THE NAGAS The Lost Tribes of India’s Northeast Bano Haralu
People/Culture/Customs Hardback 241 Ă— 305 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-23-0 Rights: World For many years, the only stories told to the world outside about Nagaland, a fourth-world indigenous cultural group, centered around their love of head-hunting. But the land itself is populated by esoteric tribals collectively known as the Nagas. The tales of their respective origins are found in myths, songs and poetry, or lost to time. There are sixteen major tribes and several other sub-tribes, each with a distinct dialect, not comprehensible to the others. Often the tribes are distinguished by their colourful woven shawls. Today, head-hunting does not exist and that changed with the advent of Christianity which is today the dominant religion of the state. Here we bring you an incredible photo-documentary, alongwith an authentic text, which reveals a beautiful land that time forgot. BANO HARALU, a blue-blooded Naga of the Zeliang tribe, was born and brought up in Nagaland. She has worked for major television companies for several years and now divides her time between Nagaland and Kolkata. She has won the Chameli Devi award for excellence in rural reporting.
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BIRDS OF INDIA Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Ramki Sreenivasan
Ornithology/Reference Flexiback 146 × 210 mm 600 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-22-3 Rights: World This book covers over 1000 species and distinct sub-species found in the Indian subcontinent and contains over 1200 full-colour photographs. Each species has a distribution map. Many of the photographs in this magnificent volume appear for the first time and have been carefully selected to show the most important features of the species illustrated. In several cases, different plumages or flight shots are included. The concise text provides vital information on the plumages, calls and habits of each species covered and includes new information. Over 100 related species are also mentioned in the texts. The maps are accompanied by a note on the status and distribution. This book will enable accurate field identification in one of the world’s most diverse avifaunal regions. Indispensable reading for all bird lovers. BIKRAM GREWAL has written over ten best-selling books on Indian birds and wrote the first comprehensive guide to the wildlife of India. He is also the author of several books on India. He is closely involved with several institutions dealing with India’s environment. He lives in Delhi. SUMIT SEN, an ex-banker, is considered one of the leading experts of the birds of eastern and northeastern India. He has travelled extensively in these areas and photographed many rare species which are shown in this book for the first time. He lives in Kolkata. RAMKI SREENIVASAN, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, has photographed more birds than any individual in India. He is involved in eco-tourism and is currently helping restore India’s Western Ghats to their pristine glory. 4
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Birds of India
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives
Birds of Prey of the Indian Subcontinent
Krys Kazmierczak, Ber van Perlo Hardback 154 × 216 mm; 352 pages ISBN: 978-81-87107-04-0 ` 995
Hardback 165 × 241 mm; 692 pages ISBN: 978-81-87107-69-9 ` 2500
Birds of NORTHern India Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp Paperback 140 × 216 mm; 240 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-74-6 ` 795
Rishad Naoroji
A Photographic Guide to Birds of India and Nepal Bikram Grewal Paperback 95 × 190 mm; 144 pages ISBN: 978-81-87108-34-4 ` 395
Birds of Southern India
A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India
Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp
Indraneil Das
Paperback 140 × 216 mm; 240 pages ISBN: 978-81-87107-80-4 ` 795
Paperback 95 × 190 mm; 144 pages ISBN: 978-81-87108-35-1 ` 395
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THE BACHCHANS SMM Ausaja
Cinema/Biography Hardback 280 × 280 mm 400 pages ISBN: 978-81-87108-54-2 Rights: World The book retraces, step by step, the journey of one of the most celebrated families in modern Indian history. The patriarch, poet Harivansh Rai Srivastava, had already attained cult status replacing the cast name with a literary nomenclature ‘Bachchan’ even before elder son, Amitabh was born and eventually rose to meteoric heights in the entertainment industry. Since then, this premier family of cine actors: Amitabh Bachchan, wife Jaya Bachchan née Bhaduri, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan continue to individually as well as collectively dominate the world of Hindi cinema. Rare colour and black and white pictures lend elegance to this coffee table book. SMM AUSAJA is a noted film-historian and a Hindi cinema memorabilia collector with personal archives. Ausaja completed his graduation in management from Lucknow before joining Amit Khanna and Mahesh Bhatt in Plus Channel’s A Mouthful of Sky — India’s first English daily. While TV software production is his profession, cinema research, archiving and documentation have been his passion. It has taken him a good 10 years to be able to source rare images and anecdotes on all the classics included in the bestselling book Bollywood in Posters — the first book showcasing posters of all the classics of Hindi cinema spanning eight decades, along with their credits, famous songs and interesting anecdotes.
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SRK — Still Reading Khan Mushtaq Shiekh Hardback; 280 × 280 mm; 458 pages ISBN: 978-81-87107-61-3 ` 3500; Rights: World
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INDIAN CINEMA Love and Passion Firoze Rangoonwala
Cinema Hardback 280 x 280 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-24-1 Rights: World The veteran film historian digs into his vast repertoire and pulls out images from thousands of films that celebrate erotica in various forms — highlighting costumes, dream sequences, heroines dipping into water, bikinis, baring legs, nuptial romance, suggestive animal and bird postures, heaving bosoms, seduction, kissing and love-making sequences, getting drenched in the rain and warming up in front of the fire. The best and worst of all this and more erotic memorabilia. Noted film historian and film critic FIROZE RANGOONWALA has over 16 books to his credit on cinema and the media. He has served as a member of various panels including the Indian Censorship Board. Besides writing on films, Firoze Rangoonwala spent 10-12 years mastering the art of filmmaking in various studios.
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NAGA SADHUS The Untold Tales Ziya Us Salam and Ran Matt Singh
Spirituality Hardback 254 Ă— 324 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-27-8 Rights: World What drives one to become a Naga sadhu? Why does a man chuck his well-paid job with a multinational corporation to become a Naga sadhu? Naga Sadhus: The Untold Tales is a first-hand account of a sect often at the receiving end of lopsided media projection that explores the lesser-known facets of a sect often dismissed as a bunch of ash-smeared, knotted-hair, phallus-bearers. This book endeavours to bring to the fore the nearly obscured aspects of faith and spirituality in commerce-driven times. ZIYA US SALAM, a dispassionate observer of Hindi cinema, has contributed to several anthologies. He has been writing for more than a decade on comparative religion and been part of a socio-religious movement to bring out the commonalities of religions. A seasoned journalist who has been keenly following the emerging trends in spirituality, RAN MATT SINGH is a veteran writer on issues of culture, faith and comparative religion.
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FASHION: THE INDIAN WAY Geeta Josie Khanna
Fashion Hardback 250 × 315 mm 256 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-31-5 Rights: World India has played a pivotal role in the formulation of fashion, as we know it today across continents. The need for a holistic compilation presenting a bird’s-eye view on what Indian Fashion really is has distilled Fashion: The Indian Way — a photo essay with crisp descriptions on what comes under the umbrella called Indian Fashion. This is the first book that provides a heads-up on Indian fashion. The book not only covers the Indian fashion designers but also other aspects that have played a significant role in its formulation. Amongst other things, it interprets KamaSutra Fashion and other Vedic nuances that are of interest to the world of fashion, and promises to be a delight! Geeta Josie Khanna lives in the national capital region of India. She had studied knitwear design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. She went to the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York since NIFT was then affiliated to FIT. She has worked with prestigious design houses like DKNY and Marc Jacobs in Manhattan, New York City. Having worked with designers Suneet Varma and Tarun Tahilliani in India, she adopted fashion media as her way forward. She worked as a fashion director to launch magazines like Sportswear International (India Edition), FNL and M, amongst others, before starting her own syndicate called the Hirumchi Styling Company. Under Hirumchi, she supplies fashion forecasts, trend analysis and reports to many prestigious publications in the country. She has been featured in HT City, Delhi Times, Indian Express, Business Standard, and many online fashion publications for her work.
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CHEERS! 301 Cocktails and Mocktails Sharmila Chand
Beverages Paperback 222 × 171 mm 256 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-29-2 Rights: World Cheers! is all about doing things your way. The most talented bartenders across the country tell you how to go about making your own drinks and livening up the occasion. According to these friends behind bars, “Drinking is an art, and it requires practice to know how to drink, what to drink, and when to drink.” If you enjoy a good drink but have always wondered what and how much to mix, then this is the book for you. Not only do you have a wide range of cocktails and mocktails, but you also get a brief peek into the type of glasses and ingredients required.
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SHARMILA CHAND is a Delhi-based freelance journalist who hotfoots across the world to write for all leading dailies and magazines in India on the very best that India has to offer on travel, health, food, lifestyle, fashion, beauty and more.
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A CULINARY JOURNEY Delhi Gunjan Goela and Archana Garodia Gupta
Cookery Hardback 304 Ă— 230 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-30-8 Rights: World Combining cuisine and culture, the book would have essays, vignettes and anecdotes about the city of Delhi, its history, its communities, its luminaries, some representative families, spaced through its considerable history, accompanied by photographs and illustrations. It would also have traditional recipes from the major communities of Delhi. These would be presented in an easy to replicate form, suitable for cooking in a western environment by rank beginners. There would be sections on Indian spices, cooking techniques, and classic menus.
GUNJAN GOELA belongs to one of oldest and known Bania business families of Delhi. With her strong old Delhi roots, she has a fine understanding of old Delhi food, tehzeeb and the Urdu language. She started her career as a Vegetarian Food Consultant with ITC hotels and was instrumental in introducing Delhi Chaats into the 5 star milieu. She has held Delhi Food festivals all over the world, and is known as an expert on the traditional and rare dishes of old Delhi. Her programme on vegetarian cookery with the celebrity Chef Gary Rhodes has been the highest rated vegetarian cookery show worldwide. She is currently hosting a cookery show on ETV. ARCHANA GARODIA GUPTA is a polymath with an abiding interest in the history, culture and food of India, especially Delhi, her hometown. She belongs to a Marwari business family with roots in Rajasthan and Kolkata. She was the winner of the BBC Mastermind Quiz championship in 2001. She has an MBA from the prestigious IIM, Ahmedabad.
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The Original Screenplays Dinesh Raheja & Jitendra Kothari
ISBN: 978-93-80070-99-5
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam intrepidly portrays the complex relationship between a neglected, cloistered housewife and her male confidante. The film is anchored by an award-winning performance from Hindi cinema’s foremost tragedienne, Meena Kumari, in the role of a woman defiantly struggling against a life of material privilege but personal desolation.
SAHIB BIBI AUR GHULAM KAAGAZ KE PHOOL CHAUDHVIN KA CHAND
ISBN: 978-93-80070-98-8
Kaagaz Ke Phool, the only one out of these three films directed by Guru Dutt himself, is a raw and honest exploration of his troubled relationship with ‘fame’. Dutt’s cinematic muse Waheeda Rehman, plays a young film actress who is unable to prevent her mentor’s slide into self destruction and obscurity. This black and white classic delivers an insider’s insight into the dark side of the business of films and Dutt’s own personal struggle with fame.
Chaudhvin Ka Chand amongst other things delves into the deep emotional roots of male friendship. A comment on the social milieu of the time, the film was a sensory surrender to the many hues of romanticism.
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Cinema/Screenplay Paperback with flaps Free film DVD inside 254 × 229 mm 240 pages Rights: World
DINESH RAHEJA has been writing on cinema for over 25 years. He is currently the Editor of Bollywood News Service. In his long and prolific career as a writer, he has worked as the Editor of Movie magazine (1988-1999), been a columnist for Sunday Mid-day, Channel Editor of India Today’s online film section and written scripts for television. Raheja has also authored two books on cinema, The Hundred Luminaries of Hindi Cinema (1996) and Indian Cinema, The Bollywood Saga (2004). JITENDRA KOTHARI is the Deputy Editor of Bollywood News Service. A passionate film archivist and film historian, Jitendra has co-authored The Hundred Luminaries of Hindi Cinema and Indian Cinema, The Bollywood Saga with Dinesh Raheja. His career milestones include his tenure as Deputy Editor of Movie magazine, scripting the BBC TV show, “Film India” and a two year stint for the film section of India Today online.
