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There's no dearth of references to a sense of kinship beyond one's family or tribe in ancient Indian texts. We know from anecdotes in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Upanishads and epigraphic...

Since he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And some of the most rewarding and lasting friendships he has known have been with animals, birds and plants-big and small; outgoing and...

'A wonderfully evocative book on Delhi and its food combining decades of scholarship with personal experiences and memoriesby one of our greatest food writers.'-Vir Sanghvi, journalist and author,...

Nothing, they say, focuses the mind as clearly as the prospect of a hanging. But the prospect of a sacking from your first job must surely be a close second. When the unnamed protagonist of this...

Retired Colonel Gautam Shukla's quiet life in the Kumaon Himalayas is rudely disrupted when his estate manager is attacked by a bunch of thugs under the leadership of the mysterious and sinister...

'A missile in the anti-Hindi war.'-M.K. Stalin The massive and uncompromising opposition to the repeated attempts to impose one language-Hindi-on the country has a long tradition in Tamil Nadu...

In this monograph, one of India's leading, most committed political and human rights activists examines how women's safety, dignity and security have been undermined in the decade since the Hindu...

Description When Swadesh Deepak-celebrated Hindi playwright and short-story writer- arrives at PGI, Chandigarh, after having tried to set himself on fire, the doctors don't know if he belongs in the...

While returning from New Delhi, Sita, detective Lalli's niece and trusted sidekick, runs into former classmate Anais at the Mumbai airport. They catch up and Anais, before disappearing into the...

Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents--her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of...

'There is nothing to keep me here, Only these mountains of silence And the gentle reserve of shepherds and woodmen Who know me as one who Walks among trees.' One of India's finest and most popular...

Immunity is a vast and confusing universe that we have been flung into in recent times by the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is one portion of this universe that is a quiet oasis, where immunity is...

An intrepid traveller and a true cosmopolitan, the legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali from Sylhet (in erstwhile East Bengal, now Bangladesh) spent a year and a half teaching in Kabul from 1927...

'We have no affiliation with any political party and are, instead, committed to the values enshrined in the Constitution and the judicial process that is protected by it.' Almost 25 years into the...

In her first book of poems, science and fiction writer Kamla Dutt shows us the landscapes of longing and memory-the geographies of love, nostalgia, regret and consolation. With extraordinary...

Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) was brought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age of twelve in the chawls of Mumbai. He grew up in the...

Novelist, intrepid traveller, barrister-at-law, newspaper editor and uninhibited gossip, John Lang lived for a number of years in pre- and post-Mutiny British India, and his writings constitute some...

In 1927, when Irawati Karve, aged twenty-two, arrived in Berlin to do her doctoral studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, she was faced with a dilemma. As a woman of colour, the subject of her...

Durgacharan Rakshit (1854-1938) was a scholar and a business owner. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, he set out on an unprecedented set of travels that took him to nearly all corners of India...

Kautik is prepared to work herself to the bone to feed her husband Mahadev and children Bhima, Nama and Yasodi. She not only drives herself hard, but drives them too, her only concern being that they...

Much of what we know about the everyday life of the British Raj comes from Rudyard Kipling, one of the keenest observers of nineteenth century India. He is at his best when writing about the men and...

Few societies in the 19th and early 20th centuries remained untouched by theradical new idea of liberty, which implied both individual freedom and freedomfrom despotic rule. The leaders of India's...

'He is just a boy, frightened, wounded and bleeding, in need of food and shelter. It would be inhuman to hand him over to the cops, ' thinks the narrator in the story 'Dead-end'. Unless...could he be...

Locking Down the PoorAuthor: Harsh ManderPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: January 01, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9389958776ISBN-13:...

Where we go is usually decided spontaneously; one of us might say, 'Let's do a wine trip in France;' or 'We should go to Angkor before it's overrun by tourists'... The main thing is--we all love...

A storm batters a hillside farmstead through the night, and the family living in it debates its decision to give up the comforts of Darjeeling town for the pride of owning land. Ancient law allows...

This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its...

Author: Debotri DharPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: Aug 01, 2020Number of Pages: 234 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9389958326ISBN-13: 9789389958324

Using the legendary love story of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni and his Turkish slave-cum-lover Ayaz as the backdrop, Mahmud and Ayaz, set in contemporary Mumbai, tells the story of a young, casually...

'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all, ' write the editorsof this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of India's great metropolis, theMaya Nagari, the city of dreams,...