Society & Culture

This is a new revised and edited edition of Mawdudi's Urdu Khutubat which covers themes such as Faith, Islam, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving, Pilgrima...

What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one's religion? Does one's faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a...

Tormented spectres wander the pages of this disquieting collection. Lock your door, turn up the lights and as you start to read, pray to be deliver...

I come from a country that was created at midnight When I almost died it was just after midday. .When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley i...

A fascinating book about the subcontinent’s culinary and gastronomic heritage from the Indus Valley civilization to the modern day. It overturns ma...

A young polish woman embarks on a tour of India and falls in love with the country. What does she find? She finds that India is quite different fro...

Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saint...

Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple ...

Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr’s biscuits, but once they had put on their overa...

In this powerful and insightful critique, the author examines the evolution of the Indian middle class during the twentieth century, especially sin...

Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capita...

1925. The Panchatantra is a collection of Indian animal fables, known in Europe as the Fables of Bidpai. The original work was in Sanskrit, and cou...

As A Commentator On The Worlds Of Love And Hate , India S Foremost Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar Has Isolated The Ambivalence, Peculiarly Indian, To M...

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational ...

Unique, eccentric, brilliant - this selection of the best of Boris so far covers such wide and wildly varied subjects as the mutation of the leftie...

A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and f...

“I defy any woman to flick through Modestly, through Dina’s musings on bullying, eating disorders, maternity wear, contouring and feminism, and no...

Michael Jackson died on June 25 2009 in Los Angeles, from of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication (according to Wikipedia). The one-time ...

Shivoham is the trainer behind Aamir Khan's muscular look in Dhoom 3, Sonakshi Sinha's bodacious curves in Dabangg, Jacqueline Fernandez's lean phy...

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to b...

Drinking has been as old as eating and it has been an important part of the Indian culture. The book is a treasure trove for those who have the pal...

Recently transplanted from the quiet suburbs of Minnesota to bustling Gurgaon, sixteen-year-old Anisha Rai is determined to hate her new life. Whil...

The Penguin Dictionary of Geography

Doniger could bring together Shakuntala and Marie Antoinette, Solomon and Shakespeare and so many others with such ease and lucidity in an endlessl...