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A little boy growing up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) is brilliant in mathematics. In school, he is forever remembered as the only student to ever score 110 out of 100 in maths! The boy, Satyendranath...

The Jungle Book StoriesAuthor: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: November 10, 2019Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Bombay, 1896. A handsome Indian Prince loses his heart to a European woman of striking beauty. She is staying at the only hotel fit for Europeans- Watson's, in the elite Kala Ghoda area of the city...

In 1896, Mark Twain arrives at the docks of Bombay, wife and daughter in tow, and, after attending a party in his honour, vanishes from his room at the iconic Watson's Hotel in the dead of night...

Spanning over a century, The Lady on the Horse tells the story of five generations of a family in Calcutta. Starting life as a khansama in an Englishman's house in 1900, Dipendra Nath Lahiri dreams...

'Your story has left me gasping. Though I did not remember the ferocious details, I had a fairly strong recollection of the incandescent feelings expressed in it. But I wasn't prepared for the full...

The Legend of Himal and Nagrai: Greatest Kashmiri Folk TalesAuthor: Onaiza DrabuPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: December 10, 2019Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The adventures of two runaway baby sparrows by award-winning author Ranjit Lal. Chiddy and Gouri, two baby sparrows, are bullied mercilessly by their elder siblings. They are so traumatized that they...

This dual travelogue tells the extraordinary story of a maverick's 5000-mile journey on foot from England to India, across the forbidding Arabian desert and the treacherous Hindukush mountains, and...

The Lost HeroineAuthor: Vinu AbrahamPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 178 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9389958423ISBN-13: 9789389958423

'Many playwrights have the courage to be experimental in their formative years, but get caught in a particular form over time. Sathe is one of those rare playwrights who remain passionately...

While answering a distraught call from her friend Sitara, Sita, detective Lalli's niece, discovers a body in an empty flat-a hulking salesman with his head bashed in. However, more than the crime,...

This is a moving story of a Trinidadian-Indian family's beginnings, growth and its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipaul Akal's memoir pays tribute to extraordinary parents: Her father Seepersad...

'One of the most challenging voices in contemporary young adult literature.'--Anthony Horowitz Who is the Other? Is it you? Is it me? Is it all of us? Childhood and teenage years--adults insist they...

Allarmelu took out the sari that belonged to her mother, her mother's mother, and her mother before that. All she wanted now was not a long chain of dead mothers but her mother, alive. She breathed...

Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto's Partition fiction, written after 1948... The Sixth River is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning personal...

A lyrical and gripping read that captures the drama and intrigues in the Mughal empire at the height of its glory. It is 1626, and Jahanara is in Mandu, central India. Her father, Prince Khurram--who...

A glimpse into the heart and mind of a young girl who went on to become an important queen. In the Rajput kingdom of Amber, Jodh Bai, daughter of King Bihari Mal, is now a teenager. Her clan, the...

A selection of the most thrilling detective stories ever written by the master storyteller. Sherlock Holmes, the world's cleverest detective, sets forth in this collection of six extraordinary...

Set against the backdrop of approaching civil war, the story of a young girl's coming of age by one of Nepal's newest, strongest voices writing in English Sumnima Tamule is in a crisis. Her friends...

'A major voice in Indian English literature, and literature from North East India...[Her] poems are like a race of butterflies bargaining with the night.' -Keki Daruwalla 'Dai's poetic world is one...

THE YELLOW SPARROW MEMOIR OF A TRANSGENDERAuthor: Khurai KhuraiPublisher: Speaking Tiger BooksPublication Date: Nov 20, 2023Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

On a stormy night, while thunder rolled and lightning streaked across thesky, Hugh Allen saw a glimpse of a fierce tiger standing in the balcony of hisfarmhouse.Tracking the Pipal Pani tiger for...

'...mummy and I were always fighting about her obsession with faith and ritual...On our yaatras, she would show such deep faith and perform such fevered rituals that the whole exercise would leave me...

Jindo, Malavika Rajkotia's father, arrives in India as the Partition riots erupt. He is given a patch of barren land in small-town Karnal, to clear, cultivate, and resume life as landlord and...

The unnamed narrator in Azeem Baig Chughtai's Vampire-written as a letter to God-is a 16-year-old girl who has just had her nikah ceremony. She dreams of a life of happiness with a loving, handsome...

In 1893, Swami Vivekananda travelled to Chicago to attend the Parliament of World Religions. There, amidst representatives of the various religions of the world, Vivekananda-who grew up in an...

Identity formation in non-western societies involves paradox, as doctrines are frequently overridden by actual practices. The essays in this volume discuss different ways in which identities are...

India has changed. Rehana finds her father's books on medieval history have been 'disappeared' from bookstores and libraries. Her young domestic help, Abdul, discovers it is safer to be called Morari...

A young girl finds herself looking on as her mother listens to the woes of the world, always offering a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to cry on--while harbouring a bitter secret few know of. A woman...