Featuring the works of K.R. Meera, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Anita Nair, this limited edition set is essential reading for those who love reading fiction from South Asia.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl revolves around seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy who, troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents’ death, clings to her only inheritance from them: the unfinished love note she found hidden in her mother’s book of poetry. But when her grandfather dies, she discovers a dark secret which will finally explain her past.
The bold, wry and ebullient stories of Yellow Is the Colour of Longing put on display K.R. Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques, as she expertly lays bare the fault lines behind the façades of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
Forty-five and single, Akhila has never been allowed to live her life-she is always a daughter, a sister, an aunt and a provider first-until the day she buys a one-way train ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé unfolds in an intimate atmosphere as Akhila gets to know her five fellow travellers. Riveted by their stories, she seeks an answer to the question that has haunted her all her life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?
A moving tale of self-discovery, rich with fascinating stories and imaginary characters
Vasu Master, recently retired from his job in a local school, allows himself to revisit the past and imaginatively discover the nature of teaching, teacher and pupil. This process of self-discovery is speeded up by the arrival of Mani, who cannot-or will not-speak. Vasu Master tells the reticent child one fantastic story after the other as he faces up to the biggest challenge of his life: can he teach (or heal) Mani?
Using fantasy, fable and a host of wonderfully imagined characters, Githa Hariharan creates a richly textured work that eloquently explores the human condition, and the underlying principles of all human action.
Gripping and insightful stories on the modern Indian condition
Twenty stories of contemporary Indian life that demonstrate the range of Hariharan’s writing, executed with a precision of style and magical imagery. Sometimes comic (yet tinged with sadness) as in the much-anthologized ‘The Remains of the Feast’ where an old woman near the end of her life suddenly feels the urge to sample all the food she has been forbidden; sometimes with a twist as in ‘Gajar Halwa’ where Chellamma, a servant girl from a small-town family, finally understands what makes a big city work; sometimes moving as in ‘The Reprieve’, these stories never fail to surprise and delight.
This book details the complete history of the ‘Vande Mataram’ and how the popularity of this one anthem caused wild uproar to erupt in British India, leading to scores of people being executed for disobedience of the state.
This book talks about how common diseases can be treated with a combination of colour and the brain, body, thoughts and emotional balance. This practice, if done correctly, can have lasting effects and results.
This book teaches you to earn money in the share market at the opportune time. It also helps you to make the right decisions while investing in the share market.
The easy method of healing can be done through music; this book is a manual to doing music therapy to heal yourself. It is accessible and written in very simple language, and nothing short of a godsend for music lovers who would struggle with health issues.
This book talks about how the day a human being allows new light to enter his life, is the day when he allows all his fingers to be as they are. By extension, they must also allow their relationships to be as they are, and only then will there be no conflict; only love, joy and satisfaction.
This is a motivational biography of Paramhansa Yogananda. Paramhansa Yogananda was twentieth-century spiritual guru, yogi and saint. He has taught kriya yoga to his disciples and spread awareness of Yogic practices across the world.
Sunita Jain are derived from her own bitter experiences in life and hence, are poignant and relatable, making you feel like they could be your own life’s stories.
