'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story.'-Salman RushdieOriginally published in 1...

'This sensitive novel explores the fallout of the agrarian crisis, especially in Maharashtra, whe...

12-century saint-poet Allama Prabhu, along with Basavanna and Akka Mahadevi, was a founder of the...

A storm batters a hillside farmstead through the night, and the family living in it debates its d...

'[Myna] … moved as though sustained by invisible wings attached to her feet. Her whole fra...

In 1874, the brilliant civil engineer Sarat Chandra Das was recruited by the British as a spy in ...

A fascinating account of an audacious woman's journey and a rapidly vanishing way of life, Azadi'...

'A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world ...

The Drunk Bird Chronicles

'Framed As a Terrorist' is the harrowing and heart-rending narrative of an ordinary young Indian ...

In this timely and comprehensive book, a professional with rare experience in policy making remin...

'…It looks like the rhythm of Shivapura life is upset. Even the seasons don't keep time. T...

New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire.In its meticulous urban pla...

A glimpse into the heart and mind of a young girl who went on to become an important queen. In th...

'This brave and timely book should be required reading for every Indian.'-Nayantara SahgalIn this...

'He was living once more in those far-away days that had begun with such happiness, only to end i...

DescriptionBound by the need for breath We lie on beds of foaming rubber. But the room is filled ...

In the Penhari Parganas, a district in pre-Independence Bengal, a young man prepares to leave for...

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics such as Kidnapped and Treasure Island, embark...

A timeless tale of friendship and adventure.When Peter Pan and his friend Tinker Bell come to vis...

Description I want a poem like thick tropical rain. Dense green spatter of syllables, Drumbeat co...

In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, 'Em and the Big Hoom', which drew upon his experi...

As soon as the door opened a crack, Mishti's nose appeared and then Mishti, pushing her way in, s...

A thrilling subterranean adventure filled with startling and strange discoveriesWhen Professor Ot...

'Your story has left me gasping. Though I did not remember the ferocious details, I had a fairly ...

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victor...

'The essays in Uncertain Journeys: Labour Migration from South Asia document the price people pay...

Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto's Partition fic...

'I have become like a zombie, like a sleepwalker. And everything appears to be like a bad dream&h...

'Gloriously provocative…fearless in her writing and acute about female sexuality in a way ...

A relevant and stirring story for our times-about who we love and who we help. Umi, Anshu, Lavina...

Novelist, intrepid traveller, barrister-at-law, newspaper editor and uninhibited gossip, John Lan...

Is Jwala Kumar a bird? A bat? A chameleon? Or is he something no one has ever seen before? And di...

Little Women (Introduction by Shabnam Minwalla)

'Mrs Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her children under the care of the serva...

Over the course of two intense years Swati Sengupta spoke to dozens of surrendered Maoist soldier...

In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar's poorest villages dug up a long-bur...

'Like Eat, Pray, Love but with more heart…dazzlingly romantic and yet still very real; a u...

A timely and wide-ranging anthology that brings together reports from the various battlefields of...

DescriptionIn early 2020 the first cases of Covid-19 infection were confirmed in India, and on 24...

A stunning, unusual story of jealousy and desire, of love lost and found againA man comes home to...

A collection of writings by an incandescent and gloriously eclectic intellectual of contemporary ...

'Where can one find the Mahabharata? The facile answer is 'India'.'A chance comment in 1974 fired...

'The story of India's most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant repor...

'One of the most challenging voices in contemporary young adult literature.'-Anthony HorowitzWho ...

'Sumana Roy is one of the most original writers in Indian English today, whose writing easily sli...

On the evening of 5th January 2006, Bant Singh, a Dalit agrarian labourer and activist in Punjab'...

'It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. ...