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THE DIALOGUE OF DEVDAS Bimal Roy’s Immortal Classic Nasreen Munni Kabir
Devdas is the title of a 1920s novella by the famed Bengali writer Saratchandra Chatterjee. It became so popular that 15 film versions were made in various Indian languages and periods. Bimal Roy’s 1955 film is considered the finest as it sensitively tells the tragic love story between Devdas (Dilip Kumar), the son of a Brahmin landlord and Parvati (Suchitra Sen), his childhood sweetheart. Caste and class difference keep the lovers apart. Parvati is married off to a rich older man and Devdas, who allows Chandramukhi (Vyjayanthimala), a selfless prostitute, to help him at first, but ultimately finding no meaning to life, he takes to drink. The Dialogue of Devdas will be presented in a four language format: Hindi, Urdu, Romanised Hindi/Urdu, and an English translation. Forewords by Bimal Roy’s family and an extensive commentary are also featured.
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Born in India, NASREEN MUNNI KABIR, documentary filmmaker and author, has written several books on Indian cinema, including Guru Dutt, a life in cinema, Talking Films & Talking Songs with Javed Akhtar, Yours Guru Dutt, the intimate letters of a great Indian filmmaker, Lata Mangeshkar in her own voice, and four different publications featuring the dialogue of Mughal-e-Azam, Awaara, Mother India and Pyaasa. She has also made several documentaries on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 TV, UK, including In Search of Guru Dutt, Follow that Star: a profile of Amitabh Bachchan and The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Former governor on the board of the British Film Institute, Kabir continues to programme an annual Indian film season for Channel 4 TV, UK.
3 Idiots
The Original Screenplay Vinod Chopra Films
Screenplay/Cinema Paperback 178 × 228 mm 352 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-18-6 ` 495 Rights: World
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
The Original Screenplay Vinod Chopra Films
Paperback 152 x 228 mm 352 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-75-3 ` 295 Rights: World
The Dialogue of PYAASA
Guru Dutt’s Immortal Classic Nasreen Munni Kabir
Paperback with flaps Free film DVD inside 229 x 254 mm 240 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-53-7 ` 495 Rights: World
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RANG DE BASANTI The Screenplay Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Cinema/Screenplay Paperback 178 × 228 mm 400 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-08-4 Rights: World A young London-based filmmaker happens to find her grandfather’s diaries which narrate his experiences as a British jailor in India during the Raj. Excited about these memoirs, she arrives in Delhi and casts a group of young friends to play the roles of legendary Indian revolutionaries — Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ramprasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan in a documentary film, called “The Young Guns of India.” The complex narrative in this compelling film interweaves two strands, one set in modern India and the other in an India of the first half of the twentieth century, with dexterity and yet apparent effortlessness. The shooting script published for the first time, supplemented with exclusive behind-the-scenes stills, storyboards and other visuals from the film, and a foreword from the writer-director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and an afterword by writer Prasoon Joshi, makes it an essential for film students and a must-have collector’s item for movie buffs.
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The “RDB Effect” aroused people to demand justice on various issues from the judiciary in India. Exclusive Q&A with Aamir Khan, Prasoon Joshi, A.R. Rahman and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. A rare gem…Rang De Basanti breaks the mould by offering something more sophisticated than the standard musical melodrama. — BBC A compelling and admirably brave piece of political Bollywood Cinema. — Time Out, London It touched the hearts of millions of youth across the country, edging a sleeping nation to wake up and turn the tide. — The Times of India
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I’LL DO IT MY WAY The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan Christina Daniels
Biography Hardback 152 × 228 mm 280 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-22-7 Rights: World In contemporary Indian cinema, Aamir Khan has always taken the lesstrodden path, and also delivered box-office hits. Known for his selection of films, he has constantly re-invented himself, and re-defined the approach to filmmaking within the Hindi film industry over the last two decades. I’ll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan is a filmography that presents Aamir’s evolution as an actor, focusing on 21 landmark films. It retraces Aamir’s rise to stardom as an actor with a difference, who broke new ground as a director and a producer. Aamir’s story is told through interviews and research of press coverage from the last 20 years, including perspectives from directors, co-stars and other colleagues — Mansoor Khan, Aditya Bhattacharya, Asif Noor, Indra Kumar, Mahesh Bhatt, Dharmesh Darshan, Nandita Das, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ronnie Screwvala, AR Murugadoss, Asin, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raj Kumar Hirani — who have collaborated with him over the last two decades in his landmark films. Together, they have recreated a multi-dimensional cinematic portrait of an unparalleled Indian actor.
CHRISTINA DANIELS is a writer, photographer and communications professional. She writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She is also involved with print journalism, training, new media, e-learning, corporate communication, developmental communication and research. She holds a Master’s in New Media from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, Christina works as Corporate Communications Advisor for a leading global technology company. She is also a cinema columnist for Citizen Matters in Bangalore. Her debut novel Ginger, Soda, Lemon, Pop was published in November 2007. She has also coauthored Mind Blogs 1.0, a book of contemporary conversations published in 2010.
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MOHAMMED RAFI Voice of a Nation Shahid Rafi and Sujata Dev
Biography Hardback 152 x 228 mm 352 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-97-1 Rights: World Born the second youngest of six sons of Hajji Ali Mohammed at Kotla Sultan Singh, a village near Amritsar in Punjab (British India), Rafi, nicknamed Pheeko, started singing by imitating chants of a fakir in his village. In the 1920s, Rafi’s father moved to Lahore to start a men’s salon in Noor Mohalla, Bhatti Gate, Lahore. Elder brother Mohammed Deen’s friend, Abdul Hameed spotted the talent in Rafi in Lahore and encouraged him to sing. Later he convinced the family elders to let Rafi move to Bombay and accompanied Rafi in 1944 to this city from where he would slowly steal into the heart of the nation. Mohammed Rafi: Voice of a Nation, co-authored by his son Shahid Rafi and Sujata Dev, is a moving account of the life and times of the Golden Voice of India.
SHAHID RAFI is the son of the illustrious singer Mohammed Rafi. A singer himself, he has performed in several national and international shows. Shahid Rafi is also the Founder Chairman of Mohammed Rafi Academy, Mumbai. Started in memory of the great singing legend, the Academy aims to promote and preserve the music of the Golden Era. The Indian Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival was hosted by SUJATA DEV several times on behalf of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India. She is also the recipient of the prestigious, “Udyog Rattan” award. Sujata Dev is a Rafi fan and admirer.
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Shammi Kapoor The Untold Story Rauf Ahmed
Biography Hardcover 152 x 228 mm 250 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-10-7 Rights: World Shammi Kapoor was the first to take on the sacrosanct image of the holierthan-thou Bollywood Hero! His contribution, like Dilip Kumar’s, has seeped into the mainstream of popular Hindi cinema to become a part of the larger tradition, which generation after generation of actors have continued to draw from. Yet, if Shammi’s talent went unacknowledged for long, it had something to do with the failure of the critics of the time to comprehend his highly individualist style and swagger. The brazenness with which he violated the image of the conventional hero made them pass him over as a freak. But the Shammi Kapoor legacy has stood the test of time. Shammi Kapoor: The Untold Story puts in perspective the extraordinary legacy of an actor who had made an ordinary beginning.
Journalist and film critic RAUF AHMED has made his mark in mainstream print, film and television. Starting as a trainee at The Times of India, he joined The Free Press Journal as Sub-Editor in the early ’70s, rose to be Features Editor, and then Magazine Editor of The Sunday Journal. In the late ’70s, Rauf switched to film journalism and became the foundereditor of film magazines Super (1977) and Movie (1982). He was former Editor of Filmfare. After a stint of three years in mainstream journalism as Chief of Bureau, The Asian Age, Mumbai in the mid ’90s, he moved to the electronic medium in 2000, produced and directed several film-based shows for the Zee Network. In 2001, he became Vice-President, Programming on Zee Cinema and Zee Music channels. He has recently worked as the Content Adviser on a 90-minute documentary on Bollywood — Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.
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SALMAN KHAN A Biography Afsana Ahmed
Biography Hardback 152 x 228 mm 300 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-97-1 Rights: World Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan made his acting debut with Biwi Ho To Aisi (1988), tasted his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), and won a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his performance. He went on to star in some of Bollywood’s most successful films: Saajan (1991), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994), Karan Arjun (1995), Biwi No.1 (1999), having appeared in the highest-earning films of five different years during his career. In 1999, Khan won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his extended appearance in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and since then has starred in several critical and commercial successes, including Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Tere Naam (2003), No Entry (2005) Partner (2007) and Wanted (2009). Khan with his famous eight-pack abs is one of the most prominent leading actors of Hindi cinema. Salman Khan: A Biography by Afsana Ahmed is his authorised biography. “For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense, I don’t act at all. I think that to feel the character’s pain, I have to be myself. Somewhere, audiences see that.”
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Afsana Ahmed has been a journalist for over 13 years. She started her career with renowned journalist MJ Akbar, then moved on to the Times Group where she has been working as a journalist for the last 10 years. Initially, she was with Bombay Times as Assistant Editor. Presently she heads the Mumbai team of Indiatimesmovies.com.
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Cinema/Biography Paperback 140 × 216 mm 260 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-26-5 Rights: World
SUCHITRA SEN A Life in Veil Ratnottama Sengupta She brightened Bengali films with her alluring presence even in the black and white era. She also left an indefinable mark with occasional forays into Hindi cinema. She was an enigma when she dominated the screen, and continues to be one even after she willingly stepped out of the arc lights to live a secluded, veiled life. Senior journalist Ratnottama Sengupta seeks to recreate the magic that once was, and what lies behind the self-inflicted veil. Brought up in a family of writers, filmmakers, cinematographers, musicians, dancers and artists, RATNOTTAMA SENGUPTA did her Masters in English and American Literature and has been writing for newspapers and journals; participating in discussions on the electronic media; teaching mass communication students and curating art exhibitions. She is the daughter of Nabendu Ghosh, a leading name in Bengali literature. She has written on Hindi films for the Encyclopedia Britannica; served on the National Film Awards jury and has won a National award herself. Widely travelled through Europe, Asia and Australia, she is currently the Arts Editor with The Times of India.
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THE MAGIC OF UTTAM KUMAR & SUCHITRA SEN Maitreyee Chowdhury With her sophisticated looks, fiery and expressive eyes, strong personality, and bearing Suchitra Sen was an instant hit with the youth of Bengal in the sixties. Uttam Kumar, with his famous smile and charming demeanor, too was a phenomenon to reckon with. And together, they were an unbeatable romantic pair: of the 60 films Suchitra Sen worked in, 30 were with Uttam Kumar. The duo gave a string of hits such as Harano Sur (1957), Agnipariksha (1954), Saptapadi (1961), Grihadaha (1967), Indrani (1958), Sagarika (1956), all part of Bengali cinematic history today. Interestingly, these films are remembered not only as the best of Uttam-Suchitra, but as cinema that is poignant, sensitive and heartrending in its subject and acting. The star couple ushered in what came to be known as the golden era of Bengali cinema. A whole generation of men and women, especially from the 1950s to the 1970s, grew up on the Uttam-Suchitra magic. Coupled with astounding music and great scripts, it was the UttamSuchitra juti (pair) that became an unbeatable equation. The Magic of Uttam Kumar & Suchitra Sen is a personal tribute to Bengali cinema’s evergreen couple. MAITREYEE CHOWDHURY has a Master degree in English Literature and Diploma in Mass Communication and Journalism. A freelance writer and avid blogger, she has contributed to leading Indian dailies and magazines on a variety of subjects, including arts and cinema.
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Faction
This is a brilliant collection of untold stories from a by-invitationonly set of Bollywood film personalities. A surprise packet.
