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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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Layla and Majnun

Author: Narsingh Srivastava Pages: 200 Year of Publication: 2015 (Second edition, revised and corrected) Price: Rs 350 ISBN: 978-93-5045-108-3 (9789350451083) About the Author: Born in 1931, Dr Narsingh Srivastava taught English at the University of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, from where he retired in 1993. His academic books include The Flames of Faith: Lectures on Religious Poetry (1970), The Impersonal Agony: A New Approach to T.S. Eliot (1970), W.H. Auden: A Poet of Ideas (1978), The Mind and Art of Raja Rao (1980) and The Poetry of T.S. Eliot: A Study […]

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Roving in the Shine

Author: Abhih Singh Pages: 220 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 350 ISBN: 978-93-5045-114-4 (9789350451144) About the Author: Abhih Singh is a freelance writer and music composer and producer currently based in Bangalore. He has lived in several places including Port Blair and Mumbai, where he spent his early childhood and school years, and then in Pune and Australia, where he worked and studied further. With varied occupations over the years, ranging from disc jockeying to office work, and an educational background […]

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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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Digital Footprint

Author: Preeti Rana Pages: 128 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-119-9 (9789350451199) About the Author: Preeti Rana is an architect by qualification and now works as an interior designer. She was born in Mysore, grew up in Calcutta, earned her professional degree from an institute in Maharashtra and then moved to New Delhi after she got married. She now lives with her husband and two children on a tiny archipelago in the Persian Gulf. Preeti is currently working on a […]

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Manan: Thinking Design

Author: Archana Sharma Pages: 52 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 100, $ 8 (USD) ISBN: 978-93-5045-103-8 (9789350451038) About the Author: Archana Sharma has explored her passion for design through architecture, landscape architecture education, art and poetry. She has worked in India, Singapore, Australia, and now lives in Baltimore, USA, with her family. About the Book: In a review of the book, Elizabeth S. Gunn writes: “Archana Sharma’s poetry is elegant, geometric and probes the spaces, limits and fields of human contact […]

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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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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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