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The Kama Sutra Diaries : Intimate Journeys through

Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of antirape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj, from a Gujarati retirement home for gay men and eunuchs to a busy sex clinic in Chennai, from patriarchs to matriarchs, GIGs (Good Indian Girls), BIGs (bad Indian Girls) and the fleshpots of Bombay, she accompanied by feisty Delhi girl Dimple, lifts the bed sheets on Indias sexual revolution. And its a revolution thats full of fascinating surprises and contrasts for India the land that gave us the exuberant guide to sexual pleasure, the Kama Sutra is also a land where women remain cloistered in purdah while teenage girls check out porn online, where families bow down to a conjoined phallus and vagina, the Shivaling, while couples fear to hold hands in public and where the loveless arranged marriage is still the norm. Colourful, compelling, confounding, The Kama Sutra Diaries reveals what India has to tell us about modern-day love, sex and sexuality.

Dont Lose Out, Work Out!

With more and more people realizing the need to exercise, gyms are cropping up at every nook and corner, roads are occupied by recreational runners and yoga schools have an enviable waiting list. But along with this has grown the number of injuries and disillusionment at not getting results. This leads to fads, its the exact same place diet was five years ago when Rujuta wrote her first book Dont Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight. The basic problem is the complete lack of understanding about exercise, how it works and how to make it work for you. Through this book, Rujuta tackles pretty much every myth and fad to do with exercise, demystifies exercise for everyone and presents it as not a brainless activity but a science which has the potential to combat all lifestyle disorders including diabetes and obesity, way better than any drug. Strength training, Cardio and Yoga get a detailed chapter each along with their pre and post workout meals, an often neglected but crucial aspect. So whether you are a beginner or want to take your workouts to the next level, the sample training schedules and real life workout examples with analysis and modifications will bridge the gap between knowing and doing and ensure that you are in a position to start and/or progress with a sensible, do able and a wholesome exercise plan.

Everything You Wanted to Know about Freelance Jour

Freelance journalism demystified. Do you want to be a freelance journalist but have no idea where to begin? Or are you already a writer of sorts but want to see your name in the biggies? In Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Freelance Journalism, you will learn how to: Prep yourself for this career Come up with fresh and original story ideas Find markets for your stories Approach editors with confidence Write a winning pitch Research and write a feature Negotiate pay and rights Cope with rejection Write for the foreign media Market yourselves through social media and more, Everything You Always Wanted to Know is filled with practical advice and real life examples from two journalists who have written for the biggest and the best. Editors from some of your dream publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveler and Forbes tell you how to succeed in the business. Top freelance writers reveal their secrets to getting published and making more money and we hold your hand through the whole process.

It Happened One Midnight

More than one beautiful woman's hopeshave been dashed on the rocky shoals ofJonathan Redmond's heart. With his rivetinggood looks and Redmond wealth and power,the world is his oyster—until an ultimatumfrom his father and a chilling gypsy prophecysend him hurtling headlong toward a fatehe'll do anything to avoid: matrimony. Intoxicating, elusive Thomasina de Ballesteroshas the bloods of London at her feet. But noneof them knows the real Tommy—the one witha shocking pedigree, a few too many secrets,and a healthy scorn for rakes like Jonathan. She's everything Jonathan never wanted.But on one fateful midnight, he's drawn intoTommy's world of risk, danger . . . and a desirehe'd never dreamed possible. And suddenlyhe's re-thinking everything . . . includingthe possibility that succumbing to prophecymight just mean surrendering to love.

An English Bride In Scotland

She never expected to marry Annabel was about to take the veil to become a nun,when her mother suddenly arrived at the abbey to take her home . . . so that she can marry the Scottish laird whois betrothed to her runaway sister! She knows nothing aboutbeing a wife, nothing about how to run a household,and definitely nothing about the marriage bed. He never expected to fall in love From the moment Ross MacKay sets eyes on Annabel,he is taken with his shy, sweet bride . . . and the fact that she'sblessed with lush curves only makes him utter hisown prayers of thanks. But when an enemy endangers her life,he'll move the Highlands themselves to save her. For thoughAnnabel's not the bride he planned for, she's the only woman he desires . . .