Biographical conversations Paperback 140 × 216 mm 250 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-12-1 Rights: World
Ram Gopal Varma The Rogue Thinker
This is a book of conversations with Ram Gopal Varma, the iconoclastic director, who talks candidly about his life, loves, hates and the undivorcable passion, cinema, and includes discussions on his major hits Shiva, Rangeela, Satya, Company, Bhoot, Sarkar…as well as his Waterloo, the remake of Sholay which went up in smoke.
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Two Mothers and other stories
Fiction Paperback 129 × 198 mm 264 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-09-1 Rights: World Khalid Mohamed started as a teenaged reviewer for the film society magazine Close-Up. He then covered crime, politics and the arts for Mumbai’s Times of India from the mid-1970s on, engaged in daily reporting and film criticism. His reviews for nearly two decades in the Times were feared for their forthrightness. Appointed Media Editor of the paper, he was next Editor of Filmfare for nearly a decade. Simultaneously, he retained his portfolio as the daily’s film critic.
This first collection of short stories are deeply personal in nature, all located in Mumbai — its folds and seams — which the writer has explored all his life. Familial bonds or the lack of them, an intimate dekko at a media group’s machinations, a close study of the Irani community which is fast vanishing in the metropolis, the underworld and the staggeringly bold new world of sexual relationships sparked by websites…are just some of the narratives, with a twist in the tale.
During his 27 years at the Times of India, he reviewed television for Economic Times, besides contributing articles to The Illustrated Weekly of India and Femina. His writing has also featured in India Today, Indian Express, Stardust, Society, in the international film weekly Variety and in London’s Sunday Observer. Subsequently, he was associated with the television film programmes “Movie Mahal” on Britain’s Channel 4 and “Portraits of Directors” for Doordarshan. He was film critic for Mid-day, Senior Editor of DNA newspaper, and National Culture Editor and film critic for The Hindustan Times. Currently, he is Consulting Editor to the Deccan Chronicle media group. He wrote To B or Not to B, a book on Amitabh Bachchan five years ago, and has translated eminent painter MF Husain’s autobiography from Hindustani to English. He has written the original stories and screenplays for three Shyam Benegal films: Mammo, Sardari Begum and Zubeida. He wrote the original stories and screenplays and also directed the films Fiza, Tehzeeb and Silsilaay. He debuted recently as a playwright and director of the stageplay Kennedy Bridge. 25
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Not Just Bollywood Tula Goenka
Cinema Paperback 140 × 216 mm 350 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-17-6 Rights: World Conducted in the fall of 2003 and updated in 2010-11, these interviews with leading Indian film directors document the changing Indian cinematic landscape. Direct interviews with filmmakers are invaluable to the scholarship of cinema because they give us the pure voice of the filmmakers, unadulterated by outside perspectives. The author’s knowledge of the filmmaking craft, as well as the intricacies of the Indian film business reveal themselves through her rapport with the filmmakers she spoke with. Topics discussed during the interviews range from their life stories and major influences on their artistic vision to the twist and turns of life in the Indian film business, inviting the reader into each filmmaker’s unique worldview.
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Tula Goenka, a film editor with a filmmaking background, and academic discipline, has worked with, among others, Spike Lee, on Do The Right Thing; Malcolm X; James Ivory, on Surviving Picasso; and Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala. She has also worked on several award-winning documentaries, including Unzipped, the story of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi; and Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, chronicling the life of explorer and writer Tobias Schneebaum. Currently, she produces and edits documentaries and is a tenured Associate Professor of Television-Radio-Film at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She has also served as the Director of Syracuse University’s annual Human Rights Film Festival since 2003.
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Freeze frames Anupama Chopra
Cinema Paperback 140 × 216 mm 250 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-11-4 Rights: World Freeze Frames is a collection of interviews with leading cinema talent from around the globe, columns and film reviews. Actors and directors from Bollywood and Hollywood discuss the craft and passion that go into making films. So while Werner Herzog describes the angst of working with Klaus Kinski, Shah Rukh Khan speaks of the burden of super-stardom, Tom Hanks reveals why he makes the films he does and Steven Soderbergh chats about the pros and cons of working with professional and non-professional actors. These conversations have been culled from interviews the author has done for print publications such as Open magazine as well as “Picture This”, a weekly film television show on NDTV 24/7.
Anupama Chopra has written about films and especially Bollywood, for nearly twenty years. Her work has been published in leading publications such as India Today, The New York Times, The LA Times and Vogue India. From 2007-2011, she scripted and anchored a weekly television show for NDTV 24/7. She has also written 3 books on Bollywood. The first, Sholay: The Making of a Classic, won the coveted National Award for best book on cinema in 2001. Her fourth book, First Day, First Show, a compilation of her work in print and television, was published in May 2011.
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DELHI: 4 SHOWS Talkies of Yesteryears
Cinema Paperback 140 × 216 mm 252 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-26-1 Rights: World Much before the multiplex boom, Delhi had a thriving single screen theatre culture, dating back to the days of veteran directors and actors like Sohrab Modi and Prithviraj Kapoor. Enjoying the silver screen experience from a city whose cinema halls have been part of India’s freedom struggle was a sociological phenomenon, and while most ‘talkies’ still provide the common man with his preferred mode of entertainment, soon they could become a thing of the past. This book is a clarion call to preserve Delhi’s single screen theatre culture and those cinema halls that are an important witness to the city’s cultural and historical heritage.
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A film critic with the renowned Indian daily The Hindu since 2000, Ziya Us Salam has been writing regularly on cinema, preferring a multi-layered approach to the medium often reduced to mere slapstick in today’s media. A dispassionate observer of Hindi cinema, he has contributed to several anthologies.
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HOUSEFULL The Golden Years of Bollywood
Cinema Paperback 140 × 216 mm 252 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-25-4 Rights: World Remember the first time the illustrious Mangeshkar sisters sang together? Or the time when music composer, poet and lyricist Gulzar was prohibited from singing his own song? And do you know who was supposed to step into the famous actress Madhubala’s shoes in Mughal-e-Azam? Replete with little-known facts about the actors, actresses, directors, producers, composers and lyricists of the path-breaking films of the ’50s and ’60s, a period rightly qualified as the Golden Years of Bollywood, this book, rich with anecdotes is an important record of cinematic history that examines the changing trends in Hindi films, right from the times of Alam Ara to films like Lagaan and Tare Zameen Par via films like Pyaasa, Do Bigah Zamin, Mughal-e-Azam, Sholay and the rest.
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MY HEART IS BEATING The Inspirational Story of Medha Anup Jalota Bharathi S Pradhan
Biography Paperback 140 × 216 mm 352 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-15-5 Rights: World
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I.K. Gujral’s niece, Medha Gujral’s high-profile marriage to renowned filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur, ended in the Tis Hazari divorce court. Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota had two infamously unsuccessful marriages behind him. When Medha and Anup Jalota met, a series of failed relationships was all they had in common. Yet, once they got together, they discovered that they were soulmates. The arrival of precious baby Aryaman, multiplied their happiness. But the unbridled bliss was truncated when Medha was diagnosed with a debilitating congenital heart disease in 2000.
BHARATHI S PRADHAN has edited Star & Style, Lehren Cine Tab, Movie, Showtime and Savvy (as Consulting Editor), apart from writing columns for a wide variety of publications including Mid-day and The Telegraph. Currently the Editor of The Film Street Journal, Bharathi has also been on the jury of the National Awards (as Chairperson), the Indian Television Academy Awards and GIFA in Dubai.
A mitral cord wrongly cut in a US hospital, an emergency open heart surgery, an anxious heart transplant and a hospital check-in that was scheduled in New York on — believe it or not — 9/11! The Jalotas have seen it all. Yet life continues to be a picnic for the embattled couple. My Heart is Beating: The Inspirational Story of Medha Anup Jalota is the incredible true-life story of steely courage and unwavering resolve to overcome odds with stoic positive energy.
She has authored the best-selling novel, Valentine Lover and the recently released Colas, Cars & Communal Harmony, a book on communal harmony that was wellreceived by a cross-section of critics.
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Meera and Me
Meera and Me Sanjeevani Bhelande
Sanjeevani Bhelande Cover: Nutan Asgaonkar, Gagan Deep Chawla
Foreword: Mahesh Bhatt
A new modern interpretation and translation of the love songs of the legendary 14th-century poet by a young singer who has already taken the Western world by a minor storm. Sanjeevani, who has also lent her voice to some popular Bollywood lyrics in films like Kareeb, Kya Dilne Kaha, Road, Yara Socha Na Tha, and Nayak (with AR Rahman), gives a new dimension to Meerabai’s mystic passion.
MEERA & ME Sanjeevani Bhelande
Meera and me is Bollywood singer Sanjeevani Bhelande’s labour of love. It is her dream to perform Meera’s story on Broadway. She believes that Meera’s poems are an outpouring of ‘magan bhaav’ (an inward, blissful state of being), anand bhaav (a joyous state of being) and ‘prem bhaav’ (a state of being, overflowing with love) and that this, is the magic mantra to bliss. Sanjeevani wants the world to sing Meera’s poems. Hence she has ‘songslated’ Meera into English, taking care to capture the original musical mood in translation. The language and feel are contemporary, thereby enabling a modern day reader to relate to the songs. Sanjeevani has also sung and recorded 9 of these songs in an eponymous album. There is a Meera in every individual who strives for excellence and perfection. For Sanjeevani, her own passion for perfection in singing (sur sadhana), is similar to Meera’s quest for an unseen Divine Love. She longs for every woman to be able to spread her wings and fly high to self-discovery. Meera and Me is a modern day tribute to the great 16th-century Indian saint-songstress Meerabai, and a must-read for all book lovers.
Poetry Hardback 178 × 229 mm 128 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-38-8 Rights: World SANJEEVANI BHELANDE is the 1995 Zee TV voice talent hunt popular TV show Sa Re Ga Ma winner and Bollywood songs playback singer. Sanjeevani sang all the songs of Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Hindi movie Kareeb, her first movie as playback singer for which she was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1999. She has sung for few movies under music direction of music directors like Anu Malik, AR Rahman, Himesh Reshammiya. She has won the Aashirvad Award as Best Playback Singer for her debut movie song. Sanjeevani has her own Sanjh Sanjeevani live band and has performed in more than 700 stage shows around the world.
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Short Stories FROM Modern India Edited by Suresh Kohli
Fiction Paperback 129 Ă— 198 mm 300 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-16-9 Rights: World This brilliant collection of short stories from some of the finest literary voices across India explores themes as diverse as the aftermath of Independence, the trauma of alienation, the mindless strides of industrialisation, rural exploitation, nation-building, corruption, and the crests and troughs of human lives, compelling us to ponder over the universality of literary themes and appeal through the individuality of literary voices.
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Suresh Kohli is a poet, novelist, literary critic, translator and documentary filmmaker who is passionate about literature. He has eighteen published books to his credit, including four volumes of poetry, a novel and a coffee-table book. He has written extensively on cinema.
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DELHI OMG! Vinod Nair
Fiction Paperback 129 × 198 mm 232 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-68-1 Rights: World Delhi OMG! traces the journey of Dinesh, a middle-class offspring as he meanders through life and the city of ‘Dilli’ in his struggle for survival. The journey takes him through the many signature spots in the city, exposing the underbelly and presenting a side which is rarely seen. The loss of innocence riddled with myriad splashes of contrasting and often contradictory shades, this tale attempts to expose the superficiality that lies beneath, in a way that is shocking, real, hard-hitting and often humorous. Consumed as Delhiites are by their world of make-belief and maximising their returns, with each one trying to be what they are not, Dinesh discovers that the city allows one to revel in their belief of having actually succeeded.
Vinod Nair was born in 1967 in New Delhi and graduated in B.Com from Delhi University. He went on to complete his study in International Management from the Chartered Management Institute (UK). Having worked for over two decades, he is now heading the Human Resources function in a US multinational company. Vinod stays in Gurgaon with his wife and sevenyear-old daughter, Carissa. This is his first book on the intriguing yet fascinating city of Delhi.
