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The Guy Next Door

Hi! Who am I? I am the guy next door. I may be you and this could be your story. I am the lead character of this story and why not my personality resembles to that of an actor but people hardly realize it. According to Mom, oil on my face is enough to cook two meals. You ask my neighbours they have nothing to talk about, besides my pimples. Yes, I know that it has outgrown in number but I am working to lessen it. Sunny feels that I should have a little more height but who will explain it to him that great people of this country like Sachin Tendulkar, Aamir Khan lack height. Forget it; I know they just envy my looks. There are people, who speak nice things about me- my friend Shikha who likes my smile and likes the way I tackle problems. I sometimes feel to make her stand in front of my father who always despairs for my future. I don't know why he is so convinced that I am and always will be a loser in life. A big LOSER! I think he is just prejudiced. It's ok, I mean who doesn't score less in these stupid school exams but people shouldn't forget that I have been promoted to standard tenth. Hey wait, this story is not about my struggle in standard tenth, but about me and Riya. Yes, Riya- a girl whose presence makes my heart beat faster, my eyelids refuse to blink and all my worries commit suicide. Even her thought makes me feel on cloud ninety nine! She has been my classmate since the last four years, but up till now I haven't spoken to her. And here I am, last year in the school. Got to do something. Do pray for me!

Today’s The Day

By picking up this book, you have already taken a first step toward succeeding in life. But will you take the next step... and the next? Will today be the day you finally resolve to do something positive with your life – no matter what difficulties you face? The world is made up of all kinds of people in all sorts of circumstances. But ultimately, everyone falls into one of two categories: those who succeed and those who fail. Nobody sets out to fail. But often we don’t really know what success means or how to achieve it personally. Now there’s help. In this inspiring and uplifting book, Jim Stovall shares easy-to-read, easy-to-put-to-work nuggets of wisdom that he has learned by overcoming his own blindness and becoming one of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs. Each persuasive chapter gives you a practical, and powerful insight that can help you successfully negotiate every situation in your life

...But i Love You

People fall in love and fall out of love... When Niyoti came with her book "...But I Love You", I was going through a 'falling out of love' Phase. After I read the book I realized the simplicity of a real relationship and all it takes to just be there all your life. All couples fight but the best ones are those who resolve fast and bounce back to normalcy immediately..."...But I Love You" is a story about one such couple. I can't really express how happy I am to be entering the world of publication with this magically simple yet heart thouching story. Soon more copies will be printing and books will be displayed on shelves at various booksellers all over India and a lot of people reading the book will find themselves smiling, giggling, laughing and at times crying but at the end of it feeling right about love. Cheers to Love !!! Cheers to Life!!! About the Author Niyoti Khilare did her schooling in Sangli and is now studying M.B.B.S. In J.N.M.C. Belgaum. Her hobbies involve reading novels and writing poems. A couple of her poems have been printed in the Epic Literary Book of the year 2010 and one of her poems also won 1st prize in the international competition helf by poetrycraze.com. Also she is hoping to publish a book in poetry.

The Funda Of Mix-ology : What Bartending Teaches T

The Funda of Mix-ology is a novel a young man who is not unlike many of us. After spending his youth in the pursuit of academic excellence and admission into the 'right' institutes, he joins a multinational firm after graduating from an IIM. A few years down the line, once the sheen of Day one jobs and hefty pay packets has worm off, he realizes that nothing he has learnt at IIM can prepare him for the stress and drudgery that characterize his day-to-day life. He finds himself thinking about work long after he has left office; finds that his schedule leaves him with little time and energy for his passions outside of work, and leaves him with little by way of a personal life. As he approaches his thirtieth birthday, he begins to wonder if there is any point to his life beyound competing in one rat race after another. Contents : An Ode to Ennui Lost in the Mob Reality Bites Fallen Angle Calm before the Storm Wanderer in a Strange Land The Place Where Memories Die Face in the Mirror Flowers on the Roadside Things Unsaid The Book of Life Intimations of Mortality Homecoming Mix it up!

