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The Inability of Words

Author: Harnidh Kaur Pages: 112 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-131-1 (9789350451311) About the Author: Harnidh Kaur is at present pursuing her Master’s in Public Policy from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai. This is the 21 years old’s first collection of poetry. Teaser: Of Aunts To Masi Dear niece/nephew I don’t know when you will exist, or how, or where, or if, but I do know that we’ll be friends and we’ll sit, hidden in a corner when your parents talk […]

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Handpicked Tales from Mizoram

Author: Margaret L. Pachuau Pages: 160 Price: HB Rs 200, FB Rs 150 Year of Publication: 2008 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-743-6 (9788181577436) FB 978-81-8157-744-3 (9788181577443) About the Author: Margaret L. Pachuau completed her post graduation as well as her advanced research in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A keen researcher and translator, she has several published works to her credit. Teaser: From the Foreword “This collection of select folk tales and short stories from Mizoram has been intended to trace […]

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The Gods of Time

Author: Aarthy Sundaram Pages: 308 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 600 ISBN: 978-93-5045-129-8 (9789350451298) About the Author: Aarthy Sundaram was born in Tamil Nadu, India. She grew up and completed her schooling in Abu Dhabi (UAE) after spending two years in Saudi Arabia. Aarthy has been writing since the age of 8 and at 12, she self-published her first book, The Art of Knowing Your Blunders to Nature. She has written several prize-winning letters and short stories. When she is not […]

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The Birds Fly in Silence and other poems

Author: Madhu Kailas Pages: 108 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-126-7 (9789350451267) About the Author: Madhu Kailas is the pen name of Kingshuk Basu. He grew up in Kolkata and has lived, studied and worked in various places in India and the USA. He is an avid lover and writer of poetry. He lives now in Kolkata with his wife and two children. Teaser: I wake up I wake up in ravaged gardens strewn with bruised petals. Crippled wings […]

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of butterflies and lullabies & Unfinished conversations

Author: Dawngi Chawngthu Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-124-3 (9789350451243) About the Author: Laldawngliani Chawngthu uses the pen name Dawngi Chawngthu. She is an educationist by profession and a passionate creative writer. Her poems have been brought out in the publications, The Storytellers Anthology, Volume 1: A Stream of Poetry (Brian Wrixon Books, Canada, 2013) and Women of One World (by the same press, 2015, in support of Needs of Women International). Her poem “Motherhood” was translated […]

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De-Stressing

Author: Annie George Pages: 48 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 100 ISBN: 978-93-5045-121-2 (9789350451212) About the Author: Annie George is a poet, translator, amateur artist and has a passion for dancing. She spent her early years in West Bengal and completed her higher education in Kerala where she continues to live, working as an Assistant Section Officer at the M.G. University, Kottayam. Her first volume of poems, Gladioli and Other Poems, was published by Kairali Books, Kannur (2006), she has edited […]

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The Democracy of Dreams

Author: Ritwik Ghosh Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-118-2 (9789350451182) About the Author: Ritwik Ghosh was born in India. He was educated in India and the United States. He writes within the Indian artistic tradition. Teaser: The slave ship I hear all around the chiming ocean waves, I am sea-swept in lofty sojourning, I feel the fresh sea breeze on my vivacious sails, I know the grand, endless vast expanse, of freedom. Over the bubbling ocean, […]

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I Am

Author: Reshma A Pages: 64 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 100 ISBN: 978-93-5045-123-6 (9789350451236) About the Author Born in 1989 in Trivandrum, Kerala, Reshma completed her MA and M.Phil. in English literature from Kerala University. She worked for a year as an Assistant Professor at an aided college in Kerala. At the age of 15, her collection of short stories in Malayalam, Ramu, was brought out by Current Books. This is her first volume of poetry. Teaser Dupattas, purdahs, veils Dupattas, […]

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The Third Glass of Wine

Author: Dipika Mukherjee Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-125-0 (9789350451250) About the Author: Dipika Mukherjee is a writer and sociolinguist. Her debut novel, Thunder Demons (Gyaana, 2011) was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize; it has been republished as Ode to Broken Things (Repeater, UK) and distributed by Penguin/Random House worldwide in 2016. Her short story collection, Rules of Desire (Fixi, Malaysia) was published in 2015. She won the 2014 Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence as well as the Platform Flash Fiction Prize in 2009. Her edited anthologies on […]