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You''re pregnant? That''s lovely! But perfectly pregnant... isn''t that a wonderful possibility? For far too long, Indian women have been conditioned to believe that pregnancy and motherhood mark the end of their independent lives. Being a mother once meant bidding adieu to your fitness, beauty, career and individuality. But not anymore. In her debut memoir, celebrated officer of the Indian Administrative Service and the mother of two feisty little princesses, Durga Shakti Nagpal provides you with a detailed blueprint for a perfect pregnancy. She will ensure that the initiation of your life as a mother will be carried out with the focus and precision of a drill sergeant, while maintaining the relatability of the regular Indian mother-to-be. Durga Shakti will take you through a major life glow-up in those special nine months of your life, transforming you into the strongest, most accomplished version of yourself. From pregnancy friendly fitness and skincare, to healthy eating habits, meditation and skyrocketing your energy levels, she has it all covered. And not just that, Durga Shakti addresses several life issues that invariably accompany motherhood, but which are seldom addressed. Subjects like post-partum blues, pregnancy-related myths and beliefs, the role of an older child and the family''s active involvement during and after pregnancy are all beautifully dealt with. A highly accomplished bureaucrat by profession, and a mother and family woman by choice, Durga Shakti will help you find you the keys to striking a perfect balance between motherhood and life as a whole. This is every woman''s guide to carving out an extraordinary motherhood for herself, her child and her family

Our destiny is nothing but the result of our own actions of innumerable past lives as well as the present one'.In this simply written, well-researched book the author provides the key to unlock the secrets of the zodiac and know the future.

With his trademark wit and unique narrative style, journalist Saket Suman delivers an illuminating account of modern India, tracing the consolidation, evolution and contestation of patriotism from the first war of independence to the pandemic.This is a reporter's chronicle spanning three generations, backed by first-hand accounts of luminaries, peppered with numerous anecdotes and a passionate examination of his own beliefs. It is as scathing in its takedown of bigotry as it is lucid in chartin

Set in pre-Partition Lahore, from the turn of the century to the time of Independence, this is the story of two women, both strong and willing to challenge the limits of the acceptable, but in their own way and under very different circumstances.Harjeet, belonging to a well-respected landlord family of Punjab, is married to Gautam, from an equally prominent Khatri family of Lahore. Deeply dissatisfied with her life, Harjeet enters into a passionate affair with Haider, a Muslim. The book explores their relationship against the backdrop of the growing Hindu-Muslim divide, and the politically turbulent times they are living in. The other protagonist, Amiya, born out of wedlock to a British army officer and a Brahmin girl,is married at nineteen to Ishwar Chand, a clerk at the postal department in Lahore. The narrative follows her troubled marriage, and struggle to become financially independent, her coming of age as a writer, and the unlikely friendship she develops with Gautam. It chronicles the choices she must make, and the secret she must live with. Author Anuradha Jain offers a powerful account of desire, love, society and politics, and takes a probing look at the struggles and aspirations of a nation and its people.

Death in Colaba Bay is a thrilling tale of Victorian Bombay, a city where dreams arerealized, and nightmares are lived.BOMBAY 1898.In the bustling and modern port city of Bombay-home to great wealth and greatdeprivation-crime is ever present.Three young girls go missing from a prominent 'native' school in the city. Their familiesare frantic with worry.Tara Bai, a young widow and heiress, with strong social connections, is an alumnus ofthe school. Intrigued and alarmed by the case, at the behest of the school founder andprincipal, she agrees to help the grieving parents.

So are you ready to delve into a dark, twisted mind? Yes? Well then, let's get started... shall we? Murder came easy; merely an opening gambit. A mesmerizingly erotic snuff film, the perfect mix of domination and seduction, sizzles across the secret screens of a chosen few across the globe. Then disappears as though it never existed. The unknown killer, an alpha woman of beauty and incredible skills, rakes in millions. She has turned murder into an art. She is an elite brand with devout followers. A raptor who rises out of the dark web and seems to dissipate back into it. A hound is let loose after her, a cop. He watches hardened professionals daydream of becoming her next target. Each somehow believes he will better her. He realizes he is no different. Even as the cop craves to be her target, she puts him in the cross-hair. Little does she know that he too is a raptor waiting to rise from the dark. The duel is on.

IT IS THE HOUR WHEN CRIME, VICE AND WICKEDNESS REIGN... The speck of dust on the carpet... Half-smoked cigar... Blood stains and a corpse... Welcome to the crime scene and feel free to cross... 50 Greatest Detective Stories is an unparalleled treasury of detective fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from writers across varied generations, this collection charts the detective stories, making the reader''s adrenaline rise and fall as the episodes unfold. Each story takes one into the labyrinth of the unfamiliar within the familiar. Now it is your turn to be the detective as you read on and decode the mystery. Do enter the labyrinth!

The story of how a young IAS officer fell in love with India's tribal heartlands, and how these experiences changed him forever. Pravir Krishna first came face to face with the stark realities of the exploitation of tribal people when he was posted as the collector and district magistrate of Sarguja, a tribal district in Madhya Pradesh, in 1994. It affected him so deeply that he embarked on a journey towards bettering the lives of tribal people. Ever since, he has helped create an atmosphere where tribals traded freely and earned more. In fact, his market reforms were listed by the UNO-FAO as among 32 global best practices. Pravir's close association with the tribes began in Sarguja, it then continued in Bastar, and now as managing director of TRIFED, it has become even more important. Two decades later, his efforts have culminated in the Pradhan Mantri Jan Jatiya Vikas Mission, an initiative for enterprise-centric approach to tribal development, vis-à-vis the traditional welfarecentric approach. The book also discusses critical topics like the pros and cons of providing a fair deal to tribes for their forest produces; and what needs to be done to quadruple the incomes of tribes using this as the engine. The author offers various hands-on suggestions for transforming symbolic legislation for the tribes to a more robust approach to tribal development that is based on strengthening self-help; use of local resources and the traditional and sound skills and knowledge bank of the tribes; and the need to develop enterprises based on these resources. This is the remarkable story of a bureaucrat whose destiny is forever entwined with that of many of India's tribal communities.

