21 under 40: New Stories for a New Generation
Ed. Anita Roy
This exciting new anthology show-cases 21 of the best short stories by South Asian women under the a...
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A Life Long Ago
Sunanda Sikdar, Translated by Anchita Ghatak
In the 1950s, ten-year-old Dayamoyee watches with
bewilderment and curiosity as her village, Dighpa...
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A Monsoon of Music
Mitra Phukan
Four musicians: a bright, young, aspiring student, two highly respected gurus married to each other,...
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A Season of Betrayals: A short story and two novellas
Qurratulain Hyder, Translated and introduced by C.M.Naim
Sita Mirchandani, a Hindu refugee from Singh, now living in India; Salma and Surayya, two Muslim gir...
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A Terrible Matriarchy
Easterine Iralu
“I was the youngest in a family of five children. I sometimes felt I was an afterthought, and maybe ...
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All Passion Spent
Zaheda Hina (transl. Neelam Hussain)
In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished lon...
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Awakening, The
Anita Agnihotri, transl. Nandini Guha
Arjun is not a potter by birth. He is a low caste cobbler but he is determined to succeed in his cho...
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Balancing Act
Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy
"A Wise and wonderful insight into modern motherhood" - Farah Khan.
What do you call a feminist who...
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Birthright (Kadaisee Varai)
Vaasanthi , Translated by Vasantha Surya
“…Vaasanthi has pulled off a well-knit narrative that blends suspense and climax in calculated stage...
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Bitter Wormwood
Easterine Kire
Kohima, 2007. A young man has been gunned down in cold blood — the latest casualty in the conflict t...
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Blue-necked God, The
Indira Goswami, Translated by Gayatri Bhattacharya
The Blue-necked God (Nilakantha Braja), published in 1976, is one of Indira Goswami’s ...
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Body Maps : Stories by South Asian Women
Radha Chakravarty (Ed.)
The body as social and cultural text provides a rich site for creative experimentation in this colle...
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Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana
Edited by Anil Menon and Vandana Singh
A long time ago, a young prince, the heir to a great South-Asian kingdom, wielded Siva’s mighty bow ...
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Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar, The
Indira Goswami, Translated by Aruni Kashyap
Set in late 19th century Assam, The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar is the heroic tale ...
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Cousins, The
Prema Raghunath
Early twentieth century Madras. In a dark room in the corner of a house, Goutami’s mother dies in ch...
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Dawn: A Novel (Ayananta)
Arupa Kalita Patangia, Translated by Ranjita Biswas
Set in the heady years preceding independence, this is the story of young Binapani growing up in a s...
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Dead Camel, The: And Other Stories of Love
Parvati Sharma
In which an uncast ballot precipitates social
embarrassment and recalls a past love, a young house...
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Eating Women, Telling Tales
Bulbul Sharma
A young woman, neglected by her rakish husband, decides to 'kill him with kindess' and stuff him wit...
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Fabulous Feminist, The : A Suniti Namjoshi Reader
Suniti Namjoshi
It was on a sabbatical in England in the late seventies that Suniti Namjoshi discovered feminism—or ...
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First There was Woman and Other Stories
Marija Sres
FOLK TALES OF THE DUNGRI GARASIYA BHILS
The Dungri Garasiya, an indigenous group in north Gujarat...
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Forest Interludes: A Collection of Journals & Fiction
Anita Agnihotri, Translated & introduced by Kalpana Bardhan
“This volume...is unique because it manages to capture the socio-economic reality of the dispossesse...
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Fragrance of Peace
Irom Sharmila
For more than ten years now Irom Sharmila, a young woman from Manipur, has been on hunger strike, de...
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Generation 14
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
“I am a fourteenth generation clone and something has gone wrong with me. Not that my DNA is altered...
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Good Indian Girl, The
Annie Zaidi and Smriti Ravindra
Who is the ‘Good Indian Girl’? What does she look
like? How does she dress? Is she real — or is she...
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Her Piece of Sky: Contemporary Hindi Stories
Edited by Deepa Agarwal
What is contemporary women’s writing in Hindi all about? How far does it reach beyond the commonly p...
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Hour Past Midnight, The
Salma
Rabia is growing up in a conservative
community in southern India. One day, she
and her friends sn...
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Hussaini Alam House, The
Huma R. Kidwai
When nine-year-old Ayman arrives in Hyderabad in the early 1950s to come and live at the Hussaini Al...
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Inner Line: The Zubaan Anthology of Stories by Indian Women
Urvashi Butalia (Ed.)
