Speaking Tiger Books imprint: 118 books
Naishapur and Babylon
Poems (2005-2017)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Twelve years of poems—vigorous, wise and memorable—from our newest Poet Laureate and giant of Indian letters.
‘Over the course of Keki Daruwalla’s long career, some things have stayed the same: a vertical view of history that plunges across centuries and mythologies, an epic canvas...
Tourist Season
Two Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
A compelling duet of novellas, in exquisite prose, that capture the nuances of time and place, each one featuring a protagonist who is at heart a dreamer.
*Tourist Season *features Ramchander, a small-time shopkeeper in a Himalayan hill station, whose quiet existence is disrupted when a tourist...
by Ganesh Matkari, Jerry Pinto
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
‘On one side, the sea. On the other, the city. A city that seemed to believe that the Queen’s Necklace was enough past for it, a city sacrificing its beauty at the dirty altars of money.’
An acclaimed contemporary Marathi novel, *Half-Open Windows *(Khidkya Ardhya Ughadya) is a striking...
The Agra Double Murder
A Crime of Passion from the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
In 1909, Augusta Fullam, an English memsahib in Meerut, shocked polite English society by falling in love with Dr Clark, an Anglo-Indian of dubious reputation. Clark had long been unhappy in his marriage and upon meeting her, he instigated the double murder of their respective spouses. They conspired...
Looking Away
Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, this is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society...
by Sudhin N. Ghose
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Sisi-Magar became my boat, and straddled on its back I was transformed into a sea-god—one who defied the elements and to whom the wind and the waves paid homage. They no longer raved about death, but spoke of abundant life.’
A young orphan leaves for Calcutta, full of hope, to attend university...
An Elsewhere Place
Boyhood Days in Hazaribagh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From the early 1950s to the early ’60s, Malay Kumar Roy spent around ten years as a young boy in Hazaribagh in the Chhotanagpur district of Jharkhand, which was then a part of Bihar. In An Elsewhere Place, Roy reminisces about his life there—a place that ‘touches a boy forever’.
In...
Journey to Lhasa
The Diary of a Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In 1874, the brilliant civil engineer Sarat Chandra Das was recruited by the British as a spy in Darjeeling. The Empire wanted to train local agents to gather in-depth intelligence about Tibet—a mysterious kingdom closed off to all outsiders for years—in order to consolidate their position in...
Friends in Wild Places
Birds, Beasts and Other Companions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Since he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And some of the most rewarding and lasting friendships he has known have been with animals, birds and plants—big and small; outgoing and
shy. This collection focuses on these companions and brings together his finest essays and stories,...
Garrisoned Minds
Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
‘Women are often the worst affected by militarisation but their stories rarely get heard. Garrisoned Minds, which brings together insights and analysis from some of the major conflict zones of South Asia, is a welcome and valuable corrective, one which must be read by both policy-makers and the...
Out of War
Voices of Surrendered Maoists
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Over the course of two intense years Swati Sengupta spoke to dozens of surrendered Maoist soldiers. In this book she focuses on their complex individual narratives and examines the reasons for, and the methods and contexts of, their surrenders. The disquieting voices of these foot-soldiers of the...
A Book of Light
When a Loved One Has a Different Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, Em and the Big Hoom, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who had similar experiences—of living with someone with a mental illness or infirmity. Some of these readers...
The Hollow Kingdom
ISIS and the Cult of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
A timely and insightful book on ISIS—the world’s most dangerous terrorist network—by the bestselling author of Holy Warriors.
Governments across the world openly acknowledge the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as one of the greatest terrorist threats in history, greater even than...
Full Disclosure
New and Collected Poems (1981-2017)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
‘Here is a book worth celebrating: Manohar Shetty’s Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1981–2017), which gathers more than thirty years of work from a major voice in world Anglophone poetry. More accurately, this book presents a range of voices—in some of the multi-sectioned poems,...