JANUARY – JUNE

2020– 1 – FICTION (JAN - APRIL)

– 2 – fiction

‘A bold and haunting novel’ The Endgame ANITA NAIR

KUNAL BASU ‘[A] compelling story that reflects upon the human spirit’ RAJDEEP SARDESAI

Saddam Hussein is dead, but there’s no end to war in Iraq. Armed with a reputation for daredevilry, reporter Tejaswini Ray arrives from New York to cover the conflict and is immediately enmeshed in a skirmish with Commander Luke of the US Marine Corps. Bound by Luke’s strict censorship rules, Tejaswini – Tejo – revolts, her coverage of the death of American soldiers killed by landmines draws the world’s attention to a futile war and invites the Commander’s ire. Tejo’s uneasy mission is further troubled by her chance encounter with Shabnam – a young woman trafficked from India and sold into slavery at the Marine camp. Drawn together by an unlikely bond, the two find solace amidst the carnage, but their friendship reveals a secret that links them back to the very beginning of their lives. When the war threatens their camp, Tejo and Shabnam abandon the Marines and embark on an audacious journey. But will they escape the dangers, or will their past invade the present, reversing the wheel of time to hasten the end?

Kunal Basu was born in Kolkata and educated in India Genre Literary Fiction; and the United States. He is the author of several Translation critically acclaimed novels, and ‘The Japanese Wife’ Imprint Picador India from his collection of stories by the same name has ISBN 978-93-89109-36-8 been made into an award-winning film. He lives in Oxford and Kolkata. Format B-format HB Page 188 Price 499 Rights World Pub Month January

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‘A mesmerising, breakneck quest of a novel’ Amnesty ANDREW MCMILLAN ‘The most exciting novelist writing in English today’ ARAVIND A. N. WILSON ADIGA

Danny – Dhananjaya Rajaratnam – is an undocumented immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal Australian life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. When Danny recognizes a jacket left at the murder scene, he believes it belongs to another of his clients a doctor with whom he knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported, or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities. Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.

Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now Genre Literary fiction ) and grew up in Mangalore in the south of Imprint Picador India India. He was educated at Columbia University in New ISBN 978-93-89109-04-7 York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, Format Demy HB the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times Page 352 of India. His first novel,The White Tiger, won the Man Price 599 Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. He is also the author of Last Man in Tower and Selection Day. Rights Indian Subcontinent Pub Month February

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‘I finished readingRitual in one sitting. It’s a literary Ritual thriller whose energy derives as much from what-next as from what-if. I felt like I’d had my heart scooped out UTTARAN DAS by his gusty novel’ GUPTA SUMANA ROY ‘Uttaran Das Gupta veers away from the classic Bengali detective novel to reveal the sleazy, seamy underbelly of the City of Joy. The new classic: Kolkata noir’ MADHULIKA LIDDLE

When the body was found, the heart was missing. Someone had cut it out.

Calcutta is in political turmoil and it is turning violent. The city is also home to Vasant Sena, a religious cult with a charismatic leader and militant devotees, engaged in drug-fuelled sex rituals. As bodies of girls, their hearts cut out of their chests, start appearing all over Calcutta, ACP Ashutosh and his deputy Pradeep are assigned the case. Soon, they find themselves spiralling into a mesh of double faces and blind alleys, even as the machinery of the state and the police turn against them. Can they catch the killer before the killer catches them?”

Uttaran Das Gupta is a New Delhi-based writer and Genre Crime/thriller journalist. He writes columns on films and literature, Imprint Pan and his first book of poems,Visceral Metropolis, was ISBN 978-93-89109-04-7 published in 2017. This is his first novel. Format B format PB Page 272 Price 350 Rights World Pub Month February

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‘With the flow of the narrative, with its Suralakshmi Villa many layers and nuances, a panoramic view of Bengal, past and present, is ARUNA revealed. A truly riveting read’ CHAKRAVARTI SHARMILA TAGORE

Suralakshmi Choudhury, a gynaecologist based in Delhi, falls in love at the age of thirty-one, marries and has a son. Suddenly, five years after his birth, she abandons everything including the house gifted to her by her father and her flourishing medical career, to travel to an obscure village in Bengal and open a free clinic for women and children. She leaves her son behind but takes along a poor Muslim girl, she has adopted. What makes her take this strange decision? Suralakshmi’s actions confound her relatives and it is from their accounts of the incidents, letters, memoirs, and flashbacks – from a more distant past – that the story comes together and the layers and nuances in the enigmatic character of Suralakshmi are brought to light. In Suralakshmi Villa, Aruna Chakravarti blends the narrative of the novel with history, legend, music, religion, folklore, rituals and culinary practices of both Hindus and Muslims, and creates a fascinating tapestry which reveals the syncretic nature of Bengal and her people.

Aruna Chakravarti has been Principal of a prestigious Genre Literary Fiction women’s college of Delhi University for ten years. She Imprint Picador India is also a well-known academic, creative writer and ISBN 978-93-89109-39-9 translator with fourteen published books on record. Her novels, The Inheritors, Jorasanko, Daughters Format Demy HB of Jorasanko, have sold widely and received rave Page 313 reviews. Suralakshmi Villa is her fifteenth book. She Price 650 has also received awards such as the Vaitalik Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and Sarat Puraskar for her Rights World translations. Pub Month February

– 6 – fiction Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award

The Loneliness of Hira Baruah Stories ARUPA PATANGIA KALITA

The Loneliness of Hira Baruah tells the stories of the people of Assam living, loving, making do in strife and negotiating socio-political struggle. In doing so, Arupa Patangia Kalita paints evocative portraits of people living ordinary lives in Assam in times of turmoil. Combining social realism with magical realism and folklore, the book stands out in its distinctness and literary power. It was first published in Assamese as Mariam Austin Othoba Hira Baruah and went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 and is now considered a classic of modern Assamese literature.

