Book Name: Myths of Old Author: Krishnarjun Bhattacharya Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: ‘Where is Adri?’‘Hiding, somewhere in the darkness.’‘I am Darkness!’ Come forth, come hither. It is finally time.Fairy tales, and spit and blood and bone…
A vivid retelling of some of the most well-loved stories of the world. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR195, 152PP) Do you know how Renuka, the warrior goddess, fought rakshasas? Or how Nu Wa held the broken sky together? Or how Rome…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR295, 168 PP) Award-winning writer Priyanka Pradhan takes you on a journey into the Himalayas through its stories. You’ll find tales of snow leopards and mountain ghouls, bagpiping girls and itchy herbs, and stories even as old as…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 304PP) Neil Upadhyay could never imagine getting involved in match-fixing. Not after a twenty-year career in Indian cricket. Not after he had sacrificed everything for Cricket—his stake in a large family business, the affection of…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR295, 296PP) Robert E. Svoboda’s Vāstu: Breathing Life into Space addresses the classical Indian art (or science) of architectural form, Vāstu, in a wholly unique way. Instead of presenting lists of rules and architectural principles to which builders and…
ABOUT THE BOOK(INR 295, 216PP) Sankaracharya was perhaps the greatest thinker the world has seen. This novel is a philosophical reconstruction of his life and teachings. Jagadguru Adi Sankaracharya, or Sankara, spent his formative years on the banks of the…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR595, 288PP) India’s banking story—the good, the bad and the ugly Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Chanda Kochhar, Rana Kapoor and others who have managed to game the banking industry, with possible assistance from bankers, auditors, regulators, bureaucrats…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR2500, 276PP) Akkitham: A Pictorial Autobiography is perhaps the first-of-its-kind book culled and created entirely from an author’s writings, interviews and private conversations. The entire text has been constructed and translated into English by Bhaskaramenon Krishnakumar, alias Atmaraman,…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 395, 280PP) In the run-up to independence, a vile plan was devised by a handful of powerful princes to not join either India or Pakistan. The plan was led by the chancellor of the chamber of princes,…
ABOUT THE BOOK ( INR500, 408PP) What makes the RSS unique? How has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh evolved from a ‘shakha’-based organization, which started in an obscure corner of Nagpur in 1925, to a pan-global movement? How is it possible…
From personal happenings to national movements, Portraits of Power covers it all. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR595, 472PP) N.K. Singh has been a formidable civil servant, an empathetic politician, a keen chronicler of India’s socioeconomic history and the quintessential academic that academia never…