The Dream Narrative
Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.
Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.
‘A pacy whyhedunnit/ifhedunnit! It makes for rich delight when a top-class writer like Ikhwan turns his hand to homicide.’—Tarun J.
This first-of-its-kind book tells the story of the Naga national movement from the inside.
Born into an eminent merchant family in Ladakh in 1918, Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu, often described as ‘the last caravaneer of Tibet and Central Asia’, led an unusual life of adventure, inspiration and enlightenment.
I want a poem like thick tropical rain. Dense green spatter of syllables, Drumbeat consonants, fertile with meaning. Sudden. Short. Unforgettable.
In his pathbreaking fiction, the acclaimed Tamil writer Imayam has written about the brutal complexities of the caste system and patriarchy in unadorned, powerful prose.
In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life into a set of characters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they live, and into which they must sometimes bleed.
After losing all his family in a terrible famine, a man leaves his village with just the clothes on his back, never once looking back.
Why does India’s police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked with maintaining the law and order, that has led to a normalization of daily violence? These are the key questions that inform the analyses in this volume by lawyers, academics and activists.
[Mujtaba Ali’s] Shabnam was a love novel of rare quality. It was simply poetry in prose like Tagore’s Shesher Kobita.
A book of memorable poems about rain—in image, metaphor, symbols—that speak truths about the natural world, and the world of the human heart and mind.
Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) was brought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age of twelve in the chawls of Mumbai.
‘The history of desire in India,’ writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, ‘reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life.
The life and work of K.K.
Identity formation in non-western societies involves paradox, as doctrines are frequently overridden by actual practices.
‘Dr Bhaskara Rao has been India’s pre-eminent public opinion analyst and a pioneer in social audit and countrywide surveys…[His] deep analysis will lead to new solutions that can improve the quality of research at all stages.
‘I became a liberal because I believed in the virtues of openness, mutual respect, and a concern for others.
‘In these days when Kashmir is ever more inaccessible to most of us, it is both a personal pleasure and a cultural treasure to have this authentic Kashmiri voice speaking to us from the living realm of Kashmiri memory and imagination.
First published in 1961, Usha Priyamvada’s debut novel Pachpan Khambe, Laal Deewaarein is located within the boundaries of an all-women’s college in Delhi.
Here is a unique moment in a region's cultural and spiritual history in which a sex-worker and a domestic servant, a brahmin and a dalit woman, collectively staked their claim to the sacred sometimes hesitantly, sometimes imperiously, but always feverishly and passionately.