‘Lakshmi is considered a restless goddess (chanchal), which means wealth brings value only when it is circulated, not locked up. Those who grab and lock her up, get profit (labh) without happiness, not prosperity with happiness (shubh-labh).’ ABOUT THE BOOK…
Aleph to Publish Not Just Another Story : A Novel by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 399, 208PP) When the rags-to-riches hit movie Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars in 2009, a Kolkata journalist was tasked with tracking down Lakshmi, a young girl from Sonagachi who had been part of an award-winning documentary about sex workers…
Aleph to Publish Gunboat Jack: A Novel by Timeri N. Murari
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 499, 328PP) Based on a real-life character, a legendary American boxer who lived in Bangalore in the 1960s and the 1970s, Timeri N. Murari’s novel tells us the thrilling story of a competition between two opponents, one…
Aleph to Publish The Merman and the Book of Power:A Qissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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…
Aleph to Publish NEW KINGS OF THE WORLD: The Rise and Rise of Eastern Pop Culture by Fatima Bhutto
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 to Publish Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics and Beyond by Dr Sandeep Shastri
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 Review: The Monsters Still Lurk by Aruna Nambiar
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 Review: Agents of Change by Mike Thomas
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,…
Rupa Publications to publish The RSS: Roadmaps for the 21st Century by Sunil Ambekar
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…
The rivalry between Mirza Ghalib and Zauq
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 Review: The Microphone Men by Priyadarshi Dutta
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…