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This collection brings together some of the finest stories of Manto, the most widely read and the most translated writer in Urdu. The stories range from chilling account of the horrors of Partition to his portrayal of the underworld. Powerful and deeply moving these stories remain relevant even today.

Pappudom is a normal village on the banks of the Tarangam River. But Pappu knows better. He visits the past with the ghost of his great granduncle after whom the village is named. This is an exciting tale of Pappudom.

An extraordinary way to lead yourself and your organisation to the performance of a lifetime. Discover how to more fully engage in the right task at the right time to accomplish the right purpose.

Hop on to a super-fragilistic story tour that will take you far and wide to places you have never been and people you have never seen. There’s never a dull moment in this selection of unusual stories.

From the days of the Raj, the Indian version of English has been on a growth trajectory that has led to the evolution of a language of its own. This compendium is a journey through a sub-genre that evolved against all odds, entertaining and educative, weaving together a history of verbal patterns that reflect social and cultural trends.

From Orhan Pamuk comes a personal selection of his best from 25 years of work. The work ranges from lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from evocations of his friendship with his daughter to discussions of Eastern and Western art.

This gripping story highlights the moral dilemmas of young people in today’s world, where violence erupts round every corner, and the line between right and wrong runs dangerously thin.

This is an introspective and thought-provoking book from which emerges a persuasive argument for peace, while the rhetoric of a romantic past is rejected. It will offer new ways of looking at this historic conflict of anyone who seeks a deeper, more constructive understanding of it.

How would it feel to live in a world where we choose our highest right and not our darkest wrong, where we lift each other instead of always and ever putting each other down? How could such a civilization begin, and where would it go? So was born this work, the story of a doomed civilization that returned to life upon the single act of one individual.

This volume brings together the extraordinary lives of freedom fighters from Mahatma Gandhi to Birsa Munda, Sarojini Naidu to Bhagat Singh, life stories that recount little-told events, capture their personalities and remind us of their role in our nationalist movement.

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