A sample cover of the book: black handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.

Books, Poetry, Saffronbird, transcreated from Bengali, Transcreated from Modern Indian Languages, Transcreation

Nonsense Rhymes

Author: Sukumar Ray Translator: Satyajit Ray Pages: 42 Year of Publication: First published 1970, 2nd Edition 1997, 3rd Edition 2009, Corrected and Expanded 4th Edition 2019, Expanded 5th Edition 2022 Price: Rs 160 ISBN: 978-81-958199-3-5 (9788195819935) About the Book This is Satyajit Ray’s translation of poems from his father’s renowned Bengali collection, Abol Tabol. The book includes the Afterword written by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, translated by Parantap Chakraborty. Exclusive to this edition is a new poem not published in our earlier editions, “Prey for Me”.

Books, Memoir, Non-fiction, Saffronbird, Translated from Modern Indian Languages

Amar Jiban (My Life)

Author: Rassundari Devi Translator: Enakshi Chatterjee Pages: 132 Year of Publication: First published 1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020, Corrected and expanded 3rd edition 2022 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-958199-2-8 (9788195819928) About the Book The complete, unabridged translation of the Bengali text, with the original introductions by Jyotirindranath Tagore and Dinesh Chandra Sen. Sen remarks, “The account of this life can hardly be ignored as merely personal. It is a factual document of the life of an old Hindu woman … […]

A sample cover of the book: midnight blue coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.

Books, Poetry, Redbird

Dots

Author: Nileen Putatunda Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-956648-9-4 (9788195664894) About the Author Nileen Putatunda was born in 1978. He went to St Mary’s School, Bombay, and St James’ School, Calcutta, graduating from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 2000. He has worked in social development. This is his eleventh volume of spiritual poetry; all his books have been published by Writers Workshop, India. They have been reviewed in Prabuddha Bharata, The Vedanta Kesari, Samvit, The Advent, […]

Books, Poetry, Redbird

Raindrops on the Periwinkle

Author: Nishi Pulugurtha Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-956648-4-9 (9788195664849) About the Author Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writer based in Kolkata. Her publications include a monograph, Derozio (2010), a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open (2019), an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond (2020), a volume of poems, The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems (2020), a collection of short stories, The Window Sill (2021), and a co-edited volume […]

Books, Poetry, Redbird

The First Book of Indlish Poems

Author: Sheela Jaywant Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-956648-3-2 (9788195664832) About the Author Born and educated in Bombay (now Mumbai), Sheela Jaywant works as Administrator of a group of small, private schools in Goa. Since 1983, her work has appeared in national newspapers and periodicals like Reader’s Digest, RHiME, Joao-Roque Literary Journal, Rediff.com, GOYA, and Indian Quarterly. She wrote a twenty-year-long humour column for the Navhind Times and Gomantak Times in Goa. Her own books are Quilted: Stories of Middle-Class India, Melting Moments: […]