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Not so Long Ago, Not so Far Away
A heartwarming collection of short stories from towns within India, possibly from a place near yours and about someone familiar.... The sisters in Benares, whose fate led them to different cities, one to mercurial heights of stardom and the other to the depths of misfortune. Now, thirteen years later, they are back in the same city where they started; will the ghats change the course of their lives? Sethji had been an astute and successful diamond merchant, and his grandson’s passion for “paper money” or stocks was wiping the family fortunes. Ironically, he learnt the most valuable lesson of his life from the old, toothless, homeless, flower seller. Too late or just in time? Where was ...
Ratna's Rasoi
This excellent cookbook features authentic vegan and vegetarian Indian dishes, written for a global audience by an Indian woman whose recipes are highly sought after in her native South India. The recipes are creative, balanced, healthy, and easy to follow. This colorful book will delight beginners, advanced cooks, and connoisseurs of Indian food.
Mondays with Minu
Minu paints the canvas of her life with splendid colors dipping her brush into desires, dreams and recollection! Minu pulls off the red scrunchy with a swift movement and gives her head a shake, letting her wavy hair bounce around her shoulders. Oh Oh!! Minu has a problem that’s eating into her. What’s it this time? A bossy boss, a strange birthday wish, an acrimonious client or a fishy shadow? Minu grapples with the hiccups of everyday life and finds solutions in playful childhood conversations. The author adds a personal touch to the stories with Acrylics and Oil paintings connecting the stories with the paintings seamlessly, leaving the reader mesmerized and joyful.
The Quarantine Papers
As the Babri Masjid is razed in Ayodhya, brick by ancient brick, Ratan Oak stumbles upon a corpse at the Kipling House in Bombay. It is the beginning of an unraveling for him, of the submerged identity he has sought to suppress all his life: that of his great-grandfather, Ramratan Oak. Grappling with this tandem existence, Ratan realizes that the communal violence which consumes his city mirrors the turbulence it experienced in Ramratans times. For, concealed in the scientific discoveries of the plague epidemic of 1897 is the terrifying truth about the dead woman of Kipling House. A novel that perfectly balances character and pace, The Quarantine Papers dissects the compulsions of a hate that corrupts, as it trails a doomed love story from nineteenth century Bombay into our own day.
Ratna Vatika 2 (Hindi)
This is an illustrated collection of short stories in Hindi. Ages 5 to 8 years.
Room 000
Bombay, 1896. A serial killer is on the loose. In Room 000, detectives struggle to snare the culprit, but this murderer is always one step ahead of them. When death is a contagion that spreads from house to house and from street to street, where does one look for clues? As the investigators in Room 000, armed with microscopes and cultures, track the killer, they invent a new science. But the Raj imprisons Bombay in antiquated disciplines that turn the plague into an epic tragedy. Room 000 takes a Holmesian look at the Bombay Plague. In these pages, you'll meet the Argyll Street Irregulars, share the anxieties of the Reluctant Ephemerist, thrill to the discoveries of the Solitary Scientist, and shudder over the repulsive story of the Red Leech. Here too, is Tatya Lakshman, the first Indian detective of the Bombay Police in hot pursuit of the Parsi Plague Current. In their signature style, Kalpish Ratna meld science and adventure into intrigue and mystery. The forgotten truths of the Bombay Plague, seen from this very human perspective, will compel us to look at today's emerging epidemics in an entirely new light.
Listen to the House
It is the countries, the cities, the streets, the houses we have grown up in that define our lives. How can we ever escape them? We look at our life years later by the streets we have played in, the houses we have lived in, and the cities whose bylanes we crisscrossed. We are that memory finally. Listen to the House is the story of two girls who travel the world but are rooted in the houses they grew up in, and anchored to each other by the long letters they exchange, no matter where they are. And this they do through their lives in whatever situations they are. The novel evokes an old Hyderabad that no longer exists, a slowness of life that has died, and friendships that have all but disappeared.
