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Title: Lights! Scalpel! Romance! Author : Jas Kohli Publisher: Rupa Publications Published on: 1st August 2019 ISBN: 978-93-5333-490-1 Being a surgeon is not easy. And the ones in Nirog Hospital are the best at making it worse. BLURB Being a surgeon is not easy. And the ones in Nirog Hospital are the best at making it worse. Nipun, the eternal prankster and Nishtha, the strong-headed beauty, join the MS (surgery) course under Dr Ujjwal, a brilliant surgeon-cum-alfa male of the hospital, and Dr Anuroop (alias Candy), a smooth operator. Freaky situations and spicy incidents become the norm when their worlds collide. Edgy patients and their relatives add even more spice to the mix. Amidst all this chaos, Nipun makes every effort to find love but his efforts fail every time. When he’s not failing, he’s falling—and literally. Soon he starts being known as a doctor who is more dangerous than the disease itself. Will Fiasco King Nipun attain ...

Title: Designing Destiny Author : Kamlesh Patel Publisher: Westland Ltd. Published on: 31st January 2019  ISBN:  978-9387894532 BLURB What does destiny mean in the course of our lives? What is fixed and what can change? How can we design our own destiny? These are questions that some of the world’s greatest philosophers have asked since time immemorial. In this groundbreaking book, Daaji addresses such questions with simple solutions and practical wisdom. He leads us on to the next stage of the journey after The Heartfulness Way, guiding us on how to use the Heartfulness practices to refine our lifestyle and design our destiny, including our destiny in the afterlife. He elaborates on the subject of consciousness, the role of evolution, and explains what happens to us at the time of birth and death—and how we can act in those pivotal moments when life takes a turn. Daaji inspires us to believe in ourselves and find a way forward, no matter wh...

Title: What Mina Did Author : Geeta Menon Publisher: Rupa Publications  Published on:  1st June 2019  ISBN: 978-93-5304-375-9 A SINGLE BETRAYAL CAN COST YOU EVERYTHING... BLURB 1998. Twenty-two-year-old Mina is moving to the US from Bangalore to begin a new life with her husband. Then there’s a horrific murder and her life is turned upside down. Mina’s best friend Neelu helps her out of the abyss. Mina gradually leaves her past behind and settles into a new life in the US. Years later, she is forced to return to India and is confronted by the demons from her past. In her fragile mental state, she is unable to support Neelu in her time of need. Their friendship hits rock bottom. Mina goes back to the US and faces further hurdles, this time on the work front. She tries to make amends with Neelu, but their friendship ends with Neelu accusing Mina of something unimaginable related to the murder. Something, that deep down, Mina knows is true...

BLURB Supernova is a coming-of-age story of how a person gets more than what he wishes for and loses more than he could bear. It is a result of when years later from a car accident and completely disappearing from the scenes, Ezra, a former well-known musician, decides to takes his narrative in his own hands from way media had twisted it previously. Born as an orphan, things line up for Ezra in a way that he sees himself at the top of the world before realising what can push you up can pull you down too- with an even greater force. In his own words, Ezra explains, “This story is not about how to achieve your dreams, though I did. This story is also not about how love arrives and leaves at unexpected times, even though it did. And again, this story is also not about how life is not a wish-granting factory and there will be a time you’ll be blamed for mistakes you never made, though I indeed was. This story is about everything that takes place in between those l...

Title: Snakes in the Meadows  Author : Ayaz Kohli Publisher: Rupa Publications  Published on: 5th May 2019 ISBN: 978-93-5333-360-7 " Don't just live to narrate stories of your cowardice.Someone will tell a better story of how you died,rather than you telling your children how you lived." BLURB  Jammu And Kashmir, 1987. In the hilly village of Pathri Aali, where legends appear true, Aslam and Ashwar, two young lovers, dream of marriage and of good things of life. But that is not to be. Unable to cope, Aslam leaves Pathri Aali forever. Years later, as men migrate to Saudi Arabia for employment, Pathri Aali is populated mostly by women and children. Soon they realize the Mujahideen, who guise themselves as their liberators, are the worst perpetrators, and misery seems inescapable. Ashwar refuses to be cowed down by this reign of terror and is determined not to let it devastate the once-peaceful village. The only one she can bank on is Aslam—an...

Title: Oxygen Manifesto Author:   Atulya Misra Publisher:  Rupa Publications Published On: 20th March 2019 Binding: Hardback ISBN:    978-93-5333-410-9 BLURB Oxygen Manifesto is a story of the triumph of ordinary people over the might of the establishment in their battle to save the environment. Thatha lives in a remote and inaccessible part of Manipur and Ravi is a young IAS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre. Circumstances bring them together and they create the most effective environmental movement the world has ever seen. They shun the politics of criticism and personal attacks and focus on establishing a new polity based on the principles of environmental protection, habitat conservation, direct civil action and democratic decentralization. Oxygen Manifesto is an engaging story about environmental degradation and the impact of the Anthropocene. It exposes the myth around wealth creation and the paradigm of economic gro...

Title: Killing Time In Delhi  Author : Ravi Shankar Etteth  Publisher:  Westland Ltd Published on: 25th January 2019 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9789387894815 BLURB Bon vivant Charlie Seth, a privileged denizen of Lutyens’ Delhi, leads a life of idle luxury fuelled by money, drugs, sex and parties. A cocaine overdose kills his ditzy girlfriend, thrusting him into a maelstrom of conspiracy, murder, blackmail and promiscuity. As the world of Crazy Rich Punjabis unravels, Charlie’s future is suddenly at the mercy of an enigmatic woman, an unscrupulous swami, a society-obsessed policeman, a slippery drug pusher and a disloyal valet. The only person who can help him is his missing aunt. Holed up in the country palace that his grandfather had won in a game of cards from a raja on Diwali, Charlie plots his revenge. COVER PAGE The cover page of the book is very attractive and actually I picked this book after seeing the cover page only because it is s...