Category: Children/Mythology Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Siyahi is a sub-agent for publisher for the world rights of this book. Like a modern-day suta or storyteller, Namita brings alive India’s richest literary treasure. She retells this timeless tale of mortals and immortals as well as stories within stories …
Category: Fiction Rights: All Rights Available Goa, post the annual lashing of the monsoons. Swaying palms, picturesque beaches, free-flowing feni. And a last shot at love. Victor Gabriel is an ex-soldier, who has been dishonorably discharged from the Indian Army. An aspiring writer, he decides to hook up with his one-time girlfriend, Ana, on a …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Chimanbhai Shah is the content, mild-mannered owner of a grocery shop in Portland. When Supriya, the sexy siren, draws his customers away to her slick new store, it leads to a sudden downturn in his business. In desperation, the Shahs turn to Osmanbhai, a Mumbai supari killer, to help them …
Category: Poetry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India The idea of ‘seeds’ in The Yearning of Seeds is derived from Neruda’s quote: “I have gone into practically every corner of Chile, scattering my poetry like seed among the people”. Like Neruda, Nongkynrih too wishes to address his people directly. In the three sections of the book, he speaks of leaders …
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications India Life is Perfect is a coming-of-age novel revolving around a young woman, Mitali Jaitia, who appears to have it all – youth, intelligence, money, even beauty. But things aren’t as perfect as they seem. Jaitia House, nestled in the lush, green avenues of Lutyens’ Delhi, is in gloom over the tragic …
Category: Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Publisher (Bengali): Ananda Publishers Publisher (Hindi): Full Circle Books Publisher (Malayalam): DC Books Publisher (Marathi): Ameya Prakashan Publisher (Punjabi): Unistar Books Rights: Indian language rights available (excluding translation rights for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi) India Unbound is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to …
Category: Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Publisher (Hindi): Penguin Random House India Publisher (Tamil): New Horizon Media Rights: Indian Language Rights Available (excluding Hindi, Tamil) This book turns to the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘Why be good?’ and it discovers that the epic’s world of moral haziness and …
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Category: Mythology Publisher (English): Westland Books Publisher (Gujarati): RR Sheth & Co. Publisher (Hindi): Prabhat Prakashan Publisher (Malayalam): Westland Books (forthcoming) Publisher (Tamil): Westland Books Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages excluding Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil Hindu Calendar Art may be gaudy and kitsch, but it is the most modern and democratic …
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Category: Mythology Publisher: Jaico Publishing House Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages excluding Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Telugu) In the game of cricket, having scored 99 runs, when a batsman stands poised on the threshold of that much coveted century, he experiences the moment that is best associated with Ganesha. Fear and uncertainty …