BOOKS AMEYA

Kochery C. Shibu's Men and Dreams in the Dhauladhar

Men and Dreams: In the Dhauladhar

A hydel-power project in the remote Himalayas. Three people brought together by fate. Nanda, an engineer from Kerala at the dam construction site hiding from his past, from the law, torn between the love of his dear ones and the traditional kalari code of revenge.

The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi

The Mango Season

Summary: Priya Rao left India when she was twenty to study in the U.S., and now, seven years later, she has to return to give her family the news: She’s engaged to Nick Collins, an American man. It’s going to break their hearts. Returning to India is an overwhelming experience for Priya. Her mother and Read more…

THE NIGHT OF THE FLIGHT

The Night of the Flight

After a long and tedious day indoors, Quelina was exhausted, exhausted of not doing anything. Everything was drab, dismal and depressing. She liked to think of it as the initial sad phase of her life and felt that the grand adventure was just around the corner. However, that was nothing but her wishful thinking. She Read more…

How Praveena started reading

Praveena and a love for reading that transcends generations

I started reading from a very young age. It was my grandmother who had introduced me to reading.  I vividly remember sitting in my dadi’s lap and reading illustrated books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in my mother tongue, Telugu. Later on, I graduated to the Panchatantra and Tenali Rama. My love for books increased Read more…

Review of Farrukh Dhondy's Rumi A New Translation

Book Review: ‘Rumi: A New Translation’ by Farrukh Dhondy

The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine?  Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.

Sumit Agrawal's The Four Patriots

The Four Patriots

Summary: Have you ever fallen victim to the system? Felt humiliated and helpless? Have you fought back? Meet four such patriots: Varun, an NRI software engineer; Salman, CEO of Coffee Moments; Raghav, a virtuous politician and Aditya, an altruistic businessman. Fate brings these four lives together at a crossroads, pushing these unlikely heroes out of Read more…

Such is HER Life by Reecha Agarwal Goyal

Such is HER Life

Summary:  You know her as a mother, daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law. But seldom as a woman… And maybe never as a human.

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