“raman usha”

This big book is about a child’s day, and children’s make-belief worlds, which are as real to them as the everyday one we live in.... More

C.Y. Chintamani wielded the pen like a sword and dominated Indian journalism in the first three decades of the 20th century. He was the chief Editor of The Leader of Allahabad and the foremost liberal leader. Yet, today he remains forgotten in the heaps of archival material.... More

books festival, cookeryThe Malayali cuisine is an intricate balance of flavours, aroma, and nutritive values. Time-taking and at times arduous as it might seem, it constitutes the daily diet of the people of 'God's own country' - Kerala.... More

A young doctor who has devoted his life to serving leprosy patients is struck by terminal illness and told he has about five years to live. He is only 40 when this diagnosis threatens to crush everything he holds so dear -- his dreams, his faith and even his own uniquely optimistic and joyous nature... More

Sojourn relates the story of Neeraja, a determinedly cosmopolitan woman, who is forced to move into a small town for a brief period. Even as she tries to make her life significant in her temporary home, Neeraja finds herself grappling with Amrutapura--with its casually bigamous landlords, its Mahila... More

‘I cannot undo what they have made of me. I cannot go back and smoothen out the wrinkled brow of my childhood . . . there are things I must settle, gaps I must fill. Both for their sake and mine.’It is the 1930s and the fire of the freedom movement from distant Bengal and Delhi is wa... More

Introduces the legendary leader of the great 20th-century Sunni movement.... More

'And He Embraced Him' is a warm and moving story about ordinary people, a doctor's deep compassion and a son's forgiveness of the father who abandoned him at an early age. It is also about poor people who, forced to survive in a cruel, selfish world spontaneously live lives rich in loyalty, friendsh... More