“kunal basu”

Hiran is born in 1857: the year of Mutiny and the year his father dies. Brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother he turns out to have few talents, apart from an uncanny ability to read a man's lies in his palm. When luck gets him a job at the auction house, Hiran finds himself embroiled in a myster... More

In the sumptuous court of the emperor Akbar, in 16th century India, a group of artists begins the painstaking task of chronicling the emperor's life. Bihzad is the son of the chief artist and as such, he is groomed to follow in his father's footsteps. A child prodigy, Bihzad is shielded from life as... More

1855: on a deserted island off the coast of Africa, the most audacious experiment ever envisaged is about to begin. To settle an argument that has raged inconclusively for decades, two scientists decide to raise a pair of infants, one black, one white, on a barren island, exposed to the dangers all ... More

An Indian man writes to a Japanese woman. She writes back. Romance blossoms between the two, the pen-friends exchange vows over letters, then spend the next fifteen years as a married couple without ever setting eyes on each other, until the intimacy of words is tested finally by the intimacy of lif... More

About the Book This comprehensive and student friendly text gives a clear analysis of the fundamental aspects of the subject, starting from surface behaviour and contact phenomenon of interfacing surface. The book elaborates the types, specification and standardization and measurement of surface irr... More

1000 History Quiz presents a stimulating and varied selection of quizzes on history ever complied. Do you know The first serious attempt to set up an English Settlement at Roanoke Islands was made by Sir Walter Raleigh. The city of New York was known as New Amsterdam. ‘Rickshaw’, a hybrid of wes... More