Arts, Literature and Humanities

This book explores fascinating aspects of India's diversified cultural base-monuments, art tradition, religion, philosophy, performing arts, and li...

A curfew was imposed that barred more than two people from meeting on the streets of Amrapur. The policemen had their fingers on the triggers, read...

Tales of Historic Delhi is the perfect guidebook for families visiting the city, and a whole new way to bring history alive. A Children’s Bookshel...

A delightful collection of stories written by the Hungarian artist, Elizabeth Sass Brunner, who came to India in 1930 along with her mother and mad...

Delicately and sensitively, the author guides her protagonist in her search for inner strength as she accepts both the beauty and the pain of her p...

This book celebrates India’s spectacular textile art. It takes the reader on a visual odyssey spanning 500 years, tracing the images created on clo...

Indian cinema is now almost synonymous with 'Bollywood', both within India and globally. But does this shorthand tell the whole story? Does it enco...

To grow up is to grow old. With time, great love can turn into indifference. This title compares Western and Eastern - specifically Chinese - ways ...

Personalty Development

The story of a man and his relationships with his mother, wife and girlfriend—set against a rapidly changing Indian landscape. The unique insights ...

Set in the turbulent 1920s against the backdrop of India's Freedom Movement, this novel is set in Munganda village-a microcosm of an India through ...

When erosion of ethical values is a global experience, human morals are fast decaying, religious fundamentalism is prompting fratricides, the teach...

New York City-based writer, Shaili Kapoor, is shocked to find out about her mother, Meena Kapoor’s, death. Meena had drowned herself in Pashan Lake...

Two murders, divided by several centuries. Is there a link between these two? This exciting book has received the first prize (General Books—Englis...

Dilliz Boyz has cameo descriptions of Delhi—its psyche and social fabric woven into the main storyline in a beautifully knit, seamless pattern. It ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s experiments with ink and colour come alive in this book. It shows how he gradually moved from diagrammatic abstract forms, cr...

Translated from the Bengali original, the book raises many socio-political, moral and feminist issues. The protagonist embodies the tension of the ...

A well-researched book on the universal resonance in Indian art and culture, covering the grand Indian heritage by providing an overview of the vis...

India has an astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting schools became virtually extinct with the decline of arist...

A tribute to one of India’s greatest personalities on the occasion of his hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary. The book highlights those inciden...

This book is perhaps the first ever to appear on a traditional painter of the past in India. Received a Certificate of Merit (Jacket, English categ...

In this richly photographed tribute to MF Husain, Pradeep Chandra celebrates the life of the man behind the artist in an attempt to understand the ...

An intricately woven saga of love, revenge and retribution, resonates with the ethos of karma. A 2010 award-winning title (first prize) by the Fede...

About the Book: Along the Red River: A Memoir This unique autobiography by veteran BBC and Associated Pressjournalist Sabita Goswami documents the ...

There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christiani...

What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had i...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary th...

This Very Short Introduction introduces the ways in which Spanish literature has been read, in and outside Spain, explaining misconceptions, outlin...

German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This Very Short Introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the mo...

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English ...

The delights of Indian art and poetry are brought to the young reader. A new world opens up, through some of the most important images of gods and ...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Wiring is fundamental to toy train operation, and this updated classic covers how to set up conventional wiring using today's technology. Key topic...

The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth centu...

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of litera...

The Raj summers in Mussoorie, amateur dramatics of the Mussoorie Theatre Group and more are woven together with long years of research in this pict...

This volume brings together six well-known plays- 'The Dread Departure', 'Deluge', 'The Terrorist', 'Dynasts', 'Begum Barve', and 'Mickey and the M...

The narrative of this brilliantly structured book moves on a parallel course between the past and the present, between rural Bengal and modern Kolk...

Mutual trust is an essential element of a globalized economy, and a market economy without trust leads only to further disaster. If we want to ensu...

This multi-layered story moves from the past to the present. Abha, Rekha and Simran pass through the portals of Delhi University on a roller coaste...

The book deals with the experiences of Robert, an American professor, who meets and falls in love with Anara, a young Kazakh girl. Robert invites A...

This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions i...

This book makes a detailed study of the functioning of India’s democracy on the one hand and the way India relates to the world on the other. It ex...

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, reve...

Three Plays

Utpal Dutt (1929–93), playwright, director and actor, an inspiration and role model for the activist theatre person. Whether through the proscenium...

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who...