Things Good Girls Don't Do

Can't Help Falling In Love

Byculla to Bangkok

After the huge success of Dongri to Dubai, here comes its much awaited sequel, Byculla to Bangkok. Chota Rajan, Arun Gawli and Ashwin Naik are among those whose lives Hussain Zaidi recounts with his characteristic flair for narrativizing the Mumbai underworld. Violence and deceit one expects to read of, but the strength of this book is also its ability to capture the mundane and almost naive beginnings of what later became organized crime and brutal vendettas which held Mumbai to ransom through the last decades of the twentieth century, Unputdownable.

Life Served Hot

Siddhant Roy is back in Bangalore after a really depressing, detained semester. He wants to rebuild his life from scratch without looking back. But he is an engineering student, after all. It never gets easy. He makes a bunch of new friends, who take him on a journey where he crashes into strange apartments, gets drunk and pukes halfway across the city, tries to start an online social network and watches all his efforts fail miserably. He faces denial, acceptance, love and hatred, all in the span of less than a year. He must now make a choice, whether to silently withstand the oppression of his sinister and stubborn college principal, or to risk everything and take his own stand. What will Siddhant do? Life, Served Hot is a coming-of-age story of a young rebel's undying attachment towards his dreams and survival.

Baked Dishes

Baked Dish' – This very term reminds us of continental cuisine. There is no denying that it is a very "Western" concept, but it has started making headway into Indian homes and that too at breakneck speed. The reason for the growing popularity of baked dishes could be attributed among other things to the excitement-seeking palates of today's youngsters, or to their desire to cook exotic dishes quickly and easily! I am sure you would have encountered the common baked dishes such as Vegetable Au Gratin and Baked Macaroni sometime in your life. Exciting though they are, the repertoire of baked dishes is in no way limited to these. Different cuisines have their own versions of bakes dishes. For example, the Mexicans have enchiladas, Italians have lasagne, and the French have the famous au gratin! Here, I have recorded a lot of traditional all-time favourite recipes from various cultures, including Mexican, Italian and French, as well as innovated and presented various new recipes. I know that the word 'bake' would immediately have conjured up the image of aromatic cakes, cookies, breads and pies, which delight the sweet tooth, but in this book I have broken away from the stereotype and focused on savoury meal-time baked dishes, which involve everyday bakes, quick bakes, party fare, and quiches and pies.

Risky Business.

It Must Be Love (Avon Light Contemporary Romances)

Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover—brought him down with a can of hairspray—and now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. But spending as much time as possible with the utterly irresistible New Age beauty caused unexpected complications. To make matters worse, his matchmaking sisters are picking out china patterns. Joe's brooding good looks and T-shirt-straining muscles might be easy on the eyes, but how could Gabrielle be attracted to a straight-laced detective who's determined to find evidence to arrest her? Still, he invades her dreams and when they share a transcendent lovemaking experience, Gabrielle knows it must be love. Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover—brought him down with a can of hairspray—and now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. But spending as much time as possible with the utterly irresistible New Age beauty caused unexpected complications. To make matters worse, his matchmaking sisters are picking out china patterns. Joe's brooding good looks and T-shirt-straining muscles might be easy on the eyes, but how could Gabrielle be attracted to a straight-laced detective who's determined to find evidence to arrest her? Still, he invades her dreams and when they share a transcendent lovemaking experience, Gabrielle knows it must be love.

Burning Tigress

When a young 19th-century Englishwoman in Shanghai, China, decides to learn the secrets of the East, will she learn the secret of true love as well? Original.

Honored Enemy : Legends of the Riftwar (Book - 1)

In the frozen northlands of the embattled realm of Midkemia, fate can form strange alliances. It is nine long, bloody years into the ongoing Riftwar that is tearing Midkemia asunder. Having survived a disastrous encounter with their sworn enemy, the Tsurani, Dennis Hartraft's cold, hungry, and exhausted Marauders arrive at a frontier garrison—at the same time as a Tsurani patrol. But a more devastating threat resides within the stronghold: moredhel, a migrating horde of dark elves so deadly and vicious that the only hope for survival is if bitter enemies band together and fight as one. Now two hostile groups must make their way to freedom, facing a common foe, braving the merciless elements, and haunted by the voice of conscience demanding, "what is more important, a man's life . . . or his honor?"

