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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Lockdown Literature from Mizoram

Editor: Margaret  L.  Pachuau Pages: 100 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-949985-5-6 (9788194998556) About the Editor Margaret L. Pachuau is Professor at the Department of English, Mizoram University.  She completed her postgraduation as well as junior and senior research from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has several published works to her credit, including Mizo fiction in translation in The Heart of the Matter (2004), Handpicked Tales from Mizoram (2008) and Folklore from Mizoram (2013), both of which were […]

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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 […]

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Poetry in Times of Conflict

Editors: Meera Chakravorty, Geraldine Sinyuy Pages: 60 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 200 / £10 ISBN: 978-81-949985-4-9 (9788194998549) About the Editors Meera Chakravorty is a research faculty member in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bengaluru, India. She has translated into Kannada Bengali novels that won Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) awards, like Manoj Basu’s Nishikutumba and Amiyabhushan Majumdar’s Rajnagar, as well as a collection of Jibanananda Das’s poetry and Saonli Mitra’s play Nathavati Anathavat. She translated into […]

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Corona Diary, Before, & Beyond

Author: Harshita Srivastava Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-949985-2-5 (9788194998525) About the Author Harshita holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Loreto College, Kolkata, and is pursuing her Master’s degree at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. Through her writing she wishes to, in her words, “bring out the extraordinariness of the ordinary… During these tumultuous times, as each individual crosses out dates on the successful survival through each day, I want my verse to poignantly engage readers […]

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My Epitaph

Author: Jagdeep Singh Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-949985-3-2 (9788194998532) About the Author Jagdeep Singh, a PR practitioner, runs his own PR firm in Jaipur. A postgraduate in English and History, he has had a stint in journalism and has taught English at St. Xavier’s, Jaipur. He has published his poems in a number of poetry journals and magazines as well as online poetry portals. Teaser The Holocaust Survivor Something dies within you many times over […]

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A Love Feast

Author: D. J. Syngai Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-946740-9-2 (9788194674092) About the Author Dipika is an amourist. Shakespeare inspired her to dive into the world of poetry. She dreams of travelling to Greece one day to physically be in awe of the love myths she has only read about in books. Music plays an important role in her life; you will never find her without her earphones. She plans on writing a novel about love inspired from […]

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Flitting Oddments

Author: Anil Pradhan Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-946740-8-5 (9788194674085) About the Author Based in Kolkata, Anil Pradhan is pursuing doctoral research at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, and his academic interests include Indian queer and diasporic literatures and cultures. He writes poetry to, in his words, “make some sense of life”. Teaser crisis my words often write themselves, in nonchalance hanging together in little myriad acquaintances like plump grapes upon woody capillaries like morning dew […]

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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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Bangles

Author: Nileen Putatunda Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-946740-5-4 (9788194674054) About the Author Nileen Putatunda was born in 1978 in Calcutta. He did his schooling in St. Mary’s School, Bombay, and St. James’ School, Calcutta. He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 2000 and worked for some time in the social development sector. He has written nine other books of spiritual poetry, all published by Writers Workshop, India, between 2006 and 2018. His books have […]

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