10 Essentials to The Blueprint of Happiness by Bhanu Arora

Price :225,Genre: Self-help, Binding: Paperback, Pages: 140, Language: English, ISBN: 978-93-84334-21-5

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Some people are born happy, and we often meet them in our daily lives. The same can be true for every human on this earth. Souls are born humble but are stressed by society. One of the primary sources of unhappiness is the existence of adverse individuals in our life. Remove them, and we are free winged creatures. Gossip, socialize, make friends and not a single day would go in sadness. Respect live-in relationship if marriage exhausts you. Travel and explore this beautiful earth for a more joyful you. Forget Billionaires and live your unique life. Deliberate changes in our daily lives can punch you up and make it worth living.

“Ten Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness” delightfully portrays interlinked stories from everyday modern life that can change you forever with everlasting bliss.

River of Time by Jeeja Ghosh

Genre: Poetry, Binding: Paperback, Pages: 76, Language: English, ISBN: 978-93-84334-73-4

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Tagore has been a close companion since childhood. My mother who was passionate about his creations tried to imbibe in me his essence of the depth of his philosophy, his deep association with the Supreme. But what does a child’s mind really understand such magnanimity of the treasures of his ocean of his works. Yet his words always intrigued me. The verses from Gitanjali mesmerized me even at the tender age. The words reverberated in my ears and their rhythms touched the inner core of my heart. Again, the child’s voice speaking in Shishu evoked in me the excitement and thrill of adventure. As I moved into my teens, Tagore was a part of the school curriculum. To be honest Bangla was never strong point. I was not an avid reader of Bengali literature. My writing skill in this language was below average. The fragrance of Tagore’s verse stayed with me mainly because of my mother’s inspiration. They surfaced later as I feel, in my poetry.
I studied literature in English as an operational subject alongside with the compulsory English paper in my high school. This provided me with the opportunity to get a glimpse into the works of Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Browning, Lear, Frost, and a host of others. I remember writing my first poem in English when I was in class X. Now I find it silly and immature, written from the perspective of a rather sentimental teenager. Yet at that point it had given me immense joy and the feeling of accomplishment.
My span of writing poetry has not been very consistent. I got a trigger to write during my school days mainly from the encouragement from my teachers and friends. This continued though my years in college. However in college, there was an additional incentive – it made you more popular and attractive. You were marked as an intellectual, a much glamorous prospective which many young people at that phase of life craze to aspire.

Millennium Memories by Arindam Basu

Genre: Memoir, Binding: Hardbound, Pages: 191, Language: English, ISBN: 978-93-84334-74-1

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At the heart of life lies relationships. Relationships we have with family, co-workers and friends close by and far away. And how these relationships grow within us have a huge impact on our lives. But these relations often cross boundaries and then we call them ‘attachments’.

Being attached to that pencil box with a hidden deck that had your most prized pencil, that old pair of jeans where you stencilled AC-DC with a black ball-point pen, the room on the terrace where you scribbled the name of your first girlfriend with a heart sign around it, the corner seat of the tea stall on thenukkad that gave you the best view of the lane behind you and the road ahead or that newspaper cartoon you thought you could not live without.
This book is about these relations. It’s a book about memories we made out of them. It’s also a book about loss. How the old fuzzy things of our past slowly melts away like a fog in twilight. It’s a book about the city you knew as you grew up. The people, places and things that made you even without you realizing it. It’s a book about a time when little things brought enormous joy, those old happy tunes, those black and white images, those lazy laid-back days and those eyes that still had wonder left in them.

Take a ride of the city you knew and loved and grew with in Millennium Memories.

Kilol-Bruges Express: The Fading Nomad by Ackshat Deoli

Genre: Fiction, Binding: Paperback, Pages: 139, Language: English, ISBN: 978-93-84334-81-9

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Mrs. Kumar, an award winning film director, is being interviewed! She shares the vivid colours of Chikki’s journey and how that retarded journey which commenced with sheer wilderness accelerated into top gear, as the sinusoidal wave of life questioned even the absolute existence of her. Is this for real, is it happening too quickly, is she able to come out of the maze or the monstrous wave of life strikes time? Even if you have dreamt of a little something then fasten your seatbelt for this enthralling journey where the pattern of life will unfold, so very magnificently!