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Now in paperback 107 FICTION GENRE Fiction JUNE FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 352 F e br u ary New Delhi, 2016. It is eight years since the 26/11 ` PRICE 299 terror attacks in Mumbai and the wounds have Rights World, all languages still not healed. Especially not for superintendent 2 of police Vikrant Singh. Now with the National 3 Investigation Agency, Vikrant manages a meeting with Pakistani High Commissioner Zakir Abdul Most love stories have their share of Khan, who is on a visit to India. While Vikrant misunderstandings, angry tears and hurdles Deception claims he only wants to appeal to Khan to – only for longing and faith to save the day speed up the process of bringing the culprits to and make a happily ever after. S. Hussain Zaidi book, he ends up landing a punch on the high Most love stories – but not all. Not the commissioner’s face. ones that end with hearts left broken, their Meanwhile, in Bhopal, five members of the shards lost under the weight of all that is left Students’ Islamic Movement of India, arrested by unsaid. In these powerful yet quiet letters of Vikrant for planning terrorist attacks in Mumbai, looking for closure, Nikita Singh explores break out of the central jail. Vikrant, dismissed the what-ifs, whys and what-could-have- recently for the incident that was a diplomatic beens; words demanding, with grace and disaster, is unofficially asked to assist the team dignity and passion, a salve for what only tracking the escaped terrorists. time may heal. Letters to My Ex In another part of the country, a retired tycoon, a heartbroken ex-soldier and a young Nikita Singh Nikita Singh is the bestselling author of woman dealing with demons of her own embark ten novels, including Like a Love Song on a journey of self-discovery aboard a cruise liner and Every Time It Rains. She is also a from Mumbai to Lakshadweep. Fate, however, contributing writer to The Backbenchers has other plans, and the cruise liner is hijacked. series and the editor of the short-story collections 25 Strokes of Kindness and The Racy and riveting, this is Hussain Zaidi at his Turning Point. You can find her on Twitter, best. Instagram and Snapchat (@singh_nikita), or on Facebook. S. Hussain Zaidi is a Mumbai-based journalist, a veteran of investigative, crime and terror reporting. He has worked for the Asian Age, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-Day and Indian Express. His previous books include GENRE Fiction Dongri to Dubai, Byculla to Bangkok and Format B/Paperback Mumbai Avengers. Three of his books have Page Extent 144 Price `199 been adapted into films. Hussain Zaidi lives Rights World with his family in Mumbai. Image courtesy of Youth Ki Awaaz GENRE Fiction M

FORMAT B/Paperback AY PAGE EXTENT 240 A pril PRICE `199 Rights World Vijay’s unsuspecting wife Yashodhara is The hilarious private journal of a highly public 4 caught off guard when, tired of the rigours pregnancy 5 of city life, he actually buys seven cows and starts dairy farming. When Mona Mathur of Dehradun had married her college sweetheart Ramit Deol of Amritsar, As Vijay begins to dive into his quirky new Koi Good News? there were two things she wasn’t prepared for: hobby, Yash is not quite sure how to handle it. As if she didn’t have enough going on Zarreen Khan Chopra 1. The size of the Deol family – it puts any Sooraj– already, what with her high-octane job, three Barjatiya movie to shame; children and multiple careers. 2. the fertility of the Deol family – they reproduce Now, plucked out of their comfortable faster than any other species known to mankind. urban existence in the steel-and-chrome For four years now, Mona and Ramit have high-rises of Gurugram, the hapless family is done the unthinkable and remained childless. Of thrown head first into a startlingly unfamiliar course, that also means that they’ve battled that one world, complete with cows and crops, question day in and day out: ‘Koi Good News?’ multiple dogs and eccentric farmhands, a How I Became a It doesn’t matter that they have been happy to shrewd landlady ‘aunty’ and the occasional Farmer’s Wife be child-free – they are married; they are expected rogue snake. to make babies. After all, there are grandparents, Yashodhara Lal Will these earnest but insulated city-dwellers great-grandparents, uncles, aunts and even be able to battle the various other difficulties colony aunties waiting. that come with living a farmer’s life? Brutally honest, thoroughly irreverent, Koi Good News? is the funniest book you’ll read this Yashodhara Lal is the author of several year. bestselling novels. In her corporate avatar, Yashodhara is an IIM-Bangalore graduate with experience in marketing After working for Pepsi, Hindustan Times across FMCG, digital and technology and ACNielsen for ten years, Zarreen Khan businesses. She is also a dance-fitness Chopra decided to take a break and raise two instructor. She lives in Gurugram with children, who are sometimes kind enough to her husband Vijay and their three let her role-play as a marketing consultant. children: Peanut, Pickle and Papad. She lives in Delhi with her husband. GENRE Fiction Format B/Paperback Page Extent 240 Price `199 Rights Indian subcontinent F e br u ary

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6 Prem Bedi is the third richest man in the country. December 1911. India is in a tizzy. The old 7 He has royal ancestors and, at 53, he looks walls of Mughal Delhi are bedecked, as aristocratic. He chairs a business empire worth 200 the British are hosting a grand durbar to thousand crores. celebrate the coronation of the new king, He is the ‘Mogul’. Death at George V. Cooling his heels at the Majestic the Durbar Hotel as he awaits the king’s arrival, a bored Bedi has lived his entire life in the spotlight. Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore is paid So, when he’s accused of killing his ex-wife and Arjun Gaind a surreptitious visit by two British officers her husband, it’s no wonder that the spotlight who insist that he accompany them to the grows brighter and harsher, and the questions king emperor’s camp. There, an old friend, grow louder – who is ‘The Mogul’? Malik Umar Hayat Khan, who works for Lord Piece by piece, a picture is put together by Hardinge, tells Sikander that his services as a Bedi’s friends and associates: A young rookie sleuth are required, and ushers him into the The Mogul defense advocate who wants the case – defending king emperor’s personal chambers. Bedi means he’s arrived; his ex-wife’s family Inside is a dead nautch girl who appears to Vish Dhamija that can’t wait to convict him and inherit more have been strangled. And Sikander must find money than they can count in their lifetime; and

M the killer before scandal erupts. With far too DEATH the prosecuting advocate who wants to bury Bedi AhArAA j Mystery many suspects with very strong motives, will to make headlines. A the maharaja be able to solve the case and save A story unfolding through several perspectives, the durbar from ruin? The Mogul is a ‘howdunnit’ set in the fractured THE world of power, money and crime. December 1911. AT India is in a tizzy. The old walls of Mughal Delhi are bedecked, as the British are hosting a grand durbar to celebrate the DURBAR Arjun Raj Gaind is one of India’s coronation of the new king, George V. All the maharajas and nawabs of India have gathered, at Viceroy Lord Hardinge’s best-known comic book writers. command, to pay homage to the king emperor, the first monarch Vish Dhamija is the bestselling author of fiveof England to visit India in person. He is the creator and author of the crime fiction books. He is frequentlyCooling referred his heels at the Majestic Hotel as he awaits the king’s critically acclaimed, bestselling graphic arrival, a bored Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore is paid to in the press as the ‘master of legala surreptitious crime and visit by two British officers, who insist that he novels Empire of Blood, Reincarnation accompany them to the king emperor’s camp. There, an old courtroom drama’ in India. The Mogulfriend,, Malik a legal Umar Hayat Khan, who works for Lord Hardinge, Man, The Mighty Yeti, Project: tells Sikander that his services as a sleuth are required, and arjun raj gaind thriller, is his seventh novel. Vish lives ushersin London him into the king emperor’s personal chambers. Kalki, Blade of the Warrior: Kshatriya with his wife, Nidhi. Inside is a dead nautch girl who appears to have been strangled. and A Brief History of Death. And Sikander must find the killer before scandal erupts. With far too many suspects with very strong motives, will the Maharaja be able to solve the case and save the Durbar from ruin? GENRE Fiction/Crime/Legal Thriller Format B/Paperback Page Extent 304 Price `250 Rights Indian subcontinent GENRE Fiction/General J une Format B/Paperback Page Extent 260 APRIL Price `199 Rights World

8 Tara is living a blessed life in the maximum 9 city with her husband Abhimanyu, the love of Rohan and Ira’s life takes an unexpected turn her life. At the pinnacle of her career, she is the when Ira decides to leave for New York to study. apple of her parents’ eyes and hasn’t spotted a They’ve been married for only fifteen months, Ravinder Singh wrinkle yet – so far, the thirties are looking great! but this is the opportunity of a lifetime, and Presents Nothing fazes Tara – not a foul-mouthed best Rohan is not going to come between his wife and friend or a food-burning arch-nemesis in the her dream. So, sad but supportive, he stays back I Didn’t Expect form of her maid – not even a landlady who chats in Delhi, where he is on the brink of a promotion To Be Expecting with ghosts. at a national daily. After all, his relationship with Ira is strong enough to survive the distance – they Richa S. Mukherjee And then, Tara discovers that she’s pregnant. And are new-age lovers who don’t let marriage come suddenly, all that well-honed composure crumbles. in the way of careers and ambitions. It doesn’t help that she’s got an equally jittery (if supportive) husband by her side. Now, Tara The Story of a Rohan prepares for a year without Ira, getting must face her anxieties about parenthood as by with a little help from his friends. Life without Long-Distance she navigates friendships, marriage and career, Ira is going surprisingly well. Until the day, that Marriage all the while dealing with the fact that her body is, she reveals the real reason she left. and mind are steadily feeling like they belong to Siddhesh Inamdar Beautifully written and unflinchingly honest, someone else. this is the love story of our times. An honest and funny journey down the road – potholes and all – to parenthood!

Siddhesh Inamdar is a writer and editor. He studied English literature at St. Xavier’s Richa started her writing journey as a child, College, Mumbai, and journalism at the scribbling poems and stories for her father. Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Before Her career as a journalist and advertising moving to publishing, he’s worked with the professional has given her writing more Hindu, DNA and Hindustan Times. He lives in dimension, as has becoming a mother. Richa Delhi with his wife, daughter and three cats. hopes that her observations of people and life continue to inspire her writings.

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It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst GENRE Fiction/Crime/Thriller nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 240 F e br u ary It’s the Master Trickster, and it’s coming to get PRICE `299 Rights World you. When Mumbai Daily journalist Avantika Pandit 10 11 When she loses her parents in an accident, is asked to interview her childhood nemesis Diya Mathur’s world collapses around her. As far Aisha Juneja, she knows it’ll be like an express as she knows, she’s alone in the world now – till bikini wax – painful but quick. Then Laxmi, her a mysterious letter arrives from India. Suddenly, Swear You former best friend, shows up dead. And suddenly Diya has a chance at being part of a family again. Won’t Tell? Avantika finds herself turning into the reporter But moving from Boston to India also brings she used to be – a nosy little newshound with the Diya closer to the place where the horror of the Vedashree self-preservation instincts of a dodo. Chakwa – the Master Trickster – first started. As Khambete-Sharma Now, she has to meet old acquaintances she’d bodies and tragedies pile up around her, Diya’s hoped never to run into again, try to unravel the belief in the urban myth of the Chakwa increases. puzzle of Laxmi’s death, and ask the questions Will the monster that ruined her parents’ nobody seems to be asking: Who is the man life now destroy her happiness too? Or will she Laxmi was in love with? Why hasn’t anybody manage to defeat him at his own game? With heard of him? What does he have to do with her THE TRICKSTER the help of her newly discovered friends and death? family, Diya must not just fight the monster from The answers could get her killed. But if the Vinaya Bhagat her nightmares, but also make sense of the fast- choice is between churning out listicles on unravelling web of lies that makes up her life. handbags and death, dying might not be that bad after all. Vinaya Bhagat is an IT professional and a writer. Her short stories have been published in anthologies – Across the Vedashree Khambete-Sharma is an award- Ages, Ten Shades of Life – and have been winning ad-woman. Before that, she was a shortlisted in national and international freelance reporter for several newspapers writing competitions. Vinaya’s work gives and wrote on a wide range of subjects, from her the opportunity to travel all over the student suicides to types of boyfriends. She world, learn about various cultures and meet lives in Mumbai with her husband, daughter, people, which spark her creativity. Like her and the niggling feeling that she has reading, her writing is eclectic, ranging from forgotten something. thrillers, science fiction and mysteries to literary fiction and everything in between, GENRE Fiction/Horror for all age groups. Weekends find her FORMAT B/Paperback inventing games and stories with her son. PAGE EXTENT 336 PRICE `399 Rights World Ja nu ary

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 304 Ja nu ary It’s 1995. The finale of the Miss India PRICE `250 Rights Indian subcontinent Pageant, hosted by the mega media

12 conglomerate Eye India, is only days 13 away. In the running are twenty beautiful contestants, including India’s sweetheart and the reigning model, Akruti Rai. Victims for Sale Sandy Raman, stringer for the BBC, lives as Then, the final dress rehearsal ends on a paying guest with the Sawants, a regular, a nightmarish note as the sensuous and Nish Amarnath quiet, Indian family. Or so she thinks. Until ambitious model ‘Lajjo’ is murdered – right she wakes up to a woman with a knife … and on the ramp. a dark secret.

