Penguin Random House India Private Limited: 83 books

One-sixth of all Indians today live in areas of armed conflict. Seeking solutions, this book is a holistic examination of present armed conflicts as well as the past ones in Punjab and Mizoram, illuminating their common roots, as well as the responses of the state and civil society. The authors show...

Baali and Sugreeva of the Vana Nara tribe were orphan brothers who were born in abject poverty and grew up as slaves like most of their fellow tribesmen. They were often mocked as the vanaras, the monkey men. Sandwiched between the never-ending war between the Deva tribes in the north and the Asura...

Maoist guerillas—always on the move, always on guard—living deep in the jungles of Bastar. Outlawed, demonized and hunted by the state, they are perceived with fear, incomprehension and terror by the outside world. Satnam spent two months in remarkable intimacy with the guerillas: travelling with...

‘Kudrat teri rang-birangee! Oh many-splendoured Creation!’ So went the bhajan Ustad Abdul Karim Khan sang before the saint Tajuddin Baba. The holy man, entranced by the song, clapped his hands and danced. Kumar Prasad Mukherji’s elegy to a vanishing age of musical giants comprises many such...

Shivoham is the trainer behind Aamir Khan's muscular look in Dhoom 3, Sonakshi Sinha's bodacious curves in Dabangg, Jacqueline Fernandez's lean physique and Abhishek Bachchan's fitness. One of India's foremost functional fitness trainers, Shivoham shows you how to work out without any equipment or...

Shanay Bansal, a young and successful entrepreneur, is looking forward to his engagement with Afsana Agarwal. But a few weeks before the engagement, he receives a mysterious voice message from someone from Afsana's past. Curious, Shanay plays the voice message and through those many other such messages,...

A journalist accused of hacking the inbox of a billionaire A company which fought back when it's data was stolen An entrepreneur who fought an international battle to end piracy A hacker who decided to take a start-up hostage by stealing its data Full of riveting stories of hackers, police and corporates,...

There’s you, there’s success and there’s the distance in between. So how do you bridge the gulf? Is hard work all that is needed? Is luck essential? Where can the answers be found? Look within yourself, says Shishir Srivastava, correctly identify the eight powers we all have inside us and make...

Old sins have long shadows. Thakur Ram Prasad’s enchantment with a pair of beautiful eyes triggered a series of events leading to love, anguish and, finally, redemption, which unfolded over four decades and affected the lives of all who were close to him. His daughter, Kaamini, betrayed by the very...

After Vishwamitra and The Legend of Parshu-Raam comes the epic saga of the king of Bharat-varsh! The kingdoms of Nabhi-varsh lie scattered in the wake of Parshu-Raam’s assault on corrupt Kshatriyas. While evil has been wiped out from the land, the important task of nation-building remains. In the...

Set in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, The Diary of Mademoiselle D’Arvers, or Le Journal de Mademoiselle D’Arvers, is a novel of possibilities and limitations; of love, marriage and domesticity, and the heartaches and joys of growing up. Fifteen-year-old Marguerite, fresh...

A brilliant, unsparing novel about divorce and its implications in Indian society. This is the story of Simrit, lost and bewildered as she struggles to cope with the emotional shock of a divorce plus a brutal divorce settlement inflicted on her. Ostracized, victimized and shackled by memories of the...

Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on...

‘Among the thousands of orphaned children adopted after'47 there are a few—less than twenty—who were planted here by Jinnah's men . . .’ At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Colonel Rajan Menon—Raja—knows his best years as a commando are behind him. But he is soon tested as never...