EX A twisted Love Story

Neel, the protagonist of this romance thriller book, has quit his boring job to cater to his passion of writing. This passion for writing literature takes this aspirant author to the Jaipur Literary Festival where he meets a lithe and enticing girl Nivrita, the commissioning editor of a leading publishing house. Nivrita claims to be his ex but Neel seems to remember nothing about this attractive temptress. Lured by an offer that is hard to resist and the mystery that Nivrita embodies, Neel soon finds himself getting too close to the mysterious Nivrita, and farther apart from his live-in girlfriend Titiksha. Neel finds himself floating between dreams and reality where he soon begins to lose his own identity. He has to uncover the vagueness that is Nivrita, and salvage his love story with Titiksha when threads of his own sanity are falling apart. The story is full of plot twists and keeps readers turning pages with its abruptness and complicacies. The story carries an immense measure of thrill and fear and is Navoneel Chakraborty???s fourth novel

Few Things Left Unsaid

Few Things Left Unsaid is a heart touching college based story. The novel is about a couple named Aditya and Riya. They meet each other through friends and fall in love. As they come closer to each other tragedy strikes. They break up. Will they be able to make things better between them or is this the end of their love story? What are the twists and turns coming on their way? Read Few Things left Unsaid to get the answer

Custody

Raman is a marketing executive with brilliant prospects at a multinational company, Shagun is his alluring wife. Along with their two adorable children Arjun who looks just like her and Roohi who looks just like him the couple seem to have the perfect life. But when Raman's new boss the older, urbane Ashok enters the picture and Shagun decides her marriage is over, husband and wife become locked in a bitter battle over their children. While the children's custody is thrown into question, with them torn between homes, parents and countries, the childless Ishita is drawn to Raman and a chance at familial fulfilment. Custody is a captivating story of love and loss. Gently satirical, it is told with quiet restraint, honesty and clearsightedness, once again confirming Manju Kapur's reputation as the great chronicler of the modern Indian family.

The Forty Rules Of Love

"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .

Amrita -imroz : A Love Story

"When I wrapped myself with your being our bodies turned inwards in contemplation Our limbs intertwined Like blossoms in a garland Like an offering at the altar of the spirit Our names, slipping out of our lips, Became a sacred hymn . . . " (from Adi Dharam by Amrita Pritam). Acclaimed as the doyenne of Punjabi literature, Amrita Pritam received many awards, including India s highest literary award, the Jnanpith, in 1981. Born in Gujranwala, now in Pakistan, in 1919, she came to India after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Her best-known work is a classic poem, addressed to the great eighteenth-century Sufi poet Waris Shah, in which she laments the carnage of Partition and calls on him to give voice from his grave. Amrita met Imroz, a well-known artist, in the 1960s and they became lifelong companions. They stayed together for more than forty years, till her death, after a long illness, in October 2005. "Amrita Imroz: A Love Story" offers living glimpses of the sacred hymn of Amrita Pritam and Imroz s life together. Uma Trilok had the rare opportunity to witness their remarkable love story and the passionate bond that they shared for so many years. In this moving tribute she communicates her sense of deep wonder at their unique and unconventional relationship, as also her profound admiration for the creative energy of these two extraordinary individuals.

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Can true love bring someone back from the dead?Akshara is left devastated by her mother???s death and spends most of her time in solitude at the local park. One day, as she is sobbing uncontrollably, a young man named Harry approaches her. They become friends and Harry recounts to her a story about the miraculous reunion of a young woman and her dead boyfriend to help ease some of her pain. The story makes Akshara hopeful that she can perhaps see her dead mother again. But she soon realizes that Harry isn???t what he seems to be. Even the characters in his story seem dubious, almost unreal. So what is he hiding? And why? Is there any truth to his story at all?In this darkly suspenseful romance mystery, Akshara is left facing a truth that will make her doubt not just Harry but herself as well . .

The Five-Dollar Smile : Fourteen Early Stories And A Farce In Two Acts

The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor???s late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the Emergency.

