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While presenting the Nobel Prize in literature to J. M. Brg Le clézio in 2008, The Nobel Committee called him the “author of new departures, poetic...

With subtle, bemused humour and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness o...

PRAISE FOR: "It was perhaps in the rancorous tumult of the breaking and making of nations that Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's word and vision was lost....

Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his father—his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the Scythe, and says this...

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, Inspectors, artists, musicians, ac...

Those who are free don’t realize it, But they live on a thin layer of Perforated, crumbly soil. They too can be swallowed up at any moment into the...

Like stars in the sky, Pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images. Each PIXEL...

For a fifteen-year-old, falling in love can Eclipse everything else in the world and make a few short weeks feel like a lifetime of experience. In ...

The year is 323 BCE. King Alexander of macedonia—alexander the great—lies paralysed by poison in his palace in Babylon. He is thirty-two years old,...

Victoria has recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown bucharest, where she works at a Bank. The Bank is robbed, she’s put on leave, and in p...

When a young reader once asked Franz Fuhmann if he considered his work to be Science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with...

In these times of heart-breaking violence, clashing religions and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at ...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes politics, economics, religion, society not fr...

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamrud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terroris...

Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn’t telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house ...

The dancing other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in ...

After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead with all their mysteries will no longer have any claim on him....

Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points...

During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th?...

Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer...

Daniell Comes to Judgment: New and Vintage Daruwalla is a collection of short stories by Keki N. Daruwalla, the acclaimed poet-cum-novelist of our ...

Across lives, cities and continents, melancholy and its tentacles inhabit spaces that are often left unexplored. Through ten stories and ten main p...

Chikankari is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs of Awadh. Chikanka...

The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to th...

Inspired by the first cultural expedition into the Western Himalayas by August Hermann France in 1909 which resulted in the region's Denomination a...

China's technological catch-up industrial development strategy is leading to lower energy use and less CO2 emissions in several of China's energy i...

Flavours of Avadh: journey from the royal banquet to the corner kitchen is the story of food and cooking from the palaces to the pavement of the Av...

Urban Development in Howrah is the first comprehensive effort to understand and analyse the various aspects of the urban development of the distric...

Sharbari Datta is the first designer to have revived and brought to the forefront men's ethnic wear in India Sharbari Datta has given kantha tradit...

Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, t...

Bangalore: Roots and Beyond

Sipra Das fulfilled her dream in this book capturing lives of the visually impaired, evoking awe and empathy instead of sympathy and pity among rea...

Chai: The Experience of Indian Tea is a journey into the heartlands of tea production, across the length and breadth of India, offering a glimpse i...

Other Lives, Other Fragments is a tale of fragmented identities, of lives broken and destroyed during violent times. It looks at the human story be...

As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, “one gains by losing and loses by ...

A timely update to the book on using the Market Profile method to trade Emerging over twenty years ago, Market Profile analysis continues to realiz...

One of the fundamental myths is that of the lost paradise; the past as a Golden Age. In certain spiritual traditions, the lost paradise is imagined...

Ashok Dilwali’s photographs of the Himalayas recapture the magic and majesty of Roerich’s genius. Following the same arduous path of the Russian ma...

Presenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True, 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats ki...

Despite Western culture roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no p...

Famous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a Worker’s Union movement in the 1930s, while India was under Bri...