But have they, really? Welcome to Delhi OMG!
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NEWSROOM LIVE Prabhat Shunglu
Fiction Paperback Size: 129 x 198 mm 250 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-30-2 Rights: World In an era of corporate journalism, the media industry is willing to experiment with the irrational and the perverse. Youngsters across news channels are fed on the diet of crime, sleaze and entertainment, their baptism complete only when they have touched the new high of grounding a news story at the altar of TRP. Newsroom Live attempts to capture the shenanigans of the newsroom and its illicit relationship with power corridors and corporate sharks.
PRABHAT SHUNGLU began as a reporter with The Statesman and later worked for The Times of India before switching to TV news. He has reported extensively from the war zones of Kargil (1999), Afghanistan (2001-2002) and Iraq (2003), on national disasters like the cyclone in Orissa (2000) and the Gujarat earthquake (2001), on national and provincial elections and interviewed several political personalities including the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister of India. He has also worked with Aaj Tak, India’s number 1 news channel, and headed the Super Bureau, Star News for three years. His last assignment was with Network 18 as Editor, Special Assignments. He has a weekly column in Hindi in a reputed national daily, and a monthly column for South Asia Times, published out of Melbourne. The author’s first book, The Mask is a collection of essays on politics and contemporary issues. Newsroom Live is his second book and his first work of fiction.
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THE EYE OF THE GODS 2012: An Awakening of the Conscience Grazietta Salcedo D’Crescenzo
Fiction Paperback 129 × 198 mm 375 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-58-2 Rights: World (English) According to the Mayan calendar, 2012 is the year when humanity will witness great changes. These changes, it has been assumed, will be catastrophic but Mayan sources speak of a transition that will take place to a more spiritual way of being. The Eye of the Gods, 2012: An Awakening of the Conscience is a first-person account of Ah Ak’tun, born to Mayan parents in the Mayan region of Tikal, Mexico in ad 673. After the death of his father he is adopted by a venerable high priest who nurtures him to be his successor and weans him in the ways of the ancient Mayas and their special relationship with nature. He teaches him the significance of belonging to a priestly class that is duty-bound to oversee the activities of governors, merchants and politicians during times of war and peace. Ah Ak’tun in turn recounts his tale to his successor, giving us special insights into the cosmology of an ancient people.
Grazietta Salcedo D’Crescenzo is a native of Puebla, Mexico where she studied to be a teacher, a profession she took up for ten years. Her interest in ancient cultures led her to the study of astrology. She is an international master of Feng Shui which she has been researching since 1988. She has practised this art in the United States and Canada where she has been living since 2002. She also has a radio programme El Danzante del Camino (The Dancer on the Road) through which she disseminates knowledge about the ancient cultures of America before the Discovery by Christopher Columbus. She also writes newspaper articles on the subject.
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MAHAVASTU for Better Relationships TM
Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal
Mind, Body, Spirit Paperback 127 × 178 mm 296 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-14-5 Rights: World We seek connections in our lives that fulfil our needs of belonging, acceptance, self-esteem and growth. These connections hold a paramount place in making us more fulfilled beings.
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We know that the Indian Vedic wisdom encapsulates the idea of Grihasthi. Grihasthi not only marks a transition from one way of life to another, but carries with it the essentials of creating a home. Your home is a space in which you live and enjoy relationships. Based on this quintessential issue of relationships and home in your life, we invite you to join us on an intriguing journey that opens the gates into the world of MahaVastuTM! You will be surprised to know that different MahaVastuTM Zones in your home dramatically control and influence your relationships. Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal is a renowned Vastu Consultant in India. His clientele spreads in all the major countries in the world and boasts some of the most successful brands, industry leaders, politicians and renowned personalities across the globe. In 1997, Khushdeep gave a major insight on Vastu defects in the Indian Parliament House causing instability of the Indian government, which he corrected later. He has documented more than 10,000 case studies of successful application of his knowledge in the last 20 years of his incessant research on Vastu. He has distilled those results to develop a systematic Vastu application procedure – MahaVastuTM. Besides offering consultancy, he imparts training and writes books on MahaVastuTM. He is in the process of developing MahaVastuTM Institute for Research in Architecture (MIRA).
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MahaVastuTM
MahaVastuTM
Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal
Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal
Paperback; 120 × 178 mm; 128 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-37-1 ` 295; Rights: World
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Don’t Think of a BLUE BALL Malti Bhojwani
Self-help Paperback 129 × 198 mm 240 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-15-2 Rights: World
ALSO AVAILABLE An easy-to-read book, Don’t Think of a BLUE BALL entwines humour, simple analogies and a firm voice in 12-steps to show you how to make lasting changes in all areas of your life. You will not only learn how to take action towards your desired life by following these steps, but also how to change the way you talk to yourself enabling you to magnetise everything you desire even while you sleep. Don’t Think of a BLUE BALL will help you become aware of who you are being 24 hours a day and how to create a successful life by truly being a manifesting body that radiates joy and gratitude. MALTI BHOJWANI is the founder of Multi Coaching International, a professional Life Coach, NLP practitioner (Neuro-linguistic Programming) and an author. She coaches using her unique 12-week programme “The MCI Way” where her empathetic enquiry leads her clients to personal empowerment, fulfilled goals and consistent success.
Thankfulness Appreciation Gratitude My Journal Malti Bhojwani Hardback; 140 × 216 mm; 172 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-50-6 ` 295; Rights: World
She is now mastering Ontological Coaching to add to her skills. Malti also writes for various publications and is constantly working on ways to support people in the journey of self-actualisation.
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THE SHOOTING STAR ISBN: 978-93-80070-41-4
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tHE sECRET OF THE uNICORN ISBN: 978-93-80070-42-1
KING OTTOKAR’S SCEPTRE ISBN: 978-93-80069-43-2
RED REKHAM’S TREASURE ISBN: 978-93-80070-56-8
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THE BLUE LOTUS ISBN: 978-81-87108-88-7
THE CRAB WITH THE GOLDEN CLAWS ISBN: 978-93-80069-46-3
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CIGARS OF THE PHARAOH ISBN: 978-81-87108-73-3
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THE BROKEN EAR ISBN: 978-93-80069-45-6
TINTIN IN AMERICA ISBN: 978-81-87108-89-4
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TINTIN IN THE CONGO ISBN: 978-81-87108-90-0
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THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS ISBN: 978-93-80070-57-5
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THE CALCULUS AFFAIR ISBN: 978-93-80070-62-9
FLIGHT 714 TO SYDNEY ISBN: 978-93-80070-66-7
THE RED SEA SHARKS ISBN: 978-93-80070-63-6
TINTIN IN TIBET ISBN: 978-93-80070-64-3
FORTHCOMING EXPLORERS ON THE MOON ISBN: 978-93-80070-61-2
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THE CASTAFIORE EMERALD ISBN: 978-93-80070-65-0
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TINTIN AND THE PICAROS ISBN: 978-93-80070-67-4
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ON SAFARI The Tiger and the Baobab Tree Babi Nobis Foreword: Belinda Wright
Wildlife Conservation/Photography Hardback 356 x 305 mm 232 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-46-9 Price: ` 2995 Rights: World On Safari: The Tiger and the Baobab Tree showcases the finest of wildlife photography in India and Africa: trailing tigers with his lens on the rugged terrains of Kanha, Ranthambore, Bandhavgarh, Corbett, Nepal and, of course, the Sunderbans, and lions, cheetahs, buffaloes, rhinos, elephants, wildebeest and more in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa over the last two decades, renowned wildlife photographer Babi Nobis shares with the reader the alluring magic of the wilderness and its majestic inhabitants, in over 250 stunning visuals. A veritable collector’s edition. BABI NOBIS is a tea exporter whose passion for wildlife is matched by his love for cars. A founder member of the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), Babi has shot extensively across the Indian subcontinent and the African continent. He is also the winner of the coveted silver medal in the Prints section of the 15th FIAP Nature Biennale World Cup in photography, 2010. Tina Nobis has been on several safaris and wildlife shoots with her husband. A keen observer of nature, she is known to maintain diaries of these experiences.
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FORTS & PALACES OF INDIA Amita Baig Photographs: Joginder Singh
Architecture/Photography/Reference Hardback 254 × 324 mm 256 pages ISBN: 978-81-87108-47-4 Price: ` 2995 Rights: World ex USA, Canada India has a rich cultural past reflected in its innumerable forts, palaces and other monuments which abound not only in architectural splendour but intriguing individual histories. This book takes a splendid tour of these magnificent structures through the whole of India, from Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the South. The architectural magnificence and luxury of these royal forts and palaces of India are highlighted in the full-colour pictures and detailed essays. Over 325 colour photographs revel in the buildings’ glorious details and features, while vivid descriptions of each palace transport the reader back in time into a realm of truly royal experience. Encompassing the rich cultural heritage of India, these forts and palaces offer an authentic Indian experience to heritage lovers. AMITA BAIG has been committed to the protection and preservation of India’s heritage for over 25 years. She is currently Consultant to the World Monuments Fund for its India Programmes. JOGINDER SINGH is an architect by training. He also specialises in architectural photography.
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BOMBAY MUMBAI Where Dreams Don’t Die Photographs: Raghu Rai Introduction: Vir Sanghvi
Photography/Reference Hardback 330 x 305 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-73-9 Price: ` 2995 Rights: World Mumbai has been extensively photographed over the past century. Like New York, it is a city full of men and women with aspirations of making it big in life. Mumbai is also known as a dream factory because of the overwhelming presence of its film industry, one of the biggest in the world. This book collects nearly four decades of the work of Raghu Rai, one of India’s foremost photojournalists. The pictures encompass life in all its manifestations — from the high-rise skyscrapers to the gushing waves of the Arabian Sea. It shows movement and activity that almost never ceases — fairs and festivities, political demonstrations, films in the making and the advertising and modelling scene. RAGHU RAI has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1977. During his long and distinguished career, he has won many international awards and has been honoured with the Padmashree, one of India’s highest cultural awards, in 1971, and ‘The Photographer of The Year’ for his story ‘The Human Management of Wildlife in India’ which was published in the National Geographic. His photo-essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers including Time, Life, GEO, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Newsweek and The New Yorker. In the last twenty years, Raghu Rai has specialised in extensive coverage of India and has produced more than twenty-four books, among them, Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal and Tibet in Exile. He lives in New Delhi with his family. VIR SANGHVI is among India’s leading print and TV journalists and a writer. Currently, he is Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times.
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Delhi: Contrasts & Confluences Photographs: Raghu Rai Introduction: William Dalrymple Hardback 298 x 425 mm 160 pages ISBN: 978-81-87107-63-7 ` 4995 Rights: World ex UK, Australia, Singapore
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MEN WHO INSPIRE INDIA Photographs: Zakia Shakir Introduction: Suveer Balvi
Photography Hardback 305 x 405 mm 128 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-72-2 Price: ` 2995 Rights: World The loss of her mother and the quest for perfection took photographer Zakia Shakir around the world several times in search of men who inspire India. In this marvellous book, we see larger-than-life public figures in their personal spaces: unusual glimpses of Vijendra Singh, Vikram Seth, Akshay Kumar, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sam Pitroda, Zakir Hussain, Zubin Mehta, Deepak Chopra, Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Abhinav Bindra, Kapil Dev, Fareed Zakaria, AR Rahman, Sachin Tendulkar, Gulzar, Desh Deshpande, MF Husain, Leander Paes, P Chidambaram, Prannoy Roy, Amartya Sen, Sonu Shivdasan, SH Raza, Narain Karthikeyan, Aamir Khan, Ronnie Screwvala, Pt Ravi Shankar, Om Puri, Omar Abdullah, Vinod Dham, NR Narayana Murthy, Harsha Bhogle, Deepak Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Mahesh Bhupathi, Jeev Milkha Singh, RK Pachauri, Kamal Haasan, Ashok Amritraj, Shashi Tharoor, Shekhar Kapur, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sabeer Bhatia, Pradeep Dhoot, Vinod Khosla, Naseeruddin Shah, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. A veritable collector’s tome. ZAKIA SHAKIR has been a photographer for over ten years during which time she has done pioneering work in fashion, advertising, Indian cinema, and has worked extensively with some of India’s leading lifestyle magazines. Men Who Inspire India captures stalwarts from different walks of life who have done India proud.
