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About the BookAN EASY TO READ, ANECDOTAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ONE OF INDIA'S BEST-KNOWN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS. ANIRUDDHA BAHAL has spelt trouble for the Establishment for as long as he can even...

About the BookA COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA.In the foothills of the Western Ghats, the village of Vaiga is enduring the worst storm it has seen in...

Riding the storied Modi wave, the BJP and its allies won the 2014 general elections to form the government at the centre. While the supporters of the new government may have hoped for economic...

About the BookA MAID IN THE CITY, A RICE FARMER IN HER VILLAGE, RACONTEUR, SURVIVOR-KARNO'S DAUGHTER IS THE LIFE STORY OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN.This is a biography of Buttermilk, the author's maid in...

About the BookA VIVID COLLECTION OF POEMS FROM ONE OF INDIA'S MOST BELOVED YOUNG POETS.Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue is a collection of poems in which beats an old city's heart, visceral and...

It is an acute observation of an eventful era in Indian literature and history, and a micro-history of Deshpande's own engagement with it, through her certain and uncertain recollections. With its...

About the Book MICHIEL BAAS BRINGS ALIVE A WORLD OF MEN SCULPTING BODIES, REDEFINING MASCULINITIES AND CONFRONTING THEIR VULNERABILITIES IN THE GYMS OF URBAN INDIA. The gyms of urban 'new India' are...

About the Book'EXPERIMENTAL AND INQUISITIVE, THESE ARE POEMS THAT DEMAND AN IMAGINATION WHERE "DRAVIDIAN" IS STRUCK OUT FOR "DARWINIAN" AND "WHALE" REPLACED BY "WHILE", TIME BECOMING SPACE LIKE IT...

About the book Out of Print in print! A decade ago, in 2010, Indira Chandrasekhar set up Out of Print to address a need she felt as a writer: a focused platform for the short story; a space for...

About the Book MUSICIAN AND ACTIVIST T.M. KRISHNA INVESTIGATES THE HISTORY OF THE MRDANGAM AND MEETS THE INVISIBLE KEEPERS OF A TRADITION: THE MRDANGAM MAKERS. The mrdangam is an integral part of the...

'For more than forty years, Shashi Deshpande has--as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist, and public figure (in short, as a concerned and engaged citizen)--audibly contributed to the...

About the Book A NUANCED AND POWERFUL MICROHISTORY SET AGAINST THE SWEEP OF INDIAN HISTORY. Dharmman Bibi rode into battle during the revolt of 1857 shoulder to shoulder with her patron lover Babu...

Revati Laul's unforgettable narrative, built on a decade's worth of research and interviews, is the very first account of the perpetrators of 2002--and a crucial new addition to the literature on...

About the Book AN INSIDER?S ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING CASES TO ROCK INDIA?THE TANDOOR MURDER CASE?BY THE IPS OFFICE IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATIONS. Naina Sahni?s murder and the discovery of...

A newborn girl can expect to live to eighty in Sri Lanka, seventy-four in Bangladesh and sixty-nine in India. This is but one of a range of Swati Narayan's insights from a five-year study across four...