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Catalogue2021

CONTENTS

HIGHLIGHTS (JUL–SEP 2021)

FICTION

POETRY

NON-FICTION

BUSINESS

HINDI

CHILDREN

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HIGHLIGHTSJUL–SEP 2021

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HOMEBOUNDPUJA CHANGOIWALA

A Family. A Lockdown. A Journey.

For young Meher, living in Dharavi meant a life full of possibilities. Things were going well until the Indian government announced the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown. Soon, her parents are left jobless and stand to lose all – their home and their lives.

As Covid-19 cases in the Mumbai slum soar, Meher and her family realize they have no choice but to leave for their village in Rajasthan. With the ban on public movement, it becomes clear that they would have to walk the 900 kilometres, facing barbaric police officers, searing heat, wild beasts and indifferent deities.

A deeply moving story about family, survival and relentless hope, Homebound brings to the page the stark realities of those who have remained too long without a voice.

Puja Changoiwala is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been featured

across news networks, publications and more, including BBC, CNN, The Hindu, Guardian,

National Geographic and Al Jazeera.

Previously a senior correspondent with Hindustan Times, Puja is a recipient of the

International Centre for Journalists’ Covid-19 Reporting Award, the Laadli Media Award for

Gender Sensitivity, Red Ink Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism and the Iceland Writers

Award, among others.

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PRAISE FOR HOMEBOUND

‘A powerful, accessible, heart-wrenching novel.’ – Nilanjana Roy

‘A compelling reminder of what millions went through during those desperate months, when we were all being tested by fate.’

– Pritish Nandy

‘A poignant letter to our dystopian present. An elegy for the faceless and the nameless. [Homebound] is a striking document of

our times, a tour de force.’ – Hansal Mehta

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BOLLYWOOD BIWISMUSHTAQ SHIEKH

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Three months have passed since Kiara, superstar Aseem Khan’s wife, was attacked, and she’s finally woken up from her coma. She’s surrounded by her closest friends, Esha, fashion designer to the stars, and Deeya and Mubina, PR professionals extraordinaire.

And they all have the same question – who attacked their friend? As the friends rally around Kiara, their own lives begin to unravel. Will they make it? Will their friendship and careers survive? Shiekh’s dazzling novel takes us inside the homes, minds and parties of the rich and famous. Against the background of scandals and gossip, paparazzi and film shoots, this is, at the heart of it, a story about female friendship.

Mushtaq Shiekh’s résumé includes his highly

acclaimed work as a screenplay writer for Om

Shanti Om and Billu Barber. He is also the writer

of the wildly successful authorized biography of

Shahrukh Khan, Still Reading Khan, The Making of

Asoka, Devdas: The Indian Hamlet and The Making

of Om Shanti Om among others. His scripts have

been televised on national and private networks

with serials and telefilms such as Kahin Toh Hoga,

K Street Pali Hill, Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat, Kehna

Hain Kuch Mujhko, Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, Kasauti

Zindagi Ki recording some of the highest ratings in

the country.

BEST INTENTIONSSIMRAN DHIR

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Gayatri Mehra is tired of her parents trying to find her a suitable husband. She would much rather focus on the history journal she edits and leave the happily-ever-after to Nandini and Amar, her newly married sister and brother-in-law. But when the journal faces pressure to fall in line from the right-wing SSP, Gayatri is forced to seek help from Akshay Grewal, Amar’s brother.

Gayatri finds Akshay arrogant and unprincipled; he thinks she is naive and self-righteous.

Enter Vikram Gera, a self-made banker willing to go to any lengths to break into Delhi’s elite circles, even if it means stringing Gayatri along.

As Gayatri and Akshay try to salvage the situation at the journal, they realize that their siblings’ marriage is coming undone.

Politics, ambition and hard truths collide, and familial bonds are tested. But Akshay and Gayatri soon learn that while some things can’t be fixed, love often finds a way.

Best Intentions marks the arrival of an accomplished new voice.

Simran Dhir is a lawyer based in Delhi, where she

lives with her husband and five-year-old son. 

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THE HORIZONGAUTAM BHATIA

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‘Did we not once promise that we would always be honest with each other?’

‘I no longer ask for honesty. Just tell me a lie that I can forgive.’

After 2000 years, the Wall has been breached. As Mithila steps into a world unknown, her sister Minakshi tightens her grasp on a city bracing for chaos and violence under a red sky. The ghost of an old Revolution stalks the streets, while the shadow of a new one threatens to tear Sumer apart.

Spreading word about this historical transgression, Alvar and Mankala find themselves facing new perils in a City they can barely recognize – one torn between old fears and new desires, while caught in a deadly power struggle. But soon, they will know that the crossing of the Wall has consequences not just for the City – but for the world.

Gautam Bhatia is lawyer and writer. He was on

Forbes’s ‘30 under 30’ in 2018 for his achievements

in the area of constitutional law and was nominated

for the Hugo Award for the publication, Strange

Horizons.

THE INHUMAN PEACECommonwealth Empire Trilogy #2

YUDHANJAYA WIJERATNE

GENRE Fiction/Science FictionFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 404PRICE `299 RIGHTS World

It is ad 2034. Imagine that the British Empire never fell. Communism never happened. Britain conquered all that stood in her way, destroying the rebellions of the Americas and the British Raj.

Now the Angels Interitus orbit the earth, ready to wipe out entire cities at a moment’s notice with their tungsten bombs, and the dreadnoughts known as the Tin Soldiers march on all who would stand in Her Majesty’s path. In the middle of these grand and great political games, a little island called Ceylon floats peacefully in the waters of the Indian Ocean. Those who invaded it saw only the ruins of empire, and spent their lives planting tea and building holiday bungalows here.

But Ceylon is far from peaceful. Many things have happened. And many things are about to change.

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a science fiction author

and data scientist from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His

fiction includes Numbercaste, The Inhuman Race

and The Salvage Crew. His work has appeared in

Wired and Slate. He has been nominated for the

Nebula Award. He is the co-founder of Watchdog,

a fact-checking organization in Sri Lanka, and a

senior researcher with the Data, Algorithms and

Policy team at LIRNEasia, working around social

networks, misinformation and linguistics. He also

moonlights at the Scifi Economics Lab, building

games and lore for the open-source world of

Witness. Yudhanjaya blogs at www.yudhanjaya.

com and has been recognized as one of Forbes’s ‘30

under 30’ Asia 2021.

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MURDER IN OLD BOMBAYA Mystery

NEV MARCH

GENRE Fiction/CrimeFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 396PRICE `399 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

1892. Bombay is the centre of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but reread the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers. The case that catches Captain Jim’s attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by Adi, the widower of one of the victims – his certainty that his wife and her sister did not commit suicide – Captain Jim approaches the Parsee family and is hired to investigate what happened that terrible afternoon. But in a land of divided loyalties, asking questions is dangerous.

Captain Jim’s investigation disturbs the shadows that seem to follow the Framji family and triggers an ominous chain of events. And when the lively Lady Diana Framji joins the hunt for her sisters’ attackers, Captain Jim’s heart isn’t safe, either. Based on a true story and set against the vibrant backdrop of colonial India, Murder in Old Bombay – Nev March’s award-winning mystery brings a tumultuous historical age to life.

Nev March is the first Indian-born author to receive

the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America

Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Her debut

novel, Murder in Old Bombay was nominated for

five national awards (the Edgar, Barry, Anthony,

Macavity and Hammett Awards). Her novel was

selected as an Amazon’s Editor’s Pick. The New York

Times listed it as one of the ‘Best crime novels of

2020’. Nev teaches creative writing at the Rutgers-

Osher Institute.

A PLANE STORYANMOL MALIK

GENRE Fiction/RomanceFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 276PRICE `299 RIGHTS World

Jet Airways flight 9W124, Mumbai to Paris non-stop …

Seat 7A: Dev Thakur, a young man of twenty-seven, has just realized that he’s not having a shit month. He’s merely having a shit life. After starting a business in Mumbai which promptly went kaput, he sells off everything in his crappy apartment, and then impulsively blows away all the money on a one-way ticket to Paris for his ex’s wedding.

Seat 7B: Twenty-seven-year-old Tara Nath is a commissioning editor for an Indian publishing giant. She is used to being the subject of office gossip. She’s also used to being cautious and wary, but what good has that done her? So Tara is headed to Paris to crash her ex’s wedding.

What if 7A and 7B don’t like each other? But his ex is marrying her ex, and they must unite to achieve this very simple goal – to stop this wedding.

Anmol Malik studied creative writing from the

University of Warwick, England. After working at

Leo Burnett and UTV-Disney, she went on to lead

the script department at Yash Raj Films. Author,

singer and songwriter, she’s really just a girl doing

the best she can. She lives in a darling snowy

mansion with her three favourite pens and a fully

stocked tea and biscuit pantry in Herhead. Her first

book, Three Impossible Wishes, was published in

2020. You can follow her partly fictitious life on

Instagram: @ audreypiano and @anmolmalik5

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DAKHMAA Novel

K. HARI KUMAR

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A new city. A new home. A new life. Things seem perfect ... for a while.

Following their engagement, Anahita and Varun move in to an apartment in Malabar Hill, eager to begin their new life together. Unfortunately, nothing goes as expected and Anahita begins to witness things she cannot explain.

After sunset, a presence makes itself known in a manner that leaves Anahita terrified – but determined to find answers. Her search leads to a window named Parizaad: a woman who was haunted by phenomena she believed to be linked to a tower of silence, or dakhma, that is deeply affected by environmental changes.

As Anahita wades further into the mystery around the life and death of Parizaad, she uncovers a devastating secret that threatens many lives.

K. Hari Kumar is a novelist and screenwriter. He is

the author of India’s Most Haunted and is working

on a Hindi horror web series for a leading OTT

platform and a Malayalam film.

A pregnant Anahita moves in to an apartment in Malabar Hill with her husband, eager to begin a new phase in her life. Unfortunately, nothing goes as expected and Anahita begins to witness things she cannot explain.

It’s not long before a presence makes itself known in their new home. Appearing after dark the strange apparition leaves Anahita terrified – but determined to find answers. Her search leads to Parizaad: a woman who was haunted by phenomena she believed to be linked to a tower of silence, or dakhma, that is deeply affected by environmental changes.

As Anahita wades further into the mystery around the life and death of Parizaad, she uncovers a devastating secret – one that goes beyond nightmares and corpses.

A spine-chilling psychological thriller, Dakhma brings horror to the heart of the big city.

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‘A gripping psychological thriller with elements of truly spine-chilling horror.’

– SANGEETH SIVAN, film director

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WHERE STORIES GATHERPoems

KARUNA EZARA PARIKH

GENRE PoetryFORMAT B/HBPAGE EXTENT 128PRICE `399 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh’s first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most popular work alongside new material where she delves into a deeply personal realm, asking and answering questions of identity, memory, womanhood, and the heart. Her poem Pray for the World, published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in 2015, echoed around a bruised, grieving world, speaking directly to those bewildered and outraged by the moral contradictions of international politics. Again and again since then, Karuna’s subtle commentary has garnered wide readership. The collection marks her as a poet of the fragile human condition, with poetry that is urgent and lyrical, intimate and fiery, empathetic and hopeful.

Karuna  Ezara Parikh is a poet and writer, former

television anchor and model known widely for

her activism. She has written for  Vogue,  The

Wire,  Tehelka and  Lonely Planet  amongst others.

She is co-founder of the sustainable company The

Burlap People. Her novel, The Heart Asks Pleasure

First  released in 2020. This is her first book of

poems. She lives in Calcutta.

TEETHINGMEGHA RAO

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A story told in verse, Teething begins when Kochu, a young boy in Kerala, is caught kissing the neighbour’s son. All hell breaks loose, ending in Kochu taking his own life.

Years after the scandal, after discovering his suicide note, his oldest sister, Achu, sets out to uncover the mysteries of their dysfunctional family by putting pieces of their past back together. Along the way, she discovers things she had not noticed previously – their mother’s brokenness and obsession with the church, their father’s disturbing secrecy inside the bedroom, and, of course, their own individual traumas that stopped time altogether. Soon, Achu realizes that none of them will ever truly grow up until they live their lives all over again, from the very beginning.

