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Lights! Wedding! Ludhiana!
All hell breaks loose when a hardcore environmentalist ends up increasing his carbon footprint in a way least expected. A new day dawns in Ludhiana, a city of big cars and even bigger show-offs. The Rahejas are different-well, at least one half of the Rahejas. Reeti Raheja is the free-spending stunner, while Kushal, her industrialist husband, is a fanatical environmentalist and a misfit in Ludhiana. The story starts with Reeti, who is preoccupied with planning her outfit and make-up in order to dazzle the invitees during a wedding celebration. However, things soon go awry when her mischievous son Lakshya uncovers a secret that sets off a series of mis-happenings and also threatens to create a big turmoil in the family. After they reach the wedding venue, there is not a single dull moment. It's full on Lights! Wedding! Ludhiana! Will the Rahejas be able to weather this storm? In his third novel, medico-cum-author Dr Jas Kohli, takes humour and satire to another level with his depiction of a quirky family in a small but famous town.
Anything to Look Hot
When the superstar diva of the past decade doesn’t want to play the hero’s mother on screen, she insists that she be reshaped into the most beautiful woman in the world…by any means. This is just one of the many odd situations which plastic surgeon Dr. Dhruv faces in Mumbai. He has dealt with tyrannical bosses and finicky patients while undergoing his training, during which he has also won over a stunning doctor as his life partner. But satisfying the movie stars is a different ball game, because every girl wishes to have bee-stung lips, and every guy wants to flaunt a six-pack abdomen without working too hard. And all this while, he has to resist losing his balance over his ravishing female clients. Dr. Dhruv’s journey surpasses even a masala movie for humour, drama and action. In debunking many a myth about cosmetic surgeries, the book will enthrall those who can do Anything to Look Hot.
The Last Witch Trial
1916. A beautiful angelic woman, Maya, is raped and executed publicly on accusation of being a witch, after subjecting to a fabricated witch trial in a small town. A series of ritualistic and brutal murders harrow the town every third decade since then. As per the witnesses of each era, Maya comes back every thirty years to avenge the savagery done on her. 2010. Ajay Singh Thakur, a young postgraduate, returns to the town to visit his dying uncle and finds himself collared in midst of the haunting. A secret letter reveals the dark history behind the ‘1916 witch trial’, links the nefarious act to his ancestry and leaves him aghast. He, with the aid of Professor Arya (a paranormal expert),...
Democracy and Discontent
Long considered one of the great successes of the developing world, India has more recently experienced growing challenges to political order and stability. Institutional mechanisms for the resolution of conflict have broken down, the civil and police services have become highly politicized, and the state bureaucracy appears incapable of implementing an effective plan for economic development. In this book, Atul Kohli analyzes political change in India from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. Based on research conducted at the local, state and national level, the author analyzes the changing patterns of authority in and between the centre and periphery. He combines rich empirical investigation, extensive interviews and theoretical perspectives in developing a detailed explanation of the growing crisis of governance his research reveals. The book will be of interest to both specialists in Indian politics and to students of comparative politics more generally.
Not Our Daughter!
Well thank you, Daddy ji! You have always said to me, from day one when you met me, that I would live under your roof as a daughter, not a daughter-in-law. Well, you have treated me like a daughter-in-law rather than a daughter by not telling me the truth about the home that I am living in.
The Evergreen Emotion
There are some strong feelings or emotions in our life which we never forget and we seem to carry it somewhere in our heart's core through out our life. Many a times those feelings and emotions remains untold. This book tries to bring that untold feelings in front of the world. "The Evergreen Emotion" is a collection of stories, poems and quo...
Food Process Engineering And Technology
"Food Process Engineering focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and other process manufacturing activities. The development of "Agro Processing" will spur agricultural diversification. There are several benefits of promoting small scale agro-processing units rather large scale for the promotion of rural entrepreneurship. Appropriate post harvest management and value addition to agricultural products, in their production catchments, will lead to employment and income generation in the rural sector and minimize the losses of harvested biomass. Adoption of suitable technology plays a vital role in fixing the cost of the final product and consequently makes the venture, a profitable one. It is observed that imported agro-processing machines or their imitations are used for preparing food products. Actually, the working of these machines should be critically studied in context of the energy input and the quality of the finished product."
LOCKDOWN 20
Notes & Posts, as the Lockdown 20 unfolded. Between Lockdown 1.0 & Lockdown 5.0 Between Sameness & Randomness Between Essentialness & Obliviousness Between March & May Between Heat & Warmth Between Seafood & Mangoes Between Betweenness
Accountability without Democracy
Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in rural China. In authoritarian and transitional systems, formal institutions for holding government officials accountable are often weak. The state often lacks sufficient resources to monitor its officials closely, and citizens are limited in their power to elect officials they believe will perform well and to remove them when they do not. The answer, Lily L. Tsai found, lies in a community's social institutions. Even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
Within Minutes: Micro Stories
Examining human behaviour isn't just for academics and medical professionals. As humans, we're naturally fascinated by how we―and others ―experience the world around us in an attempt to understand ourselves. What's most important - your status in life, or your character? How do modern women cope with living in a patriarchal society? Why do children have a unique perception of the world? What makes common people act differently in business settings or in relationships and friendships? How did certain myths, superstitions, ideas about divinity, and small-town views of the world develop? Comprised of 45 micro fictional stories, Within Minutes profoundly explores the words, hearts, and minds of a diverse range of men, women, and children in a bid to answer age-old questions and quell our endless curiosity. If you want an escape from your workday, want to spend a little time learning about the cross-sections of Indian society to see where their hearts and minds lie, this collection offers an abundance of two to three-minute reads for you.
