Monsoon and Other Poems’ is a collection of poems by Rachna Joshi. There are many dimensions to her poems in this volume. Coming from a close knit family, she has poems that not just talk of relationships but take in the beauty of the Kumaon hills from where she hails.

It is quite remarkable that in her very first volume, Serpents Under my Veil, Asiya Zahoor sounds like an accomplished poet with reams of poems behind her. From Medusa to Yusuf and Zulekha she cherrypicks what she wants from Greek or West Asian myth, and moulds it to her heart’s desire.

This book is a beautiful collection of contemporary verses on life, love and politics by the renowned poet and parliamentarian, Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh.

बरसात का मौसम हो, या न भी हो, हर मन के आंगन की कच्ची मिट्टी में कभी न कभी उग ही आती है कुछ भावों की पौध| इनमें से कुछ भाव कविता हो जाते हैं, कुछ चित्र तो कुछ संगीत| ऐसे ही इस कविता संग्रह की ये कविताएं जिन पर आज अलग-अलग भावों के पात और फूल खिले हैं, मैंने इन्हें रोपा नहीं था, इन कविताओं ने मेरे मन के आंगन को ख़ुद चुना था| अब ये आपके मन में रह सकें, पेड़ बन सकें, हरियाली और छांह दे सकें… यही विश्वास और उम्मीद है|

‘This volume has been appropriately titled Travel Tapestry by Rachna Joshi. Who doesn’t write travel poems? It is what a new city, a new landscape, both physical and cultural does to a poet that she decides to write. The desire to encapsulate the impressions and then transfer them into script is the driving force behind travel poems.

The poet engages with different sites, eras, civilizations with no sentimentality. She takes in all – cultures and landscapes with a steady hand. To those who love poetry and travel, this book would be a welcome addition to their shelf.’
— Keki N. Daruwalla

Knight in the Panther’s Skin is the story of a young Hindostani Prince, Tariel, who sets out in search of his beloved, Nestan Darejan, who has been abducted by sea pirates. He travels to Georgia, via Arabia, in search of her and makes friends with two handsome princes along the way, who align with him, and the three of them eventually find the beautiful princess trapped in a fort in Kajeti. A battle ensues. All’s well that ends well and Tariel and Nestan Darejan return to Hindostan to live happily ever after.

Like Sepia coloured photos in a treasure chest, Sita Nanda’s novel, Whispering
Waves, reveals stunning images of a bygone Bombay.Yet there is a distinct link
with the energy of today’s “maximum city” its cultural underpinnings, optimism and survival instincts.

Laghu katha ki duniya mein aisa kalpnik paatr jo Turkey kahani jagat ka classic paatr ban gaya. Duniya bhar ke dukh-taqlifo ko jhelta, hade mans ka bana bilkul sajeev aur apne aas paas ka he koi mehsoos hota hai.
Aziz Bey apne pyar ki chah me Istanbul se Berut tak chale gaye aur vahan se tute dil aur upeksha ki maar kha vapas lote lekin sath aaya unka bachpan ka shauk tambura. Shauk ne zindgi jo di usme tamam hasinao ne sath diya lekin dil aur dimag kisi ke na hue. Aur na hi upekshit hone aur akele hone ki chot kabhi bhar pai…

Nicolas Idier’s Electric Nights in Beijing is set in the backdrop of the student protests at Tiananmen Square. It is the story of a young rockstar, Feng Lei, who grows up in the West and comes back to China to meet his father, one of student protesters incarcerated in the aftermath of 1989. It is a shifting fresco of density and depth and a portrait of Beijing, the mysterious forbidden city, in the first decade of the 21st century.
French author and sinologist, Nicolas Idier, has spent many years in China. He knows and loves the country deeply and expresses this sensitively in a stunning novel that captivates the reader from the first page. Idier was the head of the French Book Office in New Delhi until 2018.

The SEPARATION is an elegant and intimate exploration of a woman’s life following her separation after fifteen years of marriage. It delves into the psychology of falling in and out of love, familial bonds, and social alienation, as well as the inner struggle of Lucía, its heroine, as she reflects on how we process loss and grief, even around events we have set in motion ourselves. This novel, set in Buenos Aires, echoes the problematics of men and women in or out of relationships, and those who are discovering their inner strength and resourcefulness. Silvia Arazi is a talented storyteller who endows her narrator with an acute and uncompromising gaze, and her story with a healthy dose of tenderness and candor.

