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Social Distance Creates Digital Proximity – HarperCollins India Releases Three New Titles Digitally

*Press Release*

New Delhi, 14 April 2020

 

 

THE SHOW MUST GO ON…

“We’re living through times like we’ve never known before; many things that we would take for granted have changed in the recent past. But reading, and writing, can never stop. The pleasure of reading a new book is like no other, and we’re delighted today to be able to bring to readers, three new books, made available exclusively on the Amazon digital platform. Our newest books, their stories, ideas and emotions, will continue to reach you: for as a reader you are never isolated from the human community.” – Udayan Mitra, Publisher, Literary, HarperCollins India

HARPERCOLLINS INDIA’s COMMITMENT TO ITS READERS –

PUBLISHES 3 NEW BOOKS DIGITALLY

 

SHAMELESS by Taslima Nasreen

 

The explosive sequel to Lajja, is an uncompromising, heart-breaking look at ordinary people’s lives in our troubled times.

‘My name is Suranjan. You don’t recognize me? You wrote a novel about me. It was called Lajja.’

One day in Calcutta, Taslima suddenly finds herself face to face with Suranjan, the principal character from her controversial novel Lajja. Persecuted in their native Bangladesh, Suranjan and his family have, like Taslima, moved to the city across the border.

But is life for a Hindu family from an Islamic nation any better in a country where a majority of the population happens to be Hindu? Leading poor, unmoored lives, exploited and

frustrated at every step of the way, and always carrying with them the memories of a scarred communal history, Suranjan and so many others like him seem to lead incomplete lives in their so-called ‘safe haven’.
Shameless, the explosive sequel to Lajja, is an uncompromising, heart-breaking look at ordinary people’s lives in our troubled times.

URL: https://amzn.to/2yZJbAz

‘I wrote Shameless in 2007 while forced to live under house arrest in Kolkata. Now, in 2020, to save humanity from the contagious and deadly Covid-19, we are placing ourselves in self-quarantine or social isolation. But humans are social animals, we cannot live totally alone. We need ways to imagine a world where these hindrances don’t hold us back. And what better way to do that than read books, write? When I was under house arrest, I spent my time writing, imagining the friends who could not come by. You can choose what you want to do when you find yourself stuck at home too. What about reading Shameless? Stay home, stay safe, till we overcome this crisis and win the war against the virus’ – Taslima Nasreen, author 

‘Translating Shameless was a frantic trip as I, like the future reader, was sucked in deeper into the intensity of the novel, the confusions of its characters, and their self-discovery. The text is almost never calm, and as the translator I felt the same agitation and anxiety of the narrator as well as the characters, all of whom came alive for me off the pages’ – Arunava Sinha, translator

About the author:

Taslima Nasreen is a secular humanist, a human rights activist, and a prolific and bestselling author, who has faced multiple fatwas calling for her death. She was forced to leave Bangladesh by the government in the mid-1990s and has lived in exile since then. She now lives in New Delhi. Taslima is the author of over forty works of fiction and non-fiction in Bengali, which have been published in over thirty languages worldwide.

About the translator:

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction, non-fiction and poetry from India and Bangladesh into English. More than fifty of his translations have been published so far in India, ten in the UK, and six in the US. He teaches translation and creative writing at Ashoka University in India, and edits the Library of Bangladesh series of translated books from Bangladesh. He has won several translation awards.

 

THE BIG QUESTIONS OF LIFE by Om Swami

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

Loss is unavoidable; grief isn’t.

Death is certain.

And life?

Well, life isn’t certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is.

Often, we run blindly into fire, we step on snakes, we get entangled in snares – these are the fires of desire, the snakes of attachment, and the snares of jealousy and covetousness. If we are bitten, burnt and hurt, we call it suffering, and believe it to be the way of life, when, in fact, we are mistaking our pain for our suffering. We have little control over the former but the latter is almost entirely in our hands. We can take things in our stride or be tossed on the tide. All it takes is to be able to open our eyes. This choice, we must remember, is ours; always.

Om Swami’s new book marks the way to enlightenment through mindful thinking.

