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Experiencing Tarot
Roopa Patel
Tarotologist Roopa Patel puts together a
basic guide on the art of reading tarot
cards. With illustrations of each tarot card
and detailed description of the cards, she
tries to explain the importance of tarot
card reading, and how the craft can help
us understand our strengths and weaknesses.
She also tries to explain the connection
tarot cards have with other “mystical
sciences”. Patel tries to dispel a few
myths about tarot cards — she says tarot
cards are meant to show believers a path
into their unconscious, not predict the future.
The illustrations are Indian depictions
of the cards by Indo-British artists who go
by the name ‘the Singh twins’.

The Exiles 
Ghalib Shiraz
Dhalia
Pooja and Rahul Kapoor left Kenya and
settled in Los Angeles to raise their son
Ajay. Pooja, a housewife who prides herself
on her cooking, is shocked when she finds
out that her husband and the father of her
now teenage son has fallen in love with a
Muslim man. Pooja and Rahul, who have
grown distant over the years, now have to
revisit the incidents of their past to come
to terms with Rahul’s new-found sexuality.
The concepts of homosexuality and heterosexuality
are explored through their story.
The book also explores the constructs of
desire, infidelity and faith through Hindu
mythology and Sufi poetry.

On Dreams And Dreaming
Edited by Sudhir Kakar
This compilation of essays is about the
process of dreaming: memorable and
lucid dreams, the role dreams play in
the evolution of consciousness, and
the relationship between dreaming and
waking. Dream analysts, scholars and
psychoanalysts try to explain how dreams
can be used to access the subconscious
and treat people through psychoanalysis,
how dreams help the brain develop, and
the phenomenon of nightmares. The book
also explores how dreams impact our
waking life. The writers put their views
across through case studies and
examples, some of them from years
of scientific research.

The Inner Circle
Brad Meltzer
Set in Washington DC, this thriller follows
Beecher White, a young US government
archivist. When his childhood crush
Clementine Kaye approaches him for help,
he takes her into the the National Archives
and they stumble upon a secret society
that has been around since George Washington’s
days. In trying to investigate why
the President is hiding this treasure,
Beecher and Kaye find themselves in the
middle of an international conspiracy. And
when a man dies and Beecher is on the run
to discover the truth about this mysterious
treasure, they realise that some people
believe the secret is worth killing for.