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In her mid-twenties, Madhu Tandan and her husband, Rajeev, left Delhi to live in a remote ashram amidst the Himalayas. Under the tutelage of the charismatic and mysterious Ashishda, the former English aircraft engineer turned Vaishnav guru, they lived a simple life with a 'soil to soul' philosophy, where every experience was viewed as an opportunity to grow. Living as a community in the Ashram came with its own challenges. Other than being ph...

The work of rescuing children from slavery is not for the faint of heart, as the twelve gut-wrenching accounts in this book will show. Harder still is to give them their life back, after they've been kidnapped, trafficked, sold, abused and made to work in horrific conditions, often for as long as they can remember. Pradeep was offered up for human sacrifice by his family, thought to be a bad omen, Devli was a third-generation slave in a stone ...

Santa Khurai was seventeen when she decided to start dressing like a woman. Born male, she had always believed herself to be female, and she claimed her feminine identity fiercely and openly. Her bold act of wearing dresses and makeup in public brought down upon her the wrath of her father, insults and ridicule wherever she went, and, frequently, beatings at the hands of the armed forces who are a constant presence in her native Manipur. The h...

Perhaps I should have asked questions about the ruby ring. What was its story? Where did it come from? But, at that young age, and in the societal milieu of the time (where fathers were somewhat aloof and not to be questioned), I did not...It was only much later that I unearthed the significance of the ring, and some of the mysteries it held-a lifetime later.' One evening in the early 1950s, when Ajit Singh Dutta was a young boy, his father ga...

They have lived on Planet Earth from well before the first apes and humans appeared. They lead fascinating lives that involve shooting, stinging, flying, jumping, biting, and more. Some can lift 500 times their body weight. Some others navigate their way using the stars or even the Milky Way. Some are deadly carriers of disease. And some pollinate more than one-third of our food sources. Together, they are essential for life on Earth to conti...

Spanning poems written over two decades, Anand Thakore's In Praise of Bone is a significant achievement. It displays his deep knowledge of the poetic form. He has written nocturnes and aubades, villanelles and sonnets, odes and dramatic monologues, apostrophes and ekphrastic poems, hymns and blues, picking the perfect tempo and tone to suit the contents. The poems in this collection are seeped in a wide range of emotions. They bravely linger i...

Behold! The Word is God contains a selection of 51 abhangas (devotional poems) from celebrated Bhakti poet Tukaram's vast oeuvre, each Marathi abhanga followed by two English interpretations-Shanta Gokhale's and Jerry Pinto's. Hailed as one of the greatest poets in the Marathi language, Tukaram composed poems that are packed with hidden layers of meaning. So, two independent translations of each abhanga give readers a chance to gain a deeper u...

The Modern History of Jammu and Kashmir, Volume Two: The Karan Singh Years (1949- 1967) examines the politics of the period that followed Maharaja Hari Singh's exile from the State in 1949. Focusing on Hari Singh's son, the book examines the history of Jammu and Kashmir through Yuvraj Karan Singh's journey from becoming the Regent at the young age of eighteen, then the Sadar-i-Riyasat and finally the Governor. During the challenging time when ...

Ghosts, derangements and strange happenings abound inVictorian fiction. Even more so in stories from the Raj written by English writers, overwhelmed, often unnerved, by the vast and alien land they ruled but could not quite come to grips with.To them, India's jungles, village squares and railway stations-even their own colonial bungalows-bristled with the long-dead, the undead, the unexplained and the terrible. Women writers of the Raj brought...

Every person has a story. That story will often feature a village and in that village, a home. My story, being no different, starts with my village, Chamtha...[which] stands at the sangam-the confluence-of four districts: Patna, Samasthipur, Begusarai and Vaishali.' Anjani Kumar Singh's memoir begins with these lines. In the pages that follow, we witness a remarkable life unfolding-a life that is a'sangam' of tradition and modernity, of forma...

