Siddhartha Street by Sudha Yadav is a collection of short stories or rather perspective pieces from the aspect of different characters who live in the same neighbourhood.
Set in the fictional lane named Siddhartha Street, located somewhere in South India, this book is a touching, poignant, and emotional read about the life.
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January Andrews is a romance writer who is broke and on a deadline. In the middle of writer’s block, she decides to come to a beach home. Augustus Everett is a successful literary fiction author, who happens to be January’s next-door neighbour at the beach house. They both are dealing with writer’s block when they find themselves with a writing bet!
Love Science is a book that takes a necessary step in the right direction. At the core of the book, lies the attempt to study love relationships and understand the science of love. So that we as humans, value and nurture our most beautiful relationship/emotion.
Book one of the trilogy mainly revolves around the eccentric, baffling, but charismatic character of the Aghori Om Shastri, who claims to have lived for thousands of years and has witnessed all the four yugas, including the events of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
In this book, debut novelist Dr. Abhinav Atul explores the system of arranged marriages and its perks through his protagonist Hrishi whose unfulfilled sexual desires lead him on this quest for self-discovery and physical compatibility.
One would be wrong to assume that the book is just about Landour and Bond’s life in Landour. It is not, for it has much more to offer. It is about his day-to-day life, and also about his love for nature, his long walks to the hills, and his interactions with the locals and with others of his own kind (writers). It tells of his rendezvous with people, some charming, some not so welcome.
Gorkhaland Diaries is a diary of all the major events of the Gorkhaland Movement which took place in the four decades spanning from the 1980s up to 2017. The book revolves around the stories of its two main characters: Rajen Thapa from Kalimpong and Bijay from a tea garden in Darjeeling.
Unique, one of its kind, and deeply stirring, the story opens with a description which is sort of a poem about the unknown figure who is claimed to be immortal and comes out of his hibernation once in a while to strike at random people.
‘Marked by the shadow’s cry’ is a line that mesmerizes and raises curiosity at the same time. Who is this scary figure and why does he engage in such horrendous crimes against humanity?
Based on the author’s own experiences in the four-year stint at Regional Engineering College, Surat, Hostelitis: Surviving Hostel Life is a humorous, emotional, and adventurous journey that takes readers through the transcending and multidirectional lanes of friendship, career goals, and true love.
The collection comprises of nineteen short stories that are based on the saying of Kurt Vonnegut: “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” The plots are varied in each of the short stories and they are not interconnected.
Everyone is seeking something. Everyone has something they wish to obtain in life. It doesn’t matter if it’s educational, material, financial, emotional, personal, or professional. We all want something in life that we are constantly working towards. This is exactly what Rajesh Vairapandian’s The Art of Attracting Abundance teaches us.
At the very core of the book lies the aim of introducing children to chemicals. Professor Simplicius and the Mystery of Matter attempts to bust the myths around the general perception of chemicals. It is an attempt to tell us that ‘Look, not all chemicals are bad’, and that chemicals are an ‘integral part of life and Universe’.
If it is to be described in a single sentence, then the narrative of Mystiq Lynk brings two very different worlds together. The eerie atmosphere of the plot is hard to decipher, full of suspense, and always keeps the reader on the edge. The narrative plays on the emotions of the reader by spreading the feeling of fear, terror, and suspense and concealing a lot to reveal only that which cannot be easily guessed.
Gripping, mind-boggling, terrifying, and beautifully woven, Killing Strangers, is a didactic and entertaining debut in equal proportions, set in the America of recent times. The plot opens with the character of Larry Watson, a retired FBI agent, who is on his way for a job interview at Atlanta Tech Corridor stands witness to a mass shooting incident.
Expect a book that features a rather unusual romantic pair – A King crab fisherman and a Hollywood production assistant. Expect a friends-to-lovers story that is set in the small sea town of Westport in the American state of Washington.
In Vision: An Insightful Way Towards Life, author Shyna brings a book that attempts to break the illusion of ‘forged time’ and ‘forced affirmative ambiances’ that have become the new normal in our world. It is a book that helps you break through the clutter of useless stimulations, and never-ending provocations, by emphasizing the importance of having a vision.
Mrs. Deeksha Kapoor is a high-heeled socialite who loves partying and entertaining. Her husband Dhruv is one of the best-known plastic surgeons in the country, specializing in celebrity makeovers, and often frequented by Bollywood celebrities. Theirs is a happy family, but their happy world comes crashing down when one day, after a clash with his wife, Dhruv commits suicide and the next day, Deeksha’s body is found brutally murdered.
Living in a grand mansion in Sunder Nagar is the ghost of the young princess Madhubala, the daughter of Raja Pratap Singh of the princely state of Singhgarh.
The princess’s promising future culminates in a tragic and abrupt end when a grand party, organized in her honour, is attacked by a masked man.