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The Mahabharata Katha Series

The Mahabharata of Vyasa is a cornucopious treasure house of stories. These 11 books are a series of kathās from the mahā-epic, in the śloka-by-śloka English transcreation by P. Lal. Each volume carries a brief synopsis of the tale and information about its protagonists. Eight of the volumes have introductions by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya, two by Prema Nandakumar and one by A. Harindranath which discuss their symbolism, myth and metaphoric interpretation. Our Kathās explore, through Vyasa’s imagination and itihāsa-retelling, the riches […]

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Selected Poems

Author: Susmita Bhattacharya Pages: 148 Year of Publication: First published 1999, Revised and enlarged second edition 2010, Revised and enlarged third edition 2017 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-166-3 (9789350451663) About the Author Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Calcutta in 1947. She received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Poona University in 1975. Dr. Bhattacharya has written several poetry collections. Her Bengali volumes include Karir Pahar Harer Pahar and Purushottamer Sange Pancham Sakshatkar. Her English volumes, in translation, comprise Lost Atlantis and Other Poems (Writers Workshop, India, 1995) and Dark (Sanbun, Delhi, 2004). Apart from […]

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Selected Poems

Author: P. M. Narayanan Translator: Muraly. R Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-154-0 (9789350451540) About the Author: Born in 1945, P. M. Narayanan is a Malayalam poet, critic and translator who has published extensively for the past forty years. His books include collections of poems, articles, translations, edited works and a biography. He has received the Sahitya Akademi award for translation. This collection covers poems he has written from the late 1960s to 2016. About the Translator: Born in 1950, Muraly. […]

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A New Grove

Author and Translator: C. A. Joseph Pages: 48 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 100 ISBN: 978-93-5045-156-4 (9789350451564) About the Author: C. A. Joseph was a Malayalam poet born in 1910 in Padur near Trissur, Kerala. He died in 1994. A graduate in Economics, he worked in Tamil Nadu and retired as Regional Transport Officer from Cuddalore in 1965. He published sixteen books of poems and six novels. Some of his poems were prescribed as texts at the school and college level. He also contributed […]

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The Bhagavad – Gītā

Transcreator: P. Lal Pages: 400 (a pocketbook edition) Year of Publication: First published 1965, first pocketbook edition 1995, twelfth edition 2010, updated edition 2016 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-142-7 (9789350451427) About the Book An updated edition of Professor P. Lal’s final, revised transcreation of the Gītā – what he referred to as the “definitive” edition. The book contains the Sanskrit ślokas and the English transcreation of the same on corresponding pages for easy readability.

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The Mahabharata of Vyasa ~ Book XII The Complete Santi Parva Part 2 (Moksha-Dharma)

Translator: Pradip Bhattacharya Pages: 1112 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 2000 ISBN: 978-93-5045-122-9 (9789350451229) About the Translator Pradip Bhattacharya retired from the Indian Administrative Service as Additional Chief Secretary (Development and Planning) to the Government of West Bengal. He graduated with Honours in English from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, where he was later Lecturer in English for two years. He took his M.A. in English as a student of Presidency College from the University of Calcutta, being placed first in the first class with gold and silver […]

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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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M D Rāmanāthan

Author: P. Ravikumar Translator: M. Dakshinamurthy Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-097-0 (9789350450970) About the Author Born in 1952, P. Ravikumar has written two long poems and many articles. His first poem, Em Dee Rāmanāthan, appeared in 2004, and his second, Nachiketas, in 2009. The Hindi translation of Nachiketas was published in 2013. Ravikumar is also a music critic and journalist and was on the editorial board of the Keralakaumudi daily. He is now the Literary Editor of the […]

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Selected Assamese Poetry

Translator: Surajit Borooah Pages: 156 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-115-1 (9789350451151) About the Translator: Born in 1945, Surajit Borooah has been a broadcaster with All India Radio and Doordarshan, president of North East India Forum for English Studies and the vice-president of North East Writers’ Forum, a professor of English at Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati (where he retired in 2006), and an eminent sportsperson in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also been on the Board, in several […]

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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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