Ruskin Bond’s beloved coming-of-age story The Room on the Roof returns as a landmark graphic novel adaptation, freshly illustrated for today’s readers.
Sixteen-year-old Rusty runs away from his strict English guardian’s house to rent a room on the roof in Dehradun and live with his Indian friends. In the process, he exchanges oppressive rules for joyful freedom and discovers a world of true friendship, innocent first love and a profound understanding of the self.
Set against the foothills of the Himalayas in post-Independence India, this special anniversary edition transforms Bond’s lyrical prose into an immersive visual journey.
Ideal for readers who love literary graphic novels, this collectible volume is both a gateway to Bond’s world and a tribute to a novel that has shaped generations.
They are here, in a borrowed land, under a borrowed sky. Not by choice, but by a cruel twist of fate.
Sangi is happy in school—primarily because of her friends. But when a refugee from Myanmar joins her class, Sangi is drawn to her—though it means jeopardizing her relationship with the only people who bring her joy.
Wadi Moe used to be happy in her old life in Mandalay. But after the military seized power and her journalist father was imprisoned, she, along with her mother and brother, was compelled to escape. They must build a new life in Mizoram, but with no resources and no legal standing.
Told in two voices, this is the searing story of two teenagers living through a time of great turbulence—with only friendship to bring hope as all else seems lost. Hannah Lalhlanpuii’s lyrical prose invites us into the lives of her characters and prompts us to examine our own souls.
The Treasury of R.K. Narayan is a celebration of one of India’s greatest storytellers of our times. It opens a window to a literary world that remains as vivid, intimate and timeless as ever. Few writers have captured India with the warmth, wit and humanity of Narayan. In the fictional town of Malgudi, he found the extraordinary in the everyday, creating characters and stories that have delighted generations of readers.
From much-loved stories and insightful essays to memorable excerpts from his celebrated novels. Schoolboys and saints, shopkeepers and dreamers, eccentrics and reluctant heroes come alive in Narayan’s unmistakable, gently humorous voice.
Arun Kumar Rao has hit rock bottom. A former chess prodigy and brilliant mathematician, he can’t seem to pass his banking service exams—his last shot at landing a government job. He’s also parted ways with the love of his life because he wanted someone better for her. Arun was a romantic like that. His father thinks he’s a certifiable loser, and with his family drowning in debt, Arun is running out of reasons to believe things will ever get better.
Then comes an unexpected offer from the formidable Bindima Kattamanchi: an overseas posting and a chance to secure his family’s future. There’s just one catch. Arun must assume an entirely new identity. He takes the job because, as the great Bob Dylan put it, when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
Dispatched to Oxford, Arun must infiltrate the inner circle of Ayesha Khan, daughter of Pakistan’s chief nuclear scientist. What begins as an infiltration mission spirals into a deadly game spanning London, Pakistan, and Central Asia, as Arun races to uncover a conspiracy with the potential to unleash global catastrophe. Armed with scant training, zero field experience, and little more than a chess master’s instincts, he’s thrown straight into the deep end. And when his carefully constructed cover begins to unravel, one wrong move could cost him everything.
Set against the geopolitical powder keg of 1995, White Dog: Deep Cover is the gripping story of an unlikely spy with a decidedly middle-class conscience.
A chance encounter with a long-lost friend reveals the ravages of time. A student returning home discovers a familiar place transformed by distance. A neighbours’ quarrel stirs buried memories, while a young job-seeker battles an unyielding bureaucracy. A grandfather’s death-bed confession exposes a startling secret, and a couple in a metropolitan city struggle to reconcile modern aspirations with traditional values. In the title story, set in an earlier age, a man must confront the consequences of his actions.
The Renegade by Veio Pou is a strikingly original collection of short stories rooted in the peoples and cultures of Northeast India. Moving between everyday lives in contemporary times and tales drawn from folklore and local customs, these stories offer a glimpse into the region’s rich cultural tapestry, exploring how tradition and modernity shape people’s lives, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in harmony.
Love is hard to destroy. Like a fallen seed, it wishes to bloom again.
The six stories of Vintage Love explore the surprise of love, bearing the weight of memory and the dream of renewal.