Megha Rao is a confessional performance poet

and a surrealist artist. Her work has been featured

on platforms such as Penguin Random House

India, Firstpost, Open Road Review, New Asian

Writing, The Alipore Post, Spoken Fest, Why

Indian Men Rape and Thought Catalog. Megha

is a postgraduate in English literature from the

University of Nottingham, UK, and is currently

spending her time between Mumbai and Kerala.

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LOOKING FOR THE ENEMYMullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban

BETTE DAM

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For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of American and Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less.

Armed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief about a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar’s whereabouts.

The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, Looking for the Enemy is a woman journalist’s epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world’s most fragile states.

EXCERPT FROM LOOKING FOR THE ENEMY

I realized what I had to do: I had to find out who the enemy was. I suspected that

if I understood better who the enemy was, I would be better able to fathom the

war too. This enemy was a man of whom there were no photos, a man with only

one eye who had disappeared. I knew it wouldn’t be easy but I decided to start a

search for the real Taliban, a journalistic hunt for their mysterious leader Mullah

Omar, who was in hiding somewhere.

I went back to Aziz and asked him about Mullah Omar’s house again. I told him

that after my book about Karzai I was ready to start the much more challenging

quest for Mullah Omar. To get this difficult job done I would have to draw on

the connections I’d made and the experiences I’d had during my travels around

Afghanistan. I knew the risk of failure would be considerable. ‘But I want to

write about him,’ I said.

Aziz nodded in agreement. ‘You should,’ he said. ‘It’s time that people outside

Afghanistan learned more about him. I’ll take you to the house where he used

to live.’

Bette Dam is a Dutch investigative journalist who

made a career working in Afghanistan, Syria and

Iraq. She is currently a lecturer at the prestigious

Sciences Po university in Paris. She is also the author

of A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai

Came to Power.

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REMOThe Autobiography of Remo Fernandes

REMO FERNANDES

I sit, I think, I write my story of longing, of long ago I try to fit a lifetime in a hundred and fifty thousand words, blow by blow.

– Remo Fernandes, on writing his autobiography, from his song ‘Keep the Faith’

Remo is a legend: there’s no other word for him really.

When he started out as an unknown artist in 1970s Goa, Remo would record his first albums in his home studio and distribute them on his yellow scooter. But soon, he would become a national craze, with blockbuster hits to his credit in English and Hindi pop, and film music as well. His stage performances were sensational and brought his incredible musical talent to the fore.

Remo is an extraordinary memoir. It is the story of a rich and full life – filled with professional highs and lows as well as personal triumphs and tragedies – written with great zest, warmth and humour, and complete with hundreds of rare photographs and sketches from Remo’s personal collection.

‘A story of brave dreams and musical passions’

IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL

I sit, I think, I write my story of longing, of long ago I try to fit a lifetime in a hundred

and fifty thousand words, blow by blow.REMO , on writing his autobiography, from his song ‘Keep the Faith’

REMO FERNANDES is a legend: there’s no other word for him really.

When he started out as a relatively unknown artist in the 1970s, Remo would record his first albums in his home studio and distribute them around Goa on his yellow scooter. But soon, he was to become a national craze, with blockbuster hits to his credit in English and Hindi pop, and in film music as well. His stage performances were sensational and brought his incredible musical talent to the fore.

REMO is an extraordinary memoir. It is the story of a rich and full life – filled with professional highs and lows as well as personal triumphs and tragedies. Remo takes the reader along on a rollercoaster ride through his growing-up years, his travels, his musical journey, and his many adventures . . .

Written with great zest, warmth and humour, and complete with hundreds of photographs and sketches from Remo’s personal collection, this is a book that is a thrill and a joy to read.

REMO FERNANDES was born in Goa and grew up there in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied architecture in Bombay, busked and hitch-hiked his way through Europe and North Africa as a young man, and returned to Goa in his mid-twenties, with a resolve to pursue only the things he loved: music, art and writing.

His success with his first home-produced albums led to widespread fame and stardom. His chartbusting film songs and his albums were landmark hits for a generation of listeners. His innovative musical journey continues to this day: he recently composed and recorded a full-fledged opera on Mother Teresa.

Now in his late sixties, Remo divides his time between his ancestral home in Siolim, Goa and Porto in Portugal.

‘Remo Fernandes is a much-loved Goan institution, and his memoir serves up a fascinating slice of Goa’s social history. The book will be a treat for all his fans around the world.’ AMITAV GHOSH

‘From the opening chapter of his autobiography, Remo takes us on a journey of kaleidoscopic images from his memories of childhood, growing up in Goa. I can smell the streets, the cooking, the sea and the feni as my own memories return to me through his words. He tells the story of his passions and adventures in music and the arts in an educated but entertaining way. His love of his roots and his strong ties to his homeland givethis book authority and charmin abundance, all written in excellent English but with the spicy additions of Portuguese and Indian words and phrases for context.’ IAN ANDERSON

REMO IN PORTO, SEPTEMBER 2021

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PRAISE FOR REMO

‘From the opening chapter of his autobiography, Remo takes us on a journey of kaleidoscopic images from his memories of childhood, growing up in Goa. I can smell the streets, the cooking, the sea and the feni as my own memories return to me through his words. He tells the story of his passions and adventures in music and the arts in an educated but entertaining way. His love of his roots and his strong ties to his homeland give this book authority and charm in abundance, all in excellent English but with the spicy additions of Portuguese and Indian words and phrases for context.’ – Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

‘Remo Fernandes is a much-loved Goan institution, and his memoir serves up a fascinating slice of Goa’s social history. The book will be a treat for all his fans around the world.’ – Amitav Ghosh

Remo Fernandes was born and grew up in Goa

in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied architecture

in Bombay, busked and hitch-hiked his way

through Europe and North Africa for two years,

and returned to Goa in his mid-twenties, with

a resolve to pursue only the things he loves:

music, art and writing. His success with his first

home-produced albums led to widespread fame

and stardom. His incredible musical journey

continues to this day: he recently composed and

recorded a full-fledged opera on Mother Teresa.

Remo divides his time between his beloved Goa

and Porto in Portugal.

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NEHRUThe Debates that Defined India

TRIPURDAMAN SINGH AND ADEEL HUSSAIN

GENRE Non-fiction/PoliticsFORMAT Demy/HardbackPAGE EXTENT 292PRICE `699 RIGHTS World

As India’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru’s ideas shaped the political contours of the country and left an imprint so deep that his legacy continues to be debated furiously today. He may no longer be alive to answer his critics, but there was a time when he pitted himself vigorously against his opponents in the marketplace of ideas. It is this intellectually combative Nehru that we meet in this book – voicing ideological disagreements, forging political alliances, moulding political opinion, offering visions of the future.

This book illuminates four encounters Nehru had with contemporaries from across the political spectrum – Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Sardar Patel, Syama Prasad Mookerjee – that are critical to understanding his ideas, and his impress on the present.

Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy postdoctoral

fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,

University of London.

Adeel Hussain is an assistant professor at Leiden

University and a senior research affiliate at the

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law

and International Law in Heidelberg.

PRAISE FOR NEHRU

‘This book is an important contribution to the continuing evaluation of Nehru’s role in the crafting of modern India … this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic – and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today.’

– Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and author of Inglorious Empire

‘In exploring four controversies through the exchanges between Nehru and his main challengers, Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain have brought to life the intellectual vibrancy and excitement that surrounded the debates … Resurrecting these for today’s audiences is a public service.’

– Swapan Dasgupta, member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and author of Awakening Bharat Mata

‘Putting together Nehru’s correspondence and conversation with powerful rivals and colleagues, ranging from Jinnah to Sardar Patel, the authors have for the first time made available … the intense arguments that went into the making of modern India …’

– Faisal Devji, professor of Indian history, University of Oxford and author of Muslim Zion

‘[A book that] reminds us of an era when Indian politics thrummed with ideas and arguments, articulated with conviction and civility. There is much to learn from, and in turn to argue with, in this timely anthology of some of modern India’s most contentious – and still continuing – debates.’

– Sunil Khilnani, professor of politics and history, Ashoka University and author of The Idea of India

‘This insightful volume foregrounds hitherto little trodden dimensions of Nehru’s political ideology. It is likely to broach new debate on interesting issues like Nehru’s perception of Islam, Muslims and communism. Therefore, it is an endeavour to open up a new vista of perception about Pandit Nehru’s vision which makes it an exciting read.’

– Tahir Kamran, professor of history, Beaconhouse National University and author of Colonial Lahore

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KAMALA HARRISPhenomenal Woman

CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

GENRE Non-fiction/Politics | FORMAT Demy/Hardback | PAGE EXTENT 328 | PRICE `599 | RIGHTS World

‘We not only dream, we do. We not only see what has been, we see what can be. We shoot for the moon … We are bold, fearless, and ambitious. We are

undaunted in our belief that we shall overcome; that we will rise up.’

– Kamala Harris, inauguration night address

On 20 January 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America, making her the first person of Indian descent, and the first woman to reach this position. This was hardly surprising, for Kamala

– the daughter of a breast-cancer scientist Indian mother and a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics Jamaican father – has been known

to blaze a trail for herself in her chosen fields.

Fun ‘momala’ and aunt at home but hard-nosed, unsparing prosecutor and senator elsewhere, Kamala dons many hats. This biography focuses on the micro-histories that shaped Kamala Harris and celebrates her Asian and Jamaican heritage – with special attention to her India connect – and her

barrier-shattering ascent as a woman of colour coming to occupy one of the highest offices in the USA.

Chidanand Rajghatta’s masterful chronicling of Kamala’s life – her rise to candidature, the struggles and triumph in a messy, hard-won election despite

coming from a ‘non-traditional’ background – delivers an inspirational story of

a phenomenal woman.

Chidanand Rajghatta is the author of The Horse that Flew: How India’s Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings and Illiberal India: Gauri

Lankesh and the Age of Unreason. He is foreign editor and US bureau chief at The Times of India and one of the longest serving foreign

correspondents in Washington, DC.

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THE SIEGE OF DELHIAMARPAL SINGH

On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut. After months of increasing tension, sepoys pointedly refused to use the new cartridges supplied to them.

With the mutiny rapidly spreading to Delhi, it became imperative for the British to recapture the city as the success or failure of the uprising hinged entirely on its possession. It would take three months of bloody fighting for the British Delhi Field Force to defeat the rebel sepoys and recapture the city, a period in which it became unclear who besieged whom.

In The Siege of Delhi, historian Amarpal Singh comprehensively narrates the story from the uprising at Meerut to the climactic capture and sack of Delhi.

Amarpal Singh was born in Punjab and later moved

to the UK. He spent over twenty years working in

the software industry before turning to his real

interest, military history, and the exploration

and analysis of battlefields. His two books on the

Anglo-Sikh wars have been very well received.

PRAISE FOR THE SIEGE OF DELHI

‘The Siege of Delhi is that old-fashioned thing: a confirmed page-turner. Amarpal Singh’s scene-by-scene, blow-by-blow account of Delhi during the 1857 revolt brings before our eyes the chaos, the complexity, the drama, the contradictions and much else that characterized the Great Rebellion. In granular detail, but without losing sight of higher dynamics, he reconstructs the fall of the Mughal capital, and what was at stake both for the British and their Indian opponents. Vividly reconstructed and gripping in its pace, The Siege of Delhi is a must-read.’

– Manu S. Pillai, historian and author of The Ivory Throne and Rebel Sultans

‘The four summer months of 1857 when Delhi, called the heart of Hindustan, was the centre of the uprising were a turning point in the history of the Indian subcontinent. On Delhi depended the survival of the Mughal Empire and the East India Company. The Siege of Delhi describes the period with a sense of urgency and with painstaking details, based on contemporary and primary accounts, in an engaging narrative that offers new insights and information.’

– Rana Safvi, author of the Where Stones Speak trilogy on Delhi

‘A meticulous portrait of a city left to the mercy of the eclipsing Mughal court on the one hand and surmounting British authority on the other. Written with clarity and depth, it is Amarpal Singh’s extensive knowledge of military history that enlivens The Siege of Delhi. A valuable addition to the literature on the 1857 mutiny.’

