Books

Category: Parenting Publisher: Amaryllis Books “Are you still working?” “Can you do yoga?” “Is the baby kicking yet?” “Why aren’t you drinking?” Lalita Iyer spent her pregnancy fielding millions of such questions, listening to thoroughly useless bits of advice and untruths, feeling utterly nauseated by manicured baby books that featured pristine mothers with hair, make-up […]

Category: Textile Traditions Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Bhanu Athaiya is the revered doyenne of Indian costume designers…For the benefit of future generations of filmmakers, film lovers and designers, it is important to document the landmark work done by someone with such knowledge, vision and passion. To beloved Bhanu I send my heartfelt congratulations on this splendid book.

Category: Steampunk Publisher (India): Silverfish (Westland Imprint) Published in the US by Medallion Press Ernst’s world is one of endless admirers, including foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Hailed as a marvel of late nineteenth-century automation, he is the crowning achievement of his master, Karl Gruber. A world-famous builder of automated clocks, Gruber has reached the pinnacle

Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books New York City-based writer, Shaili Kapoor, is shocked to find out that her mother, Meena Kapoor, has drowned herself in Pashan Lake in Pune, India. Apart from her childhood friend Supriya, her mother was the only connection Shaili had with India over the past fifteen years. When Shaili’s father found out about

Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Maestro management consultant and strategy guru Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese has been dispatched to London to the Lederman account. Things in the mother country are not all tally-ho as Einstein must make do with convoluted remuneration, temperamental digestion and a comely coworker who revels in mixed signals — not

Category: Speculative Fiction Publisher: Picador India Book 1 in The Kaal Trilogy Aushij, Lord of Maya, was tricked into a prison of dreams many millennia ago by his siblings for causing chaos in the cosmos. But his power is so great that he still causes tremors in the world with his deceptions, and needs to

Category: Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India In the course of twenty-four hours, nine characters across five cities are faced with a pressing need to examine their past. As each of them confronts the realities within, the world itself explodes into chaos, the disintegration of civic order mirroring the breakdown of individual sanities. A powerful first novel from

Category: Short Stories Publisher: Penguin Random House India It is hard for me to say the word “stench” when I speak of her, my love . . .’ The stories in Dirty Love are set in the restless swirl of a Bombay where dream-shuttles speed through the rain and men fall prey to dirty love.