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Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
‘A tremendous accomplishment. The writing is vivid
and thrilling, and the story completely absorbing,
with its pregnant Indian nun, demon-ridden British
surgeon, Siamese twins orphaned and severed
at birth, and narrative strands stretching across
four continents. A tale this wild is perilous, but
there is not a false step anywhere. Accomplished
non-fiction writers do not necessarily make
accomplished novelists, but with Cutting for Stone,
Abraham Verghese has become both.’ Atul Gawande
A riveting‚ sensational epic novel that moves
between Ethiopia, India and America
Abraham Verghese is a physician
and the author of two acclaimed
books of non-fiction, The Tennis
Partner and My Own Country. A
Malayali, he was born and raised
in Ethiopia. He is currently a
Professor of Internal Medicine
and Senior Associate Chair of
the Department of Medicine at
Stanford University.
© Joanne Chan
Marion and Shiva Stone are born from the
unexpected union of Sister Mary Joseph, a gentle
Malayali nurse, and Thomas Stone, a brilliant,
intense British surgeon. A union so mysterious
that no one at the Missing hospital in Addis Ababa,
where the two worked in such tandem—not even
Thomas—can quite fathom how Sister Mary is with
child. The traumatic events that follow leave the
boys orphaned and they are raised by two Indian
doctors at Missing. Marion and Shiva grow up in
a world of medicine, learning of the astonishing
workings of the human body. Outside the hospital,
the politics of Ethiopia rages: failed coups, student
agitations, and ultimately the deposing of the
emperor Haile Selassie. And in the midst of this,
the twins have a falling out about a beautiful young
woman; a conflict so bitter that it leads Marion
to flee his adopted country. He makes his way to
America, finding refuge in his work as an intern
at an underfunded, overcrowded Bronx hospital.
But when the past catches up with him—nearly
destroying him—Marion must trust his life to the
two men he never thought he would see again: the
brother who betrayed him and the surgeon father
who abandoned him.
Moving from the 1940s to the present day,
Cutting for Stone is vast, dramatic and unforgettable.
No contemporary novelist has written as superbly
about the human body, or as movingly about the
world of medicine and its connection to love and
loss. It is a magnificent achievement.
Format: Royal tpb
Price: Rs 595
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Mary Evans, Inc
Publication: February 2009
ISBN: 9788184000597
Buddhadeva Bose
My Kind of Girl
A classic love story for Valentine's Day
with a specially commissioned jacket by
fashion designer Sabyasachi
Is the memory of happiness that has passed, sad
or happy? Four middle-aged men sit together in a
railway station, waiting for dawn to break. To pass
their time, each tell a story of a woman they loved
secretly in their youth…
Romantic, elegant, suffused with melancholy,
My Kind of Girl is a classic love story from one of
Bengal’s great writers. My Kind of Girl is the first in
a series of love stories that Random House India
will publish every Valentine’s Day. Each book will
be designed by a well known fashion designer and
will be a beautifully produced gift edition.
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) was a major Bengali
writer and translator of the twentieth century. He
wrote numerous novels, short story collections, plays,
essays and books of verse, and was awarded the
Padma Bhushan in 1970. My Kind of Girl, originally
entitled Moner Mato Meye, was written in 1951.
Arunava Sinha has translated Sankar’s Chowringhee
(2007), winner of the 2007 Vodafone Crossword
Book Award for translation, and Jana Aranya
(forthcoming in 2009). Born and brought up in
Kolkata, he is an internet professional by day, and
now lives in New Delhi with his wife and son.
Format: A hb
Price: Rs 350
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Random House India
Publication: February 2009
ISBN: 9788184000672
‘[A]rch and sad… It drips with Geoff Dyer’s derelict
luminosity.’ David Mitchell
‘Riveting. I love this book… Dyer can write as
beautifully as Lawrence and Proust.’ Nadeem
Aslam
Every two years the international art world descends
on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among
them is Jeff Atman—a jaded, dissolutely resolute
journalist. When he meets Laura, he is rejuvenated
and falls into a heady love affair with her. Every day
thousands of pilgrims head to the ghats of the Ganges
at Varanasi. Among their number is a narrator who
may or may not be the Atman previously seen in
Venice. Could the two stories, in these two ancient
and watery cities, actually be one and the same?
Profoundly playful, deeply evocative, Jeff in Venice,
Death in Varanasi is an arresting and utterly original
story of erotic love and spiritual yearning.
Geoff Dyer is the author of the bestselling Yoga for
People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, But Beautiful,
which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize,
and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book
Critics Circle Award finalist. Dyer lives in London.
Format: Demy hb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Canongate Books
Publication: March 2009
ISBN: 9788184000887
Jeff in Venice,
Death in Varanasi
‘Funny, full of nerve, gutsy and delicious.’ Michael Ondaatje
Geoff Dyer
From one of Britain’s most brilliant writers
In Other Rooms,
Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘A stunning achievement. This superb collection
ranges across a vast swathe of contemporary
Pakistan—from megacities to isolated villages,
from feudal landlords to servant girls—and such is
its narrative power that I couldn’t stop turning the
page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous
ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to
match.’ Mohsin Hamid
‘A blazingly good writer... brings to vivid and
compelling life a country and its people.’ David Davidar
Moving from the elegant drawing rooms
of Lahore to the mud villages of Multan, a
stunning book of short stories about feudal
Pakistan—fiction debut of the year
‘Under Daniyal Mueenuddin’s gaze, Pakistan is
lit up as though by a lightning flash, clear, sharpedged. This is a debut as auspicious as Jhumpa
Lahiri’s.’ Nadeem Aslam
‘[U]ses crisp, clear images and a restrained,
economical prose that is not without touches of
tenderness and lyricism.’ Anita Desai
Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought
up in Lahore, Pakistan and
Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of
Dartmouth College and Yale Law
School, his stories have appeared
in The New Yorker, Granta,
Zoetrope and The Best American
Short Stories 2008, selected by
Salman Rushdie. For a number
of years he practiced law in New
York. He now lives on a farm in
Pakistan’s southern Punjab.