Accidents Like Love & Marriage

A ribald, good-natured story of love in Delhi. Accidents like Love and Marriage is an unexpected romp through the universal dilemmas of love and marriage. It is a compelling tale of incompatible relationships and their astonishing success rates. The Sachdevs, Menons and Singhs are urban Indians, normal folk with everyday concerns, instantly recognizable, in fact, just a little bit like youji and me. But when a foppish Delhiwalla falls for a lovely, smart Keralite and his brother finds romance abroad, passion and comedy take control of their destinies. Why are any of these couples married to each other? Why are the unmarried wanting to marry each other? And why are some of them friends? For wouldn???t you have thought that friends, at the very least, had to be vaguely compatible, even if husbands and wives weren???t? This hilarious tale of incompatibilities explores why we do the things we do or, indeed, why we let them happen to us. Jaishree Misra???s second novel.

Ancient Promises

A love story set mainly in India - although partly in Milton Keynes, about Janu, a young women from Delhi who has loved Arjun since she was 16 years old, but is forced into an arranged marriage with disastrous consequences.

The End Of Innocence

1971: While a savage civil war rages in East Pakistan, a thousand miles away in West Pakistan, in the safe, cosy village of Sabzbagh, life appears to continue undisturbed. An ancient preoccupation with family honour and social propriety dominates the lives of peasants and landed gentry alike. It is here, at her family estate in Sabzbagh, that naive, privileged nine-year-old Laila is spending her winter vacation. Laila's world is peopled by adults progressive parents, a protective ayah, and an imperious, old-fashioned grandmother. Adored and indulged though she is, Laila feels excluded from this enigmatic grown-up world. Much like the young heroes of her favourite Enid Blyton adventures, she yearns for a slice of the action, and with a best friend by her side. This friend is Rani the spirited teenage granddaughter of a family servant. Rani, however, is hurtling into a forbidden love affair, and when she becomes pregnant, she has no one to turn to but Laila. Eager but artless, Laila plunges headlong into helping Rani. As she flounders in an adult world she does not understand, Laila unwittingly unleashes a catastrophe. This is the story of a guileless relationship between two girls; and as the larger political reality unfolds tragically in the background, so politics is played with Rani. The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story not just of two children, but of a country and an ideology.

The Return Of The Butterfly

The return of the butterfly can be considered to be a long monologue by a woman who likes to think of herself as a 'butterfly' because of her carefree nature. She is beautiful, vibrant and almost everyone would like to catch her but her spirit is always soaring higher. She traverses the boundaries of personal and social as she talks about everything unabashedly, including herself, her family and her country. Everything becomes one in a strange way and appears like it is part of her personal ramblings about life. In the line of many traditional european literary works, the writer has used the character of the 'butterfly' to comment, sometimes not so subtly, on the life of women within the barriers of what is called 'home' in her homeland. This much-loved book from the writer, moni mohsin, was released as a paperback version by penguin books limited in 2014. Key features: the return of the butterfly, as the title suggests, is a sequel to mohsin's earlier novel the diary of a social butterfly. This novel spans five years of the protagonist's life in lahore with a political and social backdrop of her country. Mohsin has presented a sharp satire on society in this book. She has commented on important incidents such as benazir bhutto's return, pervez musharraf, imran khan's stint in the pakistani politics, malala yousafzai being shot in the head by the taliban and so on. Mohsin's work contains a distinct flavour of the region it is coming from: lahore, pakistan. Thousands of urdu words have been inserted in the text and the spellings of many words have been altered to present a beautiful touch of the pakistani accent

Hedon

This was always going to happen. Tara Mullick falls in love with Jay Dhillon at first encounter. Her pull toward the older, brilliant billionaire is an unyielding force that carries her through Catholic school in Kolkata to four years of recklessness at college in the American Midwest. Things come to a head upon Tarasreturn to India. She comes face-to-face with the socially oppressive realities of her world, and then, six years after their initial meeting with Jay himself. Edgy and compelling, Hedon is a stunning debut novel that explores the vagaries of love and heartache, and what it means to not know where you belong.

House Of Cards

House of Cards is the story of Mridula, a bright young woman with enormous enthusiasm for life who hails from a Karnataka village. A chance meeting with Sanjay, a talented but impoverished doctor, leads to love-and the couple marry and settle in Bangalore. The more Mridula sees of the world, the more she realizes how selfish and materialistic people can be. But she does not take the ups and downs of life to heart, and lives each day with positive energy. Trouble brews when Sanjay quits his government job and starts an immensely successful private practice. With affluence comes the neverending ambition for more, and the inevitable slide into corrupt practices. For a long time, Mridula has no idea that Sanjay has sold his soul; when the truth hits her, she has no recourse but to walk out on him. But can she really find a space of her own? This intricately woven novel explores human relationships in telling detail, and holds up a mirror to our society with candour and with conviction.

