उर्वशी
10 best books like उर्वशी (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'): Tall Man Small Shadow, Shakespeare's Language, The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading, रात पश्मीने की, साये में धूप, आषाढ़ का एक दिन, कामायनी, सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा, राग दरबारी, चित्रलेखा
It is my debut English novel based on existentialism. Salil loves a shadow which transforms into many characters to reveal the secrets of life. Aalya, his neighbor, is doing research in English literature. Her guide Seema is a childless lesbian. Paul, husband of Seema, is a drama director. I am the protagonist,...
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0374527741 |
A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard
The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's...
The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
| Author | Nilanjana Roy |
| ISBN | 9350297116 |
From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.
One of India’s most widely read journalists, Roy has...
बहुत फूँका सुलगते चाँद को, फिर भी उसे
इक इक कला घटते हुए देखा
बहुत खींचा समंदर को मगर साहिल तलक हम ला...
बहुत ही जबरदस्त!!!
मेरी सबसे पसंदीदा ग़ज़ल इस संग्रह की-
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हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी पिघलनी चाहिए,
इस हिमालय...
| Author | Mohan Rakesh |
| ISBN | 8188435333 |
Ashadh Ka Ek Din (Hindi: आषाढ़ का एक दिन, One Day in the season of rain) is a debut Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh in 1958. Since the month of Ashadh (beginning on 22 June and ending on 22 July) is usually the onset period of the monsoon in North India, the name can be understood to mean...
| Author | जयशंकर प्रसाद [Jaishankar Prasad] |
| ISBN | 8126700386 |
Kamayani (Hindi:कामायनी) (1936) is a Hindi epic poem (Mahakavya) by Jaishankar Prasad (1889- 1937). It is considered one of the greatest literary works written in modern times in Hindi literature. It also signifies the epitome of Chhayavadi school of Hindi poetry which gained popularity...
| Author | धर्मवीर भारती [Dharamvir Bharati] |
“Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda” is considered a unique experiment in story telling. A short novel, that may also be viewed as a set of connected mini-narratives, it can also be considered as one of the foremost instances of metafiction in twentieth century Hindi literature. This book talks about the encounter...
| Author | श्रीलाल शुक्ल [Shrilal Shukla] |
| ISBN | 8126713968 |
रागदरबारी एक ऐसा उपन्यास है जो गांव की कथा के माध्यम से आधुनिक भारतीय जीवन की मूल्यहीनता अनावृत करता है।...
| Author | Bhagwati Charan Verma |
जीवन हलचल है, परिवर्तन है, और हलचल तथा परिवर्तन में सुख और शान्ति का कोई स्थान नहीं!
This is what the protagonist of the novel believes in.
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| Author | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
भारत के पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री एवं कवि अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी की कविताओं का संग्रह- "मेरी इक्यावन कविताएँ".
श्रद्धा ग्रहण करने की भी एक विधि होती है| मुझसे सहज ढंग से अभी श्रद्धा ग्रहण नहीं होती| अटपटा जाता हूँ| अभी...
| Author | सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक |
Jeet Singh’s ex-girlfriend Sushmita’s rich industrialist husband is brutally stabbed to death. Her step-children destroy all evidence of Sushmita’s marriage to their slain father, and implicate her in the case along with Jeet Singh. Jeet Singh, who is known to be able to open any safe in the...
Horn Ok Please - HOPping To Conclusions
| Author | Kartik Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0615460550 |
A journey across India,wrapped in humor and sarcasm, the book stands out among its contemporaries. The loo book as put forth by Kartik is witty and a fun-tastic read and has one in splits of laughter thro and thro. A book for the MORONS is how the book is projected but ppl, it takes more than a moron to read...
| Author | आचार्य चतुरसेन [Acharya Chatursen] |
Finishing this book, I find myself realizing two things foremost.
First, the concept of karmic balance sheet. The boomerang effect in real life does occur. Maybe we would face the repercussions in the consecutive lives (Yes, I do believe in the concept of rebirth), but we have to reap what we...
| Author | Khushwant Singh |
| ISBN | 8122201075 |
A decent anthology should provide a sweeping overview of literary output arranged around a theme or – as in this case – a region and serve as a starting point for further exploration. The Land of Five Rivers does exactly that.
The stories in this collection are translated from the three languages...
| Author | Siddharth Tripathi |
| ISBN | 8172344546 |
How does one become a man?
Three young friends are about to find out.
With six unmarried sisters and a perennially drunk father, Pinku, a 19-year-old school dropout, has only one dream left: to marry the plump girl who’d caught him stealing flowerpots. His friend and confidant, 17-year-old...
| Author | दुर्गा भागवत [Durga Bhagwat] |
| ISBN | 8174868398 |
महाभारतातील सत्प्रवृत्तीच्या युधिष्ठिर-कृष्णासारख्या व्यक्तिरेखेपासून ते खलप्रवृत्तीच्या समजल्या...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007203632 |
Four-volume paperback boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, together with The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, an annotated guide to all three parts of the Book of the Century.
Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have...
Crushed by successive crop failures and the burden of debt, Sudhakar Bhadra kills himself. The powerful district committee of Mityala routinely dismisses the suicide and refuses compensation to his widow. Gangiri, his brother, makes it his life’s mission to bring justice to the dead by influencing...
| Author | Vinit K. Bansal |
| ISBN | 9350880385 |
“Uff Ye Emotions”
Perhaps, emotions are the most beautiful things in the world which cannot be seen or even touched. Interestingly, they can only be felt with the heart. Love is the purest and primary among them with it’s various shades. We all have our own definitions of this magical word,...
R.I.P. The Resurgent Indian Patriots. Self- appointed guardians of a nation seething with anger at the endless scams and scandals rocking its very foundation. Vigilantes who vow to stop corrupt politicians and colluding civil servants. Even if it means killing them.
Colonel Krishna Athawale...
| Author | Nisha B. Thakur |
| ISBN | 9383271515 |
Website- www.firstyouplz.in
First You Plz is a tale of immature girl, Avanti. It is a story of her struggle as she deals with worries of first love. Her journey from realization of the sweet feeling she experiences these days is called Love- her First Love. It is a tale of her secretly nurtured...
| Author | Rahul Sankrityayan |
| ISBN | 8122500870 |
Volga Se Ganga is a collection of stories by great scholar and Writer Rahul Sankrityayan. Rahul Sankrityayan was a true vagabond who traveled to far lands like Russia, Korea, Japan, China and many others. He mastered the languages of these lands and was an authority on cultural studies.
It...