When A Lawyer Falls In Love

When A Lawyer Falls In Love Ankur Palekar, a third year law student believes his life is quite sorted. Except that he does not want to become a lawyer, has a family history of lunacy and has actually fallen in love. Vyas, Ankur’s roommate and best friend, has no such problems—only a girlfriend who emerges from the graveyard of all the places and insists on visiting him in the boys’ hostel. Add to it, a Malayali friend whose car never starts and vocal chords never stop, a law festival that is not completely legal and an arranged marriage which is more deranged than Arranged. About the Author Amrita Suresh decided she wanted to be a novelist, while she was still a bespectacled twelve-year-old. Writing fiction, Amrita believes, is almost as enjoyable as walking her oversized cross-breed dog. This considering, both activities involve a misplaced sense of adventure. An English Literature post-graduate, Amrita went on to do her M Phil and then worked as a faculty member at IIIT, Hyderabad. She now lives in Hyderabad with her husband and is chewing on some ideas for her next novel.

Poor Indian Graduate Students

What would you call being stupid? Running to your parents shit scared when you get your first erection? Going to an engineering college On a paid seat with absolutely no interest? After engineering, going to the US because the girl you are in love with is going? Or dating a girl who just broke your best friend's heart? If you think it is all of the above, then meet me, Anish Sadanandan. I am what you would call a normal guy, who went through a not-so -normal life. Every man learns Prow their mistakes, which they look back at as their defining moment. I've had many defining moments, with the most prominent one being when I decided to go to the US for a girl, to become one of the P.I.G.S. Have you ever done something like I have?

Move On Bunny! The Uproarious Escapades Of Bunny K

Bunny Kapoor, a dashing and confident ladies' man, is determined to succeed in the big-bad world. But the problem is that Bunny has a strong predilection for landing up in sticky situations with pesky bosses and difficult women! Luckily, he also has the happy knack of wriggling out of each one. To help him out of the soups he manages to land himself in, Bunny banks on two companions-lady luck and the knack of winning the day! When thing become too hot to handle, Bunny just moves on to a different city and a new job, mostly, a new girl too! Bunny manages to smile when the chips are down, to score when it counts and to escape when necessary. Bunny wins many hearts during his amazing journey and vanquishes several opponents. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Banglore and Kolkata-Bunny aces them all in his own style. He chucks away previous trophies without flinching. Newer vistas beckon. He moves on. Ever on! Will Bunny at last get the girl and job of his dreams and settle down? Well, Bunny Kapoor is his own man, and no one can tell!

Shit Happens! Desi Boy In America

Anurag Sinha, a thoroughbred nerd, leads a cocooned life, confined more or less to the four walls of his room. A one-of-a-kind dad, a weepy mother and weird relatives complete his life. Average girls ignore him, hot girls bully him and school studs abuse him. His shitty Delhi existence goes on until the big day arrives. Our hero gets a scholarship. To University of Rochester. To New York. To united States of Bloody AMERICA! Life must only look uphill from now on. America must be at least hundred times better than india. But shit happens. All the time. Everywhere. Even in America! A roller-coaster American ride leads our desi boy to an exeptional journey rippling with twists and turns. Nonchalant blondes, mugless washrooms, strange slangs, good-hearted friends, beefy encounters, boozy nights and even a white girlfriend – America shows Anurag itself in all its psychedelic craziness. But dreams and roller-coaster rides don't go on forever. What will happen to our hero? Will he return to his life in India or will he stay on? Dream on!

Emosional Atyachar

An idiot at the top. Love of his life but busy in kissing other frogs. His best friend, who loves backstabbing and blackmailing. A failed suicide attempt. A deadly blood contamination. One hundred twenty days to die or to live. One saviour. One condition -- kill someone to live, to love, to die like a winner. Vimarsh has made up his mind. The game has begun. The clock is ticking. A perfect love story. A perfect revenge. A perfect murder. Death has never been so awaited. How far will you go to claim your love, your life and yourself? A comedy of murders. A romance of revenge. A conspiracy of life. Beyond love. Beyond life. Beyond revenge. Emosional Atyachar! About the Author: ANKIT UTTAM (Bestselling author of Beyond Love) First time, it's destiny. Second time it's karma. Born in 1986, Ankit did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Delhi Public School and somehow completed his graduation in 2008. A compulsive reader by habit, he took to writing as a stress buster, and finally gave his part of stress to his readers, who unknowingly bought his book. First book, Beyond Love, was a struggle but the second, a beginning of a passion. Stephen King said, "Only a passionate reader can become a competent writer. A gifted writer is a rarity." While trying to live these words, Ankit pursues his career with a leading IT firm in Noida.

