The company PECPL (Premier Engineering Company Private Limited) grows 10 folds in quick time and becomes PECL (Premier Engineering Company Limited), not only through organic growth but through strategic acquisitions too. With the growth, the company becomes a global entity and the economic flag bearer of the nation. India was growing into an economic powerhouse. So, a conspiracy was hatched by the political circles of America, China, Pakistan to combat this supremacy of India. These forces manage to group together and with the help of some insiders and politicians manage to forcibly acquire PECL.But, the ousted old management gets together and with the support of a willing few, restores the company back to what it was. The story runs through the narrative of Kabir Sen (Senior team member of corporate communication, DPEL), a witness to all the upheavals in the lives of his fond Kirdaars. The story captures the various angles of the lives of the various Kirdaars as they get their act together to rescue the entity that once somehow defined them.

At a time with the world reeling under the malaise of a pandemic, there is more sorrow to share than joy. However, amidst this gloom lies the opportunity to make resurgence through the unlocked, unknown, undiscovered potential within oneself. The Resurgent Resolute is about wading through the troughs and crests of life and bouncing back each time when life hands you with a setback, be it a failure, heartbreak, ostracism, repulsion, rejection, protest, through the life of “Pattu”, the central character. This book encourages people to unlock the “Pattu” in them. There is a redemption method and here is how to go about it. The story involves everyone, whether from an urban backdrop, rural background or from the lofty peaks of career excellence.

Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today extended beyond the Indian subcontinent to the Hindustani diaspora around the world. In this book, Gopi Chand Narang studies Ghalib’s poetics by tracing the archetypical roots of his creative consciousness and enigmatic thought in Buddhist dialectical philosophy, particularly in the concept of shunyata. He underscores the importance of the Mughal era’s Sabke Hindi poetry, especially through Bedil, whom Ghalib considered his mentor. The author also engages with Ghalib criticism that has flourished since his death and analyses the important works of the poet, including pieces from early Nuskhas and Divan-e Ghalib, strengthening this central argument. Much has been written about Ghalib’s life and his poetry. A marked departure from this dominant trend, Narang’s book looks at Ghalib from different angles and places him in the galaxy of the great Eastern poets, stretching far beyond the boundaries of India and the Urdu language.

Why do we offer Vishnu butter, but Shiva milk? Why is Krishna offered the chappanbhog—fifty-six items of food—during Annakuta? Do the goddesses not like bhog? Where does the custom of hanging a lemon and seven chillies come from? Is there a legendary male cook among the gods? Anna is called Brahmin, the way bhasha is called Brahmin. Food and the action of eating maintain life. And yet, traditionally the devis remind you that whenever you eat, you’ve killed something, sacrificed someone, even plants which come from farms, decimating forests and rivers. The devi reminds one that to build your civilization—sanskriti—you destroy your nature—prakriti. Feast your mind on intricate details behind how we offer food to the gods, and why certain foods are part of the Indian tradition, in this short, sweet read from Devlok.

This book was originally written in Hindi by one of the famous writers and novelists of India Munshi Premchand. It is translated into English by Vikas Prajapati.

This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how each new translation expands the work’s textuality and annexes new readership for the author) as well as representations of celluloid adaptations of Premchand’s works. An important intervention in the field of translation studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of comparative literature, cultural studies and film studies.

This atlas is aimed at collecting, compiling and desseminating information on mental health resources in the world. It presents updated and expanded information from 192 countries with analyses of global and regional trends as well as individual country profiles. Newly included in this volume is a section on epidemiology within the profiles of all low and middle income countries. It shows that mental health resources within most countries remain inadequate despite modest improvments since 2001. Availability of mental health resources across countries and between regions remains substantially uneven, with many countries having few resources. The atlas reinforces the urgent need to enhance mental health resources within countries.

‘Till death do us part…’ They never mentioned whose death She is Raina Kapoor – a confident and intelligent beauty forced to stay in a place where she doesn’t quite belong. He is Aryan Malik – a goofy and charming man, quick with his tongue, but even quicker with his smile. When put together, they are bound to collide. A love that should have conquered all may end before its time. Their journey entails sorrow, sacrifice and even death. After facing the toughest tests, can they possibly come out alive? Raina must make the most important decision of her life: to give up or to give in. Set in the small city of Indore, Beyond a Heartbeat is a story that will bring you joy, tears and a love that will linger until long after.

The present book is an English translation of Sautu'l Adalati'l Insaniyah, the biography of the Imam Ali, written in Arabic by George Jordac, a renowned Christian author of Lebanon. It has gained much popularity in the Arab and the Muslim world. Many Muslim and non-Muslim scholars have paid it glowing tributes.

When Christendom was groping amid the superstitions of the Dark Ages, and the Norsemen were ravaging the western part of Europe, and the princes of Islam were cutting each other's throats in the name of Allah and his Prophet, Abu'l-Ala'l-Ma'arri was waging his bloodless war against the follies and evils of his age. He attacked the superstitions and false traditions of law and religion, proclaiming the supremacy of the mind; he hurled his trenchant invectives at the tyranny, the bigotry, and the quackery of his times, asserting the supremacy of the soul; he held the standard of reason high above that of authority, fighting to the end the battle of the human intellect. An intransigeant with the exquisite mind of a sage and scholar, his weapons were never idle. But he was, above all, a poet; for when he stood before the eternal mystery of Life and Death, he sheathed his sword and murmured a prayer.