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: 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 […]

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Vignettes of Valour

Author: Abhijit C. Chandra Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2019 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-944057-1-9 (9788194405719) About the Author Born on February 19, 1975, Abhijit C. Chandra originally hails from Kolkata and has lived in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History in 1995 and began working as a freelance journalist in Delhi the following year. He joined the United News of India news agency in February 1998 and was posted at the company’s […]

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Three Seasons

Author: Latha Anantharaman Pages: 128 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-109-0 (9789350451090) About the Author: Latha Anantharaman is a writer, editor, translator and perpetual student of literature. Her articles, essays and book reviews have appeared in The Hindu (where for four years she wrote a fortnightly column on books and reading), The Sunday Herald, The Indian Review of Books, Business Standard (which brought out her series on crime fiction) and many other publications. Her articles on travel have appeared […]

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Green Islands of the Andamans and Nicobars

Description: Author: Protiva Gupta (Translated by Meena Gupta) Pages: 292 Year of Publication: 2013 Price: Rs 400 ISBN: 978-93-5045-040-6 (9789350450406) About the Author: Protiva Gupta was born in 1918 and spent her childhood and early adolescence in Delhi and Simla. She graduated in the late 1930s, at a time when few women pursued higher education. Her marriage in 1942 to Sudhindra Nath Gupta, a civil engineer working with the government of India, gave her the opportunity to travel to different […]

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The Rusted Trunk

Description: Author: Ashna Sen Pages: 156 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-008-6 (9789350450086) About the Author: Ashna Sen was born and raised in Calcutta. She double majored in Physics and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College, obtained a Master’s degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, U.K. She has also studied and done research for brief periods at Princeton University, Oxford University and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Sen has […]

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Under a Green Shade: Epoch Times Biographies

Description: Author: Molly A. Daniels-Ramanujan Pages: 212 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: HB Rs 300 / $25 (USD) ISBN: 978-93-5045-024-6 (9789350450246) About the Author: Molly A. Daniels-Ramanujan was born in Tiruvella, Kerala, in 1932. She spent her childhood between the rainforests of Kerala and the arid desert of Aden, an island in the Red Sea. She was married to the renowned poet, translator and Indologist, A. K. Ramanujan. After he passed away, she moved to Eco Village (Ithaca, New York) […]