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The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to b...

Sarojini Naidu: Her Way With Words

Samboli! means echcharike in Kannada ‘Be careful!’ Samboli! This expression is not from yesterday or the day before; it is centuries old.Manu, the ...

The traditional art of Ikat weaving has travelled across land and sea from Malaysia, and the Sambalpuri Ikat is one of the best- kept secrets of Od...

This play is a dramatised version of the first few chapters of Tagore’s novel Rajarshi, but the plot of the drama is a great improvement upon that ...

Rukmini Devi Arundale: Arts Revivalist and Institution Builder tells the story of an extraordinary woman who found herself in fortuitous circumstan...

Ritwik Ghatak, the famous filmmaker, is known all over India and abroad for some of the greatest films made in India, which set the scene for futur...

Reverse glass painting is a fascinating yet comparatively unknown facet of Indian art that flourished in the mid-19th century. Created by Chinese a...

A re-examination of the very idea of modernity in architecture, drawing from a number of diverse sources. This insightful analysis reveals that the...

Rereading Tagore

Narmada, the fifth longest river of the Indian subcontinent, has been the lifeline of its Valley since time immemorial. The river winds its way thr...

About the Book A detailed exploration of a stunning festival, which is of great importance to Indian culture and heritage -A comprehensive and holi...

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1833–86) was perhaps the most popularly known saint of 19th century India and an important figure in Bengali Renaissance. ...

About the Book Radha occupies a space which moves from the aesthetics of shringara rasa to the theology of shringara bhakti, from the madhurya of P...

The set contains five plays, five poetry collections and two books of essays. Available in a beautiful gift pack. These affordable, slim books reac...

Tagore’s chaturanga (quartet) is a short novella set in 19th century Bengal. The philosophical questions which are raised in the course of the stor...

On 25 may 1967, in an obscure village of Bengal, nine men, women, and children died in police firing, while trying to take possession of the surplu...

About the Book Rajas and maharajas from all over the British Indian Empire congregated in Delhi to attend the great Delhi Durbar of 1911. A new cap...

Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of t...

Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta owes its origin to its authors passionate desire to learn more about her Parsi heritage by enquiring into the communi...

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth - an...

About the Book A pictorial account of P C Sorcar's metamorphosis into the Maharaja of Magic from very humble beginnings - Provides the reader a clo...

The book challenges the popular notion of the Pahari painter being an anonymous craftsman plying predetermined strokes. When first published in Ger...

In Our Man in Warsaw, we embark on a transcendent journey with Chandran, a modern Indian computer engineer, seeking solace from a profound personal...

Have you ever wondered where you truly belong? Orange, the little grey fish, is tired of being different from everyone around him. In search of a s...

About the Book -A tragic historical novel, with mythical dimension and epic narrative, based on the battle of Karbala that took place on 10th Octob...

About the Book - Personal account of discovering the aura and flavor of Spain - Solo woman traveler's story - traveling beyond her comfort zone - E...

An insightful look into the muse and music of one of the greatest artists produced by India. The book follows Bismillah Khan as he grows from child...

Nilina’s Song is an engaging biography of the musician, Naina Devi, whose extraordinary life took her through fundamental changes of environment an...

An Account of My Life (Akhtar Iqbal) is second in the series of the memoirs of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, the ex-ruler of Bhopal, and carries on fro...

A dramatic encounter with a belligerent tiger a near-death experience, hunting for missing tigers, a mystifying leopard who attacks humans at will ...

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is ...

Evil is stalking the jungle. As tiger after tiger vanishes from Nagarhole Wildlife Reserve, despite sophisticated digital and human eyes on the gro...

Morarji Desai, India’s first non-Congress Prime Minister was a statesman who strode tall and erect on the vast stage of India’s political life for ...

Melody of a tear takes imagination to the next level. Zara, the suicide-prone protagonist of ambiguous gender, is raised as a son by her father. Sh...

The life of a literary giant, equally lauded and criticized… Pudumaipithan (1906-1948) is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short ...

In this classic play Tagore dramatised the concept that the religion of man is much higher than the religion of rituals and scriptures. The conflic...

Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sis...

Star-spotted Little Giraffe could barely reach the leaves on the lowest branches. She was the shortest one among her family and friends and she was...

About the Book -Unrivalled showcase of sixteenth-century Vijayanagara architecture and art -More than 200 images, specially commissioned from an ou...

Braj is the land of Krishna’s birth and childhood. Although towns and cities have replaced the verdant forests, hills, hamlets, streams and ponds o...

Legendotes of Hyderbad

Ladakh! The name conjures up images of a barren land with arid terrain, jagged peaks, and pristine lakes. Ladakh has been accorded an almost mythic...

The first major book on Kutiyattam—the vibrant theatre tradition that existed in India from the times of the Natya Sastra. It traces the history an...

Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

The first full-length narration of the extraordinary life, immense literary output and manifold philosophical perspectives of Kumarajiva, the great...