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The Man Who Made Plants Write Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sumana Roy
In The Man Who Made Plants Write, internationally renowned poet and critic Sumana Roy translates Jagadish Chandra Bose’s revolutionary writings on the environment. Read More...
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The Man Who Made Plants Write Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sumana Roy
In The Man Who Made Plants Write, internationally renowned poet and critic Sumana Roy translates Jagadish Chandra Bose’s revolutionary writings on the environment. Read More...
Egrets, While War By Tishani Doshi
‘Be grateful for the poet Tishani Doshi.’ —Jeet Thayil
‘An original and sensory exploration of beauty and loss in the environment and in the body.’ —Imtiaz Dharker
‘These terrific poems are a document of history, survival and the recurring need for transcendence.’—Amit Chaudhuri
‘In Egrets, While War, grief and beauty share the same open palm.’—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
‘Shall we not kneel instead? / Lean towards each growing thing / birdwing rhizome star’ Read More...
THE FIRST HOUSE By AVNI DOSHI
‘I married my husband to live in a fairy tale … We would be like planets orbiting the sun or gods enacting their myths. Marriage was a solution, and I wanted to be dissolved.’ Read More....
Aamchi Mumbai By Gulzar
Gulzar’s Mumbai: A Bilingual Literary Tribute to the City of Dreams
For more than seven decades, Mumbai has been home, muse, and witness to the extraordinary literary journey of Gulzar, one of India’s most cherished poets and writers. This remarkable bilingual collection brings together a curated selection of his poems and short stories on the city, capturing its rhythms, contradictions, memories, and enduring spirit through the eyes of a master storyteller.Read More...
A Room in Bombay By Manil Suri
‘If you were born of a mother, read this book.’—Suketu Mehta
‘A deeply affecting memoir.’—Aatish Taseer
‘A Bombay story like few others.’—Jerry Pinto
Author Manil Suri grows up in a large, crumbling flat in Bombay which his Hindu parents share with three Muslim families. Their single room is a refuge from the religious and territorial tensions ravaging the apartment. But it is also a prison that holds them captive—one that makes Manil’s playback-singer father drift towards alcoholism and his mother towards increasing isolation, while restraining Manil from exploring the dawning realization that he might be gay. Read More....
Wild Capital: Discovering Nature in Delhi By Neha Sinha
When is the last time you ran your hands through the tumult of wild grass flowers? Or stopped to watch a firefly? In a warming, hostile world, how do we find purpose? Perhaps we can start with noticing the bird outside one’s window? Read More....
The Emperor of All Maladies By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Pulitzer Prize–winning Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies returns in an updated edition, offering fresh insights into the latest advances in cancer research and treatment. With four new chapters, Mukherjee—physician, oncologist, and acclaimed author—guides readers through the dramatic scientific and clinical progress of recent years, blending expert knowledge with deeply human storytelling. This expanded edition not only charts the evolving fight against cancer but also highlights the innovations shaping its future. Read More...
Unfolding By Rahul Singh
On the surface, Rahul Singh’s Unfolding is a brilliant portrait of love, desire and overlapping relationships, but at its core, it is an extraordinary depiction of conjugal loneliness and how people hold on to the slimmest of hopes to perennially resuscitate a dead relationship.’—Aruni Kashyap Read More...