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If I were a country and you my journalist I would have shot you down a street and left you to bleed.Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverberations of...
A pithy and momentous collection of essays on caste–equality struggles in Tamil Nadu by scholar and social activist Na. Vanamamalai Offering a meticulous exploration of Tamil Nadu's intricate caste dynamics, Na. Vanamamalai's pivotal work unveils the endeavours of...
"Life is perfectly peaceful for the Mehtas. Kalyani Mehta's homestay by the sea is a little garden of Eden where she, her retired occultist husband and feckless, unemployed son live happy, dysfunctional lives.Enter snake. Bobby Chander, a billionaire NRI, makes a bid...
'Women are born in survival mode. Their job, they are told, is to love. But what is this love they neither know nor see – this illiquid, no-return-on-investment, invisible land they must buy with all their soul money?'Lilith. Wild, untameable Lilith. She is the...
Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching...
India's longest-running record book completing 34 yearsFEATS OF EXTRAORDINARY TENACITYSTORIES OF STUNNING PERFORMANCESTRIUMPHS OF NEVER-SAY-DIE ACHIEVERSIndia's most comprehensive book of records captures the country's stellar achievements in human endeavour,...
Somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas, a sixty-two-year-old English painter falls off his sketching stool. Overweight, asthmatic and prone to attacks of epilepsy, Edward Lear is nevertheless on a mission – to paint the mighty Kanchenjunga for his patron, the...
Madam 'Maddy' Sen returns to India from the US, hoping to jumpstart her life by offering an exclusive women's-only taxi service in grimy, chaotic New Delhi.Then a brutal eviction turns her life inside out. A stranger makes a tantalizing offer. A new home with new...
Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and...
BIBLIOPHILIA: A perfectly acceptable addiction marked by obsessive reading, aggressive book-sniffing and strategic hoarding.For as long as Ferose, a San Francisco-based techie and 'gently mad' bibliophile, has understood books, he has devoured them with the unmitigated...
"Did You know? The urban population during Akbar's rule had exceeded the urban population of the entire Europe of that time!By 1500 CE, the city of Hampi was the world's second-largest medieval-era city after Beijing. Dholavira, the Harappan desert city, adopted highly...
"Bitter rivals.Reluctant colleagues. Tormented ex-lovers. Myra Rai is living her best life. At twenty-eight, she is a prominent journalist at the precipice of dreamy success and her dating life is the envy of the town. After all, jealous heads stir to probe her almost...
"The world economy was still reeling from the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck like a bolt of lightning in late 2019. Whatever remained of the neoliberal credo - based on the salience of free markets - was upended, and economic...
While extensive research has been carried out to study the gut microbiome - a collection of 100 trillion bacteria residing in the gut - completely understanding its impact on our overall health is still a medical mystery.Heal Thy Gut enables its readers to understand...
An elegant and thorough examination of the riches of Sangam poetryIn this acclaimed comparative study, K. Kailasapathy, the celebrated Sri Lankan academic and critic, introduces and interprets ancient Tamil poems and examines the stylistic heritage, themes and motifs...
Life in Sialkot goes on with a hum, until the fateful news arrives, like smoke it lingers and begins to settle into homes that have sheltered generations. Within days reality dawns, terrible passions are unleashed, and lives are rent asunder. In Chaman Nahal's intense...
Hurtling towards a midlife crisis, Amirtham is down - but not out. Caught in a sorry vortex of self-denial and what-could-have-been, the discontented government official wants to do the impossible - be young again. Having decided that his marriage is sparkless and his...
A layered portraiture of Dalit oppression and ruthless hierarchies in 1980s OdishaSet against the bucolic landscape of undivided Sambalpur, the play follows five Bajnias - professional rural folk performers - whose lives are pushed into a corner by poverty, social...
Breaking the constraints of style and imagery central to classical Tamil literature, Mahakavi C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) heralded a new era for the language by making it simpler, thereby encouraging a wider readership. His prodigious contribution to the writings...
Two decades after India's resounding victory at Kargil, stories and accounts of the war continue to be narrated with immense pride. Yet, one pertinent perspective has been largely overlooked - that of the army wives. In this remarkable book, Shikha Akhilesh Saxena, wife...
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