CONTENTS

FICTION 1

POETRY AND TRANSLATION 29

NON-FICTION 37

CINEMA 65

CHILDREN’S 75

BUSINESS 84

NOW IN PAPERBACK 100

FICTION JULY

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LATITUDES OF LONGING A NOVEL SHUBHANGI SWARUP

An astounding exploration of intense longings, Shubhangi Swarup’s novel begins in the depths of the Andaman Sea, and follows geological and

GENRE Fiction emotional faultlines through the Irrawaddy delta FORMAT Demy/Hardback and the tourist-trap of Thamel, to end amidst the PAGE EXTENT 344 highest glaciers and passes of the Karakorams. PRICE `599 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent The story sweeps through worlds and times that are inhabited by: a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who talks to them; Lord Goodenough, who travels around the furthest reaches of the Raj, giving names to nameless places; a geologist working towards ending futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a superstitious dictator and a mother struggling to get her revolutionary son released; a yeti who seeks human companionship; 3 ‘Intense, lyrical and powerful ... This is a remarkable debut’ – Jeet Thayil

a turtle who turns first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself.

Richly imaginative and irresistible in its storytelling, Latitudes of Longing announces the arrival of an incredible new literary talent.

Shubhangi Swarup is a journalist and an educationist. She was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and has also won awards for gender sensitivity in feature writing. She lives in Mumbai. AUGUST An out-of-work lawyer wonders about the killer of his ex-girlfriend and decides that someone needs to pay for her hit-and-run case … 4 Young orphans whom death has claimed decide to tag along with the Grim Reaper when he goes to fetch his new victims.

An otter lies in wait for fish in the sea and wonders about humans and their way of life.

A little girl, made of matchsticks, tries to give life to other matchstick beings and realizes that life is a constant striving and trying against all odds.

A woman encounters a child ghost who doesn’t share the ambitions of her ghostly parents.

THE ISLAND An island wakes up to a hovering storm and an OF THE DAY untold danger. With The Island of the Day Before, teenage writing BEFORE sensation Zuni Chopra enters the world of short STORIES stories. These are whimsical tales of the everyday ZUNI CHOPRA and the extraordinary, the fantastical and the mundane.

Zuni Chopra is a fresh, young voice who writes powerful, uncluttered prose. Her first novel, The House That Spoke, was published in January 2017.

GENRE Fiction/Short Stories FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 200 PRICE `299 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER PURELAND A NOVEL ZARRAR SAID An assassin, accused of heinous acts of terror, begins his testimony by claiming responsibility for the murder of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 5 Salim Agha. To explain his motive, he narrates the story of Salim and the tragic relationship he had with his beloved nation, Pureland.

Salim’s unlikely life is prophesized by a levitating saint. Starting as a feudal servant, he inadvertently contributes to a coup d’état that derails his country and eventually leads to a hostile takeover of Pureland by the Caliphate. Salim leaves for New York. Over his subsequent years in exile, remorse leads him to try and undo GENRE Fiction this wrong – and in doing so he creates vicious FORMAT Demy/Hardback enemies who vie to slay him. One such enemy is PAGE EXTENT 272 the narrator himself. PRICE `599 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent Inspired by a true story, Zarrar Said’s novel Pureland is a tour-de-force debut about a nation that has lost its way, its people who suffer from unspeakable tyranny, and a remorseful hero whose legacy has been wiped out by hatred.

Zarrar Said is a finance professional working and living in New York City. Pureland is his first book. SEPTEMBER A boy communes directly with the gods by talking to a pillar in his school. Two women, married to the same man, find a strange camaraderie holding 6 them together. The whole town gathers to save the friendly neighbourhood shopkeeper’s ice cream from spoiling in the heat. Short-tempered Seshadri hides a terrible shame in his outbursts. A grandfather passes on the magic of self-belief to his grandson.

Reminiscent of Malgudi Days, Adithi Rao’s debut Left from the Nameless Shop is a charming collection of interconnected stories featuring the residents of Rudrapura, a small town in Karnataka. This is a place bubbling with energy and the sense of LEFT community – one you probably lived in and loved while growing up. These are stories of the life you FROM THE have left behind. One that you hope to return to. NAMELESS Adithi Rao has been associated with the Hindi SHOP film industry. Her stories have frequently TALES FROM RUDRAPURA appeared in anthologies. ADITHI RAO

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 272 PRICE `299 RIGHTS World THE QUEEN OCTOBER OF JASMINE

COUNTRY Ninth century. A baby is found in a small town A NOVEL in what we now know as Tamil Nadu, and raised by a garland-weaving poet and his wife. Her name 7 SHARANYA is Kodhai and, as she grows up, she begins to MANIVANNAN understand that her longing for a great love – one that does not suppress her desire for freedom – is likely to remain unfulfilled. Then, she hears of a vow she can undertake that might bring it to her. One winter, the sixteen-year-old begins praying for a divinely sensual love – not knowing that her words will echo through the centuries to come. GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Hardback In her first novel The Queen of Jasmine Country, PAGE EXTENT 144 Sharanya Manivannan imagines the life of the PRICE `399 devotional poet Andal, whose sublime and RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent erotic verses remain beloved and controversial to this day.

Sharanya Manivannan is the author of the short-story collection The High Priestess Never Marries, which won a South Asia Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity and was shortlisted for the TATA Lit Live! First Book Award. She also has two poetry collections, Witchcraft and The Altar of the Only World. OCTOBER Dinesh enters the Kapoor flat to find Lata, the enchantress who works at Mrs Aly Khan’s, carrying a hot case with freshly made gaajar ka halwa. On 8 the first floor, the inquisitive Mrs Mody wipes the dust off her precious binoculars to better observe the building’s security guard. The Singhs get into their SUV, their four boys creating a ruckus – they are the newcomers, the outsiders. Welcome to Paradise Towers, an apartment building in the suburbs of Mumbai. Everyone here has a story to tell. Or maybe they have stories to hide.

Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s quirky, intimate debut explores the intertwined lives in Paradise Towers – a forbidden romance, an elopement, the PARADISE undercurrents of tension in corridor interactions, and an explosive Diwali celebration. Bachchan- TOWERS Nanda’s is a dazzling voice that will draw you into the intoxicating world that is Paradise Towers, SHWETA leaving you wanting more. BACHCHAN-NANDA

Shweta Bachchan-Nanda is a columnist for DNA and Vogue. A well-known personality, she is the daughter of actors Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. Shweta is married to Nikhil Nanda and is the mother of two children. She lives in New Delhi. This is her first novel.

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `299 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent NOVEMBER DON’T TELL THE

GOVERNOR When the prime minister declares demonetization at 8 p.m. on 8 November 2016, RAVI SUBRAMANIAN it leaves the nation stunned. But the governor, 9 RBI, who should have ideally been party to the decision, is at a crossroads. He has just carried out the most brazen act of his life – yet, it looks like it might also have been his most foolish.

Will he be able to pull himself out of the mess he has got into or will he be condemned for life? Will he manage to retain his autonomy or meekly surrender to the forces behind the massive scam? Or is he going to be the victim of

GENRE Fiction/Thriller a very sinister plot? FORMAT B/Paperback Running desperately out of time, the governor PAGE EXTENT 288 has one week to set things right. PRICE `299 RIGHTS World

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. Visit him at www. ravisubramanian.in DECEMBER Shadowing an elderly librarian on his first day at the great Central Library, Máximo is thrilled to get a peek at the exclusive Encyclopaedia of Medicine. 10 It’s a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you’ve ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you – or after?

As Máximo soon discovers, medicine at the Central Library may be more than he bargained for. The THE Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo- diseases, an encyclopaedia of archaic medicine AFFLICTIONS written by a contemporary physician and scientist. A NOVEL Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire VIKRAM PARALKAR and the limits of bodily existence.

Vikram Paralkar is a physician–scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He is the author of The Wounds of the Dead, published by HarperCollins India in 2017.

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 208 PRICE `399 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent ELEVENTH HOUR JULY

S. HUSSAIN ZAIDI New Delhi, 2017. It is nine years since the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai and the wounds have still not healed. Especially not for Superintendent 11 of Police Vikrant Singh, who ends up landing a blow on the high commissioner of Pakistan’s face when he meets him at an event.

Meanwhile, in Bhopal, five members of the Indian Mujahideen, arrested by Vikrant, break out of the Central Jail. Vikrant, recently suspended for the diplomatic disaster, is unofficially asked to

GENRE Fiction/Thriller assist the team tracking the escaped terrorists. FORMAT B/Paperback In another part of the country, a retired professor, PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `299 a heartbroken ex-soldier and a young woman RIGHTS World dealing with demons of her own embark on a journey of self-discovery aboard a cruise liner from Mumbai to Lakshadweep. Fate, however, has other plans, and the cruise liner is hijacked.

Racy and riveting, this is S. Hussain Zaidi at his best.

S. Hussain Zaidi is a veteran of investigative, crime and terror reporting in the Mumbai media. He has worked as resident editor at Asian Age, Mumbai; and editor, investigations, at Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day, and the Indian Express. He is the author of several bestsellers, including Black Friday, Dongri to Dubai, Mafia Queens of Mumbai and Byculla to Bangkok. Several of his books have been adapted into movies. SEPTEMBER When Juliet and Romiel get married and relocate to Israel, they rent out their Apartment 107 in Ahmedabad’s Shalom India Housing Society to

12 Jews. Each character who inhabits the house has a story to tell: about run-ins with the other residents, the diminishing Jewish community, cross-cultural conflicts and the difficulty of choosing between India and Israel.

Prophet Elijah, whom the Bene Israel Jews of western India believe in, plays an important role in their lives, appearing at critical or amusing moments and wreaking havoc with his mischief, but ensuring that ultimately peace prevails.

Bombay Brides – as most Jewish men of Ahmedabad are married to women from Mumbai – is drawn from Jewish homes in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Alibaug. This is a story BOMBAY about home, heritage, rites, rituals, roots and BRIDES what it means to be the last surviving members of a community in a vast, multi-cultural country ESTHER DAVID like India.

Esther David received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for her novel, Book of Rachel. Her novels are based on the Jewish ethos in India, and some of them have been translated into French, Gujarati and Marathi. She is an art critic and columnist for the Ahmedabad edition of the Times of India and has written extensively about the city of her birth.