– Aanchal Malhotra, oral historian and author of Remnants of a Separation

GENRE Non-fiction/HistoryFORMAT Royal/HBPAGE EXTENT 548 + 32 pp photo insertPRICE `799 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

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THE BOOK OF DOGAn Anthology Celebrating Our Beloved Best Friends

EDITED BY HEMALI SODHI

GENRE Non-fiction/AnthologyFORMAT 6”x8”/HBPAGE EXTENT 272PRICE `699 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

‘If you’re lucky, a dog will come into your life, steal your heart, and change everything’ – Anonymous The Book of Dog is a testament to how deeply dogs touch us, to the special bond we have with them and the special place they hold in our hearts and our lives. With forty-five original pieces including contributions from some of the country’s leading writers who are also dog lovers, it is a tribute to the wonderful dogs so many of us have known. A must-read for everyone who loves dogs, this is the perfect gift for a dog-lover friend, and a beautifully produced keepsake for any animal lover.

A dog person and a pet parent, Hemali Sodhi

describes her best days as those spent in the

company of dogs. She is passionate about books,

food and travel and is the founder of A Suitable

Agency.

The Book of Dog is a project to which the editor and each author has contributed for free. All royalties will go to registered animal

welfare charities.

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DESPERATELY SEEKING SHAH RUKH India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search

for Intimacy and Independence

SHRAYANA BHATTACHARYA

GENRE Non-fiction/Society and Culture | FORMAT Demy/HB | PAGE EXTENT 464 | PRICE `699 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

‘Intelligent, charming and quirky . . . an illuminating portrait of the dire state of gender relations in contemporary India.’

– Abhijit Banerjee

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories – the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries – of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom – or income – to follow their favourite actor.

A most unusual and compelling book on the female gaze, this is the story of how women have experienced post-liberalization India.

PRAISE FOR DESPERATELY SEEKING SHAH RUKH

‘How many books do you know that effortlessly navigate Shah Rukh Khan’s movies, recent economic theories, data on jobs, juicy gossip about the peculiarities of Delhi playboys, sociological narratives and a deep dive into the love-lives of young Indian

women? This intelligent, charming and quirky book, an illuminating portrait of the dire state of gender relations in contemporary India, does all that and more.

Read it.’ – Prof. Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Laureate for Economics

‘I loved the protagonist in this book, and I can identify with her. That is the brilliance, depth and concern that Shrayana covers, reveals and understands.

Shrayana is both mocking us, the class and gender she represents, as well as explaining our challenges. While it is a feminist book, it is also an intellectual discourse covering,

gender, class, social norms and the unforgettable Shah Rukh Khan. Being a fan myself, I felt sympathy with the protagonist. Welcome to a brilliant new writer; I felt

overwhelmed by her genius; the writing reminded me of Ruth Jhabvala who dissected as well as gave beautiful glimpses of Indian society in her books.’

– Prof. Devaki Jain, Padma Bhushan winner for contributions to social justice, women’s empowerment and feminist-economics in India

‘The personal and professional lives of Indian women across social classes come alive in these gripping stories anchored to our common love for Shah Rukh Khan. A must-

read for anyone who wants to make sense of contemporary India.’ – Snigdha Poonam, FT prize winner and

PEN America Literary Award longlist for non-fiction writing

‘Among the many contributions assessing what has happened in “development” in the thirty years of the “liberalization era” in India, Bhattacharya’s is a bold new

contribution, an intricately told tale of why the status of women has changed so little, even when so much else has changed. Her focus on gender struggles through the lens of Shah Rukh fandom leads to dazzling insights. This is social science at its very best –

enjoyable and deeply empathetic.’ – Lant Pritchett, Development Economist, Blavatnik School of Government,

Oxford University

Shrayana Bhattacharya trained in development economics at Delhi University

and Harvard University. Since 2014, in her role as an economist at a multilateral

development bank, she has focused on issues related to social policy and jobs. Prior

to this, she worked on research projects with the Centre for Policy Research, SEWA

Union and Institute of Social Studies Trust. She lives in New Delhi.

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TWELFTH FAILHara Vahi Jo Lada Nahi

ANURAG PATHAK

TRANSLATED BY GAUTAM CHOUBEY AND LALIT KUMAR

GENRE Non-fictionFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 176PRICE `199 RIGHTS World

Twelfth Fail is the extraordinary real-life story of Manoj Kumar Sharma, the academically challenged boy from Bhind, Morena who went on to become an additional commissioner of police (Mumbai). First published in Hindi, it became an instant bestseller and has sold over 50,000 copies.

Failure in class 12 did not deter Manoj from believing in his capabilities and preparing for one of the toughest exams in the country. The book, written by Manoj’s friend and fellow civil servant Anurag Pathak, offers an important lesson: Don’t let the fear of failure overpower you.

A powerfully dramatic narrative, Twelfth Fail is soon to be adapted for the big screen.

ANURAG PATHAK is an IAS officer based out of

Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. His first book Whatsapp

Par Kranti was an anthology of short stories based

on the impact of social media in today’s modern

world.

BEING RITUThe Unforgettable Story of Ritu Nanda

SATHYA SARAN

GENRE Non-fiction/BiographyFORMAT Royal/HBPAGE EXTENT 204 + 16 pp colour insertPRICE `699 RIGHTS World

Meet Ritu Nanda. As Raj Kapoor’s daughter, she was part of the first family of Bollywood. Her marriage to Rajan Nanda of the Escorts Group led to her joining another illustrious family. Yet, she went on to carve her own identity as an insurance advisor and even got her name into the Guinness Book of World Records!

Being Ritu is the story of a woman who shed her shyness and stepped into the limelight, taking on a variety of roles – entrepreneur, insurance advisor, author, negotiator and pioneer. It’s about her quiet determination, grace and courage as she lived every moment to its fullest, even while battling a dreaded disease, and touched the lives of everyone around her.

With tributes from her sambandhi Amitabh Bachchan, family members Randhir Kapoor, Rima Jain, Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor, as well as friends such as Karan Johar, Sonali Bendre, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gauri Khan and many others, this is the story of a woman like no other.

Sathya Saran is best known for her long association

with Femina, which she edited for twelve years.

She is also the author of a diverse variety of books.

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PARSI KITCHENTHE PARSI KITCHENA Memoir of Food and Family

ANAHiTA dHONdy

Forbes Asia’s ‘30 under 30’ and former chef–partner at SodaBottleopenerWala, Anahita Dhondy has spent the last decade taking her culinary heritage to ambitious new heights. The Parsi Kitchen is a warm and whimsical memoir about how she embraced the cuisine that she grew up with.

Weaving together stories of her close-knit, loving and slightly wacky family, Anahita writes with passion about being raised in a home where mealtimes brought joy to routine parts of the day. from her grandmother’s Ravo to a Bombay duck inspired by her travels through Gujarat, the recipes for some of her beloved dishes and the quirky tales behind them make for a delicious read.

A treasure trove of memories and beautifully photographed recipes, The Parsi Kitchen is a delightful ode to food, flavours and family.

Anahita Dhondy is former chef–partner at

SodaBottleOpenerWala, the Bombay Irani Café

and Bar chain. A passionate cook since the

age of ten and Le Cordon Bleu Grand Diplome

holder, she has won several awards and

accolades, including featuring on the ‘30 under

30’ Forbes Asia list 2019. This is her first book.

GENRE Non-fiction/FoodFORMAT Special size, 7”x9” PAGE EXTENT 196PRICE `999RIGhTs World

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5 7I first heard about Malido, a

Ravo-type sweet made

with suji, besan and

wholewheat, on my trip

to the Udwada Atash

Behram, the oldest

existing fire temple

in India. Like an Aate

Ka Halwa, Malido is made

in ghee, so it’s quite heavy

compared to Ravo.

The Dasturji’s (priest's) wife,

Rukshana, told me how they used to make

Malido in the olden days. The wheat was

coarsely ground, and a sample was sent to

the ‘ghantiwala’ who milled the wheat for the

entire village. To create the dough, almost

equal amounts of ghee and wheat were

kneaded in a thali. The dough is meant to

be crumbly, the kind of sandy

texture shortbread dough

has. It would then be rolled

into a big rotla (roti) and

roasted on a lakda nu

chullu (wood-fired stove)

until cooked on both sides

and biscuit-coloured. The

rotla was then grated—there

would be a crunch to it—after

which they would add chasni to it

and stir till it came together.

That was the traditional Malido recipe

technique. Today, just as Ravo is cooked at

home, Malido is prepared by the Dasturji's

family on auspicious days. It is evenly spread

on a thali greased with ghee, sprinkled with

dry fruits, and sliced and served with Daran

(a small roti) and Papdi (a crispy poori).

MALIDO, THE PARSI PRASAD

On my trip to Udwada, at the agiary (fire temple), Ruk-

shana Dastoor showed me how to make Malido.

Malido is prepared in the agiary and served as prasad.

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IMMUNITY+Revitalise in 28 Days

DR MICKEY MEHTA AND SANJEEV KAPOOR

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People want to do everything they can to strengthen their

immune system and stay healthy – especially in the face of a

global pandemic.

In Immunity+: Revitalise in 28 Days, acclaimed health guru

Dr Mickey Mehta and renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor

collaborate to create an easy-to-follow schedule to activate the

mind-body-and-spirit connection. Drawing from the best of

ancient wisdom and modern fitness techniques, Dr Mehta

shows you how to revive and restore your prana or life force.

Kapoor’s dishes are a treat for your taste buds while containing

the nutrients you will need to help fight off the most

stubborn diseases.

Your go-to source to enhance your body’s natural defences,

Immunity+ is an essential read.

Dr Mickey Mehta has been a leading global holistic health guru and

a corporate life coach for thirty-six years. His previous books include

Lose Weight Gain Shape (2019) and The Shoonyam Quotient (2017).

Sanjeev Kapoor is an Indian chef, TV host, entrepreneur and author

of several bestselling cookbooks.

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CANCER, YOU PICKED THE WRONG GIRLA Memoir

SHORMISTHA MUKHERJEE

GENRE Non-fictionFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 228PRICE `299RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

There’s nothing funny about cancer. But humour can help take away some of its terrible power.

In Cancer, You Picked the Wrong Girl, Shormistha Mukherjee offers a no-holds-barred account of her journey navigating a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Through getting a Brazilian wax and deliberating the pros and cons of breast reconstruction to finding a ‘setting’ in the chemo ward, it’s laughter that helped keep her fears in check.

It isn’t all ‘Cancer Lite’, though. Mukherjee packs some emotional sucker-punches and hard truths in this book, making it a small piece of comfort for anyone touched by cancer.

Co-founder of a digital agency, Shormistha

Mukherjee ran a very popular blog that featured

her undercover name agentgreenglass. She has

previously published a series of short fiction with

Juggernaut. She’s grateful to have survived breast

cancer and to be given another chance to make the

most of her life.

SKIN SENSEDr Kiran’s Guide to Being Beautiful

DR KIRAN SETHI

GENRE Non-fiction/Lifestyle/BeautyFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 224PRICE `299RIGHTS World

Urban living poses many challenges to the biggest organ of our body – the skin – pollution, weather, stress and lifestyle disease. Expert dermatologist, Dr Kiran Sethi provides cutting-edge advice on skincare and beauty. In Skin Sense, she puts down all her knowledge and shares hacks that will make for the perfect skincare routine.

From demystifying ingredients such as serums and retinols to collagen and vitamin A, Dr Sethi also tells you how to decode products and tools in the market. But, as beauty is skin-deep, Dr Sethi goes a step further and opens up her doctor’s diary to share nutrition-based advice and detailed meal plans that ensure you glow inside-out.

Skin Sense is the ultimate guide to flawless skin from one of India’s most sought-after dermatologists.