London's Perfect Scoundrel

A determined young lady vows to give one of London's infamous rakes his comeuppance -- but when the rogue turns the tables, who truly learns a lesson in love? Beloved Sinner The ton gossips call him "Saint" -- but the Marquisof St. Aubyn has well earned his reputation as London's perfect scoundrel. Evelyn Ruddick knows she should avoid him at all costs -- but the strikingly beautiful lady wants to aid the children of the Heart of Hope Orphanage, and he heads the board of trustees. Evie is determined to teachthe charming, arrogant man a lesson in compassion, but it won't be so easy -- especially since his touch is setting her desire aflame, making Evie yearn to submit to his passionate instruction ... The idea of joining in her "project" is unthinkable, but this enchantress refuses to give up! So what else is there for a self-respecting rake to do but seduce the lady? Yet soon it is he who is beingseduced by Evie's tender heart and fiery blushes. Could the temptation of long, passionate nights in her arms bring about the impossible? Could the disreputable Saint at long last be reformed?

THE ARCTIC EVENT.

On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-century old aeroplane is merely a relic of the early Cold War. Only a handful of insiders know that it still represents a major threat to civilization, as the aircraft is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform, still armed with two tons of active weaponized anthrax. Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith of Covert-One - the personal action arm of the President of the United States - is assigned to lead CIA agent Randi Russell and the lovely, but lethal, weapons expert, Professor Valentina Metrace to secure the site. But on the island Smith and his team find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Cut off from all outside aid, the operatives must struggle against both betrayal and the brutal polar environment. Gradually they become aware that something else exists within the hulk of the ancient bomber: a secret potentially more devastating than even the plane's warload, and one that could bring about both a cataclysmic revision of global history and serve as the trigger for a Third World War.

Pulling Your Own Strings

What Do You Say After You Say Hello ?

Many pockets consider this book as a sequel to Berne’s bestseller, Games People Play since the subject matter handled here relates to the layman in addition to psychotherapists. What Do You Say After You Say Hello? pays tribute to transactional analysis and looks into the states of ego, rituals pastimes and games along with structural analysis. The term, “Scripts” is introduced by Berne here in this book to everyone not intimate with psychotherapy for the first time. The topic of “Script” was developed by Berne himself and he develops it here in a chronological fashion. He draws analogies from fairy tales like Cinderella and Red Riding Hood to explicate the scripts present in them to explain the premise of parental programming, adolescent rebellion and therefore the significance of the “Script” itself. After this is when this book takes on the more exciting road of explaining the phenomenon of script-breakers. This is Berne’s solution to the mires of parental programming and he therefore places a vehicle for his readers to seek out a change in their very destinies. The idea behind the premise of “Script” stems from the pattern that can be discerned across samples of the successful as also with failures. With What Do You Say After You Say Hello? readers have a chance at looking at the environment of which he is a product and also modify their own condition by breaking the script that has been dealt to them. However, there is always exceptions to the rule and Berne is a distinguished analyst who understands this. Therefore he buffers this theory by rounding a fair and unbiased critique that points out the flaws along with the inherent elegance of the script in theory and practice. This book was published in 1973. In the preface, Berne makes it explicitly clear that this book is primarily intended for professionals but he also tried to make it accessible because he didn’t want to deter non-professionals from intimating themselves with the content.

Finger Prints

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky displays her deep understanding of the desires and fears that move us all in this poignant story, first published in 1984, of danger, love, and trust. Once upon a time she was Robyn Hart, a journalist who saw too much and wasn't afraid to expose it. But that courage nearly cost Robyn her life. Under the protection of the Witness Relocation program, she now has a new identity -- Carly -- and a new job. But the terror of the past still lingers, and Carly lives in fear that her enemies will find her. Though she tries to wall herself off from the world, one determined man breaks through her defenses -- successful young attorney Ryan Cornell. And though she yearns to give him her heart, Carly doesn’t know if she can. While loving him offers a happiness she thought she'd forever lost, trusting him could cost her everything.

