Sea Ice? Now You Don’t! A Green Humour Collection by Rohan Chakravarty
Green Humour For A Greying Planet is a curation of gag cartoons and comic strips based exclusively on wildlife and nature, perhaps the first of its kind.
Books
Don’t Ask & Don’t Tell by Mozez Singh and Chetna Chakravarthy
The United States of India – looking for the rainbows hidden within the landscape of a country that was built on diversity. Part confessional, part guide, part travelogue, part memoir, part musings this book is a conversation between a Life Coach, Chetna and her gay friend and filmmaker, Mozez with beautiful humans from the LGBTQ community.
Sati Savitri by Devdutt Pattanaik
While in Western myth, patriarchy is traditional and feminism is progressive, in Indian myth patriarchy and feminism have always co-existed, in eternal tension. Liberation (mukti) is not a new idea. It has always been there. You have heard the tales of patriarchy. These book tells you the other tales, they don’t tell you.
My Name is Jasmine by Shashi Warrier
Category: Fiction Publisher: Simon and Schuster (forthcoming) Rights: All rights available Sometime in 2020, just before the pandemic gains the attention of governments all over the world, a middle-aged woman wakes up in a hospital with no idea of who she is. The nurses tell her that the amnesia is the result of a head …
Telecom Wars by Deepali Gupta
The book is a precursor to landmark events which shaped the timeline of Indian mobile telephony: The entry of a new telecom minister, who doled out licenses only to have them canceled later in what came to be known as the 2G Scam.
The Last Knot by Shabir Ahmad Mir
Category: Fiction Rights: All rights available A weaver realizes that the only way to overcome the mountains that surround him all around is to weave a carpet that will fly. Thus starts his quest. A quest that must pass through the maze of Myth, Legend, Folklore and Tradition while all along the weaver must stay …
A Face on a Face by Annapurna Garimella
A Face on a Face highlights the Vaidya Collection, one of the largest, privately held collections of South Asian masks in India. Based on a careful selection of a hundred of the most important masks, this book offers a serious, readable account of their use in ritual and entertainment.
Fragments of a Himalyan Girlhood by Kunzang Choden
In a bid to join the “modern world” Bhutan underwent momentous changes. This book is an important historical record of fading and soon to be forgotten social structures, lifeways and beliefs.
Tales from Qabristan by Sabin Iqbal
Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India (forthcoming) Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent). Translation rights available (excluding Hindi). In this strikingly vivid portrayal of Kayaloram, a fictional backwater village in Kerala in early ’70s and ’80s, Tales from Qabristan takes us into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, …