GENRE Fiction FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER THE INHUMAN RACE THE COMMONWEALTH EMPIRE TRILOGY The year is 2033. The British Empire never (BOOK 1) fell. Communism never happened. The YUDHANJAYA Commonwealth flies the flag of the Empire. Many WIJERATNE of the Empire’s colonies are stripped bare in the 13 name of British interests, powerless to resist.

Upon this stage is Ceylon – a once-proud civilization tracing itself back to the time of the

GENRE Fiction/Science Fiction/ Pharaohs, reduced but not dead. The Great Speculative Fiction Houses of Kandy still control the most lucrative FORMAT B/Paperback trade routes, since even dust and ashes can serve PAGE EXTENT 240; 304 a purpose. PRICE `299 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent In this surreal landscape, where technology and humanity intersect, we meet The Silent Girl – a survivor, an explorer. NUMBERCASTE

YUDHANJAYA Yudhanjaya Wijeratne was born in Ratnapura, WIJERATNE Sri Lanka, and grew up in Colombo, writing about local technology and politics on the controversial Icaruswept blog.

When Patrick Udo is offered a job at NumberCorp, he packs his bags and goes to the Valley. After all, the 2030s are a difficult time, and jobs are rare. Little does he know that he’s joining one of the most ambitious undertakings of his time.

NumberCorp, crunching through vast amounts of social network data, is building a new society – one where everyone’s social circles are examined, their activities quantified, and their importance distilled into the all-powerful Number. A society where the artist is as important as the billionaire. Where those with influence are rewarded, and those without, punished. NOVEMBER Indian tennis player Arya Ashok is twenty-seven, and ranked among the world’s top 10 players. But dogged by a breathing disorder, a Grand Slam 14 victory remains elusive. Leading international media has dubbed her the game’s ‘most-famous quarterfinalist’. Is this the end of the road for Arya’s career?

Arvind Ram is the biggest new name in world cricket. At the age of twenty-five, the fast bowler is a master of the end game, and just beginning his climb up.

When the gifted tennis star and the go-for- broke cricketer with a playboy reputation meet, an unlikely romance blossoms. Who will win WHAT’S this match? GOOD ABOUT FALLING Prajwal Hegde is a member of the International Tennis Writers Association, and has been twice PRAJWAL HEGDE voted onto the ITWA board. She is the Times of India’s tennis editor. Prajwal lives in Bangalore with her husband. This is her first book.

GENRE Fiction/Romance FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 260 PRICE `299 RIGHTS World NOVEMBER AGE OF KALKI (BOOK 1) VISHWAS MUDAGAL In the not-so-distant future, as the world falls victim to an apocalyptic war, a deadly sting operation by the terrorist group Invisible Hand brutally eliminates 15 the Indian prime minister and the union cabinet. The Indian Army, now in command, declares national emergency, and chaos and fear reign across the country.

Against the backdrop of falling democracies around the world, an unconventional hero emerges – a vigilante known only as Kalki. Backed by a secret society called The Nine Men, Kalki, along with Nushen, the Chinese superhuman spy, must do the impossible to save GENRE Fiction/Thriller/Mythology his country, and the world. FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 288 PRICE `299 Vishwas Mudagal is a serial entrepreneur, RIGHTS World CEO and motivational speaker. He is also the author of the best-selling novel, Losing My Religion. AUGUST Now with a bonus chapter! It’s five years since Those Pricey Thakur Girls busted 16 the charts. The bestselling author of The Zoya Factor, Battle for Bittora and Baaz is back with the irresistible Thakurs of Hailey Road. Find out what exactly happens when Debjani and her sisters gatecrash Dylan’s wild bachelor’s night! To celebrate the fifth anniversary, this special edition has a bonus chapter, ‘Dylan’s Roce’.

Anuja Chauhan has worked in advertising for over seventeen years and is credited with many popular campaigns. She is the author of four bestselling novels, two of which have been THOSE PRICEY optioned by major Bollywood studios and one THAKUR GIRLS of which has been made into a prime-time daily Hindi serial on &TV. She lives outside Bangalore ANNIVERSARY EDITION with her husband, their three children and a ANUJA CHAUHAN varying number of dogs and cats.

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 440 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World COLD TRUTH AUGUST

NIKHIL PRADHAN

When ten-year-old Sakshi goes missing from the slums of east Delhi, no one, including the police, seems too concerned. Until a curious 17 journalist begins to ask questions. Soon, she has burst open a can of worms, and what started as an innocuous investigation about corruption and systemic apathy begins to reek of a larger and terrifying conspiracy.

Pieced together using police reports, interviews, leaked emails and WhatsApp conversations, this

GENRE Fiction/Crime/Thriller extraordinary debut takes you from the by-lanes FORMAT B/Paperback of Delhi and the communist bunkers of Russia, PAGE EXTENT 260 to the frozen grounds of Antarctica. PRICE `250 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent

Nikhil Pradhan is from Gangtok, Sikkim. Previously a technology journalist, he currently works with Ogilvy & Mather in Bangalore as their senior planning director & social media strategist. Cold Truth is his first book. SEPTEMBER Meet Tabassum. Actually, call her Tanya – all her friends do.

18 Tanya’s got a pretty good life, working for Karachi’s Daily Star newspaper and smoking-drinking-flirting her way through minor romantic escapades.

Okay, there are a few tiny problems, but she’s been handling them well enough. She’s even managed to sidestep the rishtaas her mother’s friends keep bringing in. Arranged marriage? No, thank you. She’d like some knee-shaking love instead.

But Tanya’s life gets complicated when her (erstwhile) best friend Sonia’s to-be-groom runs away with another woman – a groom Tanya once got intimate with on a drunken night she would rather forget. TYPICALLY TANYA Taha Kehar is a Karachi-based journalist. He has written for both Indian and Pakistani TAHA KEHAR magazines, newspapers and publications and has published a book of poetry Writing Words with Fire. Typically Tanya is his debut novel.

GENRE Fiction/Romance FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 244 PRICE `250 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent THE MOGUL JULY VISH DHAMIJA

Prem Bedi is the third richest man in the country. At fifty-three, he chairs a business empire worth two hundred thousand crores; he is the ‘Mogul’. 19 Bedi has lived his life under the spotlight, and when he’s accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband and is dragged into a court battle, the lights only shine brighter.

His every move is watched and narrated by people around him – by friends who can’t afford that he falls, as their existence depends on his survival;

GENRE Fiction/Crime/Thriller by a young rookie defence advocate who wants FORMAT B/Paperback the case; by his ex-wife’s family that can’t wait to PAGE EXTENT 288 inherit more money than its members can count PRICE `250 in their lifetime. The prosecuting advocate wants RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent to bury Bedi to make headlines. The media muckrakes to sell.

Prem Bedi makes news, and this is as sensational as it will ever get.

Vish Dhamija is the best-selling author of five crime fiction books. He is frequently referred to in the press as the ‘master of legal crime and courtroom drama’ in India. Vish lives in London with his wife, Nidhi. AUGUST Budding archaeologist Tara Singh has been excavating the ruins near Khajuraho for two years, hoping to discover a new temple. 20 Tara is fascinated by the Chandela King Vidyadhara, who built the Kandariya Mahadeva temple – also known as ‘the-one-with-the-most-sex-stuff-on-its-walls’.

Tara’s curiosity is about to be satisfied when she runs into Kala Devi, a tantric who sends her back in time to 1022 AD. Armed only with an unwieldy sword and her wits, Tara finds herself trapped in the ancient world of queens and concubines and courtiers and, of course, King Vidyadhara, who is everything she’d imagined – only sexier. KAMA’S LAST Trisha Das is the author of Ms Draupadi Kuru, SUTRA The Mahabharata Re-imagined, The Art of the Television Interview and the internationally TRISHA DAS acclaimed How to Write a Documentary Script. She has written and directed over forty documentaries and has won an Indian National Film Award (2005).

GENRE Fiction/Historical/Romance FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 304 PRICE `299 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent AFTER THE STORM JULY

LAKSHMY Idealistic, young and ambitious, journalist RAMANATHAN Meenakshi Iyer has better things to do than settle down and marry, and her family better get used 21 to it as she searches for the perfect job and the perfect man on her own terms.

The obvious candidate is Arjun Rathore, head of the sports desk with the newspaper she works at. He is handsome, charismatic and successful – everything she wants in a man, or so she thinks, until Rakesh Ramakrishnan walks back into her

GENRE Fiction/Romance life after she turned him down last summer. He’s FORMAT B/Paperback a changed man now – a brilliant young chef at PAGE EXTENT 232 his own restaurant, where business is booming. PRICE `250 RIGHTS World When she visits Chennai to attend a wedding, the rain – and her feelings – become increasingly difficult to ignore. As floods threaten to swallow the city whole, emotions begin to pour over. Meenakshi must brace herself for the adventure ahead and discover what, and whom, her heart desires.

Lakshmy Ramanathan has worked for Daily News & Analysis and the Times of India to report on all things fun and serious. Her books include For Bumpier Times: An Indian Mother’s Guide to 101 Pregnancy & Childcare Practices. OCTOBER The Jaina Agamas are believed to have come down from Mahavira. Some of them even predate him. The stories in the agamas were conceptualized as a 22 means to convey the austere teachings of the Jainas in a more relatable, ‘entertaining’ manner.

For the first time, a selection of these and other stories from Jaina literature have been translated into English. Ranging from the funny to the tragic, each story has a lesson embedded in it. A dancing girl who teaches a monk the meaning of restraint; a butcher’s son who is pressurized by his family to continue his father’s violent profession; a young man who wants to study the Kamasastra, and more such colourful and THE interesting characters populate the pages of this book. FLIRTATIOUS

TEACHER Sudhamahi Regunathan is a former vice- AND OTHER STORIES chancellor of the Jain Vishva Bharati FROM JAINA LITERATURE University in Ladnun, Rajasthan. Also an author and translator, her books include SUDHAMAHI Rishabhayan: The Story of the First King REGUNATHAN and The Colours of Desire on the Canvas of Restraint.

GENRE Fiction/Short Stories FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `199 RIGHTS World A CHANGE OF AUGUST HEART

SONALI DEV Dr Nikhil ‘Nic’ Joshi had it all – marriage, career, purpose. Until his wife Jen, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, 23 discovered a black-market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed.

Two years after the tragedy, while working as a doctor on a cruise ship, Nic meets a woman who makes a startling claim: she received Jen’s heart in a transplant and has a message for him. There’s something about Jess Koirala’s reckless

GENRE Fiction/Romance desperation that resonates despite Nic’s doubts. FORMAT B/Paperback Jess has spent years working her way out of PAGE EXTENT 336 a nightmarish life in Calcutta and into a PRICE `250 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent respectable Bollywood dance troupe. Now she faces losing the one thing that matters – her young son, Joy. She needs to uncover the secrets Jen risked everything for; but the unforeseen bond that results between her and Nic is both a lifeline and a perilous complication.

Sonali Dev’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s lists of best books of the year. She won the American Library Association’s Award for Best Romance 2014, and is a RITA® finalist, RT Reviewer Choice Award nominee, and winner of the RT Seal of Excellence. DECEMBER

24 Book one, The One Who Swam with the Fishes, told the tale of Satyavati on the cusp of womanhood. She is now Queen of Hastinapur and the story moves forward to the kingdom of Kashi, where Princess Amba is growing up with her sisters, Ambika and Ambalika. A swayamvara is arranged for them, where Amba plans to wed Prince Salva, the love of her life. However, an unexpected figure walks into the ceremony and thwarts all plans of a happy ending.

In another life, Shikhandi has never been what THE ONE he seems. With his close companion, Utsarg, he embarks on a journey to look for a yaksha who WHO HAD will give him what he wants – to be a Kshatriya prince in body and in mind. But along the way, TWO LIVES he might have to lose some of himself, the part GIRLS OF THE he calls Shikhandini... MAHABHARATA (TWO) MEENAKSHI REDDY MADHAVAN Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan was born in Hyderabad, but grew up in New Delhi, where she currently lives with her partner and their three cats. Madhavan is the author of several books and also writes essays and columns for a variety of publications.

GENRE Fiction/Mythology FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 208 PRICE `299 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER THE RAKTA QUEEN: AN ANANTYA TANTRIST 25 MYSTERY A Kaula tantrik is brutally murdered by his chandaali slave. The same night, a group of SHWETA TANEJA university students lose their minds and perform an orchestrated orgy in front of the Vidhan Sabha metro station.

To get to the truth, Anantya Tantrist, unofficial consultant with the Central Bureau of Investigation, must navigate her way past murderous sorcerers, deadly chandaalis, an GENRE Fiction/Fantasy underground betting scam run by jinns, and a FORMAT B/Paperback renegade aghori teacher. PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `399 As time slips through her fingers, Anantya must RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent confront her past and rid it of its demons … before she meets a slow and painful death at the hands of her deadliest enemy yet.

Shweta Taneja is a bestselling author based in Bangalore. Other books in this series include The Matsya Curse and The Cult of Chaos. She has authored other novels and written two graphic novels, one of which was shortlisted for Best Writer Award at Comic Con India. DECEMBER

26 As fourth engineer on board the MV Orchid, Lehar Saxena has no time to prissy up in front of a mirror or flirt with the guys.

Her chief engineer hates her guts and, much like the MV Orchid, which she helps keep afloat on the journey across the violent and pirate-infested high seas, she has her own baggage: heavy with anxiety, stress and love woes.

Amidst the machines, sweat and testosterone surrounding her loom thoughts of her relationship with Sameer, always too busy at the OPD to ANCHOR MY FaceTime or even text as much as he used to. With a long-distance relationship fast HEART approaching the maelstrom it was destined for, Lehar must focus on her work – even as Veer, the NYARI NAIN handsome second officer who recently joined the crew, proves to be a pleasant distraction. He may be just what she needs as the journey grows even longer, and far more dangerous.

Nyari Nain is a marine engineer working on board foreign-going vessels. She currently lives in New Delhi.

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MITALI TOPKAR

Arihant Adhikari is a blogger and an aspiring 27 writer. Nursing a recently broken heart, he finds that he can’t stop thinking about the new wide- eyed intern in his office.

Ishaan Adhikari, Arihant’s brother, is having a bad year. Always at war with everyone else, he is now also fighting battles with himself.

The two brothers find it impossible to get along, and their younger sister’s interference doesn’t help.

GENRE Fiction/Romance The story of a dysfunctional family, A Long Way FORMAT B/Paperback Home paints for us a world of dreams, hope, PAGE EXTENT 304 PRICE `199 deceit, love and friendship, as two young men RIGHTS World embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Mitali Topkar is a writer with a passion for telling stories spun around human emotions and relationships. She works for Shemaroo Entertainment. Her previous books include The Guest and Coffee and Ordinary Life. The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest

JANUARY 2019 JANUARY epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s

28 version. The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women’s struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, JANUARY 2019 contemporary battle of wills. While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: THE FOREST How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does OF a woman need to stand up and say, ‘Enough!’ ENCHANTMENTS A moving meditation on love in its many forms, The Forest of Enchantments proves once again CHITRA BANERJEE why Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni remains an DIVAKARUNI unparalleled storyteller.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and best-selling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published widely, in magazines and anthologies, and her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages. Several of her works have been made into films and plays. She lives in Houston with her husband Murthy and has two sons, Anand and Abhay. She tweets @cdivakaruni and she loves to GENRE Fiction/Mythology connect with her readers on her Facebook page FORMAT Demy https://www.facebook.com/chitradivakaruni/. PAGE EXTENT 336 pp PRICE `499 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent POETRY AND TRANSLATION JULY

When Peter Jeevanandam arrives in Sri Lanka 30 to shoot a movie about a human rights activist ostensibly murdered by the LTTE, the government is more than willing to help. What they don’t know is that he is also searching for Sugandhi – an LTTE member, and the love of his life. As Peter stumbles upon and becomes part of a plot to kill the president, reality, history, myth and fiction collide in explosive, illuminating ways.

Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayaki is a daring novel that portrays the violence inherent in both fascism and revolution.

T.D. Ramakrishnan is the author of three SUGANDHI cult novels that blur the line between the ALIAS ANDAL popular and the highbrow. He was awarded the Vayalar Award and the Kerala Sahitya DEVANAYAKI Akademi Award in 2017 for Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayaki. Priya K. Nair teaches A NOVEL English in St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. She T.D. RAMAKRISHNAN has translated Alpha and Francis Itty Cora into English. TRANSLATED FROM THE MALAYALAM BY PRIYA K. NAIR

GENRE Fiction/Translation FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 260 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World DECEMBER A TRUE LIE A NOVEL VINOD BHARDWAJ TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY The first volume of Vinod Bhardwaj’s trilogy of BRIJ SHARMA novels, Seppuku, depicted the curious workings 31 of the art mafia, its glamour and excesses. In A True Lie, the second volume, he turns his gaze towards the fourth estate.

The plot progresses at two levels. On the one hand, this is the story of journalism in India regressing from its Golden Age, as brand managers turn editors. On the other hand, there is the novel’s protagonist who battles unsuccessfully with the memories and scars of childhood sexual abuse. GENRE Fiction/Translation Like Schopenhauer, he feels that sometimes FORMAT B/Paperback revenge can be sweet, only to realize, in the end, PAGE EXTENT 208 the futility of such vengeance. PRICE `399 RIGHTS World

Vinod Bhardwaj is an art and film critic and a writer. He has published collections of poetry and short stories, books on art and cinema, and an encyclopaedia of modern art in Hindi. Brij Sharma has worked with the Times of India, Khaleej Times, Dubai, and has been editor of the Indian Express in Gujarat. OCTOBER Blue Eclipse is a collection of thirteen stories spanning George Kakanadan’s career that let us catch a glimpse of the brilliance of one of the 32 flagbearers of modernist Malayalam literature.

If ‘Blue Eclipse’ is an untrammelled exploration of surreal ideas, ‘Footprints’ is a simple tale of nostalgia that takes shape on a retired school teacher’s last day of life. Through an artist torn between his search for enlightenment and the magic of his model’s physical beauty, ‘Sree Chakram’ reflects on the Hindu philosophies of dualism and non-duality, while ‘Madness’ and ‘Sunshine’ talk about sex and the power of women in completely different circumstances. BLUE ECLIPSE At once powerful and beautiful, morose and STORIES terrifying, liberating and suffocating, this is a collection to savour. GEORGE VARGHESE KAKANADAN TRANSLATED FROM Known for their bold and powerful yet poetic THE MALAYALAM BY language, George Varghese Kakanadan’s RISHI KAKANADAN (1935–2011) works are considered landmarks in modernist Malayalam literature. Rishi Kakanadan is a journalist and translator living in New Delhi.

GENRE Fiction/Translation/Short Stories FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 200 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World NOVEMBER THIS COULD HAVE BECOME This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar’s Tale is the story of a tea-estate worker turned Naxalite RAMAYAN named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested CHAMAR’S during a workers’ strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author 33 TALE attempts to write that story, reality intrudes TWO ANTI-NOVELS in various forms – a beggar girl thrown into jail, a farmer whose land has been snatched, a SUBIMAL MISRA watchman newly arrived in the city, zamindars TRANSLATED FROM still enforcing bonded labour, cholera outbreaks THE BENGALI BY during a cyclone – and we glimpse it through V. RAMASWAMY vignettes, newspaper reports, verses and absurdist conversations.

When Colour is a Warning Sign goes even further in its experimentation, abandoning the barest

GENRE Fiction/Translation pretence of narrative and composed entirely as FORMAT B/Paperback a collage of vignettes and snippets of dialogue, PAGE EXTENT 288 reportage, autobiography, etc. PRICE `399 RIGHTS World With these two ‘anti-novels’, Subimal Misra finds a new form to depict and interrogate the failures of the state, political ideologies, religion, morality and society towards the downtrodden. Difficult yet immensely powerful, they are an important document of a society and country that are, despite all protestations to the contrary, clearly not shining.

Anti-establishment and experimental, Subimal Misra’s (b. 1943) stories, novellas, novels, plays, essays and interviews comprise over thirty volumes. He ranks among India’s greatest living writers. V. Ramaswamy lives in Kolkata. He is engaged in an acclaimed, multi-volume project to translate the works of Subimal Misra. AUGUST

34 One of the most important voices in contemporary Indian poetry, Shahryar (1936–2012) cast a mesmeric spell since the publication of his very first collection, Ism-e Azam, in 1965. In a career spanning five decades, it is interesting how Shahryar always managed to remain topical and his poetry could always be called ‘the call of the time’. This ability to remain relevant and to always have something to say consistently over a period of time is a singular quality.

This book locates Shahryar’s considerable SHAHRYAR body of work in the trajectory of contemporary Indian writings and evaluates his extraordinary A LIFE IN POETRY contribution to not merely modern Urdu poetry RAKHSHANDA JALIL but, more significantly, modern Indian poetry.

Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic and literary historian. She has published over fifteen books and written over fifty academic papers and essays. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi–Urdu literature and culture.

GENRE Non-fiction/Biography/Poetry FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `599 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER HAZAARON KHWAHISHEIN AISI THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF URDU GHAZALS 35 EDITED AND The ghazal is probably the most popular form TRANSLATED BY of Urdu poetry. Originating most likely as love ANISUR REHMAN poetry in Arabic, the ghazal has been used in Urdu not just to pen love verse but also many kinds of religious, metaphysical, philosophical, realist and political poetry for centuries. There is no literary form in any other language that may even remotely approximate to that of the ghazal. Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi, the first-ever comprehensive collection of Urdu ghazals, traces GENRE Non-fiction/Poetry the history of the ghazal from the very beginnings FORMAT Demy/Paperback in the late sixteenth century to the present times. PAGE EXTENT 304 PRICE `499 Through the works of sixty-four poets from RIGHTS World seven literary periods and diverse locations, editor and translator Anisur Rehman provides a kaleidoscope of the finest Urdu ghazals over time, making this a must read for all lovers of poetry.

Anisur Rahman has published numerous translations of Urdu poetry. He was a professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia. He currently works as senior advisor at Rekhta Foundation. SEPTEMBER Think of earthnight before man. That sovereign plant planet, glowing in the dark, light 36 rippling with the wind, tall grasses, sharp ears, fronds with teeth, curling ferns, hot beast stink, the turn of loam, in the hot squall, claw, tooth, scale, in a place with no names, the world before fields, or the word for field.

I know my place – slumbering, placental in the stalks, nose twitching for nut and seed, an ancestor dreams, three inches long THE PROFANE of a cooler world, with the lights off. POEMS SATYAJIT SARNA A sparkling debut poetry collection that encompasses passion and heartbreak, death and mortality, emptiness and anger. Alluding to art, mythology, religion, politics, and rich with musicality, here are poems from a truly global Indian.

Satyajit Sarna is a lawyer and writer from New Delhi. He is the author of the novel The Angel’s Share (HarperCollins India, 2012). His poetry has been published in literary journals such as the London Magazine and the Sunflower Collective. This is his first collection of poetry.

GENRE Poetry FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 112 PRICE `399 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent NON-FICTION NOVEMBER At once a personal memoir, a travelogue and a study of our times, Aatish Taseer’s brilliant new book The Twice-born is a powerful portrait of India 38 at a crossroads. Set largely in Benares, it is an exploration of the ancient yet ever-changing city and an exploration of the India that it represents – not least because it is the prime minister’s constituency, but also because India, like Benares, is both never-changing and ever-changing.

The Twice-born is a deeply individual, acutely perceptive, urgently relevant book: it revolves around questions of culture and politics that are going to define our future as a nation. But beyond the inherent interest of the stories it tells, it is a THE TWICE- wonderfully written book, characterized by the music of Aatish Taseer’s prose, which will haunt BORN the reader long after the final page has been turned. It is quite simply one of the strongest AATISH TASEER works of literary non-fiction to be written about India in recent times.

Aatish Taseer is one of the most acclaimed subcontinental writers of his generation. His books include A Stranger to History, The Temple-goers, Noon and The Way Things Were. He divides his time between London and New Delhi.

GENRE Non-fiction/Travel FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 320 PRICE `599 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent SEPTEMBER GENE MACHINE THE RACE TO DECIPHER THE SECRETS OF THE A groundreaking book of popular science by a RIBOSOME Nobel Prize-winning scientist SIR VENKI Everyone knows the term DNA: it is the essence 39 RAMAKRISHNAN of our being – it determines who we are and what we pass on to our progeny. Mention the ribosome, on the other hand, and you will usually be met with blank faces, even from scientists. And yet, without the ribosome, nothing lives. For if DNA is data then the ribosome is the machine that processes that data. Unlocking the secrets of this

GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir/Science gene-reading molecule was once among the most FORMAT Royal/Hardback fundamental problems in molecular biology. PAGE EXTENT 288 Gene Machine is the thrilling story of how PRICE `699 three scientists, including Dr Ramakrishnan, RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent succeeded in decoding the ribosome, later winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This is the fascinating story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of modern times, told with passion, wit and flair; it is also an engrossing account of Sir Venki’s personal journey.

Sir Venki (Venkataraman) Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British structural biologist. He won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomal structure, and was knighted in 2012. In 2015, he was elected President of the Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge, England. JULY ‘An enlightening and engaging story of wealth and poverty in India’ – Amartya Sen

40 ‘An essential guide if you want to understand modern India’ – Edward Luce

‘Bound to become a classic’ – Jagdish Bhagwati

Over the past two decades, India has grown at an unprecedented rate. Yet, while the ‘Bollygarchs’ revel in new riches, millions still languish in their shadows, trapped in the teeming slums of the country’s megacities. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to mass political rallies in the streets, James Crabtree documents the struggle between equality and privilege playing out at the heart of this emerging superpower. Against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class and caste, reformers fight for change while fugitive tycoons and shadowy political power THE brokers struggle to remain hidden and out of reach. BILLIONAIRE The Billionaire Raj is a vivid portrait of a divided RAJ democracy whose future will shape the world. A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA’S NEW GILDED AGE James Crabtree is a writer and journalist who spent five years in India as Mumbai bureau JAMES CRABTREE chief for the Financial Times. He is now an associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

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AT THE EDGE OF JULY INFINITY AND BEYOND DAVID DARLING AND The first book by a teenage maths prodigy of AGNIJO BANERJEE Indian origin that is about to take the world by storm 41 Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern maths and life as we understand it, venturing out on quests to consider the existence of free will and the fantastical future of quantum computers.

GENRE Non-fiction/Science Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind- FORMAT Demy/Paperback bending concepts and surprising solutions, this PAGE EXTENT 288 is for anyone who is interested in maths and PRICE `499 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent the way in which it’s connected to just about everything in the world.

‘A glorious trip through some of the wilder regions of the mathematical landscape … Highly recommended!’ – Ian Stewart

‘A captivating ride ... Read this book and soar!’ – Clifford A. Pickover

David Darling is a prolific science writer, astronomer and musician. Agnijo Banerjee is a maths prodigy and a student of Darling’s. At the age of thirteen, he attained the highest possible score on Mensa’s IQ test; he is now seventeen and has achieved distinctions in the UK Mathematics Olympiads. This is his first book. 42 JULY story of two ofhis moststory controversial —withJayalalithaa and interviews lunch Dev criedlike orwhen ababy. Kapil interview Andthere’s the untold Bachchantimes —for when Amitabh instance, lost his coolduringapost- has spilled overThe tension multiple generated off-screen duringaninterview a falling out. whom he shared a close bond until a disagreement overcaused an interview Aung San SuuKyi andRajiv Gandhi, andsomethat failed. L.K. Advani, with array ofstories ofhis warm andlasting friendships, such aswith Benazir Bhutto, In KARAN THAPAR THE UNTOLD STORY DEVIL’S ADVOCATE Karan Thapar dives Karan deepintoDevil’s his life Advocate, to comeup with an RIGHTS World PRICE `699 PAGE EXTENT224+16ppcolourinsert FORMAT Royal/Hardback GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir Narendra Modi. While Jayalalithaa laughed it off later, the after-effects of Modi’s infamous walkout have grown worse with time.

Riveting and fast-paced, Devil’s Advocate is as no- holds-barred as any of Karan Thapar’s interviews.

Karan Thapar has worked in television for over thirty-five years, including ten years in the UK. He has presented well-known programmes and heads Infotainment Television (ITV). He writes a weekly column, ‘Sunday Sentiments’, for the Hindustan Times. DECEMBER The idea of India is that of a country that moves towards transcending its immense diversities in

44 favour of an inclusive unity of its people. Sitaram Yechury, one of the most highly regarded leaders of the Left in the country, takes stock of where India stands at seventy in The Idea of India. He argues that seven decades after Independence, India should have moved towards a deepening of democracy, but instead it faces ever bigger challenges.

In this thoughtful exploration, Yechury presents the idea of India as one of survival as a diverse, confident and robustly plural nation. That requires a firm opposition and a struggle against all those THE IDEA OF who want to divide society, he says. And second, INDIA it is about ensuring that the benefits of economic growth reach most, if not all, people. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Yechury argues that what India needs is not leaders but policies. Diversity that is so immense and deep SITARAM YECHURY can survive and rise to greater heights only when all groups evolve together harmoniously. This in essence, he writes, is the idea of India.

Sitaram Yechury is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and served as a member of the Rajya Sabha for two terms. He is one of the most respected, recognized and articulate voices of the Left in the country, and has authored and edited several books.

GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Government FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 240 PRICE `499 RIGHTS World THE AUGUST MCMAHON

LINE Sir Henry McMahon, a British colonial 100 YEARS OF THE SINO- administrator, drew a line along the Himalayas at INDIAN BORDER DISPUTE the Simla Convention of 1913–14, demarcating 45 what would in later years become the effective GENERAL J.J. SINGH boundary between China and India. The boundary, disputed by India’s northern neighbour, has had a profound effect on the relations between the two Asian giants, resulting most prominently in the war of 1962 but also in several skirmishes and stand- offs both before and after that. It continues to be a thorn in the side – reaching a flashpoint at the GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Government tri-junction between Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan in FORMAT Royal/Hardback Doklam in 2017 – and may derail all the progress in PAGE EXTENT 464 bilateral ties if left unattended. PRICE `899 RIGHTS World General J.J. Singh examines the evolution of the boundary and the nuances of British India’s Tibet policy from the eighteenth century to India’s independence, analyses the repercussions for contemporary times and puts forth recommendations for the way ahead.

