Orient Blackswan Private Limited: 195 books

Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the  child acquires a scientific temperament — there must...

Open Sesame contains activities, games, stories, experiments and graph work which make learning practical and enjoyable.  Books 3, 4 and 5 cover the science syllabus for classes (grades) 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

Crocodile Fever is at once a travelogue, a fascinating adventure story and an authentic record of little-known information about the wildlife and the people of Papua New Guinea. It records the two years the authors spent in Papua New Guinea and describes their incredible, moving and sometimes hilarious...

The CSG Advertising Agency in Calcutta is home and source of some of the strangest happenings east of Suez. The Receptionist’s husband knows her most colourful secret. But why was the scarlet typewriter assassinated? What was the Genie in the Bottle? And who was the deadliest passion of the super model...

This book, originally called Oru Kadalore Kiramathin Kathai, deals with the fall of feudalism as the forces of modernity advance and their presence felt even in a small and obscure village. It is the story of a landlord in Travancore, whose villagers rebel against his tyrannical rule.Thoppil Mohammed...

If the presence of Ayurveda in modern times invites surprise, its renewed vigour in the age of globalisation gives rise both to romantic celebration and incredulous hostility. This kind of response suggests that our understanding of modern Ayurveda has not kept pace with the growth of the phenomenon...

A tiny lynx cub with no mother. A wise monk in an ancient monastery. A destiny to be fulfilled. A perilous journey across the Himalayas. A battle against time to save the cub's life. A firm friendship between two boys, worlds apart, united by their love of animals. Based on a true story and set in Tibet...

This thirty-eighth volume of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India is devoted to the Indian Sign Language (ISL), the language of the Deaf in India. The articles in the volume are divided into four parts. The first discusses both its formal linguistic and ‘orthographic’ features; the second...

In the stories where the Mahabharata speaks of life, women occupy a central place. In living what life brings to them, the women of the Mahabharata show, that the truth in which one must live, is however, not a simple thing; nor can there be any one absolute statement about it. Each one of them, in her...

Outside, the palm trees wail, with the wild monsoon wind in their hair. In her hospital bed, Rita lies still, her ears tuned to the wind. Recovering from her breakdown,she sifts through seasons full of memories - of her self-absorbed, critical parents; her demanding role as family breadwinner from the...

Based on a workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture is an attempt to rethink aspects of the literary histories of these two languages.Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, literary...

“ In poetry, Charmayne may go on to making herself more than she is, in terms of that gift. The combination of modesty and pride, can lead to appropriate aspiration, higher aims, difficult themes, a wider range of explorations,…”

Goa features in academic and popular discourse as a place of exceptions, contrary in several ways to national trends. Along with its small geographical size, Goa’s legacy of Portuguese colonialism is often cited as the leading reason behind its character. However, such explanations disregard its complex...

Peculiar People, Amazing Lives sets out to challenge the widely held and deeply ingrained perception that people affected by leprosy are victims of the most terrible scourge imaginable. The experiences of those living in Bethany—a self-established leprosy community in South India—tell rather different,...