An Abundance Of Katherines

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight Judge Judy - loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

With You I Dance

Once upon a time . . . Meera Sagar had everything???the perfect job as a principal ballerina (for a prestigious New York ballet company) and a man who loved her as much as she loved him. But tragedy struck on the night before her biggest performance, forcing her to do the one thing she never wanted to do???come back home. To Mumbai. Now, a year later, Meera is still trying to pick up the pieces, while fending off marriage proposals from her well-meaning but traditional Gujarati family, and figure life out all over again. By starting a ballet school in Mumbai. But she has two problems. One, she doesn???t know anything about running a business. And two, she can???t dance. Not anymore. Enter . . . Abeer Goswami. Hotshot junior partner at a South Bombay law firm and a man nursing a broken heart. When he meets Meera again, the woman who left him, he tries his hardest to be her friend, to help her . . . and not let the past get in the way. And then . . . There is the sexy Zoya Sehgal. Meera???s only friend in the city and the woman Abeer is currently seeing. They say triangles have pointy edges, for a reason. Will Meera find a new dream in her ballet school? Can Abeer and Meera find their way back to each other again? And, most important, has Meera danced for the last time? With you I dance is a warm, funny, at times heart-rending, love story of second chances, true love, and finding yourself when your dearest dream has vanished.

The Reluctant Matchmaker

At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy is single and enjoys a flourishing professional life at a New Jersey high-tech company. She is admired by her colleagues, lauded by her seniors, and is on the road to a highly promising future. But all this fails to impress her mother and aunts, who continue making dire predictions about her ticking biological clock and dropping not-so-subtle hints about finding a groom. Meena, who has always attracted a fair amount of attention with her dainty looks, hasn???t really found someone interesting enough to spend the rest of her life with, though she hasn???t been averse to looking. But when her treacherous heart finally likes someone, it happens to be her new boss, the reticent Prajay Nayak! As her thoughts turn to romance, Prajay makes an astonishing request that leaves Meena flabbergasted. She has to craft a personal matrimonial ad to help him find a suitable wife. His criteria: a sophisticated Indian-American woman who complements his striking height. Walking a tightrope between her personal and professional life, Meena is now caught in a rather obnoxious yet interesting predicament! How will she find a ???Mrs Right??? for someone who she feels is her ???Mr Right???? The stage is set for a saucy, highly witty story that will warm its way into your heart.

The Spectacular Miss

I learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart just a middle-class,hard-working, risk-averse, un-creative, strait-laced, routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, I???m also prudish to the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one over-powering wish???to pee standing up like a boy. In fact, to be a boy. Join Nira as she steps into her brother???s clothes and becomes the self-appointed Al Caponesque gang leader of the neighbourhood boys. Her oddball yet madly loving family shapes her personality, and a poignant relationship with her brother???s best friend shapes her life. She uses uninhibited candour to detail her coming-of-age journey from Calcutta to London, from tomboy to reluctant woman-in-progress . . . always trying to fit in, but always failing. She???s a laugh a minute, and yet she breaks your heart with her subconscious, percussive yearning for the one person who is always too old, too far, too married to be hers.

Losing My Religion

Have you ever thought about leaving your job and home to discover the country? This is exactly what Rishi Rai, a gamer and entrepreneur does when his company goes bankrupt. In the company of an American hippie, Alex, Rishi does it all from getting high in the Malana Valley to building a shack on the Om Beach. During this journey of his, Rishi meets Kyra, a young enigmatic gamer. There's more to Kyra than just her bewitching personality. Losing My Religion is gripping, exciting and racy.

Paper Towns

A Bend In The Road

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrew. The second-grade teacher of his son, Jonah, Sarah had left Baltimore after a difficult divorce to start over in the gentler surroundings of New Bern. Perhaps it is her own emotional wounds that make her sensitive to the hurt she sees first in Jonah's eyes and then in his father's. Tentatively, Sarah and Miles reach out to each other. Soon they are both laughing for the first time in years . . . and falling in love.Neither will be able to guess how closely linked they are to a shocking secret -- one that will force them to question everything they ever believed in . . . and make a heartbreaking choice that will change their lives for ever.