General J.J. Singh, a highly decorated soldier, has served as the chief of army staff and the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. He was closely associated with the planning and execution of the Kargil War at the army headquarters. After retirement, he was appointed as the governor of Arunachal Pradesh. He published his autobiography, A Soldier’s General, in 2012. AUGUST

46 Corporations can suck, but they can also be awesome. Many of us make money. Many of us enjoy our lives. Few do both.

If you’ve picked up this book, Sanjay and you are probably pretty darn similar. Growing up in humble circumstances, you listened to your parents and to society, graduated and joined the IT industry.

So, why read a book that’s going to explain an industry you might already be a part of? Well, to be quite frank, to work smarter and not harder. To make sure you know what you’re getting into MY BETA and what lies ahead. You want to make money and DOES travel the world. You want to date and enjoy your twenties and thirties. Your work does not need COMPUTER your youth as a sacrificial offering. This book is THINGS here to get you to realize that. YOUR GUIDE TO SUCCESS, LOVE AND Sanjay Manaktala is a former software engineer ROCK-N-ROLL IN THE IT turned stand-up comedian. He has helped build INDUSTRY the comedy scene in India. His comedy has been featured on Comedy Central India, Forbes, SANJAY MANAKTALA CNN.com, BBC, and most major publications.

GENRE Non-fiction/Self-help FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `299 RIGHTS World ANYTHING BUT A JULY WASTED LIFE Strip clubs are circuses, brothels and wellness A MEMOIR centres all wrapped into one. Working as a stripper is anything but easy. You are often 47 SITA KAYLIN treated like a living blow-up doll and a therapist simultaneously. It’s a life that many judge easily … until you know more. Sita Kaylin, a San Francisco-based veteran strip dancer, has lived the pitfalls of being naked in front of strangers and the absurdities that arise when you fake intimacy for a living.

Sita left home when she was sixteen, worked GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir hard at several jobs and started college. There, a FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 332 roommate turned her on to stripping, revealing PRICE `499 a way out of the crushing financial pressures she RIGHTS World felt as a pre-law student. She had no idea how wild her journey would become and what a large part of her life it would be. She witnesses human nature at its most raw, vulnerable and uninhibited.

Anything But a Wasted Life is a memoir of an unorthodox life, an absorbing story about a woman who has rarely said ‘no’ to life.

Sita Kaylin is a veteran sex worker living in Los Angeles. After dropping out of high school, she graduated pre-Law from San Francisco State University when she joined a strip club. In between lap dances and performing on stage, she wrote about her life experiences, which have now resulted in her first book. She is working on her second book. OCTOBER In 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counter-insurgency operations in the country’s Naxal-affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on 48 a seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across the same territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand how and why, against the backdrop of a shiny new India, the country’s poor had shunned the world’s largest democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues.

Dressed as a man in an olive-green guerrilla uniform, Alpa was the only woman and the only person not carrying a gun. Her gritty journey reveals how and why people from very different backgrounds come together to take up arms to NIGHTMARCH change the world but also what makes them fall apart. A JOURNEY INTO INDIA’S NAXAL HEARTLANDS Unfolding like a thriller and brought to life by Alpa’s years of research and immersion into the ALPA SHAH daily lives of the tribal communities in a Naxal stronghold, Nightmarch is a reflection on economic growth, rising inequality, dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.

Alpa Shah is associate professor and reader in anthropology at the London School of Economics. She has reported and presented on the underbelly of India for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.

GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 320 PRICE `699 RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent GURGAON AUGUST FROM MYTHIC VILLAGE TO MILLENNIUM CITY VEENA TALWAR Gurgaon means different things to different OLDENBURG people. For the layperson, it is the city that is written up in the media when an untoward event 49 or incident occurs – brawls in pubs, crimes against women, dubious real estate transactions. For the aspirational working class, it is the Millennium City with its sleek malls, sky-scraping residential and corporate towers and gated colonies. And for the businessperson, it is the city of opportunities, thanks to the countless Fortune 500 companies that have set up base here. GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture FORMAT Demy/Paperback But this city, with a metro station titled ‘Guru PAGE EXTENT 324 Dronacharya’, began as an obscure hamlet, and PRICE `599 has had several hoary incarnations before it RIGHTS World acquired its present density, industry, wealth and civic fabric.

Veena Talwar Oldenburg has lived in Gurgaon for over twenty years and been witness to its astonishing evolution. In Gurgaon, she has written the first rigorously researched history of the city’s making, that speaks to an audience interested and invested in its growth, and to those who live and work here now and will do for generations to come.

Veena Talwar Oldenburg is a professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime and The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856–1877. SEPTEMBER This is the complete forecast for the year 2019, with weekly forecasts and important dates for all signs, all-inclusive information about every sign of the 50 zodiac, world horoscope, plus a range of riveting information from ace astrologer Bejan Daruwalla.

Find out what India’s most famous astrologer has to say about what the signs foretell in the year ahead.

Bejan Daruwalla is India’s best-known astrologer whose forecasts are published in several magazines and newspapers. His son Nastur Daruwalla is an independent astrologer who wrote this book of horoscope with his HOROSCOPE father. 2019 YOUR COMPLETE FORECAST BEJAN DARUWALLA WITH NASTUR DARUWALLA

GENRE Non-fiction/Reference/Astrology FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 304 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World TAROT OCTOBER FORECASTS 2019 You know life is full of surprises but you don’t want to be caught unawares when faced with KARMEL NAIR something unexpected. You could be struggling to gain a foothold at your workplace, or trying to 51 find meaning in a relationship going nowhere. You could be at any stage of your life when it suddenly hits you that something is just not right. This realization forces you to see where you currently are and what sort of reparation is required.

Tarot Forecasts 2019 is a new-age guide to help unravel your future with the help of magical tarot cards. Know what’s in store for you professionally GENRE Non-fiction/Reference/Astrology and in your personal life. Find out if health will FORMAT B/Paperback be a cause for concern. Will you be struggling PAGE EXTENT 200 PRICE `299 financially or will you come into wealth soon? RIGHTS World

Karmel Nair was born a Catholic, is married to a Hindu and practises the Buddhist way of life. She was a successful radio jockey before she began tarot fortune-telling. NOVEMBER ‘I don’t think women should be playing cricket. We’re just doing this because it’s an ICC rule.’

­— A former BCCI board president 52 The 2017 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup saw the Indian team make it to the finals, and although it lost the game, the tournament marked an unprecedented high for viewership for women’s cricket in India.

Free Hit is the untold story of how women’s cricket got here, and casts light on the daily struggles, gender-based pay gaps, sponsorship challenges and the sheer indifference of cricketing officials it faced along the way. Focusing on Mithali Raj, the world’s greatest woman batsman, and Jhulan FREE HIT Goswami, the leading wicket taker in women’s THE STORY OF WOMEN’S cricket, Suprita Das takes us into the lives of the CRICKET IN INDIA spirited bunch of women who, across the years, just like their male counterparts, also brought SUPRITA DAS home laurels that are worth celebrating.

Meticulously researched, Free Hit takes us deep into the heart of women’s cricket in India.

Suprita Das is a writer and journalist. She has covered two editions of the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games for NDTV, apart from several other national and international tournaments. She won the RedInk Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2015. Her first book, Shadow Fighter: Sarita Devi & Her Extraordinary Journey was published by GENRE Sport/History HarperCollins India. FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World BASTAR DISPATCHES JULY A PASSAGE THROUGH Abujhmadia is an ancient tribe in the western THE WILDS region of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Until not too long NARENDRA ago, they did not know agriculture, had not seen a brick structure, were without schools, modern 53 health systems, transport or communication systems, and without knowledge of what livelihoods are about. It was a community whose vocabulary did not go beyond about 300 words and counting beyond five.

Narendra – who lived in Abujhmad, the area the tribe inhabits, during 1980–85 and then in GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture adjoining areas of Bastar up to 2013 – delves FORMAT Demy/Paperback into the everyday conversations and life of a PAGE EXTENT 280 PRICE `499 primitive adivasi community in Bastar Dispatches. RIGHTS World He juxtaposes the Abujhmadia with other adivasi communities in the region that have been pushed into modernity over the years. In contrast, the Abujhmadia does not even know he lives in India, or what development and the modern world are about.

Bastar Dispatches celebrates the adivasi way of life and attempts to capture his lost spirit of renunciation – or, rather, non-acquisition – in an increasingly acquisitive world.

Narendra is with the Dialogue from the Other End in Bastar, a tribal ecological initiative on earth, wilds and forests, water, animals, healing, traditional wisdom and self-sustainability. He has spent over three decades living among and studying the tribal communities of the region. BAKE WITH SHIVESH OCTOBER SHIVESH BHATIA

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Social media is a place where it is more important to document what you ate or cooked than whether you enjoyed your meal. It is a world obsessed with the aesthetics of food presentation and styling, where every ‘like’ and follower increases your circle of influence and makes big brands sit up and take notice. Food styling has thus become a skill many want to master, but don’t know how.

This is not your regular cookbook. Popular food blogger and maverick baker Shivesh Bhatia includes carefully curated recipes, provides fool-proof tips on food styling that can be easily followed at home, in your kitchen, with tools you already own. He also talks about his favourite styling techniques, and what works – or doesn’t – on Instagram and blogs.

Shivesh Bhatia is a twenty-one-year-old food blogger from Delhi. With over 100k followers on Instagram, Shivesh is one of the most popular food bloggers of the country. He has been featured in Vogue India’s list of ‘20 Under 26’, been featured in most of the national dailies and magazines and awarded the Outlook Social Media Award.

Our personal space is dear to us all. Indeed, it is privacy that sets man apart from animals. But

JULY mankind was not born private. Privacy evolved over time as man developed technologies to wall himself off. Just as some technologies enhanced 56 privacy, others – such as the printing press or the portable camera – chipped away at it. Every time this happened, man opposed the technology at first but made his peace with it to benefit from the obvious good it could do.

We are at a similar crossroads today with data technologies. Aadhaar, for example, has made it far easier to avail of services than ever before, but there are also those who rightly worry about people’s private data being put to ill use. What we really need is a new framework that unlocks the full potential of a data-driven future while still PRIVACY 3.0 safeguarding what we hold most dear – our privacy.

