relationships and rivalries, from his ambitious hopes to his deep-seated insecurities. What emerges is a tantalizingly written, meticulously researched chronicle of a fascinating and mercurial man—one who was both loved and feared by those closest to him. It is a story that encapsulates the glittering, seductive, cut-throat world of Bollywood at its best and its worst.
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Star photographer Karan Seth is in Bombay to immortalize the city in a unique photo-record of its hidden faces until tragedy strikes and he is drawn into a Fitzgeraldian world of sex, crime and politics. Utterly disenchanted, he abandons the camera and Bombay and heads to England. Yet, like the flamingoes of Sewri, who unfailingly give in to the strange, haunting pull of the great metropolis, Karan too knows that he must return to his old loves. The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay is at once a razor-sharp depiction of contemporary urban society and an affecting tale about love's betrayals and the redemptive powers of friendship.
Life & Exploits of Banda Singh Bahadur
Biography of Bandā Siṅgha, Bahādara, 1670-1716?, Sikh military and religious leader.
Wonder Women
Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed that the gender war was over. "We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Spar should know. One of the first women professors at Harvard Business School, she went on to have three children and became the chair of her department. Now, she's the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important women's college in the country, and an institution firmly committed to feminism. Wonder Women is Spar's story, but it is also the culture's. Armed with reams of new research, she examines how women's lives have, and have not, changed over the past fifty years-and how it is that the struggle for power has become a quest for perfection. Wise, often funny, and always human, Wonder Women asks: How far have women really come? And what will it take to get true equality for good?
By Us, For Us
One very nice dragon, two true friends, three traffic lights, four toothbrushes (and a toothpaste tube: -) We bring to you a pack of twenty-nine exciting stories with innumerable wit, humour and thoughtfulness. Handpicked from across the best of Write&Read Creative Writing Workshops by the poet extraordinaire, Prasoon Joshi, this collection is a worthy addition to every bookshelf!
