Books

In the relentless rains of Bengaluru, Priya Sharma a driven sustainability consultant and Arjun Rao a passionate heritage architect collide on a flooded street. What begins as a rescue becomes the start of something neither expected.

Bound by a shared project to restore a crumbling 110-year-old colonial villa into a community eco-centre, they...

Thirty-five years. Thousands of cases. One career-defining journey through India’s legal system. From a small town in Karnataka to landmark courtroom victories, spanning corporate boardrooms to contested trials, this is the unfiltered story of what it really takes to build a legal legacy in modern India.

Inside No Regrets:

• Real courtroom battles...

Thirty-five years. Thousands of cases. One career-defining journey through India’s legal system. From a small town in Karnataka to landmark courtroom victories, spanning corporate boardrooms to contested trials, this is the unfiltered story of what it really takes to build a legal legacy in modern India.

Inside No Regrets:

• Real courtroom...

Two students. One overbridge. A friendship built in two years and lost to fifteen.

Kiran (engineering, RV College) and Ashwin (MBA, IIM Bangalore) find each other during a Bangalore power cut in 2004 and spend two years in the specific ease of a friendship that does not need management. Then careers intervene. Then cities. Then the slow...

ಈ ಪುಸತಕವು ಸುರೇಶ ಪಟೇಲ ಅವರ ಜೀವನದ ಅನುಭವಗಳನನು ವಿವರಿಸುವ ಪರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಮತತು ಪರೇರಣಾದಾಯಕ ಆತಮಕಥೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ಕಾನೂನು ಕಷೇತರದಲಲಿ ಅವರ ಅನುಭವಗಳು, ಸವಾಲುಗಳು ಮತತು ಸಾಧನೆಗಳನನು ಈ ಪುಸತಕದಲಲಿ ವಿವರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇದು ಕೇವಲ ಒಬಬ ವಕೀಲರ ಕಥೆಯಲಲ; ಜೀವನದ ಏರುಪೇರುಗಳು, ಕಠಿಣ ನಿರಧಾರಗಳು ಮತತು ಅವುಗಳಿಂದ ಕಲಿತ ಪಾಠಗಳ ಕಥೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ತಮಮ ವೈಯಕತಿಕ ಮತತು ವೃತತಿಪರ ಅನುಭವಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಲೇಖಕರು ಓದುಗರಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಮಹತವದ ಸಂದೇಶ ನೀಡುತತಾರೆ...

Fifteen years. Two children. One quiet certainty, the marriage is over.

Priya and Vikram Mehta’s Bangalore marriage did not end in a single night. It ended the way most things end slowly, in the accumulation of small distances. Told in alternating voices across a mutual consent divorce, What We Kept asks what two people can preserve when they...

The brass nameplate at the gate had stood for sixty years. It was about to need a second line.

In the house on Saraswathipuram, Mysuru, three generations of the Krishnamurthy family have built one of the city’s most respected surgical legacies. The name on the gate means something. The family has always known this and has always been careful to...

Three generations of surgeons. One name on the gate. One secret in the filing cabinet.

When Dr. Ananya Krishnamurthy brings home a man her family considers beneath their standing, her eighty-year-old grandfather reveals a truth he has kept for fifty years, the Krishnamurthy surgical legacy was built in equal partnership with a doctor no one has...

Have you ever felt the world click into place at 100 km/h?

For many, a motorcycle is just a machine. For others, it’s a portal to a state of being that the modern world has forgotten,In The Joy of Long-Distance Motorcycling, author Suresh Patel invites you to step out of the “City Self” and into the rhythm of the highway. This isn’t just a book...

Have you ever felt the world click into place at 100 km/h?

For many, a motorcycle is just a machine. For others, it’s a portal to a state of being that the modern world has forgotten, In The Joy of Long-Distance Motorcycling, author Suresh Patel invites you to step out of the “City Self” and into the rhythm of the highway. This isn’t just a book...

When retired judge Narayana Shastry is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he gathers his children for one final reckoning a forty-year-old wrong he committed from the bench, the farming family he destroyed, and the secret that the family he wronged is closer than he ever knew. Set in the layered, living city of Bangalore, The Raintree Verdict is a...

The Terrace Where We Grew Up explores the cousin relationship that unique bond in Indian families where cousins raised together become more than friends, more like siblings, with all the love and conflict that entails. It’s about how families evolve, how physical spaces hold emotional weight, and how sometimes losing a place can help us find our...

Some houses hold their secrets longer than the people inside them.
When Meenakshi Venkataraman summons her three adult children to the family home on 18th Cross, Basavanagudi, it is the first time in seven years they have all stood under the same roof. Outside, the beloved jacaranda tree their father planted is dying strangled by the roots of the...

When patriarch Raghav Rao dies, his three children return to the last remaining bungalow on Bangalore’s iconic Lavelle Road once a quiet lane of jackfruit trees, now a glittering canyon of glass towers and 175-crore land deals.
Seattle-based Arun sees the sale as his family’s financial salvation school fees paid, dream house secured.
Heritage...

“The Space Between Stars” is a contemporary romance set against the layered, luminous backdrop of Bangalore a city where the old world of coconut trees and Carnatic music exists side-by-side with gleaming tech corridors and ambitious new futures.

At its heart, this is a story about the courage it takes to be seen not by the world, but by one...

When the children fly the nest, who takes their place?

Ramesh and Sudha have done everything right. They’ve built a beautiful home in the quiet, leafy lanes of Jayanagar, raised two successful children, and settled into a peaceful, if somewhat lonely, retirement. But the silence of their large house is becoming unbearable.

On a whim, Sudha rents...

The Sari That Told Stories explores the grandmother-granddaughter relationship through the lens of dementia and memory. It’s about the stories we preserve when the people we love start to forget, about the ways we honour the past while moving into the future, and about how tradition can be both an anchor and a bridge. Set in Bangalore’s...

A romantic love strory set in Bengaluru

The Watch That Kept Two Times is about the relationship between grandfathers and grandsons, about learning to be present before it’s too late, and about the ways we mark time in our lives. It explores how grief can keep us frozen in the past, how love teaches us to value the present, and how the wisdom of one generation can transform the next....

The Garden That Grew Between Them explores the father-daughter relationship across time, distance, and the busy-ness of modern life. It’s about how we lose connection with the people who matter most, and how we find our way back through the small, consistent acts of care in this case, gardening. Set in Bangalore’s HSR Layout, it’s a meditation...