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Through Thick and Thin

What’s the life of a police officer like? Most of us have been exposed to it either through media or Bollywood, where police personnel are deemed to be insensitive, atrocious, dominating and political. However, is that really true? Are all police officers alike? Through Thick and Thin is a collection of personal memoirs from the diary of an honest and principled police officer, Vivek Deshpande. The book spans his career as a police & Intelligence officer of over thirty-five years and takes the reader through various instances, which show us the real side of the khaki men on duty. The book is an inspirational read for anyone that wants to understand what it takes to be a police officer in India and sets an example for Indian youth. Grab a copy and read about his interesting experiences in the chapters ‘Magic of Pani Puri’ and ‘Communal riots in Hyderabad’.

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The Woman Who Ran

How do you escape what you can't remember? She can run. But can she hide? Helen Graham is a new arrival in a tiny Yorkshire village, renting dilapidated Wildfell Hall. The villagers are intensely curious -- what makes her so jumpy and why is she so evasive? Their interest is Helen's worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it can catch up with her. With everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is...

Daughters Of Jorasanko

The Tagore household is falling apart. Rabindranath cannot shake off the disquiet in his heart after the death of his wife Mrinalini. Happiness and well-being elude him. His daughters and daughter-in-law struggle hard to cope with incompatible marriages, ill health and the stigma of childlessness. The extended family of Jorasanko is steeped in debt and there is talk of mortgaging one of the houses. Even as Rabindranath deals with his own financial problems and strives hard to keep his dream of Santiniketan alive, news reaches him that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. will this be a turning point for the man, his family and their much-celebrated home Daughters of Jorasanko sequel to the bestselling novel Jorasanko explores Rabindranath Tagores engagement with the freedom movement and his vision for holistic education, brings alive his latter - day muses Ranu Adhikari and Victoria Ocampo and maps the histories of the Tagore women, even as it describes the twilight years in the life of one of the greatest luminaries of our times and the end of an epoch in the history of Bengal. About the Author : Aruna Chakravarti is a well-known academic, creative writer and translator. Her first novel, The Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and her third, Jorasanko, received critical acclaim and went on to become a bestseller. Her seven translated works include an anthology of songs from Rabindranath Tagores Gitabitaan, Saratchandra Chattopadhyays novel Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyays Those Days, First Light and Primal Woman - Stories. She has two academic works to her credit - A biography of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and a critical work on Ruth Prawer Jhabvalas fiction. Among the various awards she has received are the Vaitalik Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Sarat Puraskar.

Anna And The French Kiss

Anna And The French Kiss starts off with Anna being excited about her senior year in Atlanta. She’s got everything set, from having a car of her own, a good job, her best friend, and her crush. Anna is disturbed when her father decides that she needs to experience culture. He then enrolls her at an American school, located in Paris. The problem here is that Anna doesn’t understand French, making her wonder how she’ll pull through the first year at school. Despite her being sad about the change of plans, Anna finds herself a bit excited about her stay in Paris. Anne starts feeling homesick and alone, after landing in Paris. She then mingles with Meredith’s groups of friends, which include Etienne St. Clair, Josh, and his girlfriend. Etienne is the ladies’ man, having everything that makes men attractive. He possesses a British accent, while being fluent in French. He also knows a great deal about American culture. Apart from having looks in his favor, St. Clair is kind and funny, which makes Anna change her outlook towards staying in Paris. Anna soon gets to know that St. Clair has already got a girlfriend. While developing a fancy for St. Clair, Anna remembers her crush back home, but convinces herself that she doesn’t like him that much. For the time being, Anna and St. Clair become friends, with St. Clair showing Anna some of Paris’ favorite spots. With the two spending a great deal of time together, does that spell curtains for St. Clair’s relationship? What about Anna’s crush back home?