A Lot Like Love...a Li'l Like Chocolate

A Lot Like Love...a Li'l Like Chocolate He's a player. She knows the rules. They meet. Smile. Talk. Add each other on Facebook. Exchange BB pins. He asks her out for coffee. She agrees. Another coffee follows. So do movies, drives, moonlight walks, study dates, sneakouts, make out sessions. Shadab and Arnika. Both eighteen. Committed. In a relationship. It's a perfectly clichéd bubblegum love story...or is it? For love today, comes with a ‘conditions apply. Career. Ambition. Practicality. Different colleges. Different countries. Different aspirations. A long-distance relationship. They decide to give it a shot. Skype video calling. BBM. Lists of do’s and don'ts. Fidelity checks. Promises. They've planned it all out. But can love be planned? Is chocolate a safer proposition for the heart? Is cheating on your partner an offence only if your partner comes to know about it? What happens when you're in something which is A lot like love…a li'l like chocolate??? About the Author SUMRIT SHAHI Hardly an author, as he proclaims. Sumrit Shahi, at 18, is as confused as before, but just more sophisticated about it. His debut novel at the age of 17, Just Friends, is a national bestseller and sold over 25,000 copies. With a killer ability to play with words, which he isn't remotely humble about, writing for him is a passion which pays surprisingly well. A resident of Chandigarh, alumnus of St. John's High School and Bhavan Vidyalaya, he is currently pursuing his first year at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune

Life Unplugged

Life Unplugged Owing to parental pressure, Samir starts seriously studying for the High School Board exams – to get good marks for admission into DPS. DPS – A school of a supposed “brand value” and a high “public perception”, famous for things good and BAD alike! From cracking the IIT – JEE, to spiraling into oblivion of obscurity.. From meeting a porn star, to making porn out of them... Dipsites, the students of DPS, know no limits, and achieve new frontiers of virtually everything. This is Samir's last two years at school in print in your hands! Where he makes few friends, rises to fame before plummeting to hell, finds love, realizing it to be lust later on.... A roller coaster ride with friends, teachers, bullies, lovebirds, sluts, jerks, pregnant teens, make-ups and break-ups... Tag Along! About The Author Bhavya, 21, wrote his first piece at eight, against the Indian Superhero, “Shaktiman”, whom he found utterly stupid. He wants to be a number of things and is currently pursuing his post-grad from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. And yes, he likes correcting people with the pronunciation of his name, whenever they say the last “a” in the high tone.

The English Teacher

The English Teacher While Krishna teaches at the Albert Mission College his wife and daughter live some distance away with his parents-in-law. But a move to a small rented house soon permits the couple to enjoy a life of marital bliss. Yet paradise is short-lived... Never has the magical storyteller of imaginary Malgudi woven tragedy and humour so deftly together

A Tiger For Malgudi

R. K. Narayan's magnificent new novel is about a tigerpossessed of the soul of an enlightened human being who tells us the story ofhis life. Raja leaves his home in the Mempi hills only to find he is capturedand made to perform in a circus and on a film set. Eventually he escapes, onlyto be recaptured - but this time voluntarily - by a guru. The two of them leaveMalgudi and return to the hills where they pass their days in sweetphilosophical discourse until old age overtakes Raja and he is forced to give uphis freedom for ever. A haunting tale, A Tiger For Malgudi uniquelycombines the elusive timeless quality of Hindu legend with the comic vision ofNarayan's earlier Malgudi novels. Everyone, young and old, will enjoy the verysimplicity of this compelling fable, but some will want to explore with Raja thepathway to true enlightenment.

