A list of newly-released books by Siyahi’s authors
Category: Non-fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) What does it mean to lose someone? To answer this timeless question, bestselling author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi draws on a string of devastating personal losses of his mother, of his father and of a beloved pet to craft a moving memoir of …
Category: Non-fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications India Publisher (Hindi): Rupa Publications India Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages (excluding Hindi) The gods needed animals to travel around the world and the animals needed the gods to learn how not to be hungry. This was an amazing idea, thanks to goddess Saraswati. This is …
Vahana: Gods and Their Favourite Animals by Devdutt Pattanaik Read More »
Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) The Golden Age of Hollywood meets end-of-the-Raj India. The romance of “the next Lana Turner” and a Cambridge-educated maharaja threatens his kingdom during the tumultuous days before Independence. It is 1946 Hollywood, and sparks fly when the dashing Maharaja of Cooch Behar, Jagaddipendra …
Category: Poetry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available Everybody is not a writer but everybody seeks self-expression not necessarily to write but to reflect, to unload, to think clearly and to understand what is happening and why. It was one such phase when our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, then just a party worker …
Category: Non-fiction/MythologyPublisher (English): Aleph Book Company Before nationalists and patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers and sages travelled north and south, east and west, across mountains and along rivers, ignoring artificial boundaries, seeking and finding gods. Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik takes us on an insightful …
Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh by Devdutt Pattanaik Read More »
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 …
FAIZ: From Passionate Love to a Cosmic Vision by Surinder Deol Read More »
Category: FictionRights: All rights available Bombay suffers from a severe gastric epidemic of inexplicable origins. A young freelance caregiver, Nikunj, discovers that he has the superpower to make anyone poop, and with that poop, cure that person of any stomach ailments. Nikunj starts helping people and making money using his superpower. Things go well till …
Category: Non-FictionRights: All rights available Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), known as the God of Urdu Poesy (Khuda-e Sukhan), is widely admired for his poetic genius. He was the first major poet to demonstrate the hidden beauty and grandeur of the Urdu language, a great gift of India’s cultural fusion. From the raw Braj vernacular in …
The Hidden Garden: Mir Taqi Mir by Gopi Chand Narang Read More »
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 …