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If there was anything our neighbours envied us, it was our thinnais.The working-class district of Kurusukuppam is not the Pondicherry of tourist brochures. Here, residents are a bewildering mix of Creoles, colonial war veterans, proud communists and French citizens who...
The inspiration behind the smash-hit Netflix series.Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc and first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. Arsène...
THE INSPIRATION BEHINDTHE SMASH-HIT NETFLIX SERIES, LUPIN.An enemy to the rich; a friend to the poor - Arsène Lupin will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants. One of the best tropes of the gentleman thief and master of disguise, these tales of derring-do sparkle...
Fated to do and to die,only to remember,then forget -why try?Mrs S. Pankajam has always lived two lives: one of ordinary fulfilment in her experiences as a wife to her husband and a mother to her two daughters, and the other a life of desires and sharp observations that...
ARE...YOU...READY FOR A FANTASTIC FLASHBACK FOODVENTURE? Have you ever wondered what the first meal was on the moon, or the last one on the Titanic? Was a stuffed turkey actually part of the first Thanksgiving dinner, and did Queen Marie Antoinette really say, 'Let them...
It is 1744, and Nicholas Ballantyne, a young Scotsman dreaming of a life as laird of his ancestral estate finds himself quite unexpectedly on the Winchester, a ship bound for Hindustan, seeking to begin a new life as a ‘writer’ on the rolls of the British East India...
'There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient India, but those we have yield a rich tapestry.'The oldest surviving love graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that...
In the old city of Peshawar, past the busy markets of Munda Beri, live the Durranis. Descendants of the men who once ruled Afghanistan, they now survive on the trappings of former glory. Here, the Durrani daughters – vain, clever Maagul; quiet, dutiful Bibigul;...
‘Bhagwan is God, and…the disciples of God cannot be made to submit to any of the laws established for ordinary human beings. To attain our goal, everything is permitted.’ – Kristina Koppel, Rajneesh disciple arrested for international drug smuggling One of the most...
From fatal heatwaves and cruel droughts to devastating floods and fast-depleting water tables, climate change is the greatest disruptor of our time – and it can no longer be ignored. For most of us the odds seem overwhelming and solutions seem out of reach. Yet, in...
‘Two shall come by the path of the swan, From the world of men in the fourth age – So shall the word be manifest again. So shall the vessel of truth, The Maitreya, come to be born in the world of men.’ Thus have the ancients of the divine kingdom of Shambala...
How can you bring your best and most successful self to work every day? Told in a series of conversations with Gautam, and interspersed with tales from the Buddha’s life – along with real-life stories from people who’ve faced challenging situations in their jobs –...
KASHMIR, 1997. A group of deadly terrorists from the notorious Hizbul Mujahideen has infiltrated the Indian border from Pakistan. Their mission: to transfer funds for a massive terror strike on Mumbai. It is a mission they plan to execute at all costs – even as India’s...
Tavleen Singh’s acclaimed and bestselling memoir begins in the summer of 1975 when, not yet twenty-five, she started working as a junior reporter in the Statesman in New Delhi. Within five weeks, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency, and soon reckless...
It takes a fearless mind to harbour such a dark heart, a heart that knows no nobility, no apology… Mumbai, April 2012. The gruesome murder of a senior citizen in a wealthy Mumbai neighbourhood leads the city’s Crime Branch to unearth several half-naked, mutilated and...
RUINS A COUNTRY PICKING UP THE PIECES, A FAMILY AMONG THE RUINS. In the restless streets, crowded waiting rooms and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war. Latha...
FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY VIVEK NARAYANAN: ‘Dom Moraes, in the 1970s, quite aptly called Land’s End (1962), [Jussawalla’s debut book of poems], “one of the most brilliant first books since the war”… For decades, although the poet wrote regularly for newspapers and...
‘Main Shakeel Bhai bol raha hoon. Farmaiyen, Sheelaji!’ Among the first female journalists in India to investigate crime and the underworld, Sheela Raval has had an eventful three-decade-long career in print media and television that has seen her track India’s most...
• Written by prominent Indian poet Meena Alexander, author of acclaimed memoir Fault Lines. • Deals with themes of migration, conflict , war, and women’s issues. • For the readers of Phantom Camera, Songs of Kabir. • First title in the ‘Hachette Poetry Series’, that...
MISSION DEAD AS A DODO Mission Brief: Somebody is on an extinction operation, stealing all the last specimens of highly endangered species. This mysterious crook has somehow managed to discover the impossible – a living specimen of Raphus cucullatus, aka, the dodo. Yes,...
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