© Cecilie Brenden
An impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy
relative’s mistress; an electrician on the make
confronts his desperate assailant to protect his
most prized possession; a farm manager rises far in
the world—but his family discovers after his death
the transience of power; a maid who advances
herself through sexual favours, unexpectedly falls
in love. In these linked stories about the family and
household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet
masters and servants, landlords and supplicants,
politicians and electricians, village women and
Karachi housewives.
Part Chekhov, part RK Narayan, these stories
are dark and light, complex and humane; at heart
about the relationship between the powerful and
powerless, bound together in life—and in death.
Together they make up a vivid portrait of a feudal
world rarely brought alive in the English language.
Sensuous, graceful, melancholy, In Other Rooms,
Other Wonders gives you Pakistan as you have never
seen it. It marks the debut of an amazing new
talent.
Format: Demy hb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: William Morris Agency
Publication: February 2009
ISBN: 9788184000351
2009: Journey to Ithaca
The ZigZag Way
Voices in the City
Anita Desai
2007:
In Custody
Clear Light of Day
Baumgartner’s Bombay
2008:
Fire on the Mountain
Collected Stories
Fasting, Feasting
More of Anita Desai’s classics in their
beautiful new standard edition
‘The new covers are the most attractive repackaging
of classics I have ever seen.’ William Dalrymple
‘One of the finest English language novelists of
modern times.’ Daily Telegraph
‘[Desai] has a remarkable eye… for the things that
give life its texture.’ The New York Times
‘A writer’s writer.’ The Observer
Anita Desai is one of India’s foremost writers. She
has authored sixteen works of fiction, including
Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting—
all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. During her
distinguished career, she has frequently been
honoured with awards, among them The Alberto
Moravia Prize for Literature and the Padma Shri.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 250
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Rogers, Coleridge & White
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 9788184000139, 9788184000153, 9788184000146,
9788184000566, 9788184000573, 9788184000580,
9788184000771, 9788184000764, 9788184000788
Musharraf Farooqi has translated The Adventures of
Amir Hamza and the poetry of Afzal Ahmed Syed,
and is currently working on the Urdu Project (www.
urduproject.com), an online resource for the study
of Urdu language and literature. His novel, The
Story of a Widow, will be published in India in 2009.
Format: Royal tpb
Price: Rs 495
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Robert Wyatt
Publication: June 2009
ISBN: 9788184000962
Tilism e Hoshruba
Between 1883 and 1893 in Lucknow, two rival
storytellers, Syed Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed
Husain Qamar, wrote a fantasy in Urdu whose equal
has not been heard before or since. It was called
Tilism e Hoshruba and it ran to over eight thousand
pages long. The authors claimed that the tale had
been passed down to them from storytellers going
back hundreds of years, and that it was a part of the
beloved oral epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza.
Tilism e Hoshruba tells the stories of Amir Hamza
in an Indian setting, with sorcerers, witches and the
black occult instead of jinns (genies), giants, devs
(demons), peris (fairies), and gao-sars (cow-headed
creatures). They are, if possible, even more colourful
and dashing than the original—and make up the
subcontinent’s first wholly indigenous Islamic epic.
Tilism e Hoshruba runs to twenty four volumes and
will be translated into English for the first time ever
by Musharraf Farooqi. Random House India will
publish all volumes, starting with volume one.
Musharraf Farooqi
The first ever translation of the greatest
Islamic epic of the Indian subcontinent
Anuvab Pal
The President
is Coming
A searing comedy that captures the pulse
of India
It's 2006 and George Bush is about to come to India
on state visit. As part of his tour, he asks to meet
one young Indian achiever who represents the new
face of the nation. The US consulate shortlists India
Today's six 'top Indian achievers under 30'. They are:
a stockbroking genius unfortunately named Kapil
Dev, a possibly lesbian novelist, the CEO of a lipstick
company, a not for profit activist with sexist views,
a call centre owner who once lived in America and
a Microsoft programmer who likes the ladies. The
winner will be selected through a round of tests,
each more absurd than the other. The next day, the
President will shake their hand among a long line
of waiting Indian luminaries. The six candidates are
all desperate to win—and some are even prepared
to sell their soul for it. Who will come out first?
Smart, slick and sarcastic, The President is Coming
is a searing comedy that captures the pulse of the
nation like no other.
Anuvab Pal is an acclaimed playwright and
screenplay writer. His screenplays include the
award-winning The Loins of Punjab and The President
is Coming, besides plays like Chaos Theory, Fatwa,
Paris and Life, Love and ETIBDA. Anuvab has also
written for the acclaimed sitcoms Frasier and Law &
Order. He currently lives and works in Mumbai.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: October 2009
ISBN: 9788184000948
Cyrus Broacha is the most famous MTV VJ in India,
a stand-up comedian and prankster. Best known for
his show Bakra on MTV, he has interviewed almost
everyone in Bollywood, from Amitabh Bachchan to
Shah Rukh Khan. Cyrus presently anchors a news
satire show, The Week That Wasn't.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: November 2009
ISBN: 9788184000986
THE WORLD ACCORDING
TO CYRUS
‘This book will have a beginning, a middle and
an end. Wait a minute you've caught me, I'm not
sure about the middle but definitely it will include
a beginning and an end. Okay fine, I'll include the
middle, after all as Balzac once told me “a good book
is like an insect, it must have a head, a thorax, and
an abdomen”. To reveal more would be to damn
this book from the start. After all it is the fervent
wish of the publishers that you read at least two
pages of the book, both of which shall be ready a
month after the book hits the stands.’
Can't get enough of Cyrus? Here’s the book
you’ve all been waiting for. Cyrus Broacha, in his
first novel, delves deep into the Indian psyche and
his pet hates. Why do we do the crazy things we do?
What makes us tick? And, of course, what makes us
laugh? It's all in here. Written in his trademark style,
The World According to Cyrus is a sidesplitting, ribtickling ride of a book—and a treat for all his fans.
