Month: March 2025

My Name Is Not Devdas***

March 17, 2025

The first literary adaptation of Sharatchandra’s most enduring tragedy, MY NAME IS NOT DEVDAS takes you into the unforgiving, ideologically divided landscape of Delhi’s college campuses.

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My Name Is Not Devdas

March 16, 2025

The first literary adaptation of Sharatchandra’s most enduring tragedy, MY NAME IS NOT DEVDAS takes you into the unforgiving, ideologically divided landscape of Delhi’s college campuses.

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2024: The Election that Surprised India

March 16, 2025

2024: The Election That Surprised India brings to life the inside story of a dramatic period in Indian politics and society. Every twist and turn is revealed in an exciting narrative on the tumultuous events of our times.

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A Fatal Distraction

March 16, 2025

Finally, an Indian murder mystery that’s truly fun and satisfying

When DB, the mild-mannered editor of a Delhi tabloid, is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. He had no enemies. Who would possibly want to kill him? When there are more murders, the TV stations, the police—and the nation!—go into a frenzy.

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You Will Be Alright: A Guide to Navigating Grief

March 16, 2025

In You Will Be Alright, Sonali Gupta addresses the silence that surrounds grief, talks about the myths around loss and builds a vocabulary about what we are feeling when we grieve. The book talks about how grief shows up physically and emotionally for us, and also what the first few days of loss look like. It addresses practical concerns such as grieving in a digital age and the challenges around sorting deceased’s possessions, and topics such as closure, grief integration and more.

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Imperial Games in Tibet

March 16, 2025

An essential account of how Tibet became the playground for global geopolitical ambitions and what the future may hold for this precarious region fighting for statehood.

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A Firestorm in Paradise: A Novel on the 1857 Uprising

March 16, 2025

Before the 1857 Uprising of India, the old Delhi, or Shahjahanabad is sprawling with life―like an ode wavering towards its end. The inhabitants of Red Fort and the splendored world around it, all subjects of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived on the cusp of a change with the arrival of the British. Yet, people’s own stories continued against backdrop of this transition.

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Snakes, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: My Early Years

March 16, 2025

A legend in the arena of wildlife conservation and affectionately hailed as the ‘Snakeman of India’, Romulus Whitaker has had a lifelong love affair with the ‘fierce creatures’ that share our planet. This first volume of his fascinating memoir brings the India of the 1950s and the US of the 1960s to life.

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Chronicle of an Hour and a Half

March 16, 2025

In the foothills of the Western Ghats, the village of Vaiga is enduring the worst storm it has seen in decades: ceaseless rain, fallen trees, flooded river, severe power cuts … But another, more insidious storm is brewing beneath the surface.

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The Moral Contagion

March 16, 2025

I wake up shivering and with a sore throat. Is it Covid? I grab a test kit and wait for the result. Luckily all is well. Most likely I have just caught a harmless cold…

This scenario has become painfully familiar to us. India was one of the countries hit hardest by the Covid pandemic, with a tragically high number of casualties. The pandemic also made some things an integral part of our lives: wearing masks, sanitizing, social distancing, isolating oneself.

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Hot Stage

March 16, 2025

When elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in his home in Bangalore by his daughter, ACP Borei Gowda is quite certain that it is a homicide.

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Zeba : An Accidental Superhero

March 16, 2025

Meet Zeba.

Spoilt, rich and interested in nothing but lazing on the terrace of her plush New York apartment and inhaling deep drags of her favourite weed — an irreverent girl who is about to become a very unlikely superhero.

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Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey

March 16, 2025

The word ‘charaiveti’, from an ancient Sanskrit hymn, means ‘keep moving’, in search of self-realization. The leading Indian economist and public intellectual Pranab Bardhan invokes this in his moving narrative of a personal and professional journey.

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The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s Diary

March 16, 2025

One day passes. Then another. A whole succession of days turning into months and years. How to mark our separate days? The places we have been. Our individual passions, our pain. Against the blurring of years, the clarity of a record. And even amidst crises, how to keep creativity alive?

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Kill the Lawyers

March 16, 2025

Set around the guns for hire at a fictional Bombay law firm, Kill the Lawyers renders a hilarious account of Big Law-the industry term for large, full-service corporate law firms.