Arupa Patangia Kalita has been reckoned as one of Genre Literary Fiction; the most powerful voices in contemporary Assamese Translation literature. She is a bold and acutely aware chronicler Imprint Macmillan of her time. A teacher of English literature, she has ISBN 978-93-89109-45-0 also translated Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye into Assamese. She has published more than fifteen books Format B PB with flaps besides numerous works in vernacular magazines and Page 224 many of them have been translated into diff erent Price 499 Indian languages and English. The English translation Rights World of her novel Felanee was shortlisted for the . She has received the Bharatiya Bhasha Pub Month March Parishad Award (1995), KATHA award (1998), Sahitya Sanskriti Award (2009), Lekhika Samaroh Sahitya award (2011) and most recently, the Sahitya Akademi award(2014). Ranjita Biswas is an award-winning translator of fiction, a journalist and travel writer. Her recent books include As the River Flows, a coffee table book, and a collection of retold folktales from the North East for children.

– 7 – fiction Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner

The Machine Is Learning TANUJ SONLANKI

Saransh works at a life insurance company, as part of the Special Projects Group (SPG). Their current project is top-secret: the development of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) system that will leave 552 branch-level employees redundant overnight. Because of site-specific customizations, however, the system needs to collect information from the company’s various branches. Thus begins a cycle in which Saransh travels across the country, interviewing the very people that his machine will replace soon. Meanwhile, his conscientious ex-journalist girlfriend Jyoti repeatedly questions Saransh’s complicity in the impending destruction of hundreds of lives. The Machine is Learning is a novel about 21st-century workplaces, love and the impact of technology in all of our lives. It interrogates a world order that accommodates guilt but offers no truly ethical course-correction.

Tanuj Solanki’s first novel,Neon Noon, was shortlisted Genre Literary fiction/ for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award. In 2019, Contemporary he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar fiction for his second book, Diwali in Muzaffarnagar. Tanuj’s Imprint Macmillan Caravan Hindu short fiction has been published in the , ISBN 978-93-89109-29-0 Business Line, DNA, Out of Print, and several other Format B Format HB publications. He lives in Gurugram with his wife. Page 260 Price 499 Rights World Pub Month March

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The Heart Asks Pleasure First KARUNA EZARA PARIKH

It is 2001 and Daya and Aaftab have just met in a park in Cardiff. She is studying ballet and he is practising in a law firm. She falls madly in love. He does, but he also cannot, because he is Muslim and there are certain rules. Set in the world of students, Karuna Ezara Parikh creates up a dazzling framework of impossible, forbidden love, difficult joyous friendship, as she delves into migration, xenophobia, Islamophobia and jihad, humanizing all these big themes with the deftness of a poet and the magic of a born storyteller.

Karuna Ezara Parikh grew up in New Delhi. She has written Genre Literary Fiction India for various print and online publications including Imprint Picador India Today, Sunday Guardian, Vagabomb, Wire, and Conde Nast ISBN – Traveler. She was part of the Lonely Planet India books team. In 2011, she began hosting travel shows for the channel Format Demy HB NDTV Good Times and became popular for her work on Page 320 the show Life’s A Beach. She lives in Kolkata. Price 699 Rights Indian Subcontinent Pub Month April

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Sultan The Legend of Hyder Ali SHUBENDRA

Eighteenth century, India. A time of turmoil and anarchy. Hyder Ali, an ordinary soldier, rises through the ranks to take over the Mysore kingdom, a small region in danger of being swallowed by the Marathas and the Nizam of the Deccan. Despite overwhelming odds, Hyder Ali forges an empire right under their noses through tact, bravery and cunning - an empire that spans from the dry lands near the Krishna river to the lush green forests of Malabar. Action-packed and unputdownable, Sultan is a fictional retelling of the life of Mysore’s greatest ruler. It is an improbable tale of a fatherless boy, a prisoner who goes on to build a formidable empire and become one of the most pre-eminent rulers of India.

Shubendra is an avid traveller exploring places that Genre Historical Fiction have fallen through the cracks of mainstream history. Imprint Pan His primary interest is unravelling the long-forgotten ISBN 978-93-89109-07-8 stories of early modern India through field research and analyzing old military accounts. An expert on the Format B PB with flaps military history of 18th and 19th century India, he is an Page 232 engineer with a global aircraft engine manufacturing Price 350 firm.Sultan is his first novel. Rights World Pub Month April

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Days in the Life of a Sufi Stories of Nizamuddin Auliya RAZIUDDIN AQUIL

While the memory of the Sultans of Delhi has faded except the monuments which tell their tales, Nizamuddin Auliya lives on in the hearts of common people through his message, music and without any substantial monumental heritage. He is one of the most popular Sufis from the Indian subcontinent and a non-conformist in many ways. He spread his message of love and harmony through witty short stories narrated to his disciples.

Raziuddin Aquil is associate professor, Department Genre Historical Fiction/ of History, University of Delhi. He was previously Spirituality/ Short Fellow in history, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Stories Calcutta. He is the author of Lovers of God: Sufism Imprint Pan and the Politics of Islam in Medieval India (2017) ISBN 978-93-89109-44-3 and Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam Format A Format PB in Medieval North India (2007) and co-editor, with with flaps Partha Chatterjee, of History in the Vernacular (2008). Page 230 Price 299 Rights World Pub Month April

– 11 – NON– FICTION (JAN - APRIL)

– 12 – non-fiction

‘An often surprising and Calcutta Yoga always sure-footed survey of the magic of yoga and How Modern Yoga Travelled to the World Calcutta’s role in bringing it from the Streets of Calcutta to the world’ JOHN ZUBRZYCKI JEROME ARMSTRONG

The epic story of how Buddha Bose, Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda took yoga from Calcutta to the rest of the world. In Calcutta Yoga, Jerome Armstrong deftly weaves the multi-generational story of the first family of yoga and how they modernized the ancient practice. The saga covers four generations, the making of a city, personal friendships, and shines light on the remarkable people who transformed yoga and made it a truly global phenomenon. Along the way, we also meet the people who founded the schools of yoga that are so well known today. Enriching the cast of characters are the internationally renowned B. K. S. Iyengar, Mr Universe Monotosh Roy, even as the book uncovers the truth about Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga. Cleverly researched and enjoyably anecdotal, Calcutta Yoga gives a holistic picture of the evolution of yoga, and pays homage to yogic heroes previously lost from history, while highlighting the pivotal early role the city of Calcutta played in redefining the practice.

Jerome Armstrong travelled across India from 2015 Genre True Accounts; Yoga; to 2019 while researching for and writing Calcutta History; Journalism Yoga. His PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution is Imprint Macmillan from George Mason University. In the early 2000s, ISBN 978-93-89109-30-6 he was one of the first popular political bloggers. He co-authored Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots Format Royal HB and the Rise of People-Powered Politics and is a co- Page 584 founder of Vox Media. He resides in Virginia, where Price 999 he teaches yoga and qigong. Rights World Pub Month January

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‘Humanly compelling, beautifully told ... brings to light The Deoliwallahs a forgotten chapter of Indian history, one we need to remember in these troubled times’ The True Story of the 1962 PRATAP BHANU MEHTA Chinese-Indian Internment ‘Deeply sensitive account of the [Deoli] internment and its aftermath ... a timely book’ JOY MA AND JONATHAN GIL HARRIS DILIP D’SOUZA

The untold account of the internment of 3,000 Chinese-Indians after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Just after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, about 3,000 Chinese-Indians were sent to languish in a disused World War II POW camp in Deoli, Rajasthan, marking the beginning of a painful five- year-long internment without resolution. At a time of war with China, these ‘Chinese-looking’ people had fallen prey to government suspicion and paranoia which soon seeped into the public consciousness. This is a page of Indian history that comes wrapped in prejudice and fear, and is today largely forgotten. But over five decades on, survivors of the internment are finally starting to tell their stories. The Deoliwallahs records these untold stories through extensive interviews with seven survivors of the Deoli internment, recovering a crucial chapter in our history, also documenting for the first time how the Chinese came to be in India, how they made this country their home and became a significant community, until the war of 1962 brought on a terrible incarceration, displacement and tragedy.

Joy Ma grew up and was educated in India and the US. Joy Genre True Accounts; lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was one of a handful Biographies; History of children born in the Deoli internment camp in Rajasthan. Imprint Macmillan ISBN 978-93-89109-38-2 Dilip D’Souza was educated in Pilani, Providence, Delhi, Austin and places in between. Once a computer scientist, Format Demy HB he now writes about political and social issues, sports, Page 248 mathematics. He has written seven books. Dilip lives in Price 650 Bombay. Rights World Pub Month February

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‘An often surprising and The Shaadi Story always sure-footed survey of the magic of yoga and Behind the Scenes of Calcutta’s role in bringing it the Big Fat Indian Wedding to the world’ JOHN ZUBRZYCKI AMITA NIGAM SAHAYA

What makes the Big Fat Indian Wedding so central to our lives? The wedding is the most celebrated event in Indian society. It forms the heart of a multi- billion-dollar industry driving fashion, food, music, entertainment and our desire for companionship. In The Shaadi Story, social entrepreneur Amita Sahaya takes a fascinating look at the history, religious traditions, societal attitudes, industry and modern adaptations of the North Indian Hindu wedding and beyond. Across seven chapters structured like the traditional ritual of the saptapadi, this book illuminates the seven different aspects of Indian weddings. Drawing on ancient Sanskrit scriptures, western philosophies, Bollywood movies and the voices of young Indians, this book is an in-depth examination of Indian culture, its ideas of love and relationships – along with their evolution in the modern world – through the prism of its most elaborate celebration. Sweeping, enlightening, entertaining, The Shaadi Story is a remarkable exploration of Indian weddings and marriages and what makes them tick

Amita Sahaya has previously edited four works on Genre Society & Culture Development and Gender and translated from Hindi Imprint Macmillan the famous historical novel of Jhansi, which won ISBN 978-93-89109-40-5 the author Vrindavan Lal Verma one of the country’s foremost national awards. She is the Founder Format Demy HB Secretary of the non-profit Women Work & Health Page 232 Initiative, the Director of Equal World Equal Spaces, Price 599 Treasurer for Society for Working Life and Director of India Foundation. Rights World Pub Month February

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Jinnah: A Life YASSER LATIF HAMDANI

Jinnah: A Life focuses on the life and career of Muhammad Ali Jinnah who started his political career firmly in the Congress as a staunch Indian nationalist who believed in secular politics and was opposed to bringing religion into that politics, but because of the circumstances became the reason for the creation of a separate state for Muslims at the fag end of his career. This book explains that Jinnah, especially in Pakistan, is wrongly quoted and presented as the votary of theocratic Islamic state by the ideologues, which is in contradiction with his whole life, his secular philosophy and liberal values. It analyzes how religious zealous elements have turned Pakistan into an Islamic Republic contrary to the secular vision of Jinnah. A generation of Pakistanis grew up believing, quite inaccurately, that Pakistan was achieved so that Muslims could establish an Islamic theocracy and be governed by Shariah law. But neither the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah nor any of his associates committed the state to any official ideology.

Yasser Latif Hamdani is a young, well-known human Genre Biography rights lawyer and writer based in Pakistan. His most Imprint Macmillan notable legal case was when he successfully got ISBN 978-93-89109-13-9 YouTube unbanned in Pakistan. He is also the author of Jinnah: Myth and Reality (Vanguard Books Pakistan, Format Demy HB 2012) and Between Worlds, A Pakistani’s Quest to Page 302 Forge Meaning (Haranand Publications India, 2016). Price 650 He has a BA from Rutgers University New Brunswick New Jersey (2002), an LLB from University of Punjab, Rights World Lahore, Pakistan (2005) and an LLM in International Pub Month March Commercial Law from University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan (2016). He is also a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in London.

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J. Krishnamurti A Biography ROSHEN DALAL

The life and thoughts of J. Krishnamurti inspire many people in the fields of education and philosophy more than three decades after his passing away. What is the relevance of Krishnamurti’s ideas of compassion and humanity beyond nations today? How did Krishnamurti manage to get his message across to the world and for generations to come? These are important questions explored in this book. It is equally important to assess the life of a thinker as his thoughts and writings. Till now, Krishnamurti’s life has been mainly described by his contemporaries or those who were close to him. Roshen Dalal now explores Krishnamurti’s life through eight long decades to reach a more objective consideration of his life. She searches for the changes in Krishnamurti’s life and thoughts through new material and questions. This reconsideration leads us through a maze of a fascinating life and intertwined philosophical thoughts of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Roshen Dalal is the author of the bestselling two- Genre Biography and volume The Puffin History of India and The Puffin Memoirs History of the World. Her other books include The Imprint Macmillan Religions of India: A Concise Guide to Nine Major ISBN 978-93-89109-41-2 Faiths, Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide and India at 70: Snapshots Since Independence and the fictional Format Demy HB work The Guru Who Came Down From the Mountain. Page 320 She lives in Dehradun. Price 599 Rights World Pub Month March

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When the Baby Comes Home FARAH ADAM

When the Baby Comes Home is an answer to the confusion(s) of a new mother in urban India specifically on the challenges a woman faces in the first 6 months after delivery and guides her through this phase. Traditional Indian practices for care of the baby and mother are cast in the light of modern medicine. Common myths are debunked and are replaced with procedures, diet plans and anything that affects the psyche of the new mother. Domestic relationships, altered body image, sexual well-being and maternity leave are also covered. The tone of the book is empathetic and takes inspiration from the lives of the author’s patients and her own personal struggles as a mother.

Farah Adam Mukadam is a family physician living in Genre Health and . She is a mother of two kids, a four-year- well-being old son and a two-year-old daughter. This is her first Imprint Pan book. ISBN – Format B format PB Page 256 Price 399 Rights World Pub Month March

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In Pursuit of Balance SHAYAMAL VALLABHJEE

Everything around us seems to be in a state of balance: light complements darkness, day complements night, and so on. In a similar fashion, the human mind also craves balance (emotional, spiritual, mental and physical) but it is surprising to know that the human mind, itself can find balance deep within. Shayamal Vallabhjee, also a wellness Guru in India, has crafted this beautiful book from his own experiences and travels around the world to help readers achieve balance in life. Written with a sensitive understanding and deep exploration of the human psyche through science and spirituality, Shayamal shares insights that will help the readers reflect on the true meaning of life.

Shayamal Vallabhjee is a sports scientist, performance Genre Mind, body, spirit psychologist, motivational speaker, healer and a Imprint Pan former monk. He specializes in optimizing human ISBN – potential using science and spirituality. Format B format PB Page 256 Price 399 Rights World Pub Month April

– 19 – FORTHCOMING 2020

(MAY - AUGUST)

– 20 – Once There Was Me Second World War Sandwich Bobby Sachdeva Digonta Bordoloi

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After I Was Raped: The Untold Talking about Water Lives of Five Rape Survivors and Their Emotional Journeys Dalberg

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What’s Wrong A Death in Shonagachhi With You, Karthik? Rijula Das Siddhartha Vaidyanathan Category Fiction Category Fiction Genre Literary Fiction/ Genre Literary Fiction/ Crime Humour/YA Imprint Picador Imprint Picador Rights I Sub Rights World Format Demy HB Format Demy HB Price ` 599 ` Price 599 Pub Month June Pub Month May

– 21 – Cockatoo Descent into Paradise Yashraj Goswami Daniel Bosley

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Umar Khalid: Beyond the Anti-National Before She Sleeps Adi Prakash Bina Shah

Category Non-fiction Category Fiction Genre Biographies; Genre Dystopian Fiction; Sci-Fi, True Accounts; Speculative Fiction; Society & Culture Women’s Writing Imprint Pan Imprint Macmillan Rights World Rights I Sub + UAE + UK Format B PB Format Demy HB Price ` 350 Price ` 499 Pub Month July Pub Month July

The Dirty Dozen Sultan of Substance: Alauddin Khalji and the Emergence of India on the Sundaresha Subramanian World Stage

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– 22 – Lesser Lives? Alpha Nitin Sinha, Prabhat Kumar T. D. Ramakrishnan

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Autobiography of the Remarkable First Woman Legislator of India Muthulakshmi Reddy, introduced by Anandhi Shanmugasundaram

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– 23 – HIGHLIGHTS

2019

– 24 – Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

‘Unstoppable ... like nothing Ducks, Newburyport you’ve ever read before’ BOOKER PRIZE JURY LUCY ELLMANN CITATION

Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of ‘happy couples’, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks ‘n’ beans? A scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder – and a revolution in the novel.

Lucy Ellmann’s first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Genre Literary Fiction Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Imprint Picador India Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, ISBN 978-93-89109-31-3 Dot in the Universe, Doctors & Nurses, Mimi. She edits fiction for the Fiction Atelier. Though American by Format Demy Paperback birth, she lives in Scotland. Page 1032 Price 999 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 25 – Naguib Mahfouz is a Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Quarter NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

These recently discovered stories by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz take us deep into the beating heart of Cairo. Meet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This collection by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was recently discovered among his old papers. Found with a slip of paper titled ‘for publishing 1994’, they are published here for the first time. Resplendent with Mahfouz’s delicate and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these lively stories take the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo.

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and Genre Literary Fiction; began writing when he was seventeen. Over a Short Stories career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote Imprint Picador India 34 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous ISBN 978-93-89109-37-5 plays and 30 screenplays. Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the first Format B-format Hardback writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006. Page 128 Price 499 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 26 – ‘I have always believed that a person’s 52 Red Pills learning ability is the most critical factor in their evolution, maturity and growth. A New-Age Playbook to Become Siddharth and Eika’s 52RedPills is a brilliant Healthy, Wealthy and Wise and thoughtful study into the process of hyper-learning’ EIKA AND KISHORE BIYANI SIDDHARTH BANERJEE

An Indian corporate couple’s hyper-learning journey of combining ancient wisdom and modern research. What happens when a corporate couple decides to bring their minds and efforts together to share their hyper-learning journey with the world? They embark on a magnificent adventure to distil ideas around leading more productive and healthier lives. This journey – which started as a couple’s conversation on New Years’ Eve of 2018 – turned into a national phenomenon that led Eika and Siddharth Banerjee to meet diverse experts and specialists from the fields of science, art, sports, medicine, and ancient wisdom. Eika and Siddharth’s 52RedPills is an inspiration to readers who have overscheduled and frenzied lifestyles. Written as a practical guide, this book helps you introspect and makes you eager to know more about the different walks of life. By the end of it, you will be motivated to craft your own ‘52RedPills’ journey towards a healthier, wealthier and wiser you.

Eika and Siddharth Banerjee are distinguished and Genre Mind, Body, Spirit well-known corporate leaders, passionate about Imprint Pan building knowledge, relationships, and impact. Eika ISBN 978-93-89109-27-6 is a CEO with one of India’s biggest conglomerates. And Siddharth is a well-known corporate name Format B Format PB in the FMCG and Technology sectors. Both Eika Page 220 and Siddharth are also Chevening Scholars at the Price 350 University of Oxford. Rights World

– 27 – ‘An engaging novel’ Beautiful Place ROMESH GUNESEKERA AMANTHI HARRIS

On a patch of Sri Lanka’s exquisite southern coast stands the Villa Hibiscus. It is Padma’s home. The owner of the villa, Gerhardt, is an elderly Austrian architect to whom Padma was taken when young by Sunny, her scheming father. He had hoped to use his attractive child to entice the wealthy new foreigner in the area. Gerhardt, in turn, adopted Padma, paying Sunny to stay away until she is grown up, when Gerhardt expects to have sent Padma to university, far away. But Padma fails her exams and is lonely in the city, gladly returning to her beloved old home by the sea. With Gerhardt’s help, she creates a guest house at the villa. Soon, guests start to arrive, opening new vistas for Padma through their friendship and love. Then Sunny appears, ready to reclaim his daughter … A captivating novel about the meaning of home and family, love and loss, Beautiful Place marks the arrival of a dazzling new voice.

Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up Genre Literary Fiction; in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins World Literature and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol Imprint Macmillan University. Her novella Lantern Evening won the ISBN 978-93-89109-20-7 Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize 2016 and is published by Gatehouse Press in 2017. Her short Format Demy Paperback with Flaps stories have been published by Serpent s Tail and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as Afternoon Readings. Page 472 Price 599 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 28 – Longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Fest Book Prize 2019

‘Riveting’ The Extraordinary Life and SHOBHAA DÉ ‘Brilliant’ Death of Sunanda Pushkar SHANTANU GUHA RAY SUNANDA MEHTA

An extraordinary life. A strange death. The untold story of Sunanda Pushkar. On 17 January 2014, Sunanda Pushkar, businesswoman and wife of writer and politician , was found dead in her hotel suite in New Delhi. Her death was as shocking as it was suspect. Her life was no less dramatic but far lesser known. A culmination of material drawn from personal archives, numerous interviews and investigation across continents, this riveting biography attempts to answer the question: Who really was Sunanda Pushkar? Was she a villain or a victim? Or a bit of both? In search of these answers, Sunanda Mehta, journalist and Pushkar’s former schoolmate, traces her subject’s life from her early days in cantonment towns, to her first two marriages, an unknown stint in Canada, her rise as a Dubai businesswoman, and finally her much-publicized years with Tharoor until her controversial death shook the nation. Through the soaring highs and wrecking lows that marked her forty-nine years, Sunanda Pushkar lived with passion, ambition and defiance. This definitive biography is the account of her phenomenal life and its turbulent end.

Sunanda Mehta is a journalist with over twenty-five Genre Biography; years of experience. She worked for the Indian Express True Accounts for two decades, breaking many stories throughout Imprint Macmillan her tenure. From 2010 to 2017, she was Resident ISBN 978-93-89109-06-1 Editor of the newspaper’s Pune edition, which made her the first woman editor of a national English daily Format Demy Hardback in the city. A former Chevening fellow, she has been Page 344 a visiting lecturer at the University of Pune. Sunanda Price 599 divides her time between Pune and Mumbai. Rights World

– 29 – ‘Deeply reported’ Big Billion Startup BRAD STONE The Untold Flipkart Story ‘Dalal’s book will go down as special’ FINANCIAL EXPRESS MIHIR DALAL ‘[A] thoroughly gripping narrative ... a must-read for every entrepreneur, every employee wishing to work in a start-up’ BUSINESS TODAY

IIT graduates Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal founded out of a Bangalore apartment what would become India’s biggest e-commerce startup. Established in October 2007, Flipkart began as an online bookstore and soon came to be known for its ‘customer obsession’. As the startup’s reputation grew, so did its value, with venture capitalists in India and abroad lining up to invest heavily in the company that stood for bold ambition, unabashed consumerism and the virtues of technology. Investigative journalist Mihir Dalal recounts the astounding story of how the Bansals built Flipkart into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse in the span of a few years and made internet entrepreneurship a desirable occupation. But it is also a story of big money, power and hubris, as both business and interpersonal complexities weakened the founders’ control over their creation and forced them to sell out to a retailer whose dominance they had once dreamt of emulating. Based on extraordinary research and deep access to key characters in the Flipkart story, Big Billion Startup is the riveting and revealing account of how Sachin and Binny Bansal built and sold India’s largest internet company.

Mihir Dalal is a journalist with Mint, from where he Genre Business; Investigative has covered Flipkart and other internet businesses Journalism for more than five years. He previously worked at Imprint Macmillan Reuters and CNBC TV18. He was born and brought ISBN 978-93-89109-14-6 up in Bombay and currently lives in Bangalore, where he has spent most of his professional life. Big Billion Format Royal Hardback Startup is his first book. Page 320 Price 699 Rights World

– 30 – Longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Fest Book Prize 2019

‘Powerful’ Being Reshma SIR RICHARD BRANSON

The Extraordinary Story of an Acid-Attack ‘An immensely moving Survivor Who Took the World by Storm memoir’ NATIONAL RESHMA QURESHI WITH TANIA SINGH On 19 May 2014, as seventeen-year-old Reshma Qureshi left home for the examination centre, everything happened in a flash. The men rushed towards her. Grabbed her. Tugged at her hair. Poured acid on her face. Soon she started to burn like a living corpse. The acid ate through her skin and aimed for her bones, but it could not quell the fire in her heart. Rising from tragedy and suffering, Reshma soon made global headlines by becoming the first acid-attack survivor to walk the runway at the New York Fashion Week. Now an international anti-acid- sale activist, vlogger, model, and the face of Make Love Not Scars, Reshma works tirelessly towards empowering other acid-attack survivors like herself and has become a beacon of hope for millions. Inspiring and life-affirming,Being Reshma is the extraordinary story of this young girl from the slums of Mumbai, who overcame insurmountable odds in an unjust world and dared to change it.

Reshma Qureshi is an Indian model, vlogger and anti- Genre Autobiography; Memoir acid-sale activist. She is the face of Make Love Not Imprint Pan Scars, an NGO that works towards rehabilitating and ISBN 978-93-89109-08-5 empowering acid-attack survivors. Tania Singh is the CEO of Make Love Not Scars. Format B-format Paperback She lives in New Delhi. Page 272 Price 399 Rights South Asia

– 31 – Also available in ‘Inspirational … a must-read’ – SACHIN TENDULKAR

‘Compelling’ – SHASHI THAROOR

‘A story of resilience ... It’s hard not to be moved by this young woman’s courage’ – R. KRITHIKA, Hindu

‘Being Reshma isn’t only an account of an acid-attack survivor’s harrowing road to recovery, it is also about the fight against any and all kinds of oppression’ – INDRANI BOSE, Financial Express

‘Recounted in smooth, swift prose ... Being Reshma is a vital read to get some perspective on privilege and people who actually live difficult lives – SNEHA BHURA, Week

‘An inspiration; truly championing the cause of women’s empowerment’ – ASMITA ARYA, Hardback English ScoopWhoop/scoopwhoop.com

‘Heart-wrenching. Tragic. Miraculous. Extraordinary’ – ANUSHREE TIWARI SHARMA, Free Press Journal

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– 32 – ‘If you have been desperate for an A Death in the Indian mystery novel that is written very well, just dive into this. And Himalayas rejoice, it is the start of a series. This racy, elegant murder mystery is of a A Neville Wadia Mystery higher quality and more honest than many so-called literary novels’ UDAYAN MUKHERJEE

When a celebrity author–activist­ is found battered in a Himalayan forest spring, the event resounds internationally. India jumps into headlines once again as a country that is unsafe for women. As Neville Wadia picks his way through the blood-splattered hills of Birtola, he begins to unpack the deadly truth that killed Clare, only to realize there are other tender lives at stake. What kind of killer is at work here: a jealous lover, a dejected husband, a sharp land grabber, a wily politician or a disgruntled local? Tense and atmospheric, A Death in the Himalayas is a mesmerizing mystery about the little- known intimacies of an idyllic locale.

Udayan Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. He had a two- Genre Crime, Thriller & decade-long career as a television anchor and editor Mystery and continues to be an occasional commentator and Imprint Picador India newspaper columnist. He divides his time between the ISBN 978-93-89109-18-4 Uttarakhand Himalayas and Mumbai. He is the author of the novel Dark Circles. This is his second novel. Format B Format HB Page 280 Price 499 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 33 – ‘I am sure readers especially the aspiring managers, Finding the sportspersons and those who are making a crucial career choice will benefit hugely and adopt certain Gaps aspects explained in the book in their day-to-day lives’ SACHIN TENDULKAR Transferable skills to be the best you can be ‘This book is a roadmap for all of us to help unlock our full potential and make the most of our talent’ SIMON TAUFEL STEVE WAUGH

A stellar career in umpiring, coaching, training and administration has taught Simon Taufel what it takes to get to number one and stay there. This book is a way of sharing those lessons and transferable soft skills that can be applied to anyone or any vocation.

Simon Taufel is a five-time ICC Umpire of the Year and Genre Management/ has been a part of ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires, till he Personality Development & retired in 2012. He later, took over as ICC’s Umpire Self-help/ Cricket/ Action & Adventure/Business, Strategy & Performance and Training Manager and remained Management in this role till September 2016. He now lives in his hometown in New South Wales and travels the world, Imprint Pan to speak at business institutions and train executives ISBN 978-93-89109-25-2 in leadership, values and integrity. Format B format Page 286 Price 450 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 34 – ‘Wasted is a serious attempt at pointing Wasted out possibilities and solutions... it provides an inspiring peek of a clean future’ The Messy Story of Sanitation in DR RAJIV KUMAR India, A Manifesto for Change ‘Wasted locates India’s missed opportunities in sanitation in its complex ANKUR BISEN civilizational legacy...Necessary reading for every policy maker, town planner and engaged urban citizen’ HARSH MANDER

Urban India generates close to 3 million trucks of untreated garbage every day. If these were laid end- to-end, one could reach half way to the moon. The need for attention to sanitation and cleanliness is both urgent and long-term. Wasted takes an honest look into India’s perpetual struggle with these issues and suggests measures to overcome them. Historically, we have developed into a society with a skewed mindset towards sanitation with our caste system and non-accountability towards sanitation. Arguing that all current solutions of India are extrapolated from these flawed beliefs and structures and are therefore woefully inadequate, Bisen draws a benchmark from clean countries of today. Underlining the need for inclusive human clusters, specificity in legislation, correction of existing social contracts and governance frameworks, creating a formal resource recovery industry in India, and the pursuit of diplomacy around this industry, this book shows how these solutions could lead us towards a brighter future and better social development.

Ankur Bisen is committed to his concerns about the Genre Waste Management, environment and the accountability of citizens to Environment, Ecology improving conditions of sanitation in urban India. In Imprint Macmillan his years as a management consultant at Techno Pak ISBN 978-93-89109-03-0 Advisors and before that in the Tata Group and Lemon Tree hotels, he has thought and researched about Format Demy HB India’s sanitation problems and possible solutions. Page 584 Ankur has written regularly for leading English dailies Price 699 in the past. This is his first book. Rights World

– 35 – ‘An eye-opening journey’ India Automated PETER VOSER How the Fourth Industrial Revolution ‘India Automated deftly is Transforming India underscores the needs and benefits of automation’ SANJAY KIRLOSKAR PRANJAL SHARMA

Rethinking the future of India through automation. From scavenging to lunar missions, from railway factories to healthcare and even tax planning, automation is growing faster and deeper in India than is visible. In a country where more than a million people get ready for jobs every month, this rise in automation can appear as an unwelcome change. But the reality is: automation is enhancing efficiency, accuracy and accountability of India’s professionals in ways that haven’t been seen before. India Automated chronicles the transformation that India is undergoing and how robotics and process automation are infusing proficiency in our work and personal lives. Automation is turning to be one of the most impactful results of the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies in India. With this forward-looking approach, Pranjal Sharma brings us face to face with the reality that it is imperative for India to align itself with this revolution.

PRANJAL SHARMA is an economic analyst, advisor and Genre Business, Artificial columnist who focuses on technology, globalization Intelligence and media. He has written and edited books and Imprint Macmillan papers on entrepreneurship, business transformation ISBN 978-93-89109-26-9 and economic policy. His previous book, Kranti Nation: India and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, was the Format Demy HB first to chronicle the role of emerging technologies in Page 255 triggering transformative changes in India’s industries. Price 650 Rights World

– 36 – ‘Straight-talking wisdom put My Life I Decide forth in a simple and practical manner with relatable examples. 20 Thought-provoking Ideas to This book is what you need to Change Your Life change your life’ KIRAN MANRAL RINKU SAWHNEY

The self-help you need to motivate yourself to face life’s challenges. Are you someone who cannot be spontaneous? Or someone who is scared to take charge in life and move on to greater things? Or someone who feels awkward when facing an audience? My Life I Decide by mind-shift coach, Rinku Sawhney, is a how-to guide that enthuses you to have unflinching courage, be optimistic and self-reliant. With some refreshingly innovative exercises and life-changing stories, this quick read not only helps you identify your self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that become roadblocks in the trajectory of your life but also shares simple and effective techniques which help you engage in a deep self-exploration and create excellence in both your personal and professional lives. Through nineteen thought-provoking ideas this book empowers you to find your best possible self and live an extraordinary life.

Rinku Sawhney is a social impact entrepreneur, Genre Self-help personal excellence and mind-shift coach, and a Imprint Pan TEDx Speaker. She is the founder of Elevated Minds, ISBN 978-93-89109-24-5 a startup committed to motivating people to achieve new heights in life. An alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, Format B Format PB Rinku started her career in the IT industry and soon Page 220 after decided to become a life coach. She has devised Price 399 ‘The Success Framework’ programme which is aimed at achieving holistic growth and personal excellence Rights World of individuals. My Life I Decide is her first book.

– 37 – Road to Mekong Four Women, Six Countries, 17,000 kilometres - An Adventure of a Lifetime PIYA BAHADUR

For fifty-six days, four women left their ‘regular lives’, homes, families and comfort, to ride their motorbikes through scenic landscapes, inhospitable terrain and diverse regions. In this process, they covered 17,000 kilometres through six countries. What inspired them to follow this dangerous, and at times maddening, adventure trail? In Road to Mekong, Piya Bahadur recounts her once- in-a-lifetime journey through Southeast Asia. With little prior experience in expeditions of this nature, the biker group successfully planned and executed an exhilarating trip from Hyderabad, along the east Indian coast and the northeast of India, weaving through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam along the river Mekong, and finally to Cambodia. Piya takes the reader along on her travels through places rarely visited by the itinerant Indian and shares the journey from being a working mother to a confident traveller.

Piya Bahadur went to the US to do her masters and Genre Adventure, Travel lived there for several years and then moved back to Writing India. Piya is currently working at her startup, which Imprint Pan makes software to help small businesses, especially ISBN 978-93-89109-12-2 women-owned, run more efficiently. She is happiest when she is on long walks with her children, or on Format B format the road, singing along to Kishore Kumar songs. Now Page 240 that both her daughters are in college, Piya lives in Price 350 Hyderabad with her husband, their cocker spaniel, Rights World and a black cat that pretends to be their pet.

– 38 – ‘This is a book that blends genres and defies Taboo description. Its style is deceptively playful but it conceals as much as it reveals the horrors beneath the surface.’ NIRMALA JERRY PINTO

GOVINDARAJAN ‘Audaciously defying boundaries to weave in and out of genres, languages, cultures, myths and realities, it tells a remarkable story of today’s India and its people’ ANTARA DEV SEN

Erendira, the protagonist of this heart-rending tale of exploitation and the imagination of freedom is symbolic of the under-aged trafficking networks and its resilient survivors across India. In Taboo, metred into rhythm in her inimitable style, Nirmala Govindarajan plunges into the context of disturbing crime, trafficking and unfreedom. Flying high in the Himalayan ranges, weaving a trail through Coimbatore, Ooty, Chandigarh, Khandala and the shipping town of Alang, diving down to the southern-most tip of India and onwards to Sri Lanka, Erendira, through many languages and cultures unearths the forbidden identity of a sex worker on a footpath. Finally, you emerge questioning the intent of our society and political organizations to stop this and the utter disregard for such questions in our democracy.

Nirmala Govindarajan is a journalist, social sector Genre Literary Fiction, documentarian and author. Her works include Society & Culture The Community Catalyst, and Mind Blogs 1.0 (co- Imprint Picador India Hunger’s authored), the first blog-to-book format and ISBN 978-93-89109-28-3 Daughters. She organized the first edition of Times Format B format Literary Carnival, Bangalore, and presently curates literary events for the British Council. Page 310 Price 399 Rights World

– 39 – ‘Bobby Sachdeva has the rare talent to think of original Stories of Us stories. The stories move you, often question prevalent beliefs and expose shams of our societ’ The Common Man BOBBY BEDI Changing Perceptions His short stories will give you more than enough fodder for understanding life’ BOBBY KRISHIKA LULLA SACHDEVA

Does saving your family’s honour trump personal happiness? Will the God be appeased if you overfeed Him and not help the needy? Will the law protect the stray dog that tears an eight-year- old into shreds? Is a deceased manual scavenger just another statistic who risks his life for a cleaner future? In the voice of a common man, Bobby Sachdeva questions questions our everyday practices in an unorthodox manner in Stories of Us. From Rishi to Parth or Lata to Rajnath, the hard-hitting and honest narratives are sure to inspire the common person to rethink the values long etched in our belief system.

Bobby Sachdeva is a storyteller by choice and a Genre Fiction/Society & businessman by profession. He writes stories to Culture/ Short Stories highlight the problems with norms and standards in Imprint Pan our changing society and the ways to resolve these. ISBN 978-93-89109-02-3 Some of these short stories are being made into short films now and filmmakers have shown interest in his Format B format writing. This is his first novel. Bobby lives in Amritsar Page 254 with his family and owns a film production studio Price 299 named Ajab Productions. Rights World

– 40 – ‘One Simple Thing imparts an ideal One Simple Thing combination of inspiration and practical tools all at once’ A New Look at the Science of Yoga and SHARON SALZBERG How It Can Transform Your Life ‘A welcome addition to the growing body of work … [on] the intermingling EDDIE STERN of Eastern and Western traditions’ ERICH ANDERER

HARNESS THE POWER OF YOGA TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. Yoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, more responsible contributors to society, and better inhabitants of this planet. How does yoga accomplish all that? Believe it or not, the answers lie in how the human body and mind function. Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing explains from both a yogic and a scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wired. Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern reveals how what we do – from postures to meditation, from ethical practices to breathing techniques – affects who we become, and how a steady routine of activities and attitudes can transform our bodies, brain functions, emotions, and experience of life.

Eddie Stern is a yoga teacher, an author, and a Genre Yoga; Indian lecturer from New York City. He is known for his Philisophy teaching expertise in Ashtanga Yoga, as well as for Imprint Macmillan his multidisciplinary approach to furthering education ISBN 978-93-89109-22-1 and access to yoga. He has been practising and studying yoga, Sanskrit, and related disciplines since Format B Format PB 1987. Page 308 Price 499 Rights Indian Subcontinent

– 41 – A Messenger of Love The Biography of Dada J. P. Vaswani KRISHNA KUMARI AND PRABHA SAMPATH

Revered Dada J. P. Vaswani, the illustrious spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission (SVM), was a saint, who carried forward the glorious message of India’s rishis and seers. An epitome of love and compassion, forgiveness and selfless service, Dada upheld the teachings of the holy scriptures and guided his followers through the challenges of modern life. Under his direction, the SVM stood up for causes such as women’s empowerment, education, vegetarianism and animal rights on a global level. The book, A Messenger of Love, is a loving and intimate account of his life written by two of his closest followers to commemorate his first Mahayagna, on the completion of a year from 12 July 2018, when his soul merged in the Divine Ocean. As one reads through this biography, and the many wonderful incidents that shaped his spiritual journey, one can experience the magic of his love.

Krishna Kumari came to live at the SVM when she was Genre Biography; an infant. She grew up as a devotee of the masters, Philosophy Sadhu Vaswani and Dada J. P. Vaswani. Imprint Macmillan Prabha Sampath’s association with revered Dada ISBN 978-93-89109-09-2 J. P. Vaswani and the SVM began in 1989 when she started her teaching career as a lecturer of English at Format Demy HB St Mira’s College, Pune. Page 400 Price 650 Rights World

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