Indian Literature

Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

Patrick O’Brian is acclaimed as one of the greatest historical novelists of the twentieth century, celebrated throughout the world for his masterful roman fleuve, the Aubrey‒Maturin series. But he was also a prolific writer of short stories, and it is in this form that he first made his mark. Encompassing stories written in his unvarnished youth to tales told by a seasoned traveller, this is the most comprehensive collection of O’Brian’s short fiction ever published. It is a treasure chest, containing more than sixty tales, including rarities, uncollected works, and forgotten jewels.

As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt them down.

Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years. This book attempts to unlock seven secrets that are relevant even in modern times.

This magnificent novel by one of America's finest writers is the epic of one man's remarkable journey, set in 19th-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of 12, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home.

Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own nonnegotiable rules: Never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations, and never, ever, defy your family. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now, she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes.

Deh ke jwarbhate ke bich prem ka chand atma ke gagan par khilta aur doobta hai. Purnima aur amawasya ke bich hi kahin prem aakar leta hai aur prakash aur andhere ki sandhirekha par hi ansu aur aag ki patkatha rachi jati hai. Upanyas ‘Bujhaye na bujhe’ isi prem ki kahani kahta hai.

One cold night, three friends revel in intoxication, discovering a bag filled with banknotes. However, their joy is short-lived as the very night witnesses the announcement of demonetization. In the midst of people queuing up at banks to exchange 2,000-rupee notes, the trio finds themselves grappling with the challenge of exchanging the entire bag. Caught in the chaos of demonetization, the story unfolds as these friends navigate through local mafias, undercover agents and the police. Will they succeed in their mission amidst the mayhem caused by demonetization?

कुछ साल पहले पिंकी और मंटू का प्रेम-पत्र सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हुआ और ऐसे वायरल हुआ कि उसे शेयर करने वालों में हाईस्कूल-इंटरमीडिएट के छात्र भी थे और यूनिवर्सिटी के प्रोफेसर भी। लेकिन उस छोटे से प्रेम-पत्र के पीछे की बड़ी कहानी क्या थी, यह किसी को नहीं मालूम। क्या था उन दो प्रेमियों का संघर्ष? ‘चाँदपुर की चंदा’ क्या उस मंटू और पिंकी की रोमांटिक प्रेम-कहानी भर है?

मयंक ने कभी सोचा न था कि एक दिन उसके नए लिखे जा रहे उपन्यास का एक किरदार उसके सामने आ खड़ा होगा और उस कहानी की हीरोइन काव्या की तलाश उसे दिल्ली से वायनाड ले जाएगी। कौन है यह काव्या, जो उसके आज और बीते कल पर भारी पड़ रही है?

A fitting but entirely independent sequel to Boots Belts Berets, her celebrated book about life at the National Defence Academy, On the Double follows the continuing adventures of Pessi, Maachh, Porky, Sandy and Zora as they navigate the obstacle course that is the IMA. Their love of fun breathes life into their time together, and their friendship and dare-devilry guarantees sleepless nights for their Company Commander.

પ્રસિદ્ધ લેખક શ્રી ધ્રુવ ભટ્ટની 'અગ્નિકન્યા' નવલકથાની પહેલી આવૃત્તિ 1988માં પ્રગટ થઈ હતી. આ નવલકથા મહાભારતની કથા પર આધારિત છે અને નવલકથાના કેન્દ્રમાં દ્રૌપદીનું સમગ્ર જીવન છે.

In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the best-selling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until author Lee Nelson decided to finish it.

It has been three years since the Progerians left their mark of devastation upon Earth. The remaining humans are in a desperate race against time as they do their best to reverse engineer the alien technology they captured, in an effort to bolster their beleaguered defenses against the oncoming onslaught of Progerians hell-bent on revenge.

കഥ ചില സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാർ പറയുന്നു, വായനക്കാരെ വിനോദിപ്പിക്കുവാൻ വേണ്ടിയാണ് അവർ എഴുതുന്നെതന്ന്. വിനോദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ജോലി എനിക്കുള്ളതല്ല. അതു 'ബഫൂൺ' മാർക്കുള്ളതാണ്. അവർ ആ ജോലി നിർവ്വഹിച്ചുകൊള്ളട്ടെ. മറ്റു ചില സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാർ പറയുന്നു, തത്ത്വസംഹിതകൾ പ്രചരിപ്പിക്കുവാൻവേണ്ടിയാണ് അവർ എഴുതുന്നെതന്ന്. ഞാൻ ഒരു തത്ത്വസംഹിതയുടെയും പ്രചാരകനല്ല. നിത്യപച്ചയായ ജീവിതവൃക്ഷത്തിൽ ഓരോ കാലഘട്ടത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടാകുന്ന കായ്കളാണ് തത്ത്വശാസ്ത്രങ്ങളെന്നും അവയെല്ലാം പഴുത്തു കൊഴിഞ്ഞുപോകുമെന്നും ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു.

Iron Age of India … around 900 B.C.E. Born in the arms of the Ganga, Vasu grew up in the raging province of Anga. His life shaped by a fate that failed to be just—neglected by his own, stripped of his birthright—he was raised to be lost in an abyss of desires and disappointment. Cursed by his guru, hurt by the only woman he loved, ostracised from society for being the son of a suta. With his only armour—hope—he ventured on an unforgettable journey. Alone. This is Vasu’s tale of survival, of endurance, of abiding courage in the face of all adversities.

Taken literally, stories, symbols and rituals of Hindu mythology have much to say about gender relationships. Taken symbolically, they reveal many more things about humanity and nature. Which is the correct reading? The third title in the bestselling Hindu Trinity series focuses on the goddess, and respected mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik tries to unravel the secrets locked within her stories, symbols and rituals.

When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own. Continuing their journey north to the goldfields seems their only option, and Adrik Ivanov agrees to be their guide. With the constant threat of winter hastening their pace, Adrik wonders at the wisdom of their decision.

In the tradition of the Native American storyteller, Jamake Highwater weaves generations of legends and stories into the haunting legend of a handsome young brave named Anpao. When Anpao falls in love with the beautiful Ko-Ko-mik-e-is, she tells him she belongs to the Sun alone. Before they can marry, Anpao must complete a dangerous journey to the house of the Sun to get permission to wed his beloved. As a sign of the Sun’s approval, the scars will be melted from Anpao’s tawny cheek.

New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Traveling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis.