Category: Poetry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India All the Answers I Shall Ever Get, Tanya Mendonsa’s second collection of poems, split into two sections, is an exploration and a meditation on two eternal themes: love and friendship and the power of the past. In these poems are to be found passionate longing and profound loss, but […]
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Category: Non-fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India (forthcoming) Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Kamathipura, Mumbai’s notorious red light area, where garish women stood under coloured lights in their “cages”, is no longer what it was. Almost imperceptibly, the seedy brothels have given way to shops selling mobile phones or DVDs. Not far away, Bhendi
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Category: Fiction Rights: All Rights Available The revival of corpses. A boy with a curious surname. And an obsessed necromancer. A brutal attack pitches two allied monarchies, Raul and Cherima, against each other. A haphazardly put-together assassination mission is dogged by unexpected failures. People believed to be dead are coming back to life. With his
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Category: Non-fiction Rights: All Rights Available Does the word 30 ring a bell? To celebrate half a human life lived, good, bad, whatever, two thirty year olds undertake an epic journey across India in a 30-year-old car. A Maruti 800; the car which revolutionised the way Indians looked at personal transportation. This book is a story
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Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Hay House Publishers India The Mughal dynasty and its cultural and architectural legacy – the world-famous Taj Mahal being the most prominent – is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, film-makers, artists and everyone else. The reason for this is two-fold. First and foremost, the history of the Mughal dynasty happens to
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Category: Film/Creative Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rights: Indian language rights available Everything feels like it’s already happened in a scene from some movie. Still, we know so little about how these films are actually made. This is a book based on observation of this process: the stage-by-stage production of that intricate phenomenon we
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Category: Speculative Fiction Publisher: Picador India Book 2 of the Kaal Trilogy Half a year after his mind-bending kayakalpa, metamorphosis, in the mind-city of Surangini, Arihant is on the move again – this time with the brilliant Tejaswi by his side. The Burning Tree of Memories completes the puzzle of Arihant’s true identity; his meeting with Aagneyi,
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Category: Mythology Publisher (English): Zubaan Publishers in association with Penguin Random House India Publisher (Hindi): Rajpal and Sons Publisher (Marathi): Popular Prakashan Publisher (Malayalam): DC Book Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages excluding Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi Patriarchy establishes men as superior to women. Feminism views women and men as equal. Queerness questions what
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Category: Non-fiction/Cinema Rights: World rights available (excluding India) His Nayakan is among Time Magazine’s ‘100 Best Movies Ever’; and Roja launched AR Rahman. This book, unique for Indian cinema, illuminates the genius of the man behind these and eighteen other masterly films. For the first time ever, Mani Ratnam opens up here, to Baradwaj Rangan, about his art, as
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