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Book Review: Gold Collection: Ruskin Bond helps us experience the hill life, away from the hills

by New Asian Writing • 18/09/2023 • 0 Comments

India is a treasure trove of experiences, the more you explore, the more experiences. To Ruskin Bond’s credit, he manages to weave several such experiences together to give the reader a peek into both the simplicity and richness of India’s…

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Aleph to publish The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told by Selected and edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri

by New Asian Writing • 30/08/2023 • 0 Comments

BOOK DESCRIPTION (INR-799, PP-344) The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told features some of the best short fiction to emerge from Punjab over the last century. Covering four generations of Punjabi writers, the anthology includes celebrated storytellers such as Gurbaksh Singh, Balwant…

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Aleph to publish The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder S. Jodhka

by New Asian Writing • 30/08/2023 • 0 Comments

BOOK DESCRIPTION (INR-799, PP-296) ‘India lives in its villages’.  This statement popularized by Mahatma Gandhi is often referred to in discussions about the country, its past, and its possible future. But what exactly is the Indian village? In the most…

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Aleph to publish The Less You Preach, the More You Learn: Aphorisms for Our Age by Shashi Tharoor and Joseph Zacharias

by New Asian Writing • 30/08/2023 • 0 Comments

BOOK DESCRIPTION (INR-499, PP-200) The aphorism is one of the oldest forms of literary expression and has been around for thousands of years. It is a concise statement or observation that expresses a general truth, principle, or nugget of wisdom,…

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Rupa to publish Who Cares About Parliament: Speaking Up to Protect India’s Great Institution by Derek O’Brien

by New Asian Writing • 30/08/2023 • 0 Comments

This book is a collection of essays on various themes that have engaged Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien in his political career and in his attempts to contribute to the shaping of public debate and policy making. Derek tells readers…

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Rupa to publish Didi Nirupama Devi by Alo Shome

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK Legendary writer Nirupama Devi’s Didi is the story of a diligent, assertive and capable woman who, according to her own admission, loves to be in charge of things. Surama can take responsibilities and deliver on them as…

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Rupa to publish The Economy of the Maratha Kingdom: c. 1595–1707 by Kedar M. Phalke

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK In seventeenth-century India, the Marathas were rooted in the vocation of cultivation, working as tillers, peasants and landowners. They were also active in the field of politics and administration, and the rulers of the Maratha clan were…

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Rupa to publish Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir’s Last Pandit Prime Minister and his English Wife by Siddharth Kak and Lila Kak Bhan

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK Ram Chandra Kak, the Kashmiri Pandit prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was ousted by Maharaja Hari Singh, and put behind bars on the eve of India and Pakistan’s independence. Over the decades, the blame for Maharaja…

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Rupa to publish Rocketing Through the Skies: An Eventful Life at ISRO by G. Madhavan Nair

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK Starting from the early days of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the guidance of Dr Vikram Sarabhai and Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to leading the organization himself, G. Madhavan Nair has had an eventful tenure…

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Rupa to publish Sridevi: The South Years by Amborish Roychoudhury

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK Arguably one of the greatest actresses in the history of the Hindi film industry, Sridevi set the screens alight for over forty years. Embracing every one of her varied characters, whether in comedy, action, romance, or drama,…

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Rupa to publish Clearly Invisible in Paris by Koel Puri Rinchet

by New Asian Writing • 17/08/2023 • 0 Comments

ABOUT THE BOOK Set in the capital of all things chic, surrounded by inexplicably irritable inhabitants, this book is an ode to the friendships that have got so many through the darkest days of their lives. In spite of living…

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Book Review: Gold Collection: Ruskin Bond helps us experience the hill life, away from the hills

Book Review: Gold Collection: Ruskin Bond helps us experience the hill life, away from the hills

Aleph to publish The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told by Selected and edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri

Aleph to publish The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told by Selected and edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri

Aleph to publish The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder S. Jodhka

Aleph to publish The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder S. Jodhka


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