URL: https://amzn.to/2xsR5C1

“Om Swami’s newest book provides an illuminating, insightful look into the big questions of life — the things that we have no control over, as well as the things that are in our hands. It is up to us, as Om Swami so aptly demonstrates, to make the best of what the world hands us, to be mindful and generous, compassionate and happy. The Big Questions of Life is a book for our times: we at HarperCollins India are proud to be able to bring it to readers.” – Udayan Mitra, Publisher, Literary, HarperCollins India

About the Author

Om Swami is a mystic who lives in the Himalayan foothills. Prior to renunciation, he founded and ran a multimillion-dollar software company with offices across the world. He is also the author of the bestselling books If Truth be Told: A Monk’s Memoir (HarperCollins, 2014), The Wellness Sense: A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emotional Health Based on Ayurvedic and Yogic Wisdom (HarperCollins, 2015), When All Is Not Well: Depression, Sadness and Healing – A Yogic Perspective (HarperCollins, 2016), The Last Gambit (HarperCollins, 2017), Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom from a Monk’s Bowl (HarperCollins, 2018), The Children of Tomorrow: A Monk’s Guide to Mindful Parenting (HarperCollins, 2019), and The Book of Kindness: How to Make Others Happy and Be Happy Yourself (HarperCollins, 2019).

 

SHUTTLING TO THE TOP: The Story of P. V. Sindhu by V. Krishnaswamy

Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu tells the magnificent story of one of the finest badminton players in the world. It chronicles her life from the time when, while living in a railway colony in Secunderabad, Sindhu travelled over 40 kilometres every day by train to get to P. Gopichand’s academy and train. It documents the hardships she faced on the way to be a promising global star and discuss what lies ahead for the young athlete. ‘I have been fortunate to see many of Sindhu’s stellar performances, from Rio to Glasgow to Gold Coast and Jakarta. Seldom has an Indian sportsperson achieved so much, including four World Championship medals besides those at Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, in so short a time. With age on her side, the sky is the limit for this talented and yet grounded badminton star,’ says author V. Krishnaswamy, whose past work, Sachin Tendulkar, A Hundred Hundreds Now, was a runaway success and translated in multiple languages. ‘It has been a pleasure to not only see Sindhu play, but also interact with her over the past few years. This book is my small tribute to a shining star.’ The young sports icon is the only Indian named in Forbes’ list of the world’s top-10 highest paid female athletes. Ananya Borgohain, Commissioning Editor at HarperCollins, said, ‘More than just a biography, this inspiring book delves into what makes a world champion, how she handles her famous rivals like Saina Nehwal and Carolina Marin, and how Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand’s hardships resulted in changing the Indian badminton landscape forever. After all, at just 24, Sindhu is a Padma Bhushan awardee!’

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‘I have been fortunate to see many of Sindhu’s stellar performances, from Rio to Glasgow to Gold Coast and Jakarta. Seldom has an Indian sportsperson achieved so much, including four World Championship medals besides those at Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, in so short a time. With age on her side, the sky is the limit for this talented and yet grounded badminton star,’ says author V. Krishnaswamy, whose past work, Sachin Tendulkar, A Hundred Hundreds Now, was a runaway success and translated in multiple languages. ‘It has been a pleasure to not only see Sindhu play, but also interact with her over the past few years. This book is my small tribute to a shining star.’

About the Author

  1. Krishnaswamy has been a sports journalist for over thirty- seven years. A graduate in Economics from Hansraj College, Delhi University, Krishnaswamy has worked in The Times of India, The Sunday Observer, and The Indian Express where he was the national sports editor, among other organizations. In 2000, he

decided to be a freelance journalist and author books.

Krishnaswamy is the author of Sachin: A Hundred Hundreds Now, published by HarperCollins India, and has also written three books on golf and four quiz books for children.

He has covered nine Asian Games, seven Commonwealth Games, and all Olympic Games since 1992.

 

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

HarperCollins Publishers India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins Publishers India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian Subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2,000 titles across 10 imprints. Its authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, JCB Prize, DSC Prize, New India Foundation Award, Atta Galatta Prize, Shakti Bhatt Prize, Gourmand Cookbook Award, Publishing Next Award, Tata Litrature Live Award, Gaja Capital Business Book Prize, BICW Award, Sushila Devi Award, Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins Publishers India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Oneworld, Bonnier Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins Publishers India is also the only publisher to have been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, and at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

 

Please send any enquiries to:

Jaseya.Fazili@harpercollins.co.in

Krishna.Arora@harpercollins.co.in

 

 

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