Fiction

  Details: The great empire of the Cholas was unexpected. It sprouted out of the blue in the Kaveri floodplain around 850 ce. Till then, the region had for centuries been dotted by self-governing village assemblies. From here, the Cholas established a vast empire, the first – and only –...

      Details: A NOVEL BY THE WINNER OF THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE AUTHOR OF GOAT DAYSThe Jews have been suffering under Roman occupation for centuries, hoping for a messiah from the House of David to come and liberate them. Jesus of Nazareth is reluctant, but...

  Details: An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho’s daily column of the same...

  Details: Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.''I found this book amazing'' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be...

  Details: The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab, in present-day Pakistan, Bullhe Shah drew profoundly upon Sufi mysticism in his writings. His lyrics, famous for their vivid style and outspoken denunciation of artificial religious divisions,...

   

    ‘A charming break from reality’ Publishers WeeklyWhen a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just needs someone to help her...

    Details: Calcutta, once the nucleus of the Raj, was at the heart of a thriving economy and unparalleled administration. Over the centuries, this teeming, cosmopolitan metropolis has become home to people from various communities who have lent its food and culture their distinctive tastes and culinary rituals. The...

  Details: ‘Just what we needed. The first comprehensive history of dining in Mumbai/Bombay, India’s food capital.’—Vir SanghviFrom the Kolis, who have been fishing in the city’s waters since much before recorded history, and early settlers such as the Pathare Prabhus, to the people who poured into the developing city...

    Details: Who is an ‘asli Dilliwala’—a true-blue Delhizen—and what is his cuisine? To answer this question, Pushpesh Pant, food historian and raconteur par excellence, takes us on a culinary journey from the Mahabharata’s Indraprastha—the first city of Delhi—to the present day, through the Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and...

    Details: In this dazzling book—which analyses scores of stories from the Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Yogavasishtha, among other texts—one of the world’s great scholars of Indian and world mythology writes about our myths, dreams and illusions and what they tell us about reality; about self and non-self; about...

    Details: ‘A fascinating book about the subcontinent’s culinary and gastronomic heritage from the Indus Valley civilization to the modern day. It overturns many of our most commonly held beliefs about Indian food and, indeed, Indian history.’ —Vir Sanghvi India has always been part of the global economy. For...

  Details: Chambers Essential Guide to Indian Culture outlines the nation's deep and diverse aesthetic, intellectual, athletic, and societal heritage. The scope of this comprehensive volume is not restricted to various forms of arts, festivals, and rituals alone, but it gathers within one cover indigenous sports, science, and astrology too....

  Details: SAA Rizvi’s The Wonder that was India–Volume II is a groundbreaking enquiry into the history of India during the period of Islamic political dominance in the subcontinent. Through meticulous research and painstaking study, Rizvi pieces together a comprehensive account of the five hundred years between the thirteenth and...

    Details: People all around the world are fascinated by Indian history, culture and the way people are still connected with their roots. This book covers comprehensive Indian history that includes culture, religion, governance, social evolution, tradition, languages, philosophy and science. It reveals the glorious pas of India from...

    Details: Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation but also...

      Details: The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and...

  Details: 'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5...

  Details: Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs an Indian spice shop in Oakland, California. While she dispenses the classic ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. For Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of...

  Details: Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices--in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play--to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an...

    Details: Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On...

    Details: भारत गांधी के बाद, रामचंद्र गुहा की अंतरराष्ट्रीय ख्यातिप्राप्त पुस्तक India After Gandhi का हिंदी रूपांतरण है। यह किताब 1947 के बाद के भारत की राजनीतिक, सामाजिक और सांस्कृतिक यात्रा का सिलसिलेवार और गहराई से किया गया दस्तावेज़ है। आमतौर पर भारतीय इतिहास की किताबें स्वतंत्रता संग्राम...

   

  Brand: Penguin Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Release Date: 30-01-2025 Part Number: 9781804993583 Details: 'A primer for the magical, near inexplicable world of quantum mechanics... Mind-blowing' Dara Ó BriainQuantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it...

  Details: This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to solving your problems. Hundreds of thousands of people have found this phenomenal breakthrough in psychotherapy a turning point in their lives. In sensible non-technical language, one of the world's best psychiatrists, Thomas A Harris, explains how to...