UNLOCKING OUR DATA- In this pioneering work, technology lawyer Rahul DRIVEN FUTURE Matthan traces the changing notions of privacy RAHUL MATTHAN from the earliest times to its evolution in law. In the process, he re-imagines the way we should be thinking about privacy today if we are to take full advantage of modern data technologies.

Rahul Matthan is a partner with the law firm Trilegal and heads its TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) practice. He was engaged in some of the early drafting of a privacy law that, for various reasons, did not get enacted. He has served as a member of the Technology Sub-Committee of the Reserve Bank of India’s Committee on Household Finance, GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Government where he authored the section on privacy. FORMAT Demy/Hardback He has a weekly column in Mint called ‘Ex PAGE EXTENT 240 Machina’. PRICE `599 RIGHTS World NOVEMBER MA, I’VE BECOME A

COLLECTOR Rajesh Patil was born to poor farm workers in Tade in the backward Khandesh region of RAJESH PATIL northern Maharashtra. He worked as a child 57 labourer picking cotton, selling bread, working on farms and doing odd jobs. But he was driven by a desire to study. Against great odds, he studied up to the postgraduate level and made several attempts at competitive examinations conducted by the UPSC. But his lack of confidence with English was a hurdle. He was unsuccessful at first but, by dint of his hard work, eventually cracked the IAS.

GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir Ma, I’ve Become a Collector is the inspiring account FORMAT Demy/Paperback of Rajesh’s struggles that has been a bestseller PAGE EXTENT 280 in Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Odia, and PRICE `399 motivated thousands of students in India’s rural RIGHTS World areas in their quest for higher education. At the same time, it is much more than one man’s story. Rajesh reveals the social, political and cultural reality of a typical village. This is a riveting and revelatory account of life in rural India.

Rajesh Patil is a 2005-batch IAS officer who was the collector of Mayurbhanj in Odisha and is now officer on special duty with the Odisha Skill Development Authority. JULY Combining biography and memoir, Shankar Ghosh writes of his father’s life as a journalist in his father’s own voice. As the first and the longest- 58 serving Indian editor of the Pioneer, the second- oldest English newspaper in India, his father Dr S.N. Ghosh’s career matched step with the most profound changes in modern history, including India’s coming-of-age as an independent nation.

As a cub reporter for the Pioneer, Dr Ghosh saw the ‘whites only’ clubs of the British Raj. During the Bengal famine, he was one of the few journalists who reported the disaster. On the eve of Independence, he wrote the Pioneer’s editorial to mark the historic day. He also chronicled the India–China war and the politicking in an incipient Uttar Pradesh. SCENT OF A As a journalist, Dr Ghosh’s personal accounts were many. Shankar’s prose condenses, as a perfumer STORY bottles a fragrance, his father’s remembrances, his A NEWSPAPERMAN’S father’s life in romance of a newspaper and the JOURNEY spirit of an early Lucknow, all for us to get a whiff SHANKAR GHOSH of those times. As memoirs go, Scent of a Story is a charmer of a book.

Shankar Ghosh majored in geology from the University of Lucknow and studied forestry in the Indian Forest College, Dehradun. He headed a major agro-forestry poplar intercropping programme in the farmlands of north India and helped initiate livelihood enhancement

GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir programmes in Africa. He lives in New Delhi FORMAT Demy/Paperback with his wife, Dr Manju Ghosh. PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER A LIFE IN THE WORLD

U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY A Life in the World offers a fascinating portrait of IN CONVERSATION the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and WITH public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. In a 59 CHANDAN GOWDA series of lively conversations with the academic and writer Chandan Gowda, Ananthamurthy shares his personal experiences and reflects on the issues he was preoccupied with till the end. The vivid accounts of the evolution of his intellectual life, his friendships, his public engagements, India’s political culture and his passionate ideas on language and writing make the conversations an engaging as well as a precious document.

Perhaps the first exercise of its kind done with GENRE Non-fiction/Literature & Arts a writer in the country, A Life in the World will FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 240 enthral both the general reader as well as the PRICE `499 admirers of Ananthamurthy’s works. RIGHTS World

U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932–2014) was one of India’s key literary figures and public intellectuals and an important representative of the modernist movement in Kannada literature. He received the Jnanpith Award in 1994 and the Padma Bhushan in 1998. Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has recently translated U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Bara and edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan. JULY ‘We are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the 60 application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society, and the courage to leapfrog to state-of-the-art engineering and technology pursuits rather than step-by-step scientific developments.’ These famous words of Dr Vikram Sarabhai propel every initiative at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The Leapfroggers too is an outcome of the same spirit.

Ved Prakash Sandlas was one of the first engineers to join the agency in its formative years. He reflects on the ISRO culture: the styles, values and characteristics of its people; their aspirations and ambitions; and their limitations. Among those THE featured is Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the first project LEAPFROGGERS director of SLV-3, whose core team Sandlas was part of and from whom he eventually took over in AN INSIDER’S ACCOUNT 1980. The Leapfroggers is an insider’s account that OF ISRO offers unique insights into one of India’s most VED PRAKASH iconic institutions. SANDLAS Ved Prakash Sandlas was one of the first fifty engineers who joined ISRO during its formative years and rose to head SLV-3 as project director. Subsequently, he shifted to DRDO and served as distinguished scientist and chief controller R&D, in the area of using space technology for defence applications. He also set up the Amity Institute of Space GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Science and Technology. He passed away Government in 2017. FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `399 RIGHTS World MY GRAND- OCTOBER MOTHER’S TWEETS STORIES INSPIRED BY AVVAIYAR’S ANCIENT 61 WISDOM In this book, author Geeta Gopalakrishnan GEETA presents 109 sayings by the seventh-century saint GOPALAKRISHNAN Avvaiyar that have inspired women for centuries, and continue to inspire the new generation. Using multiple examples from Indian and Western mythology, as well as real life, she illustrates the veracity of these age-old aphorisms. Reminiscent of The Alchemist in the simplicity of the narration, this book will inspire readers while providing helpful life lessons that cut through GENRE Non-fiction/Spirituality eras and religions. FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `499 RIGHTS World Geeta Gopalakrishnan has around thirty-five years of experience in advertising. Now, she channels her energy into two causes – children with special needs and underprivileged children. All the proceeds from this book will go towards the treatment of underprivileged children with cancer at the Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata. NOVEMBER The intellectual climate in the humanities after the Second World War was pervaded by a confidence in the secularization of the entire globe in the long 62 run. It was believed that religion would become an increasingly private matter and recede from the public sphere.

These assumptions received a jolt with the events of 11 September 2001, which proved that the profile of religion in the public sphere was only increasing. With religion becoming a vital element in identity politics, how can we secure religious tolerance in the modern world? There is a tendency to label certain religions as tolerant and others as intolerant. Can religious tolerance be placed on a RELIGIOUS firmer footing? Prof. Arvind Sharma examines various religions to TOLERANCE reveal instances of tolerance and intolerance in the A GLOBAL HISTORY history of each to help the discussion proceed on ARVIND SHARMA the basis of historical facts. This is a timely and first-of-its-kind book in its scope and ambition.

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Canada. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology. He was instrumental in facilitating the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions.

GENRE Non-fiction/Religion FORMAT Royal/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 576 PRICE `899 RIGHTS World NOVEMBER WALKING IN CLOUDS KAVITHA YAGA Will we make it? BUGGANA That’s the question Kavitha and her cousin, Pallu, ask themselves as they trek through Himalayan 63 pine forests and unforgiving mountains in Nepal and Tibet. Their goal: to reach Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar.

The two women walk to ancient monasteries, meditate on freezing slopes, dance on the foothills of Kailash, and confront death in the thin mountain air. In Kailash and Manasarovar, the holiest of Hindu and Buddhist sites, they struggle to reconcile their rationalist views with

GENRE Non-Fiction/Travel faith and the beloved myths of their upbringing. FORMAT Demy/Paperback Remarkably, it is this journey that helps them PAGE EXTENT 180 discover the meaning of friendship. PRICE `299 RIGHTS World Walking in Clouds is a beautifully crafted memoir of a journey to far-away places and to the places within. As adventure travel explodes in popularity, this book mixes lyrical, descriptive storytelling and stunning photographs to bring to life a unique travelogue. The book also examines history, culture and the troubled politics of Tibet.

Kavitha Yaga Buggana lives in Hyderabad. Her essays and short fiction have been published in literary magazines in India and abroad. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. In her previous avatars, she was a software engineer in Chicago and a developmental economist. NOVEMBER On 8 November 2016, India radically changed its future course, a change that has a precedent INDIA 3.0 only on such momentous occasions in Indian 64 THE RISING BILLION history as Independence (India 1.0) and economic liberalization (India 2.0). Prime Minister Modi took a decisive step to pluck the scourge of black money at its root by demonetizing high-value currency notes and, though it caused much inconvenience, the people were willing to brave it for the country.

Many writings on India focus on its intellectual ARUN TIWARI rather than identitarian aspects, and thus leave out a crucial piece in understanding India’s national trajectory and future pedigree. India 3.0 INDIA 3.0 is a step forward in this regard, as this book is an exploration of the psychology and temperament THE RISING BILLION of the Indian mind, its wounds and victories. A ARUN TIWARI book of hope, it analyses the three watersheds in Indian history and traces a path to India’s vaunted destiny: of becoming a world leader.

Arun Tiwari joined the Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) as a missile scientist and later helped Dr Abdul Kalam develop civilian spin-offs of defence technology. He co-wrote Wings of Fire, the autobiography of Dr Kalam, and is also the co-author of Transcendence.

GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 288 PRICE `499 RIGHTS World CINEMA DECEMBER For those who know their Indian cinema, Vidhu Vinod Chopra needs no introduction. He is the maker of cutting-edge noir like Sazaa-e-Maut and 66 Khamosh, films that were way ahead of their time, and popular hits such as Parinda and 1942: A Love Story. Over the last decade and more, he has produced some of Hindi cinema’s biggest hits – Parineeta, the Munna Bhai series, 3 Idiots and PK – in the process mentoring incredible talents like Rajkumar Hirani, Shantanu Moitra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Pradeep Sarkar, Rajesh Mapuskar, Vidya Balan and Bejoy Nambiar among others.

