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An absolute page-turner, this powerful short novel by Upamanyu Chatterjee—the celebrated author of English, August—is his most accessible book to d...

Where we go is usually decided spontaneously; one of us might say, 'Let's do a wine trip in France;' or 'We should go to Angkor before it's overrun...

There are different sizes of bodies. There are different shades of the mind. There are different states of mind in distress. Side Effects of Living...

Mia is ‘lucky’—she is spoiled by her mother and her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won’t be denied a coveted sw...

A shadowy warlord known only as Guldaar has built an empire based on drug-running, arms-dealing and cold-blooded murder across South Asia. A deadly...

In Ludhiana in the 1990s, everyone is waiting for life to be normal again. The Punjab insurgency has ended, and the city is trying to emerge from t...

A book of essays and observations by one of the finest humourists of all time Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow has remained a classic since it was f...

In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last wor...

…It looks like the rhythm of Shivapura life is upset. Even the seasons don’t keep time. The river looks wasted. The waves no longer run with a yout...

'I have become like a zombie, like a sleepwalker. And everything appears to be like a bad dream...nothing but a sleepwalker's dream...'June, along ...

Asian Absences is the contemplative and lyrical narrative of Wolfgang Büscher’s travels across India, Singapore, Nepal, Cambodia and Japan. While i...

The police snubbed Christopher and detained the driver; they interrogated him for about fifteen minutes and let him go...Christopher sauntered to t...

The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume INaguib Mahfouz is one of the most important writers in contemporary Arabic literature. Winner of...

Dalam epik ini, kisah Amba dan Bhisma dalam Mahabharata bertaut (dan bertabrakan) dengan kisah hidup dua orang Indonesia dengan latar kekerasan tah...

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Auto...

In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar’s poorest villages dug up a dead goat, cooked and ate it. Sixteen people died within d...

<Br>the horse is not indigenous to India, except in a few, small pockets. Even after it was brought to the subcontinent sometime between 2000...

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Poot...

In a small forest, a hare convinces his friends—a monkey, a jackal and a water-weasel—to share their food with the hungry. But when the hare finds ...

Ashok Kumar (1911–2001), fondly known as Dadamoni, is one of the great icons of Hindi cinema. This warm, intimate biography traces his remarkable j...

Nose, eyes, lips. Moving hands, running legs. In this beautiful little art book without words, a great painter shows little ones (and older ones, t...

The ghosts are everywhere. Most are ghosts of ideas, feelings, memories. These are our personal ghosts, and they follow us alone. But there are oth...

‘The freedom and beauty of the green outdoors—soft beds of grass and ferns; the caress of the breeze; the scent of flowers; birdsong and moonlight—...