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I became one of the tiger's favourites. With a crafty look in his glittering eyes, and his body crouching, he would creep closer and closer to me, suddenly making a dash for my feet, rolling over on his back and kicking with delight, and pretending to bite my ankles.' Will Timothy the Tiger Cub always get along with people? Does Ranji win the match with his 'lucky bat'? Will Inspector Keemat Lal crack the case of the Rani's mysterious murde...

The smart and strong-willed Isabel Archer is brought to Europe by her well-off aunt Touchett to enter wedlock. Resolved to navigate her own destiny, she unabashedly turns down two eligible suitors who offer their wealth and devotion to her. Amongst this, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to a handsome, cruel charmer. Renowned as a masterpiece among James's early writings, this novel portrays the stark contrast between naivety and high spir...

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late '60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young student finding the love of his life and two young women whose lives intersect with his at different points of time. It is also the story of a Kashmiri Muslim girl who carried memories and impressions of he...

I believe that the journey is more important than the destination. But, then, I have never really had a destination. The glory that comes from conquering the Himalayan peaks is not for me. My greatest pleasure lies in taking a path-any old path will do-and following it until it leads me to a forest glade or village or stream or windy hilltop.' Is there a feeling better than being on the road, with the wind whipping through your hair? It is ...

At a street intersection in California, everything visible-cars, buildings, farms, people, pavements- suddenly starts vanishing during a flash of bright multicoloured light without a sound, leaving a vastly deep black hole, as though cut through with a knife. The only human alive who can save the planet from this destruction is a poor little newspaper boy, Charley, who was taken under tutelage of Dr Robold. He was found by the doctor playing w...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, written by Victor Hugo and first published in 1831, is a classic French Gothic novel that takes place in fifteenth-century Paris. The story revolves around the lives of several characters, including the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the beautiful Gypsy Esmeralda, the manipulative Archdeacon Claude Frollo and the dashing soldier Phoebus de Chateaupers. The novel masterfully weaves their intertwining stories again...

Journey through the furthest reaches of what humanity can imagine! Welcome to a world where the boundaries of reality are shattered, and the future comes alive in ways you could never have imagined. In this mesmerizing anthology, journey through uncharted galaxies, traverse through dystopian worlds and explore alternate dimensions where the laws of physics no longer apply. With stories from renowned authors from the heyday of science fiction...

Featuring a wide range of genres, this hand-picked collection of short stories includes distinguished writers of the American short-story canon. The compilation begins with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe, traversing through Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown, ' Melville's 'Bartleby, ' Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper, ' Fitzgerald's 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair, ' and other stories to conclude at Chesnutt's 'The Goophered Grapevine'. Brillia...

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist who changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism forever. Tesla's major discoveries and innovations include the rotating magnetic field, magnifying transmitter and Tesla coil. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical system, and the alternating current powers almost all of the technological wonders in the worl...

More than 100 short stories of the literary giant Kalki were serialized in the weekly magazine Kalki. In this collection, Rupa Publications is proud to present 30 of these stories. After 80 years spent dominating the world of English publishing, Rupa Publications has now made its mark in Tamil. This collection of Kalki's "Muthaana Muppathu Sirukathai" is our publication house's fifth release in Tamil. Kalki's writings have been and still are...

The story of my life has become intertwined with the story of this country. And somewhere along the way, as I met a million children across this land, I too learnt from a million minds. This book was not written to only tell my story. I want every young reader to think that this book is his or her story too.' A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has been one of the most iconic figures of Independent India. A scientist, leader, thinker, teacher and writer, he ac...

The mild and professorial Manmohan Singh, regarded as one of the country's weakest prime ministers, who defied interest groups and foes within the political establishment to seal a historic nuclear deal with the United States-and upgraded the bilateral relationship to a new level.

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