Speaking Tiger Books

Over at least two millennia, Delhi has witnessed several kingdoms and empires come and go, and has been enriched by each one of them. Their imprint survives to this day in the modern metropolis-most...

Author: Mahfud IkhwanPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: Dec 06, 2024Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9354478948ISBN-13: 9789354478949

'[Syeda Hameed] has spent her life working for the poorest, forwomen and for secularism. I witnessed her work for ten years asMember, Planning Commission. Her story opens new vistas and anew vision...

Author: Shazaf Fatima HaiderPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: April 10, 2018Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9387693546ISBN-13: 9789387693548

This third volume in Harbans Singh's important and insightful trilogy on modern Jammu and Kashmir examines the period from 1975, when Sheikh Abdullah returned to active politics, after the...

The finest non-fiction by Ruskin Bond, a singular writer who has inspired and comforted three generations of readers, collected in a single volume. A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and...

Back in the 1940s, when Mumbai was still Bombay, the twin urban villages of Kevni-Amboli were home to a lively Catholic community--predominantly East Indian, but also Anglo-Indian, Goan and...

Centuries pass and the world changes, but many of the qualities that make acharismatic and effective leader do not. The life of Akbar, the great Mughal, stands out for its capacity to guide today's...

The year is 1556 CE. Humayun has died, and his thirteen-year-old son and heir, Akbar, must battle to save his throne, even as a drought devastates the northern plains. Against this backdrop, an old...

Prince Ashoka is one of the many heirs to the mighty Mauryan empire, ruled by his father Emperor Bindusara. Disillusioned by the trappings of power, he has given up his position as the crown prince,...

In this collection of posthumously published writings, Maria Aurora Couto, celebrated for her literary prowess and cultural advocacy, offers an unparalleled exploration of Goa. The distinguished...

'C.P. Surendran bears witness to...what James Agee memorably described as "the cruel radiance of what is." Anyone who looks directly at that "cruel radiance" is very likely to be wounded; for the...

The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta caused a sensation when it first appeared, in Marathi, in 1978. It quickly acquired the status of a classic of modern Indian literature and was...

A timely and wide-ranging anthology that brings together reports from the various battlefields of present-day India where marginalized groups--dalits, adivasis, workers, minority communities--and...

Beyond The Heaven-Born Service: My Journey From The IAS to PhilanthropyAuthor: Pushpa SundarPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: 45638Number of Pages: 314 pagesBinding: Biography &...

For ten years, from 1998 to 2008, Akshaya Bahibala was in the grip of bhang, of ganja-drinking it, smoking it, experiencing the highs and lows of anaddict on Puri's beaches with hippies, backpackers...

On the 35th anniversary of the anti-Sikh carnage of 1984, this unprecedented collection brings together the voices of survivors, writers, poets and activists to record the systematic violence, rape...

What would happen if one did steal, commit adultery, covet one's neighbour's goods, even murder...and break all the rules we were taught to live by? Each story in this first-of-its-kind collection...

In a sleepy village in Goa, a child grows up in a house whose windows are never opened. The door is often locked as well, and no visitors ever come by to meet the family. Vipin Parob has a strange...

Kabir is believed to have been a weaver who lived in Varanasi sometime during the fifteenth century. Beyond these facts, very little is known about him. Yet, irrespective of his true historical...

In an unnamed town lives Nena-surely one of the world's greatest eccentrics.Water burns her skin, to the extent that she can neither drink it nor bathe in it;she survives on 'water capsules' and does...

'If you live in the hills of India, it is only a matter of time before you meet a ghost...' Vintage storyteller Ruskin Bond has created some unforgettable characters in his novels and stories, but...

Connaught Place and the Making of New DelhiAuthor: Swapna LiddlePublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: November 10, 2018Number of Pages: 190 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

K.K. Kochu's life and work, as both a writer and social activist, challenges dominant narratives-of the Congress as well as the Communists-that exclude the Dalit experience. Among his most...

A woman's ghost comes calling for her devoted husband; an amulet hastily given to a British officer saves him from a man-eating tiger; a happily married young woman finds herself reminiscing about...

Author: Timeri N MurariPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: May 10, 2019Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9388874668ISBN-13: 9789388874663

Description When they first met in 2002 at a literary festival, Nayantara Sahgal was a veteran of more than twenty books; her debut work, the memoir Prison and Chocolate Cake, was published in 1954...

Kashish Asif, a popular Instagrammer, navigates life at 18, accompanied by her widowed father, and occasionally present older sister. As her witty reels earn her a large following, she falls into an...

When a sudden cerebral attack left 22-year-old Payal Kapoor permanently blind, she went overnight from being a happy young girl to a physically and emotionally disabled person. Her desire to be a...

'Framed As a Terrorist' is the harrowing and heart-rending narrative of an ordinary young Indian man, from the by-lanes of Old Delhi, who was kidnapped by the police, falsely accused of being a...