Arts, Literature and Humanities

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are fromVenus,our gender differences can't compare to those of otheranimals. Forinstance: the male g...

The Postcolonial Mind: Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari

Ruskin Bond: The Mussoorie Years... is a delightful tribute to a friend of forty years. Ganesh Saili captures memorable moments in the life of Rusk...

Nicholas Roerich continues to arouse the interest of extensive scholarship, both adulatory and critical. Some give him the status of a demigod, whi...

This book is an attempt to analyse the need to realise that despite there being so many dates dedicated to women, there are 300-odd days when there...

These two delightful folktales from Bhutan are retold by one of the country's leading writers, Kunzang Choden. In Aunty Mouse, a poor young orphan ...

On Evil

When death comes and whispers to me, “Thy days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and not in mere time". A Tagore classic—a poetr...

Would You Like Some Bread with that Book? and Other Instances of Literary Love

Our Lives Our Words Telling Aravani Lifestories

Using humor and a contemporary voice, HUMAN SEXUALITY: FROM CELLS TO SOCIETY, International Edition engages readers to acquire a greater knowledge ...

One of the greatest works of poetry in the modern times, Tagore’s Gitanjali was originally published in Bengali on August 14, 1910 as a collection ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...

Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri probes the human condition in indifferent city streets and turbulent forests, looking at forms of love and betrayal, with th...

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and ...

Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Isla...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its o...

‘The eternal Dream is borne on the wings of ageless Light that rends the veil of the vague and goes across time weaving ceaseless patterns of Being...

This is a compilation of osho's discourses on some of the enlightened masters who were born in the east.

Lying critically wounded in hospital, Sean Varma tries desperately to decipher how he has come to be there, but his trauma prevents clarity and pus...

When one dies, one wants to go to Heaven. Right?Wrong!!!That is what St Peter tells the assembly of gods as he explains the falling market share of...

First published in 1973, Bharathipura is about the practice of untouchability in a traditional society that is evolving into modernity through new ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's My Early Life (1932)-an adaptation of his authoritative autobiography-is one of the earliest books developed by the Pr...

He tangles with a tantric lover, faces death in a meeting with his long-dead parents and flounders in the mirages of mind. We travel with him throu...

Examining the caste system, culture, religious rules, and traditions, as well as the ambivalent relationship between handed-down cultural values an...

The first step-by-step guidebook for successful innovation planning Unlike other books on the subject, 101 Design Methods approaches the practice o...

The film-script of The Quest (Moner Manush) is much more than a biography of Lalon Fakir. It reveals the stages of a simple young man’s emergence a...

About the Book: Baramulla Bomber An Ancient Weapon from the Vedas and Bible; Once Hunted by the Nazis Powered by the Sound of the Universe; Reborn ...

Reason Faith And Revolution

Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the au...

In recent times, religion-based educational disparities in India, especially between Hindus and Muslims, have been the focus of passionate debate. ...

This book is the result of the author’s long and close association with Ramkinkar Baij, one of the finest exponents of neo-Indian art and perhaps o...

Kavalam Narayana Panikkar is one of India’s most revered theatre directors. He has been writing and directing plays for the last four decades and e...

An active career spanning seven decades is unusual. And to describe Ashoka Gupta (1912-2008) simply as a ‘social worker’ is not enough. Till the la...

Zohra Segal: ‘Fatty’ is the story of the talented actress, in the words of her daughter, Kiran. It takes the reader through the life of Zohra, her ...

This “micro art history study” documents in its first part all known samples of anasara pati-paintings, i.e. annually produced pictures on cloth wh...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding ...

Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of livi...

Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory ter...

Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre bas...

Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ...

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more...

From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoki...

Violent Heroes are fighting, violence, violently, to end violence!! Escalation of violence has put life to hard times. People have sick bodies and ...

Nineteen forty-two, Delhi. A young Bengali England-returned journalist finds himself in the capital as the controversy over the Cripps Mission gath...