Indian Cultures as Heritage

Romila Thapar

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• One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society. Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live... Lees meer

Truth/Untruth

Mahasweta Devi

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• A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller bui... Lees meer

The Murderer's Mother

Mahasweta Devi

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• A tense sociopolitical novel exploring power, violence, and morality in 1970s India. The Murderer's Mother takes readers to the late 1970s in the Indi... Lees meer

Wolves

Bhuwaneshwar Bhuwaneshwar

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• Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the beginni... Lees meer

The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man

Easterine Kire

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• In Easterine Kire's stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human... Lees meer

Undermining the Idea of India

Gautam Patel

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• A searing manifesto for troubled times in India. "India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet ... Lees meer

Beggar's Bedlam

Nabarun Bhattacharya

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• A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India. Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the ca... Lees meer

Barricade

Utpal Dutt

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• A political play staging the Nazi takeover of Germany with an eye on India. Although Utpal Dutt is acknowledged as a trailblazer of post-Independence ... Lees meer

The Epic of Damarudhar

Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay

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• Originally published between 1910 and 1917, and collected in book form in 1923, The Epic of Damarudhar story cycle occupies an important and unique po... Lees meer

Bondhu

Kunal Sen

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• A behind-the-scenes look at the life of filmmaker Mrinal Sen through the eyes of his son Kunal, who grew up immersed in the world of Indian cinema. "N... Lees meer

Our Santiniketan

Mahasweta Devi

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• A brief, evocative memoir from one of India's greatest writers. "Like a dazzling feather that has fluttered down from some unknown place. . . . How lo... Lees meer

Is It the Same for You?

Neha Singh

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• "The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed my blood stain." Thus begins the story of a young g... Lees meer

General Firebrand and His Red Atlas

Tathagata Bhattacharya

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• A fast-paced and action-packed dystopian novel, addressing the nature of power, the limits of rationality, and the dominance of fear. In a world on th... Lees meer

Dangerous Outcast

Sumanta Banerjee

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• Dangerous Outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered ... Lees meer

The Social Life of Democracy

Sundar Sarukkai

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• A plea for bringing democracy to our lived daily experience written in lucid prose. The Social Life of Democracy is a response to the polarization of ... Lees meer

Logic in a Popular Form

Sumanta Banerjee

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• Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form," this book explores the hidden logic behind popular... Lees meer

Wildfire

Banaphool

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• Banaphool--which means wildflower--was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899-1979). Wildfire brings together forty-five... Lees meer

Traces of Boots on Tongue

Rajkamal Chaudhary

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• A literary glimpse into the early decades of independent India. Drawing influences from Indian folktales, French existentialism, and the Bengali Hungr... Lees meer

The Parsi Theatre

Somnath Gupt

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• A seminal study of a historically significant theater style. Unrivaled in its long-term impact, Parsi theater remains a crucial component of South Asi... Lees meer

The Parlour and the Street

Sumanta Banerjee

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• In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British coloni... Lees meer

Always Being Born

Mrinal Sen

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• An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker. "I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion," claims Mrinal Sen, who became p... Lees meer

A Thousand Cranes for India

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• In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, so... Lees meer

The Second Wave

Rustom Bharucha

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• Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between Apri... Lees meer

Our History, Their History, Whose History?

Romila Thapar

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• An overview of nationalism and its impact on the study of history from one of India's most prominent historians. In this timely book, historian Romila... Lees meer