The first volume is a culmination of poetry and articles felt during the early years of the author’s life, the first quarter of the author’s life to be specific. There are views to incidents and one talks of what goes inside the head. It’s like that conclusion of a movie that puts you in the dilemma as to who the real protagonist was. Sometimes you feel it’s centred on the emotions of the author, other times you feel it is a filtered emotion, but not of the author. I leave this to decide f...

Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare.Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When her long-distance boyfriend in New York invites her to meet him in Florida, she couldn't wait to jump on a plane with her toddler. Arriving with her teething child at her boyfriend's Key West 'vacay home' before him, she is robbed on her first night. With...

Ready to become an anti-procrastinator?Humans are procrastinators by nature and anti-procrastinators by choice.This book is an open invitation to pause and look in the mirror to understand yourself better so that you can lift your anchors and live a more fulfilling life in alignment with your values and identity.It will dig deep into the root causes of procrastination and will help you create effective remedies to get stuff done based on the power of self-awareness....

What happens when one goes from obscurity to celebrity, overnight?Thirty-year-old Arya Alvarez is a travel manager at Isle Z, a luxury travel company in Singapore where she creates bespoke trips for celebrities and influencers. Discretion is her specialty at work and personal life: few people know that she’s fled her home city, Manila, to get away from the scene of a devastating break-up.When she travels to Svaneti, in the Republic of Georgia, Arya briefly encounters the mysterious Dave in...

Languages make us human. The ability to communicate and be understood through songs, art,words, inscriptions, or even gestures is essential because we, as a species, cannot live in isolation.And each one of these languages has its own journey.Early humans leaving messages on cave walls; three men on a raft stumbling upon a language they weren'tlooking for; a secret language that evolved to hide a people; the world's only undeciphered language that is4000 years old. The stories in this book...

We go about our lives in a rush-always busy, always tired. Often, we find our joy diminished and our health affected. Bestselling author and wellness coach Deanne Panday sees this all too often around her. Through her circle-of-life programme, she tells us about the thirteen vital elements that need to be in sync to lead a happy, healthy and successful-including physical wellness, career, home environment, joy, financial stability, understanding the effects of climate change, and more. Eac...

The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, ...

The great poet Ghalib, part of a long tradition of eclectic liberalism, found Benaras so compelling that he wrote his longest poem on the holy city. If we take Ghalib and his myriads of followers out of the equation, will Hindustan be left with a gaping hole or become something quite new? The Muslim Vanishes, a play by Saeed Naqvi, attempts to answer that question.A Muslim-free India, as a character speculates naively in the play, would be good for socialism, since what the 200 million Mus...