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'ABOUT LOVE AND IRRATIONAL COURAGE' - Rajmohan GandhiWhen Jo Chopra McGowan, an American woman living in India, adopts baby Moy Moy - born with multiple disabilities and given little chance of survival - she could not have foreseen how completely their lives would...
A PROFOUND REFLECTION ON THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS, DESIRE AND DECAYOne night, a boy glimpses a dragon slipping into his bedroom - or thinks he does. The image lingers, strange and unshaken, like a riddle with no beginning and no end. Nearly two decades...
A stunning visual view of the evolution of style in India, this spectacular volume traverses an incredible breadth of history, offering a panoramic view of the defining moments - the cultural factors, historical compulsions and mystical concepts - that have intersected...
The 1940s witnessed the scripting of an origin story that would go down in the books. A young man was signed on by Guru Dutt as assistant director after eager assurances of his competency in Hindi, a white lie that was soon unmasked. This was Raj Khosla, an aspiring...
Spearheaded by Drs Tandon and Hall, this book emerges from the Mentor Training Program (MTP) linked to the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research, reflecting over fifty years of dedicated work in participatory research.With 170 mentors trained and a reach of 15,000...
A thrilling, interactive journey through crime, mystery, and forbidden passions.Narrated by characters who have either been killed or taken their own lives, each chapter unveils a new perspective, revealing the dark connections between murder, suicide, and the hidden...
What makes a city uniquely itself?Is it its geography, history, location?Is it its leaders, aspirations, demographics?Or is it a palpable spirit, wrought of a combination of all these, that seeps intothe soil over centuries, and charges the air, infecting residents and...
After years of being married to an overbearing wife and wading through life pretending to be half-dead, Gajanan Godbole has finally found himself alone and, most importantly, free. Courtesy COVID. Lucky to have survived the pandemic by the skin of his teeth, Gajanan...
Be very afraid. Thirteen stories of revenge.These women are mad as hell, bloodthirsty. And they are coming for you. A sixty-something woman finds unexpected love; another abducts her nephew; a writer strikes a deal with the devil - each story bares its fangs. Startling,...
The year is 1904 and there's a storm brewing on the horizon... Nothing ever disturbs the quaint idyll of the village Rajapur. That is, until one day, a young widow is discovered bludgeoned to death, flies swarming over her corpse.Called in to investigate, Bansidhar, the...
Desperate for survival in the rude city, Rita is fortunate to get hired as a household help by a retired diplomat. At that moment, Arijit Basu does not know that she is an undocumented migrant. Convulsed by a marauding tide of events, the two are reduced to wrecks....
Only two months to freedom. A jigsaw of around 565* princely states.At the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, India could emerge as a united nation. Or disintegrate into several pieces.On 3 June 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, makes a historic...
In the shadows of their turbulent pasts, three women made of the light find their destinies intertwined. Noor, a fallen angel, is condemned to an eternal existence on Earth, forever fleeing from the hounds of hell and creatures of the netherworld. Rani, a once-vain...
A train filled with light wound through the city. I too wanted to get on that moving island of light and travel...In Shahina Rafiq's carefully crafted stories, women fantasize about genies as well as murders, dive into hidden worlds, and seek to wrest control of their...
Six desperate Words.Two fearless Speakers. One audacious quest to reclaim the truth, if such a thing can still be found. In a world where you must pay a price to speak, Speakers have to buy words to use them. At the click of a button, the flesh-and-ink Words at a...
Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and exploitation within a family. A petty conman attempts to feed his desperately sick children. A poet and a writer walk around...
A postman struggles to deliver the last letter on his last day of work.A prostitute elopes with the auto rickshaw driver who arranged clients for her. An inspector discovers the dead body of the boy he had an altercation with the previous evening.In seven riveting...
Sometimes, home is a place between longings for the past and the allure of the future...Soon-to-be empty-nester Gayatri Trivedi has found herself at a crossroads: her only son is off to the land of excessive pizza and cola, her husband remains indifferent to her...
A lyrical, luminous offering from the pioneer of Punjabi novel writing and Sahitya Akademi‐awardee Nanak SinghWhen a ticket officer apprehends a ticketless traveller at the Amritsar Railway Station, he is shocked to discover that the penniless young man in tattered...
An Engaging Compilation of Perspectives on Climate Activism The impassioned essays, noteworthy profiles and first-person narratives in this anthology champion grassroots and global environmental movements that have persuaded policymakers and mobilized communities to...
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