CYRUS BROACHA
A hilarious novel on everything you love
to hate about India—from its favourite
funny man
Ibn-e-Safi
The Imran series
The bestselling Urdu series about a
Pakistani James Bond
‘I don’t know Urdu but have knowledge of detective
novels of the Subcontinent. There is only one
original writer—Ibn-e-Safi.’ Agatha Christie
Ali Imran may appear to be lumbering and
incompetent, but in truth the young Oxford graduate
is the head of the Secret Service. Energetic, brilliant
and gifted with extraordinary sex appeal, the sports
car-driving spy overcomes every challenge and
every romantic overture, moving from one disguise
to another, and from one adventure to the next.
The Imran series are the greatest spy novels
written in the subcontinent and have become Urdu
pulp fiction classics. They will be translated and
published for the first time in English by Random
House India. The first book in the series will appear
in 2009 and new titles from the series will follow
each year.
Ibn-e-Safi (1928-1980) was Urdu literature’s most
popular mystery novelist. His main works were the
Jasoosi Duniya series (to be published by Blaft press
in 2009) and the Imran series. Ibn-e-Safi was born
in Allahabad and moved to Pakistan after Partition
in 1952. He suffered from schizophrenia through
his life, and died of cancer on his birthday at the
age of fifty two, in Karachi.
Format: A pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Ahmed Safi
Publication: December 2009
ISBN: 9788184000979
Format: A pb
Price: Rs 150
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: September 2009
ISBN: 9788184000238, 9788184000245,
9788184000252, 9788184000269
The Kama Kahani series
'Shivendra's restless gaze lit on a bewitchingly
beautiful girl, skimming over her odhana and
noting her irrefutably feminine form; flawless, oval
face; radiant, honey-colored skin; exquisite black
hair threaded with gold and unbearably lustrous
under the flames of a hundred diyas. Immaculately
styled, midnight blue shervani moulded to his
broad shoulders, he stood spellbound, unable to
tear his eyes away… Eyes that Nandini suddenly
found herself trembling under.'
Was the first man you fell in love with a brooding
desert prince, or better still, a cruelly handsome
zamindar? And are you yourself a spirited beauty,
your fire contained—but only just—by the clinging
brocade of your lehenga’s choli? A delicious Kama
Kahani is sure to strike your fancy.
From ancient Rajputana à la Jodha Akbar, rural
Parineeta-era Bengal, eighteenth century Lucknow
and Ranjit Singh’s Punjab, we bring you four
rapturous tales of dashing heroes and ravishing
heroines, by Kiran Kohl, Alessandra Shahbaz,
Jasmine Saigal and Sanyogita Rathore.
Intensely passionate, full of sumptuous period
detail, heartstopping action and the powerful
seduction of forbidden love, they will tease and
tantalise all fans of the purdah jharoka romance.
Untamed Hearts
Against All Odds
Fire and Ice
Captive Heart
A sensuous new series of desi historical
romances that will take your breath away
Non-Fiction
Mimlu Sen
Baulsphere
The first intimate account of the Bauls of
Bengal
Freewheeling Mimlu Sen lives in Paris, where one
day she witnesses an electrifying performance by
three Bauls, mystic minstrels from Bengal, who
spin like pillars of dust. Their music inspires her
to return to Kolkata, and to go on an extraordinary
journey with one of them, Paban Das Baul; from
her respectable home in the city to his humble
village, and on to the verdant Bengali countryside
that is their common heritage.
Paban takes Mimlu through the itinerant
baul’s route—from the festival at Kenduli with its
marathon performances, to tranquil Shantiniketan,
where Bauls frequently stop en route and disrupt
quotidian life; Agrodwip, deep in the Vaishnava
world, to Nabasana, where mesmerizing guru Hari
Goshain presides over Baul games and ultimately,
her initiation, to Boral, where she holds her own
mahatsava. Along the way, she encounters tantrics
and tribals, exorcisms and witch sightings, catfish
that climb trees and esoteric sexo-yogic secrets—
and she falls in love. Full of colour, anecdotes and
history, Baulsphere is the first popular account of
Bengal’s most magical musicians.
Mimlu Sen is a translator, musician, music producer
and composer. She collaborates with Paban Das
Baul on all his recordings. This is her first book.
Format: Demy hb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: David Godwin Associates
Publication: April 2009
ISBN: 9788184000559
Deepanjana Pal was educated in St Stephen’s
College, Delhi, and the University of Warwick. She
currently works at Time Out Mumbai and writes on
art and literature. She is based in Mumbai.
Format: Demy hb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: September 2009
ISBN: 9788184000641
Raja Ravi Varma
He was the most famous Indian artist of his age; the
darling of the royal courts; a prince who took the
revolutionary step of being an artist at a time when
art enjoyed little respect; an artist whose decision
to depict gods and goddesses as men and women
put a human face to divinities; and the entrepreneur
whose dream of bringing art to the masses is now
reality because the prints of his paintings hang in
countless Indian households. For the first time
comes a grippingly told story of Raja Ravi Varma
(1848-1906), from his early days with the royal
family of Travancore in Kerala, to the years he spent
teaching himself painting and blending European
painting's sensuality with vividly drawn Indian
subjects; through to his sojourns into the royal
courts of India as a celebrity portraitist and his move
to Mumbai, where he started a printing press that
left him bankrupt. Beautifully told, immaculately
researched and full of colour, this is the first popular
biography of one of India's greatest artists, and the
story as much of the beginning of modern Indian
art as it is about one extraordinary man.
Deepanjana Pal
The grippingly told story of India’s first
modern artist
Manubhai Madhvani
with Giles Foden
Tide of Fortune
The inspiring tale of how one man built an
empire­—twice
They were the Rockefellers of Africa, the most
famous Indian business family in East Africa. The
Madhvani family had everything. Then, in 1972,
under Uganda’s military dictatorship they lost it all.
Tide of Fortune is the enthralling story of Manubhai
Madhvani, head of the dynasty, regularly featured on
UK rich lists. Here, Madhvani takes us through his
childhood in forties India to his return to Kakira, his
thriving sugar factory; he gives us tales of despot Idi
Amin, who had him imprisoned in a blood-stained
cell on death row; secrets of his success: vertical
integration and the value of replicating one’s most
profitable concern. Moving from the sylvan shores
of Lake Victoria to war-stricken glass factories in
Lebanon, Tide of Fortune is an astonishing account
of fortunes made, lost and found again.