Walking with Nanak

Haroon Khalid's lifelong fascination with Guru Nanak was reignited when he came upon Baburbani, a poem written by the saint. This and the discovery that Guru Nanak spent a large part of his life in Pakistan, inspired Khalid to undertake a journey that he hoped would help him learn more about the revered founder of Sikhism. In this wonderful paean to Guru Nanak, Khalid describes his travels across the length and breadth of Pakistan as he visits the many Gurudwaras and other locales associated with the saint, delving into their history and musing about their place and significance in a Muslim country. But this book is not merely a story about Gurudwaras, it is also a re-telling of the story of Nanak the son, the poet, the wanderer, the father, the friend. Sifting through the stories of his miracles and poetry, we emerge with a picture of Nanak, the man. Also exploring the histories of all the subsequent Gurus after Nanak, the book traces the story of how an unorganized spiritual movement evolved into the institutionalized Khalsa of Guru Gobind Singh. Through the journeys of all the Gurus, the book describes how Nanak the poet became Guru Nanak the saint., About the Author : Haroon Khalid has an academic background in Anthropology from the Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS). He has been a travel writer and freelance journalist since 2008, travelling extensively around Pakistan and documenting its historical and cultural heritage. He has written for several newspapers and magazines, including The News, Express Tribune, The Friday Times and Himal. Born and raised in Lahore, he now lives in Islamabad with his wife and works as an educationist. This is his third book.

A Very Pukka Murder

When the valet of Major William Russell, the English Resident of the small, princely state of Rajpore, knocks on Russell's bedroom door the morning after the 1909 New Year's Ball and receives no response, he and the Resident's elderly secretary eventually task the English Commandant of Cavalry with breaking it down. The Resident is dead in his bed. His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman Maharaja Sikander Singh, Light of Heaven, Sword of Justice, Shield of the Faithful, sole ruler of Rajpore, cannot resist an enigma, relishing a riddle and the rush of resolving it. will the Maharaja work through a surplus of suspects and motives and figure out who killed Russell? Arjun Gaind's clever, fascinating debut introduces an elegant new detective in the tradition of Lord Peter Wimsey, while painting a scathing portrait of the British Raj.

The Curse of Mohenjo Daro

2016 A.D. When footage of a team of archaeologists bursting into flames at the ancient site of Mohenjodaro goes viral, the world is horrified and shaken. While authorities suspect it to be an incendiary terrorist attack, Nadia Osbourne determines to find her archaeologist sister, Layla, convinced that she has survived. Her frantic search takes her to the ruins and forces her to confront her own demonsher inexplicable dreams about a woman named Jaya. 3800 BC. The city of Meluhha is on the brink of a revolution and Iaf and his coterie of corrupt priests will do anything to maintain their power. Jaya is the only one who can read the Bloodstone, the heart of the Goddess Shakari and divine the future. But with her daughter under Iafs control, will Jaya be able to prevent what is to come? Inspired by the legends surrounding the lost Indus Valley city, The Curse of Mohenjodaro is a gripping thriller about a powerful relic, a sinister cult and family secrets that haunt generations.

The Essential

The only Dale Carnegie book youll ever need,Curated wisdom from three of the authors bestselling works comes together in one definitive volume, This book will teach you to develop confidence and build your public speaking skills, help make a great impression on friends, family and coworkers and become a better leader, develop great work habits and stop letting worry and anxiety rule your life, Dale Carnegie is often touted as the father of self-help, his books have been in print for over seventy years, How to Win Friends and Influence People alone has sold over 30 million copies worldwide,It changed my life. Warren Buffet on How to Win Friends and Influence People,