The Financial Expert

The Financial Expert Margayya is a complex and entrancing character with a flair for those fabulously involved minor financial transactions which are an integral part of Indian life. We first met him sitting in the shade of a banyan tree, advising the people of Malgudi how to extract loans from the Co-operative Bank. A brush with the Secretary of the Bank, and an accident in which his spoilt son Balu throws his account book down a drain, cut short his career as a financier; but after a series of amusing incidents Margayya grows rich and reverts to financial wizardy. Apart from the vigor of the narrative, what is remarkable about the book is the unselfconscious ease and humour with which R K Narayan conveys the flavor of Indian life.

Mr. Sampath: The Printer Of Malgudi

Mr. Sampath: The Printer Of Malgudi Weekly publications of The Banner is entirely due to two dedicated Malgudi inhabitations: Srinivas edits the newspaper, while Mr. Sampath prints it. They work night and day to satisfy the increasing demands of their clamouring public. In rare moments of relaxation, Srinivas occupies his mind puzzling over the futility of human existence, while Mr. Sampath good-naturedly shoulders all the financial burdens. Without warming, The Banner suddenly folds. Never a character to be foiled for long, Mr. Sampath becomes involved with Sunrise Productions and ropes in Srinivas to write the film scripts. Unfortunately the glamorous life goes to Mr. Sampath's head and chaos ensues. At times amusing, unfailingly perspicacious, R K Narayan has written a story of great distinction and charm.

Waiting For The Mahatma

Waiting For The Mahatma Sriram is twenty. As a mark of his coming of age his grandmother allows his the pass-book to his savigns in the local bank, but Sriram is growing up in other ways, too, and an enchanting and unpredictable girl leads him into the entourage of Mahatma Gandhi. These are the opening events in R K Narayan's novel. It is the finest thing he has yet achieved, and his story of the triumphs and tragedies of a raw young zealot in the service of Gandhi is distinguished for its warmth, its humour, its lack of sentimentality and the stamp of absolute truth. Sriram's evolution into manhood is, for him, strange and bewildering process. Bharati, the girl he worship, is witty, infuriating, capable and, wonder of wonders, condescending to the moonstruck Sriram. Her first loyalty though, is to the Mahatma, a saint blessed with disconcerting common sense, a man whose tragedy is tat he is so much greater than his followers. Most of them accept his ideas enthusiastically, and without realizing it, pervert them to suit their coarser personalities. Sriram is inspired by Gandhi, but he is too easily influenced by glamorous patriots of the type of Jagadish, a terrorist. It is a tale of remarkable insight into the upsrge of Indian nationalism as witnessed through the eyes and hearts of Sriram and Bharati, and told with the all genius and compassion we have come to expect from R K Narayan.

The World Of Nagraj

The World Of Nagraj Nagaraj's world is quite and comfortable. Living in his family's spacious house with only his wife Sita for company, he fills his day writing letters, drinking coffee, doing some leisurely book-keeping for his friend Coomar's Boeing Sari Company, and sitting on his veranda watching the world and planning the book he intends to write about the life of the great sage Narada. But everything is disturbed when Tim, the son of his ambitious landowing brother Gopu, decides to leave home and come to live with Nagaraj. Forced to take responsibility for the boy, puzzled by his secret late-night activities and by the strong smell of sprits which lingers behind him, Nagaraj finds his days, suddenly filled with unwelcome complication and turbulence, which threaten to alter for ever the contented tranquility of his world. The latest of R.K.Narayan's magnificent Malgudi books, The World of Nagaraj is beautifully written, funny and haunting , evoking in marvelously rich detail the atmosphere of a small town in southern India and creating a magical world into which the reader is instantly drawn....

The Man-Eater Of Malgudi

The Man Eater Of Malgudi This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the enchanted world of Malgudi, that slumbering Southern Indian village whose peace has been often amusingly and outrageously disturbed by Narayan. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenial days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist; moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing women up the printer's private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Nataraj has befriended, complications ensue that are both comic and calamitous. A not unwelcome death occurs; murder is suspected and Nataraj and his friends point guilty fingers at each other and those around them. The suspense never slackens in this bizarre, yet moving tale.

