??Before I had a chance to rebel against the world of my childhood, that world rebelled against me. In truth, confronting my parents, my social class, its poverty, racism and brutality came second. From early on I provoked shame and even disgust from my family and others around me. The only option I had was […]
Aisha Chaudhary was born with S.C.I.D (severe combined immune deficiency) and underwent a bone marrow transplant when she was 6 months old. She lives in New Delhi, where she was born. 2014 was a brutal year for Aisha as her disease progressed and her lungs started giving up on her. The last few months of […]
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it??s ever been??we are Freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked??the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on
The Disease of Today – PCOD PCOD or Poly Cystic Ovarian Disease has become a common phenomenon in todays times. Writer and nutritional expert Rujita Diwekar, in her book The PCOD ?? Thyroid Book?? claims that PCOD has become a common occurrence in the last few years only, before this it used to be a […]
1222 is the story of how a small group of people find themselves stuck in a hotel during an apocalyptic snow storm. Following a dramatic train derailment at Finse, the conflict between the survivors escalates while a furious hurricane threatens the unprotected village. Nobody is there to help, and there is no way out of […]
Matthew Spear, a young Greek-American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, a sometime art dealer who has inherited an impressive collection from her mysterious grandfather. Matthew soon discovers that the jewel of the old mans cache is none other than the Holy Mother of Katarini — a sac
Since the independence of India, Kashmir has been a major concern for not just India but also the world. The issue of Kashmir still is a crucial issue discussed across forums in the global arena and is one of the major hindrances in improving relationship with India??s neighbour and kin of one time. Much has […]
ew York attorney Jennifer March is haunted by the mysterious and savage slaughter of her family on the same night that her father disappeared, never to be seen alive again. Two years on, his corpse is discovered frozen into a remote glacier in the Swiss Alps, the victim of a bizarre murder, and Jennifer sets […]
In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. From the invisible corners of Tony Blairs Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa and the illusions of the media age, power, he argues, has […]
To cross a frontier is to be transformed….The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we can??t avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the world??s harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontier??s windowless halls, we see things as they […]
A riveting new anthology series??a year??s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the most astute and smartest, in short, the best crime journalism. Included in this first volume are Mark Singer??s ??The Chicken Warriors? from The New Yorker: an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting; E. Jean Carrol??s […]
aking a movie is a lot like going on a road trip. There are twists and turns and lots of surprises along the way. Hit the road with author and illustrator Jeff Kinney and get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest 20th Century Fox movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long […]