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Karma Sutra is a powerful document of the Indian street - a journey into the murky urban underbelly. It tells the stories of those who live on - and off - the street, an amazing cast of characters that includes sex workers, bar girls, hijras, Devadasis, drug addicts, runaways, migrants, hustlers,...

Shreya Sen-Handley wrote a wildly popular column about body parts and body fluids, flings and romantic encounters. As readers, young and old, began to write back to her, Shreya stepped back to think about it all: her body, her writing and her life. Intensely personal and utterly universal, this is...

Arriving fourteen years after his debut collection, Feroze Varun Gandhi's second poetry offering, Stillness, is a study in elegance. The poet displays a rare maturity and confidence in allowing access into his inner world. Searchingly introspective, suffused with a strange calm, the poems are both...

In this compact but informative book, the author presents a concise history of the followers of one of the world's newest religions Sikhism. Beginning with the life and times of the founder, the highly revered Guru Nanak (1469-1539), the contents move on to describe the vital contribution made by...

Mehtas ChoiceHarsh Mehta seems to be going great guns with his company Mehta Housing Ltd poised to become the next big thing in real estate. Till a series of reckless decisions by his trusted colleagues, of which he is quite unaware, take the company on a downward spiral and he realizes to his horror...

Balan, growing up in the small cantonment towns of Ambala and Jammu in the 1960s, is the son of a junior army officer. His is a packed life, with tough schoolmasters, homework and games with playmates to keep him busy. And, above it all, is the strange species called adults, who have a curious understanding...

A Mirror to Power takes a sharp look across the wide horizon of the past decade, a time when reputations were wrecked on a high-velocity rollercoaster and events became a jamboree instead of a procession. This tumbledown history of corruption, terrorism, justice delayed, rights denied and governance...

This selection of Khushwant Singh's prose is like the man himself: blunt, perceptive, incorrigibly provocative, often amusing but always bubbling with life. The book includes candid portrayals of public personalities such as Zail Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, Nani Palkhivala, Rajni Patel and Nargis Dutt. There...

The strength of [his] short stories ... lies in the fact that [he] grasped the weaknesses of his characters and their strengths' - Mulk Raj Anand 'A man of literature, a journalist of distinction, a film-maker who created a genre of his own' - Gulzar - An Evening in Calcutta is a collection of celebrated...

As the trespassers walked towards the mosque, the muezzin [...] jumped out of the darkness. Before the adversaries could discover his presence, he dashed straight towards Abhiram Das, the vairagi who was holding the idol in his hands and leading the group of intruders. [...] The sadhu quickly freed...

Meghnad Desai tracks the film's tortuous journey and reveals fascinating, little-known aspects of it. He foregrounds the craftsmanship, perseverance and perfectionism of its maker, Kamal Amrohi, who would wait weeks for the perfect sunset. Desai sees the film as a 'Muslim social' set in a 'Lucknow...

The communal pogrom that indelibly altered the course of Gujarat. Set in the tense post-riots years, The Youngest Suspect is the story of Adil and, yes, of Gujarat. Adil and seventeen other young men are arrested in Ahmedabad, and charged with terrorism. There are written confessions on record. Enter...

Finally! A quiz book on the one topic you can never have enough of: Hindi cinema! Filled with fascinating titbits and obscure trivia, this book gives you a peek into the Hindi film industry. It's like living the movies you love. Did you know Bobby Deol played a young Dharmendra in Dharam Veer? Or...

MissMalini's story begins like any good Bollywood movie from the nineties - a pigeon and a damsel in distress. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat did not exist! She wanted to be extraordinary and felt Mumbai city was where that was going to happen.So, what's this book about? It is about her...