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New Delhi, India: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 'My name is Aisha Bhatia, I am twenty-nine years old and single. I work as a Guest Relations Manager at the Grand Orchid Hotel. I dine at luxury hotels and stay in five-stars during my travels; I can name old and new world wines with great élan, and can tell my cheeses apart. I tolerate my job, hate my boss, and bond big-time with my friends, while routinely suffering from umbilical cord whiplash. I don't really care for my vital stats at the moment, and I don't have a cute/funny nickname either. Hence this introduction: it stinks, but it sticks. In fact, sometimes I think there should be support groups like the AA out there for people like me…' Wickedly irreverent and laugh-aloud funny, Almost Single is a delightful romp through the five-star world of champagne brunches, gay soirées, and the dilemmas of hip, young girls on the lookout for love and matrimony. Printed Pages: 284.. ISBN: 9788172236557. First Edition. Paperback. New. 198 x 129 Mm. Fiction India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Yesteryear's giant of Kannada literature, Adya Rangacharya—or Shriranga, as he came to be known—had many such epiphanic moments. That was how the child of an orthodox Brahmin jagirdar family went from watching, at first wide-eyed, village aatas put up by farm labourers to critically observing full-fledged natakas in the cities, taking in the theatre scene in London to finally writing—and often performing in—more than a hundred skilfully developed plays. There was no genre of writing that Shriranga did not touch. Creative writer and critic, he also penned a vast body of scholarly treatises on subjects that ranged from drama to philosophy and philology. His English translation of the Natyashashtra remains the definitive source of reference for most students of theatre. But as his memoirs reveal, his first and most abiding love was drama. His fifty years of association with the theatre were full of achievements, one of which was to bring women on to the amateur stage. Generations of actors have Shriranga to thank for investing their profession with a dignity it had lacked. But Shriranga's memoirs rarely touch upon such achievements. They record, without pomp or sentiment, the genesis and development of a brilliant Kannada dramatist. His daughter Shashi Deshpande's translation and her introduction to her father's life in theatre will bring him under the spotlight for a whole new audience. Printed Pages: 200.. ISBN: 9790143099665. First Indian Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. Adya Rangacharya Play India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 256.. ISBN: 9780143064206. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Ahmad Saidullah Fiction India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Rupa & Co., 2007. Printed Pages: 296 with numerous colour illustrations.. ISBN: 9788129112507. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 14 x 22 Cm. Delhi. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Fast-paced and innovative, No God in Sight unfolds through first-person accounts of an unusual cast of characters: an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher and an apathetic CEO, among others. From monologue to short story to anecdote, the reader is hurled without pause from one life and perspective to another: a family flees religious persecution in their village to take refuge in an urban slum, women walk the tightrope of free will and dormant violence, a father and son grant each other the relief of estrangement, and young men and women struggle to comprehend the consequences of sexual attraction. At the heart of the action is the city itself: a teeming, breathing, suffering Mumbai that demands subservience and total surrender before it will sanction survival. Insightful, ironic and brutally honest, No God in Sight signals the arrival of an exciting new voice in the world of fiction. Printed Pages: 184.. ISBN: 9780144000609. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. No God in Sight Altaf Tyrewalla. more information

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New Delhi, India: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Printed Pages: 310.. ISBN: 81-7223-573-9. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Aminuddin Khan A Shift in the Wind. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2003. Rivers pulse through the heart of India. The stories, essays and poetry in Waterlines reflect the presence of rivers in our lives: from film music to metaphysics, we turn to rivers to imagine and express our desires. As rivers shape our worlds and we shape theirs, landscapes and lives melt into one. This anthology celebrates this shared creation and also sheds light on the turbulence around rivers today. Waterlines combines classic works with the best of contemporary writing. Here is Rabindranath Tagore’s brilliant tale of a young widow’s passion. Agyeya recounts his aunt’s courageous battle against the Beas. Cobras and otters and other river creatures meet crocodile-man Ron Whitaker. Arundhati Roy and Advaita Mallabarman offer river stories with dark currents. Mukul Sharma traces the travails of Biharis living in the shifting diara lands. Nita Kumar’s lyrical account of the pleasures of Banaras ghats includes bhang-induced ‘latrine’. Anand Pandian presents early twentieth century Tamil verse honouring Pennycuick, the British engineer who dammed the Periyar. Ruchir Joshi pays homage to the Hooghly and Howrah Bridge. A.K. Ramanujan and A.K. Mehrotra, the Ganga, the Narmada, the Kaveri—they are all here. With its unexpected bends and delightful views, Waterlines is a tribute to rivers that you will enjoy dipping into. Printed Pages: 224.. ISBN: 0-14-303038-8. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 14.5 Cms x 22 Cms. Waterlines Amita Baviskar. more information