Dr Kiran Sethi, MD, is a skin, aesthetic and wellness

specialist. She has been interviewed for and has

written in various publications such as Vogue,

Harper’s Bazaar, Hindustan Times, The Times of

India, and more. Dr Sethi has been a co-host of a

number of TV shows for NDTV including Band Baaja

Bride and Get the Look, along with appearances on

CNBC, India Today, Aaj Tak and more.

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IN LOVE WITH DEATHA Mortal’s Guide to Unbridled Inner Happiness

SATISH KUMAR MODI

GENRE Non-fiction/Self-helpFORMAT Demy/HBPAGE EXTENT 212PRICE `599RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

The mere mention of the word ‘death’ is considered taboo in many cultures. People generally prefer to evade the topic rather than talk about it. In whatever way we accept this, death is the inevitable fate of every single person on earth. How do we come to terms with the inevitability of our own death? How do we live our lives with meaning? Will money lead us to happiness?

Satish Modi examines these questions and more in a moving, powerful, thought-provoking work based on his own reflections as well as the experiences of people from all walks of life. In Love with Death provides you with the bigger, holistic picture of life and how the key to unbridled inner happiness is beyond money, fame, power or other material pursuits.

The chairman of Modi Global Enterprises, Satish

Kumar Modi, is part of a family and a business

that plays a leading role in India and, increasingly,

around the world.

THE HAPPINESS TRAILThe Route to Success

RAMESH VENKATESWARAN

GENRE Non-fiction/InspirationalFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 232PRICE `399RIGHTS World

We live in a fast-paced and highly competitive world. The last few years have seen changes not experienced in centuries. Have all these developments increased our sense of well-being? Data seems to suggest otherwise!

The Happiness Trail shows us an attainable, contextual way to achieve the two seemingly complimentary goals, happiness and success, that we many a time discover to be contradictory.

Ramesh Venkateswaran lays down five easy-to-follow approaches to a happy and successful life in his book, which he calls the five I’s: Integrity, Interaction, Involve, Imbibe and Impact. Armed with this road map, the ever-elusive happiness seems within reach and success a natural consequence.

Ramesh Venkateswaran has donned many hats

over the years. After a successful stint in the

corporate world and as a corporate consultant and

trainer, he now devotes his time to teaching. He has

been an adjunct at his alma mater Indian Institute

of Management, Bangalore for close to three

decades. Ramesh is a co-founder, chairman and

volunteer at Vishwas, Society for Mental Health,

Bengaluru, a not-for-profit organization that offers

free counselling to people in emotional stress.

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THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOKAAKAR PATEL

ILLUSTRATED BY PENPENCILDRAW

GENRE Non-fictionFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 240PRICE `399RIGHTS World

We live in times when large numbers of people are participating in democracy in deeper and more meaningful ways. #MeToo, #NoCAA-NoNPR-NoNRC, #BLM have one thing in common: large scale participation by civil society and individuals, and the absence of organized political parties.

How can individuals make their participation more effective? The Anarchist Cookbook talks about ways in which the best campaigning organizations in the world effect change in democratic societies.

Learn the ways in which you can engage with others who are likeminded and see how a vibrant and participative action by citizens makes democracy better and more responsive.

Aakar Patel is a writer and columnist based in

Bangalore. He is the author of Our Hindu Rashtra:

What It Is. How We Got Here (2020).

ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY The Making of the Modern Indian Muslim

MOHAMMED WAJIHUDDIN

GENRE Non-Fiction/HistoryFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 256PRICE `399RIGHTS World

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) completed hundred years in December 2020. In December 1920, Mohammedan Anglo Oriental (MAO) College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in 1877, was transformed into AMU. Sir Syed also established the All India Mohammedan Educational Conference to infuse India’s Muslims with the spirit of modernism in the aftermath of 1857.

This book examines the role AMU has played in the making of the modern Indian Muslim. As Dr Zakir Hussain, AMU alumnus, former Vice-Chancellor, and President of India, said over fifty years ago, ‘The way Aligarh participates in various walks of life will determine the place of Muslims in India’s national life. The way India conducts itself towards Aligarh will largely determine the form that our national life will acquire in the future.’

Mohammed Wajihuddin is a senior assistant editor

with The Times of India, Mumbai. He writes on

issues of interest to Indian Muslims.

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THE DISRUPTORHow Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India

DEBASHISH MUKERJI

GENRE Non-Fiction/PoliticsFORMAT Demy/HBPAGE EXTENT 584 + 8 pp photo insertPRICE `599RIGHTS World

Vishwanath Pratap Singh, India’s seventh Prime Minister, struck Indian politics with the force of a tornado. Primarily remembered for implementing the recommendations of the Mandal Commission Report that provided reservations in central government services for the first time to the Other Backward Classes, he deserves a place in history for much more – from investigating murky defence deals as defence minister (which cost him his job) to bringing together a divided opposition to form a coalition government at the Centre.

V.P. Singh weathered repeated crises during his eleven-month prime ministerial tenure: the rise of insurgency in Kashmir, L.K. Advani’s rath yatra in support of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and, above all, the backlash that followed the Mandal report’s implementation.

The Disruptor is a richly detailed account of his extraordinarily eventful life, told in the context of his times.

Debashish Mukerji has been a journalist for

nearly forty years, having worked with numerous

publications including Hindustan Times, The Week

and Business Today. He has written extensively on

Uttar Pradesh and on national politics.

UNSHACKLING INDIA Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival

AJAY CHHIBBER AND SALMAN ANEES SOZ

GENRE Non-Fiction/EconomicsFORMAT Royal/PBPAGE EXTENT 464PRICE `599RIGHTS World

As India enters its seventy-fifth year of independence, it is clear that conventional policy is unlikely to combat the breadth of its challenges. Across a range of areas – human capital, technology, agriculture, finance, trade, public service delivery and more – new ideas must now be on the table. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed that India has a weak state that tries to control too much – and ends up stifling the economy and the inherent energies of its young population.

Unshackling India examines the question: Can India use the next twenty-five years, when it will reach the hundredth year of independence, to restructure not only its economy but rejuvenate its democratic energy and unshackle its potential – to become a genuinely developed economy by 2047?

Ajay Chhibber is distinguished visiting scholar

at the Institute of International Economic Policy,

George Washington University and non-resident

senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Washington,

D.C.

Salman Anees Soz is an economic development

expert, author, commentator and activist. He is a

former World Bank officer with experience across a

range of economic development issues.

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RESOLVEDUniting Nations in a Divided World

BAN KI-MOON

GENRE Non-fiction/MemoirFORMAT Royal/PBPAGE EXTENT 376 + 16 pp photo insertPRICE `599RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village. The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles until the United Nations rescued them. Young Ban grew up determined to repay this lifesaving generosity.

Resolved is his personal account of his decade at the helm of the organization during a period of historic turmoil and promise. Meeting challenges with a belief in the UN’s mission of peace, development and human rights, he steered the world body through a volatile period.

He offers a candid assessment of the people and events that shape our era and a bracing analysis of what lies ahead.

Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean diplomat and former

foreign minister who served as the eighth secretary-

general of the United Nations from January 2007

to December 2016. Throughout his career, Ban

worked to mobilize international efforts against a

slate of global pressures including climate change,

extreme poverty and armed conflict to make the

world a safer and more equitable place.

GENRE Non-fiction/Society and CultureFORMAT Demy/HBPAGE EXTENT 428 + 8 pp photo insertPRICE `699RIGHTS World

THE KASHMIR CONUNDRUM The Quest for Peace in a Troubled Land

GENERAL N.C. VIJ

Kashmir is one of the most intractable conflicts of the modern world. How does one make sense of the issue and look to the future?

In The Kashmir Conundrum, former Indian Army chief General N.C. Vij gives the complete picture. Starting with a history of the region, he covers the invasion and accession of the kingdom, the wars India and Pakistan have fought, the Pulwama attack of 2019, India’s surgical strike at Balakot, and the various formulae that have been tried to settle the issue, including the abrogation of the state’s special status.

This is an up-to-date account of the Kashmir conundrum from an army man who has engaged with it at the highest levels.

General N.C. Vij was the chief of army staff of the

Indian Army from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was

the director general of military operations during

the Kargil War. After his retirement, he set up

the National Disaster Management Authority and

was subsequently director of the Vivekananda

International Foundation, a New Delhi–based think

tank.

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HEROES OF 1971The Bravehearts of the War that Gave Birth to Bangladesh

EDITED BY RAJESH RAMACHANDRAN

GENRE Military HistoryFORMAT Demy/HBPAGE EXTENT 256PRICE `499RIGHTS World

Heroes of 1971 tells the stories of the soldiers who redrew the map of South Asia in what is still considered to be the most conclusive military victory, in a ‘just war’, after World War II. The book is an anthology of short essays on the fearless warriors who fought a heroic battle to help East Pakistan, the dramatis personae being the four Param Vir Chakra and seventy-six Maha Vir Chakra awardees.

Originally appearing in The Tribune, Chandigarh, as a series celebrating their comrades who fought in the war, the essays are written by serving and retired officers of the three services. The big-picture analyses by veterans, top bureaucrats and journalists help set the scene and understand the war better.

Rajesh Ramachandran is the editor of The Tribune,

Chandigarh, and a former editor-in-chief of

Outlook. His edited volume of essays, Martyrdom

to Freedom: 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh with

rare archival material and essays from historians

was published in 2019.

DECEMBER IN DACCAThe Indian Armed Forces and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

K.S. NAIR

GENRE Military HistoryFORMAT Demy/HBPAGE EXTENT 264PRICE `699RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

The 1971 war is described as one of the last ‘just wars’ of the 20th century, in which the side representing good triumphed unequivocally, indisputably and decisively. Given the scale of atrocity that was halted in its tracks by that war, observers are mystified why the numerous anecdotes – both poignant and heart-warming – which should have become part of India’s folklore and popular culture have failed to become iconic representations of Indian success.

December in Dacca seeks to right this wrong and to retell the story of the war while setting the context, offering some thoughts on why these stories are not better known and how bringing them to light could help India regain her sense of self.

K.S. Nair is the author of Ganesha’s Flyboys and The

Forgotten Few. He is a graduate of IIT Delhi and

IIM Bangalore, and has served at levels up to vice

president, CEO and director at several multinational

and boutique firms.

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KANPUR, 1857India’s Historic Battles: A Series

ANDREW WARD

SERIES EDITED BY SQN LDR RANA CHHINA (RETD)

GENRE Non-fiction/HistoryFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 200 (interspersed with colour photographs)PRICE `499RIGHTS World

Of all the horrors that blackened the uprising of 1857, none could match the atrocities committed at Kanpur.

In Kanpur, 1857 – part of a new series of books on India’s historic battles – historian Andrew Ward gives an unblinking account of the siege of the entrenchment into which the European community fled when the town’s four native regiments rebelled, the massacre at the ghat and the hacking to death of the surviving Europeans. Their slaughter would exacerbate the savage and indiscriminate killings the British were already carrying out, burning villages and condemning thousands of locals to flogging, degradation and the gallows.

This richly illustrated field guide draws on decades of research to depict the pitched battles, and the acts of heroism and sacrifice on both sides that were to be subsumed by campaigns of atrocity and terror.

Andrew Ward was raised in India and has returned

to it as a photographer, novelist and award-winning

historian. His novel, The Blood Seed, takes place in

Kanpur, and his history of the Kanpur uprising, Our

Bones Are Scattered, was universally praised by

reviewers in India, Britain and the United States.

He lives in California.

LUCKNOW, 1857India’s Historic Battles: A Series

ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES

SERIES EDITED BY SQN LDR RANA CHHINA (RETD)

GENRE Non-fiction/HistoryFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 176 (interspersed with colour photographs)PRICE `499RIGHTS World

The city of Lucknow was the epicentre of the uprising of 1857.

In Lucknow, 1857 – part of a new series of books on India’s historic battles – historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines the conflict in detail, from the British annexation of Awadh to the Indian response and the subsequent revolt by sepoys. The defeat of a unit of the East India Company’s army at Chinhat led immediately to the siege of the extensive British Residency in the heart of the city. Here, nearly 3000 people – British, Indian and Anglo-Indian – held out for four and a half months. The winter saw huge defensive barricades being built around Lucknow, but the British recapture was the inevitable outcome, with their superior firepower.

This richly illustrated field guide draws on Llewellyn-Jones’s intimate knowledge of the city to paint a vivid picture of the events that unfolded in this historic urban battlefield.

Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones studied Urdu and Hindi at

the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

She was awarded a first-class honours degree and

completed her PhD there that was subsequently

published as A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the

British and the City of Lucknow in 1985.

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YOUNG BLOODTen Terrifying College Tales

CHANDRIMA DAS

GENRE Non-fiction/Horror/SupernaturalFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 336PRICE `299RIGHTS World

Bored roommates use a planchette to contact a legendary ghost that haunts Pune University. Will she answer?

Is the abandoned Khairatabad Science College in Hyderabad really haunted? A gang of students break inside to investigate.

Nirav and Pavi love each other . . . most of the time. Will exploring a forbidden place inside IIT Kharagpur bring them closer?

From strange sightings to urban legends, from haunted buildings to not-so-friendly ghosts, colleges in India have their fair share of spine-tingling tales, be it Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, St. Bede’s College in Shimla or Delhi University. Young Blood is a collection of ten tales that reimagine college urban legends and true first-person accounts, that promises to terrify even die-hard fans of horror.

Chandrima Das has a BTech in computer science

from NIT Durgapur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

After a decade-long career in management

consulting she pursued her passion for writing. Her

digital debut The Talking Dead was a bestseller in

the horror category. She is based in Mumbai.

Praise for Young Blood

‘Masterfully written tales of horror ... an unmissable collector’s delight for genre fans.’ – Neil D’Silva

‘A compelling, creepy and entertaining campus road trip ... haunted by horrors both societal and supernatural.’ – Indrapramit Das

‘Fascinating orally circulated stories ... that straddle genres ... propulsive, entertaining, and of course, scary!’ – Aruni Kashyap

NOT JUST CRICKET A Reporter’s Journey Through Modern India

PRADEEP MAGAZINE

GENRE Non-fiction/MemoirFORMAT Demy/PB with flapsPAGE EXTENT 384PRICE `599RIGHTS World

‘A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving’ – Ramachandra Guha

Pradeep Magazine’s memoir is a story of lived, real experiences, of joy, sorrow, fear, loss and hope. Covering a wide timespan – from the Kashmir of the 1950s to terror-stricken Punjab, from the Mandir–Masjid divide and the impact of Mandal politics to a look at Pakistan in flux – Not Just Cricket is a fascinating portrait of our times.

At the core of the book is an account of some of the most epochal events in India’s cricketing history, woven around personal encounters with some well-known cricketers, where Magazine lays bare the vicious machinations that are a staple diet of sports governance and reveals hitherto unknown facts about the frictions that are inevitable in a game that dominates India’s sporting discourse.

Pradeep Magazine is a cricket writer, columnist and

former sports editor of The Pioneer, the India Today

e-paper and Hindustan Times. Widely travelled,

Magazine has covered international cricket in every

Test-playing nation; he is the author of the book

Not Quite Cricket which exposed the match-fixing

scandal much before it surfaced in 2000.  

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PURE EVILThe Bad Men of Bollywood

BALAJI VITTAL

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Sholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur’s arms with a sword in each hand.

Karz (1980): Kamini murders her husband by ramming him repeatedly with a jeep.

Mr India (1987): In his quest to conquer India, Mogambo kills hundreds of innocent citizens.

No, you don’t want to meet these Bollywood baddies in a dark alley; you may not escape with your life if you do.

In Pure Evil, Balaji Vittal examines, in delicious detail, the misdeeds of the gangster, the sly relative, the corrupt policeman, the psychopathic killer... A rollercoaster ride, looking at the changing face of the Hindi film villain.

Balaji Vittal is the co-author (with Anirudha

Bhattacharjee) of R.D. Burman: The Man, The

Music, which won the National Award for Best

Book on Cinema (2011), Gaata Rahe Mera Dil:

50 Classic Hindi Film Songs which won the MAMI

Award for Best Book on Cinema (2015) and the

highly acclaimed S.D. Burman: The Prince–Musician.

ONAM IN A NIGHTIEANJANA MENON

GENRE Non-fictionFORMAT B/PBPAGE EXTENT 240PRICE `399RIGHTS World

Tucked into the southern tip of India is a tropical paradise where holidaymakers go for memories and return with oversized mosquito bites. Paralysed by a pandemic, this picturesque region is no longer teeming with tourists. Only the doughty mosquitoes remain.

Somewhere halfway is a town wrapped around a giant roundabout where an ancient temple holds a million stories, a caretaker yearns for Toulouse, a tiny railway station harbours the ambition of a resort, a dog plays ball girl to tennis loving nuns and policewomen patrol on motorbikes.

Lolling on the balcony of her parent’s house, loafing around town, driving amid bullies careering her off the road and sparring with a drunk, Anjana Menon uncovers Kerala with the deftness of a trespasser.

Anjana Menon got sucked into a journalism

career that took her to Europe and Southeast Asia

before she returned to India as one of the founder

editors of Mint.  She recently co-authored the

bestseller What’s Your Story? The Essential Business

Storytelling Handbook.  This is her debut creative

non-fiction book. She divides her time between

London and Delhi.  

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FIELD NOTES FROM A WATERBORNE LANDBengal Beyond the Bhadralok

PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA

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When the three-decade-long communist rule in West Bengal was crumbling and had unleashed anarchy and violence, Parimal Bhattacharya travelled to different parts of the region, beyond the well-trodden urban centres – from the Sundarbans to Santiniketan, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from tribal Jangalmahal to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered a fascinating cast of characters and their remarkable tales. This book documents the missing narratives of these ‘other’ Bengalis, the largely invisible majority beyond the bhadralok that the rest of India knows.

Moving between the personal and the political, and between travelogue, journal and memoir, Field Notes from a Waterborne Land takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters.

Praise for Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

‘Brings us a Bengal the rest of India does not see or even know of ... a richly readable as well as deeply moving book’ – Ramachandra Guha

‘A work of deep scholarship as well as a poignant commentary on the lives of communities missing from the usual narratives of West Bengal’ – Jairam Ramesh

‘Mixes history, anecdotes, memories, social insights and political observations in prose that has a touch of magic’ – Maitreesh Ghatak

Parimal Bhattacharya is a bilingual writer and translator. He teaches in the department of

English, Maulana Azad College, Kolkata. His recent works include No Path in Darjeeling Is

Straight (2017) and Bells of Shangri-La (2019).

HANDLE WITH CARETravels with My Family (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

SHREYA SEN-HANDLEY

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‘Shreya’s desire for new experience, and her attention to detail, remind me of Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel writings. Never a dull moment!’

– Ruskin Bond

In Handle with Care, Shreya Sen-Handley chronicles her adventurous sojourns around the world, from Kolkata to Nottingham by way of New York, Paris, Dorset and Corfu, with a ‘quirky clan’ comprising her British husband, her two children, and their dog.

Combining her inimitable wit with a passion for describing their journeys with great verve and with observant detail, Shreya brings alive stories which will keep every armchair traveller hooked.

A blithe and zippy travelogue that will make you go places without moving an inch!

Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of Memoirs of

My Body (2017), which won the Best Non-fiction

Book of the year at the NWS Writing Awards 2018,

and the short-story collection Strange (2019). A

Welsh National Opera librettist, the first South

Asian woman to write international opera, she

has collaborated with WNO on their film series

Creating Change in 2020, and 200-performer

multicultural opera Migrations touring Britain to

open in 2022. Her play Quiet was staged in London

by Tara Theatre in 2021.

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THE COLOUR OF GODAyESHA S. CHAUdHry

This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield them from racism. The author explores the joys and sorrows of growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household, wedding grand historical narratives of colonialism and migration to the small intimate heartbreaks of modern life. In revisiting the beliefs and ideals she was raised with, Chaudhry invites us to reimagine our ideas of self and family, state and citizenship, love and loss.

Ayesha S. Chaudhry was born in Toronto and

earned her PhD from New York University. She

is a professor of Gender and Islamic Studies. She

teaches at the University of British Columbia

and lives in Vancouver.

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‘engrossing’ – Monica Ali

‘Heartbreaking and really funny’ – Ross Gay

‘This book fell into my heart’ – Sabrina Mahfouz

‘The kind of authentic voice that is rarely heard’ – Saima Mir

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THE NON-SERIOUS GUIDE TO BENGALI FOODArPAN rOy AKA THE BONg SENSE

Humorous, quirky and clever, The non-serious Guide to Bengali Food by the author and creator of the immensely popular page and property, The Bong Sense, is your answer to everything you’ve ever wondered about Bengali cuisine

Inside this guide, you’ll learn, among other things, ‘the ancient art of cooking a fish’, find the answers to questions like ‘what is a full-blown Bengali feast like?’ and find out all you need to know about the ‘mighty roshogolla’.

exploring the food and eating habits of the Bengali community, this book dissects the food-loving community and their quirks when it comes to cooking and consumption. from the obsession with fish to firm opinions on biryani, the book also delves into the historical and geographical background of popular Bengali cuisine.

Arpan Roy is an atomic physicist based in

Singapore who discovered his passion for writing

humour during his PhD. Although away from

India for the last two decades, he nurtures an

almost academic curiosity about Indian society and

culture. Columnist for CNN, Arpan has also created

Bong Sense, a page to chronicle Bengali culture in

bite-sized illustrations and doodles.

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INDOMITABLEA Working Woman’s Notes on Work, Life and Leadership

ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA

GENRE Business/Memoir | FORMAT Royal/HB | PAGE EXTENT 348 | PRICE `699 | RIGHTS World

Indomitable is the story of Arundhati Bhattacharya, the India CEO of Salesforce and former chairman of SBI. In this inspirational memoir, Arundhati takes the reader through the challenges of her life – growing up in the sleepy towns of Bhilai and Bokaro, how she overcame adversities and rose up to become a successful banker.

Starting off at the age of twenty-one as a probationary officer at SBI, she became the first woman to head the public sector bank by taking every post as a new challenge and embracing it. In this candid, emotive account, Arundhati lays down her rules for work, life and leadership. The book will inspire not only working women but also every common person who aspires to make it big in life.

Arundhati Bhattacharya is the CEO of Salesforce India. She is a retired Indian banker and was the first woman to be the chairman of State Bank of India.

EXCERPT FROM INDOMITABLE

On 8 November 2016 at 2.30 p.m., I received a call from the RBI deputy governor’s office requesting I attend a meeting at 6.30 p.m. When I asked what the agenda was or whether I

should come prepared to discuss any particular area, I was told to come without any preparation. That didn’t seem to bode well, but by then, I had schooled myself not to worry unnecessarily

(easier said than done).

On arrival at RBI, I found a number of other bank CEOs already assembled and the rest trickled in soon after. None of us knew the agenda, but it was obvious something big was in the offing. Soon all the deputy governors other than R. Gandhi walked in. The conversation started with stressed assets as usual, and went on to other areas such as capital raising, technology, etc. At about, 7.50 p.m., a number of other RBI officials walked in and the TV was switched on. At 8 p.m. sharp, the prime minister came on and we heard about demonetization along with the rest of the nation. For a few minutes, there was stunned silence as we tried to digest what we

were hearing. In about four hours, all the Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes – comprising 86 per cent by value of notes in circulation in an economy where 12 per cent was in cash – would no longer be legal tender! Banks would be closed for one day to receive the new notes in their branches,

and would have to start exchanging the old notes for the new. Thirty-six hours! That’s all we had to supply the new notes to our branches, work out the processes for the exchange, change the IT system so that cashiers get a new screen with additional columns for the new Rs 2,000 and Rs

500 notes and the accounting for the same.

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STARTUP MYTHS AND MODELSWhat You Won’t Learn in Business School

RIZWAN VIRK

GENRE Business/EntrepreneurshipFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 288PRICE `499 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed – from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions. This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths – legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley – Rizwan Virk provides startup models – frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life.

Rizwan Virk is a successful entrepreneur, video

game pioneer and venture capitalist, and founder

of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT.

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Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.