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CELESTIAL GALLERY Romio Shrestha Text: Ian A. Baker Foreword: Deepak Chopra Afterword: Robert A.F. Thurman
Spirituality Hardback 355 × 241 mm 64 pages ISBN:978-93-80070-72-8 Price: ` 1395 Boldly reinterpreting the age-old Tibetan and Nepalese art form known as Thangka, Celestial Gallery offers beautifully detailed representations of mandalas, or celestial spheres. Simply gazing upon the mandalas is meant to inspire in the viewer a heightened state of intention and clarity. Master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks have created postmodern versions of these enlightened Buddha realms from hand-ground malachite, lapis, marigolds, and other rare substances. Painted at times with a mere three hairs from the tail of a cat, these multifaceted scenes of otherworldly deities are rich with hauntingly powerful detail. Depictions of White Tara, Green Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestial beings invite and inspire meditation and reflection.
ROMIO SHRESTHA is a master in the artistic traditions of Nepal and Tibet. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal, painting in the Newari style. Shrestha’s work is represented in the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Tibet House in New York City. His first book of paintings was The Tibetan Art of Healing. He lives in Kathmandu and Ireland with his wife and two children. IAN A. BAKER is a scholar, writer and explorer who has lived for many years in Kathmandu and has travelled widely throughout Tibet and the Himalayas. In 1993 he was a member of a research team that made the first successful journey to Pemako through the Namche Barwa/Tsangpo Gorge in more than 60 years. He is co-author of Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life. Deepak Chopra has contributed to Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery. He is the author of more than fifty-five books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both fiction and nonfiction categories. Robert A.F. Thurman is an influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House, New York and is active against the People’s Republic of China’s control of Tibet.
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BUDDHAS OF THE CELESTIAL GALLERY Romio Shrestha Text: Ian A. Baker Foreword: Deepak Chopra
Spirituality Hardback 628 × 425 mm 64 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-06-3 Price: ` 2995 Romio Shrestha’s newest large-format collection of bold traditional paintings in the Tibetan tradition is a work of art unto itself. Like its forerunners, Celestial Gallery and Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery, Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery is of the highest quality — hand-bound, printed on heavy paper, and an impressive two feet tall. Inside are 39 striking Tibetan-style mandala paintings of the Buddha, each rendered in vivid colours and intricate detail by Shrestha and his team of artisan monks. Crafted from rare materials, these contemporary interpretations of an age-old Tibetan art form are replete with powerful details. Together with Deepak Chopra’s thoughtful text, these inspiring images offer fresh insight into an ancient spiritual tradition.
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MahaVastuTM (Hindi) Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal
Mind, Body, Spirit Paperback 128 × 177 mm 160 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-37-1 Price: ` 295 Rights: World MahaVastuTM gives you a Four-Step procedure to know the effects of your building on your life, logically. It helps you solve problems pertaining to different aspects in life and programme your space to manifest your desires. It also lists some handy MahaVastuTM Remedies besides busting prevalent Vastu myths. The case studies mentioned in the end, explain lucidly, how you can use this method to make your life “A matter of Choice, not a matter of Chance”. Presenting this easier-to-read-and-carry reprint edition for you and your loved ones. VASTUSHASTRI KHUSHDEEP BANSAL, a research scholar, has been actively practising Vastu for the past 20 years. Through his experience of over 10,000 successful case studies involving some of India’s top companies and families, he has distilled the concept of MahaVastuTM — a purer, simpler yet more powerful system of Vastu. In this book he helps you learn how to apply MahaVastuTM to your life to live with greater happiness, love and prosperity.
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Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal Paperback; 120 × 178 mm; 128 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-37-1 ` 295; Rights: World
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THE SACRED INDIAN TAROT Symbols, Images and Icons from Indian Philosophy Kiren Rai
Mind, Body, Spirit Box 130 × 170 mm 22 cards and a 102-page book ISBN: 978-93-80070-12-4 Price: ` 450 Rights: World A beautiful, hand-drawn deck of Indian tarot cards, The Sacred Indian Tarot: Symbols, Images and Icons from Indian Philosophy combines the classicism of the Tarot with the aesthetic richness of Indian mythology. The book contains twenty-two (major arcanas) unique hand-painted cards with images taken from a rich pantheon of Indian mythology. The cards of the Tarot consist of potent archetypes rooted in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. The symbols, forms and figures used to represent these archetypes have been taken from Indian epics and scriptures, and are rooted in the tenets of Hindu cosmic principles giving it a truly unique Indian perspective. The Sacred Indian Tarot deck is truly a collector’s item which can be used to gain a refreshing insight into love and relationships, finances, career planning and much. The book breaks new ground in Tarot divination making it a wonderful tool for self-discovery.
KIREN RAI’s tryst with the Tarots began around twenty years ago, when she was introduced to the Tarot by a famous psychic and Tarot reader way back in East Africa, where she lived in the early parts of her life. Drawn to the esoteric, her experience with the Tarot has been wonderfully positive, empowering her and helping her connect with the most essential parts of herself. Spiritually also the Tarot played a crucial part in selecting her path over the years. She has regularly used the Tarot as a tool for exploration and divination and has done readings for a group of friends, who value her insights and look to her for a fresh understanding of a situation. Fascinated by Tarot symbology, she has explored various decks and found esoteric similarities in the symbols used in all decks. This inspired her to put together an Indian deck of cards replacing the traditional Tarot archetypes with Indian images and symbols. The deck took her nearly two years to complete and has been a pure expression of her creativity. While making the deck she has come to completion within herself and she believes that this mosaic of Indian cards, created by upcoming Indian artists should be shared by a broader horizon of people.
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BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA Arun Pratap Singh
Reference Paperback with flaps 146 × 210 mm 184 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-60-9 Price: ` 795 Rights: World Butterflies are an abundant and diverse group of animals that are a conspicuous part of virtually all the world’s terrestrial ecosystems. They appeal to people in a unique way. Popular imagination often separates butterflies from insects, as if the former are an entirely distinct group of animals. The study and watching of butterflies perhaps ranks second only to ornithology as a pastime for naturalists. Butterflies of India contains over 650 colour photographs of 255 species of butterflies found across the different sub-regions of India. The book features relative abundance status, distribution, seasonality, identification characters, the larval food plants of each species of butterfly, and more such interesting details. This handy guide designed for field identification is a must-have for all nature-lovers.
ARUN PRATAP SINGH has been working on the conservation of the Himalayan butterflies and birds at the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, for the last 12 years. He had also served in the Himalayan Forest Research Institute, Shimla, for 4 years prior to FRI. He obtained his Ph.D on butterflies from FRI University, where he now teaches Wildlife Management and Forest Entomology. He has also been pursuing bird watching for the last 25 years and is the recipient of Dr. Salim Ali Wildlife National Fellowship Award 2001 from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. He has 60 research papers in both national and international journals to his credit. Arun Pratap Singh also enjoys trekking and photographing wildlife.
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INDIA The Journey of a Thousand Miles Olivier Föllmi Introduction by Radhika Jha
Photography/Travel Paperback with flaps 190 × 243 mm 352 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-33-9 Price: ` 1295 In this spectacular volume, photographer Olivier Föllmi captures stunning images of a land where ancient traditions still guide the paths of daily life today, where gods and their actions bond the people with the universe in so many ways. Föllmi looks beyond the noise, chaos, and sensory overload of the Indian streets to examine deeper truths surrounding the people and their culture. His compelling photographs convey beauty and stillness, reflection and contentment, and express a philosophy and an approach to life that is radically different from that of the West. 200 photographs and illustrations in full colour.
OLIVIER FÖLLMI first travelled to India in the 1970s. Working as a guide, leading tourists on Himalayan treks, and photographing India and its people for more than twenty-five years. Born in Delhi in 1970, RADHIKA JHA was raised between Mumbai and a Himalayan boarding school until she was awarded a grant to pursue her studies in the United States and England. Upon her return to India, she worked for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, travelled in Punjab and Kashmir, and published articles for the Indian press. Her first novel, Smell, won the Guerlain Prize in 2002. In 2003, she published The Elephant and the Maruti Stories.
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FASHION 150 Years: Couturiers, Designers, Labels Charlotte Seeling
Fashion Hardback 250 × 325 mm 512 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-34-6 Price: ` 3600 The new standard work on fashion, lavishly illustrated with more than 1,000 full colour photos! The word ‘fashion’ connotes glamour, creativity, and the expression of a certain attitude toward life. This book is devoted to the legendary world of fashion, from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present. Which social, historical, and cultural developments coalesced to allow fashion to become what it is today? Which designers had significant impact on their fashion era with extensive portraits of the ground-breaking fashion icons and countless expressive photographs? The result is a comprehensive portrayal of the rapid development of fashion from the liberation of women, from the corset all the way to the minimalist and luxurious, playful and sober, conservative and revolutionary creations of modern designers.
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CHARLOTTE SEELING was born in 1941 and trained as a journalist. She has travelled the world and made a name for herself with insightful interviews with the most diverse personalities. In the 1980s she was Chief Editor of Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and the French Marie Claire. Today Charlotte lives in Mieming, Austria, writing books and serving as a consultant in the areas of lifestyle and fashion.
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1. Misty Trails 2. When the Monsoon Returns 3. Under the Shadow of the Bougainvilleas 4. There is Nothing in Darjeeling
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INDIA DREAMS
WHEN THE MONSOON RETURNS
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Misty Trails
Jean-François Charles and Maryse Charles
UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE BOUGAINVILLEAS
THERE IS NOTHING IN DARJEELING
London, December 1944. Emy hates India. 16 years ago, she had lost her parents there. And all of a sudden, the past beckons. Rather accidentally, Emy chances upon the personal diary of her mother Amélia, a resigned young woman, straight out of rigid Victorian England, confronted, through a strange India, with her own sexuality. January 1928. Amélia sets sail with Emy on the first ship to Bombay, to reunite with her husband Thomas, captain in the army at Khalapur, in Rajasthan. But the reunion leaves much to be desired. Thomas seems to have changed unless it is Amélia who cannot handle the suffocating heat of the Thar Desert. Fortunately, there is Kenneth Lowther, Thomas’s friend, an atheist philosopher, who tries to explain to Amélia, the disconcerting India, its religion, costumes and the magnificence of its maharajas. The young lady finds it difficult to find her bearings in this new set-up.
Graphic Novel Paperback 220 × 295 mm 64 pages Price: ` 195 Rights: World (English) Jean-François Charles, a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels started out as a graphic artist in 1971; his works have appeared in La Libre Belgique and La Nouvelle Gazette. His first series, Pioneers of the New World, was published by Deligne. Later, he developped other series at Glénat, and at Casterman. He is married to the Belgian landscape artist Maryse Nouwens, with whom he has coauthored India Dreams and War and Dreams.
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INDIA HANDBOOK David Stott, Vanessa Betts, Victoria McCulloch
Travel Hardback 110 Ă— 180 mm 1496 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-24-7 Price: ` 895 `695 each
ISBN: 978-93-80070-40-7
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The enigmatic subcontinent cannot fail to bewilder, bemuse, frustrate and captivate even the most seasoned traveller. With up-to-minute recommendations, this edition of Om Books International’s authoritative guide on India offers comprehensive advice on how to get the most from your trip. Whether you want to escape it all at a rural retreat, learn yoga in Goa, hike the Himalayas or be dazzled by Bollywood, this guide tells you everything you need to know. In its 18th revised and updated edition, it has about 1500 pages of essential travel information in a portable and durable format, with a 16-page colour photograph section and a 16-page colour map section for the discerning travellers.
