A collective and personal chronicle. A story of a woman’s journey, from middle class to rural India, tracing the interwoven weft and warp of people’s lives, through their struggles for justice and equality. Recognising and experiencing their immense capacity to define India’s destiny.
In Bahubali, Devdutt Pattanaik explores the stories, symbols, rituals and ideas associated with one of India’s most ancient but lesser-known faiths, and shows us why the tenets of Jainism are still very relevant for all of us even today.
Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik reimagines a Hindu way for young readers. Covering everything from major Hindu deities such as Brahma, the creator of the universe, and Devi, the powerful goddess who takes many forms, to complicated ideas of atma and the caste system, this book explores twenty-six ideas and figures from Hindu myth, each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.
1982. Three teenage girls planning a flight from the Soviet Union to the West end up being sold in Mumbai’s red-light area instead. The murders start a quarter of a century later. The victims are all men.
A story unfolding through several different perspectives, The Mogul is a howdunnit set in the fractured world of power, money and crime.
A powerful legal thriller that moves breathlessly from crime scene to courtroom to homes to lay bare the difference between law and justice.
Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over €10 million. Hours later he’s dead in his hotel room in Brussels: murdered. The perpetrators are extremely tech-savvy and have defeated all the CCTV cameras in the hotel… but one concealed camera in the elevator has snapped one of the guys.
DCP Rita Ferreira is called into the investigation after the third corpse is discovered in Mumbai, which confirms it’s the same killer who has a fascination for painting his victim’s lips with dark red, almost crimson lipstick. The Lipstick Killer, like all serial killers, is fast decompensating – the time interval between the murders shortening, the victims shifting from street side hookers to high-heeled wives who are a little too libertine for his liking, those playing outside their marriages.
Category: Fiction Publisher: Blackstone Publishing I learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart just a middle-class, hard-working, risk-averse, un-creative, strait-laced, routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, I’m also prudish to the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one over-powering wish …