Orient Blackswan: 280 books

With shaking hands Anand opened the right-hand drawer of the dressing table . . . . Anand didnt know what to do. How could he ever be happy again. His friend Rami, the gardeners grand-daughter, and the gardener had been sent away and it was all his fault. Maybe just maybe his and Ramis old rag doll Seethu could help him. For Seethu could think; she could talk; she was a wonder doll!

If the presence of Ayurveda in modern times invites surprise, its renewed vigour in the age of globalisation gives rise both to romantic celebration and incredulous hostility. This kind of response suggests that our understanding of modern Ayurveda has not kept pace with the growth of the phenomenon...

A tiny lynx cub with no mother. A wise monk in an ancient monastery. A destiny to be fulfilled. A perilous journey across the Himalayas. A battle against time to save the cub's life. A firm friendship between two boys, worlds apart, united by their love of animals. Based on a true story and set in Tibet...

When Nasreen loses both her parents, she goes to live with her grandparents. Living a cloistered life, she has no friends and when away from school, spends most of her time in the library. And then she finds Bangaru, the magical cat, who is to change her life. From that day onwards she is lonely no more....

This thirty-eighth volume of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India is devoted to the Indian Sign Language (ISL), the language of the Deaf in India. The articles in the volume are divided into four parts. The first discusses both its formal linguistic and ‘orthographic’ features; the second...

In the stories where the Mahabharata speaks of life, women occupy a central place. In living what life brings to them, the women of the Mahabharata show, that the truth in which one must live, is however, not a simple thing; nor can there be any one absolute statement about it. Each one of them, in her...

Outside, the palm trees wail, with the wild monsoon wind in their hair. In her hospital bed, Rita lies still, her ears tuned to the wind. Recovering from her breakdown,she sifts through seasons full of memories - of her self-absorbed, critical parents; her demanding role as family breadwinner from the...

Based on a workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture is an attempt to rethink aspects of the literary histories of these two languages.Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, literary...

“ In poetry, Charmayne may go on to making herself more than she is, in terms of that gift. The combination of modesty and pride, can lead to appropriate aspiration, higher aims, difficult themes, a wider range of explorations,…”

Goa features in academic and popular discourse as a place of exceptions, contrary in several ways to national trends. Along with its small geographical size, Goa’s legacy of Portuguese colonialism is often cited as the leading reason behind its character. However, such explanations disregard its complex...

Peculiar People, Amazing Lives sets out to challenge the widely held and deeply ingrained perception that people affected by leprosy are victims of the most terrible scourge imaginable. The experiences of those living in Bethany—a self-established leprosy community in South India—tell rather different,...

Channel 1-9, a set of nine books for Classes 1-9, closely follow the English syllabus for schools, and are concerned with language practice workgrammar, composition and vocabulary.Some of the chief recommendations in the new syllabus are providing plenty of scope for practice, and relating the exercises...

"""Channel 1-9, a set of nine books for Classes 1-9, closely follow the English syllabus for schools, and are concerned with language practice workgrammar, composition and vocabulary.Some of the chief recommendations in the new syllabus are providing plenty of scope for practice, and relating the exercises...

Open Sesame is a series of activity-based environmental studies books. Book 2 is for Class/ Grade 2. The books integrate science, social studies, handicrafts and language teaching in a number of popular primary school topics such as living and non-living things, people, animals, homes and transport.