This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths—legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley—Rizwan Virk provides startup models—frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life.

In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneur-ship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company.

Virk combines lessons learned the hard way during his twenty-five years of founding, investing in, and advising startups with reflections from well-known venture capitalists and experts. His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure.

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Startup Myths and Models“Fortify yourself on this book’s rich experience and insights before you set out.”

R A NDY KOMI SA R , partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, author of The Monk and the Riddle and Straight Talk for Startups

“If you are going on the entrepreneur’s journey, this book is a great companion for every stage of the adventure!”

B R A D FEL D , cofounder of Foundry Group and author of #GiveFirst and Venture Deals

“When launching a new business, there’s no one I’d rather have at my side than Riz Virk. His book Startup Myths and Models is the next-best thing.”

MI TCHEL L L I U , cofounder of SLIVER.tv, Theta Labs, and Tapjoy

“In Startup Myths and Models, Rizwan Virk debunks common misconceptions about life in Startup Land. Both funny and wise, this book is a worth

while read for any entrepreneur.”JEFFR EY B USSGA NG , Harvard Business School, general partner at

Flybridge Capital Partners, and author of Mastering the VC Game

“I’ve founded five companies, made angel investments in over one hundred, and served on numerous startup boards—I wish I’d had a book like this before I started!”

MI CHA EL DOR NB RO OK , COO of Harmonix (makers of Guitar Hero), member of Common Angels, and VP of marketing at InfoCom (makers of Zork)

“Startup Myths and Models is one of the best textbooks for founders who are going through accelerators (and, of course, for those who aren’t).”

PAT R I L EY , CEO of GAN (Global Accelerator Network)

Riz wan Virk is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT. A graduate of MIT and Stanford, he is also the author of Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior (2013); Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success (2017); and The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game (2019).

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OUTLAST How ESG Can Benefit Your Business

MUKUND RAJAN AND COL. RAJEEV KUMAR

GENRE Non-Fiction/Environment/BusinessFORMAT Royal/HBPAGE EXTENT 368PRICE `699 RIGHTS World

Black-swan events, global warming, COVID-19 and a host of other natural and man-made disasters have tested the resilience of businesses across the world. Usually, blame for business failures is apportioned to external factors. However, the causes often lie within corporations – short-term thinking, destruction of natural resources, exploitation of labour and poor management, to name a few.

To outlast their competition, build resilience, gain competitive advantage and achieve greater returns in the long run, businesses must improve their performance on material ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) metrics. The benefits that ensue include more efficient use of resources, lower cost of operations, reduced risk, greater higher employee productivity and increased investor interest.

Outlast: How ESG Can Benefit Your Business is a clarion call to corporate leaders to follow the pathway of ESG. This is a timely must-read for all those who belong to, or aspire to be part of, the corporate world.

Mukund Rajan is the chairman of ECube Investment

Advisors. Previously, he served as brand custodian

and chief ethics officer of the Tata Group, and

chairman of the Tata Global Sustainability Council.

Col. Rajeev Kumar is a strategic communications

consultant and a fellow of the International

Association of Business Communicators.

LONGLISTED FOR THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019

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THE COMPLETE FINANCIAL HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s Conglomerate Masterpiece

ADAM J. MEAD

GENRE Business/InvestingFORMAT Royal/PBPAGE EXTENT 782PRICE `799 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

The first comprehensive and detailed financial history of Berkshire Hathaway in one book, in chronological format.

Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the reader can examine the development of the modern-day conglomerate year-by-year and decade-by-decade, watching as the struggling textile company morphs into what it has become today. This comprehensive analysis distils over 10,000 pages of research material, including Buffett’s chairman’s letters, Berkshire Hathaway annual reports and SEC filings, annual meeting transcripts, subsidiary financials, and more. The analysis of each year is supplemented with Buffett’s own commentary where relevant, and examines all important acquisitions, investments, and other capital allocation decisions.

Adam J. Mead is the CEO and chief investment

officer of Mead Capital Management, LLC, a New

Hampshire–based Registered Investment Advisor

he founded in 2014.

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CHAND NIGAL GAYI GULZAR SAHAB KI KAVITAEIN

SABA MAHMOOD BASHIR

TRANSLATED BY ANU SINGH CHOUDHARY

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Gulzar Sahab is arguably the most well-known contemporary poet who writes in Hindustani. As a poet, he occupies a unique place being a Progressive poet in popular culture. His poetry appeals to all strata of society, without compromising on literary merit. In Chand Nigal Gayi, the Hindi translation of I Swallowed the Moon, Saba Bashir attempts to analyse what makes Gulzar the poet he is. What is his signature style? What are the issues that concern his poetry and what are the recurrent images in it? She also draws a parallel between the poet’s film and non-film poetry and points out how they are used interchangeably. Including the most comprehensive list of all of Gulzar’s poems, film and non-film songs, this is a valuable addition to the corpus of work on a great poet.

Saba Mahmood Bashir is a poet, author and

translator. Her first book was a collection of

poems, Memory Past (2006) brought out by

Writers’ Workshop. She has also translated Gulzar’s

screenplays of Premchand’s Godaan and Nirmala

and Other Stories.

NAZARIYA JEET KA Apne Jeevan Mein Asaadhaaran Parinaam Kaise Laayein

JEFF KELLER

TRANSLATED BY DHEERAJ KUMAR AGARWAL

GENRE Non-fiction/Self-HelpFORMAT Demy/PBPAGE EXTENT 232PRICE `299 RIGHTS World

The all-time bestseller The Winning Attitude is now available for Hindi readers too!

As a motivational speaker and coach, one question that Jeff Keller often gets asked is ‘What separates successful people from everyone else?’ His answer is an overwhelming stress on the ‘right attitude’. In fact, it always boils down to what Jeff popularly refers to as the ‘winning attitude’. No matter where you are on your journey of self-development, a winning attitude will always be the differentiator as Jeff shows in example after example, covering virtually all the important aspects of our life. This book presents fifty-four golden principles that can dramatically change your life. Read it, enjoy it, apply the principles and you will create extraordinary results in your life.

Jeff Keller, president of Attitude is Everything, Inc.,

works with organizations that want to develop

achievers and with people who want to reach their

full potential. Jeff is also the author of the best-

selling book, Attitude Is Everything.

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The Kingdom of Kofu is ruled by the brave king Rissho. Its people are courageous and skilled in war. With one exception. Prince Kadis, the sixteen-year-old heir to the kingdom. He is not brave. He is not courageous. He is not skilled in war. Kadis knows in his heart that he does not fit in. That he is different. That he is a coward.

Until one day, a seemingly chance encounter changes his life completely. The timid prince and his two young friends embark on an epic trip to bring peace to the warring kingdoms of Kofu and Molonga.

Will the young prince overcome his fears and will peace win against war? Will Prince Kadis discover that a sword doesn’t make you brave, your heart does ...

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the Kingdom. He is not brave. He is not courageous. He is not skilled in war.

That he is a coward.

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Armed with the mystical sword of Kofu, the timid prince and his two young friends, embark on an epic trip to bring peace to the warring kingdoms of Kofu and Molonga.

Will the young prince overcome his fears and will peace win against war? Will Prince Kadis discover that a sword doesn't make you brave, your heart does …

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the Kingdom. He is not brave. He is not courageous. He is not skilled in war.

That he is a coward.

Until one day, a seemingly chance encounter changes his life completely …

Armed with the mystical sword of Kofu, the timid prince and his two young friends, embark on an epic trip to bring peace to the warring kingdoms of Kofu and Molonga.

Will the young prince overcome his fears and will peace win against war? Will Prince Kadis discover that a sword doesn't make you brave, your heart does …

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the Kingdom. He is not brave. He is not courageous. He is not skilled in war.

That he is a coward.

Until one day, a seemingly chance encounter changes his life completely …

Armed with the mystical sword of Kofu, the timid prince and his two young friends, embark on an epic trip to bring peace to the warring kingdoms of Kofu and Molonga.

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The Kingdom of Kofu is ruled by the brave King Rissho. Its people are courageous and skilled in war. With one exception. Prince Kadis, the sixteen-year-old heir to

the Kingdom. He is not brave. He is not courageous. He is not skilled in war.

That he is a coward.

Until one day, a seemingly chance encounter changes his life completely …

Armed with the mystical sword of Kofu, the timid prince and his two young friends, embark on an epic trip to bring peace to the warring kingdoms of Kofu and Molonga.

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Jugal Hansraj is a film actor, writer and National Award–winning film director, originally from

Mumbai, India. He began working in films first as a child actor – Masoom (1983) being the most

notable. His first book as author, Cross Connection – The Big Circus Adventure, was published in

2017. This is his second novel. He is currently based in New York.

Ruchi Shah is a book illustrator/wall artist. She is an alumnus of University of the Arts, London and

IDC, IIT Bombay. She received the Charles Wallace Scholarship in 2012 through the British Council.

Her works explore places, spaces, materials and stories of everyday life.

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IRA SAXENA AND NILIMA SINHA

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A book that celebrates 75 years of India’s independence!

India’s Freedom Story traces the country’s extraordinary journey to attain freedom from the British.

This book brings alive the key events of the freedom struggle such as: the arrival of the East India Company; the Great Indian Uprising; Gandhi’s emergence as a leader; salt satyagraha; Partition; and the Indian Constitution.

It discusses the role of political thinkers like Raja Rammohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Abul Kalam Azad, Vallabhbhai Patel and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and recounts the true stories of courage, grit and resistance of the freedom fighters.

India’s Freedom Story also explores the broader idea of freedom and what it means to today’s youth.

A child psychologist, writer and critic of children’s books, Ira Saxena has written

fiction and non-fiction in Hindi and English for children of all ages and adults.

Her writings are mostly based on themes such as computer crime, science fiction

and Gandhism. She received the Shankar’s Silver Medal for Writing in 1996 for

Gajmukta ki Talaash.

 

Nilima Sinha is a well-known author for children, who has written several

award-winning books. Her books have been included in the International

White Ravens catalogue by the International Youth Library. She is the president

of the Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC).

Arun Pottirayil is an illustrator with more than twenty years of experience

in digital and hand-drawn illustrations. A self-taught artist with a passion

for illustrating, Pottirayil previously worked with Dorling Kindersley, mostly

illustrating for DK Eyewitness Travel guides. He is a post-graduate in English

literature from Government Victoria College, Kerala.

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to

life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we

step out from the old to the new – when an age ends, and when the soul of a

nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." Jawaharlal Nehru, 15th August 1947

‘The entire history of India’s struggle for freedom comes alive in this extensively researched volume ... A wonderful gift from the authors to today’s children.’

Deepa Agarwal, popular children’s author

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CATThe SMS Detective Agency Book 2

RAVI SUBRAMANIAN

ILLUSTRATED BY ISHAAN DASGUPTA AND AYESHE SADR

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Ravi Subramanian is back with the second book in the delightful detective fiction series!

The charming hill town of Solan is playing host to the cricketing match of the year – a match between India and Australia. Naturally, its close-knit community is all abuzz! Not only are the top cricketing stars going to descend upon them, but also the glamorous film star married to the dashing cricket captain. Will India manage to snatch a much-needed victory from the Aussies, is the big question.

However, even before the match begins, it seems this victory might be slipping away. All because of a missing feline.

Enter the Super Mystery Solvers or the SMS gang of Aditya and Akriti, the nine-year-old twins, and their close friend Kabir. Can they find the missing cat and help India win this crucial match?

Ravi Subramanian is the award-winning author of nine novels. His

stories are set against the backdrop of the financial services industry.

He has won the Economist Crossword Book Award for three years in

a row, as well as the Golden Quill Readers’ Choice Award. This is Ravi’s

first fiction series for children. Visit him at www.ravisubramanian.in

Ayeshe Sadr and Ishaan Dasgupta work together out of their small

studio currently in New Delhi, India. A textile designer and a graphic

designer respectively, Ayeshe and Ishaan found a common love for

illustration and created 211 Studio in 2009. They have worked on a

wide variety of illustration projects, ranging from children’s books, food

packaging and wedding cards to restaurant murals.