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New Delhi, India: HarperCollins Publishers and The India Today Group, 2007. Printed pages: 306.. ISBN: 81-7223-653-0. First Edition. Soft Cover. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Above Average Fiction Amitabha Bagchi. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed pages: 344.. ISBN: 9780670081912. First Penguin Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. Amitav Ghosh In an Antique Land Fiction India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed pages: 108 with 4 colour illustrations.. ISBN: 9780670082124. First Penguin Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma Amitav Ghosh India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. As a boy, Amitav Ghosh’s narrator travels across time, experiencing different worlds, all brought to life by the tales of those around him. Set against a backdrop of war and strife, each story becomes an extension of his life. Through them he traverses the unreliable planes of memory, unmindful of physical, political and chronological borders. But as he grows older, he is haunted by a seemingly random act of violence. Bits and pieces of stories, both half-remembered and imagined, come together in his mind until he arrives at an intricate, interconnected picture of the world where borders and boundaries mean nothing, mere shadow lines that we draw dividing people and nations. Out of a miraculously complex web of memories, relationships and images, Amitav Ghosh builds an intensely vivid, funny and moving story. He questions the meaning of political freedom and the force of nationalism in the modern world. Exposing the idea of the nation state as an illusion, an arbitrary dissection of people, Ghosh reveals the absurd manner in which your home can suddenly become your enemy. Printed Pages: 288.. ISBN: 9780670081813. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Ronald Ross, who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’. With its astonishing range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, The Calcutta Chromosome expands the scope of the novel as we know it, as Amitav Ghosh takes on the avatar of a science thriller writer. Printed pages: 272.. ISBN: 9780670081899. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Amitav Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Following the form of the raga in Indian classical music, Amitav Ghosh slowly builds the tempo of The Circle of Reason. The first part spans several decades, the second unfolds over a few weeks, and the third, like a scherzo, races through a day. Ghosh’s debut novel centres on Alu, an orphan enlisted by his foster father as a soldier in his crusade against the forces of myth and unreason. Suspected of terrorism, they are about to be arrested when a tragic accident forces Alu to flee his village. Pursued by a misguided police officer, Alu finds his way through Calcutta to Goa and on to a trawler that runs illegal immigrants to Africa. Tracing Alu’s journey across two continents, The Circle of Reason is an exceptional novel by one of India’s most celebrated writers in English. Printed pages: 472.. ISBN: 9780670081905. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Amitav Ghosh Circle of Reason. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed Pages: 440.. ISBN: 9780670082193. First Penguin Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Amitav Ghosh The Hungry Tide. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed pages: 96.. ISBN: 9780670082100. First Penguin Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. Countdown Amitav Ghosh India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed Pages: 600.. ISBN: 9780670082209. First Penguin Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Amitav Ghosh Glass Palace. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed pages: 380.. ISBN: 9780670082117. First Penguin Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces Amitav Ghosh India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed Pages: 528.. ISBN: 9780670082032. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh Fiction India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2004. In the summer of 1999, while the Kargil War was being fought, Amitava Kumar married a Pakistani Muslim. That event led to a process of discovery that made Kumar examine the relationship not only between India and Pakistan but also between Hindus and Muslims inside India. The result is this fiercely personal essay on the idea of the enemy. Written with complete honesty and with no claims to journalistic detachment, this book chronicles the complicity that binds the writer to the rioter. Unlike both the fundamentalists and the secularists, Kumar finds—or makes—utterly human those whom he opposes. More than a travelogue which takes the reader to Wagah, Patna, Bhagalpur, Karachi, Kashmir, and even Johannesburg, this book, then, becomes a portrait of the people the author meets in these places, people dealing with the consequences of the politics of faith. With a writer's eye for detail, Kumar has drawn a map of violence. Informed more by a traveller's sense of observation than a safe, academic moralism, Husband of a Fanatic refuses to monumentalize suffering—instead, it presents tragedy as ordinary, and hence, more difficult to accept easily. In a village beside the Ganges near Bhagalpur, in a psychiatric ward in Srinagar, in a classroom in Ahmedabad ... everywhere that the author goes, the reader is compelled to accompany him on a journey to the heart of hatred. . ISBN: 0-14-303189-9. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Amitava Kumar Husband of a Fanatic. more information

