A fictionalized account, The Star of India is based on the real-life romance between a rising young actress and a Cambridge-educated war hero and ruler of an ancient principality.
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Two strangers, Seat 7A and Seat 7B, who have nothing in common. Absolutely Nothing. Except they are both hoping the seat next to theirs remains empty. It doesn’t. Can one meeting change everything forever? The Japanese have a term for it: Ichi-go ichi-e. One time, one encounter, lasts a lifetime.
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In this age where stress is not incidental but a constant, we search for hope and spiritual calm.
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Set in the backdrop of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Abbas Zaidi’s The Infidels of Mecca dissects the tumultuous times that shook Pakistan’s social and political fibre, weaving an intense story of love and hate.
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When a pigeon delivers an urgent call for help, the AIA finds itself deep in an adventure that takes them from India to London to France, into the horrific world of animal testing. Two hundred monkeys are slated to be euthanized in a laboratory, but that challenge is nothing compared to the one they stumble upon.
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Somebody is on an extinction operation, stealing all the last specimens of highly endangered species. This mysterious crook has somehow managed to discover the impossible – a living specimen of Raphus cucullatus, aka the dodo. Yes, the same flightless bird that was hunted to oblivion in Mauritius more than 300 years ago!
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Tigers are being reported missing from wildlife reserves across India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Several hundred tigers have vanished. Something, or someone, is taking them. And if they are not stopped, this could mean the end of the species. It is time the Animal Intelligence Agency got involved.
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Set in Portuguese-ruled Goa, this haunting tale brings the touch of the Gothic to a mystery that involves a girl with the voice of an angel, a violin that plays the sorrows of the heart, and the bond between two friends who swear that not even death will do them apart.
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It is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic, while the Mahabharata is realistic. Yet these two epics have identical building blocks, identical themes, and identical history. In this groundbreaking book, Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s most popular mythologist, explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the two epics in a ‘playful comparison’ accompanied by his signature illustrations. Whether it is the family structure, forest exile, or war, the comparison between the two epics prove a startling point—the Mahabharata is in fact a reaction to the events in the Ramayana.
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