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MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI

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terrorises his people. A sea monster threatens a fishing village.

✳These five folktales retold here by

Musharraf Ali Farooqi capture the monster lore from South Asia’s different regions and the heroic men, women and

children who defeated these  monsters.✳

Beautifully illustrated by Michelle Farooqi, this collection showcases some of the fiercest monsters and most

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A fire demon devastates a mountain community. A dev of Qaf imprisons a pari. A tribe of devs invade and destroy a kingdom. A cannibal giant from Gilgit terrorizes his people. A sea monster threatens a fishing village.

These five folktales retold here by Musharraf Ali Farooqi capture the monster lore from South Asia’s different regions and the heroic men, women and children who defeated these monsters.

Beautifully illustrated by Michelle Farooqi, this collection showcases some of the fiercest monsters and most ingenious heroes from South Asian folklore.

Dev who allows me to visit here a few times a year with my custodians. They have now flown to Koh Qaf to alert Toraban Dev. He is sure to land on Earth soon, and will find out what has happened as he has many spies among the bats that fly the night skies, the rats that scurry on the ground, and the toads who keep an eye on what happens near water. Once he finds out that it was you who had stolen my wings, he will hunt you down and kill you, for you are no match for his  power.’

Prince Saif said to Badri Jamala, ‘I am sorry that I stole your wings, making you a prisoner on Earth, just as Toraban Dev holds you prisoner on Koh Qaf. The sight of you is ample reward for all the years I’ve spent searching for you. I do not wish for anything more.’

Prince Saif brought out Badri Jamala’s wings from the cave and returned them to her, saying, ‘You are now free to go where you please. As for Toraban Dev, you may leave him to me, and be sure that he will never disturb your peace. Today I will put an end to his mischief or give my life fighting him. This is the least I can do for you.’

Badri Jamala was pleased to have her wings back. She put them on, and her body became luminous again. She said to Prince Saif, ‘You are a generous man, and I will help you against Toraban Dev in every way possible. Even though I now have my wings, I cannot fly you out of here. The moment I rise into the air, Toraban Dev will see me. He will swoop down on us in an instant. The only thing that can help us is a magical sword that lies at the base of the mountain. That | 22

Dev who allows me to visit here a few times a year with my custodians. They have now flown to Koh Qaf to alert Toraban Dev. He is sure to land on Earth soon, and will find out what has happened as he has many spies among the bats that fly the night skies, the rats that scurry on the ground, and the toads who keep an eye on what happens near water. Once he finds out that it was you who had stolen my wings, he will hunt you down and kill you, for you are no match for his  power.’

Prince Saif said to Badri Jamala, ‘I am sorry that I stole your wings, making you a prisoner on Earth, just as Toraban Dev holds you prisoner on Koh Qaf. The sight of you is ample reward for all the years I’ve spent searching for you. I do not wish for anything more.’

Prince Saif brought out Badri Jamala’s wings from the cave and returned them to her, saying, ‘You are now free to go where you please. As for Toraban Dev, you may leave him to me, and be sure that he will never disturb your peace. Today I will put an end to his mischief or give my life fighting him. This is the least I can do for you.’

Badri Jamala was pleased to have her wings back. She put them on, and her body became luminous again. She said to Prince Saif, ‘You are a generous man, and I will help you against Toraban Dev in every way possible. Even though I now have my wings, I cannot fly you out of here. The moment I rise into the air, Toraban Dev will see me. He will swoop down on us in an instant. The only thing that can help us is a magical sword that lies at the base of the mountain. That | 22

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist and translator. He is the founder of the interactive

storytelling programme Storykit. His latest work is The Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa.

His work can be seen here: www.micromaf.com

Michelle Farooqi has illustrated Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s children’s books, The Amazing Moustaches

of Moochhander the Iron Man, Rabbit Rap: A Fable for the 21st Century and Tik-Tik:The Master of

Time. Her work can be seen here: www.michellefarooqi.com

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CORAL WOMANDive into the Majestic World of Coral Reefs with Uma Mani!

LUBAINA BANDUKWALA

ILLUSTRATED BY SANKET PETHKAR

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Written by Lubaina Bandukwala

“Beautifully written with illustrations to match. A powerful reminder that no matter our location or level of experience in the water, we all have an important role to play as a voice for our oceans.”

JEFF ORLOWSKI, Director of Chasing Coral, Chasing Ice, The Social Dilemma

Step into the ocean. Walk into the deep. Feel the silence. See its wonders come alive before your eyes – the fantastic

shapes, vibrant colours, the gliding and darting of sea creatures. Welcome to the coral reef with Uma Mani, painter of corals

and passionate advocate of coral conservation.

Based on a film of the same name by Priya Thuvassery, Coral Woman is the story of Uma Mani – a story that is as inspiring as the lady herself. It is the story of a 50-year-old homemaker who

found the courage to do something as novel and intimidating as diving into the deep seas to see for herself the corals that fascinated her.

This book is a one-of-a-kind look at India’s coral reefs and the dangers that they face, which in turn

impact marine life and the coastal communities they shelter. It is a starting point to explore how each one of us

can make a difference to our planet.

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Go on. Take that dive. Now.

Step into the ocean. Walk into the deep. Feel the silence. See its wonders come alive before your eyes – the fantastic shapes, vibrant colours, the gliding and darting of sea creatures. Welcome to the coral reef with Uma Mani, painter of corals and passionate advocate of coral conservation.

Based on a film of the same name by Priya Thuvassery, Coral Woman is the story of Uma Mani, a tale that is as inspiring as the lady herself. It is the story of a fifty-year-old homemaker who found the courage to do something as novel and intimidating as diving into the deep seas to see for herself the corals that fascinated her. This book is a one-of-a-kind look at India’s coral reefs and the dangers that they face.

Lubaina Bandukwala has a master’s degree in mass

communication from the University of Houston. Her

words have been wandering through various writing

genres including newspapers, magazines, television and

documentaries, until they found a home in children’s media

products.

 

Sanket Pethkar is a Mumbai-based freelance illustrator and

designer for various publications in India. He graduated with

a degree in fine arts and pursued his master’s in print making

and has worked as a resident artist at IDC, IIT Bombay.

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I AM SO MUCH MORE …Than the Colour of My Skin 

DIVYA THOMAS 

ILLUSTRATED BY RUCHI SHAH

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You can be an artist or an athlete, work with nature or in technology, or do so many other things.

Whether you’re white, brown or pink,

What matters most is how you think.

You are so much more than the colour of your skin ...

A book that encourages children to delight in their brown skin and define their future by their dreams, not by the colour of their skin.

Beautifully illustrated with easily relatable shades and details to discover in each reading, this book will captivate all young readers.

Divya Thomas is passionate about leading campaigns to build social movements and writing for

children on issues that shape young minds. She lives between Goa, India and everywhere else

she can.

Ruchi Shah is a book illustrator/wall artist. She is an alumnus of University of the Arts, London and

IDC, IIT Bombay. She received the Charles Wallace Scholarship in 2012 through the British Council.

Her works explore places, spaces, materials and stories of everyday life. After working in Yahoo as

a senior designer, she quit in 2010 to work independently.

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INCREDIBLE INDIANS75 PEOPLE WHO SHAPED MODERN INDIA 

ASHWITHA JAYAKUMAR

ILLUSTRATED BY SERGIO MARIO STUDIO 

GENRE Non-fiction/Illustrated | SERIES The India Series | FORMAT 7”x9”/PB | PAGE EXTENT 124 | PRICE `299 AGE GROUP Middle to Older Readers | RIGHTS World

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A book that celebrates 75 years of India’s independence!

In 1947, the modern nation of India came into being after years of work, struggle and sacrifice. But the work of building a new nation and shaping it into an equitable, just and free democracy was just beginning. Incredible Indians: 75 People Who Shaped Modern India features rigorously researched biographies of seventy-five individuals who helped lay the foundations of the country we live in today. From statesmen and politicians to social workers and activists, these men and women were eager and willing to rise to the challenge of nation-building and their lives offer a unique insight into how the modern nation of India came into being.

Ashwitha Jayakumar is a writer and editor with a background in English literature and

medieval history. Her writing for young readers on history, science and mythology has been

published by Pratham Books, Scholastic and Puffin. She is based in New Delhi.  

Sergio Mario Studio is a Pune-based design studio engaging mainly in children’s media

through illustrations and book designs. Started in 2015, the studio continues to work in

various formats including picture books, graphic novels, comics, magazines and YA reads.

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An unusual family

Muthulakshmi Reddy was born into an unusual family: her father was the Brahmin principal

of a college in Pudukottai (in present-day Tamil Nadu), while her mother was from the

marginalised devadasi community. Reddy’s father broke convention by sending her to school.

Reddy was academically gifted, but access to higher education for girls was limited at the

time. Fortunately, the Maharaja of Pudukottai intervened to allow her to study at the state-

run all-male Maharaja College. at. Following this, she went on to join Madras

Medical College, where she defied expectations by specializing in surgery

, after which she travelled to England for advanced studies.

The right to learn

Ammu Swaminathan was from Palakkad, Kerala. At the age of 13, she was married to Dr.

Subbarama Swaminathan, a friend of her father’s who was twenty years older than her.

Ammu is believed to have only agreed to the marriage on the condition that she would

be able to pursue an education after . Most girls who were married off young never had

this chance, but Ammu was determined to make something of herself. In later years, she

advocated strongly for a law against child marriage.

The right to learn

Swaminathan, like many other educated women at the time, became swept up in the fight

for freedom. She helped organize hartals, strikes and demonstrations in Madras during the

Quit India movement. For her activities, she was arrested and sent to the Presidency Jail in

Vellore. She was also a key member of the women’s rights movement, and helped found the

Women’s India Association (WIA) in 1917, alongside Annie Besant and Muthulakshmi Reddy.

She also served a term as president of the Madras wing of the All India Women’s Conference

(AIWC). Both the AIWC and the WIA worked to combat the many discriminatory practices

that Indian women and girls were subjected to. As a a member of the Constituent Assembly,

and argued fiercely for the abolition of untouchability and for equal rights for women

under Indian law.

30 July 1886–22 July 1968

22 April 1894–1978

THE CASE OF RUKHMABAI

Rukhmabai was a child bride who was married at the

age of eleven to a much older relative. When she was

older, she filed a case in court, arguing that she

had never consented to the marriage, and that

she would rather go to prison than be forced to

live with her husband and give up her studies.

The case was settled out of court; she went on to

become one of India’s first ever female doctors.

Fighting for women’s rights

Muthulakshmi continued to defy social norms

by delaying marrying until she found D.T

Sandara Reddy, a man who agreed to ‘always

respect [her] as an equal’. Alongside running a

successful practice, she was a vocal advocate

for expanding women’s rights. In 1926, she

became the first female Deputy President on

the Legislative Council for Madras Presidency.

She was also a member of the Women’s India

Association. She wrote about and spoke publicly

on issues affecting women and girls, including

access to education, healthcare and voting rights.

She was especially invested in abolishing the

devadasi system, which she saw as exploitative.

Established in 1664 to treat sick soldiers employed

by the East India Company, the Madras Medical College

was opened to Indians only in 1842.

Devadasis were women who were

‘dedicated’ to temples as young girls,

to be trained in the arts of music and

dance, a centuries-old practice. They

sometimes became courtesans who

entertained kings and nobles. By the

twentieth century, they were not

considered respectable, and relegated

to the fringes of society.

“IT IS THE STATE AND STATE ALONE THAT CAN

EFFECTIVELY BREAK DOWN THE TRADITIONAL

CUSTOMS THAT ARE HARMFUL TO THE

INDIVIDUAL AND TO SOCIETY.”

“EQUAL RIGHTS IS A GREAT THING AND IT IS

ONLY FITTING THAT IT HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN

THE CONSTITUTION…”

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Born Swarup Kumari Nehru, Vijaya

Lakshmi was the daughter of the

wealthy barrister Motilal Nehru and

his wife Swarup Rani. Like the rest

of her family, Pandit was committed to working towards independence and social

reform. The first Indian woman to hold a cabinet portfolio in British India in

1937, she presided over the All India Women’s Conference, was a member of

the Constituent Assembly and headed India’s first delegation to the United

Nations. Known for being intelligent, frank, friendly and well-spoken,

she was the first female ambassador to several nations, and was also the

first woman to be elected President of the United Nations General

Assembly in 1953. One of the most well-respected diplomats of

her era, she helped garner crucial international support for India

during its first few years as an independent nation.