Manubhai Madhvani is a leading entrepreneur with
interests in sugar, brewing and tourism around
the world. Born in Africa to industrialist Muljibhai
Madhvani, he has headed the Madhvani empire for
over thirty years. He lives in Uganda and London.
Giles Foden is the author of The Last King of Scotland,
among other books. An assistant editor at the Times
Literary Supplement, he worked at the Guardian for
thirteen years. Currently, he is Professor of Creative
Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Format: Royal tpb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: AP Watt
Publication: August 2009
ISBN: 9788184000795
Meenal Baghel is editor of the Mumbai Mirror.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: November 2009
ISBN: 9788184000658
Death in Mumbai
It was the murder that had Mumbai hooked. On
May 7, 2008 Neeraj Grover, a young TV executive
disappeared mysteriously. A beautiful aspiring
actress Maria Susairaj and her dashing naval officer
boyfriend Emile Jerome were accused of hacking
his body into three hundred pieces, and then
setting them on fire.
The players were young, attractive and upwardly
mobile. The press, hungry for a headline. As
the details of the case unravelled, so too did the
questions: what had gone wrong? Why were these
young professionals taking to violent crime? Was it
the savage pressures of the city? Or was the cause
even darker?
Meenal Baghel, editor of Mumbai’s leading
tabloid, The Mumbai Mirror, uncovers the true
story of the most sensational crime that has hit
the maximum city in recent years. Using exclusive
interviews with the police, friends and family of
the victim and the accused, Baghel draws a riveting
picture of a murder whose mystery has not faded,
even though the killers may have been found.
Gripping and hardhitting, Death in Mumbai is
a fascinating insight into the new wave of crime
affecting the Indian city.
Meenal Baghel
An Indian In Cold Blood
MEEra Nanda
How globalisation
is making India Hindu
The God Market
A shocking book that uncovers the nexus
between the state, Hinduism and corporate
India
As India’s economy has liberalised, so too has
it become Hinduised. From actively promoting
religious tourism to handing over higher
education to the private sector, much of which
uses religious trusts to run its institutions, to giving
away land at highly subsidised rates to gurus and
godmen—much of the privatisation measures of
the government are insidiously linked with the
promotion of Hinduism.
In this eyeopening book, Meera Nanda uncovers
for the first time the nexus between the state, the
temple and corporate India, and reveals the ugly
truth behind India’s leap into globalisation and
economic reforms. Hardhitting and controversial,
The God Market is essential reading.
Meera Nanda is a philosopher of science with
initial training in biology, and is currently a fellow
of the John Templeton Foundation, USA. She is
the author of the award-winning book, Prophets
Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Science and Hindu
Nationalism.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Meera Nanda
Publication: August 2009
ISBN: 9788184000955
Dr Shaifali Sandhya is a professor of psychology,
clinical psychologist, couples therapist and divorce
mediator. She holds a PhD in Psychology from
The University of Chicago and an MA from Trinity
College, Cambridge University. Dr Sandhya provides
psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families
in India and the US, and currently, teaches in the
doctoral program of the Adler School, Chicago.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: October 2008
ISBN: 9788184000429
Marriage
in Urban India
The last decade in India has produced social
changes similar to those which have marked
western societies since the fifties. Marriages are
happening later, divorces happening earlier, and
there are more working women, single mothers,
love marriages, people cohabiting and having
premarital and extramarital sex. What makes a
marriage work today? Will love indeed follow? In
this groundbreaking study—the first clinical and
cultural portrait of its kind—we find that :
• While western couples fight about money, work and sex, Indian couples fight about in-laws, their
children and then their relationship.
• If given another chance to live their lives, only 71% would marry their current partner again.
• About 24-44% of Indian couples today are somewhat dissatisfied with their sexual lives.
• Frequent arguing does not lead to divorce.
Shaifali Sandhya
Is the great Indian ideal of matrimony
still intact?
Rahul Khanna & Manav Parhawk
The Modern Architecture
of New Delhi
The first handbook of Delhi’s modern
buildings
New Delhi has been home to extraordinary modern
architecture from its inception: the monumental,
bricklined St Martin’s Garrison Church, the elegant
mansions of Sujan Singh Park, the understated, finely
detailed IIC, the pathbreaking exhibition complex at
Pragati Maidan, the astounding, sculptural Belgian
Embassy, the Fatehpur Sikri inspired complex for NII.
From 1928 through 2007, The Modern Architecture of
New Delhi lists the most important buildings in the
city, buildings every Delhiite needs to know about.
The first handbook of Delhi’s modern architecture,
it includes a brief description of each building, the
architect and his vision for the work; key features to
look out for in each building; a glossary to explain
all architectural terms. Beautifully designed, with
stunning photography, this is an essential book for
all lovers of Delhi and of modern architecture.
Rahul Khanna is the director of Slang, a lifestyle
and design company. He studied modern and
contemporary architecture at the École Hôtelière
de Lausanne, Switzerland. Raised and currently
living in Delhi, his favourite buildings here are
the St Martin’s Garrison Church and the Polish
Embassy Complex.
Manav Parhawk is a fashion photographer.
Currently, he is based in New Delhi.
Format: 219 x 160 mm, pb
Price: Rs 495
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: December 2008
ISBN: 9788184000511
Format: 320 x 279 mm, pb
Price: Rs 1500
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Indian Mountaineering Foundation
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 9788184000870
Himalayas
The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) was
set up on May 15, 1958 as an apex national body to
promote mountaineering expeditions, encourage
adventure sports, nurture the spirit of exploration
and provide a forum to protect the rights and
special needs of mountaineers. It organises more
than seventy five national and fifty international
expeditions to the Himalayas every year besides
playing a key role in protecting and monitoring the
fragile Himalayan ecosystem.
Evolution, Exploration, Ecology
On the occasion of its golden jubilee, the Indian
Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) has produced a
collector’s edition book about the Himalayas. This
first comprehensive book about the Himalayas
traces the fascinating stories of the mightiest
mountains in the world, from their birth forty
million years ago through to the ecological
challenges of the future.