Each story in this anthology testifies to women's many concerns, whether with a way of life, or with...
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Lifelines: New Writing from Bangladesh
Edited by Farah Ghuznavi
Lifelines is an enthralling collection of short stories that will take you on some unforgetta...
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Like a Diamond in the Sky
Shazia Omar
At twenty-one, Deen is dismayed by the poverty around him and trapped in negativity. Alienated from ...
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Lunatic in my Head
Anjum Hasan
SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 CROSSWORD BOOK PRIZE
"A classic" BIBLIO
"Here is a writer of worth, ...
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Madness of Waiting, The
Muhammad Hadi Ruswa, translated by Krupa Shandilya and Taimoor Shahid
Published in March of 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa’s famous novel Umrao Jaan Ada created a sensa...
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Mai: A Novel
Geetanjali Shree, Translated and introduced by Nita Kumar
“…the story transcends linguistic and geographical boundaries. It is a story of virtually every Indi...
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Missing Queen,The
Samhita Arni
It has been ten years since Ram's return from fallen Lanka. Ayodhya is shining. Ayodhya is prosperou...
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Motherwit
Urmila Pawar. Translated by Veena Deo
A Dalit, a Buddhist and a feminist: Urmila Pawar’s self-definition as all three identities informs h...
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Murder in San Felice
Chandralekha Mehta
Count Jorge was a fabulously wealthy, devastatingly good-looking socialite, a leading figure in the...
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Muvalur Ramamirthammal's Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India
Kalpana Kannabiran and Vasanth Kannabiran
Dasigal Mosavalai (Web of Deciet) was written in 1936 by a Self Respecter and reformed devadasi, wit...
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Of Mothers and Others: Stories, essays, poems
Jaishree Misra (ed.)
This multi-layered and thought-provoking collection offers a new and alternative view to the cosy im...
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Phosphorus and Stone
Susan Visvanathan
Susan Visvanathan's new work, Phosphorus and Stone is composed in the lucid but subversive style tha...
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Red Road, The
Tina Biswas
Amolik Dey is Everyman. A teacher with a young wife and son, he is dedicated to taking care of his f...
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Seventeen
Anita Agnihotri, Translated by Arunava Sinha
* WINNER OF THE 2011 ECONOMIST-CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATION *
A brother and sister visit th...
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Shadow Men
Bijoya Sawian
A thick mist envelopes an isolated house and a cottage atop a hill. Raseel, looking out from the ver...
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Song Seekers, The
Saswati Sengupta
As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata, four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen ...
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Speech and Silence: Literacy Journeys by Gujarati Women
Rita Kothari (Ed.)
This anthology is not only about what Gujarati women speak, but also what they don’t. In a state tha...
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Stilettos in the Boardroom
Shruti Saxena
East is East and West is West, but the twain meet with a crash in Gurgaon - the epicentre of the out...
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Story of Felanee, The
Arupa Kalita, Translated by Deepika Phukan
The Story of Felanee is based on real life events. It is a story of courage, of survival, of ethnic ...
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Street in Srinagar, A
Chandrakanta, Translated by Manisha Chaudhry
Srinagar, capital city of the famed ‘paradise on earth’, Kashmir. Ailan Gali, a deep, dark narrow la...
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Swarnalata
Tilottama Misra
Set in mid-nineteenth century Assam when the forces of tradition were being challenged by new concep...
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Tales in Colour and other stories
Kunzang Choden
These deceptively simple stories uncover both the complexity and irony of women’s lives in Bhutan to...
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The Circle of Karma
Kunzang Choden
As a young girl, Tsomo asks her mother, ‘Where is the furthest I can travel?’
‘Where?’ her mother r...
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The Collector’s Wife
Mitra Phukan
Rukmini is married to the District Collector of a small town in Assam, and teaches in the local coll...
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The Search (Talaash)
Shaheen Akhtar, Translated by Ella Datta
Talaash is the second novel of the Bangladeshi writer Shaheen Akhtar. It captures the brutali...
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These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone
Temsula Ao
More than half a century of bloodshed has marked the history of the Naga people who live in the trou...
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Washer of the Dead, The : A Collection of Ghost Stories
Venita Coelho
A woman haunted by the wind. A land where ghosts speak for the voiceless. A washer of the dead who b...
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Woman at Point Zero & The Circling Song
Nawal El Saadawi
Told with a savage and beautiful simplicity, Woman at Point Zero is the story of Firdaus, a woman co...
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Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet, The
Vandana Singh
Already a name in the world of science fiction and fantasy writing, Vandana Singh presents her first...
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