ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 208PP) The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. The book begins with the…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 192PP) There is a vast cultural movement emerging from the Global South and sweeping all before it. India’s Shah Rukh Khan, after all, is the most popular actor in the world. Bollywood, Turkish soap operas called…
Rupa Publications India will publish Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics and Beyond by Dr Sandeep Shastri, commemorating the 113th birth anniversary of lndia’s second prime minister. This book is a nuanced view of the early influences, political associations and defining historical…
Book Name: The Monsters Still Lurk Author: Aruna Nambiar Publisher: Rupa Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.8/5 Book Blurb: It is 1991. As Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated and a new government comes to power, setting in motion a process of economic reforms…
Book Name: Agents of Change Author: Mike Thomas Publisher: Rupa Genre: Non-fiction/Self-help Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Both at work and at home, our lives are growing more and more hectic and it can be hard to survive, much less thrive,…
Sunil Ambekar, a high-ranking pracharak, throws light on the RSS, its functioning, outreach and vision for the future through his first-hand experiences. The book will be released by Sarsanghchalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat on I st October at Dr Ambedkar International…
It is said that Urdu poetry would be incomplete without two of its biggest pillars, Mir and Mirza Ghalib. Mirza Ghalib was a maverick character and has become immortal among the lovers of Urdu poetry. His status is legendary and…
Book Name: The Microphone Men Author: Priyadarshi Dutta Publisher: Indus Source Books Genre: History Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: A gripping accounts of how a few good men, without any inherited authority of military clout, laboured to shape the political destiny…
Book Name: The Shiva Sutras Author: Ranjit Chaudhri Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Spirituality Rating: 3.7/5 Book Blurb: As the legend has it, Lord Shiva appeared to Sage Vasugupta in a dream and instructed him to go to a particular stone near…
Book Name: Bathinda to Bangkok Author: Vibha Batra Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: Mahi’s back in the pavilion, but, ji, her dreams got mixed with mud. Hopes got crushum-crushed. Heart became pieces-pieces. As if life isn’t tatti enough, one after another new-new siyapas are…
Edward Snowden Tells His Story for the First Time in ‘Permanent Record,’ A Memoir that Reveals His Journey from Spy to Exile to Conscience of the Internet In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the…
Book Name: Innocence Lives in an Eyrie Author: Vaibhav Saini Publisher: Editorial Trance Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: “There’s a teenager outside the studio with a gun to his head. He is threatening to shoot himself unless you interview…