Beautifully produced and stunningly designed,
Himalayas contains rare archival documents and
includes personal anecdotes and memoirs of some
of the world’s most celebrated mountaineers, as
well as breathtaking photographs from private
collections that have never been published before,
early maps and many other unseen documents.
Indian Mountaineering Foundation
A rare collector’s edition book on the
Himalayas
Children’s
Narinder Dhami
The Babes series
From the author of Bend It Like Beckham,
an addictive series for young girls
Meet Geena (14), Amber/Ambajit (12) and Jazz/Jasvinder (11), three feisty Brit Punjabi sisters who’ve
ruled the roost—and over their dad—ever since
their mum died. The most popular girls in school,
they’re also the trendiest and the most sorted.
Dad won’t let them date, but they’re not too sure
they’re interested honestly, with dweebs like the
Amber-crazy George Botley around. Life’s busy
enough at Coppergate School, with aunties to sort
out, trendy new fashion accessories to buy and
Bollywood parties.
Full of all the fun, flirtation and feuding of
junior high, the Babes Series will have you hooked
immediately.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 150
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Peters Fraser and Dunlop
Publication: December 2008/January 2009
ISBN: 9788184000832, 9788184000849,
9788184000856, 9788184000863
Narinder Dhami is one of three sisters—just
like Amber, Geena and Jazz—and the author of
the novelisation of smash hit movie Bend it Like
Beckham, the bestselling Babes series and numerous
children’s books. Narinder lives in Cambridge with
her husband and three cats.
Pooja Makhijani is the editor of Under Her Skin:
How Girls Experience Race in America. Her writing
for young adults has been published by Cicada, and
her bylines have appeared in The New York Times,
The Village Voice, and India Today. She lives in New
York City with her husband and her own collection
of saris.
Format: 248 x 248 mm, hb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Hachette Book Group USA
Publication: December 2009
ISBN: 9788184000412
Mama’s Saris
On the day she turns seven, a young girl looks
longingly at her mother’s saris. She’s supposed to
help Mama choose what to wear to her birthday
party; really all she wants is to wear a sari herself.
But Mama thinks she’s too young to wear one—will
this little girl ever get her way?
Beautifully illustrated, here is a wonderful story
about mothers and daughters; and ultimately,
about growing up.
Pooja Makhijani
What makes a little girl feel pretty?
Dressing up like Mama, of course.
Lisa Heydlauff
Going to School
in India
Who would have thought that going to
school in India could be such fun?
Riding in a phat phat in rural Gujarat; pulled
in a rickshaw in Kolkata or a bullock cart in
Maharashtra; driven by friendly soldiers in an army
truck in Kargil; crossing a rope bridge in Nagaland;
floating in vallams in Kerala; whirling across a
raging river on an iron rope swing in Ladakh—
every day millions of children go to school in
India in a million different ways. By bus, by boat,
on foot, even in wheelchairs. Going to School in
India is a celebration of this diversity, showing
us children from every walk of life in their wildly
different classrooms. It shows us what they share,
and whether they study in a tent in the middle of a
mud desert, or in a school on wheels or in the dark,
it shows us that school is fun.
Wonderfully narrated and gorgeously illustrated,
Going to School will transport you and your child
into the world of rural India.
Lisa Heydlauff is director and founder of Going
to School (www.goingtoschool.com), a creative
nonprofit media trust that creates magical media
to make education relevant to children’s lives. She
grew up in the UK, Canada and the USA, and now
calls India home.
Format: 235 x 215 mm, pb
Price: Rs 450
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Going to School
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 9788184000450
Going to School (www.goingtoschool.com) is a
creative non-profit media trust that creates magical
media to inspire children to go to school.
Format: 200 x 156 mm, hb
Price: Rs 225
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Going to School
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 9788184000467
Anita the Beekeeper
Anita Kumari is seven years old and lives in a
village in Bihar, tending her goats and watching
the other children go to school—until one day,
she sneaks into their classroom. Once she’s in, she
can’t stop smiling, but her parents don’t want her
going to school. Anita wants to go so badly though,
she knows she’ll have to find a way to pay her own
way.
One day she has her big idea. Watching the men
in her village beekeeping, she decides to give it
a try. Slowly, she learns the ways of her bees; she
knows when they are cold, and when they are hot,
when they will bite and when they are lazy. She
even knows when they aren’t feeling well! ‘Anita,
why do you always have to be different?’ the village
women ask her. And different she is.
Anita the Beekeeper is a magical book to give your
child. Beautifully illustrated and designed, it is the
real life Indian fairytale of a village girl—complete
with a happily ever after.
GOING TO SCHOOL
A real life Indian fairytale
Sunila Gupte
The Adventure of the
Missing Dancing Girl
A delightful adventure story set in the
Indus Valley civilisation
The year is 2500 BCE: four high-spirited girls and
boys have set off gaily for the auspicious Surya
Mela. But little do Kartik, Xerxes, Kaveri and Nami
know what's in store. For, on the way, a daring
robbery takes place—sacred treasures have been
stolen from Mohenjo Daro's temple, including the
famous dancing girl statue—and they are soon
caught up in its coils. Soon, they find new allies;
in the port town of Lothal, they meet a boy from
faraway Mesopotamia, a world utterly different
from theirs, who is looking for his missing father,
last seen in this part of the Indus Valley. The five
become fast friends, and are soon entangled in
forces much darker than they expected. But will the
fearless fivesome succeed in upholding the honour
of Mohenjo Daro? An amazing tale full of elephant
rides, river caravans and secret maps, The Adventure
of the Missing Dancing Girl is a glorious children’s
story set in the time of the Indus Valley civilsation.
Sunila Gupte is the author of two children’s
books, From Pumpkins to Pickles and Quest for the
Quetzal Feather. Her short stories for children
have frequently featured in The Hindu and Deccan
Herald, and she has written for The Indian Express,
Sanctuary Cub and Children’s World. Currently, she
lives in Bangalore.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: June 2009
ISBN: 9788184000634
Frida Bedi met her husband Baba Bedi at Oxford
University, and moved to Lahore with him after
their marriage. She remained in India all her life
and had three children. She wrote this book for her
eldest son, Ranga Bedi.
Tahira, Fahmeeda,
Shameem Khatoon
All danced together for
The little Id moon.
