Nikhil Mahajan is a physiotherapist – turned – author. Born in Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir. Author of the bestselling book “My Love Never Faked”and “As Long As I Love You”.

"‘Death of a Patriarch and a Little Love’ is a story of compassion and commitment, nostalgia and the harsh present, running parallel with the concepts and realities faced in the journey of two youths in their quest for ‘truth’ in life."

This is the true story of a standout artist in the field of pop and sentimental song; a star entertainer who rose to fame in Cape Town, South Africa. The world reflected in this book has several genealogical strands reaching back to other histories – to the nineteenth century theatre, to the rise of racism in South Africa, and the ways people were forced to negotiate the contradictions of being human against impossible odds. We encounter a biographer with a subject which is close to him, and which he has meticulously researched over a course of time. The book offers insights into the musical world of the phonograph, of the global popular culture after the Second World War and how this was absorbed into Cape Town’s popular culture.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Romance, good food and money in my pocket; what more could a woman need? So says 27 year old widow, Belinda Norris. After being a part of “The Game,” Belinda decides she wants, “No Mo Drama” in her life. While in the midst of having “A Good Night,” Belinda encounters an unexpected “Visitor,” and discovers “Nothing Stays the Same” in order to redeem herself from her unscrupulous behavior of the past. Using alcohol and sex to comfort her pain, Belinda faces a “Now or Never,” decision. Can the “Reunion,” of old friends put an end to Belinda’s appetite for self-destruction, or will death come prior to Belinda’s revelation that it’s “Time for a Change.”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

There are moments and incidents in everyone’s life that are hilarious, absurd and sometimes crazy. Incidents that could make the reader remember something similar that happened to them or simply enjoy the joke. Or else read about a time that is quite different from now. That’s the kind of memories I have been sharing in my newspaper “middles” and my Facebook postings over the years. Life is serious, sometimes worrisome and often complicated where a breather is usually welcome. I have divided the contents into three parts. Salad Days deal with incidents belonging to my school, college and university days and as a lecturer. What happened when we wanted to buy English records for our common room? Or had our letters censored by the hostel superintendent? What was my first job in college like in a small and conservative town where most people did not believe in higher studies for women? Learning to Be a Housewife speaks of the next chapter in my life where hilarious mistakes of every kind happened. How did I deal with the strange fish-seller, the vet and the prying neighbours? And That is Life has incidents and musings right up to my twilight years, many of them about a different time and place, and my final realization that Life never stops surprising you.

Surprisingly, the modern-day arranged marriage institution is still in vogue. Girls and boys continue to give up their dreams for their parents’ happiness, yield to their family’s demands and end up snuffing all joy out of their lives. Some of these couples have the luck of the draw and a happy story to tell, finally. Others seek comfort in ‘compromise’. Yet others fall apart and eventually go their separate ways. Why do they part ways? Who is to blame? Vineet Hariharan and Meera Madhav, a couple trapped in a mismatched relationship, have decided to call it quits. The story begins with their relationship coming to an end. The story is narrated from both Vineet’s and Meera’s perspectives, with some scenes described from the point of view of both. Stumbled Upon Destiny is about their ‘loveless-marriage’ which gives rise to many issues - lack of communication, complacency, unresolved agruments...

In the middle of the catastrophic 2008 recession, Aditya, a jobless, penniless man meets an attractive stranger in a bar. Little does he know that his life will change forever. When Radhika, a young, rich widow, marries off her stepdaughter, little does she know that the freedom she has yearned for is not exactly how she had envisioned it. They say homing pigeons always come back to their mate, no matter where you leave them on the face of this earth. The Homing Pigeons is the story of love between these two unsuspecting characters as it is of lust, greed, separations, prejudices and crumbling spines.