Women at War

I want a unit of brave Indian women to form a Death - defying Regiment who will wield the sword which the brave Rani of Jhansi wielded in Indias First War of Independence in 1857s - Subhas Chandra Bose, The Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR), the first all-female infantry fighting unit in military history, was created in Singapore in July 1943 by Indian nationalist and visionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose to liberate India from British colonial oppression. His young recruits were girls from Indian families of the Diasporas in Singapore, Malaya and Burma and consisted entirely of civilian volunteers lacking any prior military training. These soldiers, deployed to the steamy jungles of Burma during the last two years of World War II, were determined to follow their commander to victory. Seven decades later, their history has been forgotten, their service and the role played by Bose himself having remained largely unexplored. Through in-depth interviews with the surviving Ranis in their eighties and nineties and meticulous archival research, historian Vera Hildebrand has uncovered extensive new evidence that separates the myth of the Bengali hero and his jungle warrior maidens from historical fact. The result is a wholly fresh perspective on the remarkable women of the RJR and their place in Indian and world history. The truth is every bit as impressive as the myth.

The CEO Who Lost His Head

Murder in a newspaper office, Bollywood, dhoka - Aditya Sinha�s unputdownable novel is crime fiction at its best Morning Analysis CEO Buster Das has been found dead in his office with his head bashed in. When unlikely detective duo Sandesh Solvekar and Mona Ramteke make it their mission to catch the reckless criminal, they find themselves knee-deep in Mumbai�s sordid world of dissolute starlets, business moguls and a sell-out media, even as they attempt to deal with a dysfunctional police machinery and their own secret lives. The list of suspects is also turning out to be a head scratcher - Theres the eccentric editor-in-chief, the irreverent and savvy dating editor and several vice-presidents who would kill to be CEO. A whodunit as wicked as it is irresistible, this is a cracker of a novel that takes Indian crime writing to dazzling new heights.

The Party Worker

Bestselling author Omar Shahid Hamid's third and most chilling novel yet. A burnt out New York cop, an eighty-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying Karachi mansion, a hit-man whose days are numbered, a journalist who dreams of the big time. When a Jewish woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York, disparate lives are thrown together for one purpose - To bring about the downfall of the Don, the uncrowned king of Karachi. The Party Worker explores the Machiavellian politics of Pakistan's busiest city, where friends come bearing bullets and enemies can wait patiently for decades before striking. Gritty, disturbing and compelling, this is Omar Shahid Hamid at his best. Praise for Omar Shahid Hamid.,I strongly suggest that Western policy makers read The Prisoner before they next call for a military crackdown on Islamist militancy in Pakistan New York Review of Books., An exhilarating crime novel Hamids portrayal of the city, the police and the byzantine political play is nuanced and sophisticated NPR.,A book that one simply will not be able to put down Dawn.,gripping crime thriller with a heart-wrenching denouement a haunting human-interest story Hindu.,No matter how many books Omar Shahid Hamid writes, he will never fail to give you an ending you never, in your wildest dreams, expected Deccan Chronicle., racy page-turner, a rollicking ride but with dark undertones Hamid has established his status as the first Pakistani crime writer writing in English Friday Times.

Every Time It Rains

"Love is a dangerous thing. It brings with it great joy, and opens you up to pain. But does one really have the courage to say no and look the other way? Laila is yet to recover from her painful past. Hurt, and un-trusting of love, she is fully immersed in work, her only source of cheer. Her bakery franchise is very popular and she just might be able to go national, if she can pull off that big deal. Just when things are looking up, along comes JD, an impetuous, free-spirited creature to stir up the calm. He's her exact opposite. Laila�s self-destructive, he�s life-affirming. She�s cautious, he�s buoyant. But here�s the thing: he makes her feel the very things she wanted to forget. Stirring a familiar passion she longed for but had lost the courage to pursue. They are irrepressibly drawn to each other but will she ever be able to trust him? Every Time It Rains is the story of every girl who has ever had her heart broken. And fallen in love again.",

Inside Chanakyas Mind

The definitive new book from India no. 1 Business writer Chanakya was one of the best strategic thinkers of the world. In the fourth century BC, he wrote the Arthashastra, an unrivaled political treatise that has since been used by leaders across the globe. In Inside Chanakya Mind, for the first time, Radhakrishnan Pillai, the bestselling author of Corporate Chanakya, will distill Chanakya age-old wisdom on how to think to the masses through his practical and innovative approach.