Danced in a circle
In their little room
Danced all together for
The little Id moon.
This way
That way
Three in a line,
Three feet
Beating
All in time.
Noodles this evening
Pulao at noon
Sweet yellow rice is
For you, little moon.
Format: 246 x 189 mm, hb
Price: Rs 395
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: December 2009
ISBN: 9788184000368
Bibiji fasted
A whole month long
Now it’s all over
Let’s sing a song!
O, thread of silver
Night’s precious boon
Rising within us
Little Id moon!
Rhymes for Ranga
Rhymes for Ranga is a delightful collection of poems
about India. Written in the thirties and forties by
an Englishwoman for her Indian son, they were
created when she found that there were no Indian
nursery rhymes in English to read to him. There are
poems on festivals like Eid and Diwali, on Gandhi
and old grannies, the Pir Panjal mountains and the
golden mustard fields of Punjab, riding in bullock
carts and flying kites during Basant.
Charming and evocative, Rhymes for Ranga is a
classic—a book all children will want to take to bed
with them.
Frida Bedi
A magical collection of Indian nursery
rhymes
Lifestyle
With a foreword by kareena kapoor
Rujuta Diwekar
Don’t Lose Your Mind,
Lose Your Weight
Want to know how Kareena Kapoor
managed to achieve the perfect figure?
Let Rujuta Diwekar tell you how.
India’s top celebrity fitness guru has worked with
the who’s who of Bollywood including Kareena,
Karishma, Saif, Lisa and Sonali. Now she lets you in
on her secret—you can eat anything you want just
as long as you plan for it. No crash dieting, no carb
deprivation, no unbidden cravings. Rujuta teaches
you the three simple steps to dieting heaven:
learn about your body, create the right plan for it,
and slowly adjust your food habits. What’s more,
she even lets you in on Bebo’s secret, in a special
chapter on how exactly our favourite heroine got
that phenomenally fit bikini bod for Tashan.
So whether you’re apple or pear-shaped, soon
you’ll be eating all you want—including those
irresistible parathas—and still shedding the kilos.
Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight is the ultimate
diet for daily life. It’s worked for the stars—now
make it work for you.
‘Rujuta has not just changed my body but also my
mind and soul. She is the best thing to have happened
to my life!’ Kareena Kapoor
Rujuta Diwekar is one of India’s top dieticians and
fitness trainers. In addition to Bollywood’s fittest—
Kareena, Saif, Lisa, Sonali and more—she has also
worked with Anil Ambani, training him for the
Mumbai Marathon. Winner of the Best Personal
Trainer Award 2005, Rujuta is an expert in nutrition,
sports science and yoga.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 199
Territory: World English
Rights: Rujuta Diwekar
Publication: January 2009
ISBN: 9788184000665
Kim Barrington Narisetti
Urban Crayon
Delhi
The must have guide to children's fun in Delhi
Run out of ideas to entertain kids over the weekend?
Want to plan an unusual family holiday? Stressed
about child-unfriendly places?
Urban Crayon Delhi tells you all the fun things
you can do in Delhi with your children. Divided
into categories such as Playground Paradise (trips
to gardens, nature walks), Dudes (activities for
boys), Divas (for girls) and Day Trippin’ (outdoor
adventurous fun), it caters to your child’s every mood.
Have you tried the Ice-cream Museum (the perfect
birthday party outing)? Did you know your kids
could go rock climbing, ballooning and parasailing
in Delhi (great for a day break)? What are the most
fun places to take your nine year old daughter for
a girly treat? And which are the most child-friendly
coffee shops in the city?
Lively, fun and full of useful information, Urban
Crayon Delhi is an indispensable guide for every
parent, be they resident or tourist, in the city.
Kim Barrington Narisetti is publisher of Urban
Crayon Press, an independent publishing house.
Trained as a journalist, Kim has worked for many
publications including The Wall Street Journal,
TheStreet.com, Advertising Age, and The Source
magazine. She currently lives in New Delhi with
her husband Raju and daughters Leila Isabel, 7, and
Zola Isabel, 3.
Format: 217 x 110 mm, pb
Price: Rs 250
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Kim Barrington Narisetti
Publication: August 2009
ISBN: 9788184000801
The 10 Laws of Learning by acclaimed educationalist
Steven Rudolph is just the book you need. In ten
steps, Rudolph teaches you how to train your child
out of problem behaviours: watching too much
TV, not doing homework on time, disobeying
parents in public, using foul language, not eating
properly and much more. Peppered with relevant
examples and keen insight, it is the perfect guide to
creating a superior learning environment for your
child. Now parents, teachers, principals and even
children don’t need to look too far. Just follow the
magic mantra in The 10 Laws of Learning and see
the difference.
Steven Rudolph is an American educationalist,
researcher, TV personality and public speaker based
in India. As Educational Director of Jiva Institute
and founder of Jiva Public School, he has developed
many innovative learning materials for children.
Rudolf is also the proponent of a novel concept in
education called multiple natures and has a wide
following in India. This is his second book.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 95
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: September 2009
ISBN: 9788184000894
The 10 Laws
of Learning
Does your child score poorly in exams?
Won’t stop eating junk food?
Can’t focus on anything?
Steven RudolPH
The first comprehensive parenting book
tailor-made for Indian parents
Pratibha Karan
100 recipes
The Biryani Cookbook
A delectable collection of one hundred
authentic recipes
The biryani is India’s most princely dish. Originating
in the Mughal courts of Agra and Delhi, thriving in
the jagirs of Awadh and Rampur and subsequently
spreading to other Muslim states such as Bhopal
(MP), Malerkotla (Punjab) and Tonk (Rajasthan), it
finally arrived at Hyderabad, where it took pride
of place in the Nizam’s palaces. In the south, it
underwent an entirely separate evolution in Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. Hence, we have the
well-known Salem biryani of Tamil Nadu and the
Karaikal biryani of Pondicherry. Each region added
to it their distinctive touch; and so, from the delicate
pilaffs of Rampur to the spice-laden masterpiece of
Hyderabad, the biryani came into its own rich world
of aromas and flavours. Pratibha Karan takes you
through this world region by region, giving you the
mouthwatering recipes and the accompaniments:
dahi chutney, mirch ka salan, dhansak. Along
the way, she teaches you the techniques behind
masterful biryani making, its history and colourful
evolution. Sumptuous and comprehensive, full of
delicious photographs, The Biryani Cookbook is the
ultimate gift for all lovers of this exquisite dish.
