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Horror - romanzo breve (52 pagine) - L'uomo è il posto più caldo in cui nascondersi.Gianni, divorziato e senza soldi, si ritrova a dover convivere con un padre che non ama, proprio mentre quest’ultimo sta sviluppando i primi sintomi dell'Alzheimer. Quando il padre inizia a parlare di una figura invisibile che è entrata in casa sua con l’inganno, lo tormenta ogni notte, e gli pone domande sempre più atroci, tutti considerano le sue visioni come semplici allucinazioni dovute alla malattia. Ma con il passare dei giorni strane e inquietanti manifestazioni iniziano a verificarsi. Con l’emergere di ombre misteriose nella loro vita, Gianni è costretto ad affrontare un angosciante interrogativo: e se suo padre avesse ragione?Cristiano Fighera è nato a Roma nel 1975. Ha scritto fumetti (Terra Inferno, pubblicato in Francia da Soleil, e “Song of Azelred”, pubblicato da Shockdom in Italia, Francia e Spagna), cortometraggi , testi teatrali (vincitore del concorso “Nina Scapinello” per commedie in dialetto veneto, nel 2019). Suoi racconti sono presenti in antologie edite da Dunwich Edizioni (La serra trema, Morte a 666 giri, L’ultimo canto delle Sirene, Ritorno a Dunwich 2 e nella serie di novelle Moon Witch), da EseScifi (Esecranda, Esescifi, Sole Morente e Il richiamo di Lovecraf), da Edizioni Watson (Folklore e Horror Storytelling), da Delos Digital (nelle collane Cypunk, Innsmouth e Heroic Fantasy Italia), da Edizioni Hypnos (Strane Visioni 1 e 2 e Strane Visioni Digital), Letteratura Horror, sulla rivista Robot e altri. È uno dei vincitori del torneo letterario IoScrittore 2023.

The book 'Relations of NDA and UPA with Neighbours' is an attempt to establish a systematic analysis of India's foreign policy in terms of its relations with Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The first non-Congress government formed in 1977, although gave the concept of genuine non-alignment, did not witness any basic policy change. In line till date the political parties of different shades, while in power, followed the foreign policy of their predecessors. Even in this age of Globalisation the changing national and international milieu emphasised that regional cooperation should be strengthened and enhanced further.

Há livros que narram. Outros que lembram. E há os raríssimos que invocam. Vila UPA não é um romance convencional. É uma escritura encantatória, onde a memória vira altar, o cotidiano se transfigura em rito e a pobreza, longe de ser retrato, torna-se mitologia viva. Neste livro, cada casa respira como um corpo. Cada personagem carrega o nome como se fosse oração. Cada gesto de vizinho é um sacramento. Escrito com cadência litúrgica, respiração mística e domínio pleno da língua, Davi Roballo não nos convida a ler — mas a entrar. Atravessar esta obra é cruzar os umbrais de um Brasil esquecido pelos mapas, mas preservado na alma. Um Brasil feito de poeira e ausência, de véus e vozes, de santos improvisados e pecadores épicos. Ao longo destas páginas, o leitor não encontrará apenas crônicas de infância, retratos de personagens ou lendas de bairro. Encontrará um território simbólico onde o tempo é circular, o sagrado é salpicado de farinha e o riso, mesmo ferido, ancora a dignidade de um povo. Vila UPA é o livro que faltava para lembrar ao mundo que a literatura brasileira ainda é um milagre possível.

India has entered the new Millennium without the aura of the much-touted millennium. Indian democracy is shallower and hollower now than a decade ago. If India has to develop into a full-blown democracy, instead of merely gloating over sustaining democracy as its greatest achievement, India ought to strengthen its democratic structures and institutions and make concerted efforts for clean, corruption-free, efficient, secular, transparent and people-centric governance; rapid expansion of civil space for rapid secularisation and democratisation of state and society with secular public institutions mediating between both; equip and energise the judiciary for expeditious justice delivery, especially for the masses who cannot afford to spend and cannot afford to wait; and protect and uplift the weaker sections from poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and social oppression. As the nation has been caught between the two evils Congress and BJP, team-Anna's anticorruption surge, launching of the Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal who played a major role in team-Anna, the AAP's stunning performance in the Delhi Assembly elections held in December, all happened in quick succession. The AAP's "model politics" being tried out in Delhi, and expected to be tried out in Parliament through the Lok Sabha elections will decide the nature of the future of Indian democracy. There is much to be said in favour of and expected from the AAP's "alternative politics". For this, understanding the perception of reality is as important as understanding the elusive reality itself. That is best done by identifying the fault lines in governance, the perfidies of the governors, and the pitfalls of the governed, through critiquing the system, seeing it through the common man's "looking glass". This book is a critique of the political scenario prevailing today as seen through the common man's "looking glass".

