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• Author(s): Arpita Mitra • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book CompanyWhat is the meaning of life? Why do we suffer? How do we find joy and contentment? Such questions about the human condition have vexed men and women ...

• Author(s): Neema Majmudar • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book CompanyThe Bhagavad Gita, also known as the Gita, is one of the world’s oldest and most influential spiritual texts. Part of the Mahabharata, composed by ...

• Author(s): P. Chidambaram • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: EssaysWhat is the BJP's definition of nationalism? Why did the UPA government follow a policy of 'strategic restraint'? Why is MGNREGA an i...

• Author(s): Ruskin Bond • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Quotations'There is no greater desert or wilderness than to be without true friends.' In this beautiful collection, Ruskin Bond puts together ...

• Author(s): Manoj Nakra • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsJourneys with God is a compelling exploration of man’s engagement with God. Manoj Nakra presents an unbiased collection of spiritual experiences from di...

• Author(s): Shashi S Sharma • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsThis book studies the parameters of Islamic political practice. It examines the emergence of Islam as Conjoint religio political world view, wherein...

• Author(s): Farhat Nasreen • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsAn eyewitness account, the book unravels a complex web of relationships which were at play in 1857. Creme de la creme of Indian society was drawn tow...

• Author(s): Ramesh Menon • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsKrishna: Life and Song of the Blue God opens on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, when the great warrior Arjuna suffers a crisis of conscience. It is at ...

• Author(s): M. Krishnan • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book Company • BISAC: SuicideIf Ernest Hemingway were to write about ecology and nature, he would have written like Krishnan. - The Indian Express Of Birds and Bi...

• Author(s): John Stratton Hawley & Vasudha Narayanan • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book Company • BISAC: Yearbooks & AnnualsThe Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays-many recognized as classics ...

• Author(s): Devdutt Pattanaik • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book CompanyBefore nationalists and patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers ...

• Author(s): Sujeet Sarkar • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeopoliticsAn intimate and detailed account of how the haggard and faulty policies of the West have put Afghanistan on the brink of a deeper...

• Author(s): T S R Subramanian • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsA sequel to Journeys through Babudom and Netaland, Government in India: An Inside View is an analysis of the issues of government in India. The in...

• Author(s): Rajesh Kumar Thakur • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: SuicideA Children's Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor's pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be a part...

• Author(s): Dai Mamang • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book Company • BISAC: Essays In Search of the Indian Village: Stories and Reports captures the essence of rural India through the country's finest short fiction, c...

• Author(s): Makarand Paranjape • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism 9 February 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) erupted with 'anti-national' sl...

• Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsIndia and China: Together Forward is a pictorial essay on the relations between these two age-old civilizations. The two Asian dynamos have come closer in recent times by stren...

• Author(s): Purushottam Agrawal • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsMore than five hundred years after the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote his epic poem Padmavat, the story of Padmavati, princess of Simhal ...

• Author(s): B.G.Verghese • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeopoliticsA State in Denial by veteran journalist B.G. Verghese explores a subject of immense global significance - Pakistan, and where it i...

• Author(s): Terry O Brien • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: EncyclopediasThe phrase ‘raining cats and dogs' comes from Old Norse mythology and is related to Odin, the storm god;A ‘red herring' is a di...

• Author(s): Lok Raj Baral • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsFrom monarchy to oligarchy to a tryst with multiparty politics, Nepal’s political history has been characterized by instability. The multi-ethnic, mul...

• Author(s): Meghnad Desai • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesRecent events around the world have shaken old certainties. Questions are being asked about the survival o...

• Author(s): Saket Suman • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralWith his trademark wit and unique narrative style, journalist Saket Suman delivers an illuminating account of mo...

• Author(s): Jairam Ramesh • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: World - Asian1991 was India's 'Greece moment'. It faced an unprecedented financial crisis against the backdrop of political uncertainty and ...

• Author(s): Pradeep Gupta • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications'Election forecasting is a little bit like cricket—there is no room for complacency and each ball is a new one.' How are mandates made? How do people ...

• Author(s): Sandeep Kishore • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - General"Emotions are like shadows. They are an integral part of our personality and make us who we are. What happe...

• Author(s): M Hamid Ansari • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesDocumenting the interface between the citizens of a democratic nation and the multicultural society which...

• Author(s): Shekhar Gupta • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralIn the fourteen years of NDTV's Walk The Talk Shekhar Gupta has interviewed more than 600 stellar guests-an ou...

• Author(s): Bluekraft Digital Foundation • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Public Affairs & Administration It has not been long since the world faced the onslaught of COVID-19. Unprecedented in na...

