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Title: Yakshini  Author : Neil D'Silva Publisher: Rupa Publications  Published on:  1st October 2019 ISBN:  978-9353336745 Halfway to the heavens, in a realm hidden by clouds, a divine beauty—a Yakshini—is facing a sentence for her folly. Down on earth, a couple in Maharashtra is expecting their seventh child, and is performing a special yajna to fulfill their desires. By a strange quirk of fate, these two distinctly different lives are soon to be intertwined. BLURB Fifteen-year-old Meenakshi is no ordinary girl. Blessed with celestial attributes, she has beauty that would rival a goddess’s, a unique communion with nature, and a supernatural being living inside her. Even so, Meenakshi lives amongst men and eventually, the evil eye falls upon her. That’s when the Yakshini inside her awakens. As the Yakshini takes control, Meenakshi is catapulted into a world of passion and violence that even threatens her husband’s life. Neil D’Silva...

Title: Bestseller Author: Ahmed Faiyaz Publisher : Rupa Publications Published on: 3rd November 2018 Binding: Paperback ISBN:  9353332648 "Find those five books, get some quick wins and get the hell out of here." BLURB Akshay Mathur, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he has to do the impossible. Angus Lee, the new owner of Thomson Lee Books, wants at least five bestsellers in the coming year, failing which the business would be wound up. He has to find a way of making a success out of books he would never publish or would never even read. To complicate things further, he has to contend with motley crew of has-beens and misfits working for the publishing house as well as wannabe writers, dealing with their follies and derisive tactics, and battle his own affections for Zorah Kalim, th...