Books
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Treasures of Lakshmi: The Goddess who Gives
Treasures of Lakshmi: The Goddess who Gives
The resplendent image for this volume diverges significantly from the prevalent Raja Ravi Varma inspired visualisations…
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Mystics & Sceptics
Mystics & Sceptics
It is best, in one’s sojourns across the Himalaya, to be cautiousin chance encounters…
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The Blind Matriarch
The Blind Matriarch
The blind matriarch, Matangi-Ma, lives on the topmost floor of an old house with many stories…
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Betrayed by Hope
Betrayed by Hope
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth…
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Jaipur Journals
Jaipur Journals
One of the founders and directors of the world’s largest free literary festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival, presents a moving novel that searches the inspirations and heartbreaks of the writing life.
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Double Bill: Priya and Paro
Double Bill: Priya and Paro
Two classic society novels from the eighties and noughties India in one stylish new volume…
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Paro: Dreams of Passion
Paro: Dreams of Passion
Paro is a heroic temptress, alluring and rapacious, the stuff of legend. As she wanders through the…
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Things To Leave Behind
Things To Leave Behind
Things To Leave Behind – a rich, panoramic historical novel that shows you Kumaon and the Raj as you…
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The Book of Shadows
The Book of Shadows
Part ghost story, part erotic romance, The Book of Shadows is an ambitious book that investigates the…
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A Himalayan Love Story
A Himalayan Love Story
This is the story of Parvati, young, beautiful and doomed, and Mukul Nainwal, the local boy made good…
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Shakuntala
Shakuntala: The Play of Memory
In this hauntingly beautiful book Namita Gokhale plays with memory and desire by invoking the name…
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Gods, Graves and Grandmother
Gods, Graves and Grandmother
Gods, Graves and Grandmother is remarkable on two counts. First, its structure of a modern fable held…
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Raag Pahadi
Raag Pahadi
राग पहाड़ी’ का देशकाल, क उन्नीसवीं सदी के मध्य से लेकर बीसवीं सदी से पहले का कुमाऊँ है। कहानी शुरू ह…
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Lost in Time
Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions
‘I had met Ghatotkacha and could still feel the warm glow of our friendship. But had this really…
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The Book of Shiva
The Book of Shiva
In The Book of Shiva, Namita Gokhale rightly points out that the gods are alive in India…
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The Puffin Mahabharata
The Puffin Mahabharata
Gokhale takes the story to the bitter end culminating not in the victory but its aftermath thereby…
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In Search of Sita
In Search of Sita
Gokhale takes the story to the bitter end culminating not in the victory but its aftermath thereby…
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Finding Radha
Finding Radha: The Quest for Love
Who was Radha, and why has she captured the imagination of so many writers across centuries? No other…
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Priya
Priya: In Incredible Indyaa
Written in the same sparkling Hinglish style which had lent Paro its humourous appeal, Priya’s escapades…
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Travelling In, Travelling Out
Travelling In, Travelling Out
In this book, travelling does not mean only leaving a place to reach a new faraway and exotic destination…
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The Himalayan Arc
The Himalayan Arc
The Himalayan Arc focuses on a crucial, enthralling, politically turbulent, yet often underreported…
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Himalaya
Himalaya
This anthology attempts to capture some of its complexity and vastness, traveling through time, plac…
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Mountain Echoes
Mountain Echoes
The conversations that have gone towards making the book a record of a ruminative journey into the…
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The Habit of Love
The Habit of Love
All in all, an amazing book replete with the complexities and fragilities of a woman’s heart and mind…
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The Begum
The Begum
Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan was the wife of Pakistan’s first prime minister. She was born Irene Ma…
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