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Rani
Jaishree Misra
When thirteen-year-old Manikarnika leaves her father’s court-in-exile to marry the king of Jhansi, little does she realize the burden of greatness awaiting her.
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No Onions Nor Garlic
Srividya Natarajan
Amandeep, Murugesh, Rufus and Sundar are bucks who talk dirty for the same reason that they remove the mufflers from their motorcycle exhausts—it makes them feel like....
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Good Heavens!: One-Act Plays for Children
Poile Sengupta
The stage is a magical place, where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary and imagination rules supreme. ....
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Dance Like a Man
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‘Dattani’s work probes tangled attitudes in contemporary India towards communal differences, consumerism and gender . . . a brilliant contribution to Indian drama in English.’
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Water: A Novel
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Set in 1938 India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia.....
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Nyagrodha: The Ficus Chronicles
Kalpish Ratna
As their train puffs away into the distance, three runaway children—Lily, Vicky and Aman—are led by Makhmal Khan the monkey into the shimmering world of the forest ....
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Partitions
Kamleshwar
Kamleshwar’s Kitne Pakistan enjoys cult status as a novel that dared to ask crucial questions about the making and writing of history. While its main reference point is....
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Sadak Chhaap
Meher Pestonji
The day ten-year-old Rahul, part-time rag-picker, pickpocket and petty thief living footloose on the streets of Bombay, finds an abandoned baby on a railway platform,
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City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore
Edited by Bapsi Sidhwa
The ancient whore, the handmaiden of dimly remembered Hindu kings, the courtesan of Mughal emperors’, the ‘Paris of the East’, Lahore is more than the grandeur of Mughal....
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Selected Short Stories
Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) had one lament he often voiced to his friends and literary critics—that his short stories were not paid enough attention....
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City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore
Edited by Bapsi Sidhwa
The ancient whore, the handmaiden of dimly remembered Hindu kings, the courtesan of Mughal emperors’, the ‘Paris of the East’, Lahore is more than the grandeur of Mughal
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Shalimar The Clown
Salman Rushdie
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India.......
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The Year Before Sunset
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer
The year is 1946, and the sun is about to set on the British Empire in India. Even as widespread unrest and communal violence break out all over the country, sixteen-year-old....
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The Sari Shop
Rupa Bajwa
It is another working day in Amritsar, and Ramchand is late again. He runs through the narrow streets to Sevak Sari House.......
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The Last Song of Dusk
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Pirouetting between laughter and tears, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's technicolour debut tells the story of four extraordinary lives. Of Anuradha Gandharva, gifted with......
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The Veil of Illusion
Rebecca Ryman
It is 1871, fourteen years after the Indian Sepoy Mutiny. Olivia O’Rourke and Jai Raventhorne, survivors of scandal, who had married and had two...
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The Emperor's Ring: The Adventures of Feluda
Satyajit Ray
The search for a valuable scroll leads Feluda and his friends to a strange case of characters, and perhaps the most chilling case Feluda has ever been.......
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The Long Strider
Dom Moraes, Sarayu Srivatsa
In the early seventeenth century, Thomas Coryate, an eccentric Englishman, a writer and a wanderer, decided to walk from his village of Indies—to the court of the....
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Mila in Love
Dina Mehta
Playing gamely along with her sexually experienced roommate and sexually impatient boyfriend, Mila just doesn’t fit into California. Back she goes..
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The Legends of Pensam
Mamang Dai
‘We are not here without a purpose,’ the shaman explained. ‘Our purpose is to fulfil our destiny…All life is light and shadow.’
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Collected Stories, Volume 1
Shashi Deshpande
Not many readers of Shashi Deshpande may be aware that her first experiments in writing fiction started with the short story.........
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Tamas
Bhisham Sahni
One of the most thought-provoking and powerful novels written about the Partition....
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The Other Side of Silence
Urvashi Butalia
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the great human convulsions of history. The statistics are staggering. Twelve million people were displaced; a million died;....
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Collected Plays
Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays bring Indian drama.......
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In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones: The Original S
Arundhati Roy
In 1988, Arundhati Roy wrote the story and screenplay for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, a low-budget production produced and directed by Pradip Krishen. The film had
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Karachi A Terror Capital in the Making
Wilson John
Terrorism came to Karachi long before September 11, 2001, much before Maulana Masood Azhar stood in the courtyard of Binori Mosque Complex and announced Jihad against India....
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Bunker 13
Aniruddha Bahal
If you play out of your depth, and you don't pack what it takes to get out of a hole, you just sign up on what's headed your way.........
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Hangman's Journal
Shashi Warrier
Measuring out the rope, testing it, tying the knots—I have learnt to do these things well...
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Abandon: A Romance
Pico Iyer
John Macmillan is an Englishman in California studying Sufism, and in particular Rumi.........
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Endless Rain
Meena Arora Nayak
In the enchanted land of Kashir, the only casualty was peace . . .
On the evening of 17 December 1971, Indira Gandhi declares ceasefire against Pakistan.
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Transmission
Hari Kunzuru
Hari Kunzru's new novel is a heady mix of London, Bollywood and Silicon Valley Taking in three continents and following the lives of Guy, Arjun and Leela as they make
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A Grain of Sand: Chokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Rituparno Ghosh, Chokher Bali is Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore’s classic exposition of an extramarital....
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Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Vickram Chandra
In Vikram Chandra 's astonishing first novel, the gods Hanuman, Ganesha and Yama descend on a house in an Indian city to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain....
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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Hiding in Mumbai, he established a medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler and gunrunner for one of the most charismatic branches of the
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Burial at Sea
Khuswant Singh
In this, his first novella in five years, one of India’s most widely read authors returns to territories he knows best: twentieth-century Indian history, bogus religion,....
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That Man on the Road: Contemporary Telugu Short Fiction
Ranga Rao
The second anthology of Telugu short fiction edited by novelist, short-story writer, translator, teacher and critic, Ranga Rao, That Man on the Road is the successor to the....
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Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
Sasthi Brata
‘I now realize that leaving home was a gesture, like goodbye notes from failed suicides.
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Night of the Dark Trees: A Novel
Abraham Eraly
You shouldnt have been born at all the oracle said, lowering his voice and shaking his head. Having been born anyhow, you should have died in your first month.....
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What Would You Do to Save the World? Confessions of a Could-Have-Been Beauty Queen
Ira Trivedi
Riya has always had a secret ambition—winning the coveted Miss Indian Beauty crown.....
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