Akruti and her fellow contestants soon It is only after she runs a sting operation on become prime suspects in a case that a home for the differently abled that Sandy becomes increasingly macabre as bodies pile makes a connection between an institute up – the gossipy, affable pageant hairdresser acting as a front for something sinister and Doreen, the self-assured mean-girl Nuzhat … the strange family she lives with.

Amidst massive public outcry and searing Chasing the truth up a trail of brutal press coverage, Akruti is convinced by an murders, Sandy must evade the grasping enigmatic fellow contestant – the statuesque clutches of a thriving sex racket and expose The Miss India and self-possessed Parvati Samant – to the predators before her time runs out. Murders somehow help in the investigation and try to find the murderer. But who really is Parvati? Nish Amarnath is a journalist and Gauri Sinh And can Akruti help unearth the sinister writer whose work has involved truth, clear her own name and also keep an exploring the interlinks between eye on the prize? businesses, governments, societies and individual psyches to weave stories of varying textures around different Gauri Sinh is the former editor strands of experiences. of Bombay Times and After Hrs, the lifestyle and entertainment supplements of the Times of India and DNA, respectively. She’s the author of Dogsend: The Story of Simba and The

GENRE Fiction/Crime/Thriller Garud Prophecies: Sitara’s Story. Format B/Paperback Page Extent 220 Price `199 Rights World GENRE Fiction/Thriller May Format B/Paperback Page Extent 240 F e br u ary Price `250 Soon to be a major motion picture by Vishal Rights World Bhardwaj, this double-bill of pacey thrillers highlighting the exploits of India’s intelligence 14 agency will have your pulse racing. 15

In Zero-Cost Mission, India’s relations with Bangladesh are undermined by the activities THE ZERO-COST of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Vijay Shukla, in charge Hoping to become a successful journalist, of Bangladesh operations at India’s external Avik begins investigating the death of MISSION and THE intelligence agency, entrusts Sujal Rath with millionaire Kalki Rajput. WILY AGENT orchestrating the destruction of several Jamaat Ananki, Kalki’s daughter, may hold the Amar Bhushan facilities deep within Bangladesh, pulling off answers Avik is looking for. However, the a mission that not only seems impossible but truth lies veiled by her apparent madness, which runs the risk of being derailed by the with which she has been left to struggle agency itself. The Wily Agent details the pitfalls of under the care of an NGO. gathering intelligence – a delicate and complex business – in a foreign country. A good source, Determined to get to the bottom of a however, can make the risks worthwhile. So, mystery that only seems to be getting deeper when Jeevanathan, head of the Dhaka unit of and darker, Avik risks all to get closer to India’s external intelligence agency, is introduced Ananki and the truth that is ensnared in a to ‘Rehman’, he decides to test him to determine Obsessed web of lies, passion and danger. if he has the potential to become a valuable long- Ruchi Kokcha term asset. Ruchi Kokcha is a poet and passionate reader with a master’s in English literature from Delhi University. She has taught Amar Bhushan joined the Indian Police creative writing in Hong Kong. Obsessed Service in 1967 and was assigned to Madhya is her debut novel. Pradesh. He retired as the chief of India’s foremost technical intelligence agency. He began the second innings of his career by briefly serving in the BSF intelligence, State Special Branch and Intelligence Bureau, and ended with working in the Research and Analysis Wing for twenty-four years. His previous novel Escape to Nowhere remained GENRE Fiction on bestseller lists for eleven weeks. Format B/Paperback Page Extent 216 Price `199 Rights World F e br u ary

GENRE Fiction Format B/Paperback Page Extent 216 JUNE Price `199 When young, unemployed Drona gets Rights Indian subcontinent knocked off his bike by advertising goddess 16 17 Prachi, and then promptly asks her for a job in her agency, neither of them expects Prachi to actually agree.

But she does. And, just like that, Drona is 19 Till I Die For Zaid from Durban, it was heartbreak. thrown head-first into the breathless world of For Fiona, who loves New Delhi, it had Anjali Kirpalani temperamental creative directors, cunning always been a dream. Rachna needs this clients and bitter rivalries. And while no chance to step out of Australia and her one can say that Drona’s way of coping isn’t comfort zone. Tia from Mumbai sees it as a creative, it’s certainly unconventional – ticket away from her over-protective parents. both impressing and infuriating the highly The four find themselves at the University disciplined Prachi. And the fact that she of Guelph in Canada. Adventure awaits, and Advertising finds him immensely attractive? That’s a chance at love lingers amidst the crowds – for Love beside the point, of course! in the halls, at the bars, on the dancefloor. Though working together is anything but Some of them will find it. But, as with such Kartik easy, Prachi realizes that she might have powerful, life-altering things as love, it’s not 19 going to be easy. found a staunch ally in Drona. But can she trust him when the chips are down? Anjali Kirpalani is the bestselling author Advertising for Love is a wickedly delicious Till I of Never Say Never and Written in the cocktail of ambition, sex and romance set in Stars. Born in India, she lived in South the heady world of advertising. Die Africa for eight years before returning to Mumbai. She has been an RJ, TV anchor, and the editor of a fashion portal. Kartik(eya) Kompella is a published non- fiction author/editor with five books to his name. Having worked for over fifteen years in advertising agencies, Kartik is the founder of Purposeful Brands, a brand consultancy based in Bangalore.

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Simi Desai is thirty years old and her Bollywood Ria Parkar is Bollywood’s favourite Ice Princess – husband is dying of cancer. He has two last beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof – until one wishes in his final months: first, that she’ll Bride impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive have his baby so that a piece of him lives on past. Travelling home to Chicago for her cousin’s my last Sonali Dev and, second, that she’ll reconcile with her wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming love story old flame Zayaan, their mutual best friend. media storm and to find solace in the happy Over the course of their last summer celebrations. But it also means confronting together, Simi’s husband plans a series of big Vikram Jathar. and small adventures for this unlikely trio, Ria and Vikram spent their childhood designed to help them say their goodbyes summers together, and their friendship grew into and to prove to Simi that it’s okay to move love – until Ria made a shattering decision. on without him – and even find love again. My Last Love Now, among those who know her best, Ria Story Falguni Kothari’s My Last Love Story will may find the courage to face the secrets she’s pull your heartstrings as only unforgettable been guarding for everyone else’s benefit – and a Falguni Kothari love stories can. chance to stop acting and start living.

Falguni Kothari is a New York–based Sonali Dev’s novels have been on Library author. She writes in a variety of genres. Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s When not writing or dancing, she fools lists of best books of the year. She won the around on all manner of social media and American Library Association’s award for best loves to connect with readers. My Last romance, 2014, and is a RITA® finalist and Love Story is her fourth novel. winner of the RT Seal of Excellence.

GENRE Fiction FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 296 PRICE `299 Rights Indian subcontinent When Juliet and Romiel get married and GENRE Fiction relocate to Israel, they rent out their Apartment May Format B/Hardback Page Extent 216 107 in Ahmedabad’s Shalom India Housing Ja nu ary Price `399 Society to Jews. Each character who inhabits the Rights World house has a story to tell: about run-ins with the ‘Puts to the sword patronizing myths about 20 other residents, the diminishing community of 21 small-town India.’ Jews, cross-cultural conflicts, and the difficulty of – Prayaag Akbar choosing between India and Israel.

Prophet Elijah, whom the Bene Israel Jews of western India believe in, plays an important role Muzaffarnagar, the infamous north Indian in their lives, appearing at critical or amusing town that’s a byword for unrest, and where moments and wreaking havoc with his mischief, skirmishes are prone to break out ever so but ensuring that ultimately peace prevails. often. This is a place where teenage love and friendships are tested by the violence Bombay Brides – as most Jewish men of that threatens to spill out at the slightest Ahmedabad are married to women from Mumbai provocation. A town that always pulls – is drawn from Jewish homes in Ahmedabad, you back into its ways, no matter how Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Alibaug. This is a cosmopolitan the city has made you. story about home, heritage, rites, rituals, roots, and what it means to be one of the last surviving In Diwali in Muzaffarnagar – Tanuj BOMBAY members of a community in a vast, multicultural Solanki’s new book of short stories BRIDES country like India. after Neon Noon – young men and women Diwali in Esther David straddle the past and the present, the Muzaffarnagar metropolis and the small town, and also the Esther David received the Sahitya Akademi parallel needs of life: solitude and family. Stories Award in 2010 for her novel Book of Rachel. Tanuj Solanki She is also the author of The Walled City, By the Sabarmati, Book of Esther, My Father’s Tanuj Solanki’s first novel, Neon Noon, Zoo, Shalom India Housing Society and received critical acclaim post its release The Man with Enormous Wings, and has in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Tata co-authored a book titled India’s Jewish Lit Live First Book Award. His short fiction Heritage: Ritual, Art and Life Cycle. Her has been published in the Caravan, Hindu novels are based on the Jewish ethos Business Line, DNA, Out of Print, and in India, studied by scholars, several other publications. He lives in and some of them have been Mumbai with his wife. translated into French, Gujarati and Marathi. She is an art critic

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22 ‘History didn’t greet us with triumphal fanfares: Rama, Lakshmana and Sita chance upon 23 It flung dirty sand into our eyes.’ Valmiki’s ashram in the forest. But what is the shudra Shambuka doing there? The Night of Broken Glass novelizes the incidents of violence that took place in Kashmir in 1989, SHAMBUKA RAMA As Duryodhana lies dying on the battlefield the year the insurgency broke out. The book Three Tales Retold of Kurukshetra, he reflects on all that brought not only registers the incidents through visceral the world to this pass, his guilt and that of his Mukunda Rao imagery, but explores the psychological impact of enemies, his loyalties and those of his friends violence through a set of fictive characters. and allies. As the story flashes back and forth in the last moments of the Great War, dharma and In ‘The Last Candle’, Rather tells us of Showket adharma merge and blur. whom soldiers ask to wipe off graffiti on the wall of his shop with his tongue; ‘Rosy’ is an internal In the forest, during the exile of the Pandavas, The Night of monologue of a progressive, jeans-wearing ‘upper- Bhima, married to Hidimba, compelled by his Broken Glass caste’ girl who is disillusioned about her family love for his son, Ghatotkacha, decides to stay back. Even his mother’s anger and his elder Stories planning to send away the eloquent ‘lower-caste’ Jamshid whom she is madly in love with. Although brother’s command will not sway him … Feroz Rather preserving moments of courage and beauty amidst Mukunda Rao tells three classic stories from the violence remains a dominant theme, the book also epics, shedding new light on them, illuminating touches upon caste and gender in Kashmir. corners that we haven’t looked at before. Shambuka Rama: Three Tales Retold is a powerful blend of spiritual search, philosophy and mythology. Feroz Rather is currently a doctoral student at Florida State University. His work has appeared in the Rumpus, the Southeast Mukunda Rao is a novelist, playwright and Review, Caravan, Warscapes, Berfrois, and the author of several insightful philosophical Himal. His essay ‘Poet in Srinagar’ appeared works, including The Buddha (HarperCollins, in the anthology Mad Heart, Be Brave: On 2017). He lives with his wife on a farm the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali. The Night of outside Bengaluru. Broken Glass is his first book.