In a city high-rise, sitting in the balcony on the 25th floor, sipping tea, you look out into the horizon, city lights glimmering in the distance, cars fading away as they rush across the highway. You are surrounded by silence though you can hear the faint noises of the horns honking on the road. You look across at the building angularly adjoining yours and see shadows move across the large expansive windows. You wonder what they would be doing-their conversations, their actions, the scuttling and scurrying movements. You can feel the melancholy, the lonesomeness. You reflect how it was never like this before. As people navigate their way towards growth and success, they find themselves 'busy' and others around them 'unavailable'. This urban existence with its multidimensional challenges has led to an upsurge in the experience of loneliness and taking stock is a matter of pertinent significance. This book explores the spaces from which the problem of urban loneliness arises. It portrays in detail the facets of our lives which are contributing towards the emergence of this scenario. In Alone in the Crowd, the authors go beyond highlighting the existence of the problem to enlisting ways in which this pandemic, in the midst of the current pandemic, can be tackled. Encouraging readers to concurrently focus on the need to live mindfully, this book also highlights key learnings from the pandemic.

I needed a friend but it was not easy to find one among a horde of rowdy, pea-shooting fourth formers, who carved their names on desks and stuck chewing gum on the class teacher's chair. Had I grown up with other children, I might have developed a taste for schoolboy anarchy; but, in sharing my father's loneliness after his separation from my mother, I had turned into a premature adult.' There is no telling where friendships might be made and how. Friends of My Youth is a collection of short stories by Ruskin Bond on how little and almost seemingly insignificant incidents of life can lead us to the person in whom we may find a companion, a comrade. These are the stories of how unknowingly, at times, friends are found and how they help eliminate our loneliness or become partners in crime in our personal missions. Narrated with utter simplicity, the tales make for a delightful remembrance of the friends made in the early years of life.

London-based restaurateur Arun and his assistant Ben are on a business trip. They stop at a roadside café in Himachal Pradesh and are astonished with its European looks and Italian menu. A cynical Arun samples a dish and is blown away by its authenticity. His astonishment turns into disbelief when he learns that the cook is Sita, a simple mountain girl who has never in her life stepped outside her village. Ever since her mother passed away, Sita started helping her deaf-mute father run their small tea stall. Sita loves cooking and when a travelling Italian chef gifts her a cookbook, the passion becomes an obsession. Aided by YouTube videos, Sita soon revamps the tea stall and turns it into an elfin café. Arun recognizes Sita's extraordinary talents and convinces her to move to London and become a chef at his restaurant. However, Sita's lack of professional training is soon apparent. Help comes in the form of Anwar Khan, a veteran butcher, who takes a floundering Sita under his wings. She embarks on a journey, navigating the cut-throat and often ugly world of gourmet chefs where gender conventions and racial undercurrents can make or break careers. As she strives to carve a niche for herself, Arun starts feeling differently towards Sita. Just when Sita starts believing in her special destiny, one incident alters her inside out and leads her to rediscovering herself.

An insightful examination of the challenges that have characterized Indian foreign policy in recent years by one of our more thoughtful political figuresFor India to grow, prosper and achieve its true potential, it requires peace on its periphery. But this amity has eluded it since 1947. The challenge from Pakistan and China, and now from the China-Pakistan nexus, has not allowed India to break out of its neighborhood quagmire. In the past two decades, the challenges to India's national security have only exacerbated both in complexity and intensity. The seizure of Afghanistan by the Taliban and the complete withdrawal of all the military forces of the United States and its allies have opened up a security void creating a strategic vacuum in the region. It would have profound implications not only for Pax Americana, but for nations in the arc of turbulence. The repercussions in J&K and Punjab would be ominous in the days ahead. 10 Flashpoints; 20 Years looks back at the security situations that have impacted India in the past two decades and dissects our responses-both successes and failures-to them. In a first, Manish Tewari examines the tools and processes of Indian statecraft defence, diplomacy and intelligence, and weaves a veritable tapestry around the institutions and individuals that form part of the country's national security establishment. He also offers suggestions on ways in which the national security doctrine can be reformed to meet the demands of the twenty-first century's regional and global security environment.

A coming-of-age story full of nuance, sincerity and wisdom. When you've been tricked and the cards are decked against you, it's time to open a new set of cards. However, unlike a game of cards, in life, rules are meant to be rewritten or you lose the chance to play your winning hand. And while it sucks to be defeated by others, to fail yourself is a loss from which you may never recover. So, when a pragmatic Tiana finds the courage to clash with her dogmatic teachers, it was bound to shake up the school. For Tiana, the most important lessons in high school were learnt outside the classroom because beyond the textbooks, her teachers were imparting their patronizing sexist ideologies and censorship of speech, all in the name of discipline. Tiana had had enough. After being wrongfully suspended and then going back to her boarding school, where she wasn't wanted, it took a lot of courage and shrewdness to prove her innocence. All this, while being a part of multiple love triangles, dealing with jealous friends, a duplicitous cousin and egocentric teachers.