A widower tries to free himself from the past by selling the furniture that once belonged to his wife. A bookseller, grown old among the classics, finds himself drawn to a mysterious customer in search of love stories. A retired executive rediscovers photography—and something more dangerous—in the company of an enigmatic teacher. An old record leads a man back to the woman he loved and lost decades ago. A magician and an actress join forces to steal one of the world’s most famous postage stamps. And two solitary travellers, strangers to each other, set their sights on the remote grasslands of Mongolia.
These autumnal romances unfold along vanishing streams—old furniture stores, bookshops, darkrooms, record stores, stamp collections and travel agencies—worlds slowly being swept aside by time and technology.
Warm, wry and bittersweet, Vintage Love brings together memory and second chances, grief and folly, longing and unexpected companionship, finding the eternity of love in the fleeting circumstances of human lives.
In Kilinochchi, the dead speak through survivors of the civil war in Sri Lanka. In Jerusalem, tension erupts after the death of Jesus. In rural Kerala, a sexton steals money from the church fund to pay for his son’s surgery. In Abu Dhabi, an auditor recalls her colleague who made her life bearable in the desert.
Many voices come together in this collection of eleven stories connected by a shared inheritance of violence. Devastating and unflinching, The Butterflies of Kilinochchi takes readers through many terrains, many cities and many histories, reminding us how faith, war and labour leave their mark on us.
Even before there was ‘science fiction’, Bengalis were already using imagined futures as weapons of revolt. A student of Hindu College dreamt of overthrowing the British Raj in 1945. A republic was founded on the ashes of empire. A scientist tamed a cyclone with a bottle of hair oil.
Nationalism as alternative history. Anti-colonial satire in comical machines. Feminist utopias that declared war on patriarchy itself. While the West’s future meant rockets and aliens, Bengal’s future meant liberation—freedom from empire, from capital, from every form of normalised oppression.
Across 150 years, gathered here in translation for the first time, these stories present that future.
‘Mothers and daughters, huh?’
Anjali only ever wanted her mother out of the way. But when her mother is on the floor gasping for air, Anjali realizes she doesn’t want her mother to die. Yet. The problem with murder, however, is that it doesn’t come with a pause button.
In a race against time, fate and suspicion, Anjali performs a desperate pantomime of grief while scrambling for an antidote she was never supposed to need. When every attempt to undo her crime risks exposing it, whose life will she pick?
फ़िराक़ गोरखपुरी को जानना है तो सिर्फ़ उनकी शायरी पढ़ना काफ़ी नहीं है। कभी उन लोगों से भी मिलिए, जिन्होंने उन्हें देखा, सुना, उनके साथ वक़्त बिताया और उनकी डाँट भी खाई है।
रघुपति सहाय ‘फ़िराक़’ गोरखपुरी उर्दू शायरी के उन विरल शायरों में हैं, जिनका व्यक्तित्व उनकी शायरी जितना ही विशाल, जटिल और दिलचस्प था। वे एक साथ विद्वान, शायर, शिक्षक, संवेदनशील इंसान और अपने मिज़ाज के बेहद अनोखे व्यक्ति थे। उन्हें किसी एक खाँचे में रख पाना आसान नहीं।
‘बातें फ़िराक़ की’ फ़िराक़ की पारंपरिक जीवनी नहीं है। यह उन आवाज़ों का दस्तावेज़ है, जो फ़िराक़ के आसपास की दुनिया से आती हैं। लेखक प्रणव मिश्र ‘तेजस’ ने फ़िराक़ के जीवन से जुड़े प्रत्यक्षदर्शियों और उनसे किसी-न-किसी रूप में जुड़े लोगों से बातचीत की है। मूल रूप से सात साक्षात्कारों के साथ पुस्तक में वैज्ञानिक और शायर गौहर रज़ा का एक अतिरिक्त साक्षात्कार भी शामिल है। इन बातचीतों में फ़िराक़ कभी बेहद आत्मीय दिखाई देते हैं, कभी बेबाक और अप्रत्याशित; कभी कठोर तो कभी बेहद संवेदनशील। अलग-अलग लोगों की यादों से बनती फ़िराक़ की यह तस्वीर पाठक को उनके व्यक्तित्व के कई अनदेखे पहलुओं तक ले जाती है।
