“Happy hanging!” Saralkar growled with all the spite in his system and stormed out of the cell. Weeks before serial killer dharmesh Solanki is to be executed, he wickedly burdens senior Inspector Saralkar with a macabre secret Saralkar would’ve been…
Book Name: The Shooting Star: A Girl, Her Backpack and the World Paperback Author: Shivya Nath Genre: Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her…
“Reality is a story we tell ourselves. Change the story and you change reality.” Middle-aged Funboy is God. Claimed by many, he suffers an identity disorder and self-medicates with spirits, pills and cheeseburgers. Alone in a cheap room he reflects…
INR 599, 224 pp, Fiction Electrifying animal stories by one of the country’s most formidable contemporary writers. Award-winning writer Syed Muhammad Ashraf is one of the most important contemporary practitioners of the Urdu short story. Often set in rural India,…
INR 699, 304 pp, Fiction An entertaining and insightful look at life in an Indian village. Anil Singh, a banker working in London, finds out that his uncle has died in Palanpur, a village in north India, and that he…
Book Name: Once Upon A Life, Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags A Memoir Author: Temsula Ao Publisher: Zubaan Genre: Memoir Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao lost both her parents in…
‘Stories which travelled centuries to come to you– please read them–because they still have centuries to travel. These folk tales from Rajasthan slither like serpents in the mind of the reader and tickle the imagination’ Gulzar About the Book Padma…
Talking Cub (the children’s imprint of Speaking Tiger) is proud to announce the publication of A Bend in Time: Writings by Children on the COVID-19 Pandemic,with an introduction by award-winning children’s writer Bijal Vachharajani. A unique and timely book, it puts forth the…
Book Name: In the Land of the Lovers Author: Sakoon Singh Genre: Fiction Publisher: Rupa Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: It evoked a feeling in her—of silence and freedom, of riding a bicycle on a dirt track cutting through fields. In…
I fall again into the unknown maze, where pities do swarm, like unruly worms in deep darkness. What can I do if the waves get hurt when the sky cries? How recalcitrant we are! At dawn we dream life to…
About the Book: Seven Sundays chronicles the story of 40-year-old Alok, who, despite all his efforts, finds himself in the worst scenario possible—his business venture fails, his wife and daughter leave him, and, on top of everything, he is under…