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New Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 2008. Printed Pages: 304.. ISBN: 8186706267. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 140 x 215 Mm. Forest Interludes India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Zubaan and Penguin, 2008. The 1990s. It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realized she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she is dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a first-of-its-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will come. College lecturer Firdaus Ansari is going to finish her thesis, have a hard talk with her boyfriend, and then get out. Poetic, funny, tender and reflective, Lunatic in My Head is a moving portrait of a small town. And of three people joined to each other in an intricate web, determined to break out of their small-town destinies. Printed Pages: 344.. ISBN: 978189884050. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm. Lunatic in My Head Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2004. The best-selling author of The Inscrutable Americans and Making the Minister Smile returns with another entertaining story in The Department of Denials. In this latest venture, Babar Thakur—Babs to his friends— a youth fresh out of college in search of an identity and direction in life, sets off on a trip to fulfil his dream of becoming the prime minister of India one day. In the best traditions of all heroic odysseys, he starts out on his quest alone. Soon, he is on a roller-coaster ride through the corridors of power, witness to the shenanigans of netas and babus. Chief among them is the minister Balak Kumar, who, repeatedly at the receiving end of various allegations from the Opposition, finally decides to centralize all denials under one authority, namely, the Department of Denials. And he asks Babs's father, Bahadur Prasad Thakur, to head the newly created department. The stage is thus set for an unending run of situations, alternately bizarre and funny. Printed Pages: 184.. ISBN: 0143032003. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Denials Anurag Mathur. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed Pages: 288 with 11 b/w photos.. ISBN: 9780670082070. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Arundhati Roy Shape of the Beast. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2002. few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The End of Imagination’. The essay attracted worldwide attention as the voice of a brilliant Indian writer speaking out with clarity and conscience against nuclear weapons. Over the next three and a half years, she wrote a series of political essays on a diverse range of momentous subjects: from the illusory benefits of big dams, to the downside of corporate globalization and the US Government’s war against terror. First published in 2001, The Algebra of Infinite Justice brings together all of Arundhati Roy’s political writings so far. This revised paperback edition includes two new essays, written in early 2002: ‘Democracy: Who’s She When She’s at Home’, that examines the horrific communal violence in Gujarat, and ‘War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs’, about the threat of nuclear war in the Subcontinent. ‘Each essay is an elaborately argued thesis..simultaneously both profound and poetic.’ Newstime ‘(Arundhati Roy’s) essays glitter with sentences that remain etched in the mind-Roy's politics remains clear-voiced and fearless, large in scope, consistent in its concern for the exploited, scathing in its criticism of the state and its institutions’ he Telegraph Printed Pages: 384.. ISBN: 0-14-302907-X. Revised Edition. Paperback. New/New. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 244.. ISBN: 9780143104025. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. Life Cosmos. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Teenage boy Anirban Roy grows up—not a lot wiser—in a small town in ’70s Bihar where his policeman father is posted to pick up intelligence on the looming Naxalite menace. Ganesh Nagar possesses neither village simplicity nor urban slick but observes a line of ethics that defies codification. It takes time for Anirban to learn to juggle adolescent angst and ping-pong hormones, loyal friends and part-time criminals, a bewildering succession of topsy-turvy lessons in life and lust, yet manage to keep the balls in the air. There are close encounters with animals, too: Experiments with reptiles; the sighting of bandicoots in full flight, their sleek coats gleaming in the moonlight; the hazards involved in stealing a parrot nestling; the part played by a domestic fowl in curing snakebite and predicting death; and the unusual role of donkeys in satiating adolescent lust. Rites of passage never got so down and dirty as in journalist Avijit Ghosh’s earthy account of boy-to-manhood in fictional Ganesh Nagar, an introverted district that could exist in India anytime, anywhere. Printed Pages: 248.. ISBN: 9780143103790. First Edition. Paperback. New. 14 x 22 Cm. Bandicoots Moonlight India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed pages: 224.. ISBN: 9780670082742. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. Twilight Azhar Abidi India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. Printed Pages: 288 with 11 b/w photos.. ISBN: 9780670081721. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. B.G .Verghese Rage Reconciliation Security. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Lately, Lucky Boyce’s life has seen nothing but trouble. Her marriage to the wealthy and charming Vikram Singh has ended on the cruel grounds of infertility and, along with it, her career as a successful entrepreneur, once reputed for transforming an ailing export house into a profit-making venture. Defeated, and desperate for respite, Lucky arrives in New York, where her quest to tidy up her life begins with promise. A voluntary assignment as yoga instructor to inmates in a prison opens up a world where she can make a difference and in that unlikeliest of places she finds unusual friends, including the brooding tattoo artist and ex-con, Steve. Love suddenly resurfaces when she bumps into Amay, an old friend and anchor; and when Mike Lockwood, an associate from Lucky’s days in the export business, offers her a partnership in his firm, she is all set to start afresh. But a series of bizarre events leaves Lucky groping blindly for answers, yet again. Who is behind the nasty attacks and elaborate lies that threaten to ruin her? Why is her journey through life marred by duplicity and betrayal at every turn? Or is it that she simply needs to overcome her fears and look within herself for the path that will help her break free from this vicious maze? Printed Pages: 304.. ISBN: 9780143103080. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm. Bapsy Jain Blind Pilgrim Piction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Old sins have long shadows. Thakur Ram Prasad’s enchantment with a pair of beautiful eyes triggered series of events—love, anguish and, finally, redemption—which unfolded over four decades and affected the lives of all who were close to him. His daughter, Kaamini, betrayed by the very people who should have loved her best, turned her back on the past and made a life for herself and her daughter, Mita, in Ram Prasad’s rambling old kothi, looking after the lands she inherited in the small town of Mukundganj. Mita grew up unaware of the secrets that that lingered in the walls and courtyards of the kothi. But once she went to engineering college and met and fell in love with a fellow student, Amit, she had to confront the reticence and sorrow that surrounded her mother’s life, and to bravely lay the ghosts of the past. Bela Lal’s beautifully crafted tale weaves effortlessly between the turbulence of the 1940s—the time of Kaamini’s youth—and the sweeping social changes of the1980s, as Mita and Amit try to plan their future in the face of silence, opposition and mistrust. Lal’s authentic characters, her ability to evoke recent historical periods with vividness and authority and, above all, her unmatched ability as a storyteller, make The Night of Kaamini an unforgettable read. Printed Pages: 384.. ISBN: 9780143101550. First Edition. Paperback. New. 14 x 22 Cm. Night of Kaamini Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Bhasa is one of the most celebrated names in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived and wrote about two thousand years ago. Though his dates have not been conclusively established, it is certain that Bhasa preceded Kalidasa, the great poet and dramatist of ancient India, who has praised Bhasa by name in one of his own plays. Bhasa's works were considered lost and it was only in the beginning of the twentieth century that some of his plays were recovered. Six of these, which form the present collection, are based on the Mahabharata, which provides a thematic unity to the plays. Bhasa's strengths were his skilful melding of dialogue, legend and dramatic action. The comparatively short and fast-paced plays in The Shattered Thigh are remarkable in their nearness to modern idiom despite their antiquity. Of the six plays in this collection four—The Middle One, The Envoy, The Message and Karna's Burden—are one-act plays evoking tragic and heroic emotions. Five Nights and The Shattered Thigh have three and two acts respectively. The latter is a tragedy in which the hero dies on stage, an innovation that is very unusual in Sanskrit drama. Printed Pages: 160.. ISBN: 9780143104308. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Shattered Thigh Plays India. more information