• Author(s): R. Jagannathan • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsWe are amidst a battle between dharma and adharma. Bharat’s uniqueness is its dharmic character, held up by mainstream Hinduism and three other major...

• Author(s): Ayaz Kohli • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesJammu And Kashmir, 1987. In the hilly village of Pathri Aali, where legends appear true, Aslam and Ashwar, tw...

• Author(s): Subrata K. Mitra & Michael Liebig • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesKautilya who?' In India itself, Kautilya is mentioned for reasons that are more se...

• Author(s): Sid Sanghvi • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesThis is an unsparing dissection of the current education system by someone who has managed to wade throug...

• Author(s): Peter Ward Fay • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsThe last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's non-violence and Nehru's diplomacy. These associations obscure another reality-that an army of Indian...

• Author(s): Mir Khalid • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesIn 1989, an adolescent schoolboy from downtown Srinagar watched as his elders extricated themselves from univ...

• Author(s): Jaya Jaitley • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: PoliticalAn Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she wa...

• Author(s): Herjinder • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsIn an era dominated by the rapid evolution of technology and the pervasive influence of social media, the essence of democracy stands at a crossroads. The...

• Author(s): P. Chidambaram • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: EssaysAuthored by P. Chidambaram, one of India's best-known politicians, Standing Guard offers a keen economic and political analysis of In...

• Author(s): Kamal Davar • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralEver since its independence in 1947, Pakistan has been running away from its roots-directionless-and has cons...

• Author(s): Annie Zaidi • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book CompanyBantering with Bandits and Other True Tales of India is a collection of essays that draws upon reportage, travel, and personal history. The author loo...

• Author(s): Manish Tiwari • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Security (National & International)An insightful examination of the challenges that have characterized Indian foreign policy in recent y...

• Author(s): Pete Russo • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesWhile today’s global economy is experiencing a significant cycle of outsourcing across industries, leadership...

• Author(s): Satya Mohanty • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsIndia is staring at frightening inequality, with 1 per cent of its population holding the lion’s share of wealth. In Unpolitically Correct, former sen...

• Author(s): Derek O' Brien • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsDerek O’Brien, India’s favourite quizmaster and now an award-winning parliamentarian, has observed parliamentary proceedings from the first row of th...

• Author(s): Priyam Gandhi - Mody • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Security (National & International) In the Winter Session of Parliament in February 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posed a qu...

• Author(s): P. Chidambaram • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - TreatiesAuthored by P. Chidambaram, one of India's best-known politicians, Dwarpal offers a keen economic and pol...

• Author(s): Shreeman Chaulia • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Security (National & International) Is India too defensive and tolerant when its core national security is threatened? Has it been a...

• Author(s): Jairam Ramesh • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeneralIn November 1956, a unified Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh came into being. In February 2014, Parliament bifurcated it to cr...

• Author(s): Narain D. Batra • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Freedom On the morning of 15 August 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru, heir to Mahatma Gandhi, the Buddha and the European Enlightenm...

• Author(s): Hariharan S. • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsJithin’s parents locked him up immediately after he survived a brutal sexual assault, which eventually led him to attempt suicide. The angry red welts ...

• Author(s): Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath, Ganesh • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: International Relations - Trade & TariffsRising to the China Challenge is a stellar contribution to ...

• Author(s): Vinod Rai • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsThe bureaucracy in India has been a study in contradictions. On the one hand, it represents the dream job for an entire population of Indians who take the...

• Author(s): Hal Movius • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralIf you dread conflict, you're not alone. Research suggests that interpersonal conflict is the biggest daily stressor we ...

• Author(s): Jaswant Singh • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsThe events of 6 December 1992 shook India and were responsible for the Mumbai blasts of 1993. Against this backdrop of violence, exactly three months ...

• Author(s): Alison Edgar • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsTIRED OF NOT GETTING WHAT YOU WANT? Have you ever thought someone had everything when you looke...

• Author(s): Translated By Vasantha Surya • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious Thiruvaimozhi, a significant work in the Tamil Vaishnava canon, was c...

• Author(s): Shilpi Goyal • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Asian - General Reflections of a Wandering Heart is a poetic expression that makes you do some soul searching and introspection. It draws out...

• Author(s): Sujata Anandan • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeneralIndia and Germany: Dynamic Partnership illustrates the unique relationship marked by centuries of friendship and cooperation between...

• Author(s): Swati Chopra • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsWith poignant verses that resonate through the depths of the heart, this collection of poems explores the timeless themes of love, loss, joy and aliena...

• Author(s): Harlod J. Laski • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeneralHarold J. Laski's An Introduction to Politics outlines the functions of the State institutions, while highlighting the problems bet...