Abhimanyu (Abhi) writes about men and women falling in love, and then running into people who wouldn’t let them live happily ever after. While also running Talent Bridge, www.talentbridge.co.in, he plans to write more till the world needs such saving, catch him @ abhimanyujha.com, Twitter (4abhimanyu), facebook.com/4abhimanyu or [email protected].

In the middle of the catastrophic 2008 recession, Aditya, a jobless, penniless man meets an attractive stranger in a bar. Little does he know that his life will change forever. When Radhika, a young, rich widow, marries off her stepdaughter, little does she know that the freedom she has yearned for is not exactly how she had envisioned it. They say homing pigeons always come back to their mate, no matter where you leave them on the face of this earth. The Homing Pigeons is the story of love between these two unsuspecting characters as it is of lust, greed, separations, prejudices and crumbling spines.

‘In life...you can choose to become a specialist or a generalist. But in love, please don’t become a reluctant fundamentalist. Instead become a love scientist.’ — Raghu Balakrishnan Raghu Balakrishnan is a laidback 25 year old, who quits his regular job as a financial advisor to focus single-mindedly on his dream of becoming a published aurthor in India. He stays with his parents. They reluctantly tolerate his new-found creative ‘nonsense’ as he works on his book, a love story, which he titles The Paperback Badshah. As time passes by, he realizes that writing the book is just one part of the dream. How did one go about getting it published? What about the marketing and promotion? What about reactions from the readers? Would it open up the faucets of love in their hearts or would it irritate them, given the sheer absurdity of the plot? Along the way, will Raghu also get lucky in matters of the heart? Find out by joining him in his entertaining journey, as he chases his writing dream to eventually become a published ‘100 Rupee’ paperback author.

Surprisingly, the modern-day arranged marriage institution is still in vogue. Girls and boys continue to give up their dreams for their parents’ happiness, yield to their family’s demands and end up snuffing all joy out of their lives. Some of these couples have the luck of the draw and a happy story to tell, finally. Others seek comfort in ‘compromise’. Yet others fall apart and eventually go their separate ways. Why do they part ways? Who is to blame? Vineet Hariharan and Meera Madhav, a couple trapped in a mismatched relationship, have decided to call it quits. The story begins with their relationship coming to an end. The story is narrated from both Vineet’s and Meera’s perspectives, with some scenes described from the point of view of both. Stumbled Upon Destiny is about their ‘loveless-marriage’ which gives rise to many issues - lack of communication, complacency, unresolved agruments...

You Cannot go with out me! I Know you are tired, but come, This is the way. - Rumi Maahi has lost her way. The tired, desperate young soul who remembers nothing except dying next to sea waves and a strange golden-haired man. Veru is a young, happy-go-lucky entrepreneur who creates www.marry Aghost.com, and gets pulled into an adventure when Maahi registers as the first 'ghost'. Asmita Burman is an old, half-blind professor who finds Maahi inexplicably, can hear and see ghosts, and knows way too much about them. And then there's D'Mello, a five-hundered-year-old ghost of a Portuguese nobleman also searching for Maahi, mysteriously appearing and disappearing. Who will help Maahi get freedom by finding her golden-haired beloved in fourteen days before she gets trapped on earth, may be forever? Joint the age-old battle between good and evil-a race between time, freedom and love that will eventually put the entire wold in danger.

Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History "A luminous biography." —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handling matters of the state. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire. In Empress, Nur Jahan finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.

Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people's lives in India today. Focusing on Delhi, noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh chronicle the halting emergence of networks of men and women living under the shadow of stigma and criminalized behavior—in a country where anti-sodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were recently struck down, only to be reaffirmed in a surging wave of homophobia. The photographs in this lavishly presented volume reflect the photographers' celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. In Delhi, we are invited into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of subjects from different backgrounds—from urban professionals to day laborers. A visually arresting document in its own right, Delhi presents American readers with a starting point for understanding the profound struggles for recognition by India's LGBTQ community. Delhi was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).