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Banaras Talkies

Bhagwandas Hostel at Banaras Hindu University can be mistaken as being like any other college hostel, but that would be a gross error. For, among the corridors of BD Hostel roam never-before-seen characters: Suraj the narrator, whose goal is to woo a

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The Match

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled in London with a teenage

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This Is Not Your Story

The author brings together three characters - Shaurya, Anubhav and Miraya – along with their unachieved dreams and shattered hearts, and how their stories gradually unfolds to a better future. Shaurya, wants to chase his dream of becoming a filmma

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14 May 2022
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Malibu Rising

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation

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Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh

Blowing open the struggles, aspirations, loneliness and lived experiences of Indian women who seek financial independence in one of the most male-dominated economies in the world, Shrayana Bhattacharya’s pathbreaking bestseller shows why women who ho

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The journey of Bun, Butter, & Jam

Bun, an introverted person with a lot of social dread and a rigid family, decides to attend her post-graduate course with her alumni college in July 2017 in an effort to become a well-socialized person. She lets her out as a fearless, self-reliant la

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Our Impossible Love

Life teaches us what ‘love’ truly is And love gives definition to ‘life’ Aisha, a bit of a late bloomer, has to figure out what it means to be a woman and to be desired. Danish feels time is running out for him and he’s going to end up as a nobod

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Secretly Yours

Everyone has secrets . . . but is hers the most shocking? Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Sahil has always blamed himself for his parents’ death. He has little interest in life until he meets the enigmatic Anya in a chance encounter during the

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27 July 2022
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The Namesake

Join Ashima in her journey through complex Indian situations Namesake is the brainchild of Jhumpa Lahiri. The story unfolds with Ashima’s grandmother coming to know that Ashima is pregnant. She was very excited when she came to know this and extremel

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Life Switch

Just imagine. If you could switch your life with someone else . . . Would you? A staid housewife, Nandita, swaps her life with Annie, her doppelgänger. She switches her phone, her home, her husband and her boring family life for the glamorou

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood family, focusing on the sisters Elinor and Marianne, personifications of good sense (common sense) and sensibility (emotionality), respectively.

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27 April 2022

Evoked

Something has been evoked in the dark corners of a mind . . . Sevita and Sama are identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Sevita is popular and outgoing while Sama is a loner who never really fit in. As the two enter their first year

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Dilli Durbar

Who says the big city is a hard nut to crack? Rahul Mishra is your boy-next-door. He has a roving eye, is always looking for shortcuts and takes nothing seriously. But he is always on top of things, and Delhi is his newest challenge. This city is not

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13 August 2022
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Now That You’re Rich Let’s Fall in Love!

This is a story about life of 4 youngsters, their past, their love life, how they met in Investment bank, how they balanced their personal and professional life, and how they support each other in bad time. For Abhijeet, Saurav, Shruti, Garima life

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30 July 2022
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Sea of Poppies

A motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts is sailing down the Hooghly aboard the Ibis on its way to Mauritius. As they journey across the Indian Ocean old family ties are washed away, and they begin to view themselves as jahaj-bha

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24 May 2022
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Wuthering Heights

The story revolves around an obsessive lover who seeks revenge from his soul mate when she gets married to an another man.

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26 April 2022

The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the epic of Hindu mythology, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence Movement and the first thr

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14 May 2022
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Hungry Gods

Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of d

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25 July 2022
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Garbage Beat

Did Laila really say that? Not in her wildest dreams, not till sometime ago… Laila is on the entertainment beat-a world full of vain heroines, egoistic superstars, spirited item girls, prissy celebs… To top it all, life in the newsroom is a series of

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Item Girl

Sunheri and Suhana twin sisters who share a horrific childhood get caught up in a vortex of pain and deceit when Sunheri, a popular item girl in Bollywood, is accused of murdering her vicious uncle and is sent to jail. Suhana, an aspiring filmmaker,

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