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Bollywood Striptease
Nikki is bitten by the Bollywood bug at fifteen. Years later , she is an attractive and vivacious chartered accountant. However, Nikki suddenly realises that if she doesn't act fast, her dream of being a Bollywood star will soon become history. She chucks her stable job and dives into the world of glamour, to the chagrin of her family and a naturally sceptical world. Only her good friends, Shonali and Karan, encourage her. Rejections at auditions, casting couch offers, a stormy relationship – Nikki's foray into the film industry is full of sensational surprises. Then comes a point in her life. When everything looks ominous, primed for a disastrous fall. But just as in real life, things take a turn for the better. The climax is worth a wait. Bollywood Striptease captures Nikki's exciting journey through the Bollywood maze as she offers the reader a glimpse into the quotidian realities of a struggling actor's life. About The Author Her passion for creativity brought Neeta Shah. A chartered accountant, to Bollywood . Writing, an old hobby, resurfaced as her life took interesting turns. Soon the writer within her – restless and impatient – bubbled to the surface with the story of her 'behind- the-scene' experiences in bollywood: some good, some bad and some just odd. Determinedly fighting against all odds, her maiden novel came into being. Neeta's story is a massage to all young guns: go out there, chase your dreams, never give up, as success is only a step away
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Nothing Can Be As Crazy
Nothing can be as Crazy… is a story of a typical service-class Indian, Suresh, who works in a bank. He is straight and conservative, and finds himself out of sync at every stage of life. Being a second-generation city migrant, he has not yet acquired the urban garb completely, and still finds certain things beyond his perception. The novel, set in the environs of Hyderabad, Calcutta and Uttar Pradesh, gives a graphic description of life in the urban middle-class. The story realistically reflects the life and the struggles of Suresh. Will he be able to change the system or will he fall in line? An alumnus of I.I.T. Kanpur and trained at I.I.M. Ahmedabad, Ajay Mohan Jain has worked with a leading commercial bank where he got the opportunity to see life very closely through various phases and places. The entire revelation was so compelling that he "dropped-out" to pen this story down. He has been writing regularly - mostly on topics of general interest - for various newspapers and periodicals, but this is his first full-length work. He can be reached at info@ajaymohanjain.com and www.ajaymohanjain.com.
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The Captain
As Mayank grapples with myriad emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India s abysmal showing at the ODI World Cup a year earlier. He revisits a damning no-holds-barred report that he had prepared, citing the reasons for India s defeat. Reasons that ranged from ball-tampering to drugs, from philandering to betting. Haunted by these memories, with the T20 World Cup looming before him, Mayank must find out whether the match has been fixed, ease underlying tensions, keep team morale up and play the best cricket of his life. The chronicle of one man s journey through the fickleness that is life and cricket, The Captain is an unputdownable thriller. About the author Tuhin A. Sinha is an author, columnist and scriptwriter based in Mumbai. His other two books That Thing Called Love and Of Love and Politics were well received. Tuhin has also scripted several TV shows, apart from having worked as a story/script/creative consultant with leading film and TV production houses. As a columnist, he writes regularly for The Times of India and other leading publications. Tuhin is presently working on his fourth book and a movie script