Tina wants to feel Indian. Really Indian. Not Indian in the sense of attending a yoga class in Brooklyn, in the country her parents moved to to make a new life for themselves. She wants to know the real India, only whenever she visits,...

Today Dharavi houses half-a-million people and has the most expensive real estate in Bombay. Behind its success are the efforts of hundreds of extraordinary people. In Dharavi, the dreams, aspirations and anxieties of this thriving community come alive in the hands of some of...

Told in three rotating perspectives - the two teens and another boy in the village who turns them in to the local Taliban - this novel depicts both the violent realities of living in Afghanistan, as well as the beauty of the land and...

True love is like a permanent state of madness, one that makes us end up doing things we always thought ourselves incapable of. The same happened with Delhi-based Arjun Singh. As a teenager, he made fun of romantic movies and love songs. Even when...

Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a...

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams.Twenty-five fairy...

Twenty-something investment banker Ayra had always wanted to be an art historian till it occurred to her that art history couldn't possibly support her penchant for beautiful shoes.One monsoon day, she's sent to Rome on a last-minute assignation with a star client. What should...

Two friends - a budding writer home from Europe and his childhood friend who dreams of taking over the seedy underworld of their city - meet in the most notorious nightclub in town, Tram 83, and are sucked into a dizzying, lurid world of...

Two men stuck in a small mountain town develop an unlikely and unspoken friendship; a punctilious bureaucrat becomes briefly reckless at the end of his career; a high- class prostitute on vacation reads The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to a man recovering...

Two young cousins hell-bent on restoring Muslim glory, even if it means importing terror. An incendiary Hindu religious leader with one mantra, break-mosques, build-temples. Zeenat Qureishi has one question, 'whats my name? why can't you tell me my name?' Traumatised in the aftermath of...

University students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But much has changed in the thirty years since those heady days. Following different paths, the quartet has drifted...

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Vasantha retired early, bought himself a van with his savings and now works as a driver for hire in Sri Lanka. As he ferries new entrepreneurs, charity workers and itinerant families around the country, he reveals with self-deprecating wit and folksy wisdom their uncertain...

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. At the same time, it is the story of India, newly...

Vivek was all I wanted. I was ready to do anything for him. He reminded me of Krishna, the love that I had lost and yet he was so different-young, innocent, totally oblivious to the ills of the world, unmindful of my deep desire...

Walid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to embracing his mother and reconnecting with the people and places he once left behind. Boarding the flight from London, Walid s life intersects with Dana, an...

We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?'In a far corner of the Roman Empire, a radical sect is...

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms,pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems...

We are plagued by our thirst for control, driven by our hunger for love and addicted to the demons that ultimately consume us. A sensitive portrayal of one's deepest emotions, this collection of stories explores the psyche of an individual...their most vivid desires, most...

We live in a world of interconnected devices, smart phones and social networks. Today we buy products, make friends, get married and share our lives online but do we know how to protect our online identity? Bestselling author and computer expert, Ankit Fadia shows...

Weaving together a rich array of flash fiction and poetry, the compilation evokes the flavors of life in Karachi. Each piece uses the spirit of imagination to reveal the power of storytelling in an ever-evolving metropolis. The first volume of Tales from Karachi seeks...

What could be worse than a daughter's death ? Ask the Nalwas, whose nuclear family imploded one night as they became India's no. 1 story. Along comes the fiery and feisty investigative reporter Meera - unable to stop herself from following the story, whatever...

What does feminism mean for Pakistani women? How do these meanings change, mould, detract and attract within and between generations? And how do we bridge the cracks that emerge through these varying formations? Through reflective conversations of the joys and conflicts of mother-daughter relationships,...

What happens when the evil lurking within men is brought out for the world to see? Is the Devil just a façade created to cover the will of God? These are some of the questions that Arnab Ray throws up through his novel, The...

What is a clingy girlfriend? A clingy girlfriend will go through your phone. She will destroy the contact numbers of every other girl on your phone. She will delete your Facebook profile. And will give you forty-five missed calls in the sixty minutes you...

What is causing a mysterious brain illness in Karachi,Pakistan teeming and unruly commercial capital? Neurolist Asad Mirza,freshly returned from training in the United States,and Nadia Khan, an ambitious young medical student,find themselves confronting this riddle in the wards of Avicenna University Hospital.Is it some...

When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family's television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb-one of the many “small bombs that go off seemingly unheralded...

When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she left behind as a self-important teenager, she's shocked to discover a group of barely literate women who have no interest in her ideals.Yet...

When Sandesh, a fifteen-year-old runaway working at a video store in Bombay, is seduced by a wealthy married woman named Lolita, he has no idea how life-altering his sexual awakening will be. Lolita's husband learns of her infidelity, and Sandesh finds himself subjected to...

When Sophie is diagnosed with a rare cancer around the lungs, she decides to live life afresh through nine wig-related invented realities. As wigs become a crucial part of Sophie s new life, she reclaims a sense of self-expression. Each of Sophie s nine...

When Sunayana, a young, vivacious editor at a leading publishing house sets out to commission a book, she finds herself drawn into a disorienting but compelling liaison. Intrigued by Ashok, a reserved but well-known middle-aged surgeon, she seeks a centre that has eluded her...

When the Moon Shines by Day

Who tells the greatest story God or Manto? Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary novel, a biography of Manto and Ghalib and a history of Indian culture rolled into one. Exhumed from dust, Manto's unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow. Is it real or...

Why have democratic institutions and norms not taken root in Pakistan? In these polemical essays, Ammar Jan presents eight theses to explain the political, economic and social roots of authoritarianism in the country. Rather than fixating on particular individuals or governments, this work focuses...

Why should the very things we share create such distance between us? The ten stories of We are not in Pakistan illuminate a paradox: love and fear draw us together, yet drive us to extremes of separation.

Widely recognised as a prominent, contemporary poet, Sudeep Sen seeks to push the boundaries of the written word with his new work, Erotext. Filled with short, gripping pieces of poetry under the five heads of desire, disease, delusion, dream and downpour, Sudeep shows us...

Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award“What Sinan [Antoon] has done withand In the Presence of Absenceand is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity. -Saadi Yousef“There are two maps of Palestine that politicians...

With this combo pack, get your hands on all the titles by Omar Shahid Hamid.Omar is well known for his ability to translate the complexity of life in Pakistan, especially the criminal underbelly of Karachi, into nail biting crime fiction. Declan Walsh in the...

Within the ruins of a prosperous kingdom, two friends discover the world's smartest jester

Written with great compassion and tenderness, "Remember to Forget" is a compelling tale of people coping with the trauma of political strife. The Punjab insurgency has ended, and Ludhiana is trying to emerge from the shadow of the gun. Tejpal is yet to outrun...

Yasmeen Khalil is beautiful and charming. She is also unpredictable, enigmatic, funny and tragic. One day she vanishes, leaving behind a heartbroken husband and desolate daughtIrenie refuses to accept that Yasmeen is gone; she haunts the house with the scents and sounds of her...

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a...

You see, Sara, it had to happen … I couldn't have prevented it, could I? It could have been anyone, and it was me. It had to happen to someone, and it was me. Think about it. Of all the men in the world,...

Zeeshan Haq, a handsome Kashmiri lad, is forced to relocate to Mumbai after losing his father in a mysterious fire that destroys their ancestral photo studio in Srinagar. With ambitions to become a successful photographer, Zeeshan joins his maternal uncle in the running of...