A toe-curling, spine-tingling tale with a mix of fantastic creatures and unforgettable characters! ABOUT THE BOOK ( INR 295, 264 PP) Halfway to the heavens, in a realm hidden by clouds, a divine beauty—a Yakshini—is facing a sentence for her…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 495, 224PP) A man is blackmailed for a past he never had. An unrequited love story binds two lovers. A man waits for his lover, only to be killed at her hands. A girl takes back…
ABOUT THE BOOK ( INR 295, 224PP) 51 fascinating stories of inventions in a book blending adorable, simple illustrations with lively text bursting with facts! Did you know? • Ice-lollies were invented when a little boy left a glass of…
Democracies can be nurtured only if the public is seen as complex, not naïve. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 232PP) Networks, whether in the form of Facebook and Twitter or WhatsApp groups, are exerting immense, unchecked power in subverting political…
A close look at love, marriage, sex, individuality and infidelity. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 232PP) Most urban couples today experience some amount of chaos in their interpersonal relationships—whether it be in the struggle to keep the erotic spark alive,…
A must-read for anyone who feels his goals are threatened by tremendous difficulties. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 195, 112PP) ‘I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet.’ Stephen…
‘Lakshmi is considered a restless goddess (chanchal), which means wealth brings value only when it is circulated, not locked up. Those who grab and lock her up, get profit (labh) without happiness, not prosperity with happiness (shubh-labh).’ ABOUT THE BOOK…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 399, 208PP) When the rags-to-riches hit movie Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars in 2009, a Kolkata journalist was tasked with tracking down Lakshmi, a young girl from Sonagachi who had been part of an award-winning documentary about sex workers…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 328PP) Based on a real-life character, a legendary American boxer who lived in Bangalore in the 1960s and the 1970s, Timeri N. Murari’s novel tells us the thrilling story of a competition between two opponents, one…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 208PP) The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. The book begins with the…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 192PP) There is a vast cultural movement emerging from the Global South and sweeping all before it. India’s Shah Rukh Khan, after all, is the most popular actor in the world. Bollywood, Turkish soap operas called…