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Hanuman Drama

March 16, 2025

This poem recounts the life and deeds of the god-hero Rama. Legend has it that it was first inscribed on rocks by his devotee Lord Hanuman but was then thrown away into the sea on the advice of the sage Valmiki.

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Assassin

March 16, 2025

Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this was no random incident but the latest in a series of attempts to kill her.

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Critical Mass

March 16, 2025

In a critical discussion of India’s Nuclear Doctrine and its components of No First Use and Credible Minimum Deterrence, R. Rajaraman argues that, contrary to fears expressed in the media and the literature, the effectiveness the deterrent is not reduced if China has thermonuclear bombs while India does not.

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Bipathu and a Very Big Dream

March 16, 2025

When school reopens in the village of Kaikurussi after the pandemic lockdown nine-year-old Bipathu makes new friends-Madama a blind lady who has moved to the village Maash a neighbour Rahul a boy who loves football as much as she does and Duggu a rescued puppy.

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Quarterlife: A Novel

March 16, 2025

The Bharat Party has come to power in India after an intensely divisive election. Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant, is lured by its economic mandate to return to Mumbai…

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One Night Only

March 16, 2025

When Rubani’s long-term boyfriend dumps her and moves out, her three best friends make a decision: It’s about time the serial monogamist had her first one-night stand.

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H For Heritage: Mumbai

March 16, 2025

Mumbai! The city by the sea. The city with a breathtaking skyline. The city that never sleeps…

And bringing this incredible city to life is H for Heritage: Mumbai by Fiona Fernandez.

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The Naani Diaries

March 16, 2025

When overachieving New Yorker Radhika Anand is dumped by Siddhant, her boyfriend of two years, she is devastated. With the threat of loneliness looming large, she turns to the only woman she can expect empathy from-her grandmother: her beloved Naani, whose own legendary love story in the 1960s has been recorded in an old diary.

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Imaginary Rain: A Novel

March 16, 2025

Prerna, a woman now in her fifties, has been running an Indian restaurant in downtown Manhattan for two decades, when she suddenly loses her son, her lease, and with these, her passion for cooking as well.

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TUTICORIN : Adventure in Tamil Nadu’s Crime Capital

March 16, 2025

This bustling port on the Gulf of Mannar is a haven for smugglers and bootleggers. The locals all carry aruvals – the lethal local machete. In between smuggling, bootlegging and loansharking, they entertain themselves with caste wars and blood feuds.

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The Colony of Shadows

March 16, 2025

After the untimely death of his parents, nine-year-old Varun struggles to adjust to his new life in Bangalore with his perceptive aunt and bedridden grandmother. When he climbs through a hole in the wall of their back garden, he discovers a mysterious colony that lies abandoned and in ruins…

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Operation Sudarshan Chakra

March 16, 2025

Ravi Kumar, head of the Central Counterterrorism Command (C3) of the Intelligence Bureau, is haunted by the partial success of Operation Haygreeva…

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The Blue Book

March 16, 2025

The Blue Book is a writer’s artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and – if we care to notice – visions of blazing beauty.

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A Place in My Heart

March 16, 2025

A Place in My Heart is a many-splendored thing. It is a listicle. It is a celebration of the power of storytelling. It is also an account of a life lived in the Bollywood trenches.

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All the Right People: A Novel

March 16, 2025

Tara-Shaan-Aria. Nearly twenty years ago in a classroom in Mumbai, three young girls formed a tight knit trio that navigated school and university, first loves and fresh starts…

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The Illuminated

March 16, 2025

‘When the light shifts, you see the world differently.’ A superbly nuanced work of fiction, Anindita Ghose’s first novel The Illuminated revolves around two women: Shashi and Tara…

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Akshay Chavan

March 3, 2025

Akshay Chavan is a writer, historian, and anthropologist. His latest book – The Wealth Networks of India – brings India’s past to life

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Samit Basu

March 11, 2025

Samit Basu is an Indian writer and filmmaker. The Pictures of Darpan Ray, a dazzling work of contemporary fiction, is represented A Suitable Agency.

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Rita Kothari

March 20, 2025

Rita Kothari, a multilingual scholar and translator, is Professor of English and Co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation at Ashoka University.

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Sukhada Tatke

March 17, 2025

Sukhada Tatke debut nonfiction book, a personal and political exploration of home, is represented by A Suitable Agency

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