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Ahi is an aspiring publisher and wishes to make it big someday. When her favourite author’s autobiography lands on her table - which has confessions of his heinous crimes, illegal businesses and few eminent others as his partners in crime - she doesn’t know if it’s real or someone’s trap. It could get her a big breakthrough, but little does she know that it would turn her world upside down completely.

Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people. His concept of nonviolent resistance propelled numerous struggles in the world. His own personal and political struggles recorded in his autobiography, The Story of my Experiments with Truth, continues to this day to be a source of inspiration to thousands of people.

The oldest surviving graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; sculptures that reveal facets of the human-animal relationship. In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri sifts through clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour and contradictions.

In The Young and the Restless, Gurmehar Kaur, student activist and author of Small Acts of Freedom, follows the journeys of eight youth leaders, their aspirations for the country's youth, their aspirations for themselves and, most importantly, their aspirations for the nation. She explores whether their politics only mimics that of the older party leaders or if they have the ideas, passion and motivation of the demographic they represent.

Love...does it mean running around the trees or vacationing in Switzerland, singing tra-la-la in the snow? Is it about gifting teddy bears and roses to your partner? After losing everything she holds dear...her love, her parents, and even her singing, Samaira is dejected. She is at her lowest point in life and has no idea what she wants. Vivian is the successful and dynamic head of Creative Tanks and dreams of being the top entrepreneur in India. When their paths cross, sparks fly and they are drawn to each other. The aura of mystery around her tugs at Vivian’s heartstrings.

Behind the razzle-dazzle of luxe, there is another life, filled with lust, hatred, jealousy and anger. A life very deprived, very starved. A life of horrors. A life of flesh and blood. But yes, a life to die for, or rather kill! Luxury remains a silent witness to that darkness. Dark Luxe is not about dreams; it is about nightmares. It is about those realities that safely hide behind the veil of luxe. These 13 tales of fiction from the darkest bottomless pits of hell, these firsthand stories of horror, are the stuff luxury is made of, straight from the heart, leaving a trail of blood....