The Other Side of the Mountain

‘A deeply moving journey into self-discovery, spirituality, and purpose.

Ghosted

Caste and the Crisis of Dignity: Periyar E.V. Ramasamy Speaks

‘I cannot think of a better time to resurrect Periyar’s words and world. Truly essential reading for all Indians committed to a better tomorrow.

Hope for Everyone

‘The largest, the longest and the most powerful nationwide farmers’ struggle in the history of India and also in the world, with the exception of the momentous Chinese Revolution.

The Way Home

Shanta Gokhale, award-winning writer, critic and translator, brings her sharp understanding of the human condition to this collection of her finest short fiction.

The Whistleblower’s Wife

‘In true thriller mode, this novel unravels a conspiracy in high places, resisted by a lone, doomed voice.

The Struggle

Set in a remote village in the Dinajpur region of undivided Bengal during the mid-1940s, The Struggle tells the intertwined story of Phulmoti—a young widow fighting to hold on to her land, her dignity and her child—and Qutubali, a simple-minded outsider whose unexpected kindness and fierce loyalty make him her unlikely ally amid the upheavals of a precarious feudal order and the stirrings of a nation on the verge of independence.

Unsilenced

On a crisp morning in February 2010, journalist-activist Seema Azad boarded a train from Delhi to Allahabad with a bag of books purchased from the World Book Fair.

River Traveller

River Traveller tells the story of a great river, as powerful as it is mysterious.

The Prophet-Martyr

In this landmark biography, Harbans Singh presents the extraordinary life and supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Ninth Guru of the Sikhs.

That’s a Fire Ant Right There!

‘Here is a writer with the courage to look into the well of truth and to proclaim fearlessly what he finds there: inherited ideas, prejudices and superstitions and eye-wateringly realistic characters [that] stride across the page.

The Dream Narrative

Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.

A Dark Tale from Cottonwood Grove

‘A pacy whyhedunnit/ifhedunnit! It makes for rich delight when a top-class writer like Ikhwan turns his hand to homicide.’—Tarun J.

Kuknalim

This first-of-its-kind book tells the story of the Naga national movement from the inside.

Tibetan Caravans

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 and Other Poems

I want a poem like thick tropical rain. Dense green spatter of syllables, Drumbeat consonants, fertile with meaning. Sudden. Short. Unforgettable.

Video Mariamman and Other Stories

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.

The Adivasi Will Not Dance

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.

Son of the Thundercloud

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.

Policing and Violence in India

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.