Notorious.

Just moments after a confidential discussion on the courthouse steps with federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas, the lawyer for a notorious rap star is blown to pieces. Melanie heard the man's last words . . . Melanie witnessed his death . . . Melanie saw the face of his killer. On the eve of a murder trial, the lawyer for a famous rapper reveals that his client wants to sing for real—to turn state's evidence and give up a much bigger fish. Then a car bomb rips the lawyer apart. Though Melanie's relationship with the murdered man had once been more than professional, she realizes she knew very little about him. Now determined to hunt down his killer, she's entering a dangerous world of terror, subterfuge, and double-cross, and heading deeper into harm's way than she's ever been. Because Melanie Vargas was the sole witness to a heinous and horrible crime with wide and frightening implications . . . and she cannot be allowed to live.

Love Happens

On Ruth and Emerson's third anniversary, she expects that her film maker husband will be lonely. When she surprises him on set, she finds him with Selma Rodriguez, the artsy set designer, effectively ending her marriage. Picking up the pieces back in Ireland, she makes friends with Kevin, the single father next door, and kind, reliable, but oh-so-dull in bed Ferdia.

The Piano Tuner

On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer, whose success at making peace in the war-torn Shan States is legendary, but whose unorthodox methods have begun to attract suspicion. So begins the journey of the soft-spoken Edgar across Europe, the Red Sea, India, Burma, and at last into the remote highlands of the Shan States. En route he is entranced by the Doctor's letters and by the shifting cast of tale-spinners, soldiers and thieves who cross his path. As his captivation grows, however, so do his questions: about the Doctor's true motives, about an enchanting and elusive woman who travels with him into the jungle, about why he came. And, ultimately, whether he will ever be able to return home unchanged to the woman who awaits him there . . . Sensuous and lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, THE PIANO TUNER is an unforgettable and haunting novel.

The Magic Moonlight Flower and Other Enchanting St

Four magical stories which will transport you to a world of monsters and princesses, ogres and enchanted flowers. Sujan can imitate the calls of all kinds of birds and animals. When he finds himself in the kings court and learns of a fearsome bird-eating monster, he decides to use his skill to defeat the cruel creature and win the princesss heart. In another story, Ratan is cursed by a sage and is turned into an ogre but his sweet song saves him from a terrible fate. In Gangarams Lucky Stone a beautiful rainbow coloured stone rescues Gangaram from all kinds of disasters and even brings him a treasure, but what happens when he gives it away? And, in The Magic Moonlight Flower, a young boy goes in search of the flower that will save his fathers life, but on the way he will need to fight a cruel king, rescue a prince and slay a nasty serpent. Funny, exciting and full of strange and wonderful humans and supernatural creatures, the Magic Moonlight Flower and Other Enchanting Stories is a delightful collection of stories by a master of childrens writing in India.

India at Turning Point

While being anecdotal, he has been prescriptive as well, recognizing the failures of a political, bureaucratic and social system straining to find the balance between the numerous contradictions of India. In this highly readable book he, like me, remains optimistic. There is hope - Shiv Nadar, Founder and Chairman, HCL and Shiv Nadar Foundation. In the six decades since Indias tryst with destiny, we have taken many wrong turns. Public service has become private profit, corruption is normal and we struggle to provide basic services such as education and healthcare to our citizens that is, governance has collapsed. However, there is cause for cheer. India has a young upwardly mobile population, restless for change. We are at a turning point, but will we lose our way again? This is the question T. S. R. Subramanian answers in this book on the relationship between the rulers and the ruled. Subramanian knows the Indian government inside out - he has the outsiders rage at what has gone wrong with governance, he also has the insiders insight into the solutions that are possible. The essays in this book are anchored in this well rounded perspective. With his brand of humour, Subramanian mixes personal experience with public commentary, frustration at all the wrong turns with hope for a better future.