Janaki Ammal was born into a large backward caste family in

Thalassery, Kerala. A nature enthusiast from her childhood, she

studied botany in Madras before becoming the first Indian woman

to receive a doctorate in botany in the US in 1931. Facing caste

and gender discrimination in India, she moved to England in 1939-40

and did pioneering work on plant chromosomes and evolution. In 1951,

Jawaharlal Nehru invited her, now an internationally-renowned scholar,

to come back home and use her knowledge to India’s benefit. Among many

other contributions, she helped develop a new type of sweeter sugarcane that

could be grown locally—this is still grown and consumed today!

“MY WISH IS THAT

WOMEN SHOULD NOT

BE WORSHIPPED LIKE

GODDESSES; THEY MUST BE

TREATED AS MERE MORTAL

CREATURES…UNTIL THE DAY

IN WHICH AN EVENHANDED

STANDARD IS FORGED TO

ASSESS BOTH [MEN AND

WOMEN] THIS SORT OF

GODDESS-WORSHIP REMAINS

HOLLOW AND INANE.”

“MY WORK IS WHAT

WILL SURVIVE.”

Despite great challenges, both social and financial, many women

in twentieth-century India fought hard to follow their dreams. Here

are three women who were pioneers in their fields, and became role

models for generations of

Indian women.

ANNA CHANDY

EK JANAKI AMMAL

VIJAYA LAKSHMI PANDIT

TRAILBLAZERS IN EVERY FIELD

May 4, 1905–20 July

November 4, 1897–February 7, 1984

May 16, 1913- April 30, 1990

THE MAHARANI OF TRAVANCORE

Anna Chandy was able to study law in the 1920s

because of the forward-thinking Maharani Sethu

Lakshmi Bayi, the queen of Travancore. Lakshmi

Bayi championed women’s education and promoted

capable women into positions of power. Many

hundreds of women continued to use the resources

she made available to study law, medicine, history,

natural sciences, languages and mathematics.

SILENT VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

In the 1970s, the government wanted to destroy a tract of densely forested land in

a part of Kerala called the Silent Valley to build a dam. However, environmental

activists waged a successful, ten-year-long campaign against the dam, as it would

have resulted in the destruction of the area. Janaki Ammal lent the weight of her

expertise to show how important it was to preserve the valley’s biodiversity.

Anna Chandy was born in the small princely state of Travancore,

in present-day Kerala. One of the first female postgraduates in

the state, Chandy qualified as a lawyer and set up a criminal law

practice. She later became the first Malayalee woman to serve,

successively, as a First Grade Munsif (a type of judge), a District judge and a High Court

judge. Vocal about women’s right to education and work, she spoke out against child marriage

and purdah. For her views, Chandy frequently earned the disapproval of the majority of the

men around her. Nonetheless, she founded and edited a publication named Shrimati that was

dedicated to spreading awareness on women’s rights.

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Nidhi Chanani was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in California. She creates illustrations that capture love in everyday moments, which are often featured at Disney Parks. In 2012, she was honored by the Obama administration as a Champion of Change. She’s the author of Pashmina and Shubh Raatri Dost/Good Night Friend and illustrator of I Will Be Fierce. Nidhi draws and dreams in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and kid. everydayloveart.com

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A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history are Shaheen’s only clues to her father’s abrupt disappearance. She looks to her cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox, which starts . . . glowing?

Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time! Keyed to the music on the record, the jukebox sends them through decade after decade of music history, from political marches to landmark concerts. But can they find Shaheen’s dad before the music stops? This time-bending magical mystery tour invites readers to take the ride of their lives in this coming-of-age adventure.

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A new graphic novel from the author of Pashmina!

A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records and cryptic notes on music history are

Shaheen’s only clues to her father’s abrupt disappearance. She looks to her

cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox

which starts glowing.

Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time!

Keyed to the music on the record, the Jukebox sends them through decade after

decade of music history, from political marches to landmark concerts. But can

they find Shaheen’s dad before the music stops.

Following up on the success of Pashmina, Nidhi Chanani delivers another story

about family and friendship, tinged with magical realism – this one featuring a

time-travelling jukebox.

Nidhi Chanani was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Southern California. She holds

a degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She creates

illustrations that capture the love in everyday moments. In 2012, she was honoured at

the White House as a Champion of Change for her art. Her illustrations are sold in

boutiques along the West Coast, and she has worked with companies such as Disney

and Hasbro. Nidhi lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband, daughter

and two cats.

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THE TEN SECOND BOOK OF LAUGHS AND SURPRISES

AUTHORED AND ILLUSTRATED BY SHAMIKA CHAVES 

GENRE Non-fiction/Illustrated | FORMAT 6”x6”/HB | PAGE EXTENT 124 | PRICE `399 AGE GROUP Young Adults/Older Readers  | RIGHTS World

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All it takes is ten seconds for you to laugh or be surprised!

Did you know that Adolf Hitler was mortally afraid of dentists?

Or that the famous master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, who made some of the scariest movies had a fear of eggs? Or have you ever wondered what would happen if we got close enough to a black hole in space?

Take a peek at some of the most bizarre, weird and interesting facts! We truly live in a strange, fascinating world.

Shamika Chaves is a children’s book illustrator, author and

graphic designer who is based in Mumbai, India. She

successfully pursued a degree in applied art and

has worked for several children’s books including

her first two books as an author and illustrator –

Your Journal of Memories and Happy Holidays!

She has illustrated and designed a total of nine

children’s books and a boxset of ten board books

with HarperCollins India since 2018.

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THE GUTSY GIRLS OF SCIENCE AUTHORED AND ILLUSTRATED BY ILINA SIROHI 

GENRE Non-fiction/Illustrated | SERIES Timeless Biographies Series | FORMAT 7”x9”/PB | PAGE EXTENT 104 PRICE `299 | AGE GROUP Middle to Older Readers | RIGHTS World

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Eleven gutsy women who loved science enough to fight for their place in the sun …

This book explores the contribution of these remarkable Indian women – from cytogeneticist Archana Sharma and botanist Janaki Ammal to mathematician Raman Parimala, physicist Bibha Chowdhuri, chemist Asima Chatterjee and several others.

It is a celebration of their lives and the wonderful world of science.

The book includes a foreword by Eric Falt from UNESCO’s Delhi office.

These 11 remarkable women were recognized by the Indian government in 2020.

A chair was set up with a grant of up to

INR 1 crore for researchers for their projects

with the intention of encouraging and inspiring

young girls interested in science.

Well, let’s try to

answer that by first

finding our what

exactly do botanists

do and why is it of

use to the world?

It’s a subset of

Biology which is the

science of studying

all living things.

Botany is

the science

that studies

plants.

If you look around, you’ll quickly understand

the importance of plants in our lives.

The food we eat,

the air we breathe,

the environment we live in

and the objects we use to

construct much of our

world – plants impact

every aspect of human life.

In 2020,

she was

one of the

11 women

scientistswho were honored

by the Ministries of

Woman and Child

Development and

Science and

Technology ahead

of Woman’s Day.

Janaki’s work was celebrated and valued by

her country.

She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1977.

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry created the

National Award of Taxonomy in her name in 2000.

The Janaki Ammal Herbarium in Jammu is also a tribute to her.

The Indian government established the Janaki Ammal National

Women Bioscientist Award.

Most appropriately, she has three

species of plants named after her –

a herb, a rose and her favorite

magnolias.

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Organic ChemistryDarshan Ranganathan

ChemistAsima Chatterjee

PhysicianKadambini Ganguly

AnthropologistIravati Karve

MeteorologistAnna Mani

EngineerRajeshwari Chatterjee

MathematicianRaman Parimala

PhysicistBibha Chowdhuri

MedicineKamal Ranadive

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This page is for

the Gutsy Girl

the world awaits.

Its for you.

Take a good, hard

look at yourself.

You are a star and

we can’t wait to

see the amazing

things you’ll do for

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Ilina Sirohi  is young, curious and

believes she can make the world a

better place by solving problems big

and small. She thinks of herself as

an artist who loves science. Or is it

the other way around?  She used to

scribble on all the walls she could

reach as a young child. And opened

electronic gadgets to ‘see what’s

inside’. It is Ilina’s wish that girls

and boys see science and maths as

equally interesting ways to explore

and understand our world and leave

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After a secret mission in Afghanistan ends in a terrible accident, Raja Roychoudhuri, fondly known as Kakababu, resigns as the director of the Archaeological Survey of India and goes home to his second-hand books. But despite an amputated leg, his desire to hunt down old, unsolved mysteries of the world refuses to leave him alone. Accompanying him on these mysterious trips, is his thirteen-year-old nephew, Shontu.

The Adventures of Kakababu, Volume 1, is the first in the new Kakababu series. In ‘The Emperor’s Lost Head’, Kakababu takes Shontu to Kashmir to find a hidden Sulphur mine. ‘King of the Emerald Isle’ finds uncle and nephew on an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. Stubbornly secretive as always, Kakababu refuses to tell Shontu what has brought him on these trips. Is Shontu ready for the answers he might find?

Originally written by veteran Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay, these Bengali classics have been translated by Rimi.

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The second book in the delightful Kakababu series!

More Adventures of Kakababu is the second book in the delightful Kakababu series. In ‘Terror on the

Mountain Top’, Kakababu travels to the Everest base camp, ostensibly to climb the peak. But after

finding a corpse, a hidden glacial crevice, and an enormous prehistoric tooth in rapid succession,

Shontu begins to suspect that his uncle has, once again, not been honest about the true reason

behind his visit.

‘The Mystery of the Deserted Ship’ finds uncle and nephew afloat alone in the treacherous

waters off the Sunderbans islands. Stubbornly secretive as always, Kakababu refuses to tell Shontu

what brought him into the predator-infested mangrove jungle or to the deserted ship. Is Shontu

ready for the answers he might find.

Originally written by veteran Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay, these Bengali classics have

been translated by Rimi.

Sunil Gangopadhyay was an Indian poet and novelist with over 200 books to his name. A

prolific and versatile writer, Gangopadhyay was associated with the Ananda Bazar group, a

major publishing house in Calcutta. He was also the founder–editor of the popular seminal

magazine named Krittibas.

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‘I once saw a man limping towards the summit of a very high hill. It didn’t look like the limp was slowing

him down. I was young then – about the same age Shontu is in this story – and the immense strength of the

man’s will impressed me profoundly. It was at that moment that I realised that no matter the circumstances,

if a person has the confidence and the will to succeed, no trouble was insurmountable. “Kakababu” is

modelled on that man.’ – Sunil Gangopadhyay, 1979

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After studying creative writing at Oberlin College and the University of East Anglia, Numair Atif Choudhury did his PhD from the University of Texas, Dallas. He had been working on his epic first novel for nearly fifteen years, but soon after completing the final draft, he passed away in an accident in 2018. Babu Bangladesh! was published posthumously in 2019 to wide acclaim and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. A collection of his short stories, Taxi Wallah and Other Stories, was published in 2021.

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Bangladesh, 2028. A biographer begins to document the life of an enigmatic and controversial political luminary – Babu, also known as ‘Babu Bangladesh’. In unearthing the story of a man whom many thought was the leader of his generation, he begins to uncover the story of a nation itself. Buildings acquire consciousness to chart political outcomes, a tree stands defiantly even as marauding troops try to blast it out of existence, tribes of snake and tree worshipers compete for regional supremacy, even as fish-humanoids emerge from the waters … Flitting between fantasy and reality, manoeuvring through the rainforest swamps of Bangladesh with as much ease as the immigrant colonies of New York, blurring the boundaries between myth, history and truth, Babu Bangladesh! is a work of stunning scope and ambition from the most exciting literary voice to emerge from the subcontinent in years.

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