“rituparna raj”

Amid the flurry of stories of the rise and fall of governments, the power games of politicians, the reportage of murder and mayhem, there is a special space reserved in a newspaper every day. That honour goes to the ‘middle’.A middle writer adopts a contemplative style, looking back in time, tak... More

Beware of the painting…It will draw you into a palace of intrigue filled with traps and mazes Princess Priyakumari has lured you into her world. It is one where each step is fraught with danger. There are zombie guards, a mysterious sage, rebels hiding on an island waiting for the perfect... More

Kay Gardeko is Nepali for "What have you done?" and were King Birendra’s words when he was shot point blank. Over the next days, these were the sentiments everyone echoed, as Nepal was plunged into confusion and mourning. The unbelievable events of that fateful night are documented in this narrati... More

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for the su... More

The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and conveys with precision, urgency and barely disguised fury what it might have been like to be one of India’s untouchables. · A ... More

Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) had one lament he often voiced to his friends and literary critics—that his short stories were not paid enough attention. This volume brings together some of the best and most memorable stories from Anand's published collections, each of them illustrating a different m... More

Mobile Computing is designed to serve as a textbook for students in the disciplines of computer science and engineering, electronics and communication engineering, and information technology. It describes the basic concepts of mobile computing and provides technical information about the various asp... More

February 2002. A helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is rocked by religious violence. In the aftermath and before the sun rises, more than 100 Muslim men, women, and children are killed, most burned alive. Above the smoke and flames, the dead begin to intervene. So begins Raj K... More

As psychology advances its understanding of the mind and brain, perhaps the last remaining bastion of mystery about why we do what we do relates to love and attraction. However, recent research suggests that even the mysteries of attraction are being revealed - which is great news for those amongst ... More