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The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to

A New York Times Book of the Year Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falli

Bureaucratic in its convolutions and brutal in its deceptions, the war on terror has had an impact on our lives that we do not yet understand. We sense it. A growing claustrophobia, wariness, suspicion, the stickiness of constant surveillance. But fo

At the age of eleven, Triton goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with the island’s disappearing reef. It was the biggest house he had ever seen. People from all over the world came here-to sell their wares, to ta

Set in the mannered, lush world of upper middle class Tamils in Sri Lanka, this deeply moving first novel, though not autobiographical, draws on Selvadurai’s experience of being gay in Sri Lanka and growing up during the escalating violence between t

Set in London, The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. After his mother’s death, Prins Ducal is driven to re-examine his family’s history. In doing so, he d

The only thing you cannot plan in life is when and who to fall in love with . . . Raghu likes to show that there is nothing remarkable about his life-loving, middle-class parents, an elder brother he looks up to, and plans to study in an IIT. And th

Collection of poetry on women, dowry, rape,social problems, family. Beautiful and sensitive, yet so provocative that this work along with her other writings have generated a call in Bangladesh for her execution for blasphemy. A leader in feminist act

There is a spark of leadership in all of us. Made to Lead tries to rekindle it. With the help of Vedic wisdom and drawing upon real life parables, it creates awareness of the immense potential within us and make subtle changes to actually enable us t

Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimag

'Of course I love you till I find someone better’ is a youth centric novel written By Durjoy Dutta and Maanvi Ahuja. The dilemma of choosing someone over the other, the internal turmoil that the heart goes through in its quest for love is a constant

Set in 1920s’ Sri Lanka, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, Cinnamon Gardens takes the reader behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Cinnamon Gardens in Colombo to reveal a wo

In Buddhist myth, the dead may be reborn as “hungry ghosts”- spirits with stomach so large they can never be full - if they have desired too much during their lives. It is the duty of the living relatives to free those doomed to this fate by doing ki

If you thought all delicious foods are sinful, this book will change your mind. With Veg Kebabs, you can effortlessly weave a spell of tasty dishes that will make your husband fall in love with you all over again. ज़्यादा पढ़ें

Falling in love is the most blessed feeling in the world. However, in the modern generation, staying in love is the actual test. Oh Yes I'm Single!: and So Is My Girlfriend is about a confused bunch of young people who, after having numerous failed r

To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Ru

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

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A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research f

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