A list of newly-released books by Siyahi’s authors
Category: Non-fiction/Memoir Publishers: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: Indian and international language rights available The story of a healer and the world’s largest chain of homeopathy clinics. If you think of homeopathy in India, one name springs to mind—Dr Batra’s®. From humble beginnings with a clinic in Chowpatty, Bombay in 1982, Dr Mukesh Batra put homeopathy …
Category: Non-fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Marriage: 100 Stories around India’s Favourite Ritual, by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, brings together stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil and Sanskrit literature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore. Curated from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years of history and 3 million …
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Category: Non-FictionRights: All rights available The twentieth-century produced several major Urdu poets, but the place that Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) occupied in the galaxy of poets was unique. Faiz created a unique poetic structure while inventing a new language of metaphoric modes of expression. He absorbed what was best in the classical Urdu poetry and …
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Category: Non-fictionRights: All rights available The inception of the Kachwaha kingdom of Dhundhar is ascribed to the life and conquest of the ‘bridegroom prince’ Dhularai, who is remembered as the progenitor of the royal family of Jaipur. Details of his life and achievements however remain a murky subject while his family background and its history are …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan India Bipin Desai and Anuj Shastri are two best friends who lead equally pointless lives. But that doesn’t stop them from dreaming big and getting rich fast. Together, they concoct a plan to rob a van full of cash and manage to get away with loot of over one crore …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rights: World rights available Kabir follows the most beautiful girl he has ever seen into a mall. But there are gunshots and screams as terrorists storm inside after fleeing an operation gone wrong. Kabir and Diya find themselves trapped, along with other hostages. The terrorists make their demands …
Category: Non-Fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications Publisher (Marathi) (Forthcoming) : Jaico Publishing House Publisher (Telugu) (Forthcoming) : Jaico Publishing House Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages (excluding Hindi, Marathi,Telugu) Lakshmi is worshiped as the goddess of wealth. Her arrival is considered auspicious, while her departure is inauspicious. In temples, gods are bedecked with jewels; during …
Category: Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Like family, but not quite. In New Delhi of the 1980s, Aahan Sikand and Rajesh Kumar are childhood playmates. They have been brought up under the care of the same woman, living in the same house, but with starkly different realities – …
Category: Fiction Publisher (Indian subcontinent): Westland Books Publisher (South-east Asia): Penguin Random House India (forthcoming) Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia) All the stories in the world are whispered in the wind. Listen! And the wind will blow one into your head. In Whisper in the Wind, a wind wandering through …