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Thankfulness Appreciation Gratitude My Journal Malti Bhojwani
Journal Hardback 140 × 216 mm 172 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-50-6 Price: ` 295 Rights: World Our lives are made up of the sum total of our habits. What we are today is the result of all the steps and decisions we have taken in our lives so far. Our physical, financial and mental health is made up of the little things we do every day. Instilling a daily habit of writing in Thankfulness, Appreciation, Gratitude: My Journal will change your life in unimaginable ways. The simple act of expressing gratefulness and feeling it takes away all negativity — fear, stress, guilt, lack and sadness, and you will feel good, even if the good feeling lasts only for the few moments that you write in the journal. This daily habit and the positive vibrations it creates will add up and help you manifest a life full of joy and happiness. So, get started now.
Malti Bhojwani is the founder of Multi Coaching International, a professional Life Coach, NLP practitioner (Neuro-linguistic Programming) and an author. She coaches using her unique 12-week programme “The MCI Way” where her empathetic enquiry leads her clients to personal empowerment, fulfilled goals and consistent success. Her clients, including executives, businessmen and women, housewives, life coaches, artists, teenagers and corporate groups internationally have experienced weight loss, higher income, new business ventures and the ability to cultivate healthy relationships. Many have also overcome phobias, reignited lost passions and replaced disempowering habits. Being a life-long learner, she is now mastering Ontological Coaching to add to her skills. Malti has recently made Mumbai her home where she coaches, writes for various publications and is constantly working on ways to support people in the journey of self-actualisation, manifesting desires and being grateful.
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BOLLYWOOD IN POSTERS SMM Ausaja
Cinema/Art Hardback 241 x 305 mm 272 pages ISBN: 978-81-8718-55-9 Price: ` 2500 Rights: World A rare compilation of hand-printed as well as digitalised landmark Hindi film posters from the 1930s to the present — both tracing the journey of an art form and the evolution of cinema in India. The text accompanying each poster carries a synopsis, banner, details of cast and technical crew, date of release, famous songs, awards won, and some lesser-known anecdotes about the film. The posters are from young Hindi film buff, SMM Ausaja’s personal collection of posters, lobby cards, record album covers and other memorabilia.
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SMM AUSAJA is a noted film-historian and a Hindi cinema memorabilia collector with personal archives. Ausaja completed his graduation in management from Lucknow before joining Amit Khanna and Mahesh Bhatt in Plus Channel’s A Mouthful of Sky — India’s first English daily. While TV software production is his profession, cinema research, archiving and documentation have been his passion. It has taken him a good 10 years to be able to source rare images and anecdotes on all the classics included in the bestselling book Bollywood in Posters — the first book showcasing posters of all the classics of Hindi cinema spanning eight decades, along with their credits, famous songs and interesting anecdotes. His next book, The Bachchans would be the career chronicle of five celebrities from the first family of Hindi cinema — a visual treat for Hindi cinema buffs.
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A.R. RAHMAN The Spirit of Music Conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir
FREE MUSIC CD INSIDE
Biography Hardback Free 8-track music CD 129 × 198 mm 216 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-14-8 Price: ` 495 Rights: World When composer A.R. Rahman’s first film Roja was released in 1992, his astonishing music with its otherworldly melodies, tonal texture, pulsating rhythms made an instant impact in India. His abundantly flowing talent has given life to the scores of over a hundred films, including Dil Se, Bombay, Lagaan, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 127 Hours and Jodhaa Akbar. According to a recent estimate by the BBC, 150 million copies of his albums have sold worldwide. A.R. Rahman has won a host of awards, together with a Golden Globe, a Bafta, two Oscars and two Grammys for his score in Slumdog Millionaire. In 2010, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour, awarded by the Government of India.
Born in India, NASREEN MUNNI KABIR, documentary filmmaker and author, has written several books on Indian cinema, including Guru Dutt, a life in cinema, The Dialogue of Pyaasa: Guru Dutt’s Immortal Classic. She has also made several documentaries on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 TV, UK, including In Search of Guru Dutt, Follow that Star: a profile of Amitabh Bachchan and The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Former governor on the board of the British Film Institute, Kabir continues to programme an annual Indian film season for Channel 4 TV, UK. Her forthcoming book is The Dialogue of Devdas: Bimal Roy’s Immortal Classic.
Despite all his great success, Rahman remains a deeply private person, shying away from the glitz and glamour of show business. A.R. Rahman, The Spirit of Music is in the form of biographical conversations between the composer and Nasreen Munni Kabir in which we hear of Rahman’s amazing journey from modest beginnings to an assured place in world music history.
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THE DIALOGUE OF PYAASA Guru Dutt’s Immortal Classic Nasreen Munni Kabir
Paperback with flaps Free film DVD inside 229 x 254 mm 240 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-53-7 Price: ` 495 Rights: World Great films come from great writing and the aim of The Dialogue of Pyaasa, Guru Dutt’s Immortal Classic is to preserve in book form the film’s complete dialogue by Abrar Alvi and songs/poems by Sahir Ludhianvi. These are presented in Hindi, Urdu and Romanised scripts. Generously illustrated, the dialogue is also accompanied by an English translation, introduction and extensive commentary by Nasreen Munni Kabir.
NASREEN MUNNI KABIR, London-based documentary filmmaker and author, was the first to present Indian film dialogue in a three-language format, starting with The Immortal Dialogue of Mughal-e-Azam (2007) and followed by Awaara and Mother India (2010).
First-rate screenwriter, Abrar Alvi has created superb scenes and subtle lines. Skilled in giving personality to every Pyaasa character, Alvi’s flair for lived-in expression turns Guru Dutt as Vijay or Johnny Walker as Abdul Sattar into real people. Pyaasa’s other excellent writing comes from Sahir Ludhianvi’s sublime songs and poetry. This master Urdu poet has been widely acknowledged for elevating the film songs to a poetic form and this is in full evidence in the film. Sahir’s Marxist ideology, brilliant imagination and deep understanding of human emotions are the soul of Pyaasa.
Her forthcoming book is The Dialogue of Devdas, Bimal Roy’s Immortal Classic.
Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa is a stirring example of cinema’s power, enhanced by its marvellous dialogue and songs.
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THREE SISTERS Bi Feiyu
Fiction Paperback 129 Ă— 198 mm 310 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-55-1 Price: ` 295 From the petty treachery of the village to the slogans of the Cultural Revolution and the harried pace of city life, three sisters strive to change the course of their destinies in a China that does not truly belong to them. Yumi, the eldest, struggles to retain dignity as her ideal marriage falters. Yuxiu relies on her talent for seduction. And, Yuyang, the youngest, lays her hope in her own intelligence, securing the education that her sisters were denied. A breathtaking and moving account of the challenges facing women in Communist China.
Bi Feiyu is one of the most respected authors and screenwriters in China today. He was born in 1964 in Xinghua, in the province of Jiangsu. A journalist, poet and novelist, he has been awarded a number of literary prizes, including the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize. He co-wrote the film Shanghai Triad, which was directed by the internationally renowned director Zhang Yimou. His novel The Moon Opera was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2008. Three Sisters won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2010.
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THUNDER OVER KANDAHAR Sharon E. McKay
Fiction Paperback 129 × 198 mm 288 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-47-0 Price: ` 195 Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burn down the school and threaten the teacher and students with death. As Tamanna is faced with the prospect of an arranged marriage to an older man, and the Taliban target Yasmine’s Western-educated family, the girls realise they must flee. Travelling through perilous mountain passes, the two unaccompanied teens find themselves in mortal danger as they confront land mines, a suicide bomber, and roving bands of the Taliban. But when the two girls are separated, they are left without the one thing that has helped them survive — each other.
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SHARON E. McKAY is a best-selling, award-winning author. She spent time in Afghanistan in 2009, conducting research for this novel.
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CRY OF THE GIRAFFE Based on a True Story Judie Oron
Fiction Paperback 129 Ă— 198 mm 232 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-48-7 Price: ` 195 Labelled outcastes by their Ethiopian neighbours because of their Jewish faith, 13-year-old Wuditu and her family make the arduous trek on foot to Sudan in the hope of being transported to Yerusalem and its promise of a better life. Instead, they are herded into a squalid refugee camp until the day soldiers round up Wuditu and scores of others, forcing them back to the Ethiopian border.
JUDIE ORON, a journalist, risked her life to help Wuditu leave Ethiopia and find safety in Israel, where she still lives today. Judie Oron lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Throughout her harrowing trek across the scorching sand, and the humiliation, fear and despair she later faces as a slave, Wuditu’s only hope is to be reunited with her family in Yerusalem. Based on real events, this story mirrors the experience of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who fled from hatred, persecution and brutality to a new life in their spiritual homeland.
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MEET ME AT THE BORDER Inder Raj Ahluwalia
Non-Fiction/Travel Paperback 129 × 198 mm 272 pages ISBN: 978-93-81607-18-3 Price: ` 295 Rights: World Talking of this planet, there are stunningly beautiful places with awesome assets — each a carefully kept secret — lands of great beauty enhanced by physical vastness, geographical diversity, historical legacies, cultural richness and distinct people with distinct lifestyles. And Inder Raj Ahluwalia, the indefatigable globetrotter, has covered almost every latitude and longitude that straddles our planet — from the French Riviera to the Polar Arctic, to Istanbul to Tokyo … the list is endless. Meet Me At The Border presents unforgettable vistas of nature that include the world’s highest sand dunes just minutes away from endless beaches; the world’s oldest desert; an exceptional variety of wildlife in sanctuaries that are role models in environment preservation; safaris that bond one with nature; a hotel made entirely from ice and snow; an underground hotel; service that’s an effortless whisper; blazing sunsets melting into lantern-lit romance; cruises that are almost sinful in terms of what they offer; meals that are the envy of royalty; thermal springs that provide instant rejuvenation; festivals that border on the sublime; people who’re still living in the past, and much more. A must-read!
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Inder Raj Ahluwalia is an internationally renowned travel and aviation journalist, who has been recognised several times over as the ‘most-awarded, mosthonoured and best travel writer in the world’. Ahluwalia has been writing on travel, tourism and aviation for the past twenty-five years for leading Indian and foreign newspapers and magazines. He has also given several lectures to national and international audiences on matters pertaining to tourism, heritage, environment and aviation. Ahluwalia’s brilliant and distinguished journalistic career includes several notable international and national awards for his travel writing, which places him among the very top, elite world group who’ve been repeatedly internationally honoured for outstanding achievements in their respective fields. His list of honours and awards include the prestigious ‘Mark Twain Travel Journalism Award’ by the Heidelberg Convention and Visitors Bureau; the ‘Medaille d’ Or du Tourisme’ (Gold Medal of Tourism) by the French Ministry of Tourism; a special Swiss Tourism Award; and the ‘Best Travel Writer in India’ Trophy. He’s also been recognised and nominated for diverse honours by several other Tourism Boards and private organisations.
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THE COMPANY RED Shantanu Dhar
Fiction/Thriller Paperback 140 × 216 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-21-6 Price: ` 195 Rights: World Ardhendu Bose, a fatherless middle-class Bengali boy brought up by a domineering and vicariously ambitious mother, tries to escape from the failures of life in the arms of his Punjabi girlfriend, a BPO job that is sheer drudgery, the mindless somersaults of Crystal, his six-year-old Labrador, and in the company of the never-say-die and Texan drawl-trawling Manoj. But everything is set to change overnight when he is chosen over an IIM hopeful, to be Executive Assistant to President, India Operations, RED. Finally, he gets a life, works with people with exotic names and climbs the ladder rapidly. Till that epiphanic moment when it becomes clear that there is a price to pay to be a part of that world…of predators. A frightful and thought-provoking tale of hunts, The Company RED is the first novel of the RED trilogy by Shantanu Dhar.
