DEAD MEAT

The start of a stunning new crime series

Meet Arjun Arora—the toughest detective in Delhi

A chopped-up body recovered from a tandoor oven

A quiet young accountant missing with a suitcase full of cash

Match-fixing and illegal betting in a city in the grip of T20 fever

A lonely detective with a conscience . . .

Private eye Arjun Arora works the streets of Delhi dealing with the shady underbelly of the capital city. Hired to track down a missing person, Arjun stumbles upon a gruesome murder where the suspects seem to be linked to something larger and more sinister.

Part noir thriller and part detective story, Dead Meat introduces us to an unforgettable character—Arjun Arora, a man with a troubled past—who takes us on a dark and memorable journey through the greed and grime of today’s urban India.

Author Bio

Ankush Saikia is the author of the noir thriller The Girl from Nongrim Hills.

WHO, ME?

By: Tina Sharma Tiwari

Will a makeover get the love of her life back? 

Plain Jane Tara has been dumped by her boyfriend for a stunning, rich heiress. Determined to win her love back she plunges right into her 10-year school reunion in a glam makeover. Where she gets into dangers she’d never imagined, stumbles onto secrets she’d never expected that push her headlong into a direction she’d never planned!

Tina Sharma Tiwari is a news anchor on Times Now

Suleiman Charitra

By: Kalyana Malla

Translated from the Sanskrit by A.N.D. Haksar

A marvellous retelling of a biblical tale through Sanskrit eyes

In this delightful celebration of the East and West, a Hindu poet renders the sensual love story of David and Bathsheba for his Muslim patron: the bathing scene, David's infatuation, his pursuit of Bathsheba, and their eventual union.

Kalyana Malla was a renowned sixteenth-century poet, best known for the sex manual Ananga Ranga.

A.N.D. Haksar is a well-known translator of Sanskrit classics.

The Tusk That Did the Damage

By: Tania James

When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers and then captured, it is only a matter of time before he breaks his chains and begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves.

Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the alluring world of ivory hunting, while his family relationships grow ever more complicated.

Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal.

As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.

Tania James’s debut novel, Atlas of Unknowns, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian literature. She has also written the short-story collection Aerogrammes and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Elle India, Boston Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, One Story, Orion and A Public Space. Three stories from Aerogrammes were finalists for Best American Short Stories 2008 and 2011. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Fulbright fellow to India living in New Delhi. She now lives in Washington DC.

Yuva India

Consumption and Lifestyle Choices of a Young India

By: Ray Titus

Yuva India takes a deep dive into the lives of India’s young men and women. In unravelling what makes them tick, Yuva India uncovers the phenomenon of ‘attitudinal convergence’ that’s rapidly growing across youth cohorts in India. Tracing its origin to the arrival and exposure to a ‘composite culture’, the research behind ‘convergence’ zeroes in on how a young India is defining itself using new-age sensibilities.

Drawing on insights collected over a decade, Titus documents and analyses how young men and women in India approach issues of identity, image, sexuality, spirituality, personal relevance, social connections and community, and professional pursuits. In a one of its kind analysis, using comprehensive data from across the nation, he scrutinizes young India’s psyche to make sense of their aspirations.    

Filled with numerous first-person accounts and brand stories, Yuva India provides an insightful understanding of India’s most valuable asset, its youth population. The present and the future of India’s young it unveils will be invaluable not just for business and brand managers, but also for all those who wish to engage with them.

Author bio

Ray Titus is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at the Alliance School of Business, Alliance University. His teaching, research and business consulting interests converge on consumer behaviour and marketing strategy. Prior to academia, he’s worked at the Taj Group of Hotels, INI Technologies, Landmark Gulf Group and Coffee Day.

Titus’s business articles and expert comments have featured in the Globe & Mail, Sunday Guardian, Voice of America, Telegraph, Hindu BusinessLine and other leading media publications. He is also the co-author of the book Business Drama: How Shakespearean Insights Help Leaders Manage Volatile Contexts.

How to Memorize Anything

The ultimate handbook to explore and improve your memory

By: Aditi Singhal & Sudhir Singhal

Can we really memorize anything?

The answer is, ‘Yes we can!’ From Guinness World Record holders (for conducting the largest maths class on memorizing times tables till 99) Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal comes a book that will serve as a manual to explore the immense power of your memory through a scientific yet simple approach. It will:

•        Explain concepts with simple illustrations

•        While teaching you memory techniques, it will also discuss their application in real life, like memorizing appointments, presentations, names and faces, long answers, spellings, formulae, vocabulary, foreign languages and general information

•        Give the scientific interpretation of ancient memory-enhancing practices that will be particularly useful for students, teachers, professors, doctors, managers, marketing and other professionals as well as the common man

Following the unparalleled success of How to Become a Human Calculator, Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal turn their hands to helping you master the right method to input any information using which you can easily memorize anything and, more important, recall it whenever required.

Author note:

Aditi Singhal is an international memory trainer, author, motivational speaker, counsellor and Vedic Math expert par excellence. She has to her credit the Guinness World Record for conducting the largest maths class and three national records for memory and fastest calculation awarded by the Limca Book of Records. She has also been given ‘The Best Memory Trainer’ award by the India Book of Records. Her dream to make calculations simple for all resulted in the bestselling book How to Become a Human Calculator