An ex-army officer who was dismissed for insubordination fights to bring to justice those responsible for his younger brother's death.

"What Homer's Iliad is to Greek civilization and the great classics of yore are to different nations of the world, the Mahabharat is to India. Written by Rishi Ved Vyas, the ancient philosopher-thinker who was known to be the fountain of all human knowledge. The Mahabharat has been translated in many languages and even presented in ballet form in western and oriental countries. But the Mahabharat is not an abstruse philosophical or religious tract....

"There was a wolf who was clever and brave, and she spent all her life pursuing her dream. Her husband died--it's ok, she still got her son; her son died--it's ok, she still got her daughter...one after another, she gave up her youth, her love, and her life for the throne of the wolf king that she yearned for even in her sleep. But Fate, won't you tell her, why she always fails? She's gone now, leaving nothing behind but her sad, unfinished dream."--provided...

Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is a swashbuckling stuntman in Hollywood who lives by the mantra "women are only good for two things, "making love and making love". Simrita Rai (Kareena Kapoor) is a firebrand who is more than able to stare down the most arrogant male with her caustic wit and sardonic tongue. Her firm belief is that, "all men are dogs". Forces of nature make sure the two people who hate each the most are thrown together in the most...

"Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is the story of an Indian family headed by a business tycoon, Yashovardhan Raichand and his wife Nandini who have raised their sons, Rahul and Rohan showering them with love and affection. When Rahul finds outs that he is adopted at the tender age of 8 years, it becomes the reason for his unending gratitude for his parents - more so his father. His father's every wish becomes a command for Rahul. A command he never breaks...

Naina Mathur is an aspiring teacher who suffers from Tourette Syndrome. After several interviews and numerous rejections, she lands her dream job as a full-time teacher in an elite school. It is revealed that the school was desperate to hire her as all other teachers had failed to get the class to cooperate. Naina notices that the students are unruly, misbehaved and are visibly different. Naina overcomes all challenges to help her students realise...

The plot revolves around Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.

Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The dirty picture is set against the colorful and entertaining backdrop of the south film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the fiercely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited...

River-colored girl. S.R. Harnot's second novel. The first novel Hidimb, which was written on the untouched but popular subject of Himachal Pradesh, touched new dimensions of fame due to its craft and linguistic experiment. Harnot is a rare Hindi story writer, who has a wealth of untouched and unique tales of Himachali life. Life in a mountain is hard and big like a mountain, its beauty is visible only from afar, on coming near, many kinds of miseries...

This short novel is an excellent example of Urdu storytelling. It has been written in the different social, cultural and political moods of the twenty-first, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and in the dialect of their respective times. Joe Farooqui Saheb is one of the master writers of this genre. He is amazing at telling stories. The main theme of this novel is the story of a policeman from Delhi, whose house was in a village in Jaipur, after...