Books

Category: Translation Publisher: Penguin Random House India Chokher Bali (Binodini) explores the forbidden emotions unleashed when a beautiful young widow enters the seemingly harmonious world of a newly married couple. This path-breaking novel by Rabindranath Tagore weaves a tangled web of relationships between the pampered and self-centred Mahendra, his innocent, childlike bride Asha, their staunch […]

Category: Development/Business Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Awarded the Asian Publishing Awards (2014) for Best Insights into Asian Societies How could a group as respectable as Tata get it so wrong with human rights and community engagement in Kalinga Nagar and Singur? Why did Vedanta Resources Plc insist on mining in the Niyamgiri Hills in the face

Category: Children Publisher: Rupa Publications India The Little Bird Who Held Up The Sky With His Feet is a modern fantasy-fable that deals with current environmental issues. The creatures of an Indian forest are living in dread because the floods that have devastated their home in the past are threatening to rise again. What is

Category: Fiction Publisher: Hachette India Book 1 of the Animal Intelligence Agency series The Animal Intelligence Agency is a multi-species non-governmental agency. Specially trained Animals and Human agents work undercover to save animals and save the world. Some of them have the license to kill. MISSION BRIEF: Tigers are being reported missing from wildlife reserves across

Category: Doggy Memoir Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights:  World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent, translation rights for Portuguese) All dog lovers will rejoice in this charming and funny book’ -Jilly Cooper. Two world travellers meet at a party and realize, as they spend the evening in each other’s company, that they are meant to be

          Category: Mythology Publisher (English): Westland Books Publisher (Hindi): Rajpal and Sons Publisher (Kannada): Vasantha Prakashan Publisher (Malayalam): Westland Books Publisher (Marathi): Popular Prakashan Publisher (Russian): Sophia Publishing Group Publisher (Tamil): Westland Books Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and International languages excluding Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Russian, Tamil) Anointed with perfumes,

Category: Historical Fiction Publisher (India): Rupa Publications India Published in the US by McPherson & Company In the seventeenth century, Emperor Shah Jahan, overwhelmed by grief after the death of Mumtaz Mahal, his beloved wife, pledges to create the grandest tribute to love the world has ever seen. The stunning Princess Jahanara, the Emperor’s eldest

Category: Fiction Publisher: Sandstone Press How to Dispose of Dead Elephants is an imaginative novel which explores themes of illness and identity through oracles and exorcisms, pranks and fables. The plot centres on Stubb Marakas, a young college dropout, who awakes one morning with the sudden urge to doodle Aesop’s fables. Aided by his best friend,

Category: Poetry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India A Hindi primer by Gulzar and illustrated by Rina Singh for those who fall in love with Hindi or Hindi-speaking people This is a lovely little book that opens up the world of Hindi. Delightfully illustrated by Canada based writer and artist Rina Singh, it is a ‘kayada’, an