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THE KEPT WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES Kamala Das Paperback 140 × 216 mm 192 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-27-2 Price: ` 195 Rights: World
SHANTANU DHAR earned a Bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Pune, Nashik and a Post-graduate degree in Human Resource Development from Pittsburg State University, Kansas, USA. Currently employed with a major Indian conglomerate, he writes regularly for business magazines on human behaviour at the workplace, and has been deeply inspired by Greek tragedies and Gothic novels in his fictional writing. He lives in Greater Noida with his wife and two young children.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO COCO CHANEL Karen Karbo
Self-Help/Motivational/Fashion Paperback 141 × 189 mm 232 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-53-1 Price: ` 295 “Anyone with a good sense of humor should hugely enjoy, or should I say enjoie, Karen Karbo’s funny and stylish take on Coco Chanel. Like a little black dress, this handy life guide will take you from day into evening. K.K. on C.C.: oui, oui!” — Henry Alford, author of How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) “Wise, witty, and refreshingly colloquial, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel is an enchanting tour through the complex, often controversial life of fashion icon Chanel. Filled with relevant life lessons for the modern woman, this book is Karbo at her irrepressible best.” — Hilary Black, editor of The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships
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KAREN KARBO is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books; four non-fiction books — including How to Hepburn, which the Philadelphia Inquirer called “an exuberant celebration of a great original,” and The Stuff of Life, a People Magazine’s Critic’s Choice — and three books for young adults. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Elle, Vogue, More, and salon.com. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Chesley McLaren, known as “The French Illustrator in New York” for her Francophile style, has also worked as a Fifth Avenue fashion designer. She is the author/ illustrator of several books, and her work has appeared in Town & Country, Vogue, InStyle, and Elle. She lives in New York City.
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SINGLE IN THE CITY Sushmita Bose
Non-fiction Paperback 140 × 216 mm 264 pages ISBN: 978-93-80069-29-6 Price: ` 195 Rights: World To be young, good-looking, carefree, working, single and a woman in a new city has its shares of trials and tribulations, surprises and joys. Nearly a decade ago, when journalist-columnist Sushmita Bose decided to move from Calcutta to Delhi, she was excited in an apprehensive kind of way. Soon, she would have to find her own apartment, make new friends, figure out the lay of an entirely new land, settle down into an unknown workplace, learn how to drive, and more. She had roundly been warned about the big bad city that Delhi was.
SUSHMITA BOSE is Features Editor and editor of wknd. magazine, Khaleej Times, and is presently based in Dubai. She wrote most of ‘Single in the City’ — in column format every Sunday — while she was editor, Hindustan Times on Sunday, and living in New Delhi. She now writes a blog called ‘Still Single in the City’ on www.livemint.com.
In Single in the City — a collection of the eponymous column that Sushmita Bose wrote for Hindustan Times, she presents a humorous and sardonic take on the seemingly unending roller-coaster ride life can become when one is ‘single in the city.’ A humour-packed book with natty illustrations, Single in the City promises to have the reader in splits in almost every page.
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ANIMAL FARM George Orwell
Fiction Paperback 140 × 216 mm 112 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-52-0 Price: ` 95 “They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to seven commandments. These seven commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot. The commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.” These were followed till the day it was understood that: “All Animals Are Equal But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others...”
Eric Arthur Blair, (GEORGE ORWELL), was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, a British colony of India. In 1933, he adopted his pen name, George Orwell while writing for the New Adelphi. In 1945, Orwell’s anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm was published to great critical acclaim. From 1945, Orwell was the Observer’s war correspondent and later contributed regularly to the Manchester Evening News. In 1949, his best-known work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. Orwell’s writings straddled several genres: fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism, poetry, essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Several of his neologisms are part of our everyday vocabulary today.
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THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH An Autobiography Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Autobiography Paperback 152 × 228 mm 568 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-20-9 Price: ` 195 It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. [...] Identification with everything that lives is impossible without selfpurification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream ... Self-purification, therefore, must mean purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one’s surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion ... So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Medicine/Reference Hardback 211 × 271 mm 448 pages ISBN: 978-93-80070-96-4 Price: ` 1395
ATLAS OF ANATOMY Organs, Systems, Structures Editorial Team, Sobotta What the doctor says sometimes seems cryptic. But anatomical and clinical knowledge can be described in a way everybody understands. Compiled by the editorial team of the world famous Sobotta Atlas, this volume provides you with a thorough overview of the human body and its different structures. Aided by more than 600 high-quality illustrations, drawings as well as photos, concise textual material and detailed illustrations render the complexities of the muscular, the sensory and nervous systems accessible to the layman. The colour-codes of the 13 chapters allow an intuitive approach. Following the detailed illustrations of organs and their functions, the texts are arranged by cues and coloured enumerations. In extra chapters, the most common illnesses and physical dysfunctions are explained as well as their common ways of diagnosis and treatment. Atlas of Anatomy is the competent guide for those seeking initial advice as well as for everyone willing to explore the greatest miracle known — the human body.
Reference Hardback 230 × 298 mm 224 pages ISBN: 978-18-48105-25-6 Price: ` 795
DISCOVER THE EXTReME WORLD Excite, Explore, Experience Feed your imagination with this unique insight into the world of extremes. Dedicated to exploring only the explosive, extraordinary, and incredible, these adrenaline-packed pages reveal everything from speed machines and storm chasers to ferocious predators and super volcanoes.
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Index 3 IDIOTS The Original Screenplay.......................................................................................................................Vinod Chopra Films............................................................................................................................................ 17, 76 5 THINKINGS TO WIN. ............................................................................................................................................Pravin Rajpal...............................................................................................................................................................77 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF INDIA........................................................................................................Krys Kazmierczak, Ber van Perlo. ...........................................................................................................................75 A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO BIRDS OF INDIA AND NEPAL................................................................Bikram Grewal....................................................................................................................................................... 5, 75 A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO SNAKES AND OTHER REPTILES OF INDIA. ....................................Indraneil Das.......................................................................................................................................................... 5, 75 A.R. RAHMAN The Spirit of Music......................................................................................................................Nasreen Munni Kabir. ...............................................................................................................................................59 ACHIEVING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE..............................................................................................................Pravin Rajpal...............................................................................................................................................................77 ANCIENT INDIA..........................................................................................................................................................Marilia Albanese. .......................................................................................................................................................71 ANIMAL FARM............................................................................................................................................................George Orwell. ...........................................................................................................................................................68 ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA. .....................................................................................................................................Marilia Albanese. .......................................................................................................................................................71 ATLAS OF ANATOMY Organs, Systems, Structures. .................................................................................Editorial Team, Sobotta............................................................................................................................................70 BIRDS OF INDIA Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh..................................................Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Ramki Sreenivasan. .................................................................................................. 4 BIRDS OF INDIA Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives......................Krys Kazmierczak, Ber van Perlo. ...................................................................................................................... 5, 75 BIRDS OF NORTHERN INDIA................................................................................................................................Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp. ............................................................................................................................. 5 BIRDS OF PREY OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT.....................................................................................Rishad Naoroji....................................................................................................................................................... 5, 75 BIRDS OF SOUTHERN INDIA................................................................................................................................Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp. ...................................................................................................................... 5, 75 BLESSED TERESA OF KOLKATA. .......................................................................................................................Sunita Kumar..............................................................................................................................................................75 BOLLYWOOD IN POSTERS...................................................................................................................................SMM Ausaja................................................................................................................................................................58 BOMBAY MUMBAI Where Dreams Don’t Die................................................................................................Photographs: Raghu Rai; Introduction: Vir Sanghvi.........................................................................................44 BUDDHAS OF THE CELESTIAL GALLERY.......................................................................................................Romio Shrestha; Text: Ian A. Baker, Foreword: Deepak Chopra....................................................................49 BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA..........................................................................................................................................Arun Pratap Singh. ....................................................................................................................................................52 CALCUTTA Repossessing the City......................................................................................................................Leena Kejriwal. ...........................................................................................................................................................75 CELESTIAL GALLERY...............................................................................................................................................Romio Shrestha; Text: Ian A. Baker, Foreword: Deepak Chopra, Afterword: Robert A.F. Thurman. .....48 CHAUDHVIN KA CHAND The Original Screenplay......................................................................................Dinesh Raheja & Jitendra Kothari...........................................................................................................................16 CHEERS! 301 Cocktails and Mocktails...............................................................................................................Sharmila Chand..........................................................................................................................................................14 COMPLETE INDIAN COOKING. ...........................................................................................................................Rafi Fernandez, Mridula Baljekar, Manisha Kanani, Shehzad Husain.............................................................72 CRY OF THE GIRAFFE Based on a True Story................................................................................................Judie Oron...................................................................................................................................................................63 DELHI OMG!. ...............................................................................................................................................................Vinod Nair....................................................................................................................................................................33 DELHI: 4 SHOWS Talkies of Yesteryears. .........................................................................................................Ziya Us Salam.............................................................................................................................................................28 DELHI Contrasts & Confluences............................................................................................................................Photographs: Raghu Rai; Introduction: William Dalrymple...................................................................... 45, 75 DEVI The Divine Goddess.......................................................................................................................................James H. Bae..............................................................................................................................................................73 DISCOVER THE EXTREME WORLD Excite, Explore, Experience..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................70 EXCITING INDIA A Visual Journey.....................................................................................................................Text: Bikram Grewal; Photographs: Henry Wilson............................................................................................71 EXCLUSIVE BEDROOMS VOL. 1. .......................................................................................................................Concept: David Fernandez Garcia. ........................................................................................................................76 EXCLUSIVE BEDROOMS VOL. 2. .......................................................................................................................Concept: David Fernandez Garcia. ........................................................................................................................76 EXCLUSIVE BEDROOMS VOL. 3. .......................................................................................................................Concept: David Fernandez Garcia. ........................................................................................................................76 EXCLUSIVE BEDROOMS VOL. 4. .......................................................................................................................Concept: David Fernandez Garcia. ........................................................................................................................76 EXCLUSIVE DOORS. ................................................................................................................................................Concept: David Fernandez Garcia. ........................................................................................................................76 FACTION........................................................................................................................................................................Khalid Mohamed........................................................................................................................................................24 FASCINATING INDIA................................................................................................................................................Text: Sreelata Bhatia.................................................................................................................................................71 FASHION RENDERING. ...........................................................................................................................................Ranjana Singhal & Kannaki Bharali. .......................................................................................................................77 FASHION 150 Years: Couturiers, Designers, Labels. ...................................................................................Charlotte Seeling. ......................................................................................................................................................54 FASHION The Indian Way.......................................................................................................................................Geeta Josie Khanna. .................................................................................................................................................12 FORM OF BEAUTY The Krishna Art of B.G. Sharma....................................................................................B.G. Sharma................................................................................................................................................................74 FORTS & PALACES OF INDIA...............................................................................................................................Text: Amita Baig; Photographs: Joginder Singh................................................................................................42 FREEZE FRAMES........................................................................................................................................................Anupama Chopra.......................................................................................................................................................27 GANESH Removing the Obstacles......................................................................................................................James H. Bae..............................................................................................................................................................73 GANESHA GOES TO LUNCH................................................................................................................................Kamla K Kapur............................................................................................................................................................73 GODS AND GODDESSES CARD DECK Mantras, Blessings and Meditations...................................Indra Sharma .............................................................................................................................................................73 HANUMAN The Heroic Monkey God.................................................................................................................Joshua Greene...........................................................................................................................................................73 HISTORICA 1000 Years of Our Lives and Times............................................................................................Geoffrey Wawro, Jonathan King............................................................................................................................71 HOME New Directions in World Architecture & Design..............................................................................Chief Consultants: Chris Abel & Michael Webb..................................................................................................76 HONEY, I SHRUNK THE WORLD.........................................................................................................................Ignitee Digital Solutions. ..........................................................................................................................................77 HOUSEFULL The Golden Years of Bollywood................................................................................................Ziya Us Salam.............................................................................................................................................................29 I’LL DO IT MY WAY The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan. ...................................................................Christina Daniels........................................................................................................................................................19 IN A WORLD OF GODS AND GODDESSES The Mystic Art of Indra Sharma...................................James H. Bae, Indra Sharma, Nimisha Sharma..................................................................................................74 INDIA AND THE SACRED.......................................................................................................................................Frédéric Soltan, Dominique Rabotteau.................................................................................................................72 INDIA DREAMS...........................................................................................................................................................Jean-François Charles & Maryse Charles............................................................................................................ 55 Misty Trails When the Monsoon Returns Under the Shadow of the Bougainvilleas There is Nothing in Darjeeling India Handbook....................................................................................................................................................David Stott, Vanessa Betts, Victoria McCulloch..................................................................................................56 INDIA A Culinary Journey — Delhi. ....................................................................................................................Gunjan Goela & Archana Garodia Gupta..............................................................................................................15 INDIA The Journey of a Thousand Miles..........................................................................................................Introduction: Radhika Jha; Photographs: Olivier Föllmi. .................................................................................53 INDIA’S 500 BEST RECIPES...................................................................................................................................Rafi Fernandez, Mridula Baljekar, Manisha Kanani, Shehzad Husain.............................................................72 INDIA Colours and Shadows of Spirituality.....................................................................................................Adrian Myer................................................................................................................................................................71