In a riveting conversation with his long-time friend, associate and writer Abhijat Joshi, the A LIFE IN director opens up on everything about cinema and life, and the incredible journey that has CINEMA seen him travel from being a film-maker who ends a film because he has run out of stock AND OTHER (Murder at Monkey Hill) to helming one of ADVENTURES India’s biggest production houses. Marked by his trademark brashness, bravado and political VIDHU VINOD incorrectness, this is the story of the life and CHOPRA WITH times of one of India’s finest film-makers, told ABHIJAT JOSHI with his trademark fiery passion and tongue-in- cheek humour.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is one of India’s most successful film directors and producers and founder of Vinod Chopra Films. Abhijat Joshi is the writer of some of the biggest blockbusters of Hindi cinema in the past decade, including GENRE Non-fiction/Film/Autobiography PK, 3 Idiots and the Munna Bhai films. FORMAT Royal/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 280 PRICE `699 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER BHUPEN HAZARIKA AS I KNEW HIM KALPANA LAJMI

67 This is a portrait of Bhupen Hazarika as composer, singer, lover and man of the world. It is a tumultuous love story that provides glimpses into a daring, explosive relationship between two creative individuals who broke convention and dared to defy societal norms. Through her intimate lens, the author gives us an insight into the life, work and GENRE Non-fiction/Memoir/Film & Music mind of Bhupen Hazarika, known as the ‘God of FORMAT Demy/Paperback Music’, whose music compositions, lyrics and unique PAGE EXTENT 288 PRICE `499 baritone found an unmatched fan following. His RIGHTS World forays into Hindi cinema resulted in haunting music that etched a place of its own in listeners’ memories.

The simple, from-the-heart narrative by Kalpana Lajmi, an acclaimed film-maker in her own right, brings to life the genius of a great musical artiste whose songs continue to enthral.

Kalpana Lajmi is a well-known film-maker and one of the stalwarts of the parallel and middle- of-the-road cinema of the 1970s. Her prominent and award-winning films include Ek Pal, Rudaali and Darmiyaan. GENRE Non-fiction/Biography/Film

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Because He Is… explores the journey of Gulzar – poet, film-maker, lyricist and author – in the words of his daughter. Meghna documents the life of her father, transcending the patterns of a conventional biography to present a touching account of the legend’s life, career, personal joys and sorrows, profusely illustrated. This updated edition, containing substantial new text and never-before-seen photographs, offers a personal insight into the bond between a father and a daughter and the tremendous respect they have for BECAUSE HE IS… each other. A rare tribute from a daughter to her MEGHNA GULZAR father. Meghna Gulzar is a well-known film-maker with four feature films to her credit: Filhaal …, Just Married, the critically acclaimed box-office hit Talvar and the recent blockbuster Raazi. NOVEMBER

70 This is a close look at Delhi through the lens of Hindi cinema from the 1950s to the present, examining Delhi as the seat of the newly independent, postcolonial state, the capital city of power and the city of everyday life, capturing its pulse and many fault lines. Blending cinema scholarship with the keen eye of the cinephile, it captures the city’s changing ethos: from one of Nehruvian nation building to the sinister shape it has acquired thanks to power and its corrupting influence, and as a space for living, hope, ambition, daily negotiations and love. CINEMA AND Featuring an extensive cinema list and a conversation with noted film-makers, screenwriters THE CITY: VIA and cinema scholars on the subject, this book brings alive elusive aspects of Delhi’s lived DELHI reality and makes a significant contribution to MIHIR PANDYA understanding how the city and cinema impact WITH SHRUTI one another. PARTHASARATHY

Mihir Pandya writes on cinema and popular culture. His doctorate was on contemporary city in popular Hindi cinema and he now teaches Hindi literature at the University of Delhi. Shruti Parthasarathy is a translator and writes on Indian modern art.

GENRE Non-fiction/Film FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 272 PRICE `499 RIGHTS World IN THE LIFE OCTOBER OF A FILM FESTIVAL 20 YEARS OF MAMI In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts, THE MUMBAI 71 ACADEMY OF MOVING including Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Shyam Benegal IMAGE and Ramesh Sippy, founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image as a not-for-profit trust to organize an annual international film festival which the film industry and the country can be proud of.

Since then, the festival has had its ups and downs. There were days of glory with guests like Oliver Stone, Asghar Farhadi and Jane Campion, but GENRE Non-fiction/Film it nearly shut down in 2014 because the main FORMAT B/Paperback sponsors pulled out (which is when the current PAGE EXTENT 200 team stepped in). Its survival is a testament to PRICE `299 our love for cinema. As MAMI celebrates twenty RIGHTS World years, this book looks at its storied history and is a tribute to the passion which has made this festival what it is. IN THE LIFE The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image OF A FILM (MAMI) is a public trust that organizes the annual international film festival in Mumbai FESTIVAL known as the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). 20 YEARS OF MAMI MAMI aims to foster a climate of good cinema.

THE MUMBAI ACADEMY OF MOVING IMAGE NOVEMBER Main Shayar Toh Nahi THE BOOK OF HINDI Hindi film songs acquired a grammar of their 72 FILM LYRICISTS own with the coming of sound, thanks to the introduction of songs as a part of the narrative – a tradition that is unique to Indian cinema. This gave rise to a class of professionals who acquired star status as big as the actors themselves – the lyricists.

Rajiv Vijayakar’s book chronicles the journeys of RAJIV leading film lyricists, from D.N. Madhok and Pandit Pradeep to Amitabh Bhattacharya and Irshad VIJAYAKAR Kamil, including stalwarts like Shakeel Badayuni and Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Anand Bakshi, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar, who have woven magic with the written word. Filled MAIN SHAYAR with trivia and never-before-heard-of anecdotes, TOH NAHI Main Shayar Toh Nahi is an introduction to the contribution of some of the finest wordsmiths the THE BOOK OF HINDI FILM LYRICISTS Hindi film industry has seen. RAJIV VIJAYAKAR Rajiv Vijayakar has been an entertainment journalist for over twenty-five years, concentrating on Hindi cinema and everything about it. Rajiv has done a bit of television and written and packaged over 200 hours of FM programming.

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SANJAY SURI Hindi cinema, since Independence, has revolved almost entirely on issues around sex and money. 73 This may seem odd, given the conservative tastes of the times. But the fact that we do not ‘see’ sex does not hide just how much sex there is in cinema. As for money, a recurring theme is what money – or the lack of it – does to sex. Sanjay Suri argues that Hindi cinema was an unlikely offspring of the Father of the Nation – the product of Gandhi’s celibacy and austerity. His heroic retreat from wealth and sexuality was GENRE Non-fiction/Film written into cinema and then elaborately filmed, FORMAT Demy/Paperback shot by shot. PAGE EXTENT 280 PRICE `499 Suri draws on numerous examples – from Mother RIGHTS World India to Do Bigha Zameen; Naya Daur to Pyaasa; Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam to Guide; and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to Lage Raho Munna Bhai – to show how cinema was made within well-defined moral fences built with dos and don’ts about sex and money. Sex in a Socialist Era is a history of India through the preoccupations of its cinema.

Sanjay Suri has been a London-based journalist since 1990. He studied in Delhi University and the London School of Economics. He is the author of Brideless in Wembley, Naked Rain and Other Poems and 1984: The Anti-Sikh Violence and After. GULZAR’S AANDHI REVISITING A POLITICAL STORM SABA BASHIR DECEMBER GULZAR’S IJAAZAT 74 THE LAST GOODBYE MIRA HASHMI

GULZAR’S ANGOOR GRAPES OF LAUGHTER SATHYA SARAN

The films of Gulzar occupy a special place in the annals of Hindi cinema, steering clear of the escapism and stereotypes that characterized the films of the era, while scoring at the box office. Aandhi, Angoor and Ijaazat comprise the best of this middle-of-the-road cinema as epitomized by the films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee.

As part of HarperCollins’s critically acclaimed series of monographs on classic films that have defined Hindi cinema, this set of three books – chronicling the making and the impact of three of Gulzar’s most-loved films – not only provides a glimpse into the world of a film-maker who dared to take the road less travelled, but is also an insightful record of a unique era of Hindi cinema.

Saba Bashir is the author of the critically acclaimed book on Gulzar’s poetry, I Swallowed the Moon. She has also translated the screenplays of Gulzar’s TV series Tehreer Munshi Premchand Ki. Mira Hashmi has been teaching film studies since 1998. She is currently assistant professor at the Lahore School of Economics. Sathya Saran is a consulting GENRE Non-fiction/Film editor with HarperCollins and author of a number of best- FORMAT B/Paperback selling and critically acclaimed books on Guru Dutt, S.D. PAGE EXTENT 160 each Burman and Jagjit Singh. PRICE `299 each RIGHTS World CHILDREN’S JULY–DECEMBER Goodbye, earthworms. Hello, chocolate cake!

76 Ruffleclaw is a furry red monster who lives under a tool shed, and he’s sick of eating bugs. When he decides to move in with a family of humans, he climbs right into bed with a boy named Tommy. Tommy wants to keep Ruffleclaw as a pet, but it won’t be easy. Ruffleclaw makes huge messes – he spits, he drinks shampoo and he eats everything in the fridge … along with the plates! Can Tommy teach his monster to behave?

Why an ‘M’ series? Much of what makes for a masterful story starts with the letter M … Mysteries, Magic, Monsters! The M series promises to be a MONSTER marvellous mix of all three. TALES M SERIES

CORNELIA FUNKE Cornelia Funke is the New York Times bestselling author of many magical books for children, including The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider and Inkheart. Once named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine, Cornelia was born in Germany and lives with her family in California.

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SHE CAN, YOU CAN! THE A-Z BOOK OF ICONIC INDIAN WOMEN GARIMA KUSHWAHA 77

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She Can, You Can! is an A to Z biography of iconic Indian women, one for each letter of the English alphabet. Each character is represented by an illustrative sketch and a 500- word summary. This inspirational and motivational book includes the achievements of pioneering female scientists, doctors, activists, painters, dancers, astronauts, comedians, political leaders and many more from different walks of life.

Garima is a research scientist and has a PhD in bioinformatics. Apart from this, she is interested in women’s empowerment in the context of Indian women. Garima has previously written for platforms like Youth Ki Awaaz and Women’s Web on issues centred on women’s empowerment. GENRE Slam Book

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YOUR JOURNAL OF MEMORIES SO YOU DON’T FORGET ANYTHING SHAMIKA CHAVES

An illustrated journal with activities aimed at preserving and collecting memories. Each page is unique and colourful, yet designed in a way that allows you to personalize them. Preserve the most important moments and events in your life in one book, so that you can come back to it years later to look back on your life and show it to your family and friends!