  Features: Language Published: English Binding: paperback Release Date: 01-12-2010 Details: This ground-breaking work explores in detail India's sexual fantasies and ideals, the unlit stage of desire where so much of our inner theatre takes place. Kakar's sources are textual in the main, celebrating the primacy of the story in...

  Details: For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some...

  Details: Keki Daruwalla Established Himself As A Name To Reckon With In Indian Poetry With The Publication Of His Very First Book, Under Orion (1970). With Nine Published Volumes So Far, Including The Keeper Of The Dead Which Won The Sahitya Akademi Award In 1984, And Landscapes, Which Won...

  Details: Samuel P. Huntington, one of the world’s most influential thinkers, argues in this seminal book that conflicts between different cultural ‘civilizations’ are the greatest threat to world peace. He suggests that the world is comprised of not two opposite but eight diverse groups, based on religion, and how...

    Details: From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human-rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories...

    Details: Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the...

  Details: The late 1970s and 1980s marked an era of energetic and dynamic feminist street theatre in India. Everywhere, across cities and towns, groups, both amateur and professional, many led by women, presented stunning, audacious, moving stories of everyday violence, sexism, abuse and women’s resilience and strength in countering...

'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written out of our history. From royalty and religion to fame and fury, see the...

    Edition: New edition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 80 Release Date: 10-02-2009 Part Number: 9780140157499 Details: No One Writes To The Colonel (International Writers) tells the poignant tale of a retired war veteran now spending his days in poverty. This colonel survived the Thousand Days' War and eagerly...

    Details: As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and 2011, the period of our best growth, there was also a substantial decline in the number of people below the poverty line. Since 2011, however, there has been a marked...

    Details: यह कथा-सम्राट प्रेमचंद की उन कालजयी कहानियों का संकलन है, जो भारतीय साहित्य की ही नहीं, बल्कि विश्व-साहित्य की भी अमूल्य धरोहर हैं। इन कहानियों में भारत के ग्रामीण समाज में गरीबी के प्रभाव को शिद्दत से दर्शाया गया है। गरीबी किस हद तक मानवीय संवेदनाओं को...

  Details: Meet thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine and the star of a stylish new detective series.Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case. And nothing gets bigger than saving the City...

  Details: A close reading of the persistent antagonisms in Indian history, Hindutva and Hind Swaraj focuses on the ideological clash between Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, representing the broader ideological, political, and cultural factions within Hindu and Indian society. The central argument is that this antagonism continues...

    Details: **AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4**Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the...

  Details: The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected_______________________________We all have ten types of human in our head.They're the people...

'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times'Riveting' Financial Times'Fascinating' ReutersWe are entering an age of energy crises and food shortages. This book reveals why.Meet the swashbuckling traders who supply the world with energy, food and metal.Their goal: To make billions by buying and selling raw materials - flogging Russian gas to Europe, Saudi oil...

    Details: The world's bestselling guide to negotiation.Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years, and in that time has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Including principles such as:Don't bargain over positionsSeparate the people from the...

    Details: What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper?...

  Details: THE BRAND-NEW, HILARIOUS DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOK!In Hot Mess, book 19 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is in for a particularly awkward summer with his whole family.When the Heffleys agree to spend summer break...

Author: Mohammad Umar Memon Brand: Penguin Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 25-07-2019 Details: Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the twentieth century. Featuring themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more, this collection features some of...

While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend Harry get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness.Whether you are looking at strengthening your relationships, discovering your true potential,...

  Details: First staged in Mumbai in 1991, Bravely Fought the Queen juggles between two spaces–center stage where an empirical drama removes the mask of hypocrisy from a seemingly ‘normal’ urban household; and a small, rear backdrop from where emerges the raison d’être of each protagonist. The family in focus...

  Brand: Penguin Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 74 Release Date: 20-04-2023 Details: Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, aging Bharatnatyam dancers, are engaged in finding a substitute mridangam player to accompany their daughter Lata at her performance at a high-profile dance festival. Lata, in the meantime, nervously awaits the...

  Details: You gave me the earth on which I could build a home good enough for you to live in. Come, when you find time from all your other chores. Maybe on some weekend, come!'. After Selected Poems, a collection of some of his best poetry was extremely well...

  Details: As a young boy, Amitav Ghosh's narrator travels across time through the tales of those around him, traversing the unreliable planes of memory, unmindful of physical, political and chronological borders. But as he grows older, he is haunted by a seemingly random act of violence. Bits and pieces...