Pratibha Karan is the author of the acclaimed A
Princely Legacy: Hyderabadi Cuisine. She lives in
Delhi.
Format: 246 x 189 mm, pb
Price: Rs 495
Territory: World
Rights: Random House India
Publication: October 2009
ISBN: 9788184000931
Got an ugly oil stain on your favourite white dress?
What do you do with leftovers?
How can you make super soft idlis?
Handy Hints is a collection of useful, practical and
everyday tips from Femina’s long enduring and
popular column. It offers effective solutions to
annoying problems that creep, without warning,
into our daily lives and need instant, uncomplicated
solutions. The A-Z of household solutions, it gives
you 101 creative and simple ways to:
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Clean stuck bubblegum off surfaces or clothes
Get rid of the food smells from the microwave
Remove annoying bird droppings
Clear badly blocked drains
Prevent artificial jewellery from turning black
Remove patchiness from old photographs
Get rid of a worn-out sticker
Stop ants from entering jams and honey bottles.
Handy Hints is every homemaker’s delight and a
must have for today’s urban woman.
Femina, first published in July 1959, is India’s
leading women’s magazine, published fortnightly
by Worldwide Media.
Format: 136 x 155 mm, pb
Price: Rs 225
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Worldwide Media
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 9788184000757
Femina Handy Hints
A homemaker’s ultimate friend
Dance With
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
Wish you could dance like Madhuri, Urmila
or Aishwarya? Come learn from the best!
Dance with Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is the first complete
handbook on how to dance to your favourite
Bollywood number. Now you don’t have to worry
about performing your favourite dance number
at school, college, weddings, birthday parties and
festivals. Dance with Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa will teach
you how to prepare a spectacular dance number
from scratch. We offer you a complete, step-bystep guide supplemented by illustrations for dance
moves to groove to ten choice dance numbers
customised for kids, moms, weddings, solo
performances and more. Each dance is categorised
according to difficulty level and style, and comes
with tips on how to excel.
Laced with colourful photographs, celebrity
anecdotes and real life experiences from the
popular dance show produced by BBC Worldwide
for Sony Entertainment Television, this dance bible
is a must have for kids, moms, youngsters and
wannabe stars.
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is one of the most popular dance
shows on Indian television, running successfully
for two seasons. The much-awaited season three
commences in February and is being judged by
Saroj Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant and Juhi Chawla.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: BBC
Publication: May 2009
ISBN: 9788184000917
Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth
The Number One New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Frank O’Connor International
Short Story Award
‘Lahiri’s enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full
display… gorgeous’ Khaled Hosseini
‘Splendid’ The New York Times Book Review
‘Emotionally intricate and exquisitely crafted’ The Hindu
‘The finest she has written yet, even better than the
Pulitzer-winning Interpreter of Maladies.’ The Financial Express
‘As distinctive as RK Narayan’s Malgudi or Thomas
Hardy’s Wessex or Haruki Murakami’s mysterious
urban landscapes.’ DNA
Everyone has their secrets. In her stunning new
collection of stories, Jhumpa Lahiri gently lifts the
veil to reveal how even the most ordinary lives have
their dramas and tragedies and then, as gently, lets
it fall back down again. Unaccustomed Earth returns
to the terrain—the heart of family life and the
immigrant experience—that Jhumpa Lahiri has
made utterly hers, but her themes, this time around,
have darkened and deepened. Poised, nuanced,
deeply moving, here is a superb collection—the
finest she has written yet.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Janklow and Nesbit
Publication: April 2009
ISBN: 9788184000603
Elle
‘Few writers have explored the complex terrain
of the Indian family with as much insight and
affection.’ Outlook
‘A lucid, perceptive and sympathetic tale’ India Today
‘As a delineator of middle-class lives in India, Manju
Kapur has few parallels.’ Business Standard
Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer, struggling
to make ends meet for herself and her widowed
mother. She sees herself as increasingly off the shelf
but then, unexpectedly, a proposal arrives. Ananda
is a dentist in Halifax, Canada. When the two marry,
she leaves her home and her country to build a new
life with her husband. But there is always more to
marriage than courtship. And as Nina discovers
truths about her husband—both sexual and
emotional—her fragile new life in Canada begins
to unravel. No one writes about middle class family
life with the nuance and tenderness of Manju
Kapur. The Immigrant is another mesmerising saga
from this most beloved of novelists.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Aitken Alexander Associates
Publication: June 2009
ISBN: 9788184000610
The Immigrant
‘Uncommonly perceptive’ Manju Kapur
The Indian Bestseller
BASHARAT PEER
CURFEWED NIGHT
The definitive portrait of Kashmir in war:
non-fiction debut of the year
‘The first memoir from Kashmir’ The New Indian Express
‘Beautifully written, brutally honest and deeply
hurtful.’ Khushwant Singh
‘[A] stomach-churning debut’ Time Out Mumbai
‘What lends power to Peer’s writing is his
restraint.’ Mail Today
‘The story of Kashmir has never been told before
so evocatively and profoundly. Peer writes with the
skill of a novelist, the insight of a journalist and the
evocative power of a poet.’ Ahmed Rashid
‘Chilling beyond words’ Sunday Express
‘A remarkable book… the first English language
narrative… that describes Kashmir’s recent
tumultuous history as lived experience.’ Hindustan Times
In 2003, Basharat Peer left his job and returned
to his homeland to search out the stories and the
people that had haunted him. In Curfewed Night
he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and its
people. Lyrical, spare, gut-wrenching and intimate,
it is a powerful and intensely moving debut.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Rogers, Coleridge & White
Publication: December 2009
ISBN: 9788184000900
‘Fiction, poetry, history, reportage and ethnography
come together in this wide, dark and churning
sea, and thrown in at its deep end are… veteran
navigators’ The Telegraph
Kiran Desai confronts migration, mortality and the
coveted sex workers of coastal Andhra. Aman Sethi
hitches a ride down National Highway 31 with a
trucker. William Dalrymple meets the daughters of
the Goddess Yellamma. Siddharth Deb hangs out
with Manipur’s disaffected youth, fighting more
than heroin addiction and a separatist war. Sunil
Gangopadhyay visits his old haunts in Sonagachhi.