Shamika Christopher Chaves is an illustrator and graphic designer at Worldwide Media by day, and moonlights as a doodle artist and an art teacher. Some of her books include the Flipped anthology (Funny and Scary Stories) and The Boy Who Swallowed a Nail and Other Stories. JULY–DECEMBER

AMAZING HISTORICAL PLACES INSIDE INDIA! SERIES FUNOKPLEASE

Join Indy and Dia on a super exciting and fun tour of India’s amazing historical places. This 79 activity book will help you navigate India’s rich and mind-boggling map of historical wonders through engaging activities. Discover unknown details about the famous monuments and sites you’ve already heard of and get acquainted with the little-known gems that make our country truly incredible.

India is incredible, unmatched, unlimited … it is also fun as the Inside India! series will show you. Amazing Historical GENRE Activity/Series Places is the second book in FORMAT 8.5” x 11”/Paperback the series. Each book in the series PAGE EXTENT 64 PRICE `250 is designed around an Indian theme, RIGHTS World such as Festivals and Celebrations, Historical Places, Food and Eco Victories, and includes word searches, crosswords, multiple-choice quizzes, picture quizzes, jokes and riddles, art and craft, FUN INDEED! ACTIVITY BOOK SERIES recipes, puzzles and more.

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ZIPPY MESSES UP THE ZIPPY SERIES ANITHA BALACHANDRAN

Zippy and his friends are back! This time, they have a great time playing indoors but also discover that it’s a good idea to clean up afterwards. Another rollicking story for young readers written in rhyme.

This picture book and the accompanying activity book, The Zippy Messes Up Activity Book, are the second set in a series that centres on Zippy, a young zebra, and his group of friends. Each animal belongs to a different species and has a distinct personality. Together they learn basic life THE ZIPPY MESSES UP ACTIVITY BOOK THE ZIPPY SERIES ANITHA BALACHANDRAN

lessons and make many discoveries about the world around them. Written in simple and lively language, the Zippy series is fun, educational, interactive and exciting for children who have just been introduced to reading. It is also great for reading aloud.

Anitha Balachandran makes a precarious living as an animation film-maker, author and illustrator of children’s books. She has always enjoyed telling tall tales, creating characters and painting with watercolours. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, and is known for its distinctive style.

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GENRE Non-fiction/Financial Management FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 294 PRICE `699 Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners RIGHTS Indian Subcontinent have backed some of the twentieth century’s 85 most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right INSIDE THE investments? What did Buffett and his partners INVESTMENTS look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate their approach? A gift to OF WARREN Buffett followers who have long sought a pattern to the investor’s success, Inside the Investments BUFFETT of Warren Buffett presents the most detailed TWENTY CASES analysis to date of Buffett’s long-term investment portfolio. Yefei Lu, an experienced investor, YEFEI LU starts with Buffett’s interest in the Sanborn Map Company in 1958 and tracks nineteen more of his major investments in companies like See’s Candies, the Washington Post, GEICO, Coca- Cola, US Air, Wells Fargo and IBM.

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Raghuram G. Rajan is professor of finance International Settlements. Dr Rajan was the at the University of Chicago. He was the chief economist and director of research at governor of the Reserve Bank of India the International Monetary Fund from 2003 between 2013 and 2016 and also served as to 2006. He is the author of the best-selling vice-chairman of the Board of the Bank for I Do What I Do. THE THIRD PILLAR

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‘My goal with this book is to put forward The Third Pillar tries to provide an answer, a new framework for thinking about departing from the traditional economist’s economics and society in order to help view to come up with an alternative explain some of the most pressing issues framework. Raghuram G. Rajan emphasizes facing us today.’ a third (and often ignored) pillar — the local community, by which he means the Countries are more prosperous than ever social fabric tying people together. He before; new technologies that promise to argues that many of today’s ills come from solve our most intractable problems are on an excessive centralization of governance the horizon; and yet there is widespread into supranational institutions and national unhappiness in some of the richest countries governments, which weakens the local in the world. The immediate reason appears community and leaves it with little power to to be economic despair, as moderately react to economic change. educated workers lose jobs because of trade and automation. But workers lose (and gain) The Third Pillar argues that every past jobs regularly. Why are even well-educated technological revolution has been disruptive, workers who hold decent middle-class jobs prompted a societal reaction, and eventually so disheartened now? resulted in societal change that helped us get the best out of the revolution. What has not happened yet is the necessary societal change, which is why so many despair of the future. We are at a critical moment in human history, when wrong choices could derail human economic progress.

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The Tatas is the story of one of India’s leading business families. It starts in the nineteenth 88 century with Nusserwanji Tata and ends with Ratan Tata. But it is more than just a history of the industrial house; it is an inspiring account of India in the making. It chronicles how each generation of the family invested not only in the expansion of its own business interests but also in nation building.

For instance, few know that the first hydel project in the world was conceived and built by the Tatas in India. Nor that some radical labour concepts such as eight-hour work shifts were born in India, at the Tata mill in Nagpur. The National Centre THE TATAS for the Performing Arts, the Tata Cancer Research Centre, the Tata Institute of Fundamental HOW A FAMILY BUILT A Research – the list of contributions to India is a BUSINESS AND A NATION long one.

GIRISH KUBER A bestseller in Marathi when it was first published in 2015, this is the only book that tells the complete Tata story over two hundred years.

Girish Kuber is the editor of Loksatta and a regular columnist in the Indian Express. He is also the author of six books in Marathi. He lives in Mumbai.

GENRE Non-fiction/Biography FORMAT Royal/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 344 PRICE `799 RIGHTS World SEPTEMBER IGNITING INNOVATION THE TATA WAY The Tata Group comprises 100+ companies RAVI ARORA spread across various business sectors and continents. The $100 billion salt-to-software 89 conglomerate generates 70 per cent of its revenue from highly competitive overseas operations. What does it do to encourage and enhance innovation in these companies that are small and big, fledgling and well-established?

Tata InnoVista is a twelve-year-old flagship innovation programme of the Tata Group. Over the years, Tata InnoVista has fired the imagination of colleagues across Tata GENRE Non-fiction/ Management & Innovation companies and become one of the most FORMAT Demy/Hardback inspiring innovation programmes in the PAGE EXTENT 208 group. It has been presented to and researched PRICE `499 by management experts globally, including RIGHTS World those in Harvard Business School, London Business School and INSEAD. This book will explore how InnoVista has built a culture of innovation in the Tata group, inspired thousands of managers, and given a platform for knowledge exchange leading to innovation that is collaborative and beneficial for everyone.

Ravi Arora is vice president, innovation, at Tata Sons and manages the innovation programme at the Tata group worldwide. He is a key member of the Tata Group Innovation Forum (TGIF) and has created well-known programmes like Tata InnoMeter, Tata InnoVista and Tata InnoVerse to foster innovation within the organization. SEPTEMBER

90 In the corporate world, one question that’s often asked is, ‘What does it take to reach the top and stay there?’ Be it the fancy MBA in a hurry to get to the top or the hard-working manager slogging for years or the sycophant who flatters his way up the corporate ladder, the C-suite is the ultimate aspiration for everyone. Taking you right inside the C-suite, Jayaram Easwaran presents twenty- one stories based on real incidents during his three-decade career. Each story has a message that addresses the most pertinent problem of our work lives. Stories about the dilemma of being virtuous INSIDE THE when the stakes are high, the pitfalls of judging a book by its cover, the dangers of blind ambition, C-SUITE ego squabbles among top brass and many others 21 SECRETS FROM TOP make this book a treasure-trove of wisdom. This is MANAGEMENT TO GET a book that will help you get your way in business YOUR WAY IN BUSINESS and life. AND IN LIFE JAYARAM EASWARAN Jayaram Easwaran is an alumnus of IIM- Bangalore and director at Casa Blanka India Consulting Pvt. Ltd. He has over three decades of experience in leadership positions at Aricent Technologies, Punj Lloyd, Sutherland Global Services and Eicher.

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92 Shabnam Aggarwal left her cushy job at Merrill Lynch and moved to India to start her own business. She wanted to bring about change. And she does. In If I Fail, she changes the way we perceive failure.

Raised in an orthodox Indian family, Shabnam always strived to be successful in her father’s eyes. When she decided to start her business, there was immense pressure to succeed. She got several rounds of investments, found herself a talented and hardworking team, and everything seemed to IF I FAIL go right – until it didn’t. In this book, she gives us an insight into dealing with SURVIVING THE START-UP ECOCULTURE failure, warns us of the pitfalls of starting a business (and how best to avoid them), and imparts the best SHABNAM AGGARWAL lesson she learnt – you haven’t failed until you stop trying.

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Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked 96 opinions, innuendo and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply business tools analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins philosophy with practical know-how to launch an integrated approach to building high-performance stock portfolios. Investors at all skill levels should learn to be mindful of their psychological biases so they may better frame investment choices.

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HERSH BHARDWAJ Adversity comes in all shapes and sizes. Why do 97 so many people and organizations succumb to adverse situations and only a few rise above them? In A to B, Hersh Bhardwaj uses the power of narrative to move from adversity to breakthrough. Combining the ancient wisdom of 1001 Arabian Nights and popular psychology, the book provides a roadmap to turn situations around.

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Hersh Bhardwaj is a management consultant based in New Delhi. AUGUST Howard Marks is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top 98 of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world’s leading value investors, and his client memos brim with insightful commentary and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. Now for the first time, all readers can benefit from Marks’s wisdom, concentrated into a single volume that speaks to both the amateur and the seasoned investor. Informed by a lifetime of experience and study, The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Marks teaches THE MOST by example, detailing the development of an IMPORTANT investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils THING of the financial world. Brilliantly applying UNCOMMON SENSE insight to today’s volatile markets, this book FOR THE THOUGHTFUL is part memoir, part creed, with a number of INVESTOR broad takeaways. HOWARD MARKS Howard Marks is chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles- based investment firm with $80 billion under management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Wharton School, and an MBA in accounting and marketing from the University of Chicago.

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