This Is Not Your Story

Our Story Ends Here

Terrorists are not born to love. Sarmad was trained as a terrorist to be ruthless, to be fearless and to take away innocent lives. He has caused pain that he can't undo. For years, he has been living without a heart, without a soul, without her. Mehar is an army general's daughter. After losing a loved one she decides to go to the Swat valley with her college friends to revisit the place that holds all her childhood memories. While Mehar is looking forward to her adventurous trip, Sarmad is working on his upcoming deadly mission. Unwittingly, their paths cross and they are forced to stay together in the same room for eleven days. Fate brings them together, but destiny has planned something else. Does their story end here? Or has it just begun?

Summit

The view from 8,848 meters is not always clear... In the autumn of 1938, Germanys reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, is growing frustrated at the British using their regional power in India to block the passage of an SS expedition to Tibet. Determined to spite them, he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for the seventh time that spring to achieve-a first summit of Mount Everest. Seventy years later, seasoned mountain guide Neil Quinns ninth visit to the top of the worlds highest mountain, this time in charge of the sixteen-year-old son of a Long Island billionaire, begins to unravel. As a desperate fight for their lives begins in the freezing air high above Tibet, Quinn stumbles across a clue to a story that challenges everything he thinks he knows about the great mountain. When the bitter aftermath of Quinns disastrous climb turns to violent tragedy in Kathmandu, his discovery pushes him into a relentless journey that takes him from the dangerous heights of Everest to the equally treacherous margins of a new Europe, where history hungers to repeat itself. Amid a rich and diverse cast of characters, each with their own reason to possess the mystery of his discovery, Neil Quinn has to fight, increasingly desperately, for order and the truth. A complex, deftly crafted, consistently compelling suspense thriller of a read from beginning to end. Midwest Book Review. A gripper. Takes you up to the majesty of Mt Everest and into the single-minded madness of climbers... What a plot. Fantastic. Sir Robert Swan, bestselling author of Antarctica 2041 and first person to walk to the South and North Poles., About the Author : Harry Farthing is a Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and he has climbed Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn in the Alps, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Denali in Alaska and Shishapangma and Mount Everest in the Himalayas. Summit is his first novel.

Merchants Of Death

A sinister curse trails the House of Loya, a powerful Marwari family of arms dealers that head a vast conglomerate of industries. Leading oddly distorted lives where immorality and sexual perversions are infinitely glorified, they cruise along mindlessly even as they become victims of strange mishaps and untold tragedies. Bharat Loya, the firstborn in the third generation, grows up with a deep-rooted mother-fixation. He is afflicted with all the maladies of the upper class, with licentiousness and perversity steeped in his veins. In an unexpected turn of events, tumultuous political changes divest the family of their clout and they find themselves in an ugly wrangle with the government that threatens to bring them to ruination. Bharat Loya takes over as the head of business. With his deep pockets and a legitimate facade of hotelier-cum-airline-owner, he obliterates his rivals to become the uncrowned king of the whole immoral pack. Yet Bharat Loya is a troubled man. Set in India in the second half of the last century, the story gives a scathing insight into the lives of the Marwaris, also known as the Jews of India, highly religious, very private people who, at times, even lead lurid and decadent lives. About the Author - When Neelima Dalmia Adhar wrote Father Dearest - The Life and Times of R. K. Dalmia in 2003, she was on the bestseller list and labelled a daredevil family chronicler who had exposed some fiercely-guarded secrets. She then wrote a novel, Merchants of Death in 2007 to be established as a mistress of the genre. Educated in a convent school and a reputed college in Delhi, she has a Masters in Psychology with a specialization in Personality. Her first and only job was to teach Psychology to undergraduate students of Delhi University. A passionate people-watcher, she is drawn to oddities and thrives on writing about personalities and human behaviour, from the quirky to the mysterious to the bizarre, a subject she does chillingly close to the bone. She lives in Delhi with her husband, children and two grandchildren.