Voices in dementia Care is based on a series of interviews with dementia care experts across Europe and the United States. It captures the voices of these care professionals as they describe the challenges care with limited resources.

This book is about the incredible journey of the Emergency Management and
Research Institute in pioneering India’s first systematic emergency response
service.

Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy is one of the most discerning and creative psychologists in India. Her work is known in academic circles around the world, and her new book, The Emerging Feminine: Discovering the Heroine Within, is a fascinating exploration into the ‘feminine’ in the Indian civilisation. Psychological counselling in India is still in its infancy, and Rashna’s book will serve as a valuable guide, not only to practising psychologists but for the educated lay person also, as did one of her earlier books, The Psychology of Love: The Wisdom of Indian Mythology, to which the present book is a companion volume. — Dr. Karan Singh

About the book: India Since 1950 tracks the dynamic trajectory of contemporary India as much on the political, diplomatic, economic, as on the social and artistic front. The non-alignment of the 1950s brought it close to USSR, but the 21st century ushered in an Indo-American convergence. The New Economic Policy of 1991 saw the states of federal India asserting themselves, while liberalization gave rise to a new middle class.

It is impossible to understand India as a separate entity from its cultural diversity. Hence, cultural overtures underpin all aspects discussed in the book. The glory of the Indian subcontinent is marred by intense communal tensions, particularly between the Hindus and the Muslims. This was a result of partition and the contentious Indo-Pakistan hostility that caused three conflicts in a span of fifty years.

This invaluable book gives readers an insight on India in all its complexity. It will have a tremendous impact on policy and decision makers, students and lay readers alike.

Translating Bharat, Reading India is an anthology of essays on understanding India through it’s writing. It includes 15 significant essays from Lakshmi Holmström, Bibek Debroy, Ganesh Devy, K Satchidanandan, Arshia Sattar, Arunava Sinha and Malashri Lal, among others.

Lady Driver is a book that maps the journeys of twelve women from poor, marginalized, communities who transformed their lives by taking up the challenge of becoming women drivers. Each fought what must have seemed like insurmountable odds, to build a future for herself, her children, her family, and each showed the way for hundreds of others who have followed. Their stories are singular and each is unique. But they’re also similar and together they remind the reader time and again of the fierce desire for change that women carry in their hearts, and their strength and determination to fight and become that change.

This fascinating book, originally written in Russian in 1875 by the ethnographer, Ivan Minayev, records the Folktales, myths and legends of Kumaon, as also his impressions of the region. His account, preserved as it were in amber and never before translated into English, has both historical and archival value and the charm of rediscovering the folk narrative of Uttarakhand.

Price: ₹ 200/-
Page: 104
ISBN: 9789383125289

This Bengali translation of Udayan Vajpeyi’s second published title, Pagal Ganitaya ki Kavitaen (The Mad Mathematician’s poems), continue from where he left off in his first collection. They represent several streams of thought that come into play in his writing.

Price: ₹ 395/-
Page: 288
ISBN: 9789383125104

THE DEATH ZONE IS THE EXPRESSION USED FOR AREAS HIGHER THAN 8000 METERS. AN ALTITUDE WHERE NO HUMAN BEING CAN SURVIVE FOR LONG, WHERE THE BODY AUTOMATICALLY SHUTS DOWN, AS, ONE BY ONE, CRITICAL FUNCTIONS STOP, AND DEATH TAKES OVER.
Martin Moltzau, Norwegian lawyer and internationally renowned adventurer, has twice been named ‘Explorer of the Year’ for having conquered both the North and South Pole. To retain his lucrative contract with Audi, Martin allows himself to be coerced into climbing Mount Everest from the northern side (Tibet). Taking the easy way out , he buys himself a place on a commercial expedition led by Sir Richard Lawrence, a British climbing legend.
Moltzau meets his fellow expeditioners in Kathmandu: A French mountaineer Celine Blanc, an American Wall Street broker Mark Simmons, an Italian meteorologist Manuela Franchesi and some of the world’s best sherpas. Each have their own secret motive for signing up, and before they reach Base Camp the conflicts in the group start escalating. This is a thrilling story of five individuals who are forced to trust each other beyond their comfort zone.
Fear is real. Fear overpowers everything.