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INDIA Land of Celebration......................................................................................................................................Rupinder Khullar........................................................................................................................................................71 INDIAN CINEMA Love and Passion....................................................................................................................Firoze Rangoonwala.................................................................................................................................................... 8 Indian Himalaya Handbook........................................................................................................................Vanessa Betts, Alex Baker & Annie Dare. .............................................................................................................56 INDIAN MYTHOLOGY Myths and Legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka...........................................Rachel Storm..............................................................................................................................................................71 INDIAN TEXTILES......................................................................................................................................................John Gillow, Nicholas Barnard................................................................................................................................71 INDIA Splendour and Colour.................................................................................................................................Suzanne Held, Louis Frédéric..................................................................................................................................71 KAAGAZ KE PHOOL The Original Screenplay................................................................................................Dinesh Raheja & Jitendra Kothari...........................................................................................................................16 KAILASH MANSAROVAR A Journey to Eternity. .........................................................................................Chittaranjan K Khaitan..............................................................................................................................................74 KALI Slayer of Illusion. .............................................................................................................................................Sarah Caldwell............................................................................................................................................................73 KRISHNA Lord of Love.............................................................................................................................................James H. Bae..............................................................................................................................................................73 LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI The Original Screenplay. ................................................................................Vinod Chopra Films............................................................................................................................................ 17, 77 MADOFF. .......................................................................................................................................................................Peter Sander. ..............................................................................................................................................................75 MAHABHARATA.........................................................................................................................................................Retold by Krishna Dharma.......................................................................................................................................73 MAHAVASTUTM (English).........................................................................................................................................Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal....................................................................................................................... 36, 50 MAHAVASTUTM (Hindi).............................................................................................................................................Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal....................................................................................................................... 36, 50 MAHAVASTUTM FOR BETTER RELATIONSHIPS. .........................................................................................Vastushastri Khushdeep Bansal..............................................................................................................................36 MAHAVIRA Prince of Peace...................................................................................................................................Ranchor Prime, B.G. Sharma...................................................................................................................................74 MAKING GREAT PAPERCRAFTS, ORIGAMI, STATIONERY & GIFT WRAPS....................................Kate Lively...................................................................................................................................................................76 MANIFESTING YOUR DESIRES...........................................................................................................................Malti Bhojwani............................................................................................................................................................37 MEERA & ME................................................................................................................................................................Sanjeevani Bhelande.................................................................................................................................................31 MEET ME AT THE BORDER...................................................................................................................................Inder Raj Ahluwalia....................................................................................................................................................64 MEIN KAMPF. ..............................................................................................................................................................Adolf Hitler..................................................................................................................................................................77 MEN WHO INSPIRE INDIA.....................................................................................................................................Photographs: Zakia Shakir; Introduction: Suveer Balvi....................................................................................46 MICHELLE OBAMA First Lady of Hope.............................................................................................................Elizabeth Lightfoot.....................................................................................................................................................74 MOHAMMED RAFI Voice of a Nation.................................................................................................................Shahid Rafi & Sujata Dev..........................................................................................................................................20 MY HEART IS BEATING The Inspirational Story of Medha Anup Jalota.............................................Bharathi S Pradhan....................................................................................................................................................30 NAGA SADHUS The Untold Tales.......................................................................................................................Ziya Us Salam & Ran Matt Singh............................................................................................................................10 NEWSROOM LIVE.....................................................................................................................................................Prabhat Shunglu. .......................................................................................................................................................34 NOT JUST BOLLYWOOD.......................................................................................................................................Tula Goenka. ...............................................................................................................................................................26 Northeast India Handbook........................................................................................................................Vanessa Betts & David Stott. ...................................................................................................................................56 OM SHANTI OM A Farah Khan Film...................................................................................................................Mushtaq Shiekh. ........................................................................................................................................................76 ON SAFARI The Tiger and the Baobab Tree....................................................................................................Babi Nobis; Foreword: Belinda Wright.................................................................................................................40 Rajasthan Handbook......................................................................................................................................Annie Dare & Victoria McCulloch...........................................................................................................................56 RAM GOPAL VARMA The Rogue Thinker. ......................................................................................................Khalid Mohamed........................................................................................................................................................24 RAMAYANA A Tale of Gods and Demons. ......................................................................................................B.G. Sharma................................................................................................................................................................73 RAMAYANA. ................................................................................................................................................................Retold by Krishna Dharma.......................................................................................................................................73 RANG DE BASANTI The Screenplay..................................................................................................................Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. ...................................................................................................................................18 RESPLENDENT RAJASTHAN................................................................................................................................Suzanne Held, Amina Okada...................................................................................................................................75 SAHIB BIBI AUR GHULAM The Original Screenplay...................................................................................Dinesh Raheja & Jitendra Kothari...........................................................................................................................16 SALMAN KHAN A Biography................................................................................................................................Afsana Ahmed............................................................................................................................................................22 SHAH RUKH CAN.......................................................................................................................................................Mushtaq Shiekh. ........................................................................................................................................................74 SHAMMI KAPOOR The Untold Story.................................................................................................................Rauf Ahmed ...............................................................................................................................................................21 SHIVA Lord of the Dance........................................................................................................................................James H. Bae..............................................................................................................................................................73 SHORT STORIES FROM MODERN INDIA........................................................................................................Edited by Suresh Kohli.............................................................................................................................................32 SINGLE IN THE CITY................................................................................................................................................Sushmita Bose. ..........................................................................................................................................................67 South India Handbook. ..................................................................................................................................David Stott...................................................................................................................................................................56 SRK — STILL READING KHAN.............................................................................................................................Mushtaq Shiekh. ................................................................................................................................................... 7, 74 SUCHITRA SEN A Life in Veil. ...............................................................................................................................Ratnottama Sengupta...............................................................................................................................................23 TAJ MAHAL Making of a Motion Picture..........................................................................................................Suresh Kohli................................................................................................................................................................76 THANKFULNESS, APPRECIATION, GRATITUDE: MY JOURNAL. ........................................................Malti Bhojwani..................................................................................................................................................... 37, 57 THE BACHCHANS......................................................................................................................................................SMM Ausaja.................................................................................................................................................................. 6 THE COMPANY RED.................................................................................................................................................Shantanu Dhar............................................................................................................................................................65 THE DIALOGUE OF DEVDAS Bimal Roy’s Immortal Classic....................................................................Nasreen Munni Kabir. ...............................................................................................................................................17 THE DIALOGUE OF PYAASA Guru Dutt’s Immortal Classic.....................................................................Nasreen Munni Kabir. ........................................................................................................................................ 17, 60 THE ESSENTIAL GITA..............................................................................................................................................Illustrations: B.G. Sharma, Mahaveer Swami......................................................................................................73 THE EYE OF THE GODS 2012: An Awakening of the Conscience. ........................................................Grazietta Salcedo D’Crescenzo...............................................................................................................................35 THE FOOD OF INDIA. ...............................................................................................................................................Priya Wickramasinghe, Carol Selva Rajah............................................................................................................72 THE GITA DECK Wisdom from the Bhagavad-Gita......................................................................................Indra Sharma & B.G. Sharma. .................................................................................................................................72 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO COCO CHANEL...........................................................................................Karen Karbo. ...............................................................................................................................................................66 THE GREAT INDIAN ROADTRIP...........................................................................................................................Sundeep Gajjar...........................................................................................................................................................72 THE KEPT WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES....................................................................................................Kamala Das. ......................................................................................................................................................... 65, 77 THE MAGIC OF UTTAM KUMAR & SUCHITRA SEN...................................................................................Maitreyee Chowdhury..............................................................................................................................................23 THE NAGAS The Lost Tribes of India’s Northeast.........................................................................................Bano Haralu................................................................................................................................................................... 2 THE NAME IS RAJINIKANTH (Revised English Edition). ...........................................................................Gayathri Sreekanth....................................................................................................................................................74 THE NAME IS RAJINIKANTH (Tamil Edition)..................................................................................................Gayathri Sreekanth....................................................................................................................................................74 THE PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PREGNANCY BABYCARE & NUTRITION FOR BABIES & TODDLERS .............................................................................Alison Mackonockie, Sara Lewis............................................................................................................................76 THE SACRED INDIAN TAROT Symbols, Images and Icons from Indian Philosophy.....................Kiren Rai.......................................................................................................................................................................51
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THE SACRED SECRET..............................................................................................................................................Ravi Kapur...................................................................................................................................................................77 THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH An Autobiography................................................Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.............................................................................................................................69 THE ULTIMATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WINE, BEER, SPIRITS AND LIQUEURS.................................Brian Glover & Stuart Walton. .................................................................................................................................72 THE ULTIMATE LOW FAT INDIAN COOKBOOK...........................................................................................Linda Fraser.................................................................................................................................................................72 THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COOKING INGREDIENTS..................................................................Christine Ingram.........................................................................................................................................................72 THREE SISTERS..........................................................................................................................................................Bi Feiyu.........................................................................................................................................................................61 THUNDER OVER KANDAHAR. .............................................................................................................................Sharon E. McKay. ......................................................................................................................................................62 TINTIN IN HINDI.........................................................................................................................................................Translation: Puneet Gupta. ................................................................................................................................ 38-39 Cigars of The Pharaoh (Hindi)....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Destination Moon (Hindi)...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 Explorers on The Moon (Hindi).................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 Flight 714 to Sydney (Hindi)..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 King Ottokar’s Sceptre (Hindi)..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Land of Black Gold (Hindi). ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 Prisoners of The Sun (Hindi)........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 Red Rekham’s Treasure (Hindi)...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Black Island (Hindi). .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Blue Lotus (Hindi).......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Broken Ear (Hindi). .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Calculus Affair (Hindi). .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 The Castafiore Emerald (Hindi).................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 The Crab With The Golden Claws (Hindi)...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Red Sea Sharks (Hindi).............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 The Secret of The Unicorn (Hindi)...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Seven Crystal Balls (Hindi). ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 The Shooting Star (Hindi)..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Tintin and The Picaros (Hindi). ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 Tintin In America (Hindi)..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Tintin In The Congo (Hindi)............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................38 Tintin In Tibet (Hindi)..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 TURNAROUND A Public Sector Story...............................................................................................................Shiv Malik....................................................................................................................................................................77 TWO MOTHERS and Other Stories.....................................................................................................................Khalid Mohamed........................................................................................................................................................25 YOGA & PILATES FOR EVERYONE....................................................................................................................Francoise Barbara Freedman, Bel Gibbs, Doriel Hall, Emily Kelly, Jonathan Monks, Judy Smith...........76
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