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“My beautiful day. The 7:45 AM mug of tea before work begins in the blistering, opaque, frost of early morning. The raucous gossip and good cheer of other sites, other workers.” “Evening tea under a single grim light bulb at 4 o’clock in the sunless half-grey world of dusk, all seated in a row upon …
“Beauty may be subjective. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder. But there is also one more thing that beauty is. And that it is, it is natural.” Beauty Queen is an account for every model to achieve their dream. Anvita Sudarshan has been at the forefront of the fashion industry. So, who …
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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-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 (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 …
Category: Mythology/ Graphic Novel Publisher: Westland Books Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages (excluding Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu) In the wilderness of humanity, in the forests of the mind, Who eats Whom? Who sees Whom? Aranyaka is about the great forests within us, and without. It is about food, feeding and love. Braiding the …
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Nobody comes to India and is not in some way changed . . .’ Meena, a Jewish-American lesbian who has claimed India as her home, takes us into a darkly comic universe populated by three generations of women along with other family members, as well as by the Indians whose …
Category: Fiction Publisher (English): Rupa Publications Publisher (Hindi): Rupa Publications (forthcoming) Publisher (Marathi): Manovikas Publications Rights: Indian and international language rights available (excluding translation rights for Hindi, Marathi) More than five hundred years after the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote his epic poem Padmavat, the story of Padmavati, princess of Simhal and her lover …