Speaking Tiger Books imprint: 118 books
The Valley of Flowers
An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
‘The predominant note was peace; not the faintest breeze ruffled the herbage and the silence was the silence of a vast ocean utterly calm, though always the sounds of the streams came to the ear as a soft, almost imperceptible cadence.’
In 1931, a party of British mountaineers—including...
A Thousand Yearnings
A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic poetry. For others, it brings to mind the gritty prose of the Progressive Writers portraying the grim...
by Sudhin N. Ghose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In the Penhari Parganas, a district in pre-Independence Bengal, a young man prepares to leave for Calcutta. Amidst apprehensions, and warnings about the perils of the big city, he revisits his adolescence—his search for a profession among carpenters, watch-repairers and potters, all of whom advise...
by Sudhin N. Ghose
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
*‘[Myna] … moved as though sustained by invisible wings attached to her feet. Her whole frame glowed like an incandescent bronze figure. And I recalled that Myna’s name before she became a *kirtani was the Flame-of-the-Forest ...’
A young scholar in post-Independence Calcutta finds...
Azadi's Daughter, A Memoir
Being a Secular Muslim in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
A fascinating account of an audacious woman’s journey and a rapidly vanishing way of life, *Azadi's Daughter *is both a personal memoir and a political commentary. Journalist Seema Mustafa writes evocatively of the secular, pluralist India of the 1960s and ’70s, chronicling her life as a Muslim...
Running Away from Elephants
The Adventures of a Wildlife Biologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
‘The memoirs of a self-confessed maverick wildlife biologist, full of fascinating information, and stories told with Rauf’s inimitable caustic humour. A must for wildlife lovers and all who enjoy a unique read.’—Mark Tully
Beginning with his interactions with Dr Salim Ali, the legendary...
The Ballad of Bant Singh
A Qissa of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
On the evening of 5th January 2006, Bant Singh, a Dalit agrarian labourer and activist in Punjab’s Jhabar village, was ambushed and brutally beaten by upper-caste Jat men armed with iron rods and axes. He lost both his arms and a leg in the attack. It was punishment for having fought for justice...
Murder in the City
Twelve Incredible Case Files of the Kolkata Police
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
‘A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.’—Sourav Ganguly, cricketer
Brother kills brother using the plague bacteria as a murder weapon.
A man is killed in his sleep and his...
Intimacy Undone
Marriage, Divorce and Family Law In India
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A leading expert in Indian family law and one of India’s most successful and respected divorce lawyers, Malavika Rajkotia has seen the drama of marriages coming undone at close quarters—the effects of infidelity, jealousy, domestic violence, property disputes and the end of love and compatibility....
The Exodus is Not Over
Migrations from the Ruptured Homelands of Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of India to seek a better life in the towns and cities of mainland India and further abroad. Some find themselves working amidst the unimaginable opulence of...
Nehru's India
Essays on the Maker of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
For much of the country's post-Independence history, Indian politics was dominated by a single towering figure: Jawaharlal Nehru. A leading figure of the Independence movement, and Mahatma Gandhi's chosen successor, Nehru, as India's first prime minister, from 1947 until his death in 1964, was the...
Sinbad the Sailor
And Other Arabian Nights Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The thrilling adventures of Sinbad the sailor, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Princess Periezade—from the unforgettable 1001 Arabian Nights.
Princess Scheherazade’s tales of the Arabian Nights, composed over ten centuries ago, have captivated the imagination of generations of readers....
by Omair Ahmad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he speaks are, 'My name is Jimmy the Terrorist.' Journalists descend upon the town 'like shrill birds', and a long-time resident decides to tell a story...
by Neel Kamal Puri
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In Ludhiana in the 1990s, everyone is waiting for life to be normal again. The Punjab insurgency has ended, and the city is trying to emerge from the shadow of the gun. Tejpal hopes to outrun the murderous mob that began chasing him in his dreams in the winter of 1984. Mr Bakshi is, once more, throwing...