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A Fine Thread and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen translated stories originally written in Tamil by the acclaimed author Jeyamohan. Each story explores rich and intriguing territories,...

In this anthology of short stories, delicately crafted, poignant, often charmingly funny, Appadurai Muttulingam summons from the sweep of global forces the intimate realities of human relationships...

This thought-provoking and contemplative novel is perceptive in planning and philosophical in approach liberating the soul from evil forces that surround humankind. It depicts the struggle to fight...

Ashokamitran's Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (Chennai at a glance), which is now available in English is a masterly survey of the city by the master himself. In classic Ashokamitran style, the book...

Indira Parthasarathy's play Aurangzeb presents the Mughal Emperor from certain chosen perspectives. Like Parthasarathy's other dramatic works, this too is primarily a play of ideas, focusing often on...

These fifteen stories reflect contemporary cultural changes in Indian families. They stand witness to social, political and economic changes in globalized India and are in a way histories told from...

Krishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths of our unconscious. He holds an instant appeal for all of us, young and old,...

[This novel] is a running commentary on the existential journey of one family - a youth in his teens and his father and mother - as they traverse the maze of modern medicine in search of a cure for...

We live as social beings. But our being social includes power structures of various kinds - from the language that we speak and write into the state or anti-state actors that claim to run some of...

Joshi's fiction is animated by his extraordinary sensitivity to the uncanny and inexplicable dimensions of experience that underlie and sometimes infiltrate our lives governed by routines. He has an...

On A River's Bank: Novel (Ratna Translation Series)Author: A. MadhavanPublisher: Ratna BooksPublication Date: Aug 03, 2020Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Appadurai Muttulingam's short stories, translated from Tamil to English, are little jewels packed with many riches. Appadurai's characters take us into the heart of the human condition where love...

Written in a deceptively simple and staccato style, and often with open-ended conclusions, Ghanshyam Desai's short stories are as relevant today as when they were first written. Taken from his story...

Laxmibai Abhyankar's stories are full of hope for the future, also of regret and tragedy. The stories in this collection are set amidst the evolving political dynamics of the late nineteenth and...

Avadhoot Dongare is a young promising Marathi novelist. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, 2014, for Svatahala Faltu Samjanyachi Goshta (The Story of Being Useless). He has a...