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Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Valmiki’s Epic highlights fascinating aspects of events and personalities from one of our most revered epics, drawing out a more nuanced understanding of the decisions made and actions taken in order to expand our learnings from our Itihasa.

For two years, Jia Khan has been running her late father’s organised crime business in the north of England. So far, her authority has remained unchallenged, but now things are beginning to unravel. When she finds her father’s notebook recounting his arrival from Pakistan in the 1970s, it awakes an old family feud that could have devastating repercussions for Jia. And worst of all, one of her staff lies brutally slain, his corpse displayed provocatively in her garden despite her sophisticated security.

Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay.

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata. But this history of our ancestors continues to fascinate us. Even today, we have passionate discussions about the people and their actions in the epic, fervidly defending our favourites and denouncing others. The number of works on the Mahabharata—adaptations, retellings and fiction—that still get written is a testimony to its enduring relevance. While the general storyline is largely known, a lot of questions and myths prevail, such as—What was the geographical extent of the war?

Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the “Gandhi of Grain,” “a rock star” in the battle against GMOs, and “the most powerful voice” for people of the developing world. In Terra Viva, Dr. Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working toward a livable planet and healthier democracies.

Meet Tula, Vinny, Jabeen, Sonal and Samina - best friends and members of the 'Girlie’ club. Listen to this joyous exploration of friendship, family, work and womanhood in the British Asian community in the 90s. In their regular gatherings for ‘Girlie’ evenings the friends drink, laugh, blow off steam and commiserate. Nothing is sacred and friendships are tested, marriages analysed, and secrets exposed.

A Highland heist from award-winning author Abir Mukherjee Sunita lives a quiet life in the village of Glentorrance, running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives, spurring Sunita into an unwanted adventure which...

Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a nice girl, not poverty, loneliness and racism. Still, he might not have found Keith Richards, but he did find the girl. Neha is dying. Lung cancer, a genetic gift from her mother and an invocation to forge a better relationship with her brother and her widowed father before it's too late. The problem is, her brother is an unfunny comedian and her idiot father is a first-generation immigrant who moved to Keighley, of all places.

Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of 25 is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is 27. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family's reduced circumstances. When she catches the eye of powerful, wealthy Raza, it seems like the answer to her parents' prayers. But Ayesha is in love with someone else, and when she refuses to give up on him, Raza resorts to unthinkable revenge. Ayesha travels to London to rebuild her life and there she meets Kamil, an emotionally damaged man with his own demons.

In The Nature of Nature, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist Vandana Shiva argues that food is the currency of life, a thread woven throughout the web of all life, indivisible from Earth and its natural systems. When this interdependence is ruptured—as it is now—the conditions for the “metabolic disorder” of climate change and countless other ecological imbalances come into being.

Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life.

மனதை உருக்க வைக்கும் சம்பவங்கள்.... பிள்ளை கனியமுதே!

உறவுகளுக்கு முக்கியத்துவம் அள்ளிப்பவனாக மோகன், உண்மையான அன்புக்கு ஏங்குபவளாக வாணி, இவர்களுக்கு இடையே மோகனின் குழந்தையாக, சோனா என்கிற காவியா.

கவிப்பிரியா அழகு, அறிவு, பெண்களே பொறாமை கொள்ளும் அளவுக்கு சர்வ லட்சணத்துடன் இருப்பவள்.

காதல் மட்டுமா, உறவு, சகோதர பாசம் என்ன அனைத்தையும் தான்.

அப்படி கலவையான பல உணர்வுகளை பிரதிபலிக்கும், நான் எழுதிய சில சிறுகதைகளை தொகுத்து இங்கே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

This book was born from my experiences in the IOWA International Writing Program and my innumerable trips to the US. During the 20 years between 1970 and 1990, I was conscious of the stormy changes engulfing middle-class Indians there. These educated families had migrated after the '60s to the Promised Land for reasons of their own. During their long, successful journeys, they were stopped short by the problems facing their teenage children, particularly their daughters.

அந்தச் சிறிய கிராமத்திலிருக்கும் பிள்ளையார் பூஜைக்காக டவுனிலிருந்து ஞானா என்கிற ஞானாஸ்கந்தன் என்கிற வேதம் படித்த ஒரு சிறுவயது பையன் வருகிறான்.

சின்ன நூல்கண்டா நம்மைச் சிறைப்படுத்துவது?' என்னும் கட்டுரை 'ராஜா சர் அண்ணாமலை செட்டியார்' பரிசு பெற்ற நூலாகும். தனி மனிதனுள் தோன்றும், தவிர்க்கப்பட வேண்டிய சில சின்ன நூல் இழைகள் போன்ற உணர்வுகள் படிப்படியாகப்

இந்தத் தொகுப்பில் இருக்கும் 'ப்ளம் மரங்கள் பூத்து விட்டன' நான் இந்திய வட கிழக்குப் பிரதேசங்களில் இருந்தபோது எனக்கு ஏற்பட்ட அனுபவங்களினால் பிறந்தவை.