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IT IS THE HOUR WHEN CRIME, VICE AND WICKEDNESS REIGN... The speck of dust on the carpet... Half-smoked cigar... Blood stains and a corpse... Welcome to the crime scene and feel free to cross... 50...

The Hindi short story is one of the most exciting genres in modern Indian literature. The fifteen stories in this volume, by some of the most prominent writers in the field, provide a unique picture...

She was there every morning, chasing butterflies, stalking squirrels and mynahs, her voice brimming with laughter, her slight figure flitting about between the trees.' Childhood memories are...

Krishna, the eternal lover, is believed to have charmed the heart of every woman he came across and his marriage with 16,100 women is the stuff of numerous ballads that have enthralled us over ages...

Awaken the Durga Within is a handy, easy-to-follow guide to help every woman assert themselves at home and work and reclaim their life. As a woman in a patriarchal country like India, they are often...

In one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a...

Beyond Good And Evil - 9789355200662Author: Friedrich NietzschePublisher: RupaPublication Date: Nov 10, 2021Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9355200668ISBN-13:...

On 23 August 2023, India scripted history as Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon's South Pole. India became the first and only country to reach this remote lunar region, a milestone that...

Phiroze Elchidana, son of a Parsi priest, falls in love with Sepideh, daughter of an old khandhia, or corpse bearer. In order to marry her, he agrees to join the caste of untouchables that carried...

Serial entrepreneur Ajay Gupta is the quintessential Indian businessman. He has spent more than three decades in businesses creating companies that have grown despite numerous obstacles and...

Decoding Gita is a modern interpretation of the epic scripture that highlights the relevance of the Gita with real-life examples drawn from the not-so-disparate worlds of business and sports. Each of...

Why is the heart of Delhi named after an obscure British scion? How is South Delhi's Saket related to Lord Rama's birthplace Ayodhya? Shaheen Bagh is the seat of Muslim resistance. But what does...

Did you know that you need a Hayagriva to slay a Hayagriva? Or that living beings can be created from something as gross as ear-wax or sweat? Or that the way you pronounce a Sanskrit word can change...

Why do we worry without cause? Why do we fear without reason? This book is a collection of 365 verses of unadulterated wisdom, providing answers to all our confusions. In the battleground of our...

Well, not always-especially not in Maths! As you try to crunch the numbers, it's important to have fun, and get the answers right, of course. And sometimes a little help and a bit of practice is all...

The tiger approached the bars and allowed Grandfather to put both hands around his head. Grandfather stroked the tiger's forehead and tickled his ear, and, whenever he growled, smacked him across the...

The literary offerings of the greatest essayists spanning centuries Jonathan Swift 'meditates upon a broomstick' and Mark Twain tells us 'how to tell a story'. While Ralph Waldo Emerson indulges in...

You're pregnant? That's lovely! But perfectly pregnant... isn't that a wonderful possibility? For far too long, Indian women have been conditioned to believe that pregnancy and motherhood mark the...

Introducing the Value Discovery Canvas tool Is there a structured process to develop customer insights that can be shared and brainstormed across teams? If you know what the customer really wants,...

A remarkable journey-part pilgrimage, part romantic odyssey-down India's mightiest river, the Ganga. Nishant, a young Indian writer living in Paris, is haunted by the memory of an enigmatic...

Since then, many lies have been passed off as truths; half-truths have been mixed with true incidents and passed off as whole truths. 'Gandhi was responsible for Partition'; 'Gandhi favoured Muslims...

All hell breaks loose when a hardcore environmentalist ends up increasing his carbon footprint in a way least expected. A new day dawns in Ludhiana, a city of big cars and even bigger show-offs. The...

While Shakespeare today is considered literature and is taught as a pure, high form of art, in his own day it was the quintessential masala entertainment he provided that attracted both the common...

Meditations - 9789355201041Author: Marcus AureliusPublisher: RupaPublication Date: Nov 10, 2021Number of Pages: 198 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9355201044ISBN-13: 9789355201041

The South India story attempted here is of a peninsular region influenced by the oceans, not by the Himalayas. Yet it is more than that. It is a story of facets of four powerful culturesKannada,...

Keki Daruwalla on Polly Umrigar. Fredun De Vitre on Chandu Borde. Gulu Ezekiel on Eknath Solkar. Hemant Kenkre on Sunil Gavaskar. Amrit Mathur on Salim Durani. Kersi Meher-Homji on Vijay Hazare...

After class hours, or whenever I was free, I would slip into the library and sit amongst these hundreds of books, reading them, arranging them, cataloguing them or just being with them. Here I made...

Devi is always with us. Devi is always inside us. Every year, there are occasions when we celebrate her presence a little more, specially worship her and become a bit more conscious of her presence...

Biography of a Indian Javelin throwing player.Author: Arjun Singh KadianPublisher: RupaPublication Date: Jan 15, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This 'symphony' has 86 stories in the form of drabbles, each exactly 100 words. Easy to read, the stories span several genres and have been written by three individuals representing different...