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GENRE Fiction FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 208 april PRICE `399 Swati believes Akansha, her husband’s Rights World former colleague, hovers as a third between 24 25 them. Ajay is certain his faithfulness is beyond question because he has never touched Akansha or even felt attracted to her. Whatever be the truth – a jealous Lean Days Fed up with his tedious desk job as a wife or a ghostly lover – it results in marital content writer, a young man decides to quit estrangement. Manish Gaekwad on an impulse. He wants to write a novel but does not have a story to tell – a lack of When Ajay decides to go for a trek in clarity that afflicts most of those who are Ladakh, he is left stranded during one of the stuck in a rut. The inexperienced writer worst floods the region has ever seen. Forced sets out across the country without a map, to seek shelter in a remote monastery in the looking for inspiration and love. Travelling Hemis Sanctuary, he meets the charismatic across several cities, mixing history with Abbot, a man unlike any other, and Anna, a imagination, he encounters stories of people scholar from Harvard who carries deep guilt and places that help him discover his place in for her husband’s death. the world. Poetry, art, music, and a yearning Hemis The flood throws together three people, for romance shape his words. Written as each of whose lives is marked by an absent a travel diary, the journey of the nameless A novel ‘other’. Hemis is an exploration of their lives protagonist of Lean Days is the story of an Madhu Tandan and how Abbot and Anna’s attempts to artist’s struggle to find an echo in life. ‘solve’ Ajay’s situation are, in fact, efforts to resolve their own dilemmas. Manish Gaekwad is a journalist based in Mumbai. This is his first novel. He is Madhu Tandan is a writer who lived for currently freelancing for the Hindu, and seven years in a remote Walden-like has previously worked for Scroll.in, Himalayan monastery with a simple ‘soil to and Mid-Day. soul’ philosophy where every experience was viewed as an opportunity to grow. She is the author of Faith & Fire: A Way Within and Dreams & Beyond: Finding Your Way in the Dark. GENRE Fiction FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 200 PRICE `299 Rights World APRIL APRIL

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LONGFORM volume 1 An Anthology of Graphic Narratives Sarbajit Sen is one of the pioneers of graphic narratives in India, whose works have been exhibited around the world. Debkumar Mitra is a mathematics major, a science writer Edited by Sarbajit Sen, and a comics fan. Sekhar Mukherjee teaches animation at National Institute of Design, Debkumar Mitra, Sekhar Ahmedabad, and is a reputed comics creator. Pinaki De is a renowned book cover designer Mukherjee and Pinaki De and a comics scholar.

Longform Volume 1 is a showcase of what is beyond the realm of the possible – stories that subvert the idea of a conventional narrative; stories about ordinary people; autobiographies; travel tales – and seeks, through these stories, to establish comics as a permanent feature on a reader’s shelf. The name ‘Longform’ is inspired by a Joe Sacco essay on the shrinking space to tell long graphic stories.

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Whether it is a romantic ode pulsating with 29 an intense passion, or a bitter comment on the state of the nation – a gentle sense of wonder, an undeniable rhythm and a subtle intrigue NUDE pull one into the poems in Nude, both in the Poems original Hindustani alongside their English translation by Sukrita Paul Kumar. Vishal Bhardwaj Unusual imagery, an evocative style Translated from and an idiom that is contemporary, yet POETRY AND the urdu by Sukrita reminiscent of the old-world charm of the Paul Kumar Hindi and Urdu poetic traditions, each poem is wrapped in mystique. The Internet TRANSLATION and Mirza Ghalib on the roads of Mumbai happily coexist in these poems, offering an insight into how contradictions can be reconciled simply and ingeniously.

Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, composer and producer. He has directed nine feature films, produced five, and composed music for more than forty. Recently, he has begun his stage career by directing A Flowering Tree by John Adams in the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, and composing music for the Monsoon Wedding musical in Berkeley, California. Born and brought up in Kenya, Sukrita Paul Kumar is a well-known poet, critic and translator, who till recently held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi. Her books include Without Margins, Poems Come Home, Blind, Narrating Partition, Mapping Memories, and many others. A pril GENRE Fiction/Film & Screenplays Format B/Paperback Page Extent 224 J une Price `350 Matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee is on Rights World his way by train from Calcutta to Delhi to receive a national award. He encounters Aditi 30 31 In this retelling of Govardhanram Tripathi’s Sengupta, who runs a magazine for modern sprawling magnum opus Saraswatichandra, Sameer women. During the conversation, Arindam Acharya makes accessible and brings to life for a slowly sheds his carefully put together image modern readership one of Indian literature’s NAYAK of glamour and easy-living, revealing his insecurities, fears and haunting regrets. great classics. The Hero Set in late nineteenth-century India, this is the Based on an original screenplay by Satyajit Satyajit Ray story of an educated and spiritual young man Ray, Nayak is a marvellous portraiture of the whose life is at a crossroads. Betrothed to and in Novelized life of a cinema superstar, and his fans, told love with Kumud, he nevertheless breaks off their by Bhaskar in twenty-four hours of a train journey. The engagement due to escalating familial tensions, Chattopadhyay 1966 film, with unforgettable performances and leaves Bombay to learn about his country and by Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, went on to win several awards in India SARASWATICHANDRA seek enlightenment. A series of events leads both Kumud, now married, and Saraswatichandra to and Europe. This novelization by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay will remind readers and Govardhanram an ashram, where they must decide how to go cinephiles of Ray’s enduring genius. Tripathi on with their lives … At its heart, this is a novel about an India where tradition and modernity Retold by Sameer are locked in battle. Acharya Satyajit Ray (1921–92) is one of the greatest film-makers of all time. His first film Pather Panchali (1955) won an award Govardhanram Tripathi (1855–1907) was at the Cannes Film Festival. The only born in Nadiad, Gujarat, and was one of the Indian to receive the Oscar for Lifetime most popular writers and thinkers of his time. Achievement, he was awarded the Bharat His four-volume novel, Saraswatichandra, Ratna in 1992. He was also a prolific is universally regarded as a classic. Sameer writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a Acharya is a writer/director based out of Los designer, calligrapher, editor and music Angeles. He has a bachelor’s degree in political director. Bhaskar Chattopadhyay has science from UCLA and a master’s in public translated the works of several legendary policy from George Mason University. writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Premendra Mitra, Rajshekhar Basu, Hasan Azizul Huq and Satyajit Ray,

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32 fiction and drama. More than a decade in the 33 October 2, 1977. A military coup is thwarted making, and selected in collaboration with the but the exact sequence of events is shrouded in author, this volume makes a broad range of his mystery. Soon after, Ayesha Begum receives a work available to English readers. The stories here letter from the Bangladesh Air Force stating that ANOTHER LIFE range from humorous, satirical studies of human her husband Joynal Abedin has been sentenced THIRTEEN STORIES foibles, to profound, painful commentaries on to death, convicted of insurgency. But has the AND A PLAY the complexities of the human condition. A verdict been carried out? If it was, when and translation of Adhe Adhure – the play that thrust where was Joynal executed? If he was hanged, Mohan Rakesh Indian drama into modernity and one of the what has happened to his body? From that Edited by Carlo finest ever written in Hindi – is included as moment, an endless struggle begins for Ayesha – Coppola well. Rounding out the book as part of the ‘PS the struggle to search for her husband. Section’ are a self-portrait and interview – rare, Translated first-person statements by the author, and among Set in the backdrop of a raging famine, political from the hindi The Ballad of the most important critical sources for his work. assassinations and coups that shook Bangladesh by various Ayesha right after its independence in 1971, Anisul translators This is an essential volume for anyone Hoque’s Ayeshamangal is the story of Ayesha, and interested in the changing landscape of post- Anisul Hoque the story of the newly created nation. Independence Hindi literature. Translated from the Bengali by Inam Ahmed Anisul Hoque is a novelist, screenwriter, Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972) was one of dramatist and journalist from Bangladesh. the pioneers of the Nai Kahani literary He is the recipient of several literary awards, movement of Hindi literature in the including the Bangla Academy Award, the 1950s. He wrote the first modern Hindi Citi Ananda Alo Award for Best Novel, the play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1958), and made Euro Shishu Shahitya Award and the BACHSAS significant contribution to the forms of Award for best screenplay. He attended the the novel, short story, travelogue, criticism, international writing programme at the memoirs and drama. Dr Carlo Coppola University of Iowa in 2010. Inam Ahmed is a (1963–2002) was the editor emeritus, Journal translator based out of Dhaka. of South Asian Literature. He taught South Asian and Middle Eastern studies, literature and linguistics for decades.

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36 A novel spanning the three decades of the Suryakant, the deputy director of the tourism 37 deadly Sri Lankan civil war, Ummath highlights department, has been put in charge of creating the sufferings of women in Sri Lanka across a public interest itinerary to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1857 War of Independence. communal and ethnic divides. Thawakkul, the Exile main protagonist, a social activist dedicated to As he thinks through the utility of monuments and museums, and of reviving history, and as improving the plight of women; Yoga, a Tamil Akhilesh Tiger forced by poverty as a child into joining he traces the paths of the revolutionaries of the the Movement; Theivanai, a convinced but later Translated from past, his own life begins to unravel. His family disillusioned fighter for the Eelam. Through the Hindi by Rajesh floats in and out of his life, as in a dream, while these women, the horrors of a bloody civil war Kumar Suryakant struggles with his government job and and the complex equations that ruled life in the his supervisor Vrihaspati in the badlands of Uttar quagmire of Sri Lankan society during and after Pradesh, slowly understanding the machinations Ummath the civil war are graphically depicted. that hold a democracy together. Sharmila Seyyid has tackled with courage, Akhilesh’s inventive prose treads the ground Sharmila Seyyid honesty and sensitivity the issues of Islamist between past and present, the states of being translated from fundamentalism and Tamil ‘nationalism’ pitted and not being, as it follows the lives of ordinary the tamil by against Sri Lankan majoritarian chauvinism, all people who discover the thin line that separates Gita Subramanian from a woman’s point of view. freedom from exile.

Sharmila Seyyid is a writer, a social activist Akhilesh is the recipient of several awards, and a fearless critic of the injustices in including the Shrikant Verma Award, the society. She has two books of poems and this Banmali Award, the Parimal Samman and the novel to her credit. Gita Subramanian, who Indu Sharma Katha Samman. His books include took up translation after a long teaching three short-story collections, two novels, and career in Hong Kong, has published four a monograph on Hindi novelist Shrilal Shukla. translations of Tamil novels. In 2010, she He edits Tadbhav, a literary quarterly, from won the Nalli Thisai Ettum Award for the Lucknow. Rajesh Kumar, the translator, is an best Tamil to English translation. acclaimed interpreter of texts and cultures. He is a professor of English at Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhand.

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FORMAT Demy/Hardback AY PAGE EXTENT 240 Sitaram Yechury, one of the most highly regarded PRICE `499 Rights World 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 39 Independence, India should have moved towards a more progressive deepening of democracy, but instead it faces ever bigger challenges. THE IDEA OF INDIA In this short collection of his thoughts and PAST, PRESENT AND a selection of some of his speeches, Yechury FUTURE dwells on the unique and marvellous idea of Sitaram Yechury India, which is a product of the struggles and sacrifices of Indians over centuries. First and NON-FICTION foremost, the idea of India is about survival as a diverse, confident and robustly plural nation, he says. That requires a firm opposition and a struggle against all those who want to divide society. And second, it is about ensuring that the benefits of economic growth reach most, if not all, people – which demands a re- orientation of economic policies.

Yechury argues that what India needs is not leaders but policies. Diversity that is so immense and deep can survive and rise to greater heights only when all diversities 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, from 2005 to 2017. He is one of the most respected, recognized and articulate voices of the Left in the country, and has authored and edited several books. Sir Henry McMahon, a British colonial administrator, drew a line along the Himalayas at the Simla Convention of 1913–14, demarcating what would A pril GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Government in later years become the effective boundary FORMAT Royal/Hardback between China and India. The boundary, disputed PAGE EXTENT 400 A pril by India’s northern neighbour, has had a profound Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a PRICE `899 Rights World effect on the relations between the two Asian ‘poorly imagined country’. Seventy years after it giants, resulting most prominently in the war of 40 was formed, has the time come to reimagine the 1962 but also in several skirmishes and stand-offs, 41 idea of Pakistan? both before and after that.

The world’s only nuclear-armed Muslim Fortunately, since the 1980s, the leadership nation, Pakistan has been described as ‘a THE McMAHON of both nations has adopted a statesman-like dangerous country’, ‘a state on the verge of LINE approach by opting to constructively engage failure’ and even as ‘an international migraine’. and resolve the issue in a peaceful manner. Yet, for millions in Pakistan who know no other 100 YEARS OF Nonetheless, the unresolved boundary continues national identity, Pakistan must survive and its THE SINO-INDIAN to be a thorn in the side – reaching a flashpoint peoples’ resilience must be transformed into the BOUNDARY DISPUTE at the tri-junction between Tibet, Sikkim and state’s endurance. J.J. Singh Bhutan in Doklam in 2017 – and may derail all In his new book, Husain Haqqani, one of the the progress in bilateral ties if left unattended. REIMAGINING most important commentators on Pakistan in the General J.J. Singh – former Indian Army chief world today, examines the causes of the country’s PAKISTAN and governor of Arunachal Pradesh – brings his perennial crises and answers the question: long years of experience to bear on Sino-Indian Transforming a ‘Can Pakistan transform itself into a modern, relations in The McMahon Line. He examines the Dysfunctional functional state – and if so, how?’ Reimagining evolution of the boundary and the nuances of Nuclear State Pakistan looks at the internal contradictions British India’s Tibet policy from the eighteenth and fault lines of Pakistan’s last seventy years century through to India’s Independence, analyses Husain Haqqani to lay out the course for a future other than the the repercussions for contemporary times and puts Balkanization often predicted by critics. forth recommendations for the way ahead.

Husain Haqqani served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from General J.J. Singh, a highly decorated soldier, 2008 to 2011. The author of three has served as the chief of army staff and the acclaimed books – Pakistan: Between chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Mosque and Military; Magnificent During his forty-seven-year stint in the army, Delusions: US, Pakistan and an Epic History he commanded two infantry battalions and of Misunderstanding; and India v Pakistan: was closely associated with the planning Why Can’t We Just Be Friends? – he is currently and execution of the Kargil War at the army director for South and Central Asia at the headquarters. After retirement, he was appointed the governor of Arunachal Pradesh GENRE Non-fiction Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. FORMAT Royal/Hardback and has received a number of civilian honours PAGE EXTENT 352 and awards for his outstanding leadership. PRICE `699 He published his autobiography, A Soldier’s Rights World General, in 2012. Ja nu ary Ninety-four-year-old Karunanidhi has had a six-decade-long career in Tamil and Indian GENRE Non-fiction/Politics/Memoir politics. He has been the leader of the Dravida FORMAT Royal/Paperback It was a French election the world watched PAGE EXTENT 272 May with anxiety in 2017. There was a wave of Munnetra Kazhagam since 1969 and the chief PRICE `599 minister of Tamil Nadu five times. With the Rights Indian subcontinent populism, fierce nationalism and anti- death of J. Jayalalithaa in December 2016, he immigration angst sweeping across Europe 42 is the undisputed tallest leader in the state and America – from Britain’s unanimous 43 even though his party is not in power and he vote to exit the European Union to the continues to be in poor health. divisive election of Donald Trump in the US. Many feared that France too would Karunanidhi’s contributions to state and REVOLUTION concede to the aggressive right wing. national life are many. He is known for Emmanuel Macron pioneering several social justice and welfare And so the victory of Emmanuel Macron schemes, as also for championing the causes – investment banker-turned-politician who of Dravidian identity and Tamil language and had never held elected office before – was culture. The DMK under him was a crucial ally celebrated with a sense of relief. It was seen of the Congress and a constituent of the United as a win for openness, optimism, reform and Progressive Alliance, which was in power at the hope, and his message resonated as much in Centre from 2004 to 2014. At the same time, he India as the rest of the world. has also been embroiled in several controversies, In Revolution, Emmanuel Macron reveals KARUNANIDHI including his party’s support for the Liberation his personal history and his inspirations, A LIFE IN POLITICS Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which culminated in the and discusses his vision for France and its assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv future in a new world that is undergoing a Sandhya Ravishankar Gandhi in May 1991, and the involvement of ‘great transformation’. This is a compelling ministers from his party in the 2G spectrum testimony and statement of values by an scam, among others. important global political leader who has Karunanidhi: A Life in Politics chronicles the become the flag-bearer for a new kind of trailblazing life of one of India’s most important politics – evocative in its scope, ambition politicians for the first time in English. and vision of Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope.

Sandhya Ravishankar is an independent political and investigative journalist based Emmanuel Macron was minister of in Chennai. She has worked at Times Now, economy, industry and digital affairs in CNN News18 and CNBC-TV18. She was part President François Hollande’s government of the launch team at ET Now and Puthiya in France in 2014, and resigned in August Thalaimurai Tamil news channels. She writes 2016 to launch his En Marche! political party as part of his bid for the 2017 GENRE Non-fiction/Biography for the Guardian and Al Jazeera Online. She is FORMAT Demy/Hardback a regular contributor for the Economic Times, presidential election. He won the election PAGE EXTENT 280 Hindustan Times, Hindu, Wire.in and Scroll.in, in May 2017 with 66 per cent of the vote. PRICE `599 Rights World and also produces half-hour news features for television channels. Mar ch

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44 ‘A single bullet took one life and shattered three 45 Zakir Hussain is an international music others. Mine, among them. My brother shot my phenomenon. Tabla virtuoso, composer father. My mother heard the shot. Approximately and percussionist, he is the eldest son of 1400 kilometres away, in the Armed Forces the legendary Ustad Allahrakha Qureshi. Corporate Yogi Medical College at Pune, where I was pursuing Zakir gave his first public concert – which My Journey as a a postgraduate course in pathology while serving saw him described as a child prodigy – at the Spiritual Seeker as assistant warden of the hostel, the telephone age of seven, and in later years, his masterful and an Accidental rang. It was the night of December 4, 1977, a dexterity and creative genius led to him night that changed me forever.’ becoming one of the most sought-after Entrepreneur This book presents Dr Arvind Lal’s journey as accompanists to the very best of Hindustani Arvind Lal classical musicians. a spiritual seeker and an accidental entrepreneur. How did a saint from a remote Himalayan village In this book, Nasreen Munni Kabir takes called Hairakhan transform Arvind’s life? How the reader through the life and times of did Lal pathlabs become a household name in Zakir Hussain: the early years of growing up India? How does spiritualism shape his thoughts in Mahim, his training from age four with as an entrepreneur? Can work and spirituality gel his extraordinary father, and how Zakir’s in a ‘karma yoga’ form as mentioned in ancient ZAKIR HUSSAIN passion for music helped establish him as Hindu scriptures? Woven around Arvind’s A Life in Music a world musician of our age, a huge music life, this book answers these and many other star, and for many young Indians today, a questions about work, life and spirituality. In Conversation with revered role model. Nasreen Munni Kabir Honorary Brigadier Dr Arvind Lal, Padma Nasreen Munni Kabir is a London-based Shri, is a pioneer in bringing laboratory film-maker and author who has made services in India on a par with the Western dozens of documentaries on Hindi cinema world. In 1977, he took charge of Dr Lal and written sixteen books on the subject. Pathlabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory. She curates the annual Indian film season Under his leadership, Dr Lal Pathlabs has on UK’s Channel 4 TV. become one of the most recognized brand in India.

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Courts and Their Judgments was originally published about fifteen years ago. At the time, ANITA GETS BAIL it was praised by Chief Justice Venkatachaliah Do judges merely enforce and interpret the [‘An outstanding effort’], Fali S. Nariman law or do they at times interpolate words into MORE ON COURTS AND [‘An extraordinary book’] and Ashok Desai statutes, even into the Constitution? Where THEIR JUDGMENTS [‘unputdownable’], among others. does interpretation end and rewriting Arun Shourie commence? The failure of other institutions The initial idea was to update the book by to discharge their duties has compelled the writing up developments in the topics that courts to step far outside their traditional were covered by the book in the last fifteen role. In doing so, have they stretched the years. But that would make the book lose law and the Constitution too far? Has the focus – for the courts have gone in all sorts intervention been effective? of directions since then. Instead, this book, while being a companion to Courts and Their Courts and Their Judgments looks at judicial Judgments, will be an independent entity. COURTS AND activism through some brilliantly argued cases, and examines the need for and pitfalls Anita Gets Bail brings into focus different THEIR JUDGMENTS of such overreach. facets of the working of our courts – the Premises, district courts, the High Courts as well as the Prerequisites, Supreme Court – through actual instances Scholar, author, former editor and Consequences and judgments. Care has been taken [i] not minister, Arun Shourie is one of the most to impute any motive to any judge or court; prominent voices in our country’s public Arun Shourie [ii] to base every observation on court records life and discourse. He has written over and judgments; [iii] to ensure that when an twenty-six bestselling books. example is taken up, it is discussed in detail; [iv] to infer constructive lessons from each example on how things may be improved.

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50 After the immensely successful Shiva to Shankara, 51 Leader and Culture, India’s leading mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik returns with a fascinating book on how ancient Indians looked at numbers, and A travel book with a difference, The the significance of numbers in Indian tradition THE HIMALAYAN Himalayan Arc gives inside and outside and culture. ARC perspectives on a crucial, enthralling, yet Beginning with shunya (zero) – a concept which JOURNEYS East of often under-reported part of the world. was introduced first in India – and going up to South-east Covering the entire region from Nepal, the auspicious 108 and finally to 88,000 (the Bhutan and north-east India to Myanmar, number of sages who are reincarnated over and Edited by Namita it looks at both the cultural continuities and Gokhale over again to maintain harmony in the universe), political disconnects, and tries to evoke the the book delves into the Vedic and Puranic flavour and texture of this region through connotations of each key number, its significance essays, short stories, poetry, narratives and THE BOOK OF in ritual and architecture, and its resonances in photographs. With contributors such as NUMBERS Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions. Catherine Anderson, Pushpesh Pant, Ma Thida, Chetan Raj Shreshta, Janice Pariat, Researched in collaboration with Mumbai An Indian Salil Tripathi, Andrew Duff, David Malone University and written with Devdutt Pattanaik’s Perspective and others, this promises to be the most characteristic insight, this is a book that everyone comprehensive look at the region. Devdutt Pattanaik interested in India’s ancient thinking and cultural traditions will want to pick up. Namita Gokhale is a writer, publisher and festival director. She is the author of Devdutt Pattanaik writes, illustrates and sixteen books and the co-founder and lectures on the relevance of mythology in director of the famed Jaipur Literature modern times. He has, since 1996, written over Festival and Mountain Echoes, the annual thirty books and 700 columns on how stories, Bhutan Literature Festival. symbols and rituals construct the subjective truth (myths) of ancient and modern cultures around the world. To know more, visit devdutt.com.

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FORMAT Demy/Paperback ay PAGE EXTENT 320 june PRICE `399 Rights World Tilak Devasher’s new book tells the seven-decade- 52 The Age of Anxiety brings together a mosaic old story of Pakistan through an anecdotal 53 of varied essays on the arts, literature history of its rulers. and heritage of Pakistan and South Asia. The first part of At the Helm discusses the From the songs of Kabir to the ballads of AT THE HELM politicians who have shaped Pakistan’s history: Bulleh Shah to the cult of the feminine Mohd Ali Jinnah, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir The Rulers of in the region, Rumi takes a kaleidoscopic Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. Each of these view of cultural mores that tie the Pakistan leaders had the potential to change Pakistan countries and their people together. Tilak Devasher for the better – a potential that was sadly often Focused on Pakistan, this book illustrates not fulfilled. the rich literary traditions of the country in visual arts, poetry and music that are a The second part of the book deals with the continuation of its shared but disrupted dictators who have ruled Pakistan: Field Marshal past. The underlying theme is that local, Ayub Khan, Generals Yahya Khan, Zia-ul-Haq folk cultures are much more resistant and Pervez Musharraf. The civil–military conflict than what the architects of modern has underlined Pakistan’s politics ever since its singular nationalisms assume. inception. The last word on the story of the Army’s quest for absolute power in Pakistan has The Age of still not been written. Anxiety Raza Ahmad Rumi is a Pakistani policy At the Helm is a very readable, engaging analyst, journalist and an author. Essays on Culture and informative book about the personalities Currently, he is an editor at the who have defined Pakistan, and a revelatory and Identity Daily Times (Pakistan), and a regular account of how politics and power work in our Raza Ahmad Rumi contributor for leading publications in South Asia. He teaches at Cornell and neighbouring nation. Ithaca College, USA, and is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Tilak Devasher is a former civil servant who Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: retired as special secretary in the cabinet Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and secretariat. He writes on South Asia with Identity and Faith and Conflict. To know a special focus on Pakistan. His first book more, visit razarumi.com. Pakistan: Courting the Abyss was published by HarperCollins in 2016.

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Piers Vitebsky GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture M Just a generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by Abujhmadia is an ancient tribe in the western the dead the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they FORMAT Demy/Paperback AY negotiated their well-being in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings region of Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Until not PAGE EXTENT 272

of love, anger, and guilt. fe br u ary Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Sacred sites are de- PRICE `499 too long ago, they did not know agriculture, molished, female shamans are replaced by male priests, and debate with the dead gives way living Rights World to prayer to gods. For some, this shift means liberation from jungle spirits through literacy, had not seen a brick structure, were without employment, and democratic politics; others despair for fear of being forgotten after death. Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and replace it schools, modern health systems, transport or with another? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of sha- India lived in a world populated by the mans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, while 54 without 55 drawing inspiration from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the communication systems, and without knowledge Dead lays bare today’s crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can spirits of their dead, who spoke to them bring new fulfillments—but also new torments and uncertainties. Vitebsky of what livelihoods are about. A handful of Vitebsky explores the loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as through shamans in trance. Today, the we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing cultural and spiritual pos- Piers the dead sibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this is villages in yet deeper interiors had not known a heartbreaking story of the extinction of an irreplaceable world, even while new religious young Sora are rejecting the worldview forms come into being. Loss and r edemP tion in of their ancestors and switching their BASTAR the impact of wheels. Barring a few, the rest of “This is a magnificent contribution to anthropology—keeping faith with people’s continu- ing lives while traversing the epochs that have transformed them forever. Vitebsky brings a JungL e Cosmos the Abujhmadias had not seen a road. It was a together compassion, analytical insight, and blunt speaking. The magic of this account is allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist DISPATCHES not least in the way his subjects give the world a fresh view on world religions.” community whose vocabulary did not go beyond —MaRILyn STRaTHERn, University of Cambridge Christianity or Hinduism. Communion “Fortunate are the Sora to have an ethnographer of such surpassing, immersive understand- Narendra S. about 300 words, and counting beyond five. ing. Fortunate are the students of history and religion to be shown how animism, shamanism, with ancestors has dwindled as sacred and conversion to monotheisms are actually experienced. Fortunate beyond words are we all Nature and its dense vegetation, and the region’s to have Vitebsky’s summum .” —JaMES C. SCOTT, yale University sites are demolished, female shamans are sheer interiority, have been its time-tested PIERS VITEbSky is Emeritus Head of anthropology and Russian northern replaced by male priests, and debate with the Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books and has collaborated on television documentaries on bbC, Channel 4, defences against modern intrusions. and national Geographic. His book The Reindeer People won the kiriyama Prize for dead gives way to prayer to gods. For some, nonfiction in 2006. this shift means liberation from jungle Narendra S. – who lived in Abujhmad, the spirits through literacy, employment, area the tribe inhabits, during 1980–85 and Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers India Cover image xxxx xxxx www.harpercollins.co.in f HarperCollinsIndia @HarperCollinsIN PHOTOGRAPHY and democratic politics; others despair then in the adjoining areas of Bastar up to 2013 for fear of being forgotten after death. – delves into the everyday conversations and Over forty years, anthropologist Piers life of a primitive adivasi community in Bastar Vitebsky has shared the lives of the Sora. Dispatches. He juxtaposes the Abujhmadia with other adivasi communities in the region that LIVING WITHOUT Living without the Dead lays bare today’s have been pushed into modernity over the years. crisis of indigenous religions and shows how THE DEAD In contrast, the Abujhmadia does not even know historical reform can bring new fulfilments Loss and Redemption he lives in India, or what development and the – but also new torments and uncertainties. in a Jungle Cosmos modern world are about. Piers Vitebsky Bastar Dispatches celebrates the adivasi way of Piers Vitebsky is emeritus head of life and attempts to capture the Abujhmadia’s anthropology and Russian northern lost spirit of renunciation – or, rather, non- studies at the Scott Polar Research acquisition – in an increasingly acquisitive world. Institute in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books and has collaborated on television documentaries Narendra S. is with the Dialogue from the on BBC, Channel 4 and National Other End, a tribal ecological initiative Geographic. His book The Reindeer on earth, forests, water, animals, healing, People won the Kiriyama Prize. traditional wisdom and self-sustainability in GENRE Non-fiction/Society and Culture Bastar. He has spent over three decades living FORMAT Royal/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 272 among and studying the tribal communities of PRICE `699 the region. Rights Indian subcontinent ‘We are convinced that if we are to play a GENRE Non-fiction/Politics & Government meaningful role nationally, and in the community june On 8 November 2016, India radically FORMAT Demy/Paperback of nations, we must be second to none in the changed its future course, a break that PAGE EXTENT 256 May INDIA application of advanced technologies to the has precedent only in such momentous PRICE `399 Rights World real problems of man and society, and have the occasions in Indian history as the courage to leapfrog to state-of-the-art engineering Independence and economic liberalization. 56 and technology pursuits rather than step-by-step 57 Prime Minister Modi had taken a decisive scientific developments.’ The famous words of step to pluck the scourge of black money Dr Vikram Sarabhai propel every initiative at the at its root, by demonetizing high-value Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The currency notes and, though it caused much THE Leapfroggers too is an outcome of the same spirit. public inconvenience, the citizens were LEAPFROGGERS willing to brave it for the country. It was a AN INSIDER’S V.P. Sandlas was one of the first engineers resilient India’s thirst for self-realization, to to join the agency in its early, formative years join the elite of the world where it had once ACCOUNT OF ISRO in the 1960s. He tells a chain of stories that go belonged. V.P. Sandlas back and forth from event to event, and which are interwoven with interesting anecdotes. He According to Tiwari, it heralded a new reflects on the ISRO culture: the styles, values THE RISING BILLION collective consciousness of the Indian people – and characteristics of its people; their aspirations one that seeks political willpower and integrity, and ambitions; and their beliefs, prejudices, and one that seeks to do away with foggy Arun Tiwari superstitions and limitations. Among those conventions of the past. In India 3.0, Tiwari featured is Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the first analyses the three watersheds in Indian history project director of SLV-3, India’s most prestigious – Independence (India 1.0), Liberalization India 3.0 space project in the 1970s. Sandlas was part of (India 2.0) and Demonetization (India 3.0) Kalam’s core team and eventually took over from The rising BILLION – and traces a path to India’s destiny: of him after the first successful launch in 1980. Arun Tiwari becoming a world leader. The Leapfroggers is an insider’s account that Arun Tiwari is a celebrated scientist offers unique insights into one of India’s most who developed India’s first titanium air iconic institutions. bottle and the country’s first coronary stent with cardiologist Dr B. Soma Raju, and helped set up the first link of Pan- V.P. Sandlas was one of the first fifty Africa e-Network of Telecommunications engineers who joined ISRO during the Consultants India Ltd (TCIL). In formative years of 1962–67 and rose to head 1999, he co-wrote Wings of Fire, the SLV-3 as project director during 1980–84. autobiography of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Subsequently, he shifted to DRDO and served a modern classic now. He currently as distinguished scientist and chief controller GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture teaches at School of Management R&D, in the area of using space technology FORMAT Demy/Paperback Sciences, University of Hyderabad, as an for defence applications. He also set up PAGE EXTENT 288 the Amity Institute of Space Science and PRICE `499 adjunct professor. Rights World Technology. He passed away in 2017. ay m NOTE BY NOTE 58 THE GREAT INDIAN 59 PLAYLIST Seema Chishti, Sushant Singh and Ankur Bhardwaj

Hindi cinema is one of India’s most popular institutions. It has its finger on the pulse of the nation. Through sheer dint of its popularity, it draws from all parts of society, and the world it creates represents the nation, film after film.

Note by Note: The Great Indian Playlist weaves together a grand narrative of India of the last seventy years through the popular songs of Hindi cinema. It uses one song from each year, accompanied by a brief essay, to tell the story of India since 1947.

Which song best exemplifies the mood of the nation after the defeat in the war against China in 1962? Which one best encapsulates the euphoria of winning the Cricket World Cup in 1983? Note by Note is a unique look at contemporary Indian history that marks India’s seventieth year of Independence by three accomplished journalists.

Seema Chishti is deputy editor at the Indian Express; Sushant Singh is associate editor at the Indian Express; and Ankur Bhardwaj is assistant editor with Business Standard.

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60 Consumer safety is a grossly neglected 61 field in India. The result can be seen in the number of accidents that find routine SAFETY FIRST mention in the inside pages of newspapers. Children fall into open manholes, people A CLOSE LOOK AT are electrocuted by loose live wires hanging What holds two people together for life, CONSUMER SAFETY by the roadside, and room heaters often sometimes across continents? What drives IN INDIA turn silent killers. them apart even as they share their lives under Pushpa Girimanji Safety First focuses on a few key issues and the same roof? What makes marriage the only gives a detailed account of the problem, its socially acceptable goal of a relationship? Are extent, corrective measures, and suggestions women – and men – preferring other options for prevention. Among the areas looked to marriage these days? Why are more and more Knot for Keeps at are safe transport for children, boat marriages failing? Is it to do with changing social accidents, the threat posed by gas heaters, norms or individual expectations? Edited by safety in lifts, and fire. Sathya Saran This anthology takes a hard look at marriage Pushpa Girimanji, an expert in consumer and tries to decode this age-old alliance. safety, shows how most common accidents are easily preventable and the loss of precious lives Sathya Saran is a renowned journalist. She is is unnecessary. Safety First will not only create best known for her role as editor of Femina awareness but also help save lives. and DNA Me. She is also an author, a columnist and a professor at NIFT, Mumbai. Pushpa Girimanji specializes in consumer law, consumer rights and consumer safety issues. She is India’s only journalist to have championed the cause of consumers consistently through weekly newspaper columns spanning over three decades. She presently writes for the Hindustan Times.

GENRE Non-fiction/General FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `399 Rights World Riding Towards Me is the epic adventure story of Mar ch GENRE Non-fiction/Travelogue Jay Kannaiyan who dropped everything he had FORMAT Demy/Paperback in the US to ride his motorcycle back home to PAGE EXTENT 320 june PRICE `350 India. The journey took over three years as he Rights World rode through Latin America, Europe and Africa.

He encountered mechanical meltdowns, 62 This is the story of a Bengali family which begins 63 weeks of high-altitude desert, Caribbean and in Allahabad in the late nineteenth century. Atlantic voyages, and landscapes that almost The experiences of Kumudini, a young girl destroyed his bike and broke his spirit. The with dreams of an education in England but Riding Towards global trails he traversed brought him fame who is eventually catapulted into the throes of amongst the off-road motorcycling fraternity domesticity and motherhood when barely in Me before his expedition was even complete. His her teens, forms the backdrop of the tale. The Jay Kannaiyan journey is an exhaustive field guide for what narrative then moves on to the life of her son, adventure really means in today’s world. Surendra Nath Ghosh – or simply SNG as he would go on to be known – the first Indian and longest-serving editor of the country’s first Growing up in Zambia, Jay Kannaiyan set English-language national newspaper, the Pioneer. off to America in pursuit of the ‘Indian- American’ dream. He lived and worked A portrait of its times, filled with anecdotes SCENT OF A there, squeezing in as much motorcycle and characters from the British era right down STORY travel as possible. In 2010, he pointed his to contemporary times, Scent of a Story is an front wheel away from America and, since Shankar Ghosh absorbing journey through India of the twentieth 2013, lives and works in New Delhi. century as much as it is about the story of one family and an iconic newspaper.

Shankar Ghosh graduated from Lucknow University. He joined the Indian Forest Service and then worked in the private sector in the area of conceiving and promoting sustainable livelihood programmes. He worked in India and East Africa as a consultant to the World Bank and Arizona State University, USA, in forestry and rural poultry development programmes. He lives with his wife in New Delhi.

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A successful salesman is alive to the needs of the customer, however difficult and demanding he may be. But do you know how to make him feel like a VIP from the moment he enters the showroom? How do you create in the customer the desire to purchase the product on sale? And how do you ensure repeat customers? LIFESTYLE The Numero Uno Salesman explains the principles of sales with the help of anecdotes from the field. If you are in sales, or if you want The Numero to be a salesman, this book is for you. It tells you Uno Salesman how to increase your productivity and grow to Your Guide your full potential. Read the secrets of delighting to Becoming the customer. the Greatest Salesman in the Karan Sondhi had his schooling at the reputed World Lawrence School, Sanawar, graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and topped it with Karan Sondhi a PGDM from AIMA, New Delhi. He has been pursuing his passion for sales training for the past fourteen years. He is the author of five motivational books, including the hugely successful Believing Is Achieving.

GENRE Non-fiction/Self-help FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 208 PRICE `299 Rights World The Classic Konkan Cookbook takes the reader Mar ch on a fascinating journey through the recipes of Narayani Nayak, one of the first home cooks Mar ch to write measurements and methods for dishes from the West Coast of India, using produce unique to the region. Fruits and vegetables 66 abound – from wood apple to amaranthus, 67 drumsticks to banana flowers – most of which can be found in Konkan kitchen gardens.

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THE CLASSIC Jyotsna Shahane is a film-maker with an KONKAN interest in Indian food. In 2004, she started her blog The Cooks’ Cottage, one of a handful of COOKBOOK bloggers on the subject at the time. She was narayani nayak chosen as one of the world’s favourite food bloggers by Saveur. Jyotsna lives with her husband in Pune.

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When Jeeva was diagnosed with celiac disease, she realized just how hard it was to find food that suited her. Every trip to Saffron and the grocery store was an arduous exercise Pearls in reading ingredients and researching the effects of certain foods. She also discovered Doreen Hassan that gluten-free food was expensive.

Jeeva understands the nightmare of living with celiac in India. To her, gluten- free is neither a fad nor an allergy. It is an For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just auto-immune disorder – one that can only where their roots lie; it is also the city that be controlled, not cured. This book is her informs the way they lead their lives. Known journey of trying to lead a gluten-free life and loved for their legendary hospitality for while dealing with a disorder that goes over four decades, Doreen and Peter Hassan largely undiagnosed but affects 1 per cent of have preserved a way of life, a culture and a the world’s population. cuisine with great affection and pride. A Gluten-Free Life This is not a collection of Hyderabadi My Celiac Story recipes that stops at the biryani or the mirch Jeeva Anna George has a master’s degree For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just where their roots lie; it is also the city that informska thesalan way they lead theiror lives. kebabs.Known This is a collection in economics and international economics Jeeva Anna George and loved for their legendary hospitality for over fourthat decades, captures Doreen and Peter Hassan the have vibrant soul of erstwhile from the University of Nottingham, UK. She preserved a way of life, a culture and a cuisine with Sheila Kumar with great affection and pride. Like generations beforeHyderabad. them, the Hassans continue It to honouris a personal story – a tribute now heads Jeeva – A Gluten Free Venture. Hyderabadi traditions in their cosmopolitan home in Delhi, passing their love for food, She was awarded ‘Anthah Prerana’ in 2013. familyto andthe friendships city to their that children andthe Hassans call home. grandchildren.

Sheila Kumar, ex-adwoman, journalist, Central to this is the fact that Doreen Hassan has, over the decades, archived priceless travel writer, book editor, lives in Bengaluru family recipes from both her husband’s storied Hyderabadi family and her own traditional Goan one. The result is an astonishingly rich and is the author of No Strings Attached. recordDoreen of culinary history, Hassan which speaks of is a married to Peter city that absorbed influences from across the Doreen Hassan is the wife of Peter Toghrille worldToghrille and made them its own.Hassan, It is this treasure honorary consul for Hassan, Honorary Consul for Russian trove of recipes that forms the heart of this Federation Hyderabad. The Hassans’ guests book. at home include heads of state, industrialists, the Russian Federation, Hyderabad. The celebrated writers, artists, musicians, sports This is not a collection of Hyderabadi recipes stars and old friends of the family and each thatHassans’ stops at the biryani, guestskababs or saalans; atthis home include heads of one looks forward to being invited back for a is a collection that captures the vibrant soul of Hyderabadi meal. erstwhile Hyderabad and Doreen’s own journey fromstate, not knowing industrialists, how to cook to being ‘the celebrated writers, GENRE Non-fiction/Health A memoir of family, friendship & host with the most’. artists, musicians, sports stars and old Cover image Cyrus Dalal Saffron and Pearls is a personal story – a FORMAT B/Paperback Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers India heirloom Hyderabadi recipes www.harpercollins.co.in tribute to the city that the Hassans call home. PAGE EXTENT 240 HarperCollinsIN ` friends of the family, and each one looks PRICE `299 forward to being invited back for a Rights World Hyderabadi meal. Mar ch

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the narrative – a tradition that is unique to 71 Hindi cinema. This gave rise to a class of professionals who acquired a star status that was in the league of the actors themselves – MAIN SHAYAR the lyricists.

TOH NAHIn Rajiv Vijayakar’s book chronicles the The Harper Book journeys of leading film lyricists – from D.N. of Hindi Film Madhok and Pandit Pradeep to Amitabh Lyricists Bhattacharya and Irshad Kamil, including CINEMA stalwarts like Shakeel Badayuni and Sahir Rajiv Vijayakar Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Anand Bakshi, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar – who have woven magic with the written word. Filled with trivia and never-before-heard- of anecdotes, Main Shayar Toh Nahin is an introduction to the contribution made by some of the finest wordsmiths to the Hindi film industry.

An entertainment journalist, Rajiv Vijayakar was on the National Film Awards jury twice. He is part of the core content team of the Indian Music Experience Museum in Bengaluru and author of The History of Indian Film Music. His paper, ‘The Role of a Song in a Hindi Film’, is part of the syllabus for South Asian Cinema Studies, University of Edinburgh. He also conducts film music appreciation classes at the FTII and other institutes. May May Satyajit Ray was a master of science-fiction writing. Through his Professor Shonku stories 72 and various other writings, he explored the 73 genre constantly. This book brings together a collection of his many writings on the subject, including the script he wrote in the 1960s, based on a short story of his, for a science fiction film called The Alien. On being prompted by Arthur C. Clarke, who found the screenplay promising, Ray sent the script to an agent in Hollywood, who happened to represent Peter Sellers. Then started the ‘Ordeal of the Alien’, as some twenty years later, Ray watched Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and realized it bore an uncanny resemblance to his script The Alien, including the way the ET was designed! TRAVAILS WITH THE The book includes Ray’s detailed essay on ALIEN the project and the full script of The Alien, as the film that was well as the original short story on which the never made and screenplay was based, apart from some of his other adventures most celebrated writings on science fiction. with science fiction Satyajit Ray (1921–92) is one of the Satyajit Ray greatest film-makers of all time. His first film Pather Panchali (1955) won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. The only Indian to receive the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992. He was also a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a designer, calligrapher, editor and music director. GENRE Non-fiction/Film FORMAT 241 x 170mm/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 224 PRICE `599 Rights World ay m

Asha Bhosle still has the power to lure, to tempt and to seduce with her voice and her 74 astonishingly youthful charm. Ashatai, as she is better known, started her musical journey in B- and C-grade movies, singing songs that most established singers of the time would never agree to do because they were ‘sexy’.

Respectability and recognition came slowly, but in 1957, when she sang all the songs for the leading lady of B.R. Chopra’s Naya Daur, her career took off. So did her popularity. There was SPIRITUALITY no looking back after that. Then there was the extraordinary association with R.D. Burman, which resulted in some of the most iconic songs ASHA BHOSLE ever in the history of Indian film music, and led The Voice Divine to her becoming the voice of every leading lady from the 1970s to the new millennium and after. Ramya Sarma Ramya Sarma takes the reader through Asha Bhosle’s fascinating musical journey, one that is peppered with music, love, laughter and, surprisingly, food.

Ramya Sarma has been writing and editing since she was a teenager. She has worked on websites, magazines, newspapers, brochures and calendars, even lipstick labels and soap- opera synopses. Along with writing on art, food and culture, she also works on all things Bollywood, finding inspiration in real-life characters that will soon find reflection in a collection of stories. This is her first book.

GENRE Non-fiction/Film FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 280 PRICE `599 Rights World In 2015, a historic panel discussion took april place at the global Festival of Theology held GENRE Non-fiction/Spirituality in Sweden. Its objective was to examine what FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 176 Ja nu ary the sacred texts of the Abrahamic faiths – PRICE `299 Judaism, Christianity and Islam – had to say Rights World; except English language about human sexuality. 76 77 By bringing in perspectives from the Many of us struggle to remain calm during the day Karmic faiths of Buddhism, Jainism, or fall asleep at night. Our restless, treacherous Sikhism and Hinduism, which together minds make us feel good one moment and represent the beliefs of almost a third of the Mind Full to terrible the other. From where does negativity world’s population, I Am Divine. So Are You Mindful and anguish engulf us? How should one go about expands this conversation between world zen wisdom and being serene and peaceful? religions and human sexuality to a truly Zen shows us the art of attaining that inner global level. humour from a monk’s bowl quietude without rituals or dogma. It is about The theology of Karmic faiths is revealed seeing beauty, bliss and truth in our everyday at the intersection of scripture, culture, Om Swami life. Driving to work or washing dishes, every act rituals and lived realities. And hence they could easily be meditation. Based on the original I AM DIVINE. are dynamic and amenable to a multiplicity of Zen teachings, this beautiful book offers a life- SO ARE YOU perspectives. They lend themselves more easily changing perspective on life itself. to a recognition and acceptance of fluidity in how buddhism, jainism, Bestselling author of many transformational human sexuality. sikhism and hinduism books, Om Swami shares with you the art of affirm the dignity of This is a landmark book as it recasts religion happiness with plenty of humour, stories and queer identities and – especially Karmic faiths – as an ally and not wisdom as he takes you on a journey from being sexualities an adversary of queer emancipation and thus mind full to mindful. significantly informs the secular and legal introduced by movements for LGBTQ rights around the world. Devdutt Pattanaik Om Swami is a mystic who lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Prior to renunciation, Edited by jerry johnson Devdutt Pattanaik writes, illustrates and he founded and ran a multi-million-dollar lectures on the relevance of mythology software company with offices across the in modern times. He has written more world. He is also the author of the bestselling than thirty books and 700 articles. A books If Truth be Told: A Monk’s Memoir, The public speaker, leadership coach and Wellness Sense, When All Is Not Well, and The management theorist, he is also a culture Last Gambit. consultant with TV shows on CNBC- TV18 and Epic Channel. Jerry Johnson advocates liberalism and human rights, GENRE Non-fiction/Society & Culture FORMAT B/Hardback and is a TEDx speaker and curator. PAGE EXTENT 200 PRICE `299 Rights World THE

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Bhanumathi Narasimhan, fondly known as Bhanu Didi, is a special woman. LIGHT It has been her mission to spread the eternal message 78 of peace, love, light and human values. For over three decades, A Biography of Bhanumathi Narasimhan she has gravitated towards global initiatives such as education for the girl child, women empowerment, meditation programmes, Bhanumathi Narasimhan is a special as well as focused on environmental conservation. She is not only a social activist, a gifted singer and an author, woman. It has been her mission to spread but also a perfect mother and a seasoned homemaker. the eternal message of peace, love, light and As Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s sister, Bhanumathi Narasimhan has carried forward the rich tradition of embodying excellence in human spirit. Her vision and mission are simple – to create a stress-free world. human values. For over three decades, she

In The Guiding Light, Farheen Ahmed shows, has gravitated towards global initiatives such through Bhanu Didi’s extraordinary life, how things beautiful and meaningful may start small, as education for the girl child, women’s yet they can magically add up to something very significant. empowerment, meditation programmes, as well as environmental conservation. SELF-HELP As Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s sister, she

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Farheen Ahmed is an English Honours graduate from Calcutta University, with a B.Ed. from Loreto House, Kolkata. She lives in Bahrain, works for a media house, and is involved in a number of charity activities in support of the destitute and needy. Farheen is proud to be a member of the Bahrain Writer’s Circle.

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GENRE Non-fiction/Lifestyle/Parenting FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 168 fe br u ary PRICE `299 Rights Indian subcontinent, English and Indian languages Known as a self-help guru and the ‘Queen Being a good father is an art as well as a 80 81 of All Media’, Oprah has been shining science. New dads need some handy tools a light on social issues and encouraging to connect with their kids at the deepest fans to ‘live your best life’ for more than level and inspire them to develop great thirty years, revolutionizing her corner of ONE-MINUTE SUPER habits, mindset and beliefs. But raising the entertainment industry in the process. DAD children in today’s fast-paced world is Winfrey’s unprecedented influence and more challenging than ever. celebrity status often overshadow her 99 MAGIC MOMENTS indisputable entrepreneurial prowess and TO RAISE AMAZING One-minute Super Dad gives you – the new dad – simple techniques that can be put business acumen. Even though Oprah has CHILDREN stated that she wouldn’t consider herself a into action in just a minute a day. Repeated businesswoman, her ever-expanding media dr Prashant Jindal consistently, they will help you forge a strong empire and record-breaking multibillion- bond with your kids that will hold them in dollar fortune indicate otherwise. good stead for a lifetime.

Own It: Oprah Winfrey In Her Own Words Featuring a Foreword by Raymond Aaron, collects Oprah’s most insightful quotations, author of Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul, centred around her media career, life this book is an outcome of five years of OWN IT lessons, entrepreneurship, and remarkable passionate work, research, interviews and Oprah Winfrey in personal story. real-life experiences. Inspire your kids to a Her Own Words whole new level – lack of time no longer being a factor – and raise amazing children! Edited by Anjali Becker is a writer and editor Anjali Becker and living in Washington, DC. She previously jeanne Engelmann worked as the publicity coordinator for Dr Prashant Jindal is a refractive eye a publisher in Illinois. Jeanne Engelmann surgeon who has successfully operated is a writer and editor living in St. Paul, upon numerous peak-performance athletes, Minnesota. She previously worked as a Olympic medallists, celebrities and people senior copywriter and art director for from all walks of life. He has appeared on a publishing company. She is also the numerous talk shows and has been widely author of several books, curricula, and interviewed on ophthalmology, parenting other educational material. and health issues.

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Do you think you’re a hard-working professional who has a lot to offer? Are your ideas brighter than everyone else’s in your team?

Even if the answer to these questions is a resounding yes, do you still find yourself trailing behind corporate losers – the boss who takes all the credit; the slimy politician who stole BUSINESS your promotion; the sweet-talking weasel whom everyone adores? Job Be Job Be Damned is the wake-up call you need. Damned This book recognizes you are an average employee and ensures that, by the time you’re done reading Rishi Piparaiya it, you’ll still be an average employee but with better bullshit-handling capabilities. After all, isn’t that what corporate success is all about?

Rishi Piparaiya has been a C-suite executive with close to two decades of multinational experience. He had his ‘Job Be Damned’ moment in mid-2015 when he left as the director of marketing and direct sales at Aviva Life Insurance to focus on mentoring start-ups and writing.

GENRE Non-fiction/Self-help FORMAT B/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 240 PRICE `250 Rights World A pril GENRE Non-fiction/Futures Studies FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 256 A pril PRICE `599 Rights World Ever since Megatrends was published in 1982, the question that often crops up is ‘What is the next 84 85 megatrend?’ But megatrends do not come every second year. All you can do is keep your eyes open, and that’s what John and Doris Naisbitt did. The results of their research are mind- Thinking Smart offers all that you need to know to Mastering boggling. What we are witnessing is the path to a achieve just about everything, from managing a Megatrends complete change of the global game. Not as the delicate relationship, a surprise firing, to creating Understanding transformation described in Megatrends in 1982, a winning team or business, and more. The book and Leveraging finding its way from the US to the world, but as explores smartness by combining economic, the Evolving New parallel shifts involving countries on almost every psychological and sociological perspectives in continent and taking place in various fields and ways that we often overlook in our daily lives. World directions, feeding into each other, connected From being a management guru to a corporate John Naisbitt and politically, economically, and technologically. leader, Prof. Nirmalya Kumar provides a holistic Doris Naisbitt Thinking Smart view of smartness – from the corner office and Mastering Megatrends describes the background How to Master from a professor’s viewpoint. This is your guide and the prospects of the new world, helps to Work, Life and to mastering the subtle art of work, life and understand the mindset of the key and the Everything In everything in between. emerging players, and guides us through the Between challenges of a new working world. Nirmalya Kumar Nirmalya Kumar is professor of marketing at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore John Naisbitt is an American author and public Management University, and distinguished speaker in the area of futures studies. His first fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. book Megatrends was published in 1982 and Recently, he became a member of the Group featured on the New York Times bestseller list Executive Council of Tata Sons and strategy for two years. Doris Naisbitt, an observer of thought leader at the group. global social, economic and political trends, is the director of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin, China, and co-author of the bestseller Megatrends China: Eight Pillars of a New Society. She holds professorships at Nankai and Yunnan University, and at Yunnan Normal University in China. GENRE Non-fiction/Self-help/Leadership FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 256 PRICE `499 Rights World A pril GENRE Non-fiction/Management FORMAT Demy/Paperback PAGE EXTENT 280 J une PRICE `399 Rights World An article in the Harvard Business Review once The Tatas is the story of one of India’s leading said, ‘The most valuable skill for the twenty-first 86 business families. It starts in the nineteenth century manager is the ability to work across 87 century with Nusserwanji Tata – a middle- cultures.’ Around the world, it is increasingly class Parsi priest from the village of Navsari in recognized that an understanding of a country’s Gujarat, and widely regarded as the Father of HOW INDIA WORKS work culture plays a significant part in success at Indian Industry – and ends with Ratan Tata, one’s job. Every group of people has subtle drivers MAKING SENSE chairman of the Tata Group until 2012. But it is of behaviour, values and beliefs that could help more than just a history of the industrial house. OF A COMPLEX you navigate your way around the workplace. It is an inspiring account of India in the making. CORPORATE Indians are no exception. We have some It chronicles how each generation of the family CULTURE innate strengths that we seldom take, or are invested not only in the expansion of its own Aarti Kelshikar given, credit for. Like our resilience and ability to business interests but also in nation-building. work in difficult situations. And the uncommon For instance, few know that the first hydel capacity to deal with ambiguity and to think on THE TATAS project in the world was conceived and built by the fly. But Indians have some negative traits as well. Why do we say ‘yes’ when we mean ‘no’? HOW A FAMILY BUILT the Tatas in India. Nor that some radical labour And why are we willing to work on holidays? A BUSINESS AND A concepts such as eight-hour work shifts were NATION born in India, at the Tata mill in Nagpur. The Based on extensive interviews with corporate National Centre for the Performing Arts, the leaders, How India Works delves into the average Girish Kuber Tata Cancer Research Centre, the Tata Institute Indian’s psyche and is a guide to the cultural of Fundamental Research – the list about the nuances and complexities of working in India. Tatas’ contribution to India is a long one.

A bestseller in Marathi when it was first Aarti Kelshikar is a facilitator, trainer and published in 2015, this is the only book that tells coach. She has been associated with two the complete Tata story over two hundred years. US-based global mobility companies – Cartus and Cultural Awareness International – for which she has delivered customized inter- Girish Kuber is the editor of Loksatta and a cultural training programmes for professionals regular columnist in the Indian Express. He is relocating worldwide. She has trained also the author of six books in Marathi. He senior executives from several multinational lives in Mumbai. corporations and is a consultant with a leadership development company in India. GENRE Non-fiction/Biography FORMAT Royal/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 344 PRICE `799 Rights World The US dollar moves the world. It makes the

Easy Money A pril Evolution of the United States of America the world’s only superpower. But things weren’t always as they

A pril Global Financial are now. The British pound was the world’s System to the Great premier international currency, much up to Bubble Burst the first half of the twentieth century. And 88 89 Vivek Kaul then things changed and the dollar became We live in an era when coloured pieces of paper the international currency that every country are deemed to be money. But this was not how in the world wanted. What made these pieces things always were. In the United States, tobacco of green paper so powerful? What role did was money for longer than gold was. In parts Hitler have to play in it? Why does the United of ancient India, almonds were money. Corn States have the privilege of the dollar as the was money in Guatemala. In the rice-producing global currency? Vivek Kaul answers these nations Philippines, Japan and Burma, and many more questions in the second book standardized portions of rice served as money. in the Easy Money series. Salt was money in the Sahara Desert. How did these commodities disappear as money? What role did the rise of banking play in the rise of Easy Money The financial crisis of 2008 brought the Easy Money paper money? How has paper money at various The Greatest Ponzi world to a standstill. Banks and financial Evolution of points of time destroyed financial systems? And, firms all over the world had to be rescued Scheme Ever and Money from most importantly, how do the same mistakes by governments – in effect, bailed out by the How It Is Set to Robinson Crusoe which were made earlier continue to be made in taxpayer. But have things changed post 2008? Destroy the Global to the First the modern era? Vivek Kaul answers these and Are financial firms and banks operating more many more questions in the first book in the Financial System World War responsibly? Are they taking fewer risks than Easy Money series. Vivek Kaul they did in the past? What will happen as Vivek Kaul and when the next financial crisis hits us? Vivek Kaul answers these and many more Vivek Kaul is a writer who has worked at questions on how the global financial system senior positions with the Daily News and is operating in the post-financial-crisis era in Analysis (DNA) and the Economic Times. His the third book in the Easy Money series. latest book, India’s Big Government – The Intrusive State and How It Is Hurting Us, has just been published. Currently, Vivek writes an eponymous ‘Diary and Letter’ for equitymaster.com.

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FORMAT Demy/Paperback J une PAGE EXTENT 216 PRICE `399 A pril Rights World The Tata Group comprises 100+ companies spread across business sectors and continents. 91 90 The $100 billion salt-to-software conglomerate generates 70 per cent of its revenue from highly We feel guilty about the mess in our financial competitive overseas operations. What does it do lives. Irrespective of how much we earn, most to encourage and enhance innovation in these Monika’s Money of us are juggling our expenses and savings at companies that are small and big, fledgling and Box the end of each month. The handful minority well-established? that tries to work towards some savings ends up A hands-free investing in dud investment schemes. But there Tata Innovista is a twelve-year-old flagship route-map to are some outliers who manage their money like innovation programme of the Tata Group. wealth managers, enjoy it like children, and still Over the years, Tata Innovista has fired the financial fitness have enough to live peacefully like monks. imagination of colleagues across Tata companies Monika Halan and has become one of the most inspiring India’s favourite financial planner, Monika innovation programmes in the group. It has been Halan offers you a feet-on-the-ground system to Igniting presented to and researched by management build financial security. At the end of reading it, you Innovation experts globally, including those in Harvard will be able to organize your finances in a manner Business School, London Business School and that allows you to live your dream life, rather than The Tata Way INSEAD. This book will explore how Innovista stay worried about the ‘right’ investment or ‘perfect’ Ravi Arora has built a culture of innovation in the Tata insurance. Not a get-rich-quick guide, this book Group, inspired thousands of managers, and helps you plug into a system rather than offer a has provided a platform for knowledge exchange, single-shot solution. leading to innovation that is collaborative and mutually beneficial for everyone. Certified financial planner, Monika Halan is a trusted writer, speaker and television Ravi Arora is vice president, Innovation, personality who helps families get their at Tata Sons, and manages the innovation money decisions right. Currently, she is a programme at the Tata Group worldwide. consulting editor with Mint. A Yale world He is a key member of the Tata Group fellow, she holds advanced degrees in Innovation Forum (TGIF) and has created economics and journalism. well-known programmes like Tata InnoMeter, Tata Innovista and Tata Innoverse to foster innovation within the organization. GENRE Non-fiction/Management FORMAT Demy/Hardback PAGE EXTENT 208 PRICE `499 Rights World children’s A pril GENRE Poetry FORMAT Paperback (7 x 9) PAGE EXTENT 72 A pril PRICE `200 Rights World A wonderful collection of poems and songs 94 from Gulzar, the master poet and storyteller. 95 The poems range from the playful ‘Ek Bar Socha Pustak Ne’ about books wanting to go on Want to know who the favourite author of Samay Ka holiday, to the deeply symbolic ‘Madhou Doudo’ and many more equally delightful poems. The your favourite author is? Or what he likes to Khatola eat, the movies he likes to see, the places he book also contains enchanting songs penned by likes to visit? His most memorable moments, Kavitayen Aur Gulzar, such as ‘Mowgli’, that are evergreen even even his most embarrassing? Gane years after they were created. This book – the first in the These Are A Gulzar Few Of My Favourite Things series – gives Gulzar is a poet, lyricist and film director. He you a quick peek into the favourites of one has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the of India’s most well-known authors, Ruskin Sahitya Akademi and the Dadasaheb Phalke Bond. The Favourite Things series will capture awards, besides several others. the favourites of your favourite authors, sportspersons, celebrities and more. These Are A Few The book also includes some pages in Of My Favourite the slam book format for you to fill in your Things favourite things.

Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is one of India’s most well-known children’s writers. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie.

GENRE Non-fiction/Series FORMAT Hardback (6 x 9) PAGE EXTENT 80 PRICE `399 Rights World Padma and her grandmother, Labhuben, discover A pril that the flatland their cows graze on is not just any GENRE Picture Book/Fiction ordinary flatland, but home to the dinosaurs that FORMAT Paperback (8.5 x 11) PAGE EXTENT 32 Mar ch lived in India more than 65 million years ago. It PRICE `199 gets more and more interesting as Palaeontologist Rights World Professor Rajan Dinkar, who Padma fondly calls 96 Rock Uncle, reveals many secrets about their 97 hometown, Rahioli, and even gifts her one of his most prized discoveries – a beautiful dinosaur egg. As Padma takes the egg home, little does she know that she would soon be setting off on the Zippy Messes Up adventure of her life with Labhuben, Rock Uncle The Zippy Series and a dinosaur called Bluethingosaurus. Anitha Balachandran In an exciting mix of non-fiction and fiction, this book contains curious facts and insights about dinosaurs discovered in India, including: Zippy and his friends are back! This time they have a great time playing indoors, but also The Fantastic 1. a colourful map showing the dinosaurs that discover that it’s a good idea to clean up afterwards. Another rollicking story for young readers Journey of have been discovered across India, written in rhyme. Padma and 2. invaluable inputs from renowned This picture book and the accompanying activity book, The Zippy Messes Up Activity Book, are Bluethingosaurus Palaeontologists such as Dr Ashok Sahni and the second set in a series that centres on Zippy, a young zebra, and his group of friends. Each Suresh Srivastava, animal belongs to a different species and has a distinct personality. Together they learn basic life The Dinosaur lessons and make many discoveries about the world around them. Written in simple and lively 3. illustrated fact sheets about the dinosaurs Trail Along the language, the Zippy series is fun, educational, interactive and exciting for children who have just discovered in the Indian subcontinent, and Narmada been introduced to reading. It is also great for reading aloud. 4. an interview with the Dinosaur Princess of Vaishali Shroff India – Aaliya Sultana Babi. 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 Vaishali Shroff is the author of two multilingual internationally, and is known for its distinctive style. NCERT- and CBSE-recommended books. Her work has featured in magazines, anthologies, school texts, and children’s readers across Indian publishing houses. When she’s not writing, you can find her hiding behind the couch from her two boys who are waiting to pounce on her. Suvidha Mistry is a freelance illustrator with a passion for all forms of art. She loves to GENRE Fiction and Non-fiction FORMAT Paperback (8.5 x 11) tell stories with her illustrations, sketches and PAGE EXTENT 80 photography. She has worked with multimedia GENRE Picture Book/Activity PRICE `299 firms as a graphics head and is now living her FORMAT Paperback (8.5 x 11) Rights World PAGE EXTENT 24 dream as an illustrator of children’s books. PRICE `175 Rights World F e br u ary

GENRE Activity Priyanka Das has so many unanswered FORMAT Paperback (8.5 x 11) You don’t need a garden to go green! PAGE EXTENT 32 Mar ch questions: Why did her mother abandon PRICE `199 This book of green ideas shows you how to her home in India years ago? What was Rights World garden almost anywhere … a windowsill, the it like there? And most important, who balcony of your flat, the terrace, the steps 98 is her father, and why did her mom leave 99 outside your home. You can grow plants in him behind? But Pri’s mom avoids these boots, coconut shells, tyres, broken pots and questions – the topic of India is permanently old tubs; make feeders for the birds visiting closed. For Pri, her mother’s homeland can Green Gardening your neighbourhood; create a garden in a only exist in her imagination. That is, until fish bowl and much more … she finds a mysterious pashmina tucked Ideas to Potter away in a forgotten suitcase. When she Around With Make Your Own: wraps herself in it, she is transported to a Benita Sen • Bird feeders place more vivid and colourful than any guidebook or Bollywood film. But is this the • Mini gardens real India? And what is that shadow lurking • Planters in the background? To learn the truth, Pri must travel farther than she’s ever dared and • Garden decorations find the family she never knew. In this heart- warming debut, Nidhi Chanani weaves a Benita Sen is a journalist and children’s tale about the hardship and self-discovery author who has authored a popular that is born from juggling two cultures and gardening column in a newspaper. Pashmina two worlds. A trained educationist, she conducts workshops for young people on Nidhi Chanani environmental issues. Her various passions Nidhi Chanani was born in Kolkata, and experience in the outdoors come India, and raised in Southern California. together in this book of simple, workable She holds a degree in literature from ideas that can turn even a windowsill the University of California, Santa Cruz. into a garden. Vandana Bist has worked She creates illustrations that capture the as an illustrator since 1985, for varied love in everyday moments. In 2012 she genres of writing, with special emphasis was honoured at the White House as on children’s picture books and text a Champion of Change for her art. Her books. In 2014, she began a venture called illustrations are sold in boutiques along AkkaBakka, to combine art, writing, the West Coast and she has worked with storytelling, music and theatre and create companies like Disney and Hasbro. This is workshop modules for children of various GENRE Fiction/Graphic Novel her first graphic novel. age groups. FORMAT Paperback (6.2 x 8.7) PAGE EXTENT 176 PRICE `399 Rights India Mar ch An artist? A dreamer? A rebel? Who exactly GENRE Non-fiction/Biography FORMAT Hardback (7 x 9) was Amrita Sher-Gil? She was a little bit of PAGE EXTENT 176

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100 Budapest, Hungary, and among the cool, 101 green hills of colonial Simla. She defied Wily old women, a clever nanny goat, a headmistresses, teachers, art critics and helpful snake, a boy who becomes invisible, royalty to make her own determined way in a sorcerer king … Peopled with extraordinary Amrita Sher-Gil: the world of grown-ups and art. beings – both real and magical, human Rebel with a and divine, animal and demon – this is a Join her on a journey through her life, a charming collection of folktales that has Paintbrush journey that takes her family through World humour, fantasy and adventure in equal Series title: Wars and political turmoil as they travel measure. Timeless in pursuit of love, a home and a modern, artistic education for Amrita! Quirky illustrations add to the charm of Biographies this collection of folktales retold in a lively, Anita Vaccharajani contemporary style. Anita Vachharajani grew up in Mumbai. Sacked! Her stories have appeared in The Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories, The Puffin Author, poet and translator, Deepa Folktales You Can Book of Spooky Ghost Stories, and in Agarwal writes for both children and Carry Around various picture books, such as Nonie’s adults and has published over fifty books. Magic Quilt and Nayana and the Not-so- A frequent contributor to magazines Deepa Agarwal scary Owl. Her translations of traditional and journals in India and abroad, she has rhymes feature in The Tenth Rasa: the edited and compiled several anthologies. Penguin Book of Indian Nonsense Verse. She received the NCERT National Award Anita loves writing non-fiction. Kalyani for Children’s Literature in 1993 for her Ganpathy lives in the Nilgiris and is a picture book Ashok’s New Friends. Her self-taught illustrator and art director. historical fiction Caravan to Tibet was on Kalyani illustrates for both fiction the IBBY (International Board on Books and non-fiction. She enjoys exploring for Young People) Honour List 2008. the following themes: flora, fauna, gardening, travel, wellness and food. Through her work she seeks to discover and unravel the relationship we have with each of them. Her work has been featured in books and publications in GENRE Folktales/Fiction FORMAT Paperback (5.16 x 7.5) India and abroad. She is also an organic PAGE EXTENT 180 gardener and explorer. PRICE `199 Rights World GENRE Non-fiction/Series May FORMAT Paperback (5.5 x 8.5) PAGE EXTENT 104 Mar ch When eleven-year-old Dev’s father dies, PRICE `250 Rights World he can’t stop lashing out at those he loves.

102 Until he meets Sanjay – a sprite-like being 103 who claims there is a battle raging inside Knock Knock! Dev’s own body. Sanjay embarks on a Who’s there? perilous journey beginning in the darkest Mango! realm at the bottom of Dev’s spine. As he THE GOOD INDIAN searches for the noble warrior Prince Arjun CHILD’S GUIDE Mango who? – the only hope to defeat wicked Prince Ego TO EATING MANGOES Man-going to eat you. – Sanjay encounters starving mobs, thieving gangs, water worlds and lands of fire, until Natasha Sharma What characteristics are required to be a at last he finds Arjun on the battlefield, ‘good’ Indian child? In a play on the concept, ready to fight for Dev. the Good Indian Child’s Guide series takes things that are intrinsic to India – be they This book takes the epic battle within mangoes or cricket – and presents a tongue- the Gita and transports it inside the body in-cheek exploration of the subjects. of a young boy called Dev. A classic story of good overcoming evil, through Dev and Sanjay and Sanjay’s adventure, readers will be able to An award-winning children’s books connect with some of the deeper concepts author, Natasha Sharma has published the Great Gita in the Gita. sixteen books for children till date. Adventure Natasha writes across age groups and formats, from picture books, early Sonal Patel and Sonal Patel is a British–Indian mother chapter books, historical fiction to her J.W. Kattan with strong cultural roots. She has been new graphic novels. Her poems have a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda also featured in anthologies and course for over twenty years, practising yoga books for schools. Natasha is an MBA and meditation every day. J.W. Kattan with a graduate degree in math and is graduated from Cambridge University and happiest in her little squiggly corner of went on to obtain her PGDIP in broadcast writing for children. journalism from the University of Westminster before becoming a journalist and writer. Kattan lives in north London.

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The first three books in this series include the A rib-tickling tackling of teen issues – in timeless tales of Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel and the hope that getting them to laugh about it, Little Red Riding Hood will get them to think about it and to realize they’re not alone. The German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are famous for their collections Jane De Suza is a leading humour writer; of folktales and their pioneering work in her latest books Happily Never After linguistics. For ages, in their many renditions, and SuperZero and the Clone Crisis have the stories of magic and myth by the Brothers both been ranked among Amazon’s most Grimm have been part of the way children memorable books. Jane is a management learn about values in the real world. grad from XLRI, has been creative director at leading advertising agencies across India, and writes for publications across the world.

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106 Join Indy​ and Dia on a super exciting and fun tour of India’s amazing historical places. This activity book will help you navigate India’s ​rich and mind-boggling map of historical wonders through engaging activities. Discover​ unknown details of all the famous monuments and sites you’ve already heard of and get acquainted with the little-known gems that make our country truly incredible. NOW IN India is incredible, unmatched, unlimited … it is also fun as the Inside India! series will show you. Amazing Historical Places is PAPERBACK the second book in the Inside India series. Each book in the series is designed around Amazing Historical an Indian theme such as festivals and Places celebrations, historical places, food and eco Inside India victories, and will include word-searches, crosswords, multiple-choice quizzes, picture FunOKPlease quizzes, jokes and riddles, art and craft, recipes, puzzles, and more.

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