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The Fortunate Tiger and Other Close Encounters
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Fortunate Tiger and Other Close Encounters selects the most thrilling adventures of Jim Corbett of Kumaon, legendary hunter and author.
Corbett, who bagged his first leopard at ten, with a rifle won in a marksmanship competition, ranged far and wide across Kumaon and Garhwal for much of...
by Easterine Kire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
After losing all his family in a terrible famine, a man leaves his village with just the clothes on his back, never once looking back. For endless miles he walks through a landscape as desolate as his heart. Until two ancient women who have waited for rain for four hundred years lead him to the Village...
The Hunter's Friends
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Jim Corbett, ace hunter and inimitable raconteur, was also a gifted observer, not just of the jungle but also of the people around him. In the seventeen sketches included in The Hunter’s Friends, readers will meet the men and women Corbett lived, hunted and worked with, both in Kumaon—Corbett’s...
Dispossessed
Stories from India's Margins
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar’s poorest villages dug up a long-buried dead goat, cooked and ate it. Sixteen people died within days, twelve of them children.
Bengali-speaking Muslims who had moved to Rajasthan from West Bengal in the 1970s and ’80s were summarily...
A Night with a Black Spider
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
‘Since she was valorous, she said she was a man, and since Mahishan was speaking of love, he was feminine... If she was a combination of feminine and masculine qualities, why could he too not be a combination of the masculine and feminine?’
Setting the stage with the Asura Mahishan’s...
by Manoj Kumar Panda
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
‘It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. “Here she is, your Lara. Take her.” The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.’
A man sits before his wife lying...
East of Suez
Stories of Love, Betrayal and Haunting from the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
A woman’s ghost comes calling for her devoted husband; an amulet hastily given to a British officer saves him from a man-eating tiger; a happily married young woman finds herself reminiscing about someone lost for ever; an ayah sings lullabies to her imaginary charge; and an obnoxious self-made...
The Assassinations
A Novel of 1984
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
To Deepa, Prem gave no hint of the churning inside him. In front of her he affected a cheery demeanour, indulging her in her plans for their honeymoon, which she kept revising. It was a welcome escape from the mayhem surrounding him. There were occasions where the pretence got to him and a voice rose...
On Your Marks
The Book of Crazy Exam Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
When exams drive you crazy and books and studies are all everyone seems to talk about, it is time to pick up this book.
Did Early Man and Woman make their children take fastest-firemaker-first exams? What happens when a gorilla gatecrashes the examination hall and asks difficult Gorilla Pythagoras...
Himalaya
Adventures, Meditations, Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which to test themselves. Others find refuge and tranquility in the mountains, a place where they can seek their selves, perhaps even God. And over millennia, the mountains have cradled civilization itself and nurtured teeming, irrepressible life.
With...
On My Terms
From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Sharad Pawar is one of India’s key public figures. Through his five- decade-long career, during which he has never lost an election, he has served as chief minister of Maharashtra four times and as India’s defence minister and minister for agriculture. On two occasions he came close to becoming...
The Elephant in the Temple
Tales of Beast and Man in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and...
A Time for all Things
Collected Essays and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
The finest non-fiction by Ruskin Bond, a singular writer who has inspired and comforted three generations of readers, collected in a single volume.
A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches...
I, The Salt Doll
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekar’s Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit on the Gujarati stage and went on to storm the Marwadi stage. And then, at the age of twenty-one,...