Under The Banyan Tree And Other Stories

Under The Banyan Tree And Other Stories A delightful collection from India's foremost storyteller, Under the Banyan Tree adds twenty-eight tales of the rich and colorful heritage of R K Narayan's fictional south Indian city, Malgudi. Narayan's characters, observed with a wry and compassionate eye, come from every area of Indian society - merchants, beggars, herdsmen, hermits, teachers, rogues - and represent in miniature a wealth of human experience. A rebellious young man refuses to honour a vow made by his parents in an ancestral temple long ago in Nitya. A shopkeeper is made bankrupt by a charming stranger in A Career. In other tales, a schoolteacher indulges for one traumatic day in the luxury of telling the truth; a nervous small boy, forced to sleep alone to prove his courage, catches a burglar; a browbeaten clerk triumphs over his stars, and a ghost is laid to rest. Outstanding in this superb book is the masterpiece A Horse and Two Goats, drawn from a collection now no longer available, and the marvelous title story, about the divine gift of storytelling itself. Like the storyteller in Under the Banyan Tree, R K Narayan is an enchanter, a weaver of words who keeps his audience spellbound with the rhythms and haunting images of his tales. Drawn from the market-place, the mountainside, the dusty street, the river bank, these gentle, ironic, finely observed stories of village and city life demonstrate the power of fiction at its best

Talkative Man

Talkative Man In this masterpiece, India's preeminent novelist introduces a character not unlike himself, a compulsively engaging raconteur-" They call me Talkative Man. Some affectionately shorten it to TM: I have earned this title, I suppose, because I cannot contain myself. My impulse to share an experience with others is irresistible." As a young journalist struggling to establish a reputation, TM is always on the lookout for a good story. The one he shares with the reader this time is about the mysterious Dr. Rann and his effect on the people of Malgudi-a world of "small men, small schemes, big talk, and limited means," as V.S. Naipaul aptly described Narayan's enchanting city. Dr. Rann arrives in Malgudi wearing a fancy blue suit and claiming to be researching a project for the United Nations. He inveigles TM into taking him to his home on Kabir Street, where he begins an extended visit as a house-guest. TM learns through local gossip that the secrete scholar is seducing one of Malgudi's young girls, and then a large woman from Delhi arrives and relates the amazing tale of her futile attempts to reclaim the same man, her erratic, wandering husband. In the novel's hilarious and touching denouement, TM realizes that not only he but also Dr. Rann and his implacable wife are all engaged in creating fictions about themselves and their lives....

Confessions Of A Lapdancer

Confessions Of A Lapdancer City girl by day, city stripper by night Geri Carson is fed up with life in the City. Forced to act as one the boys in order to climb the ladder of one of London's biggest investment banks, it seems however hard she tries, she's constantly sidelined - her male colleagues all get bigger bonuses and the most prestigious accounts.Struggling to keep up with an increasingly lavish lifestyle, Geri gets deeper into debt. She needs cash - and fast.A company night out leads her to a lap-dancing club. She's awestruck by how much power the girls command - and completely turned on. Forced to return to the club the next day when she leaves her purse behind, Geri is presented with an offer she can't refuse. A chance to earn £500 per night lap-dancing in one of the hottest clubs in town.At first petrified, once the lights go up, Gerry has never felt more alive. She's a natural and soon becomes intoxicated by her new job. Then she becomes involved with a millionaire client. The sex is mind-blowing. But then she discovers a seedier and scarier side to life as a lap dancer. A world where anything goes and only the strongest survive… ...

Sisters Shobha De'

Ms De shocks India, and much of its literary set like no other writer today.' --New York Times They were beautiful, wealthy and sought after. They were sisters and they were at war. When her parents die in an air crash, Mikki Hiralal suddenly finds herself the owner of the sprawling Hiralal industrial empire. Abandoning her studies in the United States, she returns to Bombay, only to find her father's business affairs in a mess. Almost bankrupt, beset on all sides by creditors, takeover tycoons and unreliable associates, Mikki realizes there is only one person she can turn to for help--the beautiful Alisha, her father's illegitimate daughter. There is only one hitch: Alisha hates Mikki...In her new novel, set in the corrupt world of big business, Shobha De, the bestselling author of Socialite Evenings and Starry Nights, tells an engrossing story of two women who play for very high stakes, driven by ambition, lust, greed and hate....

A Nameless Place

Blood Line

When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman’s fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim’s mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey’s victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer’s list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted......