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.

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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: bright green 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.

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Survivors and Other Stories

Author: Suraj Sriwastav Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-953583-8-0 (9788195358380) About the Author Suraj Sriwastav has been a high school Principal and English teacher for twenty-five years. He has been writing short stories for newspapers and magazines since he was a teenager. He hoards books and vinyl records, and is an avowed lover of all things old and antique. His story, “Twilight Turncoat”, featured in this book, won a commendation certificate in the annual short story […]

A sample cover of the book: aquamarine 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, Memoir, Non-fiction, Saffronbird, Translated from Modern Indian Languages

Amar Jiban (My Life)

Author: Rassundari Devi Translator: Enakshi Chatterjee Pages: 128 Year of Publication: First published 1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-944057-9-5 (9788194405795) 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 … The book Amar Jiban is thus not […]

A sample cover of the book: pine green 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.

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The Labyrinth of Silent Voices ~ Epistles from the Mahābhārata

Author: Dibyasree Nandy Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-953583-0-4 (9788195358304) About the Author Born in 1993, Dibyasree Nandy is a resident of Kolkata. After graduating with Honours in Physics, she obtained her M.Sc. and M.Tech. degrees. She also likes drawing. About the Book In her preface to the book Dibyasree writes: ‘It is my belief that fictional characters created by authors gain a personality and will of their own. This is because, at times, authors question themselves, “Surely, […]

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, Fiction, Greenbird, Novel

Rivers

Author: Mallikarjun B. Mulimani Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-953583-1-1 (9788195358311) About the Author Mallikarjun B. Mulimani writes novellas and novels, long and short poems including haikus. His books and style of writing, where brevity is the hallmark, influenced by his engineering background, are unique and acclaimed. He has twenty-one books to his credit, with diverse themes: psychology of humans and their milieu, God, love, sex, religion, realization of self, life, and death. They often touch the […]

A sample cover of the book: red 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.

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We Once Were Gazelles

Author: Michael Chacko Daniels Illustrator: Rukmini Chakravarty Pages: 468 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 1000 / $40 ISBN: 978-81-946740-7-8 (9788194674078) About the Author Michael Chacko Daniels lives and writes in San Francisco. He grew up in Bombay, where he attended St. Michael’s High School, Wilson College, and University of Bombay’s Department of Economics. He has a Master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. His parents grew up in an ancient Syrian Christian community in the South Indian state of […]

A sample cover of the book: dark red 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.

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Hikayat Seri Rama: The Malay Ramayana

Translator: Harry Aveling Pages: 288 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 900 / $30 ISBN: 978-81-946740-6-1 (9788194674061) About the Translator Professor Harry Aveling (PhD, Malay Studies, National University of Singapore; Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Technology, Sydney) holds honorary appointments in Translation Studies, Monash University, and Asian Studies, La Trobe University, both in Melbourne, Australia. He has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay, and co-translated from Hindi. In 1991 he received the Anugerah Pengembangan Sastera (Literary Development Award) for his “commitment […]

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Mrityunjaya ~ The Death Conqueror

Author: Shivaji Sawant (Translated by P. Lal and Nandini Nopany) Pages: 698 Year of Publication: First published 1989, Seventh edition 2019 Price: Rs 1250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-190-8 (9789350451908) About the Book Our bestselling English translation of Shivaji Sawant’s Marathi classic inspired by the story of Karna in Vyasa’s Mahabharata. Professor P. Lal and Nandini Nopany, with Shri Sawant’s permission, translated the book from the Hindi version by Om Shivaraj. Between 2008 and 2015, five new editions of the book were printed.

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Approaching Death

Author: Mallikarjun B. Mulimani Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2019 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-941819-3-4 (9788194181934) About the Author Mallikarjun B. Mulimani, born on 17 September 1979, is an Electronics and Communication engineer, turned writer. He initially wrote poems and later took up writing short stories, novellas and novels. So far, he has given birth to sixteen books, four of which have been published by Writers Workshop, India: Abstractions (a book of poems and digital artwork), The Holy Plumber and Other Stories […]

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Deep Wood Trance

Author: V. Shruti Devi Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-168-7 (9789350451687) About the Author: Shruti Devi Vyricherla was born in Madras and educated in New Delhi. She shuttles between her ancestral home in Kurupam, Andhra Pradesh, and the National Capital Region. She is a lawyer and political activist, a member and functionary of the Indian National Congress Party, which she formally joined in 1998. As a specialist in Environmental Law, and a strong advocate for the rights of ethnic groups, her […]

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