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City of Nine Gates Author: Pankaj Rajput Pages: 300 Pages Publisher: Notion Press ‘City of Nine Gates’ by Pankaj Rajput is the story of Gyan and his journey towards wisdom. Gyan is a well established businessman and people admire him for his intelligence and work ethics. The journey to his success was not an easy task for him to reach the peak at which he is now. Gyan had keen interest in building and archaeology and during one of his archaeological expedition with his friend, he discovers a structure craved from a single type of stone and has resemblance with the fort. The craved structure is considered as a temple but somehow Gyan is not convinced that it is a mere temple and his curiosity leads him to further discovery which makes it clear that the structure is shaped like a crown which is cursed. What might have happened that made the structure cursed? Who will help to alleviate the curse and make the hidden city from the curse? As the journey begins toward...

Of Aakash and Aarti Author: Dr. Govind Sharma IAS Pages: 204 Publisher: Notion Press ‘Of Aakash and Aarati’ by Govind Sharma is a book about Aakash and Aarati where we get to see the turmoils of adolescent and how children can get into wrong things if parents don’t get involved in their children and try to be active in their children’s life and getting to know their children. Aakash a young boy is currently going through this turmoil where he has lost his mother at a very young age and had a troubled childhood where he has a feeling of worthlessness. To cope with this worthlessness he finds his own way of coping which leads him to drugs where he leads him to wrong company where he even gets addicted to betting. With constant bunking from the school he gets expelled and he is sent to his grandfather at Rajapur. But Aakash being Aakash finds it difficult to stay away from drugs, betting and bunking school he gets a warning from his professor to not bunk his college fur...

Shillong Times – A Story of Friendship and Fear Pages: 248 Author: Nilanjan P. Choudhury Publisher: Speaking Tiger                 ‘Shillong Times – A Story of Friendship and Fear’ by Nilanjan Choudhury is a heart-touching story of friendship between three friends Debojit Dutta (Debu), Clint Eastwood Lyngdoh and Audrey Pariat and how they are there for each other through the hard times and also the story of fear in Shillong during the 1980s. The fear that was lurking between the ‘tribal’s’ (also known as the Khasi’s) and the ‘non-tribal’s’ (also known as the ‘Dkhars’, a name given to the non-locals by the locals) who once used to live happily and were close friends till the advent of the decade of 80s. Soon conditions deteriorate in Shillong resulting in constant curfews, business, schools & colleges closing down. Soon the once friendly environment between the locals and the non-tribal’s ...

Ashwatthama’s Redemption: The Rise of Dandak Author: Gunjan Porwal Pages: 264 Publisher: Om Books International ‘Ashwatthama’s Redemption’ by Gunjan Porwal is a mythological fiction set over a hundred years after the Mahabharata War when all was going well and people were leading a peaceful life when all of a sudden there were signs (sudden deaths and suspicious things) that were leading to a suspicion in the minds of the rulers of the neighbouring kingdoms. To know the matter in detail the rulers decide to meet the knowledgeable sages of the neighbouring kingdoms to clear their doubts which finally leads them to the conclusion that there is definitely some unknown power that is waiting to rise but on further investigation and with the guidance of the sage it becomes clear that it is none other than the Dandak, an ancient power that is rising. So to stop the resurrection of the powerful demon king Dandak and his army King Vikram approaches Ashwatthama to tell him t...