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All bibliophiles/bookworms will be well versed with leading international publishing house, HarperCollins, who command a lot of respect with the kind of material that they publish. Their Indian branch, HarperCollins India too leads the ‘desi’ market with bestselling books by top Indian authors.

DELHI NOIR, an anthology (collections of short stories) based mainly in and around Delhi-NCR, edited by Hirsh Sawhney was published in 2010, and one of the stories from the book, THE RAILWAY AUNTY (by Mohan Sikka), impressed the producer-director Ajay Bahl so much that he decided to adapt it into a full-fledged feature film titled B.A. PASS.

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Featuring Shilpa Shukla (of CHAK DE INDIA fame) as the lead actress, B.A. PASS is a dark, erotic thriller with a heart that has won loads of international and national awards, an aspect about which we will inform our patrons later.

Indira dedicates the book to her mother, Smt. Krishna Bandyopadhyay, from whom she inherited most of the recipes. "This book is a short record of my adventures in creativity on the cooking axis. Adventure is not always restricted to distant lands and exotic cultures. Even our well known Bengali cuisine when blended with foreign ideas can be a source of a gastronomic delight", she writes in her preface.

Pandit MR Jambunathan was no ordinary person. He translated all the four Vedas into easy Tamil, and authored many other books like Biography of Swami Dayanand Saraswati (Not Available) and Swami Shraddhanand Saraswati (Tamil and English) and translated books like Satyarth Prakash in Tamil.

Mahesh Bhatt, Tisca Chopra, Ziya Us Salam and Gulzar

Zia Us Salam’s book “Housefull” was released recently in presence of many eminent personalities of bollywood. To name a few, famous lyricist Gulzar, actress Tisca Chopra, renowned director Mahesh Bhatt and documentary filmmaker Umesh Aggarwal were present on the occasion.

"This story was very impressively structured and did well to explore the timeless themes of class and 'split selves.' Indeed, that a story about 'split selves' would be inspired by another story - in this case, a poem by Jibanananda Das - made for exceptionally fine reading." wrote Ronica Dhar (author of Bijou Roy) about one of the short stories in the collection.

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