Father Dearest

An extraordinary father, an extraordinary daughter. - The Hindu, A gripping biography of R.K. Dalmia, the most flamboyant character India produced in the last century. Like a meteor, he flashed across the firmament in a blaze of glory before being reduced to the ashes of ignominy in a prison, convicted of fraud. An old mixture of puritanism and profligacy and a sadist who tortured his family of six wives and eighteen children, he broke all the laws of God and man. Written by his daughter, Neelima Dalmia Adhar, who loved and loathed him with equal passion, this book makes most compelling reading. - Khushwant Singh, About the Author : When Neelima Dalmia Adhar wrote Father Dearest - The Life and Times of R. K. Dalmia in 2003, she was on the bestseller list and labelled a daredevil family chronicler who had exposed some fiercely-guarded secrets. She then wrote a novel, Merchants of Death in 2007 to be established as a mistress of the genre. Educated in a convent school and a reputed college in Delhi, she has a Masters in Psychology with a specialization in Personality. Her first and only job was to teach Psychology to undergraduate students of Delhi University. A passionate people-watcher, she is drawn to oddities and thrives on writing about personalities and human behaviour, from the quirky to the mysterious to the bizarre, a subject she does chillingly close to the bone. She lives in Delhi with her husband, children and two grandchildren.

The Anatomy of Success

How different will people lives be if they approach success the same way the medical profession does as if it were a matter of life and death? What can medicine teach us about beating the odds? In our jobs and our work lives, do we genuinely do the best we can? Gynaecological endoscopic surgeon Dr Rakesh Sinha a two - time Guinness World Record holder for his surgeries draws lessons from his own profession to elaborate on success in simple, easy - To - understand steps. In this book, you will discover that success is a combination of three parts - What you�re born with, or Biology, what you learn along the way, or Learning and your deep desire to succeed, or Cognition. You will become an expert in effective visualization techniques to enhance your performance, learn how to take premeditated risks, focus on one task at a time, achieve mastery through deliberate practice and cultivate optimism consciously. Dr Sinha also shows you how to work with your brain to get you out of your rut. Because success is, quite literally, all in your head. Over and above, The Anatomy of Success reveals that you can be successful despite your genes by chasing victory with the same resolve as doctors do. Because a life does depend on whether you succeed or fail. Yours. About the Author - World record - winning gynaecological endoscopic surgeon Dr Rakesh Sinha holds two Guinness World Records for his surgeries. The former president of the Indian Association of Gynaecological Endoscopists, he is a teacher, trainer, author and marathon runner. He is also an internationally certified motivational speaker and a licentiate practitioner for neuro linguistic Programming (NLP) and has been featured on Jack Canfield�s Success Profiles. Dr Sinha is the managing director of Women�s Hospital, a premier institute specializing in minimal access surgery and has also done a Post Doctorate Clinical Fellowship in Endoscopy at the Royal Free Hospital in London. At the time of going to press, he has thirty publications in international index journals. He is the proud parent of two doctors and is a devoted son and husband. He lives and works in Mumbai. This is his first book.

The Parcel

The Parcel�s astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu - born a boy, but made a eunuch - who has spent most of her life in a close - knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura, the notorious red - light district of Bombay. This is a dark, devastating, but incandescent novel that promises to be one of the most talked about publications of the year. About the Author : Anosh Irani has published three critically acclaimed and award-winning novels - The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), a national bestseller, The Song of Kahunsha (2006), which was an international bestseller and shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Dahanu Road (2010), which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His play Bombay Black won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2006) and his anthology The Bombay Plays - The Matka King & Bombay Black was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He lives in Vancouver. The author lives in Vancouver, BC.

Crave The Mark

Times Change

Can This Be Love?