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Walk Like A Girl
From acclaimed fashion designer Prabal Gurung comes a captivating, courageous literary memoir. Walk Like a Girl is the story of a queer boy who yearned for a world beyond the confines of prejudice he experienced growing up in Nepal and…
Ghost-eye: A Novel
Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a ‘case of the reincarnation type’ Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her…
A Sixth Of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey – A Financial Times Book of the Year (2025)
India’s journey has been distinctively ‘precocious’ in comparative terms. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing and chose a globalization that favoured exports of talented people and short-changed the poor….
Nautch Boy: A Memoir of My Life in the Kothas
In a declining kotha, a sweet-faced, quiet boy dressed in matching pink shorts and top poses demurely for a photograph, clutching a vase of plastic white daisies. Around him, women dust their faces with powder, dab on scent and primp…
A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
In 2019, the Government of India revoked Aatish Taseer’s citizenship, thereby exiling him from the country where he grew up and lived for thirty years. This loss, both practical and spiritual, sent him on a journey of revisiting the places…
THE ELSEWHEREANS: A DOCUMENTARY NOVEL
‘Mercurial, witty, luminous’ – DEVIKA REGE’Thayil’s masterpiece’ – WILLIAM DALRYMPLEJeet Thayil’s The Elsewhereans is a genre-defying novel that melds fiction, travelogue, memoir, a ghost story, a family saga, photographs and much else into a tale that unfolds across continents and…
How to Forget: A Book of Short Steps and Long Walks
In spare and lucid lines of poetry and prose, How to Forget takes the reader on a walk through childhood, love, loss and longing. Told through memory and impressions both personal and communal, the book chronicles lifetimes through the act…
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia–India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait–were bound together under a single imperial…
Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land
A rare collection of stories of love, longing and loss from a region that has witnessed decades of conflict, Loal Kashmir seeks to answer the question: what happens when you cannot communicate your longing to your beloved? Loal, the Kashmiri…
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