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I thought the nation was coming to an end,’ wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the vio

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 JHALAK PRIZE 1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-wor

In Buddhist myth, the dead may be reborn as “hungry ghosts”- spirits with stomach so large they can never be full - if they have desired too much during their lives. It is the duty of the living relatives to free those doomed to this fate by doing ki

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

YOUR FIRST COMPREHENSIVE BOOK FOR CODING WITH PYTHON—EASY, BREEZY, AND INTERACTIVE This is a book for beginners like it ought to be—it cuts through the clutter to focus on all the key points and fundamentals holistically. From theoretical concepts li

Set in London, The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. After his mother’s death, Prins Ducal is driven to re-examine his family’s history. In doing so, he d

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Bestselling author Sanjeev Sanyal’s fresh and provocative vision of India In three original and insightful books, acclaimed writer Sanjeev Sanyal takes readers on a journey through India’s fascinating prehistory, its glorious ancient lineage and i

NONE CAN CHANGE THE PAST, BUT THE FUTURE IS ANYBODY’S GAME . . . 271 BC On the one side is the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka, growing from strength to strength. On the other end is the highly trained spy, Vassa, a Kalingan. Ashoka and his army are m

As a young boy, Amitav Ghosh's narrator travels across time through the tales of those around him, traversing the unreliable planes of memory, unmindful of physical, political and chronological borders. But as he grows older, he is haunted by a seemi

The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to

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At the age of eleven, Triton goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with the island’s disappearing reef. It was the biggest house he had ever seen. People from all over the world came here-to sell their wares, to ta

Comprehensive 360-degree coverage of the internal security part of the UPSC Mains syllabus Previous years’ internal security Mains questions with keyword-oriented, word-limit specific and information-packed model Answers (2013 to 2020) incorporation

Maps and mountains, lions and tigers, rivers and oceans-all sorts of things you didn’t know about India’s geography Could you be related to a blond Lithuanian? What if ostriches once roamed in India? Did you know that India is the only country tha

This book is the first in a series of other books to follow soon on adventures of Nikki, a young girl. She witnesses a gruesome murder committed onboard a cruise ship. Thrown in the sea by the killer, she miraculously survives only to find herself in

India first Machine made paper was manufactured around 1812. Paper Industry in India is mainly plantation based so to increase the production of [paper more area of land should be brought under plantation of eucalyptus and other tress apposite for ma

Set to find out the mythological Sanjeevani plant of the Ramayana, botanist Arjun and chef Lisa were circumstantially clubbed in an unlikely team that travelled from New York to the Western Himalayas in search of the truth. The series of revelations