For centuries, the fertile land of five rivers in the north of the Indian subcontinent was covete...

Cyrus Mistry began his writing career as a playwright, freelance journalist and short story write...

Our Living Constitution

The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the Englishused ...

Poignant, witty, melancholic and intense, this is the best of four decades of prose from one of I...

Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas brings together, for the very first time, Ruskin Bond's fa...

The Arts of Seduction is a guide to having great sex in the twenty-first century. It seeks to mak...

Comprising 99 stories, essays, extracts, poems and articles (one for each year of his life), the ...

In this landmark book, bestselling author, leadership coach and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik sho...

A wildly original and humorous account of growing up as an Indian woman. Unladylike is a memoir t...

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Arun Ferreira is from the East Indian community, the original Mumbaikars, whose villages became t...

A ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is beginning to sweep through urban India. T...

Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the action takes place in the Northeast-the region that spread...

Autobiography of the almost blind Indian pen and ink drawing painter who also writes fiction.

It is the late 1990s, a few years into constitutional democracy in Nepal, and the government has ...

Nearly one in every twelve humans is a young Indian for whom meaningful education is of critical ...

During the chaos of partition in 1947, something dreadful happened in the city of Jalandhar in Pu...

Lucknow's famous Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb-a melding together of influences-is seen in its art, archit...

M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2004), who was popularly known as MS, was one of India's greatest classi...

When his queen, Arjumand Banu - Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace - died, Shah Jahan w...

Author, critic, and translator M. ASADUDDIN writes on syncretic cultural traditions in India, lit...

Six and a third Acres was the first modern Odia novel, and has remained at the heart of Odin lite...

In June 2001, the king of Nepal and almost his entire family were massacred. Unrest, simmering ov...

The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have severely limited the portrayal...

In the early years of the twentieth century, Calcutta is grappling with deadly diseases such as t...

Rupi birthed her eldest son squatting in the middle of a paddy field, shin-deep in mud and slush....

For thousands of years, the Indian subcontinent has proved a fertile ground for the world's most ...

We lose it. We gain it. We hate it. We hide it. We shame it. We suck it in and we even suck it ou...

Indian food is one of the world's most popular cuisines. Even as it has transformed the contempor...

We do not know what to do with one of our most precious resources, solitude, and so we fill it up...

Comprising 99 stories, essays, extracts, poems and articles (one for each year of his life), the ...

In this book, read three stories from Shiva's adventure-filled life. Find out the tale behind the...

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The tiger has captured the imagination of human beings from the beginning of recorded history. It...

'Thapa explores disparate lives in contemporary Nepal, and weaves them into compact, jewel-bright...

In the sequel to her critically acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Wildings, Nilanjana Roy takes u...

If Ernest Hemingway were to write about ecology and nature, he would have written like Krishnan. ...

A fanatical collector of beetles finds out too late where his passion has led him. A woman out on...

Shilappadikaram or the Ankle Bracelet is one of the five major epics of Tamil literature. It was ...

The Hindi short story is one of the most exciting genres in modern Indian literature. Thefifteen ...

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One Who Serves Becomes the Master' collects together timeless lessons from Hazrat Nizamuddin on l...

The essays in On Citizenship provide the reader with clear, informed, compelling insights into th...

Every community, tribe, and sub-community in India has its own ghosts. For centuries, the spirit ...

In this book, Madhu Kailas presents the poet's engagement with art and creative liberation throug...

Mirabai is a legendary literary and spiritual figure. Born a princess in Rajasthan in 1498, Mira ...

The first translation into English of a beloved medieval Indo-Persian epic, The Adventures of Ami...