'A stalwart Congressman symbolizing the party's foundational values' - SONIA GANDHI'Sushilkumar embodies Lord Krishna's mantra on how to address a challenging situation: "He who responds to every situation with a smile and never reacts with anger is the one who wins".' - SHARAD PAWARVeteran politician Sushilkumar Shinde's career trajectory is unrivalled in Indian politics. Beginning life working as a child labourer and as a ward boy to make ends meet, he went on to hold some of the highest offices in the land: the chief minister of Maharashtra, the Union home minister, All India Congress Committee general secretary and the UPA's vice-presidential candidate. In this candid memoir written with Rasheed Kidwai, he takes us though the highs and lows of his fifty-year-long political journey: from being 'discovered' by Sharad Pawar and fighting his first few elections to his subsequent rise to the pinnacles of power. Shinde's tenure as Union home minister saw, among other things, the controversial trials and executions of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru, the 2012 Delhi gangrape case and an investigation of 'Hindu terror' groups. Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into two states under his watch as governor. He gives us a behind-the-scenes view of these significant events and also sheds light on what went wrong with the Manmohan Singh-led UPA II government and why the Congress-led coalition lost to the BJP-led NDA in 2014.Referring to the many challenges Sushilkumar Shinde confronted and overcame in his long career, President Pranab Mukherjee once said, 'His [Shinde's] story is the story of India.' Five Decades in Politics, Shinde's memoir, makes for fascinating reading, and the tale it tells will be an inspiration to many.

Anna Ixtassou is a witch who wants to be just like everyone else. Except that she went looking for the fast track to the top and has fallen under the spell of her boss, the magnificent Ewan Crest.What follows is a series of trials and tribulations in the strange world of BDSM that force Anna to turn to witchcraft as her only means of escape.A collection of three stories of intense sexual situations involving bizarre hardware and extravagant characters makes for a bundle of hot reading that you will not soon forget.The stories of Anna Ixstassou, A Reluctant Witch in the Land of BDSM:Shame and Delight at His HandsMasked and Squirting MayhemBoxed and Bound in ParisExcerpt:I was dressed in a body suit of black mesh that hid next to nothing of my skin beneath. A silver mask hid my face from scrutiny and I carried a sort of short whip that Ewan had called a scourge. It was comprised of many strands of soft velvet cording, like an overlong tassel, finishing in a black, leather bound handle that felt good within my hand.I doubted that it could ever inflict real damage as soft as the strands were, but the heft and weight of it gave me the illusion that I could yet control what was about to happen.In very short order, that illusion was wiped away...Our steps were slow, measured, and as we moved closer to the wooden contraption in the center of the room, a wolf faced man leaned in and said, "Oh, Ewan...the boxing is going to be wonderful this year."Ewan gave no answer other than a slight nod then seized my arm as we drew near to what I had thought was a table.It was not flat as any table should be, but a series of opened wooden compartments. The wood was old, its veneer polished and shining. The surface had been inlaid with marquetry of the finest sort. French craftsmen had placed capering animals etched in precious woods, their colors contrasting with the rest of the piece. There were astronomical symbols, of a quality meriting a place among the most precious works of black magic.I looked at it and with a feeling of lead settling into my stomach, I could see that it was lined in red velour and in that interior, the velour would hold the form of a four limbed being. A human being. Its parts were articulated with heavy, antique hinges where the joints of a person would be but its soft interior could leave no doubt. It was as much a prison as an iron maiden rusting and blood stained in an ancient chateau, only lacking the needled interior to terminate its macabre charm.Once closed it would hold a person completely. The only openings that I could make out were at the juncture of where a pelvis would fit, both front and back. There were also cutouts at chest level. Two of them through which breasts might be drawn and punished.I looked to Ewan, alarm flashing through me, but he did not notice, his gaze intense and staring at the articulated device."Master...I can't. Not this time," I said. My tone was low, meant just for him, but he was uninterested....