English Literature

Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of the book is Indian literature). The book contains essays that look for paradigms based on Indian text...

The Wind In The Willows (H.B)

Robinson Crusoe (H.B)

रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर...यह नाम हमारे हृदय के बहुत क़रीब है, जिसे देखते और सुनते ही मन में सम्मान, विस्मय और प्रेरणा के भाव पैदा होने लगते हैं। साथ ही, इस बहुमुखी प्रतिभा के बारे में और ज़्यादा जानने की उत्सुकता बढ़ने लगती है। उनके जीवनीकारों ने टैगोर क...

नेता जी सुभाष चंद बोस और उनकी पत्नी एमिली शेंकल के संबंधों के बारे में बहुत कम लोग जानते हैं। ये संबंध नेता जी के जीवन के सबसे कम ज्ञात पक्षों में से एक हैं। उन दोनों की मुलाक़ात जून 1934 में विएना में हुई थी और उन्होंने दिसम्बर 1937 में आस्ट्रिया...

About the Book -A socio-political thriller set in Kashmir from 1990 to 2013 -A coming-of-age novel that depicts the lives of three children and the choices destiny forces them to make -A multi-layered narrative that highlights different points of ...

The story of the timepiece: a collection of short stories, written by award-winning writer S.K. Pottekkat, aptly showcases the authors penchant for melding realism with Romanticism. These short stories, pottekkat’s favourite medium of creative exp...

The little prince is a tender tale of friendship, love and loss by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Originally published as Le petit prince, in French, it has been voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The story is told by...

The jungle Book is a children’s classic that remains a favourite of each generation that reads it. The unforgettable characters of Mowgli, the little boy raised by wolves; his teachers, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther; his enemies Sh...

In this epic novel, the author examines the very fibre of contemporary Indian life in terms of post-Independence and the post-Gandhian scene. Received the first prize for Excellence in Book Production 2011 (translation category) from the Federatio...

Narmada, the fifth longest river of the Indian subcontinent, has been the lifeline of its Valley since time immemorial. The river winds its way through four states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Post independence, governme...

Kids and Cubs (H.B)

About the Book Refers to the Naxalbari period in India and is situated in the communist Czechoslovakia of 1947 -This novel is a follow up of the first novel Ami Anupam on the Naxal movement in West Bengal published in 1976 -The novel is about lang...

Ami an up am (I, an up am) was first published in Bengali in the sharadiya Ananda bazaar in 1976, It was the first novel on the natal movement in West Bengal. It came out as a book in 1978, some prominent intellectuals of West Bengal had played a ...

The first novel of one of the best writers today, koveru kazhuthaigal is located in the early 1970s when ritual status and payment in kind were giving way to cash wages. It is a tapestry of despair, courage and a journey both outward and inward an...

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is an Evergreen children’s classic that takes the reader into a fantastic world of unforgettable characters. As the reader follows young Alice on her dream journey, she encounters memorable charact...

A Christmas Carol (H.B)

Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting (H.B)

Like Barbarians in India (H.B)

Daddy Long Legs (H.B)

This book tells a story about the shaping of the historical, social, cultural, religious, and political Canvas of Burma (now Myanmar) by two powerful events: the British colonial conquest and the Japanese occupation of the country during World War...

Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the butchering of unarmed innocents, is a historic event that haunts the human mind even after the lapse of a century. 1650 rounds fired in a matter of ten minutes, the blocking of exits, preventing help reaching the inj...

Evocative and crisp, Joginder Paul’s Urdu stories from Dharti ka Kaal are translated into English in land lust. His stories offer poignant glimpses of multiracial relations in colonial Kenya and evoke insightful moments of compassion from within h...

Ritwik Ghatak perhaps remains the most celebrated auteur of Partition narratives—not only has he completed eight masterly feature films before his premature death, his brilliance and eccentrics also got reflected as a film-theorist, critic, author...

Is a woman’s body her own? How far does her freedom extend? What can she do when social traditions, laws of the land and above all, prejudices of individuals, bind her down; make her a slave to her own identity and turn her into a commodity to be ...

Matira Manisha (‘The Man of the Soil’) is one of those uncommon artistic creations which prove that good art does not have to be convoluted or obscure. The novel’s enduring appeal lies in its very starkness. It is the story of an Odia peasant fami...

For years, Nepal was ravaged by a civil war. On one side were the King and the democratically elected government, on the other side were brutal Maoist revolutionaries who terrorized the countryside. After years of war, one night most members of th...

Love is divine, love is pristine. Love could be agony, love could be bliss. It’s God’s wonderful gift. All are not ordained to be smitten by the love bug; only the chosen few are lucky. For love, you need a heart that feels, that throbs, that is b...

While much work has been done on exploring the communal tensions of the Independence era and the lode of ‘partition stories’ has been sufficiently mined, the more recent past has not been examined in any systematic way. In this collection of ninet...

A tribute to one of India’s greatest personalities on the occasion of his hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary. The book highlights those incidents, anecdotes and issues that have often been overlooked but which, nonetheless, are significant.

This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions in South Africa. On the longlist of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010.