Salman Rushdie spends a day with Mumbai’s
transgenders. Amit Chaudhuri talks to the doctors
who are fighting more than just AIDS. Sonia Faleiro
explains why the police and the sex workers are
partners in crime. Nikita Lalwani gets to know the man
who took on the Supreme Court. Siddharth Dhanvant
Shanghvi on the last days of a Mumbai filmmaker.
Mukul Kesavan meets the men living double lives.
Shobhaa De tells of how AIDS came home.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Wylie Agency
Publication: November 2009
ISBN: 9788184000818
Aids Sutra
‘A uniquely intimate glimpse into a disease that is
either sterilised by statistics or ignored altogether.’ Time
Untold stories of India
India Today
Edited by Negar Akhavi
‘A brilliant anthology’ With a forword by Amartya Sen
Sixteen of India's top writers bring alive
the stories behind AIDS
Mohammed Hanif
a case of
Exploding Mangoes
The Indian and Pakistani Bestseller
Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book prize
Longlisted for the Booker prize
‘Unputdownable and darkly hilarious.’
Mohsin Hamid
‘For once the hyperbole of blurb reaches appropriate
justification in the excellence of this debut thriller.’
Hindustan Times
‘Witty, elegant, and deliciously anarchic.’ John le Carré
‘At last we have a Pakistani writer who faces up to
his political ancestry with… explosive brio.’ India Today
‘An entertaining and darkly comic political thriller’ Outlook
In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane,
Pak One, which explodes midway. Who has killed
him? The army generals growing old waiting for
their promotions, the CIA, the ISI, RAW or Ali Shigri,
a junior officer at the military academy whose father,
a whisky-swilling jihadi colonel, has been murdered
by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp,
black, inventive and utterly gripping. It marks the
debut of a brilliant new writer.
Format: A pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd
Publication: April 2009
ISBN: 9788184000627
‘Laden with wit, wisdom and just plain fun, this
book will have you in splits.’ Marie Claire
‘[The] maharani of this bastard language [Indo-Pak
Angrezi]. Hilarious reading.’ Khushwant Singh
‘Mohsin is brilliant at malapropisms, and her sense
of the absurd is faultless… My advice is: Don’t read
it in one gulp: it may be three much, as the Butterfly
would say, and give you hotburn.’ Outlook
‘London has Bridget Jones and chick lit. Lahore has
Social Butterfly’s flit lit.’ Time Out
Meet Butterfly, Pakistan’s most lovable, and silly,
socialite—an avid party-goer, an inspired mis-speller,
and an unwittingly acute observer of Pakistani high
society. In her world, SMS becomes S & M and
people eat ‘three tiara cakes’ while shunning ‘do
number ka maal’. ‘What cheeks!’, as she would say.
Wicked, irreverent and hugely entertaining, Butterfly
gives us a delicious glimpse into the parallel universe
of the have-musts.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 195
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Moni Mohsin
Publication: October 2008
ISBN: 9 788184000535
The Diary of a Social
Butterfly
‘Glamorous girly fiction evolves into Chanel-clad
satire. This is one social butterfly who has a sting in
her Pucci-painted wings.’ India Today
Moni Mohsin
The hugely entertaining journal of a
socialite in Lahore
Walter Crocker
with a foreword by Ramachandra Guha
A Contemporary’s Estimate
Nehru
One of the finest biographies of Nehru ever,
available again
‘I have read many books on Nehru but none has left
such a deep impression on me.’ Mark Tully, Outlook
‘A candid and brutally subjective account.’ Times of India
‘By far the best work to date [on Nehru]’ Khushwant Singh
‘Crocker’s portrait is authoritative, partly because it
is based on firsthand observation and partly because
it comes from a relatively detached outsider. Few
of Nehru’s other biographers can claim the same
advantages.’ Business Standard
Elegant, perceptive and startlingly prophetic,
Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate is one of the finest
accounts of Nehru ever written. Walter Crocker, the
Australian high commissioner to India (1952-1955
and 1958-1962), admired Nehru the man—his
grace, style, intelligence and energy—and was
deeply critical of many of his political decisions:
the invasion of Goa, India’s Kashmir policy, the
Five Year Plans. He wrote this book shortly after
Nehru’s death in 1964. Out of print for many years,
this classic biography has been reissued with a new
foreword by Ramachandra Guha.
Format: B pb
Price: Rs 250
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Robert Crocker
Publication: November 2008
ISBN: 9788184000504
‘Excellent… The Music Room weaves tales together
with the sophisticated whim of a khayal singer.’ The Telegraph
‘There has been an aching void waiting to be filled
with the story of Indian sound. Namita Devidayal…
has now done it.’ India Today
When Namita is ten,her mother takes her to Dhondutai,
the only remaining student of the legendary Alladiya
Khan, the founder of the Jaipur gharana and of its
most famous singer, the tempestuous songbird,
Kesarbai Kerkar. Namita begins to learn singing from
Dhondutai, at first reluctantly and then, as the years
pass, with growing passion. Dhondutai sees in her a
second Kesar, but does Namita have the dedication
to give herself up completely to music—or will
there always be too many late nights and cigarettes?
Beautifully written, full of anecdotes, gossip and
legend, The Music Room is the most intimate book on
Indian classical music yet.
Format: Demy pb
Price: Rs 295
Territory: Indian subcontinent
Rights: Scovil, Chichak and Galen
Publication: January 2009
ISBN: 9788184000542
The Music Room
‘Fantastic! A must for every musician and music
lover!’ Pandit Ravi Shankar
Namita Devidayal
‘Gives us a unique insight into the guru-shishya
tradition, and what eventually goes into the making
of great artists.’ Sonia Gandhi
Winner of The Vodafone
Crossword Popular Book Award
An Outlook book of 2007
The first popular account of Indian classical
music
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