A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me-a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.' This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony-with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between two deodar trees; we hear a redstart whistle and the rain drum on a tin roof; we recognize the aftermath of loss and the consolation of old companions. "A Book of Simple Living" is a gift of beauty and wisdom from India's most loved, and most understated, writer.

Science & Math

BOND, RUSKIN

Nature & Ecology

Speaking Tiger Books

Delhi has been plundered once again, this time by the forces of ahmad shah abdali. Forced to evacuate as his house is destroyed, the storyteller begins his journey away from the city when he encounters a haveli and is invited by its enigmatic begum to narrate tales. In a mutual exchange of stories, the plot encapsulates various manifestations of love, friendship, loyalty, trust, hatred and jealousy. Tales of unconditional love between two brothers taka (human) and wara (wolf) to loyalty between two friends (aresh and barab), a bond that transcends death. The storyteller and the begum are questioning each other's stance on love and embracing a deepening but unspoken desire for each other. Set in the 1700s, each story gives a new dimension to love, its manifestation complete as human bonds go through waves of loyalty, trust, hatred, desire, betrayal and jealousy.

The Storyteller's Tale

OMAIR AHMAD

Lords Of The Global Village

Ranendra

The Death of a Sarus Crane: Sudha Gupta's Adventures in Detection

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ambai, Ambai

Mystery

The Garden of Heaven a Novel

Literature & Fiction

Liddle, Madhulika

Genre Fiction

Description 
Composed in the 12th-century by Kampan, regarded by many as Tamil's 
finest poet, the Kamparamayanam is perhaps the most splendid retelling of 
Valmiki's Ramayana. This first regional retelling of the great Sanskrit epic is 
set firmly in Tamil country and draws from Puranic lore and Tamil literary 
masterpieces. The approximately 12,000 verses that make up the six books 
of the Kamparamayanam fully and unabashedly embrace Rama's identity as a 
human avatar. 
The first kandam, or book, of Kampan's Ramayana is Balakandam, about the 
boyhood of Rama, who under the tutelage of Vishwamitra learns the lay of the 
land he will one day rule, as well as his true nature. This son of Dasharatha, 
along with his brother Lakshmana, reverses ancient curses of sages and gods, 
amasses powerful weapons, and protects the sacrificial rituals of the rishis 
from vicious rakshasas. In Mithila, he falls in love with Sita, the daughter of 
King Janaka. The chapters that follow describe-in a manner unique to early 
Tamil literature-the joyful procession of Dasharatha's retinue to Rama and 
Sita's wedding, and contain some of the most beautiful verses composed in 
any South Asian language. The book concludes with Rama's first true test of 
manhood and a sign of the times that lie ahead: a conflict with the mighty 
Parashu Rama, an avatar, like Rama himself, of Vishnu. 
Translated from the Tamil with great skill by Blake Wentworth, Youth brings 
the lyricism, the exquisite imagery and the wonderful sensuousness of 
Kampan's masterpiece to modern-day English-language readers.

Youth the Balakandam of Kampan's Ramayana

Poetry

Pow 1971 A Soldier’s Account of The Heroic Battle of Daruchhian

Vijay Singh

Description 
Colaba, May 2020; Lockdown, Day 46: Baman Marker, the Chairperson of 
Daisy and Lily Apartments, is found poisoned in his home. He dies soon after. 
The twin apartments are sealed, so the murderer could have only been one of 
the residents. 
The news shakes fifteen-year-old Nandini Venkat, a devourer of murder 
mysteries, out of her stupor. After all, didn't she spot a pair of legs climbing 
up and down the stairs that deadly night... With her not-so-alert twin, Ved, 
and BFF Shanaya, she begins an investigation. 
But the Chairperson knew every little dirty detail about every single resident, 
so the list of suspects is long. Was it Mr Carvalho-Nandini's crush Daniel's 
father-with his shady past? Or Shanaya's mother, Amrita Aunty, who had 
a running feud with Baman? Or mean old retired principal Lina Almeida 
who now makes lethal detox smoothies? Or the old and immobile Mr 
Alimchandani with a long-buried secret? 
The seemingly listless days of the lockdown, when secrets and tensions 
bubbled below the surface, come back to life in this gripping and entertaining 
whodunit. With Murder at Daisy Apartments, bestselling author Shabnam 
Minwalla brings her phenomenal gift for dramatic storytelling to a new genre.

Murder at Daisy Apartments

Teen & Young Adult

Minwalla, Shabnam

DescriptionThree bullets were shot into the chest of Mahatma Gandhi by a certainNathuram Godse on the evening of 30 January 1948. His true motivations, however, are today actively obscured, and his admirers sit in the Indianparliament as members of the ruling establishment. This book is a timelyeffort to remind us that Gandhi's killing was not a random act of a mindlesskiller. It was the culmination of a cold-blooded conspiracy.The men who stood trial for the murder of Gandhi claimed that they wereacting for a stronger, more united, India. Their 78-year-old peace-loving target, they felt, was the single biggest impediment to achieving that goal. They accusedhim of dishonesty and treachery; he was blamed for the Partition of India, for'appeasing' Muslims; and condemned for 'fail[ing] in his duty' to the people ofthis nation. To them, Gandhi had to die because 'there was no legal machineryby which such an offender could be brought to book'. Do any of the accusationshave any claim to truth whatsoever? If not, what, then, was the actual intentionthat these arguments made by Godse were attempting to hide? And was V.D.Savarkar, among others, involved in the conspiracy?Ashok Kumar Pandey's Why They Killed Gandhi, translated from the celebratedHindi original, lays bare the facts of the murder, and offers a passionatedefence of the Mahatma and his politics, while simultaneously delivering atrenchant polemic against the ideology of bigotry and perpetual violence thatkilled him.

Why They Killed Gandhi Unmasking the Ideology and the Conspiracy

History

Pandey, Ashok Kumar

World

Description 
The war with Pakistan in December 1971 lasted barely two weeks. It 
concluded on 16 December with a victory for India and the formation 
of Bangladesh. But there is a lesser known side to this epic military 
confrontation-that of the western front, namely Jammu and Kashmir. While 
many contests on this side of India's border were won, some battles were illfated. 
The heroic battle at Daruchhian in the Poonch Sector was one of them. 
A cone-shaped feature, approximately 1,000 metres in height, Daruchhian 
was of great tactical significance. The fierce clash on its slopes on the night of 
13 December, however, could not ensure its capture. Many Indian soldiers 
were martyred, and the survivors taken prisoner, including Brigadier (then 
Major) Hamir Singh, VrC. Heavily injured in battle, he underwent a prolonged 
recovery at the Command Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, followed by an 
internment at the POW camp in Lyallpur. Hamir Singh's eyewitness account, 
recorded by the author, his son Maj Gen Vijay Singh, narrates in riveting detail 
what took place on that fateful night and what followed. 
From battle plans that were too perfect to succeed, to soldiers who didn't 
give up, enemies who honoured each others' professionalism, Pakistanis 
nostalgic about pre-Partition India, and the shared sorrow and joy that 
dissolve boundaries of nation and religion, POW 1971 gives us a view of war, 
valour and humanity that is as heart-wrenching as it is moving.

POW 1971 a Soldier's Account of the Heroic Battle of Daruchhian

Biographies & Memoirs

Singh, Major General Vijay

Leaders & Notable People

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