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Count Your Letters

Author: Saptak Patel Pages: 108 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-105-2 (9789350451052) About the Author Saptak Patel was born in 1978. He is the author of The Jaggery Milestones (Frogbooks, 2010). Teaser Philtre One noontide the shadow when it ought to retreat cast long the mouth’s burden shaded the foretip. Its clouds drizzled to intoxicate with spit enough to aedict I drugging, sept more off lung than lung without I, shadow to my stone, stone to my temple, in blessed hushing, […]

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Minor Key and Other Poems

Author: Vasanth Kannabiran Pages: 60 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-104-5 (9789350451045) About the Author Vasanth Kannabiran graduated in English Literature from Presidency College, Madras, and she taught English to undergraduates for twenty years. She has been an active member of the women’s movement in India, speaking and writing about women’s concerns, and has played a significant role in introducing feminist issues to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Kannabiran has been a consultant for the Central Government of India for […]

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Of Fireflies, Guns and the Hills

Author: Babitha Marina Justin Pages: 60 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-106-9 (9789350451069) About the Author Babitha Marina Justin is a Reader in English at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Her poems have appeared in Ogazine, The Four Quarters Magazine, Taj Mahal Review, Kritya and Journal of Post Colonial Literature. She divides her time between teaching, research, painting and poetry. Teaser Uprooted: Part Two Every day, every night, young Thangjam Shimrey dreams of the gurgling […]

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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, Sixth edition 2015 Price: Rs 1000 ISBN: 978-93-5045-110-6 (9789350451106) 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 have been […]

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Jaiminiya Ashvamedha Parva

Transcreator: Shekhar Kumar Sen, Edited by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya Pages: 488 Year of Publication: 2008 Price: HB Rs 800, FB Rs 500 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-849-5 (9788181578495) FB 978-81-8157-850-1 (9788181578501) About the Book Translated from Sanskrit, shloka by shloka, by Shekhar Kumar Sen, this is Jaimini’s version of The Asvamedhika Parva, in The Mahabharata. The book has 5 colour miniatures from Emperor Akbar’s commissioned translation of The Ashvamedha, a long detailed scholarly introduction and very useful glossaries of war weapons, trees […]

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A Firefly in the City ~ Nagarathil Oru Minmini

Author: S. Sayujya Pages: 112 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-111-3 (9789350451113) About the Author S. Sayujya has completed her M.Phil. in English from the University of Hyderabad and is currently teaching English at Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai. Teaser River Song Treading meandering paths, Feet wander through the misty clouds And the cold engulfs. Gusts of frosty wind Blow against puffed-up cheeks That blush in the warmth of exercise. Slowly, coyly, the translucent curtains of white Part […]

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Call Me

Author: Purabi Bhattacharya Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-102-1 (9789350451021) About the Author Purabi Bhattacharya was born and brought up in Shillong. She is now based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, where she lives with her husband and teaches English in a college. Outside of teaching and writing, she loves to paint and photograph. She has presented a photo-poetry exhibition called Connecting Dots in an art gallery in Gandhinagar. Her first poem was published in Wanderlust, an anthology compiled […]

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Between Sure Places

Author: Anannya Dasgupta Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-112-0 (9789350451120) About the Author Anannya Dasgupta was born in Patna in 1974 and grew up in army cantonments in different parts of India, before her family permanently shifted to Delhi. This is where she finished her schooling and most of her postgraduate education; she graduated from St Stephen’s College and completed her postgraduation in the Faculty of Arts, Delhi University. She went on to do her Ph.D. […]

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Night Charge Extra

Author: Akhil Katyal Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-107-6 (9789350451076) About the Author Akhil Katyal is a writer and translator, working in Hindi and English. He was born in Bareilly in 1985, spent his childhood in Dehradun and Lucknow, graduated from Hindu College and St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. In 2014, he was selected by the Indian magazine, The Caravan as one of the five […]

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Old Friends’ Parade

Author: Gankhu Sumnyan Pages: 44 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 100 ISBN: 978-93-5045-094-9 (9789350450949) About the Author Gankhu Sumnyan belongs to the Noctre tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. After his graduation from Christ University, he worked for a few years at Amar Chitra Katha, writing content and stories for their various publications. At present, he is Assistant Professor of English at Wangcha Rajkumar Government College, Deomali, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh. About the Book The book was shortlisted for the Satish Verma Young […]

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