Eleven-year-old Sridhar was fascinated by light. Growing up among a dozen siblings in a mud cottage in Chandannagar inWest Bengal, he longed to create something beautiful.A school drop-out who never studied beyond Class Eight, he taught himself about lights and electricity by doing odd jobs at an electrician's shop-an act that earned him a severe beating from his father. In spite of his family's opposition, he grew up to become a celebrated l...

The New Age of Bakasur begins when two young boys, Pradeep and Ravi, arrive in Delhi from Bhopal to spend a week with their uncle, Shekhar. They admire Shekhar for his relentless crusade against corruption. A well-respected police official, Shekhar has exposed several scams involving the rich and the powerful using innovative sting operations. As Pradeep and Ravi explore Delhi, their illusions about it being a model metropolis are shattered. T...

Every dog is a storyteller, but dogs do not write... So, once they find out you are a writer, they will want to tell you their stories, ask you to put them down... 'In my tongue they say you can never straighten a dog's tail. How much more difficult to straighten a dog's tales, then? And so I set them down for you in these pages... Only, be warned: these are the tales of a small dog, recorded. And all dogs are storytellers, and all storyteller...

The summer of 2021 saw a massive rise in the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 in India. Even by conservative estimates, at least 1.5 million people had lost their lives by June, several times the official figure. As in the first wave of the pandemic, this time, too, the chaos and suffering was in large measure, as Harsh Mander shows, due to mismanagement by an uncaring and cynical state. The first part of the book, 'Locking Down t...

The modern history of Jammu and Kashmir is often focused mainly on the Kashmir valley, leaving out the other regions that make up the bulk of the erstwhile Princely State. A similar limitation marks most discussions of the rule of the fourth-generation Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh. After his inheritance of the throne in 1925, Hari Singh introduced a number of progressive reforms-among them, programmes for girl educatio...

In the autumn of 1939, seventeen-year-old Sammi has been married for only twenty-one days when her husband, Hari Singh, an officer in the British Indian Army, is summoned to fight inWWII.The heartbroken couple bid each other goodbye. Sammi awaits Hari Singh's return in her village, Aliwala, a syncretic hamlet with Sufi bearings in the hinterland of Punjab. It is 1946 but there is no word from Hari Singh. He has been gone for nearly seven years...

Thirteen-year-old Maya is training to be a Halvard-someone who protects the Sands of Time, which keep the worlds of Olaman and Amrozan in balance. Battling intrigue and conspiracy, she comes face to face with the Warriors of the Shadows, who want to gain control over the Sands, and hence control time itself. For that, they need the Key, and in a strange twist of fate, Maya is the one who has it. With time running out, Maya must figure out who ...

It is the eighth century in South India during the rule of the Rashtrakutas. Indian philosophy is at its zenith, Ayurvedic knowledge is being compiled and the new Prakrit languages are being developed to read and write new texts. The heroine, Sharvay, is born into this world with many disadvantages. She is an orphan, the daughter of a dasi, a mixed-caste person of low social standing, bonded to the royal princess of Kavipura as a spittoon hol...

The period 1939-1949 was the most turbulent decade in modern Indian history-it saw the tumult of the SecondWorldWar, the unrest during the Quit India movement and the final phase of the freedom struggle, and the horrors of Partition.While most studies of this time focus chiefly on the defining contributions of the Indian nationalist leaders and the role played by the British, it is also important to record the efforts of millions of others in ...

Some time between the two World Wars, Syed Mujtaba Ali set out on ship from India to travel to Europe. Leaving Sri Lanka behind, sailing in the Arabian Sea and then along the coast of Africa, he crossed the Horn of Africa, until the ship reached Suez Port. Along the way, Ali collected a bunch of stories-about his new young friends Paul and Percy, who became his loyal acolytes, and the eccentric Abul Asfia Noor Uddin Muhammad Abdul Karim Siddiq...