Collins India imprint: 27 books

B.K.S. Iyengar's journey began from an inconspicuous village in Karnataka. Losing his father early, he was buffeted by fortune from the home of one relative to another. He was in his teens when he met his guru (and brother-in-law) Krishnamacharya, a renowned yogic scholar, who took him under his wing....

There is rarely a moment in history where all political parties give their consent to something without any debate or controversy. There is often some amount of unspoken opposition even in unanimity. But when the ruling NDA government decided to confer the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour,...

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from the master, world forecast, key dates and the impact your time of birth has on your life.

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from the master, world forecast, key dates and the impact your time of birth has on your life.

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from the master, world forecast, key dates and the impact your time of birth has on your life.

In 1947, young Jawad Hassan gives up his ancestral home in India and his fiancee Maimuna for a dream country founded by Jinnah. And even though the newly created state of Pakistan is thronged by a huge number of zealous Muslims ready to lead from the front, the rapid breakdown of law and order in...

A guide to systematic, as opposed to incidental, ad-hoc innovation Innovation need not only be jugaad. For the first time a book shows us how in India, innovation can be introduced in one's organization in a systematic, deliberate way. 8 Steps to Innovation explains how you can do this by building...

Winner of the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Award Muzaffarnagar, the infamous north Indian town that's a byword for unrest, and where skirmishes are prone to break out ever so often. This is a place where teenage love and friendships are tested by the violence that threatens to spill out at the...

In this riveting true story, Thomas K. Shor, an American writer with an ear for unusual stories, wanders into a Sikkimese mountain village and into the life of an enigmatic spiritual master known as Gurudev. It turns out Gurudev has close ties with the local dictator and his henchmen, and Shor finds...

Literature on Kashmir tends to focus on politics, the army, border skirmishes, on India and Pakistan. The very real human beings - whose lives the alternately raging and simmering conflict has an inexorable hold on - are often relegated to the background. In a State of Violent Peace is an attempt...

Hoshang Merchant is one of the leading poets in India today. A writer capable of transforming the way we conceive of poetry, this short collection will give you a taste of the variety of topics he covers ruminations on death and homosexual love, reflections on the art of writing, to spaces where the...

Do you wake up dreaming of millions screaming your name? Do you fantasize about your face beaming down from hoardings? Do you practise your Oscar thank-you speech in your head? Or see yourself walking the red carpet at Cannes? Is a career in showbiz what you aspire to above all else ... but are daunted...

A unique anthology of writing on Indian fiction. This book is the first of its kind: 50 essays by 50 writers who thought so passionately of their favourite book that they leapt to the task of representing it here. Within these pages ,Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee as 'a bona fide...

Need a compass to find your way around the kitchen? Need your mum to help you fry an egg? Then Cooking on the Run is for you. It has all the crucial cooking tips you need to survive - easy shortcuts to a scrumptious meal, in minimal time, without too much effort. Learn how to whip up a basic vegetable...