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Shimla, India: Centre for the Study of Indian Civilization and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1997. Printed Pages: 190. Slightly rubbed dust jacket.. ISBN: 81-85952-45-0. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 15 x 23 Cm. Basanti India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 788.. ISBN: 9780143104094. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. India Independence. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed pages: 144.. ISBN: 9780143103004. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. Tomorrow's Promise Bubbles Sabharwal India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. Astride the Wheel is a quiet tale of the last years of a temple priest in rural Orissa and his acceptance of monotonous poverty--the fate of most Indian villagers. Sanatan Dase dimly senses that a great freedom lies beyond his wife's continuous complaints, the petty social insults he bears, and the endless shortages in his life. The first half of the novel is set in a village in Orissa. In its second half, the reader leaves behind the claustrophobic brahmin settlement, its caste hierarchies, trivial preoccupations and repetitive rituals to travel with Sanatan Dase to Dakhineswar, Varanasi, Vrindavan, and finally to Puri. The protagonist's outward pilgrimage coincides with a journey into an inner world of profound mystical experience. Often described as a Hindu novel, the work hints at a secret and flawless happiness that is attainable through simple piety and devotion.. ISBN: 0-19-566477-9. First Edition. Paperback. New. Oriya. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. In the bylanes and ghats of Kashi, or Banaras, Yamini’s and Shiva’s stories unfold. Fat, sharp-tongued Yamini is thirty-eight and unmarried. By day she teaches maths in school. At night she leaves her obese self behind and takes to the skies, light as a bird in her dreams, dancing in the air above the ghats with the love of her life. The ghat is also where Shiva, now eleven years old, was found abandoned by his adoptive father, the charismatic and ambitious sadhu Bhyom Baba. Growing up in Baba’s ashram near Dashaswamedh Ghat, Shiva eavesdrops on the conversations of sadhus as they pass through the ashram, and hopes to some day find his mother among the women thronging the ghats. One day, Yamini meets Duncan, a researcher, who unlocks the romantic in her and suddenly she feels like the person from her dreams, light and loved. In another part of the city, Shiva is chosen to enact the role of chhota Hanuman in the Ramnagar Ramlila. There he befriends the shy, quiet Shantanu, who plays the part of Janaki, Ram’s wife. Against the backdrop of the Lila, where political battlelines have been drawn by the city’s rival ashram factions, the final horrific truth about Shiva’s life is revealed, and his story merges with Yamini’s. Meanwhile, Upriver is about two outsiders struggling to find the courage to swim upriver, till an unforeseen connection brings them together. Resonating with the sights and sounds of an ancient place in the heart of modern India, this remarkable debut novel tells a story that is at once poignant and captivating. Printed Pages: 216.. ISBN: 9780143101543. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Meanwhile, Upriver. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 152 with 4 photos.. ISBN: 9780143103981. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 Cms x 20 Cms. Viva Santiago India Fiction. more information

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New York ,USA: Random House, 2001. Printed Pages: 328 with numerous b/w illustrations.. ISBN: 0-375-50564-4. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 13 x 19 Cm. Tale of the Rose. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 216.. ISBN: 9780143104223. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm. Dandin India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2007. Suffocating in the small-town world of his parents, Vijay is desperate to escape to the raw energy of Bombay in the early 1990s. His big chance arrives unexpectedly when the family servant Raju is recruited by a right-wing organization. As a result of an article he writes about the increasing power of sectarian politicians, Vijay gets a job in a small Bombay publication, The Indian Secularist. There he meets Rustom Sorabjee—the inspirational founder of the magazine who opens Vijay’s eyes to the damage caused to the nation by the mixing of religion and politics. A year after his arrival in Bombay, Vijay is caught up in violent riots that rip through the city, a reflection of the upsurge of fundamentalism everywhere in the country. He is sent to a small tea town in the Nilgiri mountains to recover, but finds that the unrest in the rest of India has touched this peaceful spot as well, specifically a spectacular shrine called The Tower of God, which is the object of political wrangling. He is befriended by Noah, an enigmatic and colourful character who lives in the local cemetery and quotes Pessoa, Cavafy and Rimbaud but is ostracised by a local elite obsessed with little more than growing their prize fuchsias. As the discord surrounding the local shrine comes to a head, Vijay tries to alert them to the dangers, but his intervention will have consequences he could never have foreseen. The Solitude of Emperors is a stunningly perceptive novel about modern India, about what motivates fundamentalist beliefs, and what makes someone driven, bold or mad enough to make a stand. Printed pages: 256.. ISBN: 6450670081431. