In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Harper Collins presents a revealing memoir and an empowering manifesto, BRAVE by Rose McGowan Unscripted, courageous, victorious, angry, smart, fierce, unapologetic, controversial and real. Rose McGowan was one of the first women to come forward about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, and has since become the absolute flag bearer for the push back against sexual […]
Penguin presents Words From The Hills by Ruskin Bond. Penguin invites you to pen your thoughts in this beautifully illustrated journal which brings Ruskin Bond’s unique world to life. Ruskin Bond’s Words From The Hills is a collector’s delight and a companion for adults, and at the same time inculcates creativity in school children and […]
Is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It’s neither. In fact, The Book of Dust is… an ‘equal’. It doesn’t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. -Philip Pullman Penguin Random House is delighted to announce the release of the much awaited The Book of Dust. Praise for the book: It will be […]
Penguin presents, “Conflicts of Interest” by Sunita Narain, a book that has a blueprint for how India can clean up its act and deal with its environmental exigencies. India’s foremost environmentalist, Narain gives a personal account of her battles as part of the country’s green movement. While outlining the enormous environmental challenges that India faces […]
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, Penguin India is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of the Critical Edition of An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, introduced with notes by eminent scholar Tridip Suhrud. M.K. Gandhi wrote his autobiography in Gujarati, which was published serially in the volumes of […]
HarperCollins Publishers India is pleased to announce the release of Footprints on Zero Line- Writings on the Partition by Gulzar Translated by: Rakhshanda Jalil The Partition of 1947 has influenced the works of an entire generation of writers, and continues to do so. Gulzar witnessed the horrors of Partition first-hand and it is a theme that […]
Soumendu Roy played an invaluable part in the cinema of Satyajit Ray … it is great to have a book chronicling his contribution to cinema-’ Sandip Ray/film-maker Soumendu Roy today is widely known for his long association with Satyajit Ray. He was Ray’s cinematographer for a generation of films that is celebrated the world over even […]
An enthralling new novel by the Nobel Prize winning author is here. Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman is a riveting story set in mid 1980s Turkey; a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. Penguin presents The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk. About the book: On the outskirts of a town thirty […]
Penguin presents Left, Right and Centre, edited by Nidhi Razdan Nidhi Razdan’s Left, Right and Centre offers candid and freewheeling thoughts from the political standpoint of the left, right and centre. A confluence of thinkers, politicians, intellectuals, journalists, and academicians give their views on their idea of India. Is India overshadowed by a monologue? Is there space […]
`Me, too,` she said aloud.’ `Me too, what?` asked Samar lazily from behind her. She hadn’t heard him come into the room but now that familiar scent, part him and part something subtle from a designer bottle, drifted across to her, affecting her as it always did.’ HarperCollins present a romance, No Strings Attached by […]
Pan Macmillan India is delighted to announce the release of the 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION of Ramachandra Guha’s bestseller, INDIA AFTER GANDHI- The History of the World’s Largest Democracy Published to coincide with seventy years of India’s independence. this updated and expanded edition is being released in two formats, a Collector’s Edition and a hardback. Launch Events: […]
Penguin presents Reporting Pakistan by Meena Menon. While there are many similarities between India and Pakistan, comparisons, though inescapable, are odious . . . As sinister plots, spy games and terrorism continue, cloaked by attempts at bonhomie, the stories here centre on life, about ordinary Pakistanis and are not always about firing on the LoC or the Taliban, […]