Speaking Tiger Books imprint: 118 books
The Free Voice
On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
‘The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from...
I Was the Wind Last Night
New and Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
‘There is nothing to keep me here,
Only these mountains of silence
And the gentle reserve of shepherds and woodmen
Who know me as one who
Walks among trees.’
One of India’s finest and most popular writers, Ruskin Bond is loved as much for the lyricism...
In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi
and Other Travels in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Novelist, intrepid traveller, barrister-at-law, newspaper editor and uninhibited gossip, John Lang lived for a number of years in pre- and post-Mutiny British India, and his writings constitute some of the most vivid records of the time. Lang describes his meeting with the Ranee of Jhansi-soon to...
Fatal Accidents of Birth
Stories of Suffering, Oppression and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This volume collects seventeen stories of women and men who, simply because they were born poor, or a particular gender, or into a certain caste or religion, fell prey to the many atrocities and indignities endemic to contemporary India. Some resisted, survived, and soldier on. Some did not. Lachmi...
Prankenstein
The Book of Crazy Mischief
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories.
Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family members regularly fall victim to pranks? Do ghosts and spooks get you into trouble? Find every kind of funny, crazy,...
Is That Even a Country, Sir!
Journeys in Northeast India by Train, Bus and Tractor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
‘The story of India’s most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of the exotic, the Northeast in [this book] appears bare, burnt and betrayed…’
—Scroll.in
When violence broke out before elections in Assam in 2000, in which Hindi-speakers...
by Vayu Naidu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Allarmelu took out the sari that belonged to her mother, her mother’s mother, and her mother before that. All she wanted now was not a long chain of dead mothers but her mother, alive. She breathed deep, hoping for a waft of her mother’s musk. But this sari did not have the fragrance of sandalwood...
Lessons for Mrs Hauksbee
Tales of Passion, Intrigue and Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Much of what we know about the everyday life of the British Raj comes from Rudyard Kipling, one of the keenest observers of nineteenth century India. He is at his best when writing about the men and women who worked, lived, loved and died together; their indiscretions and foibles; flirtations and...
Tibetan Caravans
Journeys From Leh to Lhasa
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Born into an eminent merchant family in Ladakh in 1918, Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu, often described as ‘the last caravaneer of Tibet and Central Asia’, led an unusual life of adventure, inspiration and enlightenment. His family, and later he, had the ancestral honour of leading the biannual caravan...
by Rohinton Daruwala
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
‘Rohinton Daruwala’s poems unfold like a baramasa, an almanac of seasons and sensations, exquisite torments and explosions of delight. He essays a sensuous portraiture of place, invoking torrential monsoons, arid summers, railway bridges at night, libraries in deserts. [He] spells out a frank...
by Shazaf Fatima Haider
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
‘By turns terrifying and amusing, this is not a book you want to read before you go to sleep. Or maybe you do...’—Jerry Pinto
Sharmeen’s life is disrupted when, after an unexpected tragedy, she moves into her Nani’s rambling ancestral bungalow with her family. She hates this new life:...
In a Land Far from Home
A Bengali in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An intrepid traveller and a true cosmopolitan, the legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali from Sylhet (in erstwhile East Bengal, now Bangladesh) spent a year and a half teaching in Kabul from 1927 to 1929. Drawing on this experience, he later wrote Deshe Bideshe which was published in 1948. Ali's...
India Dissents
3,000 Years of Difference, Doubt and Argument
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Throughout Indian history, various individuals and groups have questioned, censured and debated authority—be it the state or empire, religious or political traditions, caste hierarchies, patriarchy or even the idea of god. These dissenting voices have persisted despite all attempts made to silence...
Shehzadi Mircha
Folktales from the Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
King Karna is fried every morning to provide a fakir’s breakfast, but finds that there is a more generous ruler than he; Raja Rasalu becomes a jogi just for a glimpse of the fair Queen Sundaran; a rat thinks he drives a good bargain, but is astonished when his bargaining brings him a bride; and...