Dibakar, a young, up-and-coming painter from Kolkata, arrives in Delhi with his friend Sandip, to participate in a group show at Habitat Centre.But before they check in their guest house, Dibakar finds out that all of his five paintings are missing from their luggage. This drives him bonkers, because the show is to start just after 48 hours.In the afternoon of their arrival, a young, vivacious married woman comes to call Sandip, who he introduces to Dibakar as his girlfrien...

Shadowland is the story of a doctor who seeks survival, sanity and justice after he is stripped of his right to a small piece of land in Kolkata suburb. Set against the backdrop of a degenerate Marxist regime in Bengal in the nineties, it's a compelling narrative of the doctor's long battle with the powers-that-be, and a masterly portrait of contemporary India.

A young Bangladeshi Hindu woman's poignant story of immigration to India and her struggle to come to terms with new realities.

Bring joy to your life, joy to your plants, joy to your goldfish. Be a dispenser of joy. And when people see you coming, they'll say, "Why, the sun just came out. The sun came into my room." And that will be the truth because joy is the sun of your heart. Joy, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet…is something precious that is without price, for it comes directly from the heart.

Gratitude is like a gate to a magnificent garden. It is like an arbor that has morning glories and beautiful flowers all over it. It is that beautiful idyllic sense, with blue birds chirping. And this is how gratitude looks in nature. As we approach the gate to the garden, we are totally filled. We need nothing else to bring us joy, just our gratitude for life and being. Gratitude, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet…opens the way for the beautiful sense of the Eternal in action.

As human beings, we are all searching for the same thing: happiness and some sense of meaning in our lives. Whoever we are, whether we are a mother, a father, a son or daughter, a businessman, an artist, a husband or wife, young or old, we all share this simple wish or goal. But nevertheless, often we struggle to fulfill this wish and end up feeling burdened with a sense of uneasiness and dissatisfaction.Therefore, what Phakchok Rinpoche would like to share here are eight simple po...

The soul's dwelling in the material body deludes it so much that it thinks, 'I can live only on material food, can stand only on earth, can enjoy only material surroundings. Without these I am nowhere, I am nothing.' There is a Persian saying: 'Do not build a house on the ground of another.' This is what the soul does. Whatever it sees, the consciousness recognizes as itself. Its purity makes it reflect whatever is before it, and then it thinks, 'This is I,' just as clear water reflects ou...

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Looking at the world it seems somehow self-evident that nobody knows - or only very rarely what love is. Love has become one of the rarest experiences. Love remains the unknown phenomenon, while it actually should be one of the most known. What happened? Read this incredible talk by Osho and learn how to grow love, how to create a climate of love of gratitude and thankfulness. Learn how to give love rather than just looking for it or demanding it. Prepare the ground for love as a natur...

Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three novellas move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to ...

What does success mean to you right now? How can you make steps to achieve this?This 7-step-guide helps you on the path to success through mindful exercises and guided meditation. Fun and imaginative, Mindfulness for Success helps you clarify what you want from life and breaks down these aspirations into actionable goals.Inside you will find:• Guided meditations for every step• Questions to help you define personal success• Adv...

Where innocence, deceit and love collideAnand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find.Kamala, Anand's family's maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand's wife: a w...