Mainak Dhar Books in Order

Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan push both countries toward nuclear war. Soldiers, pilots, submariners, and political leaders on opposing sides confront a rapidly widening conflict whose consequences could devastate the entire subcontinent.

Twenty-five poems turn inward to examine choices, identity, and the hidden workings of the mind. Reflections on ordinary experience ask readers to confront the person behind the outward image and consider how self-understanding changes over time.

Drawing on practical marketing experience, Mainak Dhar presents 101 lessons for people who build and manage brands. The book examines the gap between classroom theory and real business challenges, offering guidance for working marketers.

An IIM graduate approaching thirty questions a corporate life that leaves little room for relationships or personal interests. During a turbulent week, lessons from making cocktails offer another way to think about fulfillment.

In a fictional 2011, a radical Saudi regime backs a military takeover in Pakistan. Terror attacks against India trigger an escalating military confrontation, while people on both sides face the prospect of nuclear catastrophe.

Raised in a wasteland where humans fight undead Biters, fifteen-year-old Alice follows a bunny-eared creature underground. Her discovery draws her into a conspiracy involving civilization's destruction, the Biters' origins, and a mysterious queen's prophecy.

Delhi assistant librarian Arnab Bannerjee develops extraordinary powers after a brutal robbery. His campaign against injustice runs into a corrupt system, forcing him to consider alliances with the very people he has tried to oppose.

In an alternate 1857, the Mughal Empire prepares to celebrate a century since defeating the British. An emperor's assassination brings together a hunted cavalry officer, an English traveler, and a princess amid rebellion and political upheaval.

Overworked office employee Mayukh discovers that a computer virus has its own plans for his working life. This business parable uses their unusual encounter to explore stress, creativity, and the search for better work-life balance.

College student Aaditya dreams of flying fighter planes until a chance encounter reveals an ancient aerial war behind familiar myths. Piloting a vimana alongside legendary gods, he must confront a threat to humanity's survival.

An undead outbreak spreading from Afghanistan throws a disparate group of survivors together. When a young child appears to offer hope against the infection, they undertake a dangerous journey toward a rumored Himalayan sanctuary.

Alone in a hillside house as the undead overrun the world, a frustrated writer begins recording what he sees. His journal becomes a search for purpose, survival, and meaning in the aftermath of civilization's collapse.

Four linked stories revisit the catastrophic Rising that preceded Alice's adventures. Dr. Protima, a young man, Chinese officer Chen, and Alice's parents experience the disaster from different perspectives as civilization falls to the undead.

Alice has helped establish Wonderland, where humans and Biters share an uneasy peace. Renewed Biter attacks turn her own people against her, forcing her back into the wasteland to investigate a conspiracy involving the Red Queen.

A woman seeks justice after her sister is raped and murdered, only to encounter indifferent police and a hostile media response. With the attackers still free, she takes matters into her own hands, setting off a violent reckoning.

This collection explores Alice's childhood in the wasteland before her better-known adventures. The stories follow her early encounters with Biters, the development of her fighting skills, and her experiences of friendship and love amid violence.

A devastating attack destroys Shanghai and threatens Wonderland's fragile peace. Alice travels into the former United States, now a wasteland of mercenaries, bandits, and wild Biters, seeking the source of this new danger.

Wonderland's expansion brings farms and settlements into territory once controlled by warlords. A mounted horde emerges from remote mountains, leaving destruction behind, and Alice must confront the threat before it reaches her growing community.

Alice and Bunny Ears cross into the former Pakistan in search of a new mission. Rescuing a boy from bandits leads them toward an underwater danger that threatens both Wonderland and the wider world.

A coup shatters the Mughal Empire's celebrations of victory over the British. Cavalry officer Ranveer, English traveler Theo, and Princess Maya join forces against a despotic regime, traveling through a divided alternate nineteenth-century India.

At 03:02 one Sunday morning, Mumbai loses electricity, communications, and functioning vehicles. As residents discover that the catastrophe extends far beyond their city, an enemy in their midst turns survival into a struggle for freedom.

Mainak Dhar applies ideas from branding and marketing to everyday decisions, careers, and relationships. Examples involving promotion, personal references, marriage, and work-life balance explore how perceptions influence behavior beyond the conventional marketplace or business classroom.

After a bank robbery leaves him with superhuman abilities, shy librarian Arnab Banerjee becomes Delhi's masked crusader. A looming terrorist attack tests his principles when stopping it requires cooperation with corrupt politicians, policemen, and businessmen.

Known as Bunny Ears, Alice's loyal Biter companion has found a home alongside humans in Wonderland. New enemies threaten that refuge as returning memories force him to struggle with the identity he lost before becoming undead.

Retired Intelligence Bureau officer Maloy Krishna Dhar recounts his decades in Indian intelligence and the political pressures surrounding its work. His memoir argues for greater accountability, drawing on experiences involving security operations and national leaders.

A sniper's attack interrupts former Indian Army major Aaditya Ghosh's date in Mumbai. When his name appears on a terrorist kill list, protecting those close to him forces him to confront a violent past.

The sole survivor of an ambush in Kashmir crawls through dangerous territory, injured and nearly out of ammunition. A cry draws him toward an unexpected encounter, forcing him to reconsider the human divisions that sustain the conflict.

Aaditya's family vacation turns into a hostage crisis when hijackers divert their flight to Afghanistan. An unlikely sniper ally offers help, but saving the passengers requires uncovering the hidden interests directing their captors.

After a hostage rescued from South China Sea pirates brings a warning, Aaditya learns that his family may be targeted. He reunites with a sniper ally to investigate, confronting threats that make the completed rescue only the beginning.

A retired covert operative takes a desk job but is drawn into a task force investigating a plot against the American president. As the conspiracy expands, threats to his family force him back into the dangerous work he hoped to leave.

An operative escorting a gangster from Dubai becomes caught in an effort to eliminate a witness who knows dangerous secrets. Escaping with a woman places them in the path of competing armed groups determined to prevent the truth emerging.

Under scrutiny after a covert mission, Unit 22 retreats to a remote base before being sent across the border to extract an asset. A massacre survivor and advancing Chinese troops turn the operation into a fight for survival.

A training assignment on an island turns disastrous when a coup leaves the operatives outnumbered. Protecting civilians and an ally becomes a struggle to survive, while a traitor’s actions threaten consequences extending far beyond the immediate battlefield.

A disgraced Unit 22 commander interrupts a terrorist attack and captures a suspect powerful people want dead. Hunted and outnumbered, he reunites with his former team to protect his loved ones and expose the interests behind their downfall.