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. Solitude Emperors India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2008. In 1961, Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay. He brought with him his troubled lover, Peter Orlovsky, and a plan to meet up with poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. He left behind not only fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and William Burroughs, but also the relentless notoriety that followed the publication of Howl, the epic work that branded him the voice of a generation. Drawing from extensive research, undiscovered letters, journals, and memoirs, acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker has woven a many-layered literary mystery out of Ginsberg’s odyssey. A Blue Hand follows the poet and his companions as they travel from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium dens and the burning pyres of Benares. They encounter an India of charlatans and saints, a country of spectacular beauty and spiritual promise and of devastating poverty and political unease. In Calcutta, Ginsberg discovers a circle of hungry young writers whose outrageousness and genius are uncannily reminiscent of his own past. Finally, Ginsberg searches for Hope Savage, the mysterious and beautiful girl whose path, before she disappeared, had crossed his own in Greenwich Village, San Francisco, and Paris. In their restless, comic and oft-times tortured search for meaning, the Beats looked to India for answers while India looked to the West. A Blue Hand is the story of their search for God, for love, and for peace in the shadow of the atomic bomb. It is also a story of India—its gods and its poets, its politics and its place in the American imagination. ‘A fabulous book—comic, tragic, and written with great verve and nerve—about the Beats and their ‘passage to India’’—Michael Ondaatje ‘A passionate account of the Beats at home and in the world … A truly vivid, wonderful book’ —Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss ‘A fascinating history of the weirdest moment in the long and ongoing European and American search for the answer to it all in India’—Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago ‘Baker evokes strange worlds and distant times in a narrative that never fails to flow and that, in the end, is admirably illuminating’—Kirkus Reviews ‘[A] thoroughly compelling work of illuminating literary and spiritual history’—Booklist ‘A piece of devoted scholarship and legwork’ –The New York Times. Printed Pages: 256.. ISBN: 9780670082285. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 16 x 24 Cm. A Blue Hand Deborah Baker. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, perhaps the world’s greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest, is Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story. It is also the story of his mother Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman; of young Somvat, who surrenders his genitals to become a wife; of Shikhandi, a daughter brought up as a son, who fathers a child with a borrowed penis; of Arjuna, the great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph; of Ileshwara, a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights; and of Adi-natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others. Building on Hinduism’s rich and complex mythology—but driven by a very contemporary sensibility—Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashva’s struggle to be fair to all—those here, those there and all those in between. Printed Pages: 360.. ISBN: 9780143063476. First Edition. Paperback. New. 15 x 23 Cm. Pregnant Kind Devdutt Pattanaik India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2005. Andha Yug focuses on the last day of the Mahabharata war. The ramparts are in ruins, the city is burning and Kurukshetra is covered with corpses and vultures. The few bewildered survivors of the Kaurava clan are overcome by grief and rage. Longing for one last act of revenge, they refuse to condemn Ashwatthama when he releases the ultimate weapon, the brahmastra, which threatens to annihilate the world. Instead, they blame Krishna for having caused the war, and curse him. The moral centre of the play lies in Krishna. He is the voice of compassion, an embodiment of all that is good and just in the world. Despite his failure to ensure peace, it is his presence throughout the play which reveals to us that the ethical and the sacred are always available to human beings even in the worst of times. Andha Yug is one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the play is a profound meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood. The moral burden of the play is that every act of violence inevitably debases society as a whole. Alok Bhalla's translation captures the essential tension between the nightmare of self-enchantment, which the story of the Kauravas represents, and the ever-present possibility of finding a way out of the cycle of revenge into a redemptive ethicality. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug raises pertinent moral issues in the context of Partition-related atrocities. The action of the play takes place on the last day of the Mahabharata war and is centered on a few bewildered survivors of the Kaurava clan. The figure of Krishna is central to the narrative. He represents the infinite variety of ways in which the good manifests itself in the ordinary world. He is the man of justice and truth. The Kauravas, however, are unable to imagine the truth about Krishna. This failure of imaginat ion becomes the cause of their final undoing. Printed Pages: 170.. ISBN: 0-19-567213-5. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Andha Yug. more information

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New Delhi, India: Promilla & Co., Publishers, 2009. The Viennese aircraft captain Julian Kaiser and his ex-wife Tara, a distinguished Indologist, are the protagonists of this novel. Set in Europe and India, and embedded in a multi-layered, complex plot, its story is about searching and missing, about illusions and finding. Love in times of globalisation and the advantages and dangers of new forms of dating allowed by modern communication technology, are likewise addressed. Also, the stressed out Europeans' quest for the meaning of life in Eastern traditions of philosophy, which sometimes takes on the most curious forms, is also woven into this novel. As in her previous books Dorothea Nürnberg goes deep into the philosophy and spirituality of India. She takes the reader along with her in her passionate journey into the hearts of her protagonists. Printed pages: 299.. ISBN: 9788185002996. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 5.75 x 8.75 Inches. Maybe Yesterday Novel India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. ‘Dangerlok, she says, all dangerlok. It’s a word she’s made up and covers all occasions. Dangerous people, tiresome people, people she doesn’t like. Dangerlok.’ Rina Ferreira, middle-aged, single, lecturer of English, tentative poet and the owner of a flat in Queen’s Diamonds building, will go nowhere else in the world except for the squalid corner of Bombay she inhabits. Daily she comes across some dangerlok—and with her cigarettes and mug of jungli tea she observes everything around her and dashes off letters brimming with the details of her life to David, an old flame now in America. Funny, irreverent and sad Dangerlok is the story of an urban life, with all its absurdities, loneliness and, of course, danger.Printed Pages: 166.. ISBN: 9780143065074. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. Dangelok India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed Pages: 288.. ISBN: 9780143063728. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. Democracy India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. Printed pages: 280.. ISBN: 9780143100782. First Edition. Paperback. New. 13 x 20 Cm. Firdaus Kanga Trying to Grow India. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2007. Printed pages: 289.. ISBN: 9780670081363. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 14.5 x 22.5 Cm. Fiction Gaurav Suri Hartosh Singh Bal. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin, 2008. A magical tour de force by a writer at the height of her powers, When Dreams Travel weaves round Scheherazade—or Shahrzad of the thousand and one nights—a vibrant, inventive story about that old game that’s never played out: the quest for love and power. The curtain opens on four figures, two men and two women. There is the sultan who wants a virgin every night; there is his brother, who makes an enemy of darkness and tries to banish it; and there are their ambitious brides, the sisters Shahrzad and Dunyazad, aspiring to be heroines—or martyrs. Travelling in and out of these lives to spellbinding effect is a range of stories, dark, poetic and witty by turns, spanning medieval to contemporary times. With its sharp and lively blend of past and present, its skilful reworking of the historical tradition, and its controlled use of evocative language, Githa Hariharan’s multi-voiced narrative assumes the significance of modern myth. Printed Pages: 288.. ISBN: 9780143104285. First Edition. Paperback. New. 14 x 22 Cm. When Dreams Travel India Fiction. more information

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New Delhi, India: Penguin/Viking, 2009. Mala’s home in Delhi is empty, save for a lifetime of sketches left behind by her late husband Asad and the memories they conjure. Sifting through them on restless afternoons and sleepless nights, Mala summons ghosts from her childhood, relives the heady days of love and optimism when Asad and she robustly defied social conventions to build a life together—and struggles to understand how events far removed could so easily snatch away the certainties they had always taken for granted. As their story unfolds, others emerge: Of Sara, Mala and Asad’s daughter, who, unable to commit to a cause that will renew her faith in her parents’ ideals and her own, embarks on a search for purpose that brings her from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, the venue of recent carnage. Of Yasmin, whom Sara meets across a lately created ‘border’, a survivor of mayhem secretly dreaming of college and the miraculous return of her missing brother, Akbar, as she navigates menacing by-lanes to reach her school safely every day. Of innumerable other lives trapped in limbo—some caught in a mesh of memory, anguish and hate, others seeking release in private dreams and valiant hopes. Marked by an astonishing clarity of observation and deep compassion, Fugitive Histories exposes the legacy of prejudice that, sometimes insidiously, sometimes perceptibly, continues to affect disparate lives in present-day India. In prose that is at once elegant, playful and startlingly inventive, Githa Hariharan portrays with remarkable precision the web of human connections that binds as much as it divides. Printed Pages: 256.. ISBN: 9780